View all the upcoming events in Lanarkshire on the 06 December 2019 below, or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Hitch a lift on a magic carpet and fly off to Old Peking for a roller coaster ride of thrills and spills when Aladdin comes to the Town House, Hamilton this Christmas! Read more
Learn how to alter or alter an existing item of clothing or upcycle old clothes and fabrics into useful new items like a purse or a bag at R:evolve Rutherglen's Alter + Upcycle workshop! Read more
Learn how to alter or alter an existing item of clothing or upcycle old clothes and fabrics into useful new items like a purse or a bag at R:evolve Hamilton's Alter + Upcycle workshop! Read more
The stars of British Championship Wrestling return to East Kilbride with a star-studded line up including The Cowboy James Storm and all your favourite BCW Superstars! Read more
Enjoy the glitz & glamour of Christmas this year at one of DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Westerwood Spa and Golf Resort's themed Cabaret Evenings! Read more
Put on your dancing shoes & celebrate the festive season in style at the DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Westerwood Spa and Golf Resort's Christmas Disco Party Nights! Read more
Looking to get ahead of the game and book your Christmas party night for 2019? Motherwell FC's hospitality team are holding several in the run up to the big day! Read more
Looking for a Christmas night out with a wonderful atmosphere? Book your place now on one of Colville Park Country Club's popular party nights! Read more
Studio32 return to the Arts Centre with the fairy godmother of all pantomimes... Cinderella, packed full of action, comedy, romance and songs you'll be humming all the way home! Read more
Always wanted to trace your family tree but not sure where to begin? Come along to North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre for one of their weekday sessions! Read more
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum are displaying one of their most prized possessions from their costumes collection! Read more
The Wee Gig presents Edinburgh-based 5-piece The Wynntown Marshals at Crawford Village Hall on December 6th with support from The Mighty Joes! Read more
Come in out of the cold this winter and join Cumbernauld Theatre for a fantastic new Christmas adventure for under 5s in their cosy studio theatre! Read more
Events in East Renfrewshire
Christmas Party Night
6th December 2019
Enjoy a lavish four-course meal then dance the night away to the sounds of the resident DJ at the Eglinton Arms Hotel this Christmas!
Every Friday at Clarkston Library, trained volunteers offer a friendly listening ear to anyone affected by cancer, including those with a cancer diagnosis, as well as family and friends.
Move More is a programme of physical activity, advice and support for people at all stages of the cancer journey, contact the Macmillan East Ren team and find out how to get involved.
Netherlee's first Living Advent Calendar is set to create some magic for everyone to enjoy in the countdown to Christmas, bringing the community closer together!
The Olde House Inn in Neilston hold a quiz night on the first Friday of every month, so get a team together and come along for a great night... guaranteed!
Join storytellers from Edinburgh's Burgh Blatherers for an evening of heart-warming yarns and chilling winter tales from Scotland and around the world!
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is delighted to present the world premiere of An Edinburgh Christmas Carol, a magical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale.
This exhibition features work by nine contemporary artists based in Scotland with the artworks having an economy of gesture in common - a limited tonal palette or a monochrome colour plane.
Bergamotte is throwing open the doors for our first pop-up in Edinburgh! We have more than 3,000 plants, hanging, exotic, graphic or prickly, so come along from 5th-8th December!
Expect wonder, enchantment and a spectacle of colour this festive season as Edinburgh Castle, the defender of the nation, becomes the ‘Castle of Light’!
Discover some of the treasures within the National Museum Scotland's significant collection of oracle bones, the second largest in the world outside of China.
Get the festive season off to an explosive start by coming to see the 80s action classic Die Hard! Hosted by Adam from The Geeky Retro Nerds Show, it's sure to be a great night!
The story of THE LION KING is miraculously brought to life using masks, puppets and striking costumes to tell the story of young Simba's epic adventures.
Enjoy a welcome Christmas cocktail, three course lunch with coffee and half a bottle of house wine then dance the afternoon away with music from our resident DJ!
Five Sisters Zoo will once again illuminate the zoo for another year and there is plenty of new surprises in store with our new enchanted riverside walk, stunning lit up water fountains and much more!
