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

Wedding Open Day, Rochdale Community Mega Festival, RKT Trust T20 Cricket, Nevermore Band, Riverside Artisan Market, Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day, Rochdale Children’s Literature Festival, Friends of Holy Trinity Summer Fair, Summer Fair by 1st & 12th Heywood Scout Groups, Sisi’s Fundraiser, Garden Party, Charity Fundraiser Event, Eid Festival 2023, A Night at the Oscars, Naden Reservoirs (walk for women), Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, The Active Living Social, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday and 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

Rochdale Community Mega Festival – Broadfield Park, Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 July

All 4 Youth & EncouragingYou present Rochdale Community Mega Festival.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72742/

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 7 & Saturday 8 July

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72550/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 7 & Saturday 8 July, 10am – 3pm

Breakaway Art Group - Watercolours.

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

Exhibition: Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 7 & Saturday 8 July, 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 7 & Saturday 8 July, 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 7 July

The Active Living Social – Middleton Arena, 2pm – 4pm

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72719/

Wedding Open Day – The Rhyddings Suite, The Royal Toby Hotel, 4pm – 7pm

Come and see the Rhydding's Suite set up for a wedding and speak to the team about your wedding plans.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72662/

RKT Trust T20 Cricket – Milnrow Cricket Club, 6pm

Charity cricket match for RKT Trust followed by live music from Zak.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72903/

Nevermore Band - The Dyers Arms, 9pm

A brilliant local band that always raise the roof.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72844/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=07-07-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 8 July

Riverside Artisan Market – Riverside Retail & Leisure Complex, 10am – 4pm

Riverside Artisan Market returns again to Rochdale Riverside this weekend.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71810/

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

Monthly open day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72317/

Rochdale Children’s Literature Festival – Number One Riverside, 10am

A festival in the heart of Rochdale that brings reading for pleasure to life for local children.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72894/

Friends of Holy Trinity Summer Fair – Holy Trinity Primary School, 12pm – 2pm

Traditional games, tombolas and fabulous raffle that you'd expect, plus some beach-inspired fun and games.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72772/

Summer Fair by 1st & 12th Heywood Scout Groups – Hopwood Park, 12pm – 6pm

There will be food, drink, cocktail bar, fairground rides, carnival games, tombola, the big summer raffle and much more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72576/

Sisi’s Fundraiser – The Ponderosa, 1pm

A fun-filled family day to help raise funds for Sierra to go travelling!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72736/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Edenfield Meander, 1pm

Walk distance = 5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72811/

Garden Party – Bamford Chapel and Norden URC, 2pm – 4pm

Food, fun games and entertainment.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72765/

Charity Fundraising Event – The Dyers Arms, 3pm

The Dyers Arms family have decided to hold a fundraising event in memory of Gary's late wife who would have been 60 this year.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72845/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=08-07-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 9 July

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/72471/

Rochdale Ramblers - Sunday Walks – Three Reservoirs and Back Via Dog Hill, 10am

Moderate walk, distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72812/

Eid Festival 2023 – Jalalia Jaame Mosque, 12pm – 6pm

Celebrate Eid with a fun day packed with mouthwatering food & desserts, funfair rides, inflatables and so much more!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72868/

A Night at the Oscars – Middleton Arena, 12.30pm and 5pm

Dance School and College End of Year Show, celebrating 20 years of Centre Pointe Performing Arts.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72646/

Naden Reservoirs (walk for women) – Greenbooth Reservoir car park, 1pm

The walk is 2.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72877/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=09-07-2023&searchtype=date

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