Christmas at Shakespeare’s Globe 2011 20.10.11 This Christmas and New Year Shakespeare’s Globe will celebrate the winter season with a range of activities and entertainment across the site. Visitors can explore Shakespeare’s London with a visit to the exhibition and theatre tour throughout the festive season and enjoy the annual A Concert for Winter. As well as these activities Swan at the Globe will keep the winter chills away with a selection of food and drink served within the renowned bar and brasserie, and Shakespeare’s Globe shop will offer Christmas shoppers a unique range of gift ideas and decorations.
A Concert for Winter will take place on Thursday 8 December at 1pm. Groups from across Southwark will come together to make the Globe stage their own at Globe Education’s annual event. A Concert for Winter will this season provide a banquet of music, song and festivity which will celebrate the work and creativity of Southwark community groups and schools. Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance by emailing community@shakespearesglobe.com. The popular ‘Frost Fair’ exhibition will return to Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition from 1 December 2011 to 2 January 2012. This fascinating and temporary exhibition showcases traditional London winters from Elizabethan Frost Fairs to Christmas’ of the late 1800’s. Frost Fair’s were held on the th
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tideway of London’s River Thames between the 15 and 19 Centuries when the river froze over. The Frost Fair looks at this great tradition - where streets of stalls and booths stretched from bank to bank offering gifts, food and clothing, and entertainments made their way on to the river including bearbaiting, skating and puppet shows. Open throughout the year, Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition and Tour offers the perfect day out for the whole family. The Exhibition presents the rich story of the Globe and brings Shakespeare’s world to life using modern technology and traditional crafts. Travelling through interactive displays, visitors explore areas of costume, music and special effects, and are invited to take part in a fascinating halfhour tour of the Globe Theatre. The tour takes visitors through the auditorium with Guide-storytellers recreating colourful stories of the 1599 Globe, the reconstruction process in the 1990s, and how the ‘wooden O’ works as an imaginative and experimental space today.
This Christmas a special Activity Weekend will be held on the 17 and 18 December. Included in the price of a standard exhibition ticket, families can enjoy a range of activities including live sword fighting demonstrations, Elizabethan costume dressing and printing demonstrations using a full-size recreation th
of a 17 Century printing press.