With an extended route for 2019 and over 600 brand-new lanterns, there’s more to explore this year as Giant Lanterns return to Edinburgh Zoo from 15 November to 26 January 2020!
Balerno Theatre Company is delighted to presents Edinburgh's first amateur production of the full version of the spectacular musical Hairspray at Church Hill theatre this December!
Lottie's Atik opened a new and exciting store on the heart of Rose Street last month and on 6th December will be hosting a launch event for an exclusive Disney collaboration with Irregular Choice.
Le Roi Fou is delighted to present Joanna Kessel's Aurum | Gold exhibition, featuring intimately scaled collages in Venetian gold leaf mosaic, glass smalti and concrete.
Roll up, roll up! Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott are back in a circus-inspired King's Panto spectacular packed full of the thrills, spills, dazzling stunts and jaw-dropping special effects!
Celebrate the festive season and visit some of Edinburgh's most popular bars for some refreshing cocktails at a price you simply can't refuse with Montpeliers Christmas Cocktail Club wristband!
This exhibition encourages us to examine our own ideas around mental health and aims to show how, even now, many older stereotypes and ideas about these conditions remain unchanged.
The comedy gig designed for people caring for babies! Nurse, feed and change your wee one as comedians perfom their usual adult material, which is why we have an under eighteen months policy.
Night Walk for Edinburgh, one of the biggest hits of the Edinburgh international Festival 2019, returns as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas and Hogmanay celebrations.
Learn how to use paper and other non-conventional materials to create surfaces that you can stitch into, then use your stitched work to make a book cover.
These Pregnancy Yoga classes, run by Jenny at Yoga Links, provide a calm, friendly and safe environment for you to connect to your body, your baby and your breath throughout pregnancy.
Join us for our Premium Christmas Party Nights at Village Hotel Club Edinburgh, includes a glass of Fizz on arrival, delicious 3 course dinner, dance-tastic disco, and a late bar!
The St Serf's Players present the family pantomime 'Red Riding Hood' in Inverleith St Serf's Church Centre from 4th to 7th December with all the regular fun, frolicks and audience participation!
Filled with intrigue, mysticism, magic, sensuality, and a dash of terror, Strange Tales will draw you into a world full of mischievous fox spirits, yearning ghosts and enchanted swords.
The Cabeytu Brothers: Direct from Benidorm UK Tour 2019
6th December 2019
The Cabeytu Brothers, Europe's favourite multi-instrumental entertainers, bring their 'Direct from Benidorm' UK Tour 2019 to the Pleasance Theatre on 6th December!
Try The Cauldron Magical Experience, a 1 hr 45 min immersive class in Edinburgh, where you wield a working magic wand and use molecular mixology to brew drinkable elixirs!
Every Friday and Saturday night, Basement Theatre becomes Edinburgh’s comedy hub and with a different line-up and headliner each week this is the comedy injection your weekend is craving!
Come along to the Ethical and Scottish Christmas Fair at Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre with it's great range of local, Scottish, fair trade & ethical gifts, all under one roof!
Witness firsthand all the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970’s Bowie Experience with The Sensational David Bowie Tribute Band!
An exclusive exhibition by fine art photographer Walter, The Earl of Dalkeith, is showing now in The Loft at Restoration Yard, alongside the historic books that inspired his images.
In this exhibition, at the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, Darren Woodhead presents watercolours created over the past two years, inspired by the landscapes and wildlife of East Lothian.
Welcome to the Jingle: Silent Adventures do the Christmas Market!
16th November 2019 - 4th January 2020
Let Edinburgh’s resident silent disco experience transport you into a Yuletide fantasyland on a new adventure to discover the true spirit of Christmas.
Join the Scottish Ghost Nights team in the Pentland Hills near the Scottish Borders as we seek out the Witches of Carlops in a fun packed night of spooky fun.
Come along to Upright Gallery this December as it brings together an exhibition from 22 artists that have previously exhibited at the gallery and also some that are lined up for 2020!
This Postnatal Yoga class, run by Jenny from Yoga Links, mainly focuses on easing mum's achy body and regaining her strength, whilst baby enjoys the sounds and interaction of other babies.
