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  1. Two ladies with small torches melting down some gold in contemporary studio
    Two ladies with small torches melting down some gold in contemporary studio
    One lady hammering a ring on a ring mandrel, being supervised by a goldsmith with her googles on.  both ladies smiling and looking like they are havin
    Ruth and girl looking through sterling silver bangle, jewellery making experience, jewellery making workshop, sterling silver, goldsmith, commission,
    Lady hammering and texturing sterling silver, another lady photographing her working, jewellery making experience, jewellery making workshop, sterling
    Two ladies with small torches melting down some gold in contemporary studio
    One lady hammering a ring on a ring mandrel, being supervised by a goldsmith with her googles on.  both ladies smiling and looking like they are havin
    Ruth and girl looking through sterling silver bangle, jewellery making experience, jewellery making workshop, sterling silver, goldsmith, commission,
    Lady hammering and texturing sterling silver, another lady photographing her working, jewellery making experience, jewellery making workshop, sterling

    Holywood

    Address

    Holywood, County Down, BT180NJ

    Telephone

    +44 (0) 7879 698 286

    Type

    Type:

    Workshop

    LUX Beginners Jewellery Making Workshops in our Holywood Northern Ireland working Goldsmiths studio. No experience is required for this fun and relaxing experience, so come with friends or by yourself for some quality 'me time'. Challenge…

    Dates

    From:
    2 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    4 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    8 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    10 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    15 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    18 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30
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    29 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:30

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking - Parking Free on public pavement between two drives. Please do not park outside neighbours properties or on our private drive as this needs to be kept clear at all times. Thanks
    • Parking Available
  2. photograph showing traders and customers at the comber farmers market
    photograph showing traders and customers at the comber farmers market

    Comber

    Address

    St Mary's Parish Church car park, Comber Square, Comber, Down, BT23 5DU

    Telephone

    07872 857 912

    Type

    Type:

    Farmers Market

    Comber Farmers' Market is held on the first Thursday of the month from 09:00 - 13:30 in St Mary's Parish Church car park, the Square, Comber. There are over 24 regular traders selling artisan food and plants.

    Dates

    From:
    3 Apr 2025
  3. Aisling Agnew and Richard Allen
    Aisling Agnew and Richard Allen

    Bangor

    Address

    Bangor Castle (City Hall), Castle Park Road, Bangor, County Down, BT20 4TF

    Telephone

    028 9127 1200

    Price

    Price from: £15.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    Moving On Music is delighted to present two of Northern Ireland's finest classical musicians for a rare duo outing, flautist Aisling Agnew and harpist Richard Allen.

    Dates

    From:
    3 Apr 2025Open 20:00 - 21:30

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £15.00 Per Ticket
  4. Early Birds Singing  group
    Early Birds Singing  group

    Portaferry

    Address

    The Portico of Ards, Steel Dickson Avenue, Portaferry, County Down, BT22 1LE

    Telephone

    028 4272 8808

    Price

    Price from: £70.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    Join us in Portico for 8 wonderful mornings of community singing

    Held over 8 weeks and led by Ciara Daly, this is an opportunity for people who love music to come together and try singing from traditional African pieces, to songs from the Selkies…

    Dates

    From:
    3 Apr 2025Open 10:30 - 12:00
    From:
    10 Apr 2025Open 10:30 - 12:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £70.00 Per Ticket
  5. Cash Returns 20 years of Walk the Line tribute show
    Cash Returns 20 years of Walk the Line tribute show

    Portaferry

    Address

    The Portico of Ards, Steel Dickson Avenue, Portaferry, County Down, BT22 1LE

    Telephone

    028 4272 8808

    Price

    Price from: £25.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    The greatest and most exciting Johnny Cash & June Carter Tribute in the UK, Ireland and beyond!

    The show is currently playing to sell out audiences all over the UK, Ireland and Europe. If you go along to one of their shows you will hear all the…

    Dates

    From:
    5 Apr 2025Open 19:30 - 22:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £25.00 Per Ticket
  6. Beach
    Beach

    Cloughey

    Address

    17 Main Road, Cloughey, Down, BT22 1JA

    Telephone

    028 9043 4767

    Price

    Free

    Type

    Type:

    Nature

    All ages are welcome to join this creative and inspiring event to explore our shores.

