Events Around Bolton

Volunteers from the Northern Mill Engine Society have rescued and restored 30 old stationary steam engines - some of the engines which once powered the cotton mills and woollen mills of the North of England. The collection includes 2 rare beam engines (the oldest is 180 years old!

with the Sing for Joy Choir. Come and enjoy carols old and new and be ready to celebrate Christmas. All ages welcome. Light (Christmassy) refreshments to conclude.

It’s Mess Around’s Christmas Party! Come along for a merry messy time. Jingle mess, jingle mess, jingle all the way! Join the best festive party of the season! Everyone can have a jolly messy time with us at Messy Christmas.

A glittering, snowy tale about a little lost bear and a brave little girl. For children aged 3+ and their families. There are just two more sleeps until Christmas and it’s starting to snow! Lily loves to play in the snow – so she sets off to explore.

An ’awesome’ experience of Advent songs, bible readings and carols. Everyone will be given a Christingle orange to help them understand that Jesus is "the light of the world". ~ a wonderful part of our Christmas celebrations.

A ’traditional’ Carol Service of Christmas readings and lots of carol singing as the Christmas story unfolds - followed by a chance to get together and enjoy mulled wine and mince pies after the service. It would be lovely if you could join us so that we can extend our Christmas Greetings to you in person!

Please join us as we welcome the new-born King into our lives with communion, carols and the message of Christmas alongside friends from Monton Methodist Church. Note the start time of 11:15PM

Come early to get a seat as we welcome the baby Lord Jesus and remember how it all began in Bethlehem. Please join us for this short service at 4pm on Christmas Eve as Mary and Joseph arrive at the crib - an wonderful part of the Christmas Story to share with children from a very young age upwards!

This Christmas marks the return of the UK’s biggest and best drive-in-cinema experience, set to take place at the AJ Bells Stadium in Trafford between 20th-23rd December 2018.

Winter Funland are the company behind the largest indoor and outdoor winter wonderland festival in the North West of England. This year Winter Funland will be putting on a winter wonderland at Event City, Trafford Center, Manchester.

Christmas 2018 is rapidly approaching and the team at Winter Funland is working hard together with Santa and the elves to get the North West England’s Largest Indoor Winter Wonderland ready in time… This year’s Christmas Winter Wonderland bonanza is in Event City, Trafford Centre, Greater Manchester.

Jingle mess, jingle mess, jingle all the way! Join the best festive party of the season! Everyone can have a jolly messy time with us at Messy Christmas.

Quays Culture’s free annual festival, Lightwaves 2018 will this year play host to five Manchester–based artists, who will each showcase inspiring digital light art, as 16 FREE light experiences span across Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.

The joyful adaptation of former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling book, Stick Man, returns to The Lowry for another enchanting festive adventure.

Baroness Hardup cannot repay her payday loans and is being threatened with the bailiffs. when she hears that the palace are throwing ball so that the Prince may find himself a wife, she starts plotting a way to get him to marry one of her ugly daughters. Her plans look threatened when the Prince falls for Cinderella.

Sorry, we are closed over the Christmas and New Year holiday period

Black Stone Cherry Plus The Cadillac Three + Monster Trucks. Artists performing: Black Stone Cherry.: Tickets avaiable.

Touring their ever-popular festive programme, London Concertante travel the length and breadth of the country presenting treats from across Europe to get you in the mood for mulled wine, mince pies, and baubles.

Little Angel Theatre presents the perfect Christmas show for ages 2-5. It’s been a long day for Dad and he can hardly keep his eyes open. All he wants is for Baby to go to sleep so he can catch up on a little shut-eye too.

The brilliant piano music of the great Frederic Chopin has never been out of fashion since it first burst onto the international scene in the early 19th century. This music wasn’t intended for the great concert halls of today, but for the intimate setting of Parisian Salons.

Join City of Manchester Opera for its annual Christmas concert at Manchester Central Library, with a beautiful programme of opera and musical airs that you know or will love to discover, including Vivaldi’s Gloria, Howard Goodall’s "The Lord is my shepherd", songs by John Rutter, music from Messiah, The

Metalsmiths: A showcase of contemporary metal makers from Yorkshire Artspace. Metalsmiths features the work of seven contemporary makers, each of whom offer a unique aesthetic quality and showcase a range of techniques and processes in their work.

Bring all the family along to the big screening of The Snowman, the animated classic by Raymond Briggs. The film will be accompanied live by the Hallé performing Howard Blake’s beautiful score – including the magical song ‘Walking in the Air’.

Ben Goldscheider, 2016 BBC Young Musician Finalist and Brass winner, joins conductor Jonathon Heyward and the Hallé Youth Orchestra to perform Richard Strauss’s First Horn Concerto, Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony, and Liszt’s free-flowing symphonic poem, Les Préludes.

Join us at one of our magical North Pole Parties. Each child will: Join santa’s elves in their workshop to make a 10" Bear, including a Wish insert and their very own carry home Backpack. Enjoy a festive feast in our Winter Wonderland. Get creative with our Christmas craft.