Events
December 2022
Oxford Christmas Market
With the sound of choirs singing Christmas carols, market traders offering unusual and handmade gifts, colourful decorations brightening wooden stalls and the aroma of mulled wine and cinnamon drifting in the air - a visit to the Oxford Christmas Market is a truly magical Christmas experience.
Find out more »Family Days at the Science Oxford Centre
Visit the Science Oxford Centre for a unique family experience, open every Saturday. Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits – create and test flying designs at the Air Table, build a giant magnetic ball run, and see what’s hot and what’s not with the Curious Camera. With 15 acres of woodland and ponds, there’s plenty to explore outside too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and trail map…
Find out more »Christmas Family Dance Party
Dancin' Oxford and Body Politic present a Christmas themed Family Dance Party. They'll be a live DJ, bubbles, lights and loads of fun. So come along and dance the afternoon away. Price: £5 or pay what you can
Find out more »Christmas Market at Combe Mill
Combe Mill Christmas Market OX29 8ET Annual Christmas Market on Sun 4th December 2022 11.00am to 4.00pm at Combe Mill. Don`t miss out, come along and bring the children to `Listen to a story with Santa` browse the variety of Market Stalls, enjoy a BBQ, Mulled Wine & Chestnuts, Tea Room Open, Raffle, Tombola and Gift Shop. Find an excellent selection of Christmas gifts available. Combemill`s blacksmiths will be in the Forge to make pokers, with VIEWING ONLY in the…
Find out more »Kitty Whately & William Vann: The House of Life
This concert takes place in the Hollywell Music Room. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ monumental song cycle The House of Life – which sets poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti – sits at the heart of this recital. It was first premiered in 1904 at Bechstein Hall by Edith Clegg, but was never recorded by a female singer until Kitty Whately’s and William Vann’s 2019 recording for Albion Records. The programme also includes songs by Vaughan Williams’ contemporary Rebecca Clarke, and his pupil…
Find out more »Warren Miller Daymaker Tour – Oxford Phoenix Picturehouse
This autumn, enjoy an annual celebration of winter with Warren Miller’s 73rd annual ski and snowboard film, Daymaker. Come along as Warren Miller takes you on a journey to peaks so high, that they'll replace the mountains in your mind with ones that free your mind. From British Columbia's Monashee mountains to the throne of Greece's Olympus mountains, Alaska and beyond. Join Karl Fostvedt, Michelle Parker, Katie Burrell, Hana Beaman, Jonny Moseley and more out on the hill and you…
Find out more »Family Days at the Science Oxford Centre
Visit the Science Oxford Centre for a unique family experience, open every Saturday. Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits – create and test flying designs at the Air Table, build a giant magnetic ball run, and see what’s hot and what’s not with the Curious Camera. With 15 acres of woodland and ponds, there’s plenty to explore outside too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and trail map…
Find out more »Aladdin – Kenton Theatre, Henley
It’s a new era of pantomime at the Kenton Theatre…Oh, yes it is! Immersion Theatre, the award-nominated company behind the Kenton’s critically-acclaimed productions of Robin Hood (2017) and Dick Whittington (2018) are back! Join the fun with what promises to be their most spectacular pantomime yet…a magical adventure you’ve been wishing for: ALADDIN! With heaps of audience participation, dazzling costumes, spectacular sets, and magical special effects, this year’s offering promises to be out of this world, so book now for…
Find out more »Christmas Family Dance Party
Dancin’ Oxford, in association with their brilliant friends at Body Politic, are holding some more incredible Family Christmas Discos. Come and help them celebrate the festival season, make new friends and dance the afternoon away with lights, bubbles and loads of fun!
Find out more »Christmas Family Dance Party
Dancin’ Oxford, in association with their brilliant friends at Body Politic, are holding some more incredible Family Christmas Discos. Come and help them celebrate the festival season, make new friends and dance the afternoon away with lights, bubbles and loads of fun!
