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Crossing the Boundary
An eight mile moderate route with Paul Nethercott following part of the Leesfield parish boundary, over Brown Edge, to Park Bridge for lunch and back over Hartshead Pike.
Mossley Market Ground, Top Mossley.
Today
Manchester Guitar Show
Vintage,used & new Guitars
Buy - Sell - Trade, Guitars, Amps & Accessories.Have our guitar valued (Free)
loads of stands full of all kinds of instruments including Guitars, electric & acoustic, banjos, Ukes etc
Free valuations
Plus live music & Guitar workshop
The George Carnall Leisure Centre, Kingsway Park, Davyhulme, Manchester ( M60 - Junction 9 )
Today
Screamania
A FUN FILLED HALLOWEEN EXPERIENCE
Family friendly fun Halloween event featuring live actors, a spooky maze, amazing special effects, actor lead animation and spooky tales, holograms, slime making and a trick or treat walk through the park .. but with a twist.
Tiviot Way, Reddish Vale Country Park, Stockport
Today to Sun 28 Oct
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Big Kid Circus
Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo from Chile!
University of Bolton Stadium (Macron Stadium), Car Park D, Burnden Way, Horwich, Bolton
Today
Autumn Artisan Market
After a successful summer of family events around Stockport, Worker Bee Markets are going all grown up for the Autumn Season with two artisan markets in October offering something for everyone, the first of which is in Bramhall on 21October.
3rd Bramhall Scout Hut, Linney Road, Bramhall, Stockport
Today
Antic Disposition: Henry V
Returning for its fourth year to delight audiences around the UK, Antic Disposition’s critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Henry V will embark on a historical tour of ten of the most beautiful and significant cathedrals.
Manchester Cathedral, Greater Manchester
Mon 22 Oct to Wed 24 Oct
Conservation Day in Hyde Park
Clearing brambles and site clean-up in Hyde Park Woods to allow other flora to flourish. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.
Bayley Hall, Hyde Park, Lodge Lane, Hyde
Mon 22 Oct
Declaration
After winning the ADHD Foundation Partnership Award in 2017, Art with Heart return with a brand new tour of Declaration, a comic and candid look at Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder.
The Met, Market Street, Bury
Wed 24 Oct
Big Kid Circus
Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo from Chile!
Next to Tesco Extra, Tiviot Way, Stockport (off junction 27, M60)
Wed 24 Oct to Sun 28 Oct
When Did You Stop Dancing?
Rach wants to tell you a story. A true story. The story of the dancing plague of 1518, started by a lone woman boogying in the streets. A story of 100s of women dancing in the streets.
The Mill At The Pier, Wigan
Wed 24 Oct
Messy Church - Wedding at Cana
This session’s theme - Wedding at Cana. For accompanied children of all ages. Craft, games, fun & songs all around the theme, followed a simple meal together. Free, though donations toward cost of food & craft welcome.
Christ Church Heaton,
Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 5AH
Christ Church, Cholrey New Road, Heaton, Bolton
Wed 24 Oct
Songs Across The Pond
Songs Across The Pond is a brand new musical show for families and children. Singer songwriter David Gibb has teamed up with three time Grammy nominee (best children’s album) Brady Rymer who will be joining him all the way from the USA!
The Met, Market Street, Bury
Wed 24 Oct
Spark The Goblin Wizard
Spark’s magic rhymes can turn anything into anything.
He’ll turn the bogeys up his nose into some pink ribbons and bows.
He’ll make a gorgeous high heeled shoe out of a pile of donkey poo…
However…
Something terrible begins to happen in the enchanted forest.
The Met, Market Street, Bury
Thu 25 Oct
Circus of Horrors Psycho Asylum
Imagine a Brilliant Rock show combined with amazing, bizarre and Dare Devil Circus acts, a stella light show and all performed with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek. If Quentin Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soleil you would be half way there.
Wythenshawe Forum
Forum Centre
Thu 25 Oct
Hedgelaying in the Brushes Valley
Hedgelaying encourages hedges to put on new growth to improve their overall structure and strength giving a greater weather protection to wildlife. No experience is required, just a willingness to join in and learn new skills.
Oakgates Car Park, Hartley St. Millbrook, Stalybridge
Thu 25 Oct
How to Hide a Lion
Having first roared into life at Polka Theatre and Oxford Playhouse in 2016, Helen Stephen’s much-loved children’s story How to Hide a Lion will now embark on its first national tour, enchanting young audiences around the UK.
The Lowry, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford
Thu 25 Oct to Sun 28 Oct
We, The Creators: Manchester
On Wednesday 25th July, the space and services provider that fosters collaboration, WeWork, is hosting an evening (6.30 – 8.30pm) of engaging conversation and thought-provoking panel discussion, bringing together the best creatives in the area to toast to the business and innovation hub that is Manchester.
WeWork, 1 St Peter’s Square, Manchester
Thu 25 Oct
Strauss and Elgar
Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in two beloved, rarely performed orchestral works – R. Strauss’s musical comedy Don Quixote, and Elgar’s sweeping Second Symphony.
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St., Manchester
Thu 25 Oct
Julian Bliss, clarinet, with Northern Chamber Orchestra
ARNOLD Sinfonietta No. 1, Op. 48
WEBER Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb major, Op. 74
SUK Meditation on the old Czech chorale ’Good King Wenceslas’, Op. 35a
HAYDN Symphony No.
The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester
Fri 26 Oct
Cineworld Encourages Families to Be More Childish
To celebrate the October half term and to highlight Cineworld’s Family ticket offering, where adults pay kids’ prices, the cinema chain will transform their cinema in Leeds to get adults to embrace their inner child.
Cineworld Leeds, White Rose Shopping Centre, Dewsbury Rd, Leeds
Sat 27 Oct
ComedySportz Manchester
Two teams battle it out for your laughs in this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show. Using audience suggestions the teams go for gold with quick-witted gags, games, sketches and songs.
Waterside Arts Centre, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale
Sat 27 Oct, Sat 24 Nov
ComedySportz
Two teams battle it out for your laughs in this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show. Using audience suggestions the teams go for gold with quick-witted gags, games, sketches and songs.
The Way Theatre/Studio
Victoria Mill,
First Floor,
Bolton Old Rd,
Atherton
Sat 27 Oct
Chopin & Champagne by Candlelight - “The Heroic Polonaise”
Celebrate the weekend with a scintillating performance of Chopin’s thrilling piano music and a glass of champagne! This is the second of a series of ten monthly Chopin recitals at St Ann’s Church. The virtuoso soloist is British concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith.
St. Ann’s Church, St. Ann Street, Manchester
Sat 27 Oct
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SPOOKTACULAR – Mess Around Halloween Messy Play Event Heywood
It’s Mess Arounds Spooktacular Halloween party, come along for a frightfully messy time.
Calling all witches, devils, cats and bats! Mess Around’s creepy, crawly, gruesome Spooktacular party has landed. Little ones can squelch, mix, pour, dig and explore, from soap mud monsters to gory goo.
Heywood Sports Village
West Starkey Street
Heywood
Sat 27 Oct
SPOOKTACULAR – Mess Around Halloween Messy Play Event Radcliffe
It’s Mess Arounds Spooktacular Halloween party, come along for a frightfully messy time.
Calling all witches, devils, cats and bats! Mess Around’s creepy, crawly, gruesome Spooktacular party has landed. Little ones can squelch, mix, pour, dig and explore, from soap mud monsters to gory goo.
Radcliffe Leisure Centre
Spring Ln
Radcliffe
Sun 28 Oct