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The BIG Dance week – 7th to 15th July

Spiral Dance older people dancingBIG Dance is a national dance festival from the 7th to the 15th July. Inspired by London 2012, Rochdale has a number of dance activities over the week for everybody to get involved in! You do not need any dance experience, just the desire to try something new!

At Touchstones: Rochdale, there will be pop-up dance performances on the 7th July at 12pm and 2pm. Created by Spiral Dance, and danced by local artists, the performances are linked to the current exhibitions. There will be a number of other activities happening throughout the day so come along and see what is happening!

A number of other dance activities are taking place at Heywood Civic Centre throughout the week, including taster sessions in different dance styles. These include: Jive, Latin, Rock and Roll, Tango.

Spiral Dance will be delivering free Every Body Dances classes for active older adults on Wednesday 11th July (11am-12pm) and Thursday 12th July (11am-12pm). We will also be delivering a free Mini Dancers session on Saturday 14th July (11.15am-12pm) for Parents and Toddlers aged 2-5 years.

Full details of the weeks programme can be found by ringing Heywood Civic Centre on 01706 368130, or for questions about the Spiral Dance classes you can email [email protected].

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“People’s Story” launch – Do you have memories of the mills?

Peopleprint in association with Touchstones and Rochdale library service are running a local history project called “People’s story”.

The idea is to collect peoples photos and memories of working in the Mills, and place them on an amazing website called Historypin.

The launch event is at the Regal Moon on Thursday 12 July, 11 – 4 pm, but there will also be a collection “drop box” in each library in the Borough from 16 – 20 July.

If you have any photos or memories to share, or know someone who has tell them to come along to the launch event at the Regal Moon.

For more info visit Peopleprints site, or download the Event flyer here. 

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Darnhill Festival this Saturday, 7th June

darnhill festival photoThis Saturday, Cartwheel Arts are once again running Darnhill Festival. This year the theme is gold to celebrate the 50 years since Darnhill was built.

There will a launch of a community sensory garden, youth group performances and artwork and of course the glittering procession. Members of the public are welcome to join in with the procession, you just need to come dressed in sports gear!

With community stalls, crafts and sports, the festival will be a great day for all.

The festival opens at 12, with the procession starting at 1pm. For more info please email: [email protected] or visit http://www.cartwheelarts.org.uk/darnhill.html.

 

 

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Middleton Popstars are given an award from the Queen!

Queens Award for Voluntary Service imageWith very apt timing, we at takepart would like to send our congratulations to Middleton Popstars who have just been awarded the Queens Award for volunteer services!

The award is for groups of people doing volunteering work that is of a social, economic or environmental service to the local community, and every year the Queen confers Awards to groups in recognition of their outstanding voluntary work. They have been described as “MBE’s for volunteer groups”.

Middleton Popstars were given the award for “Offering performance opportunities to young people with disadvantaged lives”.

Anne from Popstars said upon receiving the award “Thank you to all that sail in this ship for all your hard work especially the young people, who give their time to the community on so many occasions”.

Winners of the award receive a certificate signed by Her Majesty The Queen and a domed glass crystal. The local county Lord Lieutenant will present the certificate and the crystal.

 

 

 

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Photo’s of launch party

On Thursday the 31st May we officially launched takepart.org.uk, and to celebrate we held a small party at Touchstones Arts and Heritage Centre.

This was a way for members of the public to meet arts and community organisations from Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton, and for the organisations to meet, swap ideas and make plans for future arts projects.

Young people from Middleton PopStars gave an amazing song and dance performance, and Skylight Circus Arts wowed us with their circus skills and gave a mini workshop in Diablo and Unicycling! Check out the photo slideshow below:

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