    At 10am the group will be led by Anne-Marie on a gentle walk to explore the shore and collect objects to make an artistic assembly or perhaps a quick print. All…

    Dates

    From:
    5 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 12:00

    Price

    Free
  7. Blue and white pottery from beach
    Blue and white pottery from beach
    old bottles on beach
    mermaids purse eggcases
    deflated birthday balloon on beach
    Aileen and her dog on beach
    plastic bottletops on beach rock
    discarded frisbee on beach
    Blue and white pottery from beach
    old bottles on beach
    mermaids purse eggcases
    deflated birthday balloon on beach
    Aileen and her dog on beach
    plastic bottletops on beach rock
    discarded frisbee on beach

    Newtownards

    Address

    Ards Visitor Information Centre, 31 Regent Street, Newtownards, County Down, BT23 4AD

    Telephone

    +44 (0)28 9182 6846

    Type

    Type:

    Exhibition

    A beachcombing timeline from the County Down coast. From Victorian vintage to villainous vapes, from the highs of balloons to lows of sand-burrowing animals, this is a creative and poignant exhibition of beach finds. Sea you there!

    Dates

    From:
    5 Apr 2025to1 May 2025Various Opening Times
  8. Foraging Afloat
Kayaking
Foraging
    Foraging Afloat
Kayaking
Foraging

    Killinchy

    Address

    Green Boat Shed Whiterock, Killinchy, County Down, BT23 6PY

    Telephone

    +44 (0) 7909 721 898

    Price

    Price from: £85.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Outdoors Event

    Spring is arriving on Strangford Lough and with it the arrival of an array of seasonal wild food emerges from the land and water. Join Rory Martin of Strangford Lough Activity Centre and David Thompson & Celia Spouncer from Wild About Tours for a…

    Dates

    From:
    6 Apr 2025Open 13:30 - 16:30

    Price

    Price from: £85.00 Per Ticket
  9. Close up of an emperor dragonfly
    Close up of an emperor dragonfly

    Comber

    Address

    WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre, 78 Ballydrain Road, Comber, County Down, BT23 6EA

    Telephone

    02891874146

    Type

    Type:

    Workshop

    Create a wetland insect and learn how to animate your new character on their own mini wetland adventure.

    Dates

    From:
    6 Apr 2025Open 13:00 - 15:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available
  10. Photo of a group  conducting field research.
    Photo of a group  conducting field research.

    Holywood

    Address

    Cultra Manor, 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, Holywood, County Down, BT18 0EU

    Telephone

    +44 (0) 28 9044 0000

    Price

    Price from: £50.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Workshop

    Learn everything you need to know about earthworms in this three-day training course with the Biological Recording Company at Cultra Manor.

    Dates

    From:
    7 Apr 2025to9 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 16:00

    Price

    Price from: £50.00 Per Ticket
  11. Beach with Flags
    Beach with Flags

    Groomsport

    Address

    19 Harbour Road, Groomsport, Down, BT19 6JR

    Telephone

    028 9043 4767

    Price

    Free

    Type

    Type:

    Nature

    Join us for a creative and inspiring event where we will explore our shores.

    At 1:30pm the group will be lead by the artist on a gentle 5 minute walk to the beach to explore the shore and make windmills, paper birds, boats, lighthouses (what do you…

    Dates

    From:
    8 Apr 2025Open 13:30 - 15:30

    Price

    Free
  12. Ards International Guitar Festival 2025
    Ards International Guitar Festival 2025
    Ards International Guitar Festival
    Ards International Guitar Festival 2025
    Ards International Guitar Festival

    Conway Square, Newtownards

    Address

    Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall Arts Centre, Conway Square, Newtownards, County Down, BT23 4NP

    Telephone

    028 9181 0803

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    The Ards International Guitar Festival is back with a bang in April 2025 with a fresh new programme of guitar inspired gigs, free fringe events, and a rock exhibition you won't want to miss!

    Dates

    From:
    9 Apr 2025to13 Apr 2025Various Opening Times
  13. Helen's Bay Players present "Table Manners" by Alan Ayckbourn

    Helens Bay

    Address

    St John’s Church Hall, Fort Road, Helens Bay, County Down, BT19 1LA

    Telephone

    028 9127 0069

    Price

    Price from: £12.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Theatre

    Table Manners is one, of Alan Ayckbourn’s three, three Act plays that make up, what are called, the 'Norman Conquests'. Written and set 1973. These plays cover a, rather hectic, even traumatic, yet entertaining, family weekend in the same house,…