Over 70% of our planet’s surface is water and in this exhibition at Kirkcaldy Galleries two artists, Kyra Clegg and Marysia Lachowicz, explore its depths.
Greengate Gallery in Culross is hosting an exhibition featuring a series of paintings by local artist, Janice Headrick, inspired by the Japanese Garden at Cowden near Dollar.
Blast away those winter blues with a vist to our colourful, family-friendly exhibition in Methil Heritage Centre, where we explore the wonders of the garden.
David Mach's latest sculpture is made out of shipping containers, seaworn wood, two huge shipping buoys and 7 tonnes of newspaper! See it at Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries!
A founder of The Open University, this exhibition at the Lochgelly Centre tells the fascinating story of Jennie Lee’s life, from her childhood in Lochgelly to her final years in the House of Lords.
The many and varied ways that Scottish artists develop and communicate ideas through drawing and physical acts of mark-making are explored by independent curator Amanda Game.
Join us for the first ever Maryhill Community Panto from West End Festival & Halo Arts this festive season... A Lad in Maryhill - A Magical Glesga Pantomime!
Tesco Maryhill Community are holding Christmas Markets on the 6th, 7th & 8th of December with monies raised going towards Diabetes UK and British Heart Foundation!
Visit your local Glasgow library between 2nd December and 4th January to discover magical festive books and take part in the Christmas Reading Challenge!
Project Ability's Christmas Show is their largest fundraising event and a wonderful opportunity to shop unique gifts and original artworks just before Christmas!
Christmas Wreaths Workshop with Penny from ‘Penny Not Polly’
6th December 2019
Whether it's for your own front door or a gift, a handmade wreath is a lovely tradition, come along to Helensburgh Art Hub and learn how to make your own with Penny from 'Penny Not Polly'!
Who will the princess pick as her husband? Will Cinderella save her family business? And who would leave a pair of glass trainers behind? Find out when Cinderfella comes to the Tron Theatre!
Compassion in Crisis - The fascinating story of 80 years of Royal Voluntary Service in Glasgow
3rd October 2019 - 31st January 2020
The fascinating story of the volunteers of Royal Voluntary Service in Glasgow is being told at a new exhibition in the community exhibition space at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum!
Experience for an hour what it is like to tackle challenges without your sight by taking part in Dark Room at The Riddle Rooms all in aid of RNIB Talking Books!
Come to The Clydeside Distillery, immerse yourself in Glasgow history and watch the craftsmen distil pure new make spirit by hand, the time-honoured way on the tour followed by a whisky tasting!
Tickets are now on sale for the ever popular A Play, A Pie and A Pint Christmas Panto at Oran Mor, this year's show is Dixie Whittington: The Hamecoming!
Domestic Bliss is a new exhibition that brings together works from Glasgow Museums' collection to reflect on GoMA's building history as a former house, Royal Exchange and civic space!
Coinciding with the annual festival, Eastern Promise, an exhibition by Glasgow based artist Duncan Marquiss will be presented across the public spaces at Platform!
The world class team behind GlasGLOW is turning Kelvingrove into Elfingrove, with a spellbinding night time tour of Glasgow's best-loved museum, where the magic of Christmas is brought to life!
Join Edward Reid, Graham Sherry, Soundroutes and the Avon Choir at St Mary's Cathedral on Friday 6th December for the Epilepsy Scotland Christmas Concert!
This is a 2.5-3 hour tour that will take you around all the main sites of the city, giving you an excellent opportunity to find out about Glasgow's rich history and culture!
Just in time for the festive season, Glasgow Distillery Company have opened a pop-up shop in Buchanan Galleries selling a selection of their award winning spirits!
Glasgow School of Art's S&J department would like to invite everyone to their annual Christmas Sale taking place between November 26th and December 6th!
For one day only! Five designer makers working in the Rogart Street Campus building are opening up their studio for a unique, behind-the-scenes Christmas shopping event!
Join CineMor77 for a festive screening of this classic Christmas family friendly film in The Pyramid's Elderslie Hall as part of Christmas in Anderston!
Get ready for the climb of your life this Christmas, as The Gaiety Theatre proudly presents their spectacular family pantomime... Jack and The Beanstalk!
