Upcoming events
Dates for your diary
Save the date for these free events in 2023.
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The King's Lynn Summer Events 2023 season finished on 10 September 2023. There will be more events in the autumn.
Please visit the Hunstanton events page for more details about summer and autumn events taking place in the town.
King’s Lynn Christmas Lights switch-on
Sunday 26 November, Tuesday Market Place
Family activities in town, entertainment on stage in the afternoon and the lights will be turned on at 5pm.
Discover King’s Lynn start the festive fun with children’s lantern making inside the Place in New Conduit Street between 11am and 3pm. There will be street entertainment around town and the Vancouver Quarter from 1pm, including music from East Angles Brass Band.
At 2pm there’s live music on the borough council stage in the Tuesday Market Place. Popular classic children's songs will be covered by Big Summer Blowout at the start, St Martha’s School Choir will perform Christmas Carols, followed by music from headliners Bear Club.
Three characters from this years Alive Corn Exchange Pantomime, Dick Whittington, will be available to meet and for photos from 3:30pm at the venue in the Tuesday Market Place.
There will be food, drink and stocking filler stalls in the Tuesday Market Place all day.
A lantern parade will meander through town from 4:15pm, anyone with tambourines, triangles or other percussion instruments are invited to join the parade, that finishes in the Tuesday Market Place in time to see the lights switched on by the Mayor of King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Cllr Margaret Wilkinson, with help from the Alive Panto characters.
Christmas at the Guildhall
Sunday 10 December, St George's Guildhall, 29 King Street
A range of Victorian themed activities to enjoy from midday until 4pm.
- See a special stage show featuring Father and Mother Christmas and Dickensian Christmas carols.
- Play traditional Victorian games.
- Get creative and make Christmas cards, crackers and decorations to take home.
- Make a peppermint cream, a favourite Victorian sweet.
- Take part in the Christmas trail.
- Admission and activities are free, but timeslots need to be booked on kingslynncornexchange.co.uk/theatre/whats-on/event/audience-with-father-christmas/
Delicious jacket potatoes will be available to purchase from the Potato Pod.
Drinks will be available to purchase in the pop-up refreshment bar including mulled apple juice.
All taking place at St George’s Guildhall, 29 King St, King’s Lynn PE30 1HA. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information visit guildhall-events.co.uk
This event has been made possible thanks to funding from the Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk and the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Activities have been organised in association with Norfolk Museums Service.
For details about other events happening all around west Norfolk, go to www.visitwestnorfolk.com
Past events - 2023
Fawkes in the Walks
Friday 3 November, The Walks
Classic Car Day
Sunday 10 September, Tuesday Market Place
Mini Meet
Sunday 3 September, Tuesday Market Place
90’s/00’s Day
Sunday 27 August, Tuesday Market Place, 12pm - 4pm
FIFA Women's World Cup Final screening
Sunday 20 August, 10am - 4pm
Mods & Rockers
Sunday 13 August 2023, Tuesday Market Place
FIFA Women's World Cup Quarter Final screening - England vs Colombia
Saturday 12 August 2023, 11am - 2pm
Hanseatic Festival of Watersports
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 May 2023, Quayside
Coronation of HM The King & HM The Queen Consort
Saturday 6 May 2023
Soap Box Derby
Sunday 2 April 2023
Past events - 2022
Classic Car Day
Sunday 11 September 2022
Heritage Open Day King's Lynn
Sunday 11 September 2022
Mini Meet in the Tuesday Market Place
Sunday 4 September 2022
The King’s Lynn Summer Circus
Wednesday 24 August to Sunday 4 September
Simple Sounds
Sunday 28 August 2022
90s/00s Day
Sunday 21 August 2022
Mods and Rockers
Sunday 14 August 2022
Hanseatic Festival of Watersports
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August 2022
Soulful Sunday
Sunday 31 July 2022
Folk in the Town
Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July 2022
King's Lynn Festival
Sunday 17 to Saturday 30 July 2022
Festival Too
Saturday 25, Sunday 26 June, Friday 1, Saturday 2, Friday 8, and Saturday 9 July 2022
King’s Lynn Hanse Festival
Sunday 12 June 2022
Platinum Jubilee Celebration
Thursday 2 June - Sunday 5 June
Past events - 2021
Mintlyn Crematorium Christmas Carol Service
Thursday 13 December
Christmas Lights Switch-on
Sunday 25 November
Fawkes in the Walks
5 November 2021
Remembrance Sunday ceremonies
Sunday 11 November
Custom House winter events
Hunstanton Soap Box Derby
Sunday 30 September
King's Lynn Bubble Rush for EACH
The Walks, 26 September 2021
Family disco & games
Tuesday Market Place, 25 September 10am - 3pm
Mods and Rockers
Tuesday Market Place, 19 September 2021
Heritage Open Day
12 September 2021
The Time Machine, circus skills & bubbleology
Tuesday Market Place, 11 September 10am-4pm
TMPlay
Sunday 8 September
Mini Meet: in the market place
5 September 2021
Boogie Monsters
4 September, 12-4pm, Tuesday Market Place
Tuesday Market Place entertainment
Sat 28 & Sun 29 August
Fun in the Park
August Bank Holiday weekend, The Walks
GEAR 10K
22 August 2021
Silent Disco
14 August 2021 10am-5pm
Jacen and the Rocknorts
8 August 2021, 10am-5pm, Tuesday Market Place
D.I.S(NEY).C.O
7 August 2021 10am-5pm, Tuesday Market Place
Norfolk Day
27 July 2021