WHAT’S ON IN AND AROUND TRURO
December 2012
For more information please call
Truro Tourist Information Centre 01872 274555
DATE
EVENT
TIME
Until 6th
Jan
Outdoor Ice
Skating
Sat 1st Dec
A Christmas
Spectacular
10am – 8.30pm
(9.30pm Wed –
Sun)
7.30pm
Sat 1st Dec
Made in
Cornwall
Christmas
Market
Carols by
Candlelight
Flea Market
10 am – 5pm
Sat 1st Dec
St Mary’s Singers
Concert
7.30pm
Sat 1st Dec
Subtext
(Neshima Dance
& Swerve Dance)
7.30pm
Sat 1st Dec
Christmas mural
children’s
workshop
10.15am – 11.30
am
Sat 1st
and Sun
2nd Dec
See a Victorian
Christmas fit for
His Lordship
11am – 4pm
Sat 1st Dec
Sat 1st Dec
7.30pm
9am – 4pm
OTHER
INFORMATION
Booking with HfC,
online or
Tel 01872 262466
Truro Methodist
Church £10 tickets
on sale Truro TIC
Lemon Quay
Hall for Cornwall
01872 262466
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Truro Cathedral
Tickets £15/£10 HfC
01872 262466
Burrell Theatre –
Truro Ages 10+
Booking available at
Truro TIC
Truro Arts
Booking 01872
240567
£4/child
Lanhydrock –
National Trust
01208 265950
Adult £4 Child £2
Sat 1st Dec
And Finally Phil
Collins
8pm
Sat 1st Dec
Phillip Henry &
Hannah Martin
7.30pm
Sat 1st Dec
Christmas Fayre
10am -12.30pm
Sat 1st Dec
Christmas Fayre
11am – 4pm
Sat 1st Dec
Christmas Coffee
Morning
Pomander
making and/or
Christmas
Decoration
workshop*
Murder Mystery
Dinner
10am
Sat 1st &
2nd Dec
Sat 1st Dec
11am – 3pm
7pm – 10pm
Sat 1st Dec
Falmouth Art
Gallery
Free drop in
workshop
2pm – 3pm
Sat 1st Dec
Blue Reef
Aquarium (starfish decoration
workshop)
Antiques Fair
10am–12 am
Sat 1st and
Sun* 2nd
Dec
Sat 1st &
Sun 2nd
Dec
Celebration of
Christmas
(Christmas
activities &
entertainment)
10am – 5pm
*10.30am – 4pm
9.30am – 6pm
Princess Pavilion,
Falmouth – Box
Office 01326 211222
Devoran Village Hall
Booking HfC
01872 262466
Truro Cat Rescue
Centre –Rosedale
Allet TRR4 9DJ
Carnon Downs
Village Hall TR3 6JJ
Threemilestone
Church Hall
Trerice nr Newquay
Normal admission +
£1per item (£2
workshop*) 01637
839917
Trelissick Garden
Booking essential
01872 863486 £25pp
Falmouth
Paint acetate
stained glass
windows 01326
313863
Newquay
12 ‘Fishy’ days of
Christmas trail Tel
01637 878134
Kingsley Village on
the A30 at Fraddon
£1 admission
Gwel an Mor Feadon Lane,
Portreath TR16 4PE
–Pre-booking to
meet Santa & his
Sun 2nd
Dec
Sunday Special
Market
10am – 4pm
Sun 2nd
Dec
Christmas Fair,
Made in Malpas
2pm – 4pm
Sun 2nd
Dec
Billy Bray’s
Christmas
Concert
Christingle
2.30pm
Sun 2nd
Dec
4pm – 5pm
Sun 2nd
Dec
Carols around
the Christmas
Tree
1pm for 2pm
Sun 2nd
Dec
Sue Lewington
Christmas Gift
Books Workshop
My
Neighbourhood
(short film &
guest speaker,
Linda Ramsden)
Pulling & Sailing
Lifeboats in
Cornwall
11am – 4pm
Christmas
Decorations
workshop for
adults
A Night of
Romantic Opera
Walking for
Health: Newham
10am/11am/12.30
& 1.30pm
Mon 3rd
Dec
Mon 3rd
Dec
Mon 3rd
Dec
Tue 4th
Dec
Tue 4th
Dec
reindeer
01209 844135
Lemon Quay (local
producers food &
crafts market)
St Andrews church,
Malpas Village
Three Eyes Chapel,
Kerley Downs,
Chacewater
Kenwyn Church in
support of the
Children’s Society
Enys House, St
Gluvias, Penryn
TR10 9LB £10 01326
259885
Trelissick Garden
Booking essential 1872
861039 - £25 pp
7 – 9pm
12.30pm
7.30pm
