As the nights draw in, treat yourself to a creative day out at the Craft4Crafters & Stitching4All Show, 3 days packed with inspiration, shopping, workshops, demonstrations and ideas for makers of all kinds. Whether you sew, stitch, quilt, make cards, felt, create jewellery or simply love discovering something new, you’ll find plenty to see, try and take home. 29 - 31 October Doors open: 10:00 - 15:00. The Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 6QN
Pioneering alt-comedy hero and star of Cats Does Countdown Paul Foot is back on tour with a brand new stand-up show. Remember when people were excited for the future? With visions of jetpacks, friendly robots wheeling around, and solar-powered bidets. Well, we don’t have visions like that anymore, do we? But the universe is not over. The light has not gone out. Here’s a candle in the dark. Contagious and whispering. And you can take it with you when you leave. 7 November 4pm & 8pm Rondo Theatre, St. Saviours Road, Bath, BA1 6RT
Jennifer Saunders stars as Mrs Rafi, one of the greatest comic roles in British theatre, in the first major revival of Edward Bond’s intoxicating The Sea for almost two decades. It is 1907, the height of the Edwardian era. A wild storm shakes a small East Anglian seaside village to its core. Amidst the confusion, all attention is focussed on the activities of the village’s self-appointed ‘First Lady’ Mrs. Rafi, who is preparing her ladies for an amateur dramatic performance of Orpheus and Eurydice... 22 October - 7 November. Theatre Royal Bath, Sawclose, Bath BA1 1ET.
New for 2026, join us onboard the Pick a Pumpkin express! Your journey will start at Bitton, where you’ll enjoy a trip of the line, before heading towards Avon Riverside Station. Here you can alight the train and choose out a pumpkin to bring back with you. At Bitton Station, you can head to the canopy if you’d like to do some pumpkin painting and decorating. We’ll also have some spooky characters onboard the train, but don’t worry, there are only treats, no tricks, onboard our Pumpkin Express! 31 October Avon Valley Railway, Bitton Station, Bath Road, Bitton, Bristol, BS30 6HD
The Jane Austen Festival in Bath is the largest and longest running Jane Austen Festival in the world. The first Jane Austen Festival in 2001 took place over a weekend at The Jane Austen Centre, Bath, and has since grown into a 10 day programme, drawing over 3500 people from around the world.
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