ARTS SESSIONS Painting tutors will be on hand the Arts Cafe held at The Bridge Centre for Visual Arts on Saturday May 25 from 11am to 2pm. The public are invited to bring painting materials and have coffee and cake with illustrator Amelia Davies, Origami and Chinese calligraphy tutor Lip Lee and jewellery maker Michelle Douglas.

PARK THEATRE Tickets for an open air performance of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream are now on sale. The play will be performed from 7pm at Darlington’s South Park Bandstand for three nights from Thursday, June 27. There will be a matinee show on Sunday, June 30 at 4pm. Tickets cost £5 and are available from the Civic Theatre, Cornmill and Dolphin Centre Box Office or by calling 01325-486555.