1. Enjoy some Christmas sparkle
The festival has been taking place since 2009. It’s evolved over the years from a single evening’s event in the city centre to a full three day weekend that includes light and sound installations, a festive market, music, dance and lots of free activities in venues across the city, and more recently to light trails and events in residential areas of the city.
See all the Christmas lights switch-on events in Oxfordshire.
2. Visit Santa in his grotto
This year, Westgate is hosting ‘Believe - Santa’s Magical Reindeer Grotto’ – children will be entertained by a very special reindeer Norbert, they’ll make reindeer food in readiness for Christmas Eve, and they’ll have a one to one with Santa! All children will receive a wrapped gift of an age-appropriate book to take home.
3. See Robin Hood at Oxford Playhouse
Feared by the bad, loved by the good, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Robin Hood and his Merry Band are our favourite outlaws, especially when they treat us to songs, dance, laughter, and derring-do in an Oxford Playhouse Christmas Panto!
See our guide to Pantomimes in Oxfordshire in 2021.
4. Listen to Christmas carols at the Sheldonian
Join Oxford Harmonic Choir for a joyful musical celebration of Christmas at the Sheldonian Theatre. The programme consists of two uplifting choral compositions, joined by some beautiful seasonal Baroque music by Manfredini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
5. Shop at the Christmas arts market
The 2021 Oxford Christmas Arts Market takes place in the beautiful and iconic setting of Broad Street Oxford, in the shadow of many of the City’s famous landmarks. The Market will feature many local artists, designer-makers and selected guests.
See more Christmas markets & fairs in Oxfordshire.
6. Celebrate Christmas at Christ Church Cathedral
Family Christmas Carol Concert at Christ Church Cathedral
Every age group from babies upwards is warmly welcomed to this fun and informal day-time concert of Christmas music at Christ Church Cathedral. Expect angelic singing from the choristers, thunderous music from the organ and plenty of well-known carols for the audience to sing.
You can also join Macmillan Cancer Support to start your Christmas season with their 25th Anniversary feast of carols, seasonal choral music and literary readings on 10 December.
And Music at Oxford’s popular annual celebration of Christmas in the iconic Christ Church Cathedral returns on 15 and 17 December after an enforced break in 2020. It will combine a popular mix of festive cheer and seasonal nostalgia with appropriate readings delivered by the actors Antonia Christophers and Noel Byrne.
See more festive events at Christ Church Cathedral.
7. Learn to make a Christmas wreath
What better way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas than to create your own festive wreath to hang on your door at a Christmas Wreath Making course. Learn the basic techniques of making a wreath and then add lots of beautiful dried flowers and seed pods collected from the Garden. Your wreath will be quite different from anything available to buy on the high street.
See more Christmas Wreath Making Workshops.
8. Visit a festive market
Oxford Christmas Market will return to the heart of the city on beautiful and historic Broad Street in 2021 and the city of dreaming spires will once again be filled with festive joy. Look forward to market traders offering unusual and handmade gifts and colourful accessories in brightly decorated wooden stalls - along with the sound of choirs singing Christmas carols and the aroma of mulled wine and cinnamon drifting in the air.
See more Christmas markets & fairs in Oxfordshire.
9. Treat the family to some theatre
Last Christmas, we weren’t able to celebrate in person with our loved ones, so here’s to making Christmas 2021 a special one. And what better way to celebrate than watching a treat for all the family with all your family. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End and Broadway hit musical School of Rock comes to the New Theatre Oxford from Monday 13 December to Saturday 01 January 2022.
See more musicals & dance events in Oxfordshire.
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