Today's events in Rochdale

The Objects of the Society are the maintaining and increasing of interest in Lancashire Dialect.  Monthly Meetings, the usual format for meetings is:

A welcome to all from the evening's Chairman, (a different one every week); a rendition (or should that be rending?) of Edwin Waugh's song "A lift on the Way", followed by a reading of a poem or extract from one of Waugh's works by a pressed volunteer and then the 'parish notices' from the Secretary.

The Guest for the evening then entertains, a vote of thanks is given and a second Waugh song, the most appropriate "Toddlin' Whom", ends the evening about 9.15 pm.

After this, in the immortal words of our previous President Jack Lye, " Tha con aw Pike off whom neaw!"

Live Life, the big public healthy living show will return to the borough in March next year.

Following the success of this year’s event it has been announced that Live Life will take place at Heywood Civic Centre and the adjacent Phoenix Centre, on Wednesday 10 March.

The giant annual health exhibition, held in partnership with Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale NHS and Rochdale Borough Council will have lots of ideas to help you lead a healthier lifestyle with a huge range of interactive demonstrations, activities and presentations.

Organisers are promising another high profile line up of star guests. This year Coronation Street stars Samia Smith and Antony Cotton took part, and over 1,300 people visited the event at the Middleton Arena.

Free transport to the event will be available from various locations around the borough.

We would like to invite you to our next monthly Curry Club for like-minded
business people, to be held at the award winning Veenas Restaurant. No Membership Fees. 

This will be an informal meeting; NO SPEAKER, NO 60 SECONDS, just good food and great networking both for business and pleasure. Sample the finest authentic Indian Cuisine — 3 course set meal. Vegetarian option available (please book in advance).
Bring along a business colleague if you wish (to be booked in advance), as well as plenty of business cards. Name badges optional. Book early as places are limited.

To book your place contact Carmel Lambert.

Lenten Meetings, starting the Wednesday after Ash Wednesday for five weeks.  

• March 10th at Norden Methodist,"The Child on the Cross." led by Rev'd Malcolm Sharrock 
• March 17th at Bamford Chapel, "Outside the City Wall."led by Rev'd Daniel Mwailu 
• March 24th at Cutgate Baptist Church, "Touching the Rock."led by Rev'd Brian Drury
  Coffee and tea will be served at 7-30pm, followed by the York Lenten Course, "When I Survey.....Christ's Cross and Our's" from 7-45 - 9-15pm

Being in hospital can be a difficult, bewildering and often a scary experience for anyone – and particularly for children. The RBPP delegation led by the Mayor Cllr Keith Swift last year visited the Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital in Sylhet. And to their dismay found that the Children’s Ward did not have a single toy for sick children to play with. The RBPP believe that we should help the JRRMC Hospital make it as comfortable and relaxing as possible and work towards creating the very best healing environment for children.

To donate a toy to a sick child, please drop off your donations at the following drop off points around the borough:

Rochdale North Wardleworth Community Centre, South Street, Rochdale, Lancs, OL16 2EP (01706 342889)
Rochdale Town Hall, The Esplanade, Rochdale, OL16 1AB (01706 647474)
Star of Bengal Restaurant, 169 -171 Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, (01706 649 901)
Rochdale South
Deeplish Community Centre, Hare Street, Rochdale, OL11 1JT (01706 860151)
Nye Bevan House, Maclure Road, Rochdale, OL11 1DN (01706 261800)
Castlemere Community Centre, Tweedale Street, Rochdale (01706 645200)
Rochdale Online, 847-849 Manchester Raod, Rochdale, OL11 2NU (01706 523583)
Heywood
Veenas Restaurant Club, 41 York Street, Heywood, OL10 4NN (01706 366 822)
Middleton
La Minhaz Restaurant, 23-25 Market Place, Middleton, M24 6AE (0161 643 0081)
Pennines
Milnrow Balti Indian Restaurant, 22 Dale St, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 4HS (01706 353651)
Thamins Indian Restaurant, Dearnley Cottage, New Road, Littleborough, OL15 8PL (01706 371000)
Bay of Bengal Indian Restaurant, 15 Todmorden Road, Littleborough, OL15 9DQ (01706 379 182)
Alternatively please ring 07764 614031

Steve Garside is a Rochdale-born selftaught visual artist, poet and published writer. His landscape paintings for this exhibition have been inspired by photographs collected from people across the globe that he has met on Facebook, the social networking site.

This exhibition brings together cute and curious hand-made creatures from four leading contemporary craft makers.

Julie Arkell’s papier maché characters invoke nostalgia for a bygone age; Abigail Brown’s textile-based birds and woodland creatures are inspired by her own childhood; Samantha Bryan’s sculptures inspired by Victorian gadgetry depict the unusual everyday life of fairies and Anya Keeley makes one-off assemblages using found, reclaimed & donated vintage materials combined with wire-work.

Jack Crabtree was born in Rochdale in 1938. He studied at Rochdale College of Art before going on to St Martin’s and the Royal Academy School in London. Since then he has carved out a significant career combining teaching, including an appointment as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Ulster in Belfast, with numerous fellowships, commissions and solo exhibitions particularly in Wales, England, Germany and Ireland. His work features in the collections of institutions such as the Ulster Museum, the National Trust and the National Museum of Wales.

This exhibition shows for the first time a recent body of work which was primarily made at the artist’s late mother’s house on Overt Street in Rochdale. It captures aspects of urban life which the artist observed on his journeys from his home in France to visit his mother in Rochdale.

From folklore through to dialect writing and modern fiction, the borough of Rochdale has a unique storytelling tradition spanning hundreds of years. Using objects from the museum, archive and gallery collections this exhibition takes a look at some of the weird and wonderful stories that have become part of the heritage of the borough and highlights many of the local writers past and present.

With hands on displays, this family friendly exhibition will delight anyone interested in the history, mystery and myths of the local area.

This exhibition brings together Victorian paintings with a selection of Victorian objects and photographs from our collections.

Explore the narratives and aspects of social history captured in paint and find out more about the themes which interested artists of the time. The exhibition will include our well-known painting A Special Pleader by Charles Burton Barber alongside works by Alice Havers, Frank Holl and John Gregory amongst others.