Last updated at 16:48, Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Your guide to arts and community events for the week ahead.

Exhibitions
Whitehaven: Whitehaven Through the 70s, 80s and 90s, Harbour Gallery, until January 3.
Rosehill:Art exhibition, A and N Pendlebury (father and son), until December 21.
Egremont: Arts and Crafts for Christmas, Lowes Court Gallery, until December 24.

Gigs & Music
Whitehaven: Charity acoustic music event, from noon, Vagabond, Sunday. Dearham Brass Band, concert, Civic Hall, Friday; Sour Mash, John Paul Jones, Friday; Rolling Back the Years, music show, Civic Hall, 7.30pm, Saturday.
Cleator: Live music, The Brook, every weekend.
Egremont: Brass Mark 5, SASRA, parish church hall, 8pm, Friday; Electric and acoustic night, Wheatsheaf, 7.30pm, every Mon.
Arlecdon: Andrew, The Hound Inn, 9.30pm, Saturday.
Workington: Chief, Monroes, 7.30pm, Friday.

Community
Whitehaven:Photographic Society, Sneckyeat Community Centre, Monday; Acting Up, talk, Whitehaven Rambling Club, United Reformed Church Hall, 7.45pm, Wednesday; Hatha Yoga, 5.45pm, Monday, Gentle Yoga, 3pm, Tuesday, both at Senhouse Centre; Life drawing classes, The Beacon, 10.30am, Monday; The Oswald Singers, carols, Friends of Whitehaven Museum, Beacon, 7.30pm, Tuesday.
Mirehouse: Legs, bums, tums, West Coast Community Gym, 5.45-6.45pm, Thursdays.
Egremont: Age Concern tea dance, Market Hall, December 3, 1.30pm. Circle dancing with Gill Hazlehurst, Parish Church Hall, 2pm-4pm, Mondays.
Frizington: Christmas coffee morning, Saturday, 10am-noon, St John’s Methodist Church.
Cleator Moor: Cleator Moor Brass, St John’s Church, 7-9pm, Mondays and Thursdays; Exercise classes with Lynda Ridley, Civic Hall, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Mondays and Wednesdays; Wellness Club, 6-7pm, Wath Brow Hornets Club, Tuesdays; Tap dancing, Methodist Church Hall, 7pm (advanced), 8pm (beginners), Thursdays; Christmas Fair, Civic Hall, 2pm, Saturday.
Arlecdon: Quiz night, The Hound Inn, 9pm, every Thursday.
Calderbridge: Winter Party with Bayou Rhythm Kings, Beckermet, Haile and Calderbridge district of the NSPCC, village hall, 7.30pm, Friday; annual whist drive, December 2, 7.30pm, Calderbridge & Ponsonby Village Hall; Morris dancing, Village Hall, 8.15pm, Mondays.
Haile:(all at village hall) Coffee morning, 10am, Saturday; The Worm that Squirmed, Arts Out West, 6.30pm, Saturday; Reg Meuross, singer and musician, 7.30pm, Sunday.
Gosforth:Art Society, Methodist Hall, 7-9pm, Mondays.
Workington: Frederick Lightfoot, book reading from Cry/Swans, Wednesday, December 3, Derwent Bookshop, 7pm. Sing Owt!, sing a variety of songs, Cre8, 7-9pm, Thursdays (term-time).
Cockermouth:Choir rehearsals, Harmonic Society, United Reformed Church, 7pm, Mondays.

Film
Workington: Four Christmases, Madagascar, Body of Lies, Quarantine, My Best Friend’s Girl, The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas, Quantum of Solace, High School Musical 3, Igor, Space Chimps, Easy Virtue.
Theatre

Rosehill:
Reg Meuross, country/folk, 7.30pm, Friday.
St Bees:Mervyn Stutter, village hall, 7.30pm, Saturday.
Kirksanton:Mervyn Stutter, village hall, 7.30pm, Thursday.
Muncaster:Mervyn Stutter, parish hall, 7.30pm, Friday.
Keswick:Christmas Carol, Theatre by the Lake, until Jan 17.

To have an event included in this guide, email Gillian Ellison.

See also Whitehaven Snappers events guide.

And the Whitehaven Poster Wall.

First published at 15:49, Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk