1. Robin Hood PageantDate: Friday 28th – Sunday 30th OctoberLocation: Nottingham Castle
This year’s celebration is set to be bigger and bigger as Nottingham alcazar is adapted into a medieval village, complete with a ambit of colourful characters, architect and sounds, acceptance visitors to biking aback in time and bethink the activity and times of the city’s acclaimed legend, Robin Hood.
Visitors will adore a ambit of ancestry ales and meads, active history demonstrations, actual entertainers, medieval crafts, falconry, copse carving, table weaving, fletching and jousting.
There will additionally be a few new additions this year, including the alarming beautician surgeon, the eel woman, a alive blacksmiths coin and more. For the additional afterwards year, Robin Hood will be demography on the Sheriff of Nottingham with lance, brand and blaze in a blood-tingling achievement on horseback.
2. Screamfest 2016Date: Thursday 13th – Monday 31st OctoberLocation: National Forest Adventure Farm, Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire Screamfest is aback and added alarming than anytime with bristles blood-tingling alarm attractions from exploring an alone auberge in Soul Seekers to artifice analgesic clowns in Freakout. An escape maze, crank paintball shoot out, artery theatre, contortionists, and a alive DJ will additionally be on armpit for your entertainment.
3. Diwali FestivalDate: Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th OctoberLocation: Various venues, Leicester
Celebrate the Anniversary of Lights as the weekend bliss off with the Diwali ancestors caricature – a day of crafts, dancing, arts and acceptable Indian desserts.
On Saturday night, visitors are arrive to analyze the abounding colours the anniversary has to offer, whilst adequate storytelling, crafts and aftermost but not least, a firework display.
On the aforementioned black guests can appear the Diwali Dinner and Dance with acceptable bhangra tunes and Indian cuisine. The afterward day, accompany your kids forth for the children’s funfair, aliment and ability stalls and added fireworks!
4. Grease the MusicalDate: Tuesday 25th – Saturday 29th OctoberLocation: Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton
After the success of its aftermost production, Sister Act, Northampton Musical Theatre Company are presenting the band classic, Grease in the Derngate auditorium.
Packed with all the hit songs from the film, including you’re the one that I want, summer nights, hopelessly adherent to you, grease lightning and abounding more, the assembly is set to be an absorbing night reliving the success of the 70s film. There will be a affair night on Friday for those who feel like accepting dressed up in Grease adorned dress outfits.
5. Victorian weekend of fearDate: Friday 28th – Saturday 29th OctoberLocation: Lincoln Castle
Immerse yourself in the Victorian abyss this Halloween for a weekend of fear.Lincoln Alcazar will be aperture up for a weekend of chilling activities to get you in the spirit of Halloween. Step into the alcazar area afterwards hours area the atmospheric Victorian Prison will boom the tales of abhorrence and horror.
Stories of grave robbing, adverse surgeons and babyish farmers will be told throughout the night by Lincoln Castle’s Victorian cast. Visitors will be arrive to analyze the Prison area these characters can be begin aural the beef and accessible spaces.
These two attenuate black contest additionally action visitors the befalling to access the area afterwards aphotic and attestant a abounding Victorian burial anniversary evening.
