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SUMMARY:Bands in the Park!
DESCRIPTION:Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons at leisure in Northampton's beautiful Abington Park listening to live music! Until 27 September.
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/bands-in-the-park/
LOCATION:Abington Park\, Abington Park\,\, Northampton\, Northamptonshire\, NN3 3HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family friendly,Free,Music
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SUMMARY:NORTHAMPTON: Summer On The Square - the Market Square beach!
DESCRIPTION:A free summer beach will transform Northampton’s Market Square into a seaside destination throughout the school holidays. \nRunning from 31 July until 31 August\, the month-long attraction will feature sand\, deckchairs\, buckets and spades\, palm trees and beach-themed decorations\, creating the perfect place for families to relax\, play and enjoy a taste of summer in the town centre. \nA range of additional activities will also be available and you will be able to vote for your favourites on our Facebook page over the coming weeks. \nAlongside the beach\, visitors can enjoy a selection of fairground rides delivered by Café Continental.
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/northampton-summer-on-the-square-the-market-square-beach/2026-07-31/1/
LOCATION:Northampton Market Square\, NN1 2DL
CATEGORIES:Family friendly,Free,Market,Outdoors,Summer
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SUMMARY:Raunds Saturday Market
DESCRIPTION:Stalls and free entertainment\n9.30am – 1pm
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/raunds-saturday-market-4/
LOCATION:Raunds Town Square\, High St\,\, Raunds\, Northamptonshire
CATEGORIES:Free,Market,Summer
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SUMMARY:Martin Johns poetry drop in at The Creative Place - free
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of 2 Weeks of Words\, a mini literary festival\, and this event is aimed at adults (as we’ve done loads in Week 1 to do with poetry for young people!). \nMartin will be on hand to read you some of his poetry\, offer you some tips and/or get you to have a go! \nMartin was born in south Wales but has lived in Towcester for the past 44 years. Widely published in magazines and anthologies\, he has read at venues including the Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in London\, the International Anthony Burgess Centre in Manchester\, and at the Manchester Royal Exchange with former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. He has collaborated with composers at the Royal Northern College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire. His poem Polaris was set to music by Bobby-Jane Gardener and performed at Leeds Lieder Festival in 2013. While in 2018 cellist Milena Karakova composed music inspired by Martin’s poem The Sweetness of Paris. \nIn 2023\, he was poet in residence at Old Rectory Garden\, Quinton\, near Northampton\, writing a poem a month to chart the seasons across the year. \nMartin earned an MA with Merit in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2016. His pamphlets Resting Place (2019) and Tipping Winter into Spring (2022) are published by Palewell Press\, and he won the 2025 Milton Keynes Literary Festival poetry competition. \nIn June 2026\, he contributed poems inspired by What is Lost? What Remains? an art exhibition at Winterbourne House in Birmingham.
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/martin-johns-poetry-drop-in-at-the-creative-place-free/
LOCATION:The Creative Place\, Unit 14 Market Sq.\, Northampton\, Northamptonshire\, NN1 2DL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Free,Summer
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SUMMARY:Made With Many's Summer Shazam
DESCRIPTION:Join us for free creative activities\, storytelling\, music\, bubble fun and performances for all ages at Willow Place in Corby town centre! \nActivities and walkabouts include: \n• Wonder of the Woodlands storytelling performance and crafts with Aaron Spendelow. Meet a curious butterfly puppet who is searching for ideas to help a magical woodland grow and thrive. Enjoy interactive storytelling\, audience participation and a chance to create your own butterfly puppet that you can even bring back into the story\, creating a collective fluttering woodland of ideas before taking your creation home. \n• Future Festival Masks– make-and-take activity with Artist Caitlin Skye. \n• Gallery for Change postcard making with Artist Alison Carpenter-Hughes. Create a postcard with your ideas for the future and add it to our Gallery for Change. \n• Puddle Ducks – inquisitive\, friendly roaming characters bringing plenty of waddling charm. \n• Slinky Big Mob – the brilliant life size slinkies by Bedlam Oz will be springing around to surprise shoppers! \n• Dinotopia – meet the adventurer Captain Jon Voyage and his beautiful dinosaur\, Odysseia the Parasaurolophus \n•Just That Company – Bubble fun for everyone! \n• King Brasstards – pioneering funky brass band with an outstanding ability to entertain \n• PLUS The Corby Pride in Place Artist-in-Residence Phiona Richards will also be there to find out what you want to see happening in the Kingswood\, Hazel Leys and Exeter areas!
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/made-with-manys-summer-shazam/
LOCATION:Willow Place\, George St\, Corby\, Northamptonshire\, NN17 1NU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family friendly,Free,SEN Friendly,Summer
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SUMMARY:Pirate Day
DESCRIPTION:Ahoy me hearties. Come an’ do a bit ‘o swashbucklin\, learn the language of the gentlemen of fortune an’ seek out some treasure. Listen to some sea shanties from our brave buccaneers! Fun and games for all the family. Sail on the good ship Charlie (extra cost) and win some ‘andsome booty for ye best dressed pirate.\nFREE\nCar Parking £3 for 4 hours or £5 All Day
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/pirate-day/
LOCATION:The Canal Museum\, The Canal Museum\,\, Stoke Bruerne\,\, Northamptonshire\, NN12 7SE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family friendly,Free,Music,Outdoors,Summer
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