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,...
The unseasonably warm weather brought in the crowds to George Street for this year’s Gin and Jazz Festival. In contrast to last year’s downpours, the balmy evening proved a huge draw, with thousands of people packing out the road. The event, which is now in its fifth year, is organised by St...
George Street’s popular Gin and Jazz Festival returns for its fifth year on Friday. Retailers and hospitality venues will open their doors for late night shopping and line the street with fabulous gin bars from 6-11pm, accompanied by live jazz music and food. The event is organised by St Albans BID and...
Writer-director Philippa Lawford’s debut play Ikaria is set to come to St Albans’ Abbey Theatre this autumn, after a critically acclaimed London run in 2022. When romance blossoms between two university students from different walks of life, the giddy excitement of a first love is at first preoccupying and then stifling...
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