BOLTON Festival's varied programme of events runs until Sunday, September 2. Tickets and further details of individual events are from the Albert Halls Ticket Centre on 01204 334400.

TODAY: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Central Library, 10.30am to 11.30am, free admission -- Children's story telling for 5 to 11 year olds; Music at Lunchtime, Art Gallery, Town Centre, 12pm to 1.30pm, free admission; Yoroshiku Ne, Art Gallery, 10.15am to 11.30am and 2.30pm to 4.30pm, free admission; Aquarium Tours, Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, free admission. Book a place on 01204 334400; Evening Ramble, Smithills Country Park, Smithills Dean Road, 7pm, meet at Smithills Hall; Bat Walk, Hall i'th' Wood, 7.30pm, free admission. Book on 01204 332193; Trotters, Bolton Little Theatre, 7.30pm, tickets £5.50; Hope and Glory, Smithills Hall, Smithills Dean Road, 7.30pm, £8.50 -- An Evening of Victorian Ballads.

TOMORROW: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Central Library, 10.30am to 11.30am, free admission; Animal Sculpture, Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, 1pm to 4.30pm; Trotters, Bolton Little Theatre, 7.30pm, tickets £5.50; Smithills Tramway and Bleachworks Walk, 7pm, free admission. Book on 01204 597644; Celebrity Choice, St Andrew's and St George's, St George's Road, 7.30pm, tickets £7.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31: Are You Sitting Comfortably? 10.30am to 11.30am, free admission; Aquarium Tours, Museum and Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, free. Book on 01204 334400; Music at Lunchtime, Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, 12pm to 1.30pm, free admission; Trotters, Bolton Little Theatre, 7.30pm, tickets £6.50; Oxford concert Party Baroque 'n' Roll, Bolton School Arts and Conference Centre, Chorley New Road, 7.30pm, tickets £11.50; King Pleasure and The Biscuit Boys, Festival hall, Albert Halls, 7.30pm, £10.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: September on the Square; Victoria Square, 11am to 4pm -- Artists and performers that will delight and surprise; Shree Swaminarayan Temple Dancers, Art Gallery, Le Mans Crescent, 2pm to 3pm -- Indian dancers; Trotters, Bolton Little Theatre, 7.30pm, tickets £6.50; Lancashire Artillery Band Concert, Albert Halls, 7.30pm, tickets £7.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: Magistrates Court Tours, Le Mans Crescent, free admission. Book on 01204 334400; Sarah Jory in Concert, Albert Halls, 7.30pm, £10 and concessions £9. Special guest Nick Bold; Songs of Praise, Bolton Parish Church, 6.30pm with the choir of Bolton Parish Church and Salvation Army Band.