    Dates

    From:
    10 Apr 2025to12 Apr 2025

    Price

    Price from: £12.00 Per Ticket
  14. Copeland Logo
    Copeland Logo
    Mikes' Fancy Cheese logo
    Copeland Cocktail
    Copeland Cocktails
    Copeland Logo
    Mikes' Fancy Cheese logo
    Copeland Cocktail
    Copeland Cocktails

    Manor Street, Donaghadee

    Address

    The Copeland Distillery Tour, The Copeland Distillery, Manor Street, Donaghadee, County Down, BT21 0HF

    Telephone

    02891624000

    Price

    Price from: £40.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Food & Drink

    Cheese & Cocktails at The Copeland Distillery

    Dates

    From:
    11 Apr 2025Open 19:00 - 22:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £40.00 Per Ticket
  15. A craft stall at a North Down Craft Collective Fair at WWT Castle Espie.  A visitor is chatting to a local artist.
    A craft stall at a North Down Craft Collective Fair at WWT Castle Espie.  A visitor is chatting to a local artist.

    Comber

    Address

    WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre, 78 Ballydrain Road, Comber, County Down, BT23 6EA

    Telephone

    02891874146

    Price

    Free

    Type

    Type:

    Markets / Fairs

    Meet local artists and makers and shop their beautiful, handmade craft pieces. From textiles to ceramics, paintings to prints, and plenty more in between, you're sure to find something unique.

    Dates

    From:
    13 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 16:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Free
  16. Craig Ogden classical guitarist
    Craig Ogden classical guitarist

    Portaferry

    Address

    The Portico of Ards, Steel Dickson Avenue, Portaferry, County Down, BT22 1LE

    Telephone

    028 4272 8808

    Price

    Price from: £5.00 to £20.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    A virtuoso of his instrument with an international career, Craig Ogden's compelling guitar playing is sure to delight everyone.

    This will be a rare opportunity to experience Craig as a soloist up-close in the intimacy of Portico.

    Expect to be…

    Dates

    From:
    13 Apr 2025Open 13:00 - 16:30

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £5.00 to £20.00 Per Ticket
  17. Easter tat Mount stewart
    Easter tat Mount stewart

    Newtownards

    Address

    Portaferry Road, Newtownards, County Down, BT22 2AD

    Telephone

    02842788387

    Type

    Type:

    Easter Events

    This spring, treat the whole family to a world of adventure at Mount Stewart on an Easter trail.

    Dates

    From:
    14 Apr 2025to26 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 17:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available
  18. Eliza Dolittle
    Eliza Dolittle

    Carrowdore

    Address

    Eastwell Farm Alpacas, 6 Ballyblack Road East, Carrowdore, County Down, BT22 2HH

    Telephone

    +44 7734 905 152

    Price

    Price from: £10.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Easter Events

    Alpacas and Easter Egg Hunt

    Dates

    From:
    18 Apr 2025to21 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 16:00

    Price

    Price from: £10.00 Per Ticket
  19. Good Friday Tenebrae Service
    Good Friday Tenebrae Service

    Portaferry

    Address

    The Portico of Ards, Steel Dickson Avenue, Portaferry, County Down, BT22 1LE

    Telephone

    028 4272 8808

    Price

    Free

    Type

    Type:

    Concert

    Tenebrae with Maggie Hayes and Matthew Colridge's Requiem

    Each year we mark Good Friday in our Tenebrae Service, with our friends from Portaferry Presbyterian Church.

    Everyone, whether they have a religious faith or not, is welcome to join us for…

    Dates

    From:
    18 Apr 2025Open 19:30 - 21:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Free
  20. Escape to OZ
    Escape to OZ
    Escape to OZ
    Escape to OZ
    Escape to OZ

    Bangor

    Address

    Clandeboye Estate, Belfast Road, Bangor, Down, BT19 1RN

    Telephone

    028 91 853457

    Price

    Price from: £27.00 Per Ticket

    Type

    Type:

    Easter Events

    'Escape to OZ' a four day magical family, Easter event in the breathtaking grounds of Clandeboye Estate inspired by 'The Wizard of OZ' and the fantastic prequel 'Wicked'.
    Learn more.

    Dates

    From:
    18 Apr 2025to21 Apr 2025Open 10:00 - 13:00
    From:
    18 Apr 2025to21 Apr 2025Open 14:00 - 17:00

    Facilities

    Parking & Transport

    • On site parking
    • Parking Available

    Price

    Price from: £27.00 Per Ticket
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