Looking for an event to feature? Here’s our pick of the best events coming up in November. 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:
New eco festival shines White Lights over Hampshire
There’s a new experience this winter in Hampshire: White’s Eco Light Festival, at Gilbert White’s House. Set to shine new light on wildlife and the natural world, the event at the home of the pioneering 18th century naturalist Gilbert White will feature light installations powered by renewable energy sources, solar power and low-level lighting. Running from 21 November to 21 December, it celebrates White’s internationally important legacy to ecology.
Jazz it up in Hull
Hull Jazz Festival is back 9 to 23 November at a host of venues including Hull Truck, Polar Bear and Pearson Park. For more than 30 years the Festival has been bringing the best in world jazz and improvised music to Hull twice a year. For 2024, November’s line-up features two world class musicians synonymous with Gypsy Jazz – Matt Holborn and Kourosh Kanani – and Kobby Taylor, multi award-winning composer, and performer.
Sparkling Burghley’s cracker of a Christmas Fair
Burghley House’s 2024 Christmas Fair returns 28 November until 1 December with over 150 stalls spread across the Elizabethan house’s stately surroundings, including its cobbled courtyards. The region’s largest Christmas Fair, this year visitors will be able to shop into the evening over the weekend with live singers on both nights, festive fizz and cocktails. Standard admission costs £10 adults and £5 children. Booking is essential.
Nice Ice Baby
Christmas on the coast will come early this year in East Yorkshire – as Bridlington aims to become one of the country’s coolest seaside destinations. New for 2024, the Bridlington Ice Trail will see a series of ice sculptures take shape throughout the town. The free event, on 16 November, will feature sculptures depicting Christmas and maritime scenes, reflecting Bridlington’s rich coastal heritage.
Festive fizz anyone?
Vineyards of Hampshire has revealed details of its Festive Fizz wine tasting and buying event for 2024, which for the first time will be staged on a Saturday as a Christmas shopping wine experience. The collective of vineyards holds a summer and winter event, and this year the festive edition takes place on 30 November at Winchester Guildhall offering wine tasting, and a chance to meet the experts. Tickets cost £12 per person.
An artisan festive treat
A free entry Christmas themed Makers Market will be at Trentham Shopping Village, Stoke-on-Trent, on 23, 24 and 30 November. Showcasing original art, quirky modern craft, vintage, along with artisan food and drink, the market also gives shoppers the opportunity to meet some of the makers. There will be extra dates in December.
A Victorian Christmas
Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert are offering visitors to Hull a cordial invite to a right royal celebration of a Victorian Christmas over the weekend of 23 – 24 November. The city’s Museums Quarter and its free to enter museums will be the venue for the event that promises wandering Victorian characters, storytelling, food and drink, music and even horse and carriage rides. Free entry, but £2 per person for carousel spins and horse and carriage rides.
