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WEEKEND COLUMN SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2025
MARIUPOL DRAMA AT HOME MANCHESTER
Preview by Steve Cooke
A UK Premiere: Mariupol Drama at HOME Manchester is a poignant testimony from actors who were sheltering inside the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine during the tragic events of March 2022. This 60-minute play captures the most intense episodes of a gripping true story of resilience and survival, bringing to life the harrowing events.
Performed by Vira Lebedynska, Olena Bila, Ihor Kytrysh, and their son Matvii, this powerful production is based on real stories told by those who lived through it.
Directed by Ukraine Artist Yevhen Tyshchuk.
Text by Oleksandr Gavrosh, based on accounts from the actors.
The stories of survival are recounted and performed by Vira Lebedynska, Olena Bila, and Ihor Kytrysh — alongside Olena and Ihor’s son Matvii.
Age recommendation: 16+
Please note: This production is performed in Ukrainian with English subtitles.
Tu 14 - Sat 18 Jan 2025
Tickets from £25
Phone: Box Office 0161 200 1500
HOME is located on Tony Wilson Place, First Street, Manchester - just off Whitworth Street West, roughly opposite the Hacienda apartments and 0.2 miles from Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink (tram) stop or 0.3 miles from Oxford Road train station.
HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN
EDWIN WAUGH DIALECT SOCIETY ROCHDALE
Preview by Steve Cooke
The Edwin Waugh Dialect Society Rochdale was formed in 1938 by a group of Lancashire Dialect enthusiasts. It lapsed in 1940 due to the effects of the Second World War but restarted in 1950. It has continued to the present day.
Meetings are held on the second TUESDAY of every month from October to June, commencing at 7.30pm.
The annual subscription of £12 is due at the October meeting to help pay for our speakers, but you don't need to be member to go along to see if you would enjoy the meetings - your first meeting is a free taster session.
There is a voluntary donation requested at each meeting to help defray the cost of the room hire.
Meetings Format
The meeting starts with a welcome to all from the evening's Chairman, followed by a rendition of Edwin Waugh's song "A Lift on the Way".
Then a reading of a poem or extract from one of Waugh's works by a pressed volunteer and hear the 'Parish Notices' from the Secretary.
Members are then entertained by a speaker, or a performer. You can find full details of each of the monthly meetings on the Events Calendar page.
A vote of thanks is given followed by a second Waugh song, "Toddlin' Whoam", being the most appropriate!
After this, in the immortal words of our previous President, Jack Lye, "Tha con aw pike off whoam neaw!"
The evening ends at around 9.00 pm.
Next Meeting.Tuesday 14 January 2025 - The Whit'o'th Doctors Presented by Brian Furness
Two hundred years ago members of the Taylor family, of Whitworth, a small hamlet near Rochdale were veterinary surgeons, or horse doctors, as the phrase was. Somehow, and this really is a mystery, they set their sights on humans and became the most celebrated doctors in the country.
Find out more about them tonight.
In the Chair Stewart Chadwick
Waugh Reading Alyson Brailsford
Phone: 01706 826227
7.30pm - 9pm
St Andrew's Methodist and United Reformed Church, Entwistle Road, Rochdale OL16 2HZ (between Rochdale Leisure Centre and Aldi). There is free onsite parking.
VIENNA PIANO TRIO COMING TO ROCHDALE
Preview by Steve Cooke
Rochdale Music Society’s first concert in 2025 brings one of the world’s leading chamber ensembles, The Vienna Piano Trio, to Rochdale
Founded in 1988 by the Viennese pianist Stefan Mendl. His partners are the Californian violinist David McCarroll, a member of the trio since 2015, and the Austrian cellist Clemens Hagen, who joined in 2018.
