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events on sun 30 dec
Wintertide
As the days grow short and the evenings long, dark are the days of Wintertide.
Explore the snowdrifts and enjoy free family activities as the Gallery is transformed into a Nordic wonderland inspired by Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley.
The exhibition features entries from our annual Art Competition. It is curated and created by professional artist Benedict Romain and students from the local college BCA.
Entry is free.
- 10:00 -22:00 FREE
The Fir Tree
by Tove Jansson
From Tales in Moominvalley
The Moomin family was hibernating in the drawing room as they were wont to do. They had been sleeping for a few months already and were going to keep it up until spring… Now all at once a cold draught disturbed Moomintroll’s dreams. And someone was pulling at his quilt and shouting that he was tired and Christmas was coming.
'Fall under its spell' Maidenhead Advertiser
Featuring live puppetry and music, The Fir Tree is an adventure set in the idyllic and peaceful Moominvalley. It is a gloriously unselfish take on Christmas.
'A treat for the whole family that offers an ideal festive alternative to the pantomime' Families Magazine
Suitable for all audiences from 3 years and upwards.
Presented by Norden Farm, The Ding Foundation, Bernadette Russell and Steve Tiplady.
- 11:00 FREE
NT Live: Antony and Cleopatra
210 mins.
An encore screening from the National Theatre of Shakespeare’s great tragedy of politics, passion and power.
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
WHY? Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the famous fated couple
£15
- 14:00 FREE