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

One Night In Dublin, Rochdale Music Society concert: Patrick Hemmerlé Piano, Level Up by Legacy Dance Academy, St George’s Day Live Entertainment, Messy Church, Rochdale Phoenix Opera Society presents Ruddigore, or ‘The Witch’s Curse’ by Gilbert and Sullivan, Flags Festival 2023, Heywood & Middleton Apprenticeships Fair, Health + Wellbeing event for people with disabilities or aged 55+, The Active Living Social, Undercover2 Music Night at Clover Street Unitarians, Freeform Poetry - Free Poetry Workshop, RBH Paint Shop, Free Workshop Introduction to Poetry, Flights of Fancy: The Wild Escape, An Afternoon with Poet James Nash, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks, Exhibitions: Mixed Media and A Tall Order! - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

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• Events happening all weekend

Rochdale Phoenix Opera Society presents Ruddigore, or 'The Witch's Curse' by Gilbert and Sullivan – The Curtain Theatre, Friday 21 April, 7.30pm & Saturday 22 April, 2pm

Filled with curses, ghosts and crime Ruddigore follows the two bad baronets of Ruddigore, who must commit a crime a day – or perish in inconceivable agony.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71802/

Flags Festival 2023 - Rochdale Sports Club, Saturday 22 April, from 10am & Sunday 23 April, from 9.30am

Rochdale Lacrosse Club's first team will be playing in the Junior Flags final at 3pm on Saturday, after another spectacular season.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72240/

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 21 April and Saturday 22 April

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72055/

Exhibition: A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s – Touchstones, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 April, 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/

Gallery Exhibitions: Mixed Media – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 21 and Saturday 22 April, 10am – 3pm

Geoff Butterworth - Mixed Media and Rita Stead - Mixed Media.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71579/

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• Friday 21 April

Heywood & Middleton Apprenticeships Fair – Heywood Civic Centre, 10am – 1pm

Hosted by Chris Clarkson MP. Meet with local employers, training providers and more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72204/

Health and wellbeing event for people with disabilities or aged 55+ – The Lighthouse Project, 11am

Three presentations by Transport for Greater Manchester, Singing for the Brain (Dementia Choir), and the DWP.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72117/

The Active Living Social – Rochdale Leisure Centre, 2pm – 4pm

Fun-filled music and dance afternoons taking you through the decades.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72282/

Undercover2 Music Night at Clover Street Unitarians – Rochdale Unitarian Church, 7.30pm

An enjoyable evening of music and dancing, stitched together with humour.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72182/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=21-04-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 22 April

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Marvellous Marple Meander, 10am

Walk distance = 10.2 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72136/

Freeform Poetry - Free Poetry Workshop – Hare Hill House, 10am – 12pm

A free workshop with Gaia Holmes an award-winner freelance writer and creative writing tutor.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72254/

RBH Paint Shop - 271 Olney, Freehold, 10am – 2pm

RBH is hosting a paint sale and they have loads of amazing deals on all types of paint.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72295/

Free Workshop Introduction to Poetry – Hare Hill House, 10am – 4pm

A free workshop for all those interested in and starting to write poetry with the amazing Eileen Earnshaw.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72253/

Flights of Fancy: The Wild Escape – Number One Riverside, 1pm – 3pm

Find out more about our feathered friends, their journeys, habitats and behaviours, then enjoy a range of fun activities in celebration of this year’s Earth Day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72286/

An Afternoon with Poet James Nash – Hare Hill House, 2pm – 4pm

Yorkshire poet, James Nash, is the author of 8 poetry collections with the most recent being “Heart Stones”, a collection of sonnets.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72255/

Sarah-Joy Ford and Veronica Slater: Reflecting on Queer Feminisms and Modernism - Touchstones, 2pm

Sarah-Joy Ford and Veronica Slater will discuss the history queer art, starting with the work of Gluck, whose painting, The Devil’s Alter, 1932, will be included in the exhibition.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71695/

Messy Church – Moorhouse Methodist Church, 4pm – 6pm

Fun time of crafts, music and food for children.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72076/

One Night in Dublin – Middleton Arena, 7.30pm

High-energy Irish Music and more than a little bit of Irish Craic!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71489/

Rochdale Music Society concert: Patrick Hemmerlé Piano – Heywood Civic Centre, 7.30pm

Rochdale Music society presents Patrick Hemmerlé on the piano.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71494/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=22-04-2023&searchtype=date&Page=1

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• Sunday 23 April

Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market – Bowlee Community Park, 7am

One of the biggest car boot sales and markets in Greater Manchester.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72103/

Level Up by Legacy Dance Academy – Middleton Arena, 3pm

Legacy Dance Academy presents Level Up, their second dance, theatre and acro show since opening.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72021/

St George’s Day Live Entertainment – Rochdale Catholic Club, 6pm

St George's Day spectacular. The fabulous RIOCCA will entertain you.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72290/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=23-04-2023&searchtype=date

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