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December 2019
A Christmas Carol
Creation Theatre are returning to The Manor at Weston-on-the-Green with the ultimate Christmas theatrical experience. Enjoy a three course dinner with an overnight stay as the heart-warming Christmas classic weaves around you. In the beautiful surroundings of The Manor, Weston-on-the-Green, a rendition of A Christmas Carol is sure to fill you with festive joy. With just two actors playing all the parts and dinner served between the acts, this will really get the festive season off to a flying start.…
Find out more »One event on December 21, 2019 at 4:00 pm
One event on December 22, 2019 at 1:00 pm
One event on December 22, 2019 at 4:00 pm
A Christmas Carol
Creation Theatre are returning to The Manor at Weston-on-the-Green with the ultimate Christmas theatrical experience. Enjoy an afternoon tea in the beautiful surroundings of The Manor, Weston-on-the-Green, as a heart-warming rendition of A Christmas Carol weaves around you, sure to fill you with festive joy. With just two actors playing all the parts and sumptuous afternoon tea served between acts, this will really get the festive season off to a flying start. It’s also the perfect answer to the age…
Find out more »The Last Nöel
“We’ll tell the same old stories, all over again. And we won’t complain. Because it’s Christmas.” It’s Christmas Day. Three generations of a family are busy preparing a feast, and you’re invited. But someone is missing from the table. The Last Nöel is a funny, moving, uplifting play with live music and original songs by Chris Bush. Make this a Christmas you’ll never forget. Praise for previous grown-up festive shows at the Old Fire Station: ★★★★★ “A Christmas cracker…warm and funny…Excellent stuff.” – The…
Find out more »An event every day that begins at 10:00 am, repeating until December 24, 2019
Christmas Fairytale 2019 at Fairytale Farm
Tickets are now on sale for our Christmas Fairytale event 2019, which runs on Saturdays and Sundays from 30th November to 8th December, then daily from 14th December to Christmas Eve. We always receive fantastic feedback about this event each year, and the 2019 event will be bigger and better than ever, with our amazing new Fairytale Castle now fully complete. Tickets are available online only, and as this event normally sells out we recommend booking well in advance. In this…
Find out more »Oxford Bach Soloists: Magnificat – Cantatas for Christmas
Bach’s first Christmas in Leipzig comes with an explosion of festive music. After Advent’s ‘tempus clausum’ (closed period), Bach laid on nine major pieces for his singers and instrumentalists to master, including the Magnificat in E flat major, more commonly heard in its later D major version. First performed on Christmas Day in St Nicholas’s with his very grand Cantata 63, it was repeated on St Stephen’s Day (26 Dec) in St Thomas’s. On the Third Day of Christmas Bach…
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Lantern Led Tours at Oxford Castle
Throughout December all our daily tours will be led by lantern light!
Enjoy a guided tour with a warming touch this winter at Oxford Castle and Prison. Throughout December our costumed guides will be leading the tours by lantern light. Feel closer to our fascinating history by exploring the castle reminiscent of the Victorian era.
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons – New Year’s Eve Gala Dinner and Dance
Celebrate New Year in style at our glittering black tie dinner and dance. Enjoy live music and flowing champagne, followed by Raymond’s exquisite gala dinner. With our spectacular line-up of live entertainment, you’ll be dancing all the way into 2020.
