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The GIANT LEGO brick animal trail will be at WWT Castle Espie rom Saturday 11 February – Sunday 2 April with the sculptures sitting amongst some of their real life cousins!\u00a0 The awesome models will form a trail for kids (and big kids) to inspire them to build a better future for nature. Visitors will be able to enjoy the trail of nine individually-designed 1.5m LEGO brick animals, some inspired by real species at Castle Espie Wetland Centre. Included are an Hawaiian Goose (the world’s largest and rarest goose), a red breasted goose and a kingfisher.\u00a0 Workshops take place every weekend (Sat 11 Feb – Sun 2 Apr) and during the February half term holidays (Sat 11 \u2013 Thurs 16 Feb) at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.<\/p>\n
Family Super Saturday returns to the Market Place Theatre this weekend. This fin-tastic, family musical follows Timothy Pope [and his telescope!] on three exciting adventure.\u00a0 Timothy Pope is looking through his telescope \u2013 but wait, is that a Shark, in the Park!?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From the creative team behind \u2018The Hairy Maclary show\u2019 – see all three of Nick Sharratt\u2019s \u2018Shark In The Park\u2019 books live on Stage [\u2018Shark In The Park\u2019, \u2018Shark In The Dark\u2019 and \u2018Shark In The Park On A Windy Day\u2019].\u00a0 POST SHOW ACTIVITIES: Ticket price includes post-show one hour of fun activities including Themed Craft Workshop, Face Painting, Balloon Modelling & Fancy Dress Competition with prizes For Best Dress Boy & Girl. Great value for money! Super Saturdays are recommended for age 4+.<\/p>\n
Having been named \u2018Entertainer of the Year\u2019 by The Sunday World and \u2018Songwriter of the Year\u2019 at the RTE Country Music Awards, Derek Ryan is now back with his 2017 tour performing his much loved hit singles. Don\u2019t miss him this weekend, 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup> February at the Ardhowen Theatre.<\/p>\n In partnership with No 8 Bridal, the Cookstown Bridal Showcase at the Burnavon Theatre this Saturday will feature a range of local suppliers who can help exceed every bride and grooms expectations to ensure that your wedding day is perfect. The event provides lots of options for the savvy bride to organise her wedding under one roof with local suppliers close to hand.<\/p>\n Continuing his run of sell-out tours, Jake O\u2019Kane is back at the Riverside Theatre Coleraine this Saturday 11th<\/sup> February with his new show, \u2018Old Enough to Know Better\u2019.\u00a0 Combining stories from the year past with photos from the Irish News archive and the wackier side of the Internet, Jake dissects the insane from the mad and the worst from the bad, in his usual inimitable style.\u00a0 On this tour, Jake is supported by talented comic Terry McHugh.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve caught Jake\u2019s live tour before you\u2019ll know this new show is not to be missed; if you haven\u2019t, come along and see what you\u2019ve been missing.<\/p>\n Calling all 2 – 5 year olds! Join the Braid Ballymena this Saturday for a 1\/2 hour storytelling and craft event which will see the museum collection come to life. Toddlers will get an opportunity to be part of\u00a0a local story through dance and art.\u00a0 After the stories are told each child will get an opportunity to make their own special piece of artwork inspired by what was heard.\u00a0 A local artist and storyteller will lead the session.\u00a0Children must be accompanied by an adult.\u00a0 Two sessions have been organised:\u00a010.30 to11.00am and 12noon to 12.30pm.<\/p>\n Following on from the success of last year\u2019s \u201cBig Bang Theatre\u201d, W5 brings you the Silent Science Show! Take your seats for some slapstick science in a unique black and white, silent stage show! Prepare yourself for exciting, experimental and somewhat unusual family theatre this February. Danger, humour, excitement and some very cool science combine to make a really entertaining experience.\u00a0Running selected dates from 11 February \u2013 26 March. The Silent Science Show is FREE with admission to W5.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00adFor more details on these events and to add your events free go to\u00a0whatsonni.com<\/a>. Follow us on twitter @whatsonNI and on facebook at\u00a0fb.com\/www.whatsonni.com<\/a>\u00a0for news, competitions and what\u2019s on near you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Down The GIANT LEGO brick animal trail will be at WWT Castle Espie rom Saturday 11 February – Sunday 2 April with the sculptures sitting amongst some of their real life cousins!\u00a0 The awesome models will form a trail for kids (and big kids) to inspire them to build a better future for nature. … 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\/13407"}],"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=13407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13409,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions\/13409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tyrone<\/h1>\n
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