Ballycastle Food Tour
Date: 7 Sept
Time: 10am – 2pm
Venue: Departing from Ballycastle Visitor Information Centre
Contact: 077182 76612 info@irishfeast.com
This tour showcases an amazing array of local, artisan, award winning food and drink. Visiting six unique venues from cafes to delis, from bake houses to pubs over approximately two miles.
Shamrock Rose & Thistle Eddie Butcher Traditional Music Festival
Date: 7 & 8 Sept
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Venue: Various venues in Limavady
Contact: 07792 846 699 brianmor47@gmail.com
This year’s festival takes place in venues including the Keady Clachan, the Roe Valley Hospital, the Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre and St. Aidan’s Hall Magilligan. For full details pick up festival programme from any Causeway Coast and Glens Visitor Information Centre.
The Causeway Speciality Market
Date: 8 September
Time: 9am – 4pm
Venue: The Diamond, Coleraine
Contact: 028 7034 7034 / e: csm@causewaycoastandglens.gov.k / www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk
Causeway Speciality is supportive of local producers and operate on the second Saturday of each month outside Coleraine Town Hall. All products are either organic or speciality goods. Quality art, crafts and gifts for sale too.
Castlerock Walkfest
Date: 8 September
Time:9am – 5pm
Venue: Peter Thompson Hall, Castlerock
Contact: 028 7084 9303 / castlerwalkfest@gmail.com /www.castlerockwalkfest.wordpress.com
Guided walks including hill walks, moderate walks, specific interest walks. Family event around Castlerock and Binevenagh.
Defence Heritage in Castlerock
Date: 8 September
Time: 1-4.30pm
Venue: Peter Thompson Hall
Contact: 028 2075 2100 enquiries@ccght.org
Join military historian James O’Neill on a walk from Downhhill to the Barmouth Wildlife Reserve and learn of the impact of war and the marks that remain in this landscape. Booking essential.
Giant’s Causeway Sportive
Date: 8 September
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Venue: Seafront, North Street, Ballycastle
Contact: 028 9030 3930 info@cycleni.com www.giantscausewaysportive.com
Unique road cycling event based on the iconic North Coast that offers an unforgettable cycling experience including the magical Glens of Antrim. Event attracting over 1,000 participants.
Causeway Coast Foodie Tours
Date: 8 September
Time: 9.30am
Venue: Coleraine Town Hall
Contact: 07912408256 causewayfoodie@gmail.com
Join a guided culinary tour of the beautiful Causeway Coast to sample some of the areas’ locally produced food and drink. This is a 6 hour bused tour of the region. Cost £60pp. Booking essential.
Gathering History, From Bann to Ballykelly
Date: 8 September
Time: 12-4pm
Venue: Peter Thompson Hall, Castlerock
Contact: 028 7775 0238 lps@ccght.org
Bring your memories of the area, we’d love to record them for our shared history. Bring photos or documents and we’ll make copies for the archives.
Dragon Boat Challenge
Date: 8 September
Time: 10.30am-2.30pm
Venue: Drumaheglis Marina, 36 Glenstall Road, Ballymoney
Contact: 075 0087 8998 ballymoneyrotary@gmail.com www.ballymoneyrotary.org
Enjoy the spectacle of Dragon Boat racing on the River Bann. A great family day out, with onsite catering BBQ and Bouncy Castle. Support the teams or take part in a team. Entry fee £20 per person (minimum age 15) includes training insurance. Organised by the Rotary Club of Ballymoney.
DGS Presents A Never Ending Bond
Date: 13-15 September
Time: 8pm
Venue: Riverside Theatre, Coleraine
Contact: Box Office 028 70 123 123 www.ulster.ac.uk/riverside/whats-on/
This year’s show is a special one for the founder and Artistic Director of DGS Dominic Graham. Now in its 40th year DGS and Dominic will begin a new chapter. A Never Ending Bond will be the end and the beginning of that new chapter. Tickets: £12
The Great Landrover North Run
Date: 9 September
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Venue: Commencing at Carrickfergus
Contact: www.visitcausewaycoastandglens.gov.uk
Cavalcade commences at Carrickfergus taking the coastal route, going off road at some parts with permission of the Forestry Commission to tour their land before ending in Portrush.
Launch of It’s for Rail Pop-Up Clothing Sale
Date: 12 September
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre, Limavady
Contact: Pamela 07740580342 / itsforrail@gmail.com / www.facebook/itsforrail
Come along to the launch of It’s for Rail Pop-Up Clothing Sale on Wednesday 12 September in the Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre. Find clothing items which have never / seldom been worn at great prices.
Ultimate Folly, A Talk by Henry MaCrory
Date: 13 September
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre, Limavady
Contact: cms@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk
Author Henry Macrory lifts the lid on some of Britain’s strangest subterranean structures including the ‘gnome caves’ at the home of Beatle George Harrison, and a glass underwater smoming room built at the bottom of a lake by multi-millionaire swindler Whitaker Wright, the subject of Macrory’s new book, Ultimate Folly. The talk will include a look at Wright’s extraordinary life and sensational death.
Irish History Starts Here
Date: 28 July – 15 September
Time: Monday – Saturday 9am – 5pm
Venue: Coleraine Museum, Coleraine Town Hall
Contact: 028 7034 4723
From the earliest known settlement at Mountsandel almost 10,000 years ago, a fascinating Bronze Age village, and a Medieval Abbey kitchen, to the official Plantation, this exhibition reveals the history of the Coleraine area.
Adrian Margey Summer Studio Open Weekends
Date: Every Friday – Sunday from 3rd August – 2nd September
Time: 11am – 5.30 (Fri – Sat), Sunday 12noon – 5.30pm
Venue: Adrian Margey Gallery, 99 Mark Street, Portrush
Contact: 07841 593 762 adrianmargey@googlemail.com
Pop-up artist studio and gallery space featuring the work of Adrian Margey and Evana Bjourson open to the public during weekends in Summer.
Quiet Places, Nicola Nemec
Date: 8-29 September
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Venue: Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart
Contact: 028 7083 1400
This is Nicola’s first solo exhibition since returning from a Heinrich Boll Association Residency on Achill Island. Conceived over a two year period, ‘Quiet Places’ is her response to an intense time working in this unique place, combined with her continual observation of the shifting climate, light and atmosphere of the North Antrim landscape in which she lives.
War Torn Children
Date: 5 Sept – 29 Nov
Time: Monday – Friday 9.30-5pm
Venue: Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre
Contact: 028 777 60650
Exhibition of textiles reflecting the theme of war torn children. The exhibition features arpilleras, photographs and illustrations highlights the devastating impact of war on children, their families and communities.