LAKELAND Arts is staging a celebration of Boats, Steam and Stories from Windermere Jetty at Blackwell, The Arts and Crafts House, from 10.30am-5pm, on Saturday and Sunday (August 29/30).

The Windermere Weekender event sees Blackwell's stunning grounds (pictured) awash with innovative sculptures, craft activities, a hands on large scale creative weaving project and much more. The programme includes Lancaster-based theatre company, Inner State, live music from Little Island, Boom Bike Bouree, the Fox Family Band, and other exciting musical acts. Additionally, visitors will be able to explore the link between the house, its former owners and the lake.

Admission includes entrance to the house, exhibition and all activities.

GRASMERE Lakeland Sports is held on Sunday at The Showfield, Stock Lane, from 10am. The annual event has been going since 1868. Now one of the most popular traditional events in the English Lake District, participants compete in a variety of sports, including Cumberland wrestling, fell running and hound trails, with other features such as the Inch Perfect Trials Motorcycle Display Team and the Ferret World Roadshow.

QUANTUM Theatre will be at Holker Hall on Bank Holiday Monday (2pm), staging two of the most enduringly popular tales, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny in the form of outdoor theatre. The cast are also accomplished musicians, playing and singing live songs, which underscore the action, adding to the magic of the whole experience, which is ideally suited to the lush Holker parkland. Box office 015395-58328.

RAG-rug making, felting and spinning will be among the attractions for those visiting the Aysgarth Falls National Park Centre in Wensleydale. Staff in the centre will be playing host to a ‘Pop-up crafts in the Park’ event until to Monday, August 31, between 11am-3pm, and local crafters will be showing how it’s done. As well as the national park centre itself, visitors will also have the chance to stroll round Freeholders’ Wood and take in the beauty of the three stunning falls on the nearby River Ure.

DESIGNER, artist and rug-maker Jane Exley holds an exhibition and residency until September 4, at Cylinders Estate, Langdale. Jane's displaying her rugs, made from Herdwick wool, as tapestries in the Shippon Gallery at Cylinders. She is also producing paintings influenced by Kurt Schwitters’s designs, collages and compositional artworks to be used later in the design of limited edition Merz rugs. And she is creating wool installations in the woods in Cylinders.

LANCASTER University will display a virtual reality version of its campus recreated in the computer game Minecraft, as part of Rheged’s hugely successful Make it With Minecraft summer exhibition. From tomorrow (Friday) until Saturday, September 6, visitors to Rheged Centre, near Penrith, will be able to try on a virtual reality headset and explore the 3D campus, all within the Minecraft computer game.