Find out more »January 2020
One event on August 4, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on August 18, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on September 14, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on October 30, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on October 31, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on December 8, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on December 15, 2019 at 2:00 am
One event on January 1, 2020 at 2:00 am
Free Vintage Bus Rides
Have an interesting family day out at Oxford Bus Museum & Morris Motors Museum. Learn about bus and coach travel around the county over the last 130 years, see a collection of vintage Morris vehicles and more. Adding to the fun are vintage bus rides on selected dates during 2019. So take the family along to enjoy a journey by vintage bus. Trips will depart from Oxford Bus Museum except during Oxford Open Doors when they will leave from Oxford Railway Station.…
Find out more »An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until January 5, 2020
An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday and Saturday, repeating until January 5, 2020
3945 Portraits Exhibition
Glyn Dewis exhibits his photographic portraits of Second World War veterans. Explore his work, find out about their medals, and hear about the veterans' experiences through Glyn's interview recordings. "I started the project in early 2019 and it's wonderful that the project has already received praise from around the world and is proving to be an incredible experience. I'm incredibly pleased with how well the series has taken off, and how images have already been licensed for use by the…
Find out more »An event every day that begins at 7:30 pm, repeating until January 5, 2020
The Snow Queen
“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…” This Christmas Creation Theatre will be really turning down the temperature and transforming The North Wall into the frozen wastes of Lapland. Gerda’s best friend Kai has gone missing and she can’t find him anywhere. Luckily there’s all sorts of helpful people she can ask; a river, some rose bushes, a crow, a robber girl and her talking doves…. you get the picture.…
Find out more »An event every day that begins at 10:00 am, repeating until January 7, 2020
Jane Duff: Wildsong
The natural world is Jane Duff’s inspiration. Brought up on the edge of Snowdonia, and working as a guide in the Himalayas, she feels at home in wild places and seeks them out in order to walk, photograph and paint. Painting in-situ encourages her to react instinctively and emotionally to the landscape, weather and light. She is most at home painting on rocky shores, cliff tops, saltmarshes and moorlands of Cornwall, Wales and North West Scotland. In Oxfordshire, Jane is…
Find out more »Jane Duff: Wildsong
The natural world is Jane Duff’s inspiration. Brought up on the edge of Snowdonia, and working as a guide in the Himalayas, she feels at home in wild places and seeks them out in order to walk, photograph and paint. Painting in-situ encourages her to react instinctively and emotionally to the landscape, weather and light. She is most at home painting on rocky shores, cliff tops, saltmarshes and moorlands of Cornwall, Wales and North West Scotland. In Oxfordshire, Jane is…
Find out more »An event every day that begins at 2:00 am, repeating until January 12, 2020
Last supper in Pompeii
This major exhibition will tell the story of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii's love affair with food and wine. Located in the sunny paradise of southern Italy, Pompeii was sandwiched between lush vineyards and fertile plains to one side, and the bountiful waters of the Bay of Naples to the other. When the ash from Mount Vesuvius began raining down on Pompeii in AD 79, people were engaged in typical day to day activities: producing, buying and selling food and,…
Find out more »Asylum Welcome Charity Gala
Join us for an evening of live music, comedy and poetry in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers. Hosted by Will Gompertz, the gala opens with a drinks reception with an authentic taste of Syrian canapés, followed by a fantastic line-up of performances.
Find out more »Creative Writing
Come and try your hand at writing your story or prose maybe poetry or even a play see how your creativity can come on to the page. Come and join this great group
Find out more »Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra: Lisa Batiashvili
Prompted by the death of a child, Alban Berg wrote his tender Violin Concerto ‘to the memory of an angel’. The piece is poised magically between two worlds – rich and worldly, ethereal and mysterious. To play it, we welcome a debut artist of rare integrity and imagination, Lisa Batiashvili. After Berg’s tender concerto and the tantalising torso of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ symphony, we hear a Brahms symphony in which private feelings are given public expression. The composer’s fourth may be…
Find out more »Talking Maps
Every map tells a story. Talking Maps is a celebration of maps and what they tell us about the places they depict and the people that make and use them. Drawing on the Bodleian's unparalleled collection of more than 1.5 million maps, this exhibition brings together an extraordinary selection of ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps from a range of cultures and in a variety of formats as well as showcasing fascinating imaginary, fictional and war maps.
Find out more »An event every day that begins at 2:00 am, repeating until February 9, 2020
Thinking 3D: Leonardo to the present
For centuries, artists and scientists have wrestled with how to convey three-dimensional objects on the page. Using some of the Bodleian Libraries’ finest books, manuscripts, prints and drawings, Thinking 3D tells the story of the development of three-dimensional communication over the last 500 years.
Find out more »Jumble Fever 2020
Jumble Fever --- Charity Jumble Sale -- Saturday 18th January --- 11am - 4pm Bring & buy - CLOTHING for Women, Men and Children *including Vintage and High End* JEWELLERY HOMEWARE BRIC A BRAC TOYS BOOKS ⭐DJs & entertainment throughout the day, as well as an exciting celebrity raffle ⭐ This year the funds will go to Nonceba, which is a shelter for women who have survived domestic violence or have been victims of human trafficking. Most women in the…
Find out more »Comedy Gala
Oxfordshire Mind are taking over Oxford Playhouse for an afternoon of comic brilliance. Raising money for the vital support Oxfordshire Mind offers those with mental health problems, don’t miss this hilarious event of belly laughing comedy! 2:30 PM performers: Hal Cruttenden, Ahir Shah, Nigel Ng, Chelsea Birkby, Alex Farrow and Harry Househam! 7:30 PM performers: A special guest, Chelsea Birkby, Alex Farrow and Harry Househam! Tickets available here
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