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

Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: ABBA Tribute, Rochdale Gramophone Society, Circus Mondao, Littleborough Rushbearing Festival 2023 and Concert with Granny’s Attic, Charity Indoor Car Boot Sale, Rochdale Careers Fair, Summer Saturdays, Greenbooth Reservoir (walk for women), Fashion Show, Muslim Teen Girls Hike, Heywood Station Car Boot Sale Sundays, Middfest 2023, Messy Church Outdoors, Rochdale Classic Car & Bike Show, Hollingworth Lake Craft and Wellbeing Fair, Freehold Street Festival – Mela, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Open Day, Choirs and Cake and a bit of Brass, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, The Active Living Social, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks, Exhibition: Watercolours, Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains & Shezad 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 14 & Saturday 15 July

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72551/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Saturday 15 July, 10am – 3pm

Colin Weldon & Robert Lees - Watercolours and John Cannell - Photography.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72469/

Exhibition: Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains – Touchstones Rochdale, Friday 14 & Saturday 15 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 14 & Saturday 15 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 14 July

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

Today’s title is members afternoon.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72753/

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/72718/

Circus Mondao – Hollin Lane/Middleton Road, 5pm and 7.30pm

A whole host of international artists from around the world, amazing acrobats, funny KIKIN the clown, beautiful animals, wheel of death, juggling, balancing, fire and aerial.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72946/

ABBA Tribute – Mecure Norton Grange Hotel & Spa

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72509/

Littleborough Rushbearing Concert with Granny’s Attic – Littleborough United Reformed Church, 7pm

Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, George Sansome and Lewis Wood have honed their skills touring the UK and Europe since 2009.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72803/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=14-07-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 15 July

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

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72377/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Exploring Both Sides of Cragg Vale, 10am

Walk distance = 9 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72814/

Rochdale Careers Fair – Number One Riverside, 10am – 1pm

Browse around 30 stalls with information about local jobs, fully funded training courses and apprenticeships.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72893/

Littleborough Rushbearing Festival 2023 – Hare Hill Park, 11am – 4pm

Featuring fabulous family entertainment in Hare Hill Park; live dancing and music, craft and tombola stalls, food and drink, games and more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72468/

Summer Saturdays – Riverside Retail & Leisure Complex, 11am – 3pm

Hosted by Rochdale Bid. Visitors to the town centre will be able to soak up the atmosphere this summer with free entertainment and activities.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72902/

Greenbooth Reservoir (walk for women) – Greenbooth Reservoir, 1pm

This walk is 2.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72878/

Fashion Show - St Andrew’s, Dearnley, 2pm

People can buy high street brands at 50% off or more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72941/

Circus Mondao – Hollin Lane/Middleton Road, 2pm and 5pm

A whole host of international artists from around the world, amazing acrobats, funny KIKIN the clown, beautiful animals, wheel of death, juggling, balancing, fire and aerial.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72947/

Muslim Teen Girls Hike – Littleborough Railway Station, 6pm

Enjoy an evening walk organised for young teen Muslim girls. You will start at Littleborough Train station and walk the Rochdale canal towards Todmorden.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72832/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=15-07-2023&searchtype=date&Page=1

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• Sunday 16 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/72472/

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

Car boot Sundays are back!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71958/

Rochdale Classic Car & Bike Show – Falinge Park, 10am – 4pm

There will be classic cars, classic motorcycles, entertainment, stalls, Birds of Prey, refreshments, and lots more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71787/

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

Join them on Lake Bank for the best handmade goods or treat yourself to a relaxing complementary therapy.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72506/

Freehold Street Festival – Mela – The Green, King Street South, from 11am

49th Annual Freehold Street Festival - Mela is a big family get together where you enjoy live music and recorded music.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72389/

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Open Day – BACP, 11am – 1.30pm

14 - 24 year-olds can meet DofE representatives and find out about the amazing opportunities to take part in.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72933/

Middfest 2023 - Limefields Park, 12pm – 5pm

This year there will be various bands and musicians playing, as well as the dance competition taking place as normal.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72740/

Messy Church Outdoors - Bamford Chapel and Norden URC, 2pm – 4pm

Fun games and more…

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72823/

Circus Mondao – Hollin Lane/Middleton Road, 2pm

A whole host of international artists from around the world, amazing acrobats, funny KIKIN the clown, beautiful animals, wheel of death, juggling, balancing, fire and aerial.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72948/

Choirs and Cake and a bit of Brass – Saint Vincent’s Parish Centre, 3pm

A concert raising funds for Springhill Hospice featuring two choirs: Cadence and Cantare as well as entertainment from St Vincent’s Brass.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72876/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=16-07-2023&searchtype=date

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