Christmas And New Year events in Edinburgh
View all the upcoming Christmas And New Year events taking place throughout Edinburgh below or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Events in Edinburgh
Christmas at the Botanics
Explore the sights and sounds of Christmas in this magical after dark experience when it returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh!
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Scottish Ballet: The Snow Queen
Scottish Ballet’s spectacular and much-loved production of The Snow Queen returns to the stage in 2022, after its sell-out tour in 2019.
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The Snow Queen
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is delighted to present a brand new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen for Christmas 2022.
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Mother Goose
Howden Park Centre and Martin and Martin Theatre company present Mother Goose - our pantomime for 2022!
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Love Actually In Concert - Film With Live Orchestra
Love Actually will once again be screened live across the UK with a full orchestra performing its enchanting score – just in time for Christmas!
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Jurassic Live
Jurassic Live is a roarsome new experience, millions of years in the making and the closest you'll ever come to real dinosaurs! Don't miss it at Edinburgh Playhouse!
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Buddy Holly & The Cricketers - Holly at Christmas 2022
Buddy Holly and the Cricketers once again herald in the Yuletide festivities with Holly at Christmas 2022, the show that is now as traditional as mulled wine and mince pies!
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Family Wreath Making
Get hands on at Hopetoun and create your own beautiful wreath and make some other Christmas crafts and ornaments to hang on your tree.
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Wreath Making
Get hands on at Hopetoun House and create your own beautiful wreath completely from scratch in this workshop on 10th December! For adults only.
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Sara’s Crafting Christmas
Sara Davies, Queen of Crafting, Dragon and Strictly star is taking to the road to give you tricks and tips to help make Christmas this year.
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Royal Rhyme Time: Christmas Ceilidh
Join us to hear stories about celebrations and play a special game called the Feast of the Bean. With music and dancing in our Christmas ceilidh, suitable for children aged four and under!
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Abbamania’s 2022 Christmas Party
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life. So dust off your platforms, put on your flares and come along and enjoy an unforgettable Christmas night with Abbamania!
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Experience Edinburgh's most lavish festive production as fabulous as ever, packed full of music, magic, laughter and fun for the whole family!
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SCO Chorus Christmas Concert: The Heart of Night
A much-loved fixture on the Scottish musical calendar, the SCO Chorus’ seasonal concert ushers in Yuletide at Greyfriars Kirk!
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Swing Into Christmas
Celebrate the festive season in style with the vocalists and instrumentalists of Down for the Count Concert Orchestra, as they Swing Into Christmas!
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Viennese New Year
Come and join the celebrations as the SCO marks the arrival of 2023 in style – with music to lift the spirits and seduce the senses.
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Events in East Renfrewshire
Snow White
Eastwood Entertainers are back this November with their wickedly fun classic family pantomime, Snow White!
Big Vern n the Shootahs
The sensational Big Vern n the Shootahs are renowned throughout the live music circuit as the ultimate feel-good band, catch them live at Giffnock North AAC on Friday 25th November!
The Wizard of Oz
Eastwood Park Theatre in association with Spillers Pantomimes will present an adventure somewhere over the rainbow this festive season!
Barrhead Foundry Indoor Market Festive Weekend
Barrhead Foundry Indoor Market is back for a special Festive Weekend edition on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November!
Events in Fife
The Big Inflatable Takeover - Pitreavie Athletics Centre
World of Parties joins Fife Sports and Leisure Trust for an inflatable fun day at Pitreavie Athletics Centre.
Cinderella: Panto 2022
Polish your pumpkins, dust off your gowns and grab your glass slippers as the Christmas 2022 pantomime Cinderella, is coming to Rothes Halls!
The Night Before Christmas
Follow the adventures of Eddie the Mouse in his quest to meet Santa Claus and have his Christmas!
Cowdenbeath Community Theatre Presents: Rapunzel
Come along and enjoy as ‘Cowdenbeath Community Theatre’ presents ‘Rapunzel’ , complete with all the usual family friendly pantomime traditions, to you get you in a magically festive mood.
Elf The Musical
The heart-warming story of how human Buddy (who was raised by Santa’s elves at the North Pole), travels to New York to find his real father, falls in love and brings Christmas happiness to eveyone.
Christmas Panto 2022: Beauty & the Beast
Our 2022 pantomime will be…… Beauty and the Beast! Oh yes it is! The show will see the return of panto legend Ian ‘Sheepie’ Smith.
Holly at Christmas: Simon Fielder Productions
Buddy Holly and the Cricketers once again herald in the Yuletide festivities with Holly at Christmas, the show that is now as traditional as mulled wine and mince pies!
