KENDAL Community Theatre presents Kendal Cool Yule Winterfest, an evening of magical tales, fabulous stories, music and mysteries, tricksters and merry pranks. The event takes place from Wednesday to Saturday (November 22-25). Evenings (7.30pm) and Saturday matinee (November 25, 1.30pm), at Kendal Museum.

Tickets 01539-725133 or www.breweryarts.co.uk

Price £10-£5.

OUTDOOR enthusiasts by their thousands as well as media industry specialists, athletes, top brands and equipment manufacturers, artists, photographers, adventurers, explorers and inspirational speakers will converge to celebrate the Kendal Mountain Festival. The event will again include 100 films from more than 240 entries with 12 coveted awards up for grabs. There's also the Mountain Literature Festival where authors, motivational speakers, poets and conversationalists will encourage audience participation, plus the world's largest lecture programme covering outdoor content as well as family and children's activities to boot. The festival takes place from today (Thursday) to Sunday at various venues, including Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal Town Hall, Abbot Hall plus more.

Go to www.mountainfest.co.uk for details of programmes.

Tickets can be bought via the website and prices depend on the event/activity chosen

FATHER Christmas at Millerbeck Light Railway – such a lovely event for kids who are getting into a festive mood running up to the big day. Santa will arrive in his special sleigh train, having travelled through the illuminated and decorated grounds to get there. Then passengers can board the special train which will take them to meet the jolly-man-in-red himself, in his magical grotto. The trains run from 11am-4pm, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday (November 17, 18 & 19), Santa trains leave at 12.30pm. The railway is located at Millerbeck House, Staveley-in-Cartmel, Newby Bridge. LA12 8NH.

Limited passenger numbers so advanced booking required – 015395-30113 or www.millerbeck.org.uk/events

Admission: Adults £10 (includes mince pie); children £11 includes gift from Santa.

THE Great Print Exhibition 2017 which is being held at Rheged Visitor Centre, near Penrith, is the largest exhibition of its kind in the UK. With more than 350 framed artworks on the wall by more than 60 printmakers from up and down the country. It is an excellent chance to see and buy original art. Further, you’ll be able to learn about this widely varied art form, with information on how different prints are made and videos showing artists making their work, along with examples of tools and printing plates used to create the work. The exhibition starts tomorrow (Friday) until February 4, 2018. Opening times 10am-5pm.

Free entry.

MUSICAL theatre group and winners of 2014 Britain's Got Talent, Collabro, is set to wow the Carlisle audience when they perform at the Sands Centre on Thursday (November 23, 7.30pm). The group met in a London pub for their first rehearsal and only a month later went on to rouse the audience into a standing ovation during their first ever public performance of 'Stars' and initial audition for BGT.

Box office 01228-633766

Tickets £39.50; £29.50; £19.50; VIP £99.

BOX Tale Soup's version of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey features a cast of just two human performers and seven hand-made puppets. Through their adaptation, the company has remained as true to the original work as possible, taking the vast majority of the dialogue from the novel. This, combined with the use of puppetry, has made the production a favourite of Austen lovers and sceptics alike! A heart-warming love story with genuine laugh-out-loud humour and dark, melodramatic gothic horror. On stage tomorrow (Friday, 7.30pm) at the Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere.

Box office 015394-40872.

Tickets: Adult £15; student/child £7

A SELLING exhibition, Art & Clay, featuring work by 12 artists is taking place at the Athenaeum at Leasgill, near Milnthorpe, on Saturday (10am-5pm) and Sunday (10am-4pm). The exhibition showcases paintings, prints, sculptural ceramics, pots and much more. Plus why not indulge yourself with lunch or snacks at Nela’s Nice Nosh – yummy!

Photo: Summer Track with pot

Just turn up.