Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council Events October 2013 - April 2014 OVER 60 FREE EVENTS @tmbc_culture www.tameside.gov.uk/culturalservices Welcome to Tameside’s Cultural Events We hope you will find plenty to enjoy in this programme of events throughout the Autumn, Winter and Spring months. The wide range of activities offers something for everyone, whatever your interest, age or ability. Tameside has a great deal to offer the visitor, both indoors and outdoors. The Museums and Galleries have changing exhibitions and activities, allowing you to make return visits and always find something new to see and do. There are a great variety of parks and Sunday 13 October countryside to enjoy, from the formal Victorian town parks, to the meadows and woods of October Crossing the Boundary the valleys and the high open moorland. Tameside’s green space is great for exercise and, as An eight mile route following part of the well as being good for the body, it’s good for the soul, providing opportunities to relax, find Wednesday 2 October Leesfield parish boundary, over Brown Edge, peace, inspiration and contemplation, and a general sense of well-being. If you want more to Park Bridge for lunch and back over information on any of the events ring the relevant number on the back of this leaflet. Flickering Memories An account of the rise and decline of local Hartshead Pike. cinema by Philip Martin Williams and David 10am @ Mossley Market Ground, L. Williams. Tickets £2.50. Limited places Top Mossley. OL5 0LN 5½ hours booking advisable. What you need to know 7.30pm @ Newton Hall, Dunkirk Lane, Sunday 13 October Hyde. SK14 5ET Scarecrow Competition Cost All the events are free unless otherwise stated. Join the harvest celebrations and enter a Booking For theatre and films book your tickets at Saturday 5 October scarecrow. www.tameside.gov.uk/culturalservices or 0161 342 4144 Historical Walk around Ashton 12 noon – 3pm @ Hyde Park, Walks All the walks end back at the start. Dogs are welcome, A family friendly walk discovering the hidden Lodge Lane. SK14 4JX but must be under strict control at all times. history of Ashton. Limited places. Children An adult must accompany children under 8 years of age 12 noon @ Ashton Town Hall. 45mins Wednesday 16 October (museums). Under 16 for all other events. Tameside History Club ‘E’ Culture Check out our web pages for up to date information. Sunday 6 October The Cotton Factory Times – A Literary KITE (Kids in the Environment) Periodical. Eddie Cass argues that its major Come and join us for fun, forest school importance lay in the leisure time reading activities, discovering and exploring the it brought to the cotton operatives of countryside. 7 – 12 years. Lancashire. Free, book a place on 0161 342 10am @ Park Bridge Heritage Centre. 4242. 2 hours 7pm @ Local Studies and Archives Centre. Sunday 6 October Martin’s Maps Sunday 20 October Get back to basics on a guide to the use Trees and Teas of map and compass. Use your new found Have a cuppa before exploring the park’s skills on a walk around the area in the trees in their Autumn colours. The Café will afternoon. be open for lunch after the walk. 10am @ Lymefield Visitor Centre. 10.30am @ The Park Café, Bayley Hall, 5½ hours Hyde Park. SK14 4JX 2 hours Monday 21 October Tuesday 29 October Sunday 10 November Animal Farm by George Orwell Wild Woods November Birds’ Winter Warmers Oldham Coliseum and ALRA Production. A fun day in the countryside for families. Help our native birds survive the coming A powerful fast moving dramatization of Follow a woodland trail, construct a shelter Friday 1 November winter. Make a bird feeder and fill it with Orwell’s classic satire. Tickets from £8. and have a go at woodland crafts. My Friend Nigel by Jo Hodgkinson their favourite recipe. Booking advisable. 1pm @ Bottom of Cemetery Road, Oldham Coliseum Production. 12 noon – 3pm @ Park Bridge Heritage 7.30pm @ Hyde Festival Theatre, Denton. M34 6ER 2 hours A magical play with a snail, a whale and a Centre. Corporation Street, Hyde. SK1 1AB dancing bee. To book a free place call 0161 Tuesday 29 October 342 2030. Tuesday 22 October Grandpa’s Railway 2pm @ Central Art Gallery. Gone with the Wind (A) M6 Theatre Company. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” A playful journey of discovery with Grandpa Saturday 2 November Tickets £3. Booking advisable. and his working model railway. Tickets £5. The Nutcracker 7.30pm @ Hyde Festival Theatre, Booking advisable. Ballet Theatre UK present Tchaikovsky’s Corporation Street, Hyde. SK14 1AB 2.30pm and 7pm @ Hyde Festival popular ballet. Tickets from £12. Booking Theatre, Corporation Street, Hyde. advisable. Sunday 27 October SK14 1AB 7.30pm @ George Lawton Hall, Stamford Woods, Wands and Wizards Street, Mossley. OL5 0HR Let the woods cast a spell on you as you Wednesday 30 October gather ingredients for a magic potion Meet Tommy Atkins: First World War Sunday 3 November and make your own wizard wands and Soldier KITE (Kids in the Environment) broomsticks. Have you ever wondered what a soldier Come and join us for fun, forest school 1pm @ Bardsley car park, Oldham Road, wore, what he ate, how he lived, fought and activities, discovering and exploring the Saturday 16 November Ashton-under-Lyne. OL7 9PG 2 hours died in the ‘Great War for Civilisation’? countryside. 