ST PAUL'S CHURCH, Astley Bridge, Bolton. Harvest Festival with a difference from Friday September 22 to Sunday September 24. Millennium Harvest Festival of Talents featuring work of artists and craftsfolk, plus music. Friday at 7pm, Saturday from 10am to 5pm, Saturday evening concert in church by the Bourbon Street Roof Raisers jazz band with music and entertainment by church members. Sunday morning traditional harvest festival service, then paintings, floral art, embroidery and gift stalls open in the afternoon.

BOLTON CHA RAMBLING CLUB. Saturday September 16, Yarrow Valley, Anglezarke and Round Loaf, 12 miles. Start 10.30am from Rivington. Also, Saturday September 23, car ramble to Grasmere, Steel Fell, Calf Crag, Helm Crag, 10 miles, leave Bolton 9am. For all walks ring 697610.

LAST DROP VILLAGE, Bolton. Sunday September 17. Bolton Art Circle art exhibition with more than 400 paintings, prints and cards on view, ranging in price from £5 to £750. Runs from 11am to 4.30pm, free admission.

LOWTON CIVIC HALL, Hesketh Meadow Lane, Lowton, near Leigh. Saturday September 30 10am to 6pm and Sunday October 1, 10am to 5pm. Leigh Model Railway exhibition. Admission £2.30, concessions £1.20, family £5.50.

KING GEORGES HALL, Northgate, Blackburn. Blackburn and East Lancashire Model Railway Society. Friday October 20 5pm to 9pm, Saturday October 21 10am to 9pm, Sunday October 22 10am to 5pm. Adults £4, concessions £3, children £2, family ticket £10. Ring 01254 582582.

ROYAL ARMOURIES MUSEUM, Leeds. Open from 10.30am to 5.30pm. Adult prices £4.90, children/concessions £3.90 and family tickets £14.90. Ring 0990 1066 66.

GRAND CINEMA, York Street, Clitheroe. Sunday September 24. Film show screening Beau Travail, the retelling of the Herman Melville story Billy Budd. Starts 2.30pm. Also at 7.30pm the screening of The Last September, based on Elizabeth Bowen's novel about the end of British rule in Ireland. The British Federation of Societies are also holding their AGM from 1.30pm. Admission £1 to each showing.

ARTBASE STUDIOS, The Old Fire Station, The Crescent, Salford. Creative Ceramics Course. Demonstrations and tuition to learn about coiling, slabbing and throwing, the use of glazes, electric and raku kiln packing and firing. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 4.45pm and Tuesdays, 6pm to 9pm. Price £6.50 per session. Ring Paul Smith on 0161 737 1040 for further details and to book.

GRIZEDALE FOREST, Lake District. Grizedale Show. A weekend of art, forestry and fetes which includes limo tours visiting new works of art in the forest and the launch of the Festival of Lying celebrating the local tradition of 'Cumbrian lying", also displays of lumber jacks, the famous Welsh Axemen and displays of pole lathe turning and basket making. For children there is a rocket building and launch display, a forest treasure trail. Other attractions include forest art and nature tours, falcontry demonstrations, dry stone walling, a duck race, a marquee with stalls. Admission £25 for a weekend pass with many of the outdoor events free. Friday September 15 to Sunday September 17.

MANCHESTER TOWN HALL, The Great Hall, Manchester. Tuesday September 26, seminar with Neale Donald Walsch author of Conversations with God. Runs from 7.30pm to 10.30pm. Ring 020 7938 3788.

BOLTON CENTRAL LIBRARY, Le Mans Crescent, Bolton, in the Green Room, 7pm, Tuesday lectures. Every week from September 19 to December 5. Ring 0161 723 3983.