Year: 2015

Ballymena Today – Stay safe when gaming online

PSNI Ballymena have drawn attention to advice about Gaming and how to stay safe online. This guide from the Get Safe Online Website has highlighted some risk and addressed some actions which parents can take to look after their children as they play games with others online. Online gaming opens up players to a whole world of entertainment. The integration of the internet into modern games means that children and teenagers can log on and start playing against other gamers from anywhere in the world. This is great for gaming but can worry parents who don’t know who their...

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Annie by Voiceworks in Ballymena

Voiceworks are producing “Annie” in the Braid Arts in Ballymena from the 5th to the 8th August. Voiceworks is an organisation established open the opportunity to both Kids and teenagers to develop appropriate technique in a fun and safe environment, lead by tutors experienced in Classical and Musical-Theatre performance. Their tutors include Lesley Henry and Cillian Donaghy who between them have lots of experience in both performing and working with other actors and children. Annie by Voiceworks in Ballymena Set in 1930’s New York during the Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hanniagn’s orphanage. Determined to find her real parents, her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. But spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie’s search. Featuring book and score by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie includes such unforgettable songs as ‘It’s the Hard Knock Life’, ‘Easy Street’, ‘I Don’t Need Anything But You’, plus the eternal anthem of optimism, ‘Tomorrow’. (Source) Tickets for the dress rehearsal on Wednesday have also been released. Annie kicks off at 7.30pm each night with a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday. Admission: £10.00, £8.50 concession, £30 for a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children) Click here to get more information about the Voiceworks production of...

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Ballymena Today love Northern Ireland Businesses on Instagram

At Ballymena Today we love seeing Northern Ireland businesses using social media and the internet to get attention. Here are local Northern Ireland businesses which we have enjoyed following recently on Instagram. twofivefive We first noticed twofivefive because of their candy coloured stationery – it almost makes us wish that the school holidays were over already! This online homewares stores also sell candles, cushions and jewellery making it one of our favourite Instagram feeds to keep our eye on. The say: A concept starting back in 2011, Belfast based twofivefive soon became a brand that was to represent some amazing...

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Go Set A Watchman – Waterstones Ballymena

Waterstones in Ballymena are running a very special bookclub next week. They will be looking at what has been called the most anticipated book of the decade – Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee. The book has been hotly awaited for many reasons – it is from the wroter of the classic To Kill a Mockingbird and the publication has been surrounded by controversy – Read our blog post about it here. We are powering our way through the book and are glad to see some characters return from Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The writing is wonderful...

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Flossy Treats Pet Open Day – Ballymena

This Sunday Flossy Treats in Ballymena will be holding a pet open day. Flossy Treats say: Its our Pet Fun day this Sunday. Come to our unit in Galgorm, just outside Ballymena from 2-6pm. Its a FREE event for all the family where we will have lots of fun for both you and your pets. Who all is coming? We will have Vets from Fenaghy Vets offering advice on how to care for your pets, Karl from Mantella with his reptiles, birds and other wonderful animals for you to see and hold, Pawfect Doggie Treats with home made animal...

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