News, events and schools' information for families across Bath and West Wiltshire

Families across Bath, Bristol and beyond can save money on thousands of tickets for music, theatre, art and museum exhibitions, cinema, festivals, science centre and children’s events in a 24-hour flash sale from 10am on Thursday (18 January).

Highlights of the sale include –

25% off 19 events at The Bath Festival including Ben Folds and A Piano, a cappella band Vocal Sampling, Roderick Williams singing Schubert’s Song Cycles with pianist Iain Burnside, Lars Vogt playing the Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, authors Maggie O’Farrell, Rose Tremain and Adam Kay, plus much more. Limited tickets available.

Best seat tickets at £20 for Theatre Royal Bath’s Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

£20 family tickets for the Family Drawing Festival at The Edge

25% off selected shows through Bath Box Office, including tickets to a Handful of Singers, Next Stage Theatre Company and Bath Philharmonia.

20% off Fashion Museum, Bath’s Twilight Talks

25% off 40 classical, jazz, folk, world and family concerts, at St George’s Bristol, including BBC Young Musician of The Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Chineke! Orchestra, Tigran, The Hidden Orchestra and Limbic Cinema, plus MiniBeats

25% off selected shows at Colston Hall and The Lantern, including the LSO, Ed Byrne, Dear Esther Live, and film screenings of Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark with full orchestra, as well as events for Slapstick Festival and Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival

20% off tickets for Bristol Old Vic’s The Cherry Orchard and A Monster Calls

25% off films such as The Post and Three Boards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at the Watershed

Savings on tickets for Electric Shadows at The Cathedral, and The Cary Grant Film Festival, at Bristol Cathedral

£25 off four-day adult camping ticket at WOMAD

50% off tickets for Natalie Imbruglia at Bristol SU Live

50% off The Dark Side of The Moon, The Fulldome Experience at We The Curious

50% off Building Better Homes exhibition at The Architecture Centre

Savings at Visit Bristol’s online shop and Bristol Museum and Arts Gallery

One of the biggest arts sales across the UK, this is the third 24-hour cultural sale in Bath, and the eights in Bristol. Deals can be found by following the Twitter hashtag of #CultureFlashSale with a full list of events available on the Visit Bristol website at visitbristol.co.uk, and Visit Bath at visitbath.co.uk by 9.30am on Thursday 18th January.

Ian Stockley, CEO of Bath Festivals said: “We are delighted to offer 25% off events in The Bath Festival programme as well as other Bath Festivals’ events for this 24-hour period. We strive to give people access to the arts at affordable prices, as well as encouraging them to experience new types of music and literature; and the flash sale certainly helps with this.”

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