Find out more »Family Day at the Science Oxford Centre
Visit the Science Oxford Centre for a unique family experience, open every Saturday. Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits – create and test flying designs at the Air Table, build a giant magnetic ball run, and see what’s hot and what’s not with the Curious Camera. With 15 acres of woodland and ponds, there’s plenty to explore outside too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and trail map…
Find out more »Messiah
Handel Messiah, HWV 56 Alexandra Lowe soprano Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Ed Lyon tenor Michael Mofidian bass Choir to be announced Marios Papadopoulos conductor ‘I did think I did see all Heaven before me,’ wrote Handel as he finished Messiah. It is not hard to hear why. Part German Passion, part English Anthem, part Italian Opera, Messiah changed the landscape of vocal music in Britain from the moment it was first performed in 1742, and has held audiences awestruck for nearly three centuries with its biblical…
Find out more »Winter Family Day at the Science Oxford Centre
Visit the Science Oxford Centre for a unique family experience, open every Saturday. Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits – create and test flying designs at the Air Table, build a giant magnetic ball run, and see what’s hot and what’s not with the Curious Camera. With 15 acres of woodland and ponds, there’s plenty to explore outside too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and trail map…
Find out more »Winter Family Day at the Science Oxford Centre
Visit the Science Oxford Centre for a unique family experience, open every Saturday. Explore, discover and play in the Exploration Zone, where children and grown-ups alike have fun experimenting with interactive exhibits – create and test flying designs at the Air Table, build a giant magnetic ball run, and see what’s hot and what’s not with the Curious Camera. With 15 acres of woodland and ponds, there’s plenty to explore outside too. Pick up an Explorer Backpack and trail map…
Find out more »January 2023
Cory Band: World-Class Brass
This event takes place at the Oxford Town Hall. Cory Band has held the number one spot in the official brass band world rankings for 15 years uninterrupted, and today’s concert is a celebration of this ongoing achievement by the Welsh ensemble. In the grand venue of Oxford Town Hall, Cory performs a programme of major works for band as well as highlights from its recent concert repertoire. In 2022 Cory successfully defended its European title, and will reprise its…
Find out more »Frankenstein
Witness the original gothic horror in this brand new faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Experience the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein as he risks his life, his family, and his sanity to reanimate the dead, and suffers the unthinkable consequences. This thrilling, fast paced play features Shelley’s exquisite language and ever pertinent themes of ambition, alienation, revenge, and family, as well as physical theatre underscored by live traditional sea shanties. Join the theatre on board Captain Walton’s ship as…
Find out more »February 2023
Beam Me Up
Brand new music festival Beam Me Up has put together a mouthwatering line up of the hottest new bands around for its inaugural outing in Oxford (11 February 2023). Coach Party, Opus Kink, Prima Queen and Play Blue Eyes play the O2 Academy in Oxford on Saturday 11 February. With 12 acts across two stages, the team behind the new festival has brought their experience in events and knowledge of the two cities to bring some of the best new…
Find out more »Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar Beyond 2023
The Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar Beyond will be back on Saturday 18th February 2023! This FREE event is open to all. Fun for all the family and most suitable for 5-12 years. Join Oxford Brookes at their Headington campus (Gipsy Lane, Headington, OX3 0BP) to meet staff and students, explore interactive stands, learn something new, and to get stuck into many activities! Following the British Science Week (10-19 March 2023) theme of “Connections”. Where you can explore topics such as;…
Find out more »Brahms Violin Sonatas
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 Fiona Khuong-Huu violin Hina Khuong-Huu violin Marios Papadopoulos piano The beauteous violin playing of Joseph Joachim and the radiant personality of Clara Schuman lie behind Brahms’s Violin Sonatas − works in which his first priority was to make the violin sing. The three sonatas chart a journey from lyrical intimacy to stormy, grand expressions, No. 3’s…
Find out more »FUNomusic Family Concert: Mission Earth
Alasdair Malloy presenter Come and join the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Mission Earth Tour Guide Alasdair Malloy. They join a school trip from another galaxy to approach and orbit the Earth, with the mission to discover what the four colours which can be seen from space represent. We hear fantastic music which reveals what the blue, red, white, and green areas are on the planet, as well as discovering amazing wonders of nature such as animal and insect life, weather and…
Find out more »March 2023
FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
Oxford Literary Festival hosts more than 200 events over ten days featuring leading writers and thinkers. This year's event includes novelists Colm Toibin, John Banville and Eleanor Catton: standup comedian and historian Al Murray, scientists Martin Rees and Adam Rutherford; actors Greta Scacchi and Paterson Joseph; former Manchester City footballer Nedum Onuoha; and children's authors including Anthony Horowitz, Robin Stevens and Cressida Cowell. There will also be debates involving public figures about topical issues such as climate change, trust in…
Find out more »Martha Archerich & Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Mendelssohn The Hebrides, Op. 26 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, ‘Jupiter’ Martha Argerich piano Marios Papadopoulos conductor Mozart may not have known the ‘Jupiter’ symphony would become his last, but it’s hard to imagine how he could have followed it. Mozart’s last symphony is a work of majestic intensity and liberation but also a continuous stream of musical joy that wears its brilliance lightly. Before it, titan of the piano Martha…
Find out more »May 2023
Death and the Maiden | Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, ‘Death and the Maiden’ Schubert Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, ‘Trout’ Soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Marios Papadopoulos piano Franz Schubert was unusually aware of his own mortality. But even Schubert was at a low ebb in March 1824 – sick, tired and unable to find peace. Then one day, he reached for one of his own songs, in which Death asks a young maiden innocently for her hand, offering eternal…
Find out more »FUNomusica Family Concert: Pirates Ahoy!
Alasdair Malloy presenter Calling all pirates! Dress up in your sea-faring finery and hurry aboard our Pirate ship, the Barnacle Bill, for an action-packed adventure on the Seven Seas with nautical nonsense and amazing maritime music. With Cap’n Alasdair ‘Awesome Al’ Malloy at the helm and the fearless crew of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, we’ll be setting sail Over the Waves into uncharted waters in search of a treasure trove of music including a Pirate March, a Pirate Song or two,…
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