Make My Day is a free, family festival, jam-packed with creative activities, such as a giant paint-by-numbers board and junk modelling plus street entertainment including a troupe of Lancashire Cloggers and an orchestra of flutes. Also, watch out for Punch & Judy and the Great Deckchair Challenge. The festival takes place on Sunday (August 6) from noon to 5pm, at West End Gardens and Morecambe Promenade (near The Battery).

Details at www.makemyday.org.uk

Free event

THE hilarious outdoor Shakespeare troupe - The HandleBards - have pedalled more than 6,000 miles across the UK to perform their unique brand of 'charmingly chaotic, environmentally sustainable, bicycle-powered Shakespeare.' Cycling to Giggleswick School to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream on Saturday (August 5, 6.30pm), the all-male cast of four promises something so uproariously different that the audience will be talking about it for days after. The story goes something like this - four young lovers find themselves enveloped in the dream-like arms of a magical forest full of sprites ... where fairies and humans collide. Venue: Gardens of Giggleswick School, Settle.

Box office 01729-893180.

Tickets £15.

Photo: Stanton Plummer-Cambridge; Matt Maltby; Liam Mansfield; Paul Hilliar

LAKE District Summer Music International Festival is taking place until August 11 at no less than 11 venues across the district, from the Coronation Hall, Ulverston to Hawkshead Parish Church and Kendal Town Hall. Thrilling performances from artists such as the Villiers Quartet, Chilingirian Quartet, Leveret and Emma Smith who pays tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald, at Ambleside’s Zeffirellis, plus musicians Gould Piano Trio 2, cellist Robert Cohen and pianist Carole Presland, to name but a few.

Go to ldsm.org.uk for programme.

Ticket price varies.

WISDOM Of The Stones Retreat – crystal and stones of the Earth act like Mother Earth’s brain cells; there is a reason why quartz crystal plays such an important role in modern technology, because quartz has the power to hold and transmit energy and information. The retreat, on Sunday (August 6), is being held to enable you to move into a space where you are able to hear the voices of the stones and to learn to uncover their wisdom. Activities include Guided Mediation, Opening Sacred Space together, group work plus much more. The retreat’s venue is The Kelsick Centre, Ambleside and booking is essential.

Tel: 07595-430967.

Tickets £45 (lunch not included).

LAKE District Sheep Dog Trials takes place on Thursday (August 10). This traditional event is now in its 119th year and as well as the open sheep dog trials, where the aim is for the shepherd to drive the sheep around the course through sets of fetch and drive gates and then into a fenced pen, there’s hound trails, Fox hound and terrier show, craft displays and demonstrations plus Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling. The event starts at 10am until 5pm, at Hill Farm, Ings, near Staveley.

Admission: Adults £5; children free.