The Festival of Christmas will feature a trail of festivities in locations around the city centre on Wednesday 20 November.
The city centre will be spilling with festive spirit as it also marks the beginning of late-night shopping in the city.
Enjoy everything from fire dancing shows to Spark! the marching, illuminated drummers, and everything in between, including:
- Festive ice sculpting
- LED hula hooping
- Christmas comedy show
- Aerial dancer
- Storytelling with Santa
- Bouncing elves
- Larger than live lampposts
- Christmas Time Travellers
- Life-size snow globe
- Polar bears Pip and Inka
The performances and entertainment will be spread across some of the city centre’s hot spots like Broadgate and Millennium Place. Make sure to enjoy them all!
It’s completely free to enjoy the Festival of Christmas and is suitable for all ages.
Trail timings and performance locations:
Broadgate
Spark! Parade - Performing at 5pm, 6:30pm, 7:45pm
Cathedral Ruins
Christmas Cavalcade, Candle Aerialist and Storytelling Santa - Performing every 60 minutes between 4pm and 8pm
Millennium Place
Fire and Ice show - a combination of 3 acts. LED hula hooping followed by fire juggling with Flame Oz, before fire and ice sculpting with Glacial Art. These three acts run one after the other, combining to a make 30 minute show, repeated at 4pm, 6pm and 8pm.
Upper Precinct
Look out for either the bouncing elves or the mischievous elves around the Upper Precinct area. They will be travelling in pairs throughout the evening from 4.15pm-5.30pm, 7pm-7.15pm and 7.15pm-8.30pm
Precinct Cross
Living Lampposts – Performing at 4pm, 6pm and 7:45pm
Time Machines – Performing at 5pm, 7pm and 8:30pm
Speakers Corner
Snow globe - Performing every 45 minutes between 4pm and 7:45pm
Hertford Passage
Meet Inka or Polar Pip from Creature Encounters between 4.30pm and 8.30pm.