Nardone’s Academy of Performing Arts presents: Cinderella
Nardone’s Academy of Performing Arts are bringing you yet another fun-filled extravaganza production… The fairest pantomime of them all - Cinderella!
Christmas Crooners
Christmas Crooners returns to Rothes Halls on Thursday 22th December. Come and sing along to great songs from Christmas past!
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Viennese New Year
Come and join the celebrations as the SCO marks the arrival of 2023 in style – with music to lift the spirits and seduce the senses.
Events in Glasgow
The Creative Craft Show / Crafts for Christmas
Two events for the price of one! The Creative Craft Show and Crafts for Christmas at the SEC Glasgow in October is the ultimate day out for hobbyists and crafters!
Country Living Christmas Fair
Get in the festive spirit when the Country Living Magazine Christmas Fair returns to the SEC Glasgow between the 17th and 20th November!
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Book your tickets for this year's Tron-take on the classic tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and get ready to boo, hiss and click your heels together three times!
Sleeping Beauty
Fresh from the dizzy heights of success of Jack and The Beanstalk, the enchanting writing duo Fraser Boyle and Ken Alexander spin you into the magical tale of Sleeping Beauty!
Beauty And The Beast
One of the most romantic pantos of all time, Beauty and the Beast stars pantomime legends Elaine C Smith and Johnny Mac, in what will be a spectacular and enchanting production for all the family!
Status Quo and Shakin’ Stevens
Britain's best-loved rockers STATUS QUO are extending their 'Out Out Quoing' tour with six additional Christmas dates including a night at the SEC Glasgow with very special guest Shakin' Stevens!
The Muppet Christmas Carol Live In Concert
Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol is live in concert across the UK this winter, featuring its musical score performed live to the film! Don't miss it at the SEC Armadillo on 28th November!
Fairytale of New York
Direct from the West End and after a phenomenal sell out debut tour Fairytale of New York is back with an even bigger production for 2022, it’s the ultimate feel good Irish-inspired Christmas show!
The Magical Adventures Of Aladdin
The Magical Adventures Of Aladdin is the Pavilion Theatre Glasgow's magical new panto for 2022!
Party Nights With The George Bowie Experience
Hilton Glasgow's party nights with the GBX experience are back. George Bowie will once more electrify the Hilton Glasgow with his GBX anthems for 90 spectacular minutes!
Sleeping Senga
Insideout Theatre Productions return to Websters Theatre Glasgow with their all-singing, all-dancing banterous family Pantomime... Sleeping Senga!
Loch Lomond Shores Christmas Festival
Loch Lomond Shores is set to host their fantastic Christmas Festival on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th December featuring street food, children's entertainers and rides, live entertainment and more!
Crimbo-crafternoon
Spend an enjoyable afternoon doing some Christmas crafts to get ready to 'deck the halls' with the Dams to Darnley Countryside Ranger!
Love Actually In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Love Actually, the star-studded rom-com that has become a Christmas classic, returns to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall this December with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to screen!
Christmas with Aled Jones and Russell Watson
Two of the world's greatest classical voices, Aled Jones and Russell Watson, reunite for Christmas with a brand-new festive album and UK tour that stops at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 7th December!
Children’s Classic Concerts: The Night Before Christmas
CCC's Owen Gunnell has left the festive preparations to the last minute, with the help of his friends from the RSNO, will he make it a happy Christmas to all and to all a good night?
Elf - A Christmas Arena Spectacular
ELF, the hit West End and Broadway musical based on the Hollywood blockbuster movie starring Will Ferrell, has been supersized into a festive spectacular and it's returning to Glasgow this Christmas!
The Unicorn Christmas Disco Ball
The Unicorn Disco Ball touches down in Glasgow on Saturday 10th December at the legendary Platform (formerly The Arches) celebrating all things DISCO!
A West End Christmas
Stars of the West End stage join the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and City of Glasgow Chorus for a glitzy night of showtunes at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!
Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook
Phil Cunningham returns to The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with his extremely popular annual Christmas Songbook on Tuesday 13th December!
Scottish Ballet - The Snow Queen
Scottish Ballet's spectacular and much-loved production of The Snow Queen returns to the Theatre Royal Glasgow, after its sell-out tour in 2019!
RSNO At The Movies - Christmas Concert Featuring The Snowman
Join the RSNO this December for a special feast of Christmas cheer! Watch the magical film The Snowman on the big screen, accompanied by the Orchestra and narrated by a very special star guest!
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Christmas at the Movies
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's glorious 'Christmas at the Movies' concert returns to City Halls on Sunday 18th December!
The McDougalls: Magic Castle
Packed with singalong songs, musical mayhem and bucket loads of audience participation, this five star family show from The McDougalls is the perfect winter treat for your little ones!
