Festive Market

Held in The Coffin Works atmospheric courtyard, you’ll find a wonderful range of local makers, artists and crafters selling unique gifts and treats this festive season

Sunday 1st December with guided tours of the museum on the hour from 11:00am to 2:00pm at £7.50 per person. That’s 25% off!

Find them at: 3-15 Fleet St, Birmingham, B3 1JP

Calligraphy Classes

Classes for both beginners and more experienced calligraphers. Learn key elements of calligraphy and take information away to continue developing your style at home. Some materials provided and calligraphy products can be purchased from the Pen Museum shop

Sunday 15th December at 12:00pm – 1.30pm and 2:00pm to 3.30pm

Find them at: The Argent Centre, 60 Frederick St, Birmingham, B1 3HS

J. W. Evans Silver Factory

One of the most complete surviving historic factories in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. To walk into the factory today is to enter a lost industrial world

Friday’s and Saturday’s for guided tours (check availability)

Find them at: 54-57 Albion St, Birmingham, B1 3EA

JQ Ale Trail

The JQ Ale Trail lets you explore the area’s variety of unique pubs and bars, whilst admiring the windows of local jewellers along the way. Grab a group of friends and take your pick of the 20+ pubs in the area, each serving up a range of delicious and local ales

Download the Discover JQ app

Christmas Wreath Making Workshops

Spend a couple of hours creating your unique wreath where everything you need will be provided for you and there will be plenty of goodies to choose from so your wreath will be the best on the street!

Thursday 28th November at 6:00pm, Saturday 30th November at 3:00pm, Thursday 5th December at 6:00pm and Saturday 7th December at 3:00pm

Find them at: 5 Spencer St, Birmingham, B18 6DD

Christmas Bouquet Workshop

This is the first year In Bloom are hosting a Christmas bouquet workshop. You can enjoy the run up to the big day with a stunning bunch of festive foliage and flowers providing scent, beauty and festive feels.

Saturday 21st December at 1:00pm

Find them at: 5 Spencer St, Birmingham, B18 6DD

Christmas Candle Painting

If you don’t fancy getting your hands dirty making wreaths or swags, why not try out this Christmas Candle painting workshop! Choose from either a pillar candle or a pair of tapered candles to decorate in festive designs. 

Friday 6th December at 6pm

Find them at: 5 Spencer St, Birmingham, B18 6DD

Ring Making Classes

Spend the evening in the workshop and make a decorative sterling silver ring to take home at the end of the class. Learn how to shape the metal, heat it up on the hearth, solder it together, file, and finish

Friday December 6th at 6:30pm and Friday December 20th at 6:15pm

Find them at: 13-15 Fleet St, Birmingham, B3 1JP

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly and wealthy man, is well-known for his miserly ways and unkind spirit.

One Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who is eager for Scrooge not to share his miserable and eternal fate in the afterlife. 

Friday 13th December – Tuesday 24th December (various times)

Find them at: 118 Great Hampton St, Birmingham, B18 6AD

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood’s Parents, for a little peace and quiet, send their talkative daughter on an errand to take some goodies to her ailing grandmother.

On her journey through the woods – on top of her encounters with the Big Bad Wolf – she bumps into some other colourful fairy tale characters lost in the woods. But, were the heroes from these fairy tales really as innocent as we have all been led to believe? 

Thursday 26th December – Sunday 5th January (various times)

Find them at: 118 Great Hampton St, Birmingham, B18 6AD