Fresh, invigorating ideas and discussions were at the heart of St Albans’ first TEDx event. TEDx are local assemblies with a common goal: to inspire, challenge, and ignite passion for ideas worth spreading. With the overarching theme of connection, the day brought together 14 diverse speakers, including two A-level students, engaging the...
Iconic British psychedelic pop legends, The Zombies, will be in conversation and perform a live acoustic set at St Albans Museum + Gallery. The event, on Friday November 10, is 62 years after they first formed in St Albans in 1961. The Zombies Come Home event kicks off the Begin Here Festival...
St Albans Cathedral is continuing its annual light shows with a celebration of the Renaissance. Once again working in partnership with artist Peter Walker and Luxmuralis, this year's event looks at the huge explosion of creativity in knowledge and art which began in the early 1400s. Different parts of the Cathedral tell...
There's just over a month to go before Harpenden Christmas Carnival, which promises a wide mix of of entertainment, activities, food and drink, outdoor bars and music as well as the Christmas Farmers’ Market, funfair and lights switch on. The event, which takes place on November 26, welcomes around 20,000 people...
The horrifying highlight of this Halloween has to be a day out at Willows Activity Farm, where your little monsters can enjoy a packed programme of chills and thrills. There are still plenty of days left to enjoy the annual Pumpkin Festival, which runs until Halloween itself on Tuesday October 31,...
As Black History Month 2023 commemorates the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush, the Company of Ten presents Wind/Rush Generation(s), a challenging production which brings us face to face with Britain’s colonial past. Written by Mojisola Adebayo, specifically for youth theatre groups, the story follows a group of first year history...
A new exhibition at St Albans Museum tells the story of Fleetville’s Ballington Hosiery Mill, which manufactured everything from delicate stockings to robust artillery shells between the 1920s and the 1960s. The name Ballito is believed to have originated from the company’s first hosiery mill in Ballington, Tennessee. In the early...
St Albans grassroots venue The Pioneer Club recently hosted its first major event in partnership with Headliner Spaces, with a show-stopping performance from multi-award-winning UK drum and bass outfit Rudimental. The event was the first of its kind to take place at The Pioneer Club since Headliner Space and St Albans...
Forty years ago, in October 1983, the Bishop of St Albans, the Rt Revd John Taylor, welcomed the Revd Donald Lee and Fr Robert Plourde as Free Church and Roman Catholic ecumenical chaplains of St Albans Cathedral. This was then followed by the first of regular services in each of these...
A massive demonstration of parents outside St Albans Museum + Gallery called for improved funding for children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Today’s protest was organised by SEND Reform England, a group set up to fight for more specialist schools and school places, more SEND funding in mainstream schools,...
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