05 July 2022
Following a two year break due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Rochdale Borough Sport and Culture Awards return this year to celebrate…
02 December 2021
We are delighted to announce that Your Trust, along with other Consortium members, won a £1million grant from Arts Council England to…
15 September 2021
We’re pleased to announce a major one-day conference taking place at Touchstones on Friday 21 January 2022, examining the intersection of art,…
17 August 2021
Residents of Larkhill Court estate in Middleton were treated to an exclusive exhibition of two Lowry paintings on Thursday afternoon. Touchstones Art…
26 July 2021
A Middleton-born artist who worked for iconic fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood recently hosted an exclusive talk at Touchstones gallery in Rochdale…
12 October 2020
Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust has been awarded £666,457 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face…
30 September 2020
What’s Important For many of us the uncertainty of Covid-19 has forced us to re-evaluate what we value the most. We’ve all…
17 September 2020
It is with sadness that we announce that the 2020 pantomimes at Middleton Arena and Heywood Civic Centre have been postponed until…
12 March 2020
Touchstones is delighted to be delivering Cultural Routes, a professional development programme, designed to support the work of over 50s creative practitioners…
17 June 2019
Todmorden-based artist George Meyrick is currently showing a single work called Four Points at Touchstones to coincide with his current exhibition (Wedge)…
12 October 2018
Artist Maeve Rendle’s work shows a recurring fascination with sounds sculpted by the human voice and its co-option as a means of…
10 August 2018
With the generous support from Art Fund we invited a range of local women and young people to add their voices to…