Looking for an event to feature? Here’s our pick of events coming up in January. As ever, please check individual websites for the latest details.
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There’s plenty more to experience, for details on the full range of events check out each destination’s What’s On pages:
Winter Woodland Lights are a hoot in Hampshire
Hampshire’s The Hawk Conservancy Trust will again become even more magical from this month, with illuminations and a live owl display set in a stunning, colourful woodland. A dazzling event to brush away the winter blues, explore the wildlife attraction’s popular illuminated walk, with new sights to discover this year as owls take flight in the woodland, brought to life with music, special effects and lighting. Winter Woodland Lights runs from 17 January until 2 February.
It’s game on in Staffordshire
A new leisure venue aimed at gamers opens this month in North Staffordshire. Hurricane Gaming will launch its second venue in the county when the doors to its latest venture open in Newcastle-under-Lyme this month. Providing gaming parties across two rooms with PCs, PS5, XBOX Series X and VR experiences, Hurricane will also host pay-to-play facilities and a cafe.
Birthday Ball launches Jane Austen celebrations
This year is a big one for Jane Austen fans worldwide – and Hampshire is set to make an early start marking the 250th birthday of the world-famous author. Throughout the year events and commemorations are planned across the county where Austen lived and wrote all her novels, and launching the year in style will be the Jane Austen Birthday Ball on Saturday 18 January at Alton Assembly Rooms, with tickets costing £70 per person. But more is planned for the Ball Weekend in Alton, a town where the author often visited and shopped, including tours and cream teas on the Saturday and a film show and choral evensong on the Sunday.
Painting a picture of past and present in The Potteries
For over 90 years The Society of Staffordshire Artist Members have been creating and exhibiting some of the finest artwork in the region with many having exhibited at major galleries locally, nationally and internationally. Now a Stoke Past & Present exhibition has been assembled to celebrate the 100 Years of Stoke-on-Trent as a city and as a centre for artistic creativity. It runs until 23 February and admission is free.
Viva La Rave!
One of the travel trends predicted for 2025 is “Dry Tripping”. So, for clubbers, dance enthusiasts, and anyone “sober-curious”, Lincoln’s newest sober-dance clubbing event on 11 January might well hit the spot. The Southside venue, located in the former St Katherine’s Church, will host Viva La Rave!, which will take partygoers on a journey through house, rave, funky techno, DnB, and more, curated by four DJs. Tickets cost £11.55 each.
Meet three Victorian explorers and artists at Mottisfont…
National Trust property Mottisfont in Hampshire will be giving its visitors the chance to step into a world of art and adventure in a new exhibition in 2025. Featuring over 80 original artworks by three Victorian explorers-cum-watercolourists – Albert Goodwin, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon and Walter Tyndale – the display of paintings and personal items will bring distant landscapes to life from 25 January to 20 April. Entry is included with normal admission.