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7/10/2008

EXHIBITIONS AND ARTS:

Touchstones: Continental collecting – until 1 March 2009; Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – until 2 February 2009; Sparth then and now – until 19 October. Telephone 924492 or visit www.rochdale.gov.uk for more details.

Littleborough Coach House: Healey Dell artist Joan Brown – until 18 October. For details, telephone 378481.

Healey Dell Gallery and Studios: Art exhibition every Sunday, 10am-4pm. For details, telephone 356348.

Hollingworth Lake Visitor Centre: Schools Work! exhibition – until 12 October; Healey Dell Artists Exhibition – 16 October to 3 November. For details, telephone 373421.

MUSIC AND THEATRE AND OPEN DAYS:

Toad Lane Performing Arts Centre – Music at Lunchtime: Oldham Community Choir – 15 October. For details, visit the website www.stmaryinthebaum.co.uk.

Rochdale Music Society: The Doric String Quartet at Touchstones – 11 October. For details, telephone 924928.

Bamford Chapel: Lunchtime Concert – 14 October. For details, telephone 368733.

Rochdale Transport Club: U-Zu – 10 October; Ayn’t Skynyrd – 17 October. For details, telephone 632087.

OUT AND ABOUT:

Rochdale Countryside Service: Meet a hedgehog – 11-12 October; Make a difference – 25 October; Birds and Feeders – 2 November. For details, telephone 350459 or 373421.

Rochdale Borough Blue Badge Tourist Guides: Halloween Ghost Walk – 2 November. For details, telephone 924928.

Cronkeyshaw Common: Rochdale bonfire with fireworks display – 30 October. For details, telephone 924928.

Rochdale Field Naturalists’ Society: Coach trip – Spurn Point, Humberside – 11 October; Sabden circular excursion – 25 October. For details, telephone 644394 or 344630.

OLDHAM COLISEUM and BURNLEY MECHANICS:

Coliseum: Travels With My Aunt – 9-25 October; Beyond Measure – 16 October; Shadow Companion – 17 October; Humble Boy – 28 October-1 November. For details telephone 0161 624 2829 or visit the website www.coliseum.org.uk.

Burnley Mechanics: Vampires Rock – 8 October; The Lancashire Hotpots – 10 October; U2UK – 11 October; La Traviata – 16 and 17 October; Terrorvision – 18 October; The Essence of Ireland – 23 October; Voulez Vous – 24 October; Whole Lotta Led – 25 October. For details, telephone 01282 664400 or visit www.burnleymechanics.co.uk.

THE LOWRY:

West Side Story – until 11 October; Gordan Giltrap – 8 October; A Song for the Lovers – 9-11 October; Hofesh Schechter's In Your Rooms and Uprising – 9-10 October; The Sun Has Got His Hat On – 11 October; Vertigo – 11 October; Party – 12 October; Swan Lake – 14-18 October; Mile End – 15 and 16 October; Ballet Boys greatest hits – 16 and 17 October; My Grandfather’s Great War – 17 and 18 October; Sing-along-a Hairspray – 18 October; Kate Rusby – 19 October; Signatures – 19 October; Calendar Girls – 20-25 October; Mercy and Grand – The Tom Waits Project – 20 October.

For details telephone  0870 787 5780  or visit www.thelowry.com.

PALACE AND OPERA HOUSE:

Opera House: Sing-along-a Abba – 10 October; Illegal Eagles – 11 October; Witches of Eastwick – 13-18 October; The Nelson Riddle Orchestra – 20 October; That’ll Be the Day Christmas Show – 21 October; Russell Howard – 22 October; Beyond the Barricade – 23 October. For more details telephone 0844 847 2295 or visit www.livenationtheatres.co.uk.

Palace Theatre: Cabaret – until 11 October; Variety’s Big Night Out 2 – 12 October; Dylan Moran – 14 and 18 October; Vampires Rock – 15 October; Status Quo – 16 October; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 21-25 October. For more details telephone 0844 847 2275 or visit www.livenationtheatres.co.uk.

MEN ARENA:

October: James Blunt – 8 October; Disney On Ice presents Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo – 15-19 October; The Unholy Alliance Chapter III – 27 October; Bryan Adams – 30 October; Katie Melua – 31 October.

November: Al Green – 3 November; Queen and Paul Rodgers – 5 November; WWE 2008 Survivor Series tour featuring RAW Superstars – 10-11 November; Lee Evans – 12-16 November; Kanye West – 17 November.

For details telephone 0844 847 8000 or visit www.men-arena.com.

OTHER VENUES:

Bridgewater Hall: www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk. Telephone  0161 907 9000  .
Bury Met: www.themet.biz. Telephone  0161 761 2216  .
Manchester Academy: www.manchesteracademy.net. Telephone  0161 832 1111  .
Royal Exchange Theatre: www.royalexchange.co.uk. Telephone  0161 833 9833  .
Contact Theatre: www.contact-theatre.org. Telephone  0161 274 0600  .
Library Theatre, Manchester: www.librarytheatre.com. Telephone  0161 236 7110  .
Bolton Octagon: www.octagonbolton.co.uk. Telephone  01204 520 661  .
Square Chapel, Halifax: www.squarechapel.co.uk. Telephone  01422 349 422  .
Cornerhouse, Manchester: www.cornerhouse.org.uk. Telephone  0161 228 7621  .
Whitworth Art Gallery: www.manchester.ac.uk/whitworth. Telephone  0161 275 7450  .
Victoria Theatre, Halifax. Telephone  01422 351 158  .
Stockport Plaza: www.stockportplaza.co.uk. Telephone  0161 477 7779  .
Imperial War Museum: www.north.iwm.org.uk. Telephone  0161 836 4000  .
Gallery Oldham: www.galleryoldham.org.uk. Telephone  0161 770 4653  .