• Songs from the musicals to hit the stage in Barrow
• The View ready for fun At The Playground Festival
• My life as Freddie Mercury by Gary Mullen
• Ronan Keating is an Eddie Stobart spotter
• Music on the Marr festival promises to be one of 2013's highlights
• Minecraft fun for Museums at Night at Tullie House
• Disaster movie set in Barrow

Tickets for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival are on sale.

• Blazingly funny family drama
• Hermits head this way
• One of the country’s most well known and respected mediums comes to Barrow
• Original Beatle to perform in Cumbria
• Kidfest set for return
• Keswick Mountain Festival to premiere a programme of film nights

The latest exhibition at Brantwood, near Coniston showcases the work of Furness-based artists Trident Textiles.

• Budding curators invited to help run C-Art show
• Abbot Hall to host the Radev Collection
• Painter and sculptor find inspiration on the Solway for exhibition
• Lakes rubbish as art
• Grayson Perry work included in Tullie House show
• Cumbrian Artists' gallery

GET your baking hats on and switch your oven to gas mark five - it's time to shine!

• Artists invited to bid for £30,000 woodland commission
• Kung Fu masters show their skills
• New gallery to exhibit work by local artists
• Military Musuem provides major new attraction for Carlisle
• Cumberland Show celebrates 175th anniversary
• Exhibition reveals life of Dorothy Wordsworth