Jacqueline from whatsonni.com shares her pick of What’s On weekend across the NI

Down

Enjoy some family fun every weekend in April at the Cockle Row Cottages, Groomsport. This Saturday 2nd April join the CSI Detective workshop and balloon modelling and on Sunday 3rd April there will be children’s crafts and archery.

Armagh

Superman to Batman…choose your superhero and let’s get printing this Saturday 2nd April at the Market Place Theatre. Using foam printing techniques, fabric paints and fabric markers you will create your favourite superhero design that will be printed onto your t-shirt.  Bring your own plain white t-shirt to design on.  Dress for mess!

Fermanagh

Borderline Players are back this Easter with pantomime adventure, Robinson Crusoe at the Ardhowen Theatre 1st and 2nd April.  Set sail on a voyage across the high seas as the Crusoe family seek their fortune, but with the villainous Blackbeard out to thwart their attempts, and with the notorious pirate, The Crimson Hawk on their tails, the Crusoes will need the help of friends and strangers to complete their mission. Robinson Crusoe is fun for all ages. A meet and greet with the cast is available after each performance.

Tyrone

Join the very talented Encore Performing Arts Academy students this Saturday 2nd April at the Alley Theatre Strabane, as they bring High School Musical to life on stage! Troy, Gabriella, and the students of East High must deal with issues of first love, friends, and family while balancing their classes and extracurricular activities.  With classic sing a long songs such as ‘Breaking Free’, ‘When there was me and you’ ‘Start of something New’ and ‘We’re all in this together’ along with an unforgettable cast who will sing, dance and perform their hearts out, this classic Disney show is the perfect family show.

Derry/Londonderry

Local girl Cara Dillon returns to the Roe Valley Arts Centre Limavady this Friday 1st April.  Renowned as one of the most successful contemporary folk artists today, Cara has won every folk music award going. It has been five years since the world last heard from her but she has returned with her most gorgeous album yet. A Thousand Hearts, her fifth solo album, is another small masterpiece of song and emotion, ethereal and radiant, beautifully honed and perfectly true.

Antrim

Don’t miss the Theatre at the Mill’s live screening this Saturday 2nd April of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Anthony Minghella’s breathtaking production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006.  One of the world’s foremost Butterflys, soprano Kristine Opolais, is in the title role. Tenor Roberto Alagna sings Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.  This is a live screening broadcast by the Metropolitan Opera New York.

Belfast

Take your seats and cover your ears at W5  for the Big Bang Theatre, because this show gets loud! Prepare yourself for exciting, experimental and somewhat explosive family theatre. The time travelling explorers have crash landed in a strange laboratory. Here they must find a way of producing enough energy, and the biggest bang they possibly can, to jump-start their malfunctioning time machine. Searching the lab for chemicals, gases and equipment, our explorers must attempt to create a series of energy releasing flashes, bangs and explosions! Bubbles are set alight, fireballs are shot through the air, balloons explode and rockets whoosh into the audience!! See a series of wild experiments, culminating in one final BIG bang!  This spring, danger, humour, excitement and some very cool science combine to make a really entertaining experience for all the family.

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