CALSTOCK will be buzzing this Bank Holiday weekend, as the village's annual festival gets into full flow. There will be a wide range of events staged, from a Middle Eastern evening to storytelling for children, Flamenco music, a talk on the archaeological finds in the village, craft workshops and land and water races. One of the event co-ordinators, Richard Hendin of Peterloo Poets, said:'We are possibly moving towards a more arts and music festival now as we have a bikers' festival and regatta later in the year,' he said. The event kicks off on Friday night with a belly dancing 'taster' session in the village hall. Although normally this is restricted to female dancers, as a 'special concession' men would be allowed to join in. Belly dancing will also feature in the Middle Eastern night on Sunday at 7.30pm in the village hall, with themed food and drumming also included. Richard said there were 'a lot of keen belly dancers around' and this would give them the chance to show off their skills. The evening follows previous successful Bollywood and New Orleans nights, and tickets have already nearly sold out. The Bands on the Green session from noon to 6pm on Saturday has a slightly different format this year. 'In previous years bands have been rushed as there have been so many, so this year we have kept it to five really good ones who will have about an hour each,' said Richard. The bands are High Interest, Whitehouse, Lost in Space, Out to Grass and the Debs Kemp Band. There will be market stalls in the area . Also on the musical side, there will be a concert by Esperanto, a Spanish/Flamenco/Latin guitar duo at the Peterloo Poets Hall at 7.30pm on Monday, with tickets price £6 available from Levines or on 01822 833473. The concert will include poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, who Richard Hendin said was 'a wonderful, enchanting Spanish poet'. Other musical events include a concert by the Calstock Singers in Peterloo Poets' Hall on Friday evening and the Gruff Nuts at The Tamar Inn on Saturday evening. The children's storytelling session at 1.30pm on Saturday in the Peterloo Poets' Hall is part of the Tamar Valley project 'Imagine', which is trying to re-invoke the folklore of the area, Richard said. With interest in archaeology high in the area following the discovery of a Roman fort at Calstock earlier in the year, there will be a chance to have finds identified in the village hall from 3pm to 5.30pm. Dr Chris Smart from the University of Exeter, unearthed the fort. He said during the excavation he was approached by a number of members of the public with objects they had discovered in the surrounding parishes, none of which were known to the Royal Cornwall Museum or the wider archaeological community. 'A coin found at St Anne's Chapel turned out to be a 4th century Roman coin, with other verbal reports of pottery which sounded suspiciously like Roman material,' he said. 'I am running the event in the village hall, where the public is invited to bring any finds they may have discovered, regardless of their potential age, to have them formally identified by specialists and archaeologists.' Archaeology is once again the topic at 7pm in the village hall when Dr Chris Smart and Dr Peter Claughton will talk about the newly unearthed Calstock Roman fort. Sunday will start with morning workshops in pottery and lantern making for children. In the afternoon, from 2pm, there will be the chance to watch an original Cornish game, Smite, with the Cornish County Doubles Championships taking place. Smite, based on a traditional Northern European game, is new to the UK and combines boule with croquet. The festival ends on Monday and there will be river events from 11am to 2pm, including races, rowing and Rescue the Maiden. There will also be sports events on dry land.