Today's events in Rochdale

Dads and male carers are invited to come for tea and enjoy some canvas painting and creative crafts with their child/children aged under 5.

In addition, every dad/carer who attends will receive a free one month pass for the gym at Bowlee sports centre.

Places for tea are limited so booking is essential tel. 0161 653 9526 or pop into the children’s centre.

For more information on the event please call Kelly Swanwick tel. 0161 653 9526.

Life Story Workshop & Indian Head Massage

The Memory Wellbeing Cafes provide an opportunity for people with dementia and their carers to come together in a safe and welcoming environment where they can speak with each other, volunteers and professionals for support.

The cafes, which are based in the communities where they are most needed, have worked very well in other areas of the North West. They can help prevent feelings of loneliness and isolation by giving visitors the opportunity to speak to other people in similar situations as themselves.

Each cafe will have professionals from different organisations providing relevant information on a series of topics on a one-to-one or group basis. As well as this, activities, such as singing and dancing, will also be organised.

This session will continue on the first Tuesday of every month.

STORM (the local rail support group) meet on the first Tuesday of each month in the Newhey Lodge all welcome.

Support The Rochdale Oldham Manchester rail lines group:

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/sites/storm 

Written by Adam Pernak. Directed by Andrew Kearns.

Winner of the Royal Court Young Writers' Festival this brilliant debut play shows two brothers and their working-class parents. Jonathan, the high-flier, causes the death of his errant girlfriend's older lover, whilst David, a fighter pilot, is sent to the Gulf War. Both are killers, but one is revered as a patriotic hero whilst the other is imprisoned for his crime passionel. "... a beautifully simple play that wafts over the audience with the warmth of reality."

An exhibition showcasing the work of two of Rochdale's freshest and newest artists, Helen McCarthy and Zak Hammouda.

Helen uses close up and macro photography to capture floral detail at its most striking and radiant. Zak uses acrylics on canvas to capture tones of an abstract lifecycle, through the movements of grunge, garage and pop art.

To attend the preview evening on Friday 3rd February please contact for an invitation.

A selection of works from the Art Gallery’s permanent collection exploring how artists capture different elements of landscape. Featuring both historic and contemporary works, artists will include Adrian Berg, Ivon Hitchens and Mariele Neudecker. The exhibition will also include a new acquisition by artist Vincent James.

The exhibition will include a new set of activities in our under 5s activity station linked to paintings on display and other hands-on activities for 5-12 year olds and their families.

They have dominated the Rochdale landscape for over 40 years; this year College Bank Flats, known locally as the Seven Sisters, will be the focus of seven films created by artists Catherine Corlett and Zachary Ingham.

During the summer the artists will create the films by positioning cameras at the top of each of the Seven Sisters. The cameras will be attached to sails, which will rotate on their axis in reaction to the direction of the wind and record panoramic views of Rochdale borough and the other towers. The films will blur both urban and rural landscapes and challenge our perception of the area.

The films will be installed at Touchstones Rochdale this winter. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of workshops for young people.

The Seven Sisters project has been made possible by funding from the John Grant Davies Trust.

Nora Fok is one of Britain’s leading contemporary jewellers, who works with quite ordinary materials to create extraordinary results.

The processes Nora uses – knitting, weaving, crocheting and knotting – transform linear nylon microfilament into simple and complex structures, inspired by her fascination with the natural world and the mathematical models that underpin it.

Much of her work can be classified as jewellery, but she pushes the definition to its limits making larger bodywear and pieces which stand independently as sculpture.

Artists Lewis Brownlie and Jonny Boxall curated a group show, ‘Child’s Play’ at Spring Bank Mill in Whitworth in 2011 and now bring this informal collective to Touchstones Rochdale.