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●●UNTIL Sunday 22 October Littleborough Art Society Mixed Media

Most items on display are available to purchase.

Free

Phone: Littleborough Coach House 01706 378481

10am - 3pm

Littleborough Coach House, Lodge Street, Littleborough OL15 9AE

●●SATURDAY 21 October 2023 - Sunday 22 October Pop-up Performance Shop

Tangled Feet and RDA present Pop-up Performance Shop.

Saturday 21 October, 9.30am - 5pm

Sunday 22 October, 10.30am - 4pm

There’s going to be a touch of the funny, strange and beautiful in Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre as Tangled Feet’s pop-up performance shop opens its shutters. Tangled Feet theatre company and RDA have commissioned a menu of short performances to fill an empty shop with artistic offerings that you don’t have to pay for.

Taking a range of multimedia and interactive forms, you can expect something for every palate.

Expect a musical take on social media filters, interactive video, an exploration of identity through interview and dance, clowns taking over the kitchen, video games coming to life, a local poet throwing down the gauntlet and a celebration of owning the room.

Six brand new performances, all between five and 15 minutes, will repeat during the day.

Lee Nelson: Move No Stones Holding Space Collective: Who Are You…. Really? Reimagined

John Hinton: The Algorithm Is Taking Over The Asylum (WIP Title)

Shanez Pattni & Al Orange: A Brief History of Pride

Ankit Giri: New Reality (NR) Lydia Harper: Cooking Up A Storm

Free

Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre, Newgate, Rochdale OL16 1YL

●●SUNDAY 22 October Dreamcoat Stars

Featuring stars from the hit production Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Experience the powerful star vocals of four phenomenal singers from the hit show Joseph and the Amazing

Technicolor Dreamcoat, coming together for a magical evening of West End and Broadway musical classics.

This colourful production is packed with vibrant and energetic songs from the nation’s most loved musicals including Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, SIX, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You, Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, Moulin Rouge and more.

Draw back the curtains, sing along and relive all your favourite productions in one epic show.

Dreamcoat Stars celebrates the life and work of legendary composers in this brand-new mega mix production, with exciting vocal arrangements, incredible four-part harmonies, slick choreography and memorable anecdotes from the star’s time in the role of Joseph.

Grab your coat of many colours and join us on an emotional journey where Any Dream Will Do.

With some of the biggest musical songs of a generation, this is a show that will raise your spirits and a night of theatre you’ll never forget. Tickets from £27

Phone: Middleton Arena 0300 303 8633

Visit: https://www. yourtrustrochdale.co.uk/ whats-on/events/dreamcoat -stars/

7.30pm

Middleton Arena, Lcpl Joel Halliwell VC Way, Middleton M24 1AG

●●WEDNESDAY 25 October Rochdale Family History Group

The story of Henry Whittles of Littleborough by Dilys Pearson.

Donations gratefully accepted.

Phone: Lynne Nield 01706 655094

7.30pm

St Andrew’s UR Church, Entwisle Road, Rochdale (next to the Leisure Centre) OL16 2HZ

●●WEDNESDAY 25 October Rochdale Photographic Society

Tonight’s session - Fourth Quarterly Competition.

We meet every Wednesday at Rochdale Unitarian Church, starting at 7.30pm prompt (doors open from 7.15pm).

The door is kept locked so please ring the bell on arrival.

If you would like to see the club for yourself and meet our members, you are welcome to attend as our guest for up to three weeks before committing to membership.

Annual subscription is £36 for single or £46 for joint membership.

A weekly room fee of £2.50 is also payable on arrival at the meeting. Refreshments are 50p.

Visit the link below for a full 2023 syllabus.

£2.50 for room fee

Visit: https://www. rochdaleps.org.uk/syllabus

Doors open 7.15pm, 7.30pm start.

Rochdale Unitarian Church, Clover Street, Rochdale OL12 6TP

●●WEDNESDAY 25 October Toad Lane Concerts Rochdale’s Weekly Music at Lunchtime

This week we have Freda Farnworth, soprano

(Guildhall) & J Edward Rigg, piano.

The concert series has been held at St Mary’s since 2001 and was granted the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2020… during the pandemic!

Running every Wednesday, Music at Lunchtime is a weekly live classical music concert series that has been going since the 1960s.

The sessions were initially run at the old Rochdale Art Gallery by the local authority, but since May 2001 have been run by volunteer-enthusiasts and artistic director, Dr Joe Dawson.

£6

Phone: Dr Joe Dawson 01706 648872

Doors open 12 noon, concert starts 12.30pm 1.30pm

St Mary in the Baum, Toad Lane/st Mary’s Gate, Rochdale OL16 1DZ

●●WEDNESDAY 25 October Pioneer Pumpkin Decorating Workshop

12.30pm - 2pm

Rochdale Pioneers Museum, 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale OL12 0NU

Come and decorate your very own Pioneer Pumpkin and help Rochdale Pioneer Museum to recreate their famous 1865 photograph in pumpkin form!

Free family event, all children must bring a wellbehaved grown up with them. Free

Rochdale Pioneers Museum 01706 524920

Visit: https://www. co-operativeheritage.coop/