It's Christmas!
A London Christmas offers a stunning range of events to consider when making holiday plans. As if it weren’t enough to think about buying Christmas presents, decorating for the season and entertaining family, now you can also choose from dozens of Christmas pantomimes, a handful of special Christmas exhibitions and ice skating rinks scattered throughout the city.
Learn about some of the best events on this Christmas in London for you and your family.
London Christmas events for families
Some wonderful fun for kids of all ages and their families.
Ice Skating
London has loads of options for all you ice skating fans out there. Why not check out our guide to the best in town?
The Snowman
When a young boy's snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve, they fly through the air together to find some really good parties. They dance with snowmen, penguins, reindeer, Father Christmas (of course) and a dancing pineapple (wow! a dancing pineapple!) before escaping Jack Frost and returning home. This much-loved family Christmas show returns to the Peacock Theatre for a record-breaking 14th year.
Duckie's Copyright Christmas
In classic Duckie style, this is how the purveyors of working class entertainment wish to entice you to their new Christmas show "Capitalism is collapsing... so let's go shopping! A post-panto promenade performance for trenders, festive eastenders, corporate defenders and hey big spenders." They've created a Duckie superstore where you can witness the decline of branded Britain in a promenade production that looks at the place of shopping in our construction of Christmas. There'll also be a Christmas market, workshops and obviously a party of some description at some point.
BAC's Christmas Cook Up
Battersea Arts Centre present a month of scratch works where you can see the seedlings of next year's most interesting shows. Artists include Josie Long, Polarbear,Sabrina Mahfouz, Ross Sutherland, Molly Naylor and Chris Goode with Woundman and Shirley. There's also a Christmas market which runs from 10am-6pm on Thursdays and Fridays and 2pm-8pm on Saturdays.
London Christmas events for couples
Great places for romantic Christmas dates.
Champagne
It's funny how everybody in London is always a little bit dubious about the London Eye until they actually go on it and realise that it's just really amazing. And what better way of doing it than with a glass or two of Laurent-Perrier champagne?
Enchanted Palace
Kensginton Palace has been transformed into the Enchanted Palace - drift round dream-like installations, film projects, sound, performance and fashion combine with the unique splendour of Kensington Palace to create something truly magical.
Christmas at The Dock
A four-day bonanza of delicious food and Christmas shopping fun times at The Dock this December. There's a delightful late-night evening on the Thursday as well as loads of activities, workshops and a host of other art, craft and design-related goings-on. Until 11.12.11.
London Christmas events when you’re by yourself
Get out and about if you’re spending Christmas season alone.
Christmas Markets
Santa, food and mulled wine – what more could you want?
A Hankering After Ghosts - Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
An exhibition in the Folio Society Gallery at the British Library exploring the presence of supernatural phenomena in the work of Charles Dickens. The show marks the bicentenary of his birth.
Winter Exhibition
Hoxton Art Gallery close their inaugural year with a winter-themed exhibition comprising work by the kind of intelligent young artists that the gallery is becoming known for. On show are works across painting, photography and digital prints.
Comedy
As you might expect, December is awash with festive comedy parties. Take your pick of the juicy line-ups from Knock2Bag, Sheeps, Monster Comedy, Michael McIntyre and No Pressure to be Funny.
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