Events

Friday 12th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £25

Tickets are available HERE  by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Angela Barnes swapped a career in health and social care for stand up in 2010 and hasn’t looked back.

Within just a couple of years she had won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2011 and has since toured the UK and starred in BBC Two’s iconic 21 series Mock the Week as a regular, as well as Live at the Apollo, and Hypothetical on Dave.

She is a firm favourite on BBC Radio 4, having featured on The Now Show and The News Quiz – including a recent stint as the host, she also hosted BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Newsjack.

With support from some of the finest, funniest comedians around, she brings her hilarious brand of plain-speaking, self-effacing life lessons to Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall for the first time.

Saturday 13th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £25

Tickets are available HERE  by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The Chris Ingham Quintet featuring Joanna Eden

Celebrating 11 sell-out years at Ronnie Scott’s since 2012, this festive jazz entertainment is the perfect way to swing into the holidays. Fronted by vocal mentor to Grammy-Award winner Sam Smith, Joanna Eden.

A Swinging Christmas gathers jazzy festive favourites as made famous by Ella, Eartha, Frank, Doris, Dean, Bing and a whole gang of cool celluloid cats and hip Hollywood chicks.

An enchanting show rich with anecdote, sophistication and swing, it was described by one audience member as “pure joy”.

The UK’s answer to Norah Jones and Diana Krall Time Out on Joanna Eden 

Seek her out! Michael Parkinson 

One of the finest combos in the country and a seriously talented vocalist… a great evening that satisfied both jazz and movie buffs. Quite a trick. Jazz Journal 

The performance ends at approx. 9.45pm including an interval

The seating is a mix of tables at the front and tiered seating.

Tuesday 16th December 2025 at 10am

Doors & bar open at 10am

Tickets: Free entry no need to book

Tuesday 16th December 2025 is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
Join the celebrations with a day of talks, readings and music at the Jubilee Hall, interspersed with film, art, poetry, hot chocolate, Bath buns and dogs in bonnets in locations around the town.
At the Jubilee Hall, talks include Dr. Nicholas Clark from The Red House, who will investigate an opera planned by Benjamin Britten based on Mansfield Park, and Kate Drayton, who holds an Honorary Lectureship at UEA, on Jane Austen at the Seaside.
Did you know that Jane Austen had a literary crush on Aldeburgh poet, George Crabbe? Or that she wrote the songs of the day into a Songbook? And whatever happened to Mr. Wickham after he got married?

Programme of Events

All events between 10.30am and 2.00pm are free and open to all.

JUBILEE HALL
10.30 Doors open, Welcome, What’s On
10.45 Kate Drayton: Jane Austen at the Seaside
11.30 Selected Readings from the novels arranged by David Quilter
Audience members are invited to join in
12.45 Dr. Nicholas Clark, Librarian at The Red House, on Benjamin Britten’s preparatory work
for an opera based on Mansfield Park
1.30 Will Fergusson
Songs from The Jane Austen Songbook

2.30 Doors open for Being Mr Wickham
3.00 Being Mr. Wickham (£20) written by and starring Adrian Lukis, the original Mr. Wickham
from the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
book tickets HERE or 01728 454 022
4.00 30-minute Q & A with Adrian Lukis included in the ticket price

ALDEBURGH GALLERY
2.00 – 3.00 After Austen: Austen inspired poetry from local poets – free refreshments

THE ALDEBURGH BEACH LOOKOUT
Regency inspired art by local artists and cartoonists

THE SUFFOLK
4.30 Regency tea (£10)
book at the-suffolk.co.uk or 07831 601 411

ALDEBURGH CINEMA
7.30 Sense and Sensibility (1995) adapted by and starring Emma Thompson
book at aldeburghcinema.co.uk or 01728 454884

There will be a charge for hot chocolate by Tosier

For further details please contact
– Bridget Overton: bridget.c.overton@btinternet.com
– Kate Drayton: marshfieldkate@icloud.com or
– Vanessa Raison: vanessa.raison@btinternet.com

Tuesday 16th December, 3pm

Doors open at 2.30pm

Tickets: £20 available HERE

Wednesday 17th December 2025 at 6.00pm

Doors open at 5.30pm

Tickets: £4

Tickets are available HERE by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Friday 19th December 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £15 (21 and under £12)

Tickets are available HERE by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The best place by the festive fireside was always reserved for the storyteller. Join Edwyrdian Tales for an evening of haunting dark delights set during Christmastide, on our second national tour of ghostly tales of dread. This year our night of seasonal spirits features terrors from classic authors of the age… MR James and Marjorie Bowen.

In “Number 13” a traveller discovers that his hotel room is not quite all that it seems and that the Number 13 is indeed unlucky for some… In “Kecksies” two ill-mannered young Lords impose on the hospitality of a tenant accused of witchcraft, only to find that candles are lit for a funeral in the house. When they decide to play a cruel prank on those coming to pay their respects to the dead, no one will escape the consequences untouched.… And finally in “Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to you my Lad” a storm is whistled up along a bleak stretch of coastline, and a question howls upon the wind “Who is this who is coming…”

Bone chilling tales to conjure the spirits of Christmas…

A one-man performance, directed and haunted by Matthew Wood.

(Not suitable for children under 10 years of age)

Presented by Edwrydian Tales 

The performance ends at approx. 8.50pm. There is no interval.