With just five weeks to go until Christmas, Covent Garden is in full festive swing!
Don your woolly hats and winter mittens and head down to A Very Merry Christmas at Covent Garden to enjoy a host of family friendly events – from wintery storytelling sessions for children, to festive food markets.
Head down to the Market Building this evening and warm up your vocal chords with Signature – the award-winning female vocal group from Buckinghamshire. Signature will be wowing visitors with classic Christmas songs from 6.30pm. Not one to be missed if you’re after some festive cheer.
If mince pies and mulled wine get you going, then make your way to the Covent Garden Real Food Market every Thursday and Friday in the run-up to Christmas between 12pm -7.30pm. Stock up on all your festive fare from home-made mince pies, Christmas pudding and freshly baked gingerbread, as well as delicious delicacies to eat and enjoy on the Piazza from the likes of Pie Minster and Super Stews.
And if that isn’t enough to keep you out of mischief, on Saturday we’re hosting the first festive storytelling of the season to the Piazza. Bring the whole family down to enjoy professional storyteller, Olivia Armstrong, recounting festive tales of enchantment and wonder from 11 o’clock until 1pm. Magical imaginations and Christmas cheer compulsory.
Leicester Square welcomed some cool customers this week to celebrate Christmas in the West End: click on the thumbnails above to see more…
Artists created four 1m-tall ice penguins enjoying the various attractions of the West End: shopping, dining, culture and entertainment.
The star attraction was a penguin sculpture based on the most popular West End show – as voted by more than 2,000 people in an online comp – a penguin in a Wicked witch’s hat!
The shopping penguin held a giant ice shopping bag with Christmas gifts frozen inside (including a Paul Smith notebook and socks, a Molton Brown gift box, a Pingu and a mini wooden frog on wheels). The dining ice penguin was enjoying an ice-cold meal; while the cultural penguin got himself in the picture by holding onto an icy picture frame.
Did you get any snaps of these chilly stars? Drop them into our flickrpool…
Christmas is sprinkling its twinkling magic over more areas of the capital every day at the moment! Here’s footage from Covent Garden’s Christmas Lights switch on last night.
Snow, Christmas carols, Christmas lights, reindeer and very happy visitors full of festive cheer…
Want to know when the Christmas lights are being turned on near you? Check out our Christmas lights round-up.
All you need to do is to follow Covent Garden on Twitter @CoventGardenLDN and tweet your “Covent Garden Christmas wish” with the tag #averymerrychristmas! For example: “I wish that Santa Claus would land his sleigh on the Covent Garden Market Building! #averymerrychristmas”
Those who tweet with the tag will be entered into a draw for the chance to turn on the lights. The Covent Garden Christmas lights are by renowned British creative collective UnitedVisualArtists. Head to the Market Building to see what promises to be a “unique, sculptural light installation featuring four large-scale interactive chandeliers”.
Come down to the launch of A Very Merry Christmas on Monday 9 November at 5.30pm on the West Piazza to enjoy choir performances, falling snow, genuine reindeer (both real and topiary!), free mulled wine, roasted chestnuts and much more.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one rousing, heart-warming carol singing session!
Even the coldest Scrooge’s can’t fail to feel Christmassy once they hear the opening bars of those famous Christmas tunes.
And this Christmas, London’s hoping to host the world’s biggest ever carol sing-a-long!
To celebrate the world premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol in London, and the first-ever co-ordinated Christmas light switch-on across the capital, we’re asking you to help us find London’s favourite Christmas Carol.
The song below with the most votes will be sung at London’s Christmas Carol on 3 November across the city, as London comes together to break the world record for the largest-ever Christmas carol sing-a-long!
Help choose the song that London will sing by voting for your favourite Christmas carol below:
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