7 – 12 years. Colour Workshop Study Day 11am – 3pm @ Museum of the 10am @ Park Bridge Heritage Centre. For beginners or those with some experience Tuesday 29 October Manchester Regiment. 2 hours Jolly Holidays of painting, an opportunity to concentrate on colour mixing to add depth and vibrancy Artist led craft activities for all ages. Thursday 31 October Sunday 3 November to your work by using natural forms and 50p per child. Jolly Holidays Two Rivers Ramble landscape as a source of inspiration. All 11am – 3pm @ Portland Basin Museum. Artist led craft activities for all ages. Enjoy autumn’s colours with John and materials included. £25/ £20 concessions. 50p per child. Margaret Morrison on an easy paced ten Book a place on 0161 343 2878. 11am – 3pm @ Portland Basin Museum. mile ramble with little ascent, through the 10am – 3pm @ Portland Basin Museum. wooded valleys of the Tame and Goyt. Thursday 31 October 10am @ Bottom of Cemetery Road, Sunday 17 November Denton. M34 6ER 6 hours Wild Woods Woodland Life A fun day in the countryside for families. Discover the delights of this woodland when Follow a woodland trail, construct a shelter Tuesday 5 November the wildlife thought they had it to themselves. and have a go at woodland crafts. The Early Manchester’s: 1758-1882 9am @ At rear of Pole Bank Hall, 1pm @ Cheetham Park Entrance, The Men, Medals and Battle Honours of the Stockport Road, Hyde. SK14 5EZ Acres Lane, Stalybridge. SK15 2JR 63rd Regiment of Foot. 2 Hours 2 hours 7.15pm – 8pm @ Museum of the Manchester Regiment. Sunday 24 November Thursday 31 October Transport Trek The Addams Family Values (U) Thursday 7 November Walk down route 626 to Ashton to catch Catch up with Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Wizard of Oz (U) the new tram to Droylsden and follow the Fester and Wednesday. Tickets £3. Booking “Somewhere over the Rainbow”. Tickets £3 Tameside Trail back to Park Bridge. 7 miles advisable. 7.30pm @ Hyde Festival Theatre, 10am @ Park Bridge Heritage Centre. 7.30pm @ Hyde Festival Theatre, Corporation Street, Hyde. SK14 1AB 5 ½ hours Corporation Street, Hyde. SK14 1AB Sunday 15 December December Mistletoe Meander Discover the folklore of plants, traditionally Sunday 1 December used at Christmas on a gentle stroll. Enjoy KITE (Kids in the Environment) mince pies and mulled wine before walking Come and join us for fun, forest school back. Five miles. activities, discovering and exploring the 11am @ John Howarth Countryside countryside. 7 – 12 years. Centre, Daisy Nook Country Park, 10am @ Park Bridge Heritage Centre. Failsworth. M35 9WJ 4 hours 2 hours Sunday 15 December Sunday 1 December Country Christmas Country Park Round ‘Deck the Halls’ by making a seasonal A strenuous nine mile ramble with Paul wreath and tree decorations, all from natural Nethercott on the eastern edge of materials. Donations towards materials. Tameside’s moorland, with steep hills and 11am - 3pm @ Park Bridge Heritage rough terrain. Centre. 10am @ Oakgates car park, Hartley Street, off Huddersfield Road, Millbrook, Saturday 21 December Stalybridge. SK15 3EP 6 hours Winter Solstice Celebration Shortest day, help the rangers call back the Sunday 12 January Sunday 8 December sun on this four mile early morning walk up January Winter Footsteps A Dickens of a Christmas to Hartshead Pike. A seven mile walk around Hollingworthhall Moor and Walkerwood Reservoir. Bah Humbug. On this ramble to Mottram, an 7.15am @ Park Bridge Heritage Centre. Wednesday 1 January 10am @ Lay-by on Hobson Moor Road, abridged version of “A Christmas Carol” will 3 hours New Year’s Day Walk Mottram, Hyde. SK14 6SG 5 hours be performed along the ten mile route. Start the New Year by resolving to enjoy this 10am @ Lower Higham Visitor Centre. Sunday 22 December ten mile ramble taking in some of the high 5½ hours Moors and Mince Pies spots of Tameside. Lunch stop at The Wharf Sunday 19 January Join Paul Nethercott on a pre Christmas Tavern, Stalybridge where potato pie and Portrait of Werneth Low Sunday 8 December nine mile walk in the countryside around veg. option will be available (£5.00). A short stroll around Lower Higham and Christmas Fun Day Carrbrook, mince pies and refreshments. 10am @ Castle Clough car park, Werneth Low looking at what makes this place so special.