10am (approx. 1 –
1.5hrs)
Truro City Hall
Free event hosted
by Truro & Falmouth
Amnesty
International Group
NMMC Falmouth –
Booking 01326
214546 Lunch &
Lecture £14.50
Coast & Country Crafts
Perranarworthal
Booking: 01872
870478 £10 pp
Hall for Cornwall
01872 262466
Meet opposite Aldi
Store, Highertown,
Tue 4
Dec
th
Trail
Wreath Making
Workshop for
adult
Flea Market
2.30pm – 5.30pm
or 6pm – 9pm
Tue 4th &
Wed 5th
Dec
Wed 5th
Dec
Wed 5th
Dec
Late Night
Shopping
Meet Santa in his
Grotto
Wed 5th
Dec
Primestock
Christmas Show
9.30 am – 9pm
Wed 5th
Dec
Thu 6th
Dec
Slade and Sweet
7.30pm
BBC Radio
Cornwall Carol
Concert
7pm
Thu 6th
Dec & Fri
7th Dec
Fri 7th &
Sat 8th
Port Isaac’s
Fisherman’s
Friends
Primestock
Christmas Craft
Show
Truro’s BIG
Christmas Sing
7.30
Fri 7th Dec
9am – 4pm
Truro
Truro Arts
For booking
Tel 01872 240567
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Until 9pm
Truro
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Truro Community
Library – Tickets £3
(inc a present)
Lemon Quay
Hall for Cornwall
01872 262466
Truro Cathedral Free tickets but
must book in
advance, contact
Radio Cornwall
01872 222222
Hall for Cornwall
01872 262466
10am – 5pm
Lemon Quay Truro
7.30pm
Truro Cathedral –
sing your favourite
carols
Mylor Theatre,
Truro College –
Booking available
Truro TIC £15
Princess Pavilion,
Falmouth – Box
Office 01326 211222
Fri 7th Dec
Gould Piano Trio
7.30pm
Fri 7th Dec
For Those About
to Rock
8pm
Fri 7th Dec
Fri 7th, Sat
8th, Sun 9th
Dec
Sat 8th &
Sun 9th
Dec
Sat 8th Dec
Sat 8th Dec
Sat 8th Dec
Sat 8th Dec
Sat 8th Dec
Sat 8th &
Sun 9th
Dec
Sat 8th &
Sun 9th
Dec
The Secret
Navies & the
Christmas
Rescue
Late Night Lights
+ Water Tower
guided tours +
Storytelling: The
Selfish Giant by
Oscar Wilde
Get Crafty for
Christmas
12.30pm
11am – 8pm
(Last tour 7.30pm)
Storytelling
4 -5 pm
11am - 4pm
Truro Mayor’s
Charity Day
Flea Market
9.30am – 4pm
Handel’s
Messiah (Three
Spires Singers &
Orchestra)
Christopher
William Hill
(Osbert the
Avenger)
Christmas wrap
& cards
children’s
workshop
Meet Father
Christmas
7.30pm
Frankenstein!
(Miracle Theatre)
9am – 4pm
NMMC, Falmouth
Booking 01326
214546 Lunch &
Lecture £14.50
Trelissick Garden Nr
Truro
01872 862090
Trerice nr Newquay
Admission fee +
various amounts per
Christmas
decorations
01637 839917
Lemon Quay
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Truro Cathedral –
Tickets from HfC
01872 262466
11am
Waterstone’s Truro
Book Signing
Tel 01872 225765
10.15am – 11.30
am
Truro Arts
Booking 01872
240567
£4/child
Trelissick Garden nr
Truro 01872 862090
£2 inc present
Burrell Theatre
Truro Tickets
available at Truro
TIC
11 – 4.30pm
7.30pm
Sat 8th Dec
Green Christmas
11am – 1.30pm
Sat 8th
Dec
Festive Wreath
Making
11am – 3pm
Sat 8th Dec
Murder Mystery
Dinner
7pm – 10pm
Sat 8th Dec
Falmouth Art
Gallery
2pm – 3pm
Sat 8th
and Sun
9th Dec
See a Victorian
Christmas fit for
His Lordship
- Meet Father
Christmas*
11am – 4pm
Sun 9th
Dec
Tracey Corderoy
(A Flower in the
Snow)
11am
Sun 9th
Dec
Sun 9th
Dec
From Darkness
to Light
Music for
Christmas
6pm
Mon 10th
Dec
Mon 10th
– Thu 13th
Tue 11th
Dec
Plant Sales Day
10am – 4pm
Water Tower
guided tours
Walking for
Health:
11am – 3.30pm
12am -3pm
7.30pm
10am (approx.
