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Skipton Town Hall will be hosting a free Christmas exhibition from 28th November to 11th December. The event is showcasing the work of 18 artists, the home-grown talents from the area, at Skipton, North Yorkshire, organised by the newly formed Craven Arts, which is run by artists. Running alongside the exhibition will be two free talks The first to be held on 3rd December and the next on 10th... Read More»

The unique event, Jorvik Viking Festival, will be held from 20th to 26th February of next year, for which planning has started. The highlights have been unveiled for the festival that is part of the build-up to the re-opening of the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, planned on 8th April 2017. Taking inspiration from the last days of King Eric Bloodaxe's reign, festival programmers have created visitor attractions... Read More»

The Winter Gathering has dropped the entry fee and visitors whenever coming to the London Road Fire Station, are allowed entry completely free. The historic building in Manchester, England, that started off as fire-station way back in1906, has an interesting social history as a mixed use municipal building. The iconic building leads the way for Yuletide celebrations of the city, all in the run-up to Christmas in full swing,... Read More»

The University of Manchester will be hosting 'The Frost Fair' at its Whitworth Art Gallery, on 3rd and 4th December, between 11am and 7pm. Get festive and visit the Manchester Christmas Market too. The Whitworth Art Gallery will transform into a Scandinavian wonderland, hosting a plethora of free events that weekend. One of the free activities in the 2-day shindig will be ice-skating on an environmentally sustainable ice-rink. An... Read More»

A special Open Day by The Band of the Royal Corps of Signals at Cosford towards the end of this month, on 29th November (Tuesday), is to show the opportunities in professional Army music. The band, one of the 3 professional brass bands within the Corps of Army Music, has its base at RAF Cosford, in Wolverhampton. The band likes to showcase what it can offer for potential recruits... Read More»

Book Week Scotland is being celebrated from 21st to 26th November at Wigtown, Wigtownshire and Scotland's National Booktown is celebrating it with Civilised Saturday. Wigtown Booksellers will be celebrating on 26th November (Saturday) with a day full of events in the town. It starts at 11:00am with a popular character created by Amanda Sunderland- Wee McAsh, at the Curly Tale Books. The Old Bank Bookshop will have Lisa Hooper,... Read More»

A popular free event, the Cowes Christmas Festival is returning to the Isle of Wight on 17th and 18th of December to get the islanders back into the festive spirit. The event sponsored and produced by Red Funnel the ferry company has the venue at Cowes Yacht Haven's events centre. The festival will bring together the best local arts and crafts, food and drink, with activities for all ages. Read More»

Scotland's Winter Festivals (2016-17) programme has been unveiled and it has 20 funded events totally. Fiona Hyslop, the Culture Secretary, said the events and activities will be held across the 15 council areas. The celebrations run through Christmas, Hogmanay, St. Andrew's Day and until Burn's Night. The programme has got up to £390,000 funding from the Scottish Government, that includes for events like Edinburgh's Hogmanay, Glasgow's torchlight festival and... Read More»

Four regional theatres have announced a series of initiatives including an offer of free tickets to productions at their venues, to support refugees and asylum seekers. Four theatres, the Nuffield Southampton Theatres, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Royal & Derngate and Nottingham Playhouse, are all producers of 'The Grapes of Wrath'. It will run from 6 to 25 March at Nuffield; from 28 March to 8 April at Nottingham Playhouse; from... Read More»

The Festival of Lights will come to a spectacular close, with a special lantern-lit parade moving through Irvine (North Ayrshire, Scotland). The event will take place at 6pm, on Saturday, 3rd December, which is a collaboration involving the Scottish Maritime Museum, the Harbour Arts Centre and Ayrshire-Youth-Arts-Network (AYAN). To help participants join the event, AYAN will be hosting a series of free workshops for lantern and banner making throughout... Read More»

The 14th annual event of the Festival of Social Science is being celebrated and events are being organised by the Bournemouth University, as part of the nationwide festival. A host of free public events will take place nationwide. Around 250 events are lined up from 5th to 12th November. Bournemouth events range from technology addressing digital addiction, to exploitation of tax havens and film screenings. The chance to know... Read More»

A scheme to recruit 'brilliant brains' by Government is part of the £1.9 billion cyber defence project that Chancellor Philip Hammond has unveiled. As part of the new National Cyber Security Programme, a crack team of 50 brains will be recruited by the Government. Ministers want those people who are looking for a change in career, to try it out for the team. The idea is to find people... Read More»

The internet giant, Google, will be in Cumbria to host a 'digital garage' on 1st December, at Furness College, in Barrow-in-Furness. The free event hosted by in-cumbria.com will be held at the new Advanced Manufacturing and Technology centre. The programme beginning at 8:30pm and ending at around 2:30pm, will feature presentations from leading digital businesses of Cumbria. Google staff will hold sessions to help build an online presence for... Read More»

A free event on 5th November, Saturday, focusing on the life of war heroes Ada Bodart and Edith Cavell will be held from 11.30am to 2pm, at the Bagenal's Castle, Abbey Way, Newry. Ada and Edith were part of a secret network in German-occupied Brussels during the First World War that helped Allied soldiers and prisoners-of-war to escape into neutral Holland. Edith was arrested and executed, whereas Ada was... Read More»

Theatrecraft is returning again on 14th November (Monday). Adam Kenwright, Executive President of Ambassador Theatre Group, will open the event at Waldorf Hilton Hotel, Aldwych, London. This is the new home for the annual career fair, for 2016, offering the opportunity to explore a marketplace of organisations and exhibiting theatres. Partnering West End venues include Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Novello Theatre, Lyceum Theatre and Aldwych Theatre. The day-long event provides an... Read More»

A talent development initiative from Festival City Theatres of Edinburgh, has formed a new company for aspiring and emerging actors, called the Attic Collective. Membership to the new drama company, to be based at the King's Theatre, is open to all those aspiring to be actors, and those who completed formally training in acting. The Attic Collective will produce in the year, 3 main stage productions, that include a... Read More»

The Thames Valley Police (TVP) will be organising a cyber crime awareness event for the first time. The free event is on 30th November and is from 9am to 12:15pm, being held at the Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot (Oxfordshire). This meeting by TVP, one of the largest police forces of UK, covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, is open to small businesses in the Thames Valley area. Experts on... Read More»

Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, will be hosting free events to mark Remembrance Day. Henley and Peppard branch of the Royal British Legion will hosting 4 free events during the Remembrance period. On 27th October (Thursday) battlefield guide and photographer Mike St. Maur Sheil will be holding an illustrated talk at Henley Town Hall at 7:30pm, entitled- '1st July 1916: The aftermath of the day that changed our nation's history'. Following... Read More»

One of Southampton's most historic buildings- God's House Tower, is slowly turning into the city's newest arts venue. The 700 year old gatehouse in a £2.4 million redevelopment project by developers and artists, will be, for the firs time since 2011, opening its ancient oak doors to the public, to show architectural plans and present a series of events specially commissioned. God's House Tower (GHT) will be open until... Read More»

Here is a chance for anybody to find out what it is like to sing in an opera. Opera South East will be conducting a free workshop, a taster session, on 23rd October (Sunday), at the White Rock theatre, in Hastings (East Sussex), which will run from 2pm to 5pm. Anyone can come along, as there is no experience required to join. The afternoon will be filled with music... Read More»