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

Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: Heywood 1940’s Day, Milnrow & Newhey Carnival 2023, Men’s Health Week, Mid-Life MOT, Springhill Hospice Wine Tasting Evening, RESPECT! 80s & 90s Club Night, Queen & Freddie Tribute, Charity Indoor Car Boot Sale, Scott Cooper Academy Dance Show “The Majestic”, Heywood Station Car Boot Sale, Hollingworth Lake Craft and Wellbeing Fair, Rochdalians Juniors Open Day, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers walk, Exhibition: Watercolours, Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains & Shezzad Dawood: Levitation: From the Forest to the Sea.

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• Events happening all weekend

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 16 & Saturday 17 June

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72547/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 16 & Saturday 17 June, 10am – 3pm

Breakaway Art Group - Watercolours.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72268/

Exhibition: Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June, 10am – 5pm

Helene Appel creates images that straddle the threshold between realism, sculpture and abstraction.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72650/

Exhibition: Shezad Dawood: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea - Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June, 10am – 5pm

Set in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Episode 8 blends indigenous cosmology with fictional narrative, shot footage and especially commissioned animation by Anita Ekman, to chart an embodied, spiritual and ecological journey along the age-old Guarani path that links the forest to the sea.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72651/

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• Friday 16 June

Men’s Health Week – Middleton Arena, 10am

Your Trust will be holding an event to provide information on men’s health and wellbeing.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72714/

Mid-life MOT – Rochdale Jobcentre, 10.30am – 12pm

Eligibility: Currently receiving Universal Credit. Speak to your work coach to reserve your spot.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72743/

Queen & Freddie Tribute – Mercure Norton Grange Hotel & Spa, 6pm

Dance all night long to the best-selling hits of the decades gone by.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72345/

Springhill Hospice Wine Tasting Evening – Coffee at the Craven, 6.30pm

It’s wine o’clock! Enjoy an evening of sampling five different wines from Vini Veneti.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72179/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=16-06-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 17 June

Rochdalians Juniors Open Day – Rochdalians, Crompton Avenue, 9.30am – 10.30am

Due to high demand Rochdalians are opening their doors for players who want to join them (current school year; reception, year 1, year 2 & year 3)

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72538/

Charity Indoor Car Boot Sale - Smithy Bridge Methodist Church, 9.30am – 11.30am

The car boot sales will take place every third Saturday of the month.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72376/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Hardcastle Crags, 10am

Walk distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72500/

Annual Heywood 1940’s Day – Heywood Town Centre, 10am – 5pm

Heywood 1940's Day is back for another year. All welcome. Something for everyone and for every generation to enjoy.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72710/

Milnrow & Newhey Carnival 2023 – Milnrow, carnival procession starts 1pm

The parade is back for 2023 and this year you can travel in style with what ever mode of transport you want.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72667/

RESPECT! 80s & 90s Club Night – Smalley Hall, 7pm

SDN Events are proud to be bringing 'A Little Respect' to Smalley Hall.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72365/

Scott Cooper Academy Dance Show “The Majestic” – Middleton Arena, 2pm and 7pm

Talented dancers and gymnasts will perform at the 2023 dance and gymnastics showcase.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72026/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=17-06-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 18 June

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/72112/

Heywood Station Car Boot Sale Sundays – Heywood Station, 8.30am

Car boot Sundays are back!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71957/

Hollingworth Lake Craft and Wellbeing Fair – Hollingworth Lake, 10am – 2pm

Best handmade goods or treat yourself to a relaxing complementary therapy.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72505/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=18-06-2023&searchtype=date

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