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Nov 2024 - Apr 2025 What's on Guide

Mon 16 Sep 2024

Plan ahead and get these exciting dates in your diary! Here’s our fresh new Derby LIVE What’s On Guide, featuring all the latest must-see events, festive fun, performances and festivals. There is something for everyone. More

Applications for Adult panto ensemble auditions are open!

Fri 23 Aug 2024

For the first time, local performers, whether graduated or still training, who are interested in treading the boards as part of our Adult Ensemble in Cinderella at Derby Arena, can attend an open audition day. More

Happy Valley star Mina Awar spreads Christmas magic as this year’s Cinderella pantomime star

Wed 31 Jul 2024

Star of the Happy Valley and the Thin Blue Line, Mina Anwar will lay down her police truncheon and swap it for a magic wand. More

Cathedral Quarter Ice Rink and Nordic Bar will return for this year’s Festive Derby

Fri 19 Jul 2024

Plans for the 2024 Festive Derby celebrations are well underway. More

Applications for panto auditions are open now!

Thu 14 Mar 2024

The search is on for talented children who want to join the Junior Ensemble in Cinderella at Derby Arena. More

The shoe must go on! Cinderella announced as 2024 panto

Fri 8 Dec 2023

The award-winning team behind Derby’s smash-hit pantos will be back for 2024 with the classic fairytale Cinderella. More

Derby’s Christmas Lights Switch On will usher in the festive season

Thu 23 Nov 2023

Join in with the fun in the city centre on Sat 2 Dec More

Annual Family Festivities event to bring joy to Markeaton Park

Tue 21 Nov 2023

Families can enjoy free festive cheer at Markeaton Park, as Family Festivities returns on 2 & 3 Dec 2023. More

Yule Love Derby this Christmas as Festive Derby returns

Wed 4 Oct 2023

This year Festive Derby is bigger than ever More

Corrie baddie, Todd Boyce announced as Mother Goose panto star

Mon 4 Sep 2023

The latest baddie to walk the Coronation Street cobbles, Todd Boyce will be joining the cast of this year’s Derby Arena panto Mother Goose as the fowl-playing, Demon Vanity. More

The Lost Boys to bring It’s A Wonderful Life (Live) to Festive Derby this Christmas

Fri 28 Apr 2023

It’s a must-watch Christmas film for many, and this year an inspirational and heart-warming festive classic will get The Lost Boys treatment. More

Applications for panto auditions are open now!

Wed 26 Apr 2023

The search is on for talented children who want to join the Junior Ensemble in Mother Goose at Derby Arena. More

Cathedral Quarter Ice Rink will return for this year’s Festive Derby

Fri 31 Mar 2023

Derby City Council and the Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) are delighted to announce that the city’s popular ice rink will return this Christmas – and tickets are on sale now. More

Naughty Meg and the Christmas Elves are announced for Festive Derby 2023

Wed 8 Mar 2023

Those mischievous and marvellous Babbling Vagabonds’ will be back for the festive season with Naughty Meg and the Christmas Elves, this year at The Old Central Library on The Wardwick. More