Nadiya Hussain, James Martin, Ainsley Harriott and Michael Caines will headline Bolton Food and Drink Festival 2018. The festival, organised in association with Aldi, is back for its 13th year and is set to be bigger and better than ever. The four day extravaganza, which this year runs from August 24 to 27, welcomed 267,000...
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Bolton Film Festival – Community Shorts
The first Bolton Film Festival included a number of British and International ‘Community’ films. Entries in this category included productions made in an around Bolton by local groups and indeed the winner, ‘Anxiety – Ellis’s Story’, a powerful and thought-provoking piece about the effects of addiction, was created and produced by Mr One Million, a...
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Bolton Film Festival- Awards
Bolton saw its first ever film festival this week. Brainchild of film-maker Adrian Barber and his partner Zoe Rothwell, the inaugural Bolton Film Festival was hosted by the The Light Cinema on 20th and 21st September. A total of 56 films, made by animators, community groups, independent film-makers and students were screened and the wide...
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Another Successful Bolton Food Festival
August Bank Holiday weekend saw the Bolton Food and Drink Festival continue its annual growth both in terms of the number of stall-holders and number of visitors. Three hundred thousand people attended over the long weekend to enjoy the food, drinks and a greater variety of entertainment and exhibits than ever before. Exhibitors and traders...
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Community Health and Wellbeing Event
BAND Bolton will host the annual Community Health and Wellbeing Event on Tuesday 10th of October 2017 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The event is usually extremely well attended and over the last years, attendance has averaged around 400 individuals. This year the theme for the event is ‘Positive Conversations’ and will also link to the...
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Big Local Festival / International Youth Day
On Saturday 19th August, Tonge with The Haulgh Big Local and Bolton Council’s Play and Youth Services jointly hosted the Big Local Festival at Castle Hill Young People’s Centre. The event, which included a colourful parade, was a celebration of the local area and of International Youth Day. Among the guests at the event was...
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Musical Feast on the Menu- Bolton Food & Drink Festival
An amazing menu of music will cater for all tastes at this year’s Bolton Food and Drink Festival. Rock, retro and even classical will be performed by more than 60 different artists on two stages over the Bank Holiday weekend (Aug 25 – 28) in a packed live music programme. On the Sunday evening, Aziz...