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

Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day, Rochdale Music Society concert, SHOUT! Motown & 60’s Dance Party, Visit Fireground Museum, Dancing England Rapper Tournament, Saturday Night Line Dancing, Riverside Artisan Market, International Women’s Day (open day), Soup Making for Food Waste and Fair Trade Saturday, World Book Day Children’s Party, Great Sacred Music, Alkrington Village Craft Market, Live Entertainent, SMUDGE, Exhibition: A Tall Order! - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

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• Events happening all weekend

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 March

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71560/

Exhibition: A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s – Touchstones, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 March, 10am – 5pm

A Tall Order! is an invigorating look at the artwork made and exhibited at Rochdale Art Gallery during the 1980s by a generation of artists, many of whom were women, young, working class and Black.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71479/

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• Friday 10 March

Friday Night Social Snooker – Alkrington & Providence United Reformed Church, 7pm

Very gentle and sociable snooker/billiards.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71852/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=10-03-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 11 March

Riverside Artisan Market – Riverside Retail & Leisure Complex, 10am

Running on the second Saturday of every month, the successful Riverside Artisan Market returns again to Rochdale Riverside this weekend.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71806/

Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day – Unit 4 Park Works, 10am

Monthly open day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71111/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Rivington Circular, 10am

Walk distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71872/

Dancing England Rapper Tournament – Various venues in Rochdale, 11am

DERT (Dancing England Rapper Tournament) is the annual competition of rapper sword dancing.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71700/

International Women’s Day (Open Day) – Falinge Park Community Hub, 12pm

Stalls, Activities and Food will compliment a showcase of the services MOJOBERE REWBE will be bringing to Rochdale.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71867/

Soup Making for Food Waste and Fair Trade Saturday – Rochdale Pioneers Museum, 12.30pm

Have a go at co-operative soup making in the learning loft using seasonal British vegetables from local co-ops in Rochdale.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71945/

Great Sacred Music - St Mary in the Baum, 1pm

Great Sacred Music led by the HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71996/

World Book Day Children’s Party – Fabdance Centre

Lots of fun dances, party games and prizes.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71953/

Saturday Night Line Dancing – Back of the Moss Community Centre, 6pm

Come and join us for an evening of line dancing, good music, laughs and meeting new people.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71897/

SHOUT! Motown & 60’s Dance Party – Smalley Hall, 7pm

DJ's Dave Sweetmore (Sixties Classics) and Nick Robinson (Motown Floorfillers).

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71547/

Rochdale Music Society – Pleyel Ensemble – Heywood Civic Centre, 7.30pm

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, Martinu: Madrigals for Violin and Viola, Brahms: Clarinet Quintet.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71491/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=11-03-2023&searchtype=date&Page=1

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• Sunday 12 March

Alkrington Village Craft Market – Alkrington Community Centre, 11am

The first craft market of the year.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71412/

Live Entertainment, SMUDGE – The Rochdale Catholic Club, 4pm

Playing a variety of Music: U2, Police, Bowie, plus many more 80’s and Motown classics.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71800/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=12-03-2023&searchtype=date

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