The month of December is a time to celebrate with friends and family, and Birmingham and the West Midlands have a flurry of events and activities to bring everyone together this season.
Spectacular musical concerts and enchanting performances, hilarious pantos, winter trails, delicious dining and traditional activities are high on the agenda in this magical month of festivity.
This is just a snapshot of what you can enjoy - for all events in December look no further than here
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2025 performances of their spectacular Christmas show, The Nutcracker. At her parents’ lavish Christmas party, Clara is given a mysterious Nutcracker Doll. Once all the guests have left, she sneaks downstairs to find her present and comes face-to-face with…
Journey through the Gardens transformed by mesmerising installations, projections, music and glowing tunnels of light! Luminate is returning to the Gardens for this festive season, ready to dazzle and delight all over again . This year’s trail will cast a new glow on the Gardens’ Grade II* listed…
Brum’s Christmas Reindeer Trail returns to Birmingham for 2025 Birmingham’s lovable reindeer sculptures are back in the city centre for Christmas 2025 with four freshly decorated characters to find. Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen were revealed…
"I think you're a couple of ice creams short of an interval, Mr. Holmes. We don't do murders in the theatre. It's bad for audience numbers!” It’s Christmas in Victorian London but in the West End - where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens - a flurry of performers are…
Soul II Soul will perform live at Wolverhampton on 13 December 2025.
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is a firm fixture in the city’s annual calendar and a massive favourite with both residents and visitors to the city from across the UK and Europe. Birmingham comes alive every winter with the arrival of the Market, a clear sign that Christmas is…
Death transfigured into life and some answers to life’s Big Questions. Be uplifted, be transfigured, be astonished. Two epic tone poems from early in Strauss’s career find the composer questioning the meaning of life and death. Epic fanfares, waltzes and soaring themes seem to provide the answers…
Our award-winning Warwick Christmas Lectures return! Join Ally Caldecote and some of our favourite scientists from the University of Warwick who are leaving their labs to entertain, inspire and amaze audiences. Bring your family and friends, pull on your festive jumper and join us for an…
10TH NOVEMBER - 24TH DECEMBER 2025 COOK HAUS FEASTING // BIER PALACE // SEVEN DAYS OF SHOWTIME // FESTIVE BREAKFASTS // ALPINE COCKTAILS // SCHNAPPS // SCHOKOLADE // It’s das season of celebration. The 2025 Christmas party season at Albert’s Schloss will be our most extravagant yet. Our…
Ding Dong! Panto is back this Christmas with The Wizard of Oz: A Wicked Pantomime! When Dorothy Gale is whisked away by a whirlywind somewhere over the rainbow, it’s time for adventure unlimited! A misunderstanding involving the theft of some Ruby Crocs, rubs the Wicked Wench Of The West up the…
Throughout the festive season, start your Christmas traditions with a step back in time as we celebrate Christmas through the decades. The fires are lit, the stockings are hung, and our historic shops and houses are brimming with festive cheer! Experience generations of Christmas traditions brought…
Sometimes you get even more than you wished for... Aladdin wishes the Princess would notice him, the Princess wishes she could live a normal life, Aladdin's mother wishes she could remember what she came in here for...and there's something very peculiar about that ancient clapped out rusty…