insideKENT Magazine Issue 80 - November 2018 | Page 73

G R AV E S H A M ’ S
2018
Come to Gravesend and enjoy
a spectacular start to Christmas.
Weekends of festivities and Christmas
sparkles will delight all the family.
Lighting up the town
Friday 16 Nov
From 3.45pm
Watch the streets light up with
our Christmas lights switch on.
• Lantern parade
• Street entertainers
• Light show
In partneship
with
Christmas at the Market Live Nativity
Crafts for Christmas Experience the nativity
story retold with Mary
and Joseph, their
donkey and the wise
men on camels as they
parade through the
town. Followed by
carols around the tree.
Come inside the warm and beautiful Gravesend
Borough Market building this Christmas and you’ll
fi nd a lot going on.
Sunday 18 Nov 10am-3pm
Handmade Christmas wares, gifts and treats. Workshops including
knitted paper chains, fairies, snow babies and screen printing.
The Big Market Weekend
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 Nov 10am-5pm (Late night Friday ‘till 9pm)
Ice rink, street food and bar, fairground rides, music,
and Christmas market.
Vintage Christmas Sunday 2 Dec 10am-4pm
Creative Christmas Saturday 8 Dec 10am-4pm
Huge vintage market, street food, music and dance.
Creative crafts and activities including
an animatronic Polar Bear,
Victorian Pomander workshop,
Gingerbread decorating
workshops and Frozen chracters.
FREE
Christmas Experience
From the golden reindeer, follow the snowy footprints
and enter a magical world.
www.visitgravesend.co.uk/christmas
Saturday 15 Dec
PLUS
Christmas
Movies
24 & 25 Nov
Woodville’s pop-up
cinema at the
Clarendon Royal Hotel.
Late night
at Gravesend
Market‘till 8pm
16 November
Live music, street food,
and a chance to
meet the stars of
The Woodville Panto