1.5hours)
Cornwall Wildlife
Trust, Allet £5
Booking 01872
273939
Trebah Garden
Mawnan Smith
£10 per wreath
Trelissick Garden
Booking essential
01872 863486 £25pp
Falmouth Free drop
in workshop making
decorations
01326 313863
Lanhydrock –
National Trust
01208 265950
Adult £4 Child £2
* £3 per child (inc a
small gift)
Waterstone’s Truro
Book signing &
activity: make
festive hats Tel
01872 225765
Truro Cathedral
Catholic Church –
Our Lady of the
Portal and St Piran
£7
01209 213399
Princess Pavilion
Falmouth
Trelissick Garden nr
Truro
Meet outside the
Methodist Church
th
Tue 11
Dec
Tue 11th –
Sun 16th
Dec
Wed 12th
Dec
Wed 12th
Dec
Wed 12th
Dec
Wed 12th
Dec
Thu 13th &
Fri 14th
Dec
Fri 14th
Dec
Fri 14th –
Sun 23rd
Dec
Fri 14th,
Sat 15th &
Sun 16th
Dec
Fri 14th
Dec – Sun
6th Jan
Fri 14th –
17th Dec
Shortlanesend
Flea Market
9am – 4pm
SW809478
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Lemon Quay (until
9pm on Wed &
4.30pm Sun)
Truro
Victorian
Christmas
Market
Late Night
Shopping
Flea Market
10am – 5.30pm
Meet Santa in his
Grotto
5.30pm – 7.30 pm
Storytime &
Party
Flea Market
From 10am
Jazz dinner
(Atlantic View
Jazz Trio)
Storytelling: The
Selfish Giant by
Oscar Wilde
Late Night Lights
guided tours &
Late Night Lights
Meet Father
Christmas
7pm – 10pm
Trelissick Garden
01872 863486
£22.50
4pm – 5pm
01872 862090
11am – 8pm
(Last tour 7.30pm)
Trelissick Garden Nr
Truro
11 – 4.30pm
Trelissick Garden nr
Truro 01872 862090
£2 inc present
Aladdin
Various times
Hall for Cornwall
01872 262466
Santa Special
10am – 4pm
Helston Railway
Advance booking
essential for visiting
Father Christmas
Until 9pm
12 – 9pm
9am – 4pm
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Truro Community
Library – Tickets £3
(Inc a present)
Truro Community
Library
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
th
Sat 15 &
Sun 16th
Dec
Sat 15th &
Sun 16th
Dec
Meet a Tudor
Father Christmas
11am
– 3.30 pm
Pomander
making &/ or
mini Christmas
tree workshop*
11am – 3pm
Sat 15th
Dec
Sat 15th
Dec
Christmas Street
Market
O Holy Night
9am – 5pm
Sat 15th
Dec
Shadow Puppet
Performance
workshop
Tree toppers &
bauble making
children’s
workshop
Stupid Cupid
drop-in
Workshop
Make your own
Christmas
decorations
10am – 1pm
Sat 15th
Dec
Sat 15th
Dec
Sat 15th
Dec
7.30pm
10.15am – 11.30
am
2pm – 3pm
11am – 4pm
Sat 15th &
Sun 16th
Deck the Halls
12 – 3.30pm
Sat 15th &
Sun 16th
Dec
Sat 15th &
Sun 16th
Dec
Sat 15th
Dec
The Lighthouse
Keeper’s
Christmas
The Mousehole
Cat
11.30am, 2pm &
3.30pm
Rebecca Cobb
illustrator (The
12am
11.30am-4pm
07901 977597
Trerice nr Newquay
£2 per child
Trerice nr Newquay
Normal admission +
£1 per item
(*workshop £3)
01637 839917
Boscawen Street
Truro
Truro Cathedral
Tickets from HfC
01872 262466
Truro Community
Library – Age 7+
Tickets £2
Truro Arts
Booking 01872
240567
£4/child
Falmouth Art Gallery
01326 313863
Princess Pavilion,
Falmouth – Cornwall
Wildlife Trust - £2
donation
NMMC, Falmouth
