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

Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: Milkshake LIVE!, Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day, Riverside Artisan Market, Mi-Party: Fundraiser for MIP, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks, Exhibition: Watercolours, Helene Appel: Among Trees, Among Sand Grains & Shezzad Dawood: Leviathan: From the Forest to the Sea.

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• Events happening all weekend

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 11 & Saturday 12 August

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72911/

Gallery Exhibitions: Watercolours – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 11 & Saturday 12 August, 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 11 & Saturday 12 August, 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 11 & Saturday 12 August, 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 11 August

Mi-Party: Fundraiser for MIP – Woodside Working Mens Club, 7pm

Join Middleton Independents Party for their ‘It’s MIParty’, family evening of live bands and entertainment.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72978/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=11-08-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 12 August

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Canter around Cowpe Lowe, 10am

Walk distance = 8 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72995/

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

The successful Riverside Artisan Market returns again to Rochdale Riverside this weekend.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71811/

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

Monthly open day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72756/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=12-08-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 13 August

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/72476/

Milkshake LIVE! – Middleton Arena, 11.30am and 3pm

Milkshake! Monkey is back and can’t wait to put on a spectacular NEW Show for you all, joined by some of his favourite Milkshake! friends plus two Milkshake Presenters creating the most dazzling show you have ever seen!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72648/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=13-08-2023&searchtype=date

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