{"id":11078,"date":"2016-03-23T10:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11078"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:16:37","slug":"a-day-out-in-comber-to-become-curiouser-and-curiouser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/03\/a-day-out-in-comber-to-become-curiouser-and-curiouser\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Out in Comber to Become Curiouser and Curiouser"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the completion of the Public Realm scheme, visitors are encouraged to jump down the rabbit hole to Curiously Comber to see the town become transformed into a \u2018Wonderland\u2019 on Thursday 24 March with some very curious goings on.<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Celebrating its 150th<\/sup> anniversary this year, Alice in Wonderland is a story of a curious girl who meets fun characters while exploring a magical world and Comber is filled with many undiscovered hidden gems.<\/p>\n

This free family event, Curiously Comber will include many fun activities but as Alice says:<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you like an adventure now, or shall we have tea first?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Visitors can start their adventure at the Mad Hatters Tea Party in St Mary\u2019s in the Square Church Hall were visitors may also find some curious creatures!<\/p>\n

There will be special appearances throughout the day from Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee.<\/p>\n

A unique acrobatic show \u2018Curious World\u2019, will take place around Comber Square at 1pm and 3pm with Alice and the Mad Hatter<\/p>\n

Comber Farmers\u2019 Market will run for the day from 9am with the very finest local producers bringing their distinctive seasonal wares.<\/p>\n

There will be an array of fun filled themed events across the town.<\/p>\n

Using the special Curiously Comber magical map, visitors will be able to discover workshops, displays, special offers, demonstrations, \u2018Eat me\u2019 Macaron stations and much more.<\/p>\n

Local children have been involved in the event with the \u2018Alice in Comberland\u2019 story writing competition and their work will be displayed in venues across Comber.<\/p>\n

The Curiously Comber map will be available as a pull out supplement on the day of the event in the Newtownards Chronicle, showing visitors all the best places to explore.<\/p>\n

Further information on the event can be found at www.visitardsandnorthdown.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the completion of the Public Realm scheme, visitors are encouraged to jump down the rabbit hole to Curiously Comber to see the town become transformed into a \u2018Wonderland\u2019 on Thursday 24 March with some very curious goings on. Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, Alice in Wonderland is a story of a curious … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11081,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions\/11081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}