Musical virtuoso Jools Holland and his well-renowned Rhythm & Blues Orchestra will return to the SEC Armadillo in December with some very special guests!
The Hill in Glasgow's West End welcomes back DJ Kolshi as resident DJ on Friday nights! Expect quality house, disco, classic old skool and more from the box of delights he will bring along every week!
A major retrospective of photography by Linda McCartney will be shown in the UK for the first time at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow from 5th July 2019 to 12th January 2020!
Milngavie's free Festive Naughty Elf Trail is happening this Christmas! Can you find the naughty elves hiding throughout the town between Saturday 30th November until Saturday 14th December?
Ten of Scotland’s best independent street food traders vendors set up stall every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, within the newly refurbished Argyle Street Arches!
Prospect Revenge is a solo exhibition of new work by Lithuanian artist Robertas Narkus, as part of an exchange between Vilnius based organisation Rupert and David Dale Gallery.
Experience the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent of the Queen's queens LIVE on stage hosted by Alyssa Edwards when RuPaul's Drag Race comes to the Theatre Royal Glasgow!
You can truly step into Christmas this year at St. Enoch Centre as its Selfie Store returns for the festive season, completely transformed into a Winter Wonderland!
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland offer a selection of over 80 weekly and short study courses for children, young people and adults... never too early, never too late!
This exhibition on display in the Visitor Attraction presents a personal collection of Japanese kimono in the context of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's House for An Art Lover.
Let a cornucopia of cabaret artists entertain you at Wild Cabaret's flagship festive show as you relax in lavish surroundings and sample sumptuous festive fayre!
Join M Gallery for their exhibition, Winter in Glasgow, it's all about Glasgow and all things Weegie by local artists as well as visitors enchanted by our beautiful city and its community!
Christmas starts early at The Glynhill Hotel with their Men of Motown Party Night on the 23rd November and continuing through to the 2nd January with their New Year celebrations.
Join one of the Christmas Party Nights at the Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport and you can have all the fun of the party without the stress of the planning!
Back for another White Christmas, Santa And The Snow will take your child on a journey through Elf School, Santa’s Workshop, Meeting Santa himself and a custom built Snow Play Area!
With a whole host of hilarious characters, fantastic original music, and the liveliest, most energetic chorus of young actors you don't want to miss PACE Youth Theatre's pantomime The Snow Queen!
Alman Dramatic Club present A Christmas Carol, a traditional Dicken's story adapted and written for the Club, at The Coach House Theatre Alloa this festive season!
Ditch the shopping malls and city streets and head to the villages of Aberfoyle & Strathard's Winter weekends this December, there is something for all the family to enjoy!
Alice Martin’s first solo exhibition ‘CTRL C’ comes to Tolbooth Stirling from 28th November. The exhibition is an exploration of digital copies through the use and manipulation of open data.
Festive fun in Callander, focused on the weekend of 29th November to 1st December with concerts, fairs, film, and the traditional parade and lights switch on.
Explore our annual Christmas sale of arts and crafts made in Scotland at Macrobert Arts Centre, back for a fifth year, and maybe pick up a Christmas gift or two!
The famous story of a beautiful Princess who falls under the evil Red Fairy’s wicked spell is brought to Mugdock Country Park as Fizzgig Theatre presents Sleeping Beauty!
Real Christmas Trees at the Lodge Forest Visitor Centres
30th November 2019 - 24th December 2019
Come and buy a real Christmas tree at The Lodge Forest Visitor Centre, pick up a festive trail quiz and discover what Quercus and friends are doing for Christmas on our waterfall trail.
Are you interested in recent history? Researchers in French studies at the University of Stirling have launched a new free online course called ‘Remembering Empire' and it's open to everyone.
A herd of colourful reindeer designed by local schoolchildren have flown into Stirling again this year. Pick up a map, complete with clues and find all 20 reindeer for a chance to win an iPad!
As part of the 16 Days of Action 2019, Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre and Stirling Council will be holding a feminist open mic night, with poetry and music performances on 6th December.
Enjoy a magical family day out this Christmas at New Lanark, take a magical journey on The Spirit of Christmas Ride, visit Santa's Grotto or catch 'Wee Red Fae The Woods' this year's festive panto!