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SPOTLIGHT
Kilter Theatre and A Word in Your Ear have brought Christmas tales to households all over the city
Take a magical walk along Bath’s festive lights trail
Theatre
Christmas
TELLING TALES
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
Kilter Theatre and A Word In Your ear have joined forces to bring Bath some Christmas joy in the form of Festive Doorstep Stories – it’s like carol singing but with a story in place of a song. Throughout December, the arts organisations’ army of actors have pitched up on doorsteps across the city to invite residents to choose from a menu of yuletide tales. Oliver Langdon, Kilter’s artistic director, says, “On the menu there’ll be an option to suit every household, but they’ll have one thing in common – a warm, feel-good factor to remind us of what’s good in life and to keep out the chill as the days get darker.” For more: www.kiltertheatre.org; www.awordinyourear.org.uk
In this strangest of years, we are embracing the comfort of the festive season more than ever. We’re loving Bath BID’s magical Christmas Light Trail, designed and produced by Fineline Lighting and Visit Bath – it is sprinkling some much-needed magic across the city. The trail – which we highly recommend following in full – begins at St Swithin’s Church to the north of the city and leads you on an illuminated path through Bath’s iconic locations like Abbey Green, Kingston Parade, Kingsmead Square, Old Bond Street, Northumberland Place, SouthGate and Buro Happold’s offices, which this year have been transformed into a spectacular enormous advent calendar. The Abbey is lit up with bright projections that can be seen from all seven hills around the city, while the old Royal Mineral Water Hospital building glows blue in celebration of the NHS. For more: www.welcometobath.co.uk Mr and Mrs White Christmas: the Netflix festive rom com we all want to see
Love
DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS
Mr White and Miss Christmas have tied the knot. It sounds like a fairytale – and to them, it might be – but it also happens to be true. Mr and Mrs White-Christmas married on the picturesque terrace of the Roman Baths just before lockdown. The couple met when they were just 12 years old. “It took us time to twig that our surnames came together as White-Christmas,” says Tilly – Mrs White-Christmas – “We first realised at our secondary school prom when our friend uploaded pictures to social media using the hashtag #WhiteChristmas.” For more: www.romanbaths.co.uk
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