Our guide to what's on in the borough this weekend

Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: Blackstone Edge Reservoir (walk for women), Feel Good Family Picnic, Stitch & Swap with Whitworth AMDS, Bart’s Summer Fayre, Rochdale AFC v Bradford City, Open Garden at the Growth Project Rochdale, Menopause Café, Rochdale Hornets v Midland Hurricanes, Summer Saturdays, 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 & Shezzad Dawood: Levitation: From the Forest to the Sea.

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• Events happening all weekend

Big Dig 2.0 – Rochdale Town Hall, Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 July, 9.30am – 12pm & 1pm – 3.30pm

Open to all ages, this is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to gets hands on with the history of Rochdale town centre. RDA want you to help them uncover the story of this area from the late medieval ages through to the 1860s when the town hall was built.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72784/

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 28 & Saturday 29 July

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72553/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 28 & Saturday 29 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 28 & Saturday 29 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 28 & Saturday 29 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 28 July

Feel Good Family Picnic – Queen’s Park, 11am – 4pm

Fun activities, performances, music, sports and shows for children of all ages.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72783/

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

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72720/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=28-07-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 29 July

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Withens Clough Wander, 10am

Walk distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72818/

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/72905/

Stitch & Swap with Whitworth AMDS – St John’s Hall, 1pm

Bring between 1-6 clean, wearable garments or accessories to swap and have your new finds altered or hemmed by our volunteer seamstresses.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72350/

Bart’s Summer Fayre – Butterworth Hall, 1pm – 4pm

Raising funds for Bart’s Legacy Cat Sanctuary.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/73052/

Pre-Season Friendly – Rochdale AFC v Bradford City – Crown Oil Arena, 3pm kick off

This is the final pre-season game for Jimmy McNulty’s side before their first league game on Saturday 5 August.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72929/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=29-07-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 30 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/72474/

Open Garden under the National Garden Scheme at the Growth Project Rochdale – Kellett Street Allotments, 11.30am – 3.30pm

The project covers includes organic vegetables, a wildlife pond, insect hotels, a formal flower and Japanese garden, a potager and an enchanted woodland garden.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/73080/

Blackstone Edge Reservoir (walk for women) – Ogden Reservoir, 1pm

The walk is 3 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72880/

Menopause Cafe - Rochdale Leisure Centre, 1pm – 3pm

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72407/

Rochdale Hornets v Midland Hurricanes – Crown Oil Arena, 3pm kick off

Betfred League 1 match. This game is themed ‘Retro Day’.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71837/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=30-07-2023&searchtype=date

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