ABBAMANIA
Dust off your platforms, put on your flares and come along and enjoy an unforgettable Christmas night out with ABBAMANIA at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 22nd December!
IRN-BRU Carnival
Come along to the Scottish Event Campus for plenty of festive family fun with annual Christmas favourite, the IRN-BRU Carnival!
RSNO At The Movies - Gaspard’s Christmas
Join the RSNO for this special Christmas treat... perfect for little ones to enjoy, this concert will also feature Christmas favourites including When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney and Jingle Bells!
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Viennese New Year
Come and join the celebrations as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra marks the arrival of 2023 in style – with music to lift the spirits and seduce the senses at Ayr Town Hall!
Leona Lewis
Record-breaking global sensation Leona Lewis starts her Christmas With Love Tour at the SEC Armadillo, Glasgow on 29th November 2023!
Events in Lanarkshire
The Crafters Roadshow - East Kilbride
Shop from the best in Scottish Crafts and support your local makers at The Crafters Roadshow at EK, East Kilbride!
Cinderella
Motherwell Theatre have once again teamed up with Spillers Pantomimes to bring their production of Cinderella to the venue this Christmas!
GinFall Festival Hamilton
Now established as THE BIGGEST One Day Gin Festival in Scotland, GinFall returns to the Hamilton Town House on Saturday 19th November for a Christmas Extravaganza of Gin, Live Music & Cocktails!
Pinocchio
The EKO Players present Pinocchio a pantomime by Andrew O'Leary at East Kilbride Arts Centre on the 25th and 26th November!
Winter Tales
Winter Tales at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre is an enchanting winter exhibition for families and younger visitors!
Beauty And The Beast
Join the cast of enchanted characters on a roller coaster ride of thrills and spills when family panto, Beauty And The Beast, comes to the Town House Hamilton this Christmas!
Christmas Carols in the Assembly Room
Join South Lanarkshire Choir at the Assembly Room in Low Parks Museum as they kick off the festive season with a programme of traditional Christmas Carols!
Beauty And The Beast
Join the cast of enchanted characters on a roller coaster ride of thrills and spills when family panto, Beauty And The Beast, comes to Rutherglen Town Hall this Christmas!
Festive Creations at Strathclyde Country Park
Create a festive masterpiece for your mantelpiece - all made from natural materials sourced from within Strathclyde Country Park!
Festive Wreath Making at Baron’s Haugh
Join the RSPB to enjoy a seasonal wander around Baron's Haugh to gather all kinds of natural craft materials and make your own festive wreath!
Maw Goose
From the producers that brought you last year's hit family pantomime 'Britney and the Beast' Insideout Theatre Productions Ltd return to Lanark Memorial Hall with Maw Goose!
Pips and Panda’s Christmas Party
Join Pips, Panda and the Christmas Fairy for this special Christmas puppet show at Lanark Memorial Hall on 13th December!
Maw Goose
From the producers that brought you last year's hit family pantomime 'Britney and the Beast' Insideout Theatre Productions Ltd return to East Kilbride Village Theatre with Maw Goose!
Christmas Crooners
Guaranteed to get you in the festive mood, come and sing along to great songs from Christmas past with the Christmas Crooners at Motherwell Concert Hall on December 21st!
The McDougalls and the Magic Castle
Packed with singalong songs, musical mayhem and bucket loads of audience participation, this five star family show from The McDougalls is the perfect winter treat for your little ones!
Events in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
BGCP Comic & Toy Market: Greenock
The BGCP is back for 2022! Don't miss them when they return with their popular Comic & Toy Market to the Oak Mall Greenock!
Cinderella
Johnstone Phoenix proudly present their return to Pantoland performing Cinderella from the 26th November to 3rd December at Johnstone Town Hall!
The McDougalls & The Magic Castle
Packed with singalong songs, musical mayhem and bucket loads of audience participation, this five star family show from The McDougalls is the perfect winter treat for your little ones!
Aladdin
Join Stardust Theatre Company as they take you on a spectacular adventure when they bring their production of Aladdin to Renfrew North Church this Christmas!
Big Braw Christmas Show
Join Jamie King McArthur and Mark Dawson for a night of festive fun and dancing when they bring the Big Braw Christmas Show to Mossedge Village!
Events in Stirling and Falkirk
Maw Goose
It's panto time! Boo, hiss and singalong with your friends and family when Maw Goose comes to Macrobert Arts Centre this festive season!
Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook
Phil Cunningham brings his massively successful Christmas Songbook back to The Albert Halls on 14th December. What better way to get into the festive spirit!
Events in Other Areas
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