Our guide to what you can do in and around the borough this weekend

Littleborough Arts Festival events, Bowlee Car Boot Sale, The Foundations, Fireground Museum Open Day, African Day 2022, Rochdale Ramblers walk, Falinge Park Community Hub Open Day, Heywood Station Car Boot Sale, Six Week Walking Group and Exhibitions: Mixed Media and Textiles, Whose Voice? and The Football Art Prize - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

---

• Events happening all weekend

Fireground Museum Open Day – Fireground, Maclure Road, Rochdale
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May

Fire Museum attractions are on show including historic and recent day artifacts.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/68939/

Gallery Exhibition: Mixed Media and Textiles – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 27 - Saturday 28 May, 10am – 3pm & Sunday 29 May, 11.30am – 2.30pm

This exhibition consists of Ruth Bristow - Mixed Media, Phoenix Textiles - Textiles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/68620/

Exhibition: The Football Art Prize – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 27 - Sunday 29 May, Friday and Saturday open 10am - 5pm, Sunday open 10am - 4pm

To coincide with the 2022 World Cup year, Touchstones have created The Football Art Prize to celebrate art and football.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/68261/

Exhibition: Whose Voice? – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 27 - Sunday 29 May, Friday and Saturday open 10am - 5pm, Sunday open 10am - 4pm

Whose Voice? will explore the role that museums, art galleries and civic spaces play in contemporary society.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69009/

---

• Friday 27 May

Littleborough Arts Festival: 'Wild animals and wilder stories' children's storytelling with Gordon MacLellan – Hare Hill Park, 2pm – 4.30pm

Make your own instant animal puppet then help us tell new stories using all the puppets we have just made..

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69472/

Littleborough Arts Festival: 'Boggarts and nature’s wonders' Storytelling evening with Gordon MacLellan and Jennie Bailey – Hare Hill House, 7pm doors

Storytellers will take us into a world full of stories with tales from the hills and moors of Lancashire.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69473/

For a full list of Friday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=27-05-2022&searchtype=date

---

• Saturday 28 May

African Day 2022 – Middleton Arena, 5pm

Celebrate with fellow africans, as well as other nationals within the communities.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69346/

Falinge Park Community Hub Open Day – Falinge Park Community Hub, 10am – 2pm

Find out what's on at Falinge Community Park.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69433/

For a full list of Saturday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=28-05-2022&searchtype=date

---

• Sunday 29 May

Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market – Bowlee Community Park, 6am for sellers, 7am for public - 1.30pm

Bowlee Car Boot Sale & Market - one of the biggest in Greater Manchester.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/68900/

Heywood Station Car Boot Sale – Heywood Station, 8.30am

The Whistlestop has planned 8 more car boot sales for this year.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/68753/

Six week walking group – Greenbooth Reservoir, Wardle, 1pm

The distance for this walk will be 2.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69045/

Rochdale Ramblers – Sunday Walks – Meet at Werneth Low Visitors Centre, 10am

Werneth Low - Etherow circular = 9.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69282/

Mayor’s Civic Sunday Service - St Chad's, 2pm

The new Mayor of the Borough of Rochdale Councillor Ali Ahmed is holding a Mayor’s Civic Sunday service.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69667/

For a full list of Sunday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=29-05-2022&searchtype=date

---

Submit an Event

You can advertise an event for free on Rochdale Online, just submit the details to us via our website:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/submit

Search our Events section

Search through all the events being held across the Rochdale borough (Rochdale, Littleborough, Middleton & Heywood) on our local event listings: www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/