Creative craft
activity
NMMC, Falmouth
Listen to the story
NMMC, Falmouth
Watch the story on
big screen
Waterstone’s Truro
Book signing &
Empty Stocking)
Sat 15th
Dec
Christmas Party
& Meet Santa
10am-2pm
Sat 15th
Dec
Unwrapping the
Past (Part 2)
11am & 2pm
Sat 15th
& Sun 16th
Dec
See a Victorian
Christmas fit for
His Lordship –
*Meet Father
Christmas
Carols in St
Hydroc’s Church
Storytelling: The
Selfish Giant by
Oscar Wilde
Christingle
11am – 4pm
Sun 16th
Dec
Sun 16th
Dec
Sun 16th
Dec
12pm – 3pm
2pm–3.30pm
4pm -5pm
4pm
Nadelik: A
Cornish
Christmas
10am – 4pm
Sun 16th –
Tue 18th
Dec
The Angel
2pm
Tue 18th
Dec
Carols by
Candlelight
7.30pm
Wed 19th
Dec
Wed 19th
Dec
Late Night
Shopping
Meet Santa in his
Grotto
Until 9pm
5.30pm – 7.30pm
Christmassy
activities
Malabar Community
Centre
Royal Cornwall
Museum – Jane
Marley, curator will
lead tour. Booking
01872 272205 ext 0
Lanhydrock –
National Trust
01208 265950
Adult £4 Child £2
* £3 per child (inc a
small gift)
Trelissick Garden Nr
Truro
01872 862090
Truro Methodist
Church
Pendennis Castle,
Falmouth -Entrance
fee + (additional £3
Father Christmas)
Heartlands
01209 722320
Ticket £8 adult/£5
child
Princess Pavilion,
Falmouth - £3 inc
mulled wine &
mince pie
Truro
Truro Community
Library – Tickets £3
inc a present
Wed 19th
Dec
Thu 20th
Dec
Carols on the
Forecourt
Christmas Clean
Up
Thu 20th
Dec
Christmas
Shivers: Scary
Little Girls stories
Flea Market
9am – 12am
The Angel
2pm & 6.30pm
Flea Market
9am – 4pm
Meet Father
Christmas
Stortytelling: The
Selfish Giant by
Oscar Wilde
Last Chance
Market
11 – 4.30pm
Thu 20th
Dec
Thu 20th &
Fri 21st
Dec
Fri 21st
Dec
Fri 21st,
Sat 22nd &
Sun 23rd
Fri 21st &
Sat 22nd
Dec
Fri 21st,
Sat 22nd &
Sun 23rd
Dec
Sat 22nd
Dec
Sat 22nd
Dec
Sat 22nd
Dec
From 5.15pm
Call 01208 863046
for times
6.30pm
4pm – 5pm
Truro Methodist
Church
Pre-Christmas beach
clean – Crantock &
Holywell
Princess Pavilion,
Falmouth - £5 01326
211222
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Heartlands
01209 722320
Ticket £8 adult/£5
child
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Trelissick Garden nr
Truro
£2 inc present
01872 862090
10am – 5pm Fri
and 9am-5pm Sat
Lemon Quay
Santa Days
10.30 am –
3.30pm
Flea Market
9am – 12am
Make your own
snow globe
(children’s
workshop)
Drop in
workshop – see
10.15am – 11.30
am
Trebah Garden
Mawnan Smith –
follow the Christmas
trail to Father
Christmas Normal
admission + £3
Hall for Cornwall
Foyer
Truro Arts
Booking 01872
240567
£4/child
Falmouth Art Gallery
01326 313863
2pm – 3pm
Sat 22nd
Dec
Sat 22nd &
Sun 23rd
Dec
Sat 22nd &
Sun 23rd
Dec
Sat 22nd –
Mon 24th
Dec
Sun 23rd
Dec
Sun 23rd
Dec
the amazing
artistic bicycle
Deck the Halls
Meet a Tudor
Father Christmas
Also Hats on for
Christmas
workshop
See a Victorian
Christmas fit for
His Lordship –
*Meet Father
Christmas
Carols in St
Hydroc’s Church
The Mousehole
Cat
12 – 3.30pm
11am
- 3.30pm
11am – 4pm
12pm – 3pm
2pm-3.30pm
11.30am-4pm
Carol Service
