Leicester Square Reimagined for Christmas 2016

Underbelly won Best Festival at the 2014 UK Festival Awards for its reimagining of Edinburgh's Christmas and helped develop Winter at Southbank Centre into one of London's most popular winter destinations.

In London, Underbelly is also known for its Udderbelly and London Wonderground festivals on the Southbank and as the Event Producer for Pride in London and Production Partner for West End Live. Now it brings a newly conceived event, Christmas in Leicester Square, to the heart of London's vibrant West End, with La Soirée in the Spiegeltent, the Christmas Market and Santa's Grotto. It's the perfect destination to indulge in the season of good cheer, whether you want to party with La Soirée, take a visit to Santa's Grotto or stroll through the traditional Christmas Market, with its fair of crafters, artists and gastronomic surprises.

Underbelly are delighted to welcome La Soirée as a major part of Christmas in Leicester Square. This season of La Soirée will offer audiences a bounty of familiar pleasures and sensational surprises, including much-loved favourites Ursula Martinez, The English