Light Up Lancaster starts tonight

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Look out for red squirrels over your morning coffee, then follow woodland trails from the doorstep or spend the afternoon exploring the Solway coast. Back at Treetops, gather for dinner in the Nordic BBQ cabin, curl up beside the log burner or slip into the hot tub under the stars.

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From 5pm tonight until 10, and again on Friday and Saturday, Lancaster's streets, squares and old buildings are lit up with light art. This year's theme is No Boundaries. It is all free, it works for children, and there is a map on the festival's site so you can plan a loop rather than wander and hope.

Kanteena on Brewery Lane is adding free family DJ sets and a laser show on Friday and Saturday as part of it.

Light Up Lancaster

Across the bay, Holker's Winter Market opens tomorrow and runs to Sunday, 10am to 4.30pm, with craft stalls, gifts and street food in the grounds. It is the one that starts Christmas round here, and a few things are worth knowing before you set off:

A forgotten Lancaster inventor

Karel Klíč was a Bohemian-born artist and inventor who lived and worked in Lancaster in the 1890s, and hardly anyone here has heard of him. The Storey is putting that right with a free exhibition, The Copy That: Karel Klíč, Art For All, from Saturday 14th to Wednesday 25th November, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.

Free, indoors and on for twelve days. (worth remembering for a wet afternoon.)

The Copy That, at The Storey

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Also on Sunday

Since 2020, Morecambe Bay Wills & Estates has handed 5% of every will and power of attorney bill to good causes, which now adds up to more than £59,000. This year's community fund is £15,000, twice last year's. Last year thirty groups got £250 each, from the Four Seasons Allotments Association to Age UK South Cumbria and St John's Hospice. This year the grants are £250 or £500, depending on the size of the project.

Here is the useful bit. It covers North Lancashire and South Cumbria alike, nominations are open all year, and anyone can nominate a group, not only the people who run it. All a group needs is a bank account in its own name. The next grants go out in January.

So if you know a village hall, a junior football team, a choir or a lunch club that could use £500, ten minutes tonight might get it for them.

How to nominate a group

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