Helston’s Blue Anchor Beer Festival started yesterday and runs until Sunday. There are 25 UK-wide real ales and beers to choose from and live music throughout the weekend. Slim Semora is playing today from 6pm, Belfast Busker, Harvey Taylor, Even Nine are playing during the day and into the evening on Saturday. Bob Love will be playing on Sunday afternoon.

The wonders of the ocean will be on the big screen at The Hall for Cornwall tonight at 7.30pm as the Ocean Film Festival World Tour returns to Cornwall. Presented by the producers of the Banff Film Festival UK Tour, this extraordinary collection of short films celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray and who chase the crests of waves.

Son of Dave is playing at Falmouth’s Princess Pavilion tonight at 8pm. This man is bringing his trunk full funk to the venue along with material off his new fifth album Blues At The Grand. Son of Dave, Benjamin Darvill, said: “I decided I was going to make a happier record and stop screaming about the hell I was in. I won the trust and custody of my kid, I won the hearts of my audience and finally I found a good women.”

Trengwainton garden near Penzance is opening to the public on Sunday at 10:30am. There is a brand new bookshop and gallery to enjoy along with the historic setting of the old head gardener's cottage. The orchard will be open for the first time so why not pick an apple to eat while looking around the Dig For Victory plot, remember to say hello to the chickens.

A performance of a play called Emporium is being given by Threemilestone Amateur Dramatic Society tonight and tomorrow at their community centre at 7.30pm. Set in a shop, though Mrs Dressoir, the shop manageress, calls it an Emporium, audiences learn all about the different characters to come in and out of it. This has a witty script written by Bob Tucker and the performance is set to have audiences laughing from start to finish.