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Dear friends and colleagues,

As Christmas is just a few weeks away, we bring you ways to celebrate this festive season with plenty of wonderful online events from Northern Ireland which are sure to bring some Christmas joy!

Get in the festive spirit and try out the Wee Buns cookery school Christmas cake recipe. Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, Causeway Coast & Glens and Snow Water have all created festive programmes of events for all the family to enjoy while the Alley Theatre present a musical programme throughout December. You also have the pleasure to cook along with our friend Paula McIntyre who presents a Christmas Foodie Menu.

We hope you are all doing well, do not hesitate to get in touch and share your ideas for a safe holiday season.
Best Wishes
Lynsey Moore, Director

Snow Water presents Under a Christmas Sky

Under a Christmas Sky features Northern Ireland’s finest musicians, actors, poetry and story-telling, filmed live at the Ulster Folk Museum. Snow Water are bringing you one cultural treat per day from 10 to 23 December, and on Christmas Eve you can watch the full event hosted by BBC’s Joe Lindsay. Each day, an advent door will open online to reveal a film. Under a Christmas Sky combines beautiful poetry from the likes of Michael Longley and Thackeray with songs by Darlene Love, Joni Mitchell, Bing Crosby as well as traditional carols. But with a twist – all are given new interpretations by some of NI’s finest artists! These include Frank Ormsby, Matt McGinn and Ian McElhinney, all of whom we had the pleasure of welcoming in Brussels. The films will be available everyday on the Snow Water Youtube and Distant Sky Facebook pages. In the meantime, why not watch the preview.
Snow Water presents Under a Christmas Sky

Christmas in the Causeway Coast & Glens 2020

Christmas in the Causeway Coast & Glens is going virtual as they present a packed programme of festive activities. The wonderful programme includes Christmas craft demonstrations for adults and children. The food demonstration with the very talented Paula McIntyre shows how to prepare a Festive Starter, a Seasonal Main and a Christmassy Dessert using delicious products from Northern Ireland. You can also listen to fabulous storytellers tell Christmas children’s stories bespoke to the Causeway Coast and Glens area.
Christmas in the Causeway Coast & Glens 2020

Family Christmas at the Lyric

The Lyric Theatre is bringing the magic of theatre into your home with three favourite family shows: Little Red Riding Hood & The Big Bad Wolf, Peter Pan: The Musical and Alice: The Musical. You can select your favourite musical adventure for £8 or re-live all three for £15.The shows are available to view until 3 January.
Family Christmas at the Lyric

The Alley Theatre Festive Entertainment

The Alley Theatre present a mix of live streamed and pre-recorded events from local musicians, performers and artists. The shows will be broadcast across December on the Alley Theatre Facebook page and website. Every Friday evening musicians from The Pulse Centre will perform live from the Alley. Over the course of four live streamed concerts you will hear music from eight of the best talents that Strabane and district has to offer. Every Sunday evening the Music to Your Ears Group play songs from their debut album ‘One Man and his Song’ while Jazz Gazette will put a swing into your step with their ever popular Christmas Jazz evening. The Christmas festivities will end with a New Year’s Eve party live with local band The Logues. Check out the full programme here.
The Alley Theatre Festive Entertainment

Wee Buns Christmas Cake

What better way to get into the festival spirit then making a traditional Christmas fruit cake! The Wee Buns Cookery School have put together a wonderful recipe for the perfect Christmas cake. The recipe is sure to be a hit at home.
Wee Buns Christmas Cake