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

The Active Living Social, Rochdale Gramophone Society, IT Skills & CV Support, Messy Church, ‘Voltage, Akindred, Final Hour and Metavoltz’, Diamond Decade, Rochdale Music Society concert: Prince Bishop’s Brass, Menopause Café, Wedding Open Day, South Pennine Singers, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Sunday Walks, Exhibition: Watercolours, Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains & Shezzad Dawood: Levitation: From the Forest to the Sea - 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 23 & Saturday 24 June

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72548/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 23 & Saturday 24 June, 10am – 3pm

Breakaway Art Group - Watercolours.

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

Exhibition: Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 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 23 and Saturday 24 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 23 June

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/72717/

Rochdale Gramophone Society – St George’s Church Hall, 2pm – 4pm

Today's title is Members Afternoon.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72752/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=23-06-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 24 June

IT Skills & CV Support – Rochdale Leisure Centre, 10am

Enhance your computer skills, craft impressive CVs, and unlock exciting opportunities.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72769/

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

Fun time of crafts, music and food.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72078/

Voltage, Akindred, Final Hour and Metavoltz – Littleborough Conservative Club, 6pm till late

A great night of good music and a donation to a fantastic cause. All proceeds go to Wythenshawe Hospital's heart surgery department.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72677/

Diamond Decade – Middleton Arena, 7pm

Carnaby School of Dance are back with one of their ever-popular Shows, this year… with dances to hits from the last decade!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72378/

Rochdale Music Society concert: Prince Bishop’s Brass – Heywood Civic Centre, 7.30pm

Rochdale Music Society has been providing the best in live music played by great artists for the people of the borough of Rochdale and beyond since 1980.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72020/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=24-06-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 25 June

Rochdale Ramblers – Sunday Walks – Witch Way to Barley, 10am

Walk distance = 9 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72502/

Menopause Café – Rochdale Leisure Centre, 1pm – 3pm

Join a welcoming support group to talk about the journey through the menopause.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72391/

Wedding Open Day – Norton Grange Hotel and Spa, 1pm – 4pm

The Function Suites will be dressed for a civil ceremony and you can chat to a selection of their fabulous suppliers who are on hand on the day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72733/

South Pennine Singers – Hare Hill House, 2pm

South Pennine Singers are a long-established 4-part choir, based in Burnley and conducted by Sue Temperley.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72452/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=25-06-2023&searchtype=date

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