View all the upcoming events in Lanarkshire on the 13 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 Rutherglen Town Hall 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
Get the date in your diary, Bothwell's annual Santa Parade will take place on Friday 13th December! There's lots of new surprises planned for this year's event including a giant snow globe! 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
Don't miss out on Hamilton's premier party night, featuring entertainment from Big Vern n The Shootahs, returning for a twelfth year to The Town House! 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
With Christmas just around the corner, Glasgow's biggest trampoline and inflatables arena is hosting a series of flip-tastic events for the whole family! 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
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 at Newton Mearns Baptist Church
11th December 2019 - 25th December 2019
Join Newton Mearns Baptist Church for their Christmas Programme beginning on Wednesday 11th December!
Eastwood Park Theatre has announced its official panto for 2019 is set to be Cinderella and the cast from GAMTA are set to deliver show stopping, all-singing, all dancing performances!
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 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.
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.
Make Christmas 2019 special with a three course lunch in the opulent Queen Anne Room at Edinburgh Castle, and enjoy a dining experience fit for royalty.
Edinburgh’s Christmas magic will be heading to twelve locations over twelve nights around Edinburgh, with a building being brought to life in each locality for one night only.
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.
Get out your best yellow tights and holiday jumpers because Leith Theatre in partnership with Cinetopia are bringing 'Elf' to the Thomas Morton Hall on December 13th!
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!
I Can Go Anywhere is a big-hearted call to arms; a Mod anthem to solidarity and acceptance in an increasingly hostile world. See it at the Traverse Theatre this December!
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!
Come and join us for some festive fun mixing British and French traditions as LA TROUPE from Theatre Sans Accents returns this Christmas with a brand new play!
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.
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.
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!
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a visit to Santa's Grotto! So come and visit him in his enchanting Grotto at Carberry Tower Mansion House and Estate this year!
Award-winning writer Paul Pender, who survived death threats from "Monster Butler" serial killer Roy Fontaine, asks - why are we obsessed with serial killers, in books, films, TV and real life?
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.
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!
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!
The World's Room is a home for traditional singing in Edinburgh organised by the Traditional Music Forum and held in the Waverley Bar, St Mary’s Street.
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.
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!
Levenmouth Together proudly presents Fayre in the Square, a 3 day festive market taking place at the foot of Leven High Street from 13th to 15th December!
Glenrothes Theatre Company's pantomines have played to enthusiastic audiences for the last ten years, so come along and join the fun as they present Cinderella at Rothes Halls!
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.
Winner of the Edinburgh award for close up magician of the year two years running, Cameron Young will put the magic into Christmas at the Kingswood Hotel on Friday 13th December!
The 12 Days of COLAB Christmas Market will showcase a lovely selection of market traders and COLAB tenants as well as the long standing Savoy Market traders!
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!
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!
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!
Enjoy a social evening of Ballroom and Latin dancing with some sequence and line dancing at Mount Vernon Community Hall on the second Friday each month!
It's time to get 'dolled' up and get your skates on because we're heading to Toy Town for the brand new seasonal spectacular from Anya, Kevin, Gary and Bonzo the Dog at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!
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!
The Glasgow Phoenix Choir is delighted to be returning to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with their annual charity Christmas concert on Friday 13th December!
If you're looking for some extra seasonal cheer, come along to Garnock Valley Community Concert Band's Christmas Concert and get into the festive spirit!
Get ready for the climb of your life this Christmas, as The Gaiety Theatre proudly presents their spectacular family pantomime... Jack and The Beanstalk!
Nothing says 'Christmas' more than the warming scent of mince pies baking in the oven, learn how to make your own from scratch with Bella's Cakes on this class for kids!
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!
Singer songwriter Little Fire aka Jamie McGeechan will be performing his last gig in Scotland for a while before moving to the US, catch him at The Classic Grand on December 13th!
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?
The much loved children's classic Pinocchio comes to life this Christmas at Tramway courtesy of the Citizens Theatre and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!
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.
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!
The Gatsby Club, Scotland's largest 1920s themed cabaret and club night, returns to the Southside with a special festive edition of The Gatsby Speakeasy!
Enjoy an evening of festive classics, beautifully sung by the talented Junior and Senior sections from Glasgow Youth Choir at Glasgow City Chambers on December 13th!
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.
Forget wearing paper hats and eating over-priced turkey – instead come and get some Christmas cheer from the very best comics from the UK and beyond at The Stand Glasgow!
Voidamol - Soft Riot Videos and Q&A with Jack Duckworth
13th December 2019
JJD will be screening a selection of promotional music videos that he has created and released as Soft Riot along with two “short films” promoting releases on Possession Records.
The worldwide smash hit musical by Queen and Ben Elton returns to the UK! Don't miss We Will Rock You when it comes to the Theatre Royal Glasgow in December 2019!
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!
The 19.com Scottish Open is the third of the 2019-20 Home Nations series, with snooker's top stars battling for prestigious titles at Glasgow's Emirate Arena in December!
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!
Enjoy an evening of music at the Gleniffer Singers Annual Christmas Concert on Friday 13th December at Holy Trinity & St Barnabas Scottish Episcopal Church!
Featuring trained actors, amazing costumes and a lantern walk Connect Church Paisley's Nativity Trail promises to be a Christmas experience not to miss!
Join Adele Logan for a Reiki Share on Friday 13th December - a precious opportunity to share the Reiki healing vibe at what is usually a stressful time of year.
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!
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!
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!
Peatbog Faeries have toured the world with their inventive and unique brand of music never failing to fill the floor and delight crowds, catch them at the Tolbooth on 13th December!
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.
Adam from the Geeky Retro Nerds Show podcast is bringing Scrooged back to the big screen in Stirling on 13th December. Get in the festive spirit by enjoying this Christmas classic!
Spotlight Theatre present their annual Christmas pantomime 'Aladdin' at Alloa Town Hall from 11th to 15th December. A great festive treat for all the family!
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!
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!