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Fun for 3-5 year olds at Rowandale Primary School in October. The school is hosting an October Arts Fest starting Saturday 10th October until Saturday 31st October. Saturday 10th 11-12 Get imaginative with the Fairy & Elf Extravaganza, come dressed up ready to have fun! Saturday 17th October 11-12 Get active with hip hop and drama. Saturday 24th October 11-12 Get creative with pottery yarn. Saturday 31st October 11-12 Get crafty with Hallowe’en arts and crafts.
Armagh
The Armagh Food and Cider Festival celebrates a tasty feast of Armagh cuisine with the best of local Cider from 7th to 11th October at various venues across the city. Enjoy a delicious range of events at eateries and public houses throughout the Armagh area. Join in a weekend packed with special menus and mouth-watering events, including: Pop up cookery school. Armagh restaurant food tour, Artisan food and cider market, cider tasting, orchard tours and scrumptious menus using the finest locally sourced ingredients.
Fermanagh
There’s nothing nicer than exploring among the crunchy autumn leaves which is why families are invited to join the RSPB on the shores of Lower Lough Erne for a nature scavenger trail at Castle Caldwell Forest this Saturday 10th October from 10.30 am to 12 noon. Prizes will be awarded for the best finds!
Tyrone
Ireland’s hottest trio – Ray O’Hare, Dominic McGorian and Declan Kelly, The Three Tenors, with their amazing voices promise you a night to remember this Saturday at the Strule Arts Centre Omagh. Noted for their friendly and down to earth approach, the trio love to talk with their audience during and after each show. This thrilling fast moving concert is packed with the world’s most beautiful, magical feel-good, uplifting songs. Hear the hits ‘I Believe’, ‘SHE’ and from Sinatra (‘My Way’/New York New York), Leonard Cohen (‘Hallelujah’), Pavarotti (‘Nessun Dorma’) and The Dubliners – rousing selection of the greatest Irish Ballads to include ‘Song For Ireland’ and ‘The Wild Rover’.
Derry/Londonderry
See The Matchmaker at the Millennium Forum from 8th to 10th October. Based on the novella ‘Letters of a County Matchmaker’ by John B. Keane, one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, the play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn from all parts of the country. At the centre of this celebrated production is John B Keane’s marvellous and mischievous wit coupled by his unparalleled way with words. John B. Keane takes us back to a simpler time, when even phones were few and far between and the only web was oneleft behind by spiders.
Antrim
Following the critical acclaim of The Producers, Oklahoma, and Les Miserables, Peter Corry returns to Theatre at the Mill Newtownabbey as part of the theatre’s fifth anniversary, weaving his magic by directing this new production of Irvin Berlin’s classic musical Annie Get Your Gun until Saturday 10th October.
Belfast
There are some decidedly ghostly goings-on at W5 this October…Are you and your family brave enough to investigate the creepy mansion known as Monster Manor? If the rumours surrounding this old place are true you will encounter singing pumpkins, dancing skeletons, floating ghosts, paintings which transform before your very eyes and all manner of mysterious monsters! It’s really spooky, a little bit scary and a whole lot of fun. So this October why not bring your family along and discover the secrets of Monster Manor for yourselves? We dare you! Saturdays and Sundays from 3 October – 1 November daily from Monday 26 – Friday 30 October 1-5pm.
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