6.15pm
The Angel
2pm
Sun 23rd &
Mon 24th
Dec
Mon 24th
Dec
Mon 24th
Dec
Festival of Nine
Lessons & Carols
7pm (doors open
at 6pm – tickets
issued from 5pm)
3.15pm
Midnight Mass
11.30pm
11.15pm
Mon 24th
Dec
Deck the Halls
12 – 3.30pm
Tue 25th
Dec
Christmas Day
Service
10am
10am
Live Nativity
NMMC, Falmouth
Creative craft
activity
Trerice nr Newquay
Normal admission
+ £2 per child
(Workshop £2 per
item) 01637 839917
Lanhydrock
(National Trust)
01208 265950
Adult £4 Child £2
*£3 per child (inc a
small gift)
NMMC, Falmouth
Watch the story on
big screen
Truro Methodist
Church
Heartlands
01209 722320
Ticket £8 adult/£5
child
Truro Cathedral
Truro Methodist
Church
Truro Cathedral
Truro Methodist
Church
NMMC, Falmouth
Creative craft
activity
Truro Cathedral
Truro Methodist
27 Dec
Out with the Old,
In with the New
12-3.30pm
Sun 30th
Dec
Mon 31st
Dec
Children & Pets
Carol Service
Midnight
Firework Display
2pm
Church
NMMC, Falmouth
Creative craft
activity
Truro Cathedral
Midnight
Lemon Quay Truro
th
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Ice Skate Truro: Open air ice rink behind the Cathedral – 10am – 8.30pm.
Advance booking HfC 01872 262466 or www.iceskatetruro.co.uk
Truro Community Library: Come and Meet Santa, every Wednesday 5.30 –
8pm. Tickets £3 (include a present). (Spaces limited)
Royal Cornwall Museum:
Japanese Shibyama – end 31st Dec
Random Precision – ends 26th Jan
Truro Cathedral:
Free Trails Available Daily
For more daily information, pick up a copy of the Truro Cathedral Autumn,
Christmas and Winter Events 2012/13 or visit www.trurocathedral.org.uk
Truro Farmers Markets (Wednesdays & Saturdays) and December only
additional days: Fri 7th, Thu 13th, Fri 14th, Mon 17th, Tue 18th, Thu 20th,
Fri 21st, Sun 23rd, Mon 24th - Lemon Quay
CHILDREN:
For more information on events in Cornwall for Children please pick up a
copy of Blackbird Pie or Octopus from the Tourist Information Centre.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth: Every Monday during
term-time, 11 – 11.30am, Minnows’ Tales (stories, songs & rhymes
especially for little ones)
Hall for Cornwall: Little Waves - Story reading for under 5’s, free - Every
Tuesday during term time from 10.30am in HfC coffee shop
DAILY EVENTS:
The Plaza Cinema – Lemon Street - Truro 01872 272894
Truro Ten Pin Bowling Centre – Truro 01872 222333
Truro Leisure Centre – Truro 01872 261628
WEEKLY:
Modern Sequence Dance (Mondays) - Carrick Sports Hall – 7.30pm-10pm
Zumba fitness (Mondays & Tuesdays) – Bosvigo School – 6.15pm-7.15pm
MONTHLY
Cornwall Bottle Collectors Club (First Saturday) 2pm – Church Hall, Kea, Nr
Truro
Local Produce Market (Last Saturday) 9am – 12pm Village Hall, Carnon
Downs
Ist Wednesday of the month – 2pm at British Legion Club, Oddfellows’
over-50s Friendship Centre
It is advisable to check with event organisers in advance of travelling in
case the event is cancelled, postponed or moved to another venue, etc.