The trio's discography includes recordings of all piano trios by Johannes Brahms , Antonín Dvořák , Franz Schubert , Heinrich von Herzogenberg , as well as piano trios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Joseph Haydn , Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Bedřich Smetana , Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky , Maurice Ravel , Robert Schumann , Arnold Schoenberg, Camille Saint-Säens and Ludwig van Beethoven . On concert tours, the Vienna Piano Trio has performed at London's Wigmore Hall , the Amsterdam Concertgebouw , the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, among others.
The Vienna Piano Trio has received various awards, including the Echo Klassik Prize 2017 (Brahms: Piano Trios Vol. 1) [ 3 ] and the Gramophone Editor's Choice (for Tchaikovsky) or the Pasticcio Prize of the radio station Ö1 (for Herzogenberg and Brahms).
David McCarroll plays a 1761 Gagliano violin and Clemens Hagen plays a Stradivari cello from 1698.
Rochdale Music Society concert: The Vienna Piano Trio
Saturday 08 March 2025
7.30pm
St. Michael's Church, Bamford, Bury and Rochdale Old Road, Heywood OL10 4BB
Adults £14
Students £5
Children £1
Disabled persons with carer £10
Tickets can be purchased on the door or reserved in advance from 01706 642139.
RECOMMENDED
Saturday 11 January 2025
Twist & Shout – A Journey Back to the Swinging 60s
An all-star cast from the West End deliver a musical powerhouse of a show that starts with the explosion of Brit Pop in 1962 through to the era of Flower Power and Free Love of the late sixties.
Return to a time when skirts got shorter and hair got longer as an incredible cast revive the hits of The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black, Manfred Mann, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Sandy Shaw and many more.
Superb performances and beautiful, bespoke costumes return us to the sights and sounds of the Swinging Sixties. The non-stop, 40-song music feast includes She Loves You, Glad All Over, You’re My World, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good, Shout, Ferry Cross The Mersey and so many more.
It’s said that “If you remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there”. Twist and Shout gives you the opportunity to discover what you missed!
From £24.00
7:30pm Doors open: 6:45pm
Middleton Arena, Lance Corporal Joel Halliwell VC Way, Middleton, Manchester M24 1AG
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Rochdale & District Camera Club - Use of flash in photography
We meet every Tuesday at 8pm at Syke Methodist Church Hall.
You are more than welcome to come down to one of our club nights to see if you would enjoy joining the club.
Visit the link below for the 2025 syllabus.
Phone: Pete Williams 07967 969136
8pm
Syke Methodist Church Hall, Syke Road, Rochdale OL12 9TF
Wednesday 15 January 2025
Toad Lane Concerts - Rochdale's Weekly Music at Lunchtime
This week we have - Tim Kennedy tenor (Cambridge Univ & RNCM staff) Joanna Garcia piano (MU & RNCM staff).
The concert series has been held at St Mary’s since 2001 and was granted the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2020… during the pandemic!
Running every Wednesday, Music at Lunchtime is a weekly live classical music concert series that has been going since the 1960s. The sessions were initially run at the old Rochdale Art Gallery by the local authority, but since May 2001 have been run by volunteer-enthusiasts and artistic director, Dr Joe Dawson.
£6
Phone: Dr Joe Dawson 01706 648872
Doors open 12noon, concert starts 12.30pm - 1.30pm
St Mary in the Baum, Toad Lane/St Mary's Gate, Rochdale OL16 1DZ
Wednesday 15 January 2025
Rochdale Photographic Society
Tonight's session - Time Lapse photography, an evening of experimentation.
Bring your camera.
We meet every Wednesday at Rochdale Unitarian Church, starting at 7.30pm prompt (doors open from 7.15pm). The door is kept locked so please ring the bell on arrival.
If you would like to see the club for yourself and meet our members, you are welcome to attend as our guest for up to 3 weeks before committing to membership. Annual subscription is £36 for single or £46 for joint membership.
A weekly room fee of £2.50 is also payable on arrival at the meeting. Refreshments are 50p.
Visit the link below for a full 2024 syllabus.
Doors open 7.15pm, 7.30pm start
Rochdale Unitarian Church, Clover Street, Rochdale OL12 6TP
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