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David Bowie tribute and more fireworks. What’s on this weekend and beyond

News | Richard Gurner | Published: 17:10, Friday November 8th, 2024.
Last updated: 17:10, Friday November 8th, 2024

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Friday November 8

🎸Folk Night at Blackwood Miners’ Institute at 7.30pm with The Blessed Crow and Wynford Jones & Geoff Cripps. Tickets cost £15 and available from the BMI website.

Saturday November 9

🍪 Caerphilly Craft Fair, run by Craft Legs, returns to the town around the Cenotaph and outside Y Galeri Caerffili. Get your crafts, gifts, and treats from 10am to 4pm.

🎲 Caerphilly Table-Top and Gamers Society will be holding their regular free monthly meeting at Bargoed Library between 10am and 4pm.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Tribute act The Manic-Phonics Experience are performing at Blackwood RFC with doors open 7pm. Over 18s only, admission costs £7.

👨‍🎤 The Bowie Experience is at Caerphilly Workmen’s Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £16.50 and are available from the hall’s website.

The Glam Rock Show at Blackwood Miners’ Institute at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £29.50 and available online.

🎆‘Rockets up the Rock’ firework display by the Art of Sparks at Graig y Rhacca Football Field at 6pm.

Sunday November 10

Remembrance services are being held across the county borough. A full list on our website can be found here.

Thursday November 14

💻Risca Library is holding a family history helpdesk between 10.30am and 12.30pm. 👯Please contact library staff for more information and to express interest.

Kids Community Dance Classes at Newbridge Memo. Join Alis who founded Celf Dawnsio Gwenyn in 2024 with the goal to provide everyone within her local community with the opportunity to experience the joy and fulfilment of movement and the arts, regardless of age or ability. She has created two dance programmes, one for children aged two to five, and another for children aged six to ten. Visit the Memo website for more information.Have you got an event to be included in our round-up? Email events@caerphilly.observer, call 029 2125 0855 or drop us a DM on Facebook.


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