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Children & Family Christmas
Thursday 2nd, 4pm; Friday 3rd, 4pm music and
& 6.30pm; Saturday 4th, 2pm & 6pm events
The Life and Adventures of Santa
Claus. With original music and lots of Wednesday 1st, 7.30pm
audience participation. £9; children £7; One Night in Vegas. A festive
family £26. Arts Centre concert with a live big band and
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th Vegas showgirls. £18.50. Wyvern
Christmas Fair. Steam. See page 24 Friday 3rd, 7pm to 9pm; Saturday
Saturday 4th to Thursday 23rd 4th, 10am to 4pm; Sunday 5th,
2.30pm to 5pm
Country House Christmas & Festive St Sampson’s Church, Highworth
Quiz. Step back in time to enjoy the Christmas Tree Festival with the
State Rooms decked out for a Victorian theme of pantomimes, Christmas
family Christmas. Normal admission shows and films.
charges. Lydiard House
Sunday 5th,12 to 3pm Saturday 4th, 7.30pm
Swindon Choral Society’s Christ-
Festive Spangles. A drop-in craft ses- mas Concert. The choir will be singing
sion for children to make a bejewelled extracts from JS Bach’s Christmas
bauble to treasure. £3/child - children Oratorio and traditional Christmas
must be accompanied by an adult. carols. £10 (accompanied children
Lydiard House free) on the door or from Swindon
Saturday 11 December to Sunday Information Centre. Christ Church,
9 January, various times Old Town, Swindon
Peter Pan. The Swashbuckling panto Sunday 12th, 3pm
adventure packed with comedy, music, Christmas Carols with Kentwood
magic and mayhem. £14 to £20.50. Choir amongst the sheep, llamas,
Wyvern cows and donkeys. Children are invited
Sunday 12th 12noon to 3pm to dress up and lead the donkey and
Make a Christmas Wreath for your sheep onto the stage during the carols.
front door using greenery collected Adult £7; children £4, incl a drink and
from the park. £3/person. Stable mince pie. All proceeds to Prospect
building, Lydiard House Hospice. Roves Farm Visitor Centre.
Thursday 16th, 1.30 to 3pm See advert on page 24
Flower arranging workshop. Use Sunday 12th, 2.30pm
evergreens and traditional Christmas Swindon Co-operative Ladies
decorative trimmings to create a Choir. Christmas carols in Lydiard
natural table decoration. £6. Booking House. Normal admission charges.
required, call 770401. Lydiard House Thursday 16th, 8pm
Sunday 19th, 12noon to 3pm Joglaresa: Hoary Winters Night.
Make a Candle Decoration. A drop Ancient spellbinding Christmas songs
in craft activity for families. £3/person ring with echoes of winter pagan fes-
- children must be accompanied and tivities from these first-rate fold musi-
supervised by an adult. Lydiard House cians. £15; children £8. Arts Centre
Thursday 23 December to Sat- Sunday 19th, 2.30pm
urday 1 January, various times Purton Pear Tree Peal-
Nutcracker, The Musical pre- ers Hand Bell Ringers.
sented by Empire Theatre Christmas carols per-
Company. This unique version formed on hand bells. Nor-
of The Nutcracker captures the mal admission charges.
magic and fantasy of the ballet Lydiard House
in a musical version, including
songs set to the famous Tchaiko-
vsky’s music. £10; family £30. Theatre
Arts Centre Tuesday 7th to Saturday
11th, 7pm
Music Murder Mystery Eve-
ning: The Christmas
Friday 3rd, 7.30pm Curse. An evening of
Beyond the Barricade. Authentic unexpected presents, Christmas
and original West End and Broadway curses and riddles to be solved. Enjoy
musical hits. £20.50. Wyvern a three course meal as you watch the
Saturday 4th, 7.30pm plot unfold and attempt to unravel
Talon. Best of the Eagles. £18. Wyvern the mysteries. £35. Wyvern Circle
Friday 17th, 8pm Restaurant
King King featuring Alan Nimmo. A Thursday 9th to Saturday 11th,
line-up of top-shelf musicians craft a 7.30pm
fresh, powerful new angle on blues The Elephant Man presented by Old
rock. £12. Arts Centre Town Theatre Co. The moving and
Saturday 18th, 8pm heart breaking story of a severely
Christmas With The Beatles. Cel- deformed isolated man who is intro-
ebrate Christmas in the company duced to London society in the late
of All You Need Is The Beatles. £14. 1800s by physician Frederick Treves.
Arts Centre £7.50. Arts Centre

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