NO fewer than 130 artists will be creating temporary galleries in the fishing-village houses of Staithes as part of Staithes Arts & Heritage Festival on Saturday and Sunday.

"This is only our third festival, started by a group of volunteers in 2012, and the temporary galleries are like Open Studios events, but because it's all concentrated in one small village, it's easy to visit many more galleries," says Jill Turton, from the festival team. "Last year we had around 3,000 visitors, and this year we'll be having talks, walks, music and workshops, as well as the galleries.

"The 2014 festival looks like setting more records with an even higher number of artists, 130, exhibiting in 90 locations around the village – oh and lots of York artists will be taking part too."

Full details of the artists are available from the staithesfestival.com website, as are further details of a festival that will incorporate fashion illustration workshops; concerts; buskers; sea shanties; pop-up cafés; a barbecue and a ceilidh.

As the centrepiece, international decorative artist Paul Czainski has created an optical illusion trompe l'oeil trail through the village, designing eight illusions on buildings around the streets and ginnel. Czainski, by the way, has clients such as Mick Jagger and the Rothschild family.

Look out for a new exhibition by Ian Burke, the drawing master at Eton, who was born in Redcar and has a house nearby on on the North York Moors. His show, Lobsters, Witch Posts And The Full English, promises "lots of colourful work, especially food pictures" at the Sunday School Gallery and he will be hosting workshops too.

Jo Brickett-Davda is bringing her ceramics to Staithes, or more precisely the hand-moulded plates and bowls she makes for the likes of Toast and Nicole Farhi. You may have seen her work in the cookery books of Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and now she is to exhibit at the old but restored Wesleyan Chapel, which belongs to a York couple incidentally.

Among the festival's programme of talks will be BBC and History Channel presenter Vanessa Collingridge's keynote speech on celebrated village inhabitant Captain James Cook, the subject of a Collingridge television series and book. She will talk about Cook in Staithes as well as his life, death and legacy at 2pm on Saturday and noon on Sunday. By the way, her Scottish husband will be heading to the coast to play the bagpipes.

For the adventurous, historian Billy Hinchley will lead a low-tide foreshore walk, pointing out seams, tramways and other archaeological pointers to the ironstone era in William's Walk, setting off at 1pm on Sunday from the Gateway Centre car park.

The many workshops on offer will include an unusual one highlighting the possibilities of the iPad. Artist Joan Ransley will be inspiring people of all ages to develop their own illustration style running iPad workshops in the former Bethel Chapel on High Street at 11am on Saturday.

Stef Mitchell will hold printmaking workshops in her studio and gallery at Sunnyside; or if you fancy doing some outdoor work, Stef will be guiding a walk round the village on Saturday morning.

The festival's food and drink will come not only from the harbour village's pubs and cafés, but also from villagers offering up their homes as pop-up tea rooms. Jane Gjertson, from the Ship Inn at Port Mulgrave, will run a vintage tea room from her cottage in Gun Gutter, while chef Lisa Chapman, of To Dine For catering, will preside over a pop-up bistro in the Sunday School Gallery.

Artist Liz Druce will be baking and creating Edible Art, running workshops on icing and decorating handmade biscuits and Gingerbread houses, as well as providing a café from her vintage VW camper van, Bella.

Throughout the weekend, Staithes will be alive with the sound of music from bands, buskers, and choirs too. The festival is supported by North York Moors National Park, Scarborough Borough Council and Welcome to Yorkshire, and you can follow the weekend's programme on Facebook.