{"id":599599,"date":"2025-11-28T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599599\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:02:19","slug":"one-of-the-most-beautiful-locations-in-birmingham-is-hosting-its-own-artisan-christmas-market-with-a-first-of-its-kind-lightshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599599\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Most Beautiful Locations In Birmingham Is Hosting Its Own Artisan Christmas Market With A \u2018First-Of-Its-Kind Lightshow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shutterstock_1094975753-1024x767.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"University of Birmingham\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: ZCOOL HelloRF, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, the<strong> University of Birmingham\u2019s Edgbaston campus<\/strong> is one of the most breathtaking locations in the whole city\u2014once named the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretbirmingham.com\/birmingham-beautiful-university\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretbirmingham.com\/birmingham-beautiful-university\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">most beautiful university outside of Oxbridge<\/a>. Next week (<strong>Wednesday, December 3<\/strong>), it\u2019s becoming even more stunning for an<strong> extra magical, edition of \u2018Christmas on Campus\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day (11am to 8pm), the University of Birmingham isn\u2019t just honouring the festive season, but wrapping up the <strong>125th anniversary celebrations<\/strong>\u2014it was the first \u2018red brick\u2019 university to receive a royal charter in 1900. At the heart of the celebrations is a <strong>first-of-its-kind lightshow<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>From Joseph Chamberlain\u2019s vision for England\u2019s first civic university to world-changing thinkers, dreamers and innovators, animated graphics projected on Aston Webb will bring to life the stories of the University of Birmingham. There will be<strong> three showings of this spectacular finale in Chancellor\u2019s Court<\/strong> at 4.15pm, 5pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n<p> <b>What else will be at \u2018Christmas on Campus\u2019?<\/b> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/xmas-carousel1.xc3e1b2cf.webp.webp\" alt=\"A Christmas carousel\" width=\"948\" height=\"700\"  \/>Credit: University of Birmingham <\/p>\n<p>The other main highlight of \u2018Christmas on Campus\u2019 is the <strong>Artisan Market and Christmas Craft Fair<\/strong>, where you can pick up a range of goods<strong> from students, Alumni, and staf<\/strong>f. Expect everything from handmade ceramics, crocheted creations, stained glass windows, artwork, jewellery, and so much more, alongside street food, too.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re particularly excited for the <strong>\u2018Claus for Thought\u2019 talks<\/strong>, which see fun takes on the festive season from UoB\u2019s brilliant academics, as well as <strong>exhibition tours at Aston Webb<\/strong>. Elsewhere, you\u2019ll find live music and entertainment, fairground games, Christmas films, the University Carol Service, and, of course, a <strong>Christmas light switch-on<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To see what whole Christmas on Campus schedule, head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/125-christmas-on-campus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/125-christmas-on-campus\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: ZCOOL HelloRF, Shutterstock Save Without a doubt, the University of Birmingham\u2019s Edgbaston campus is one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,35745,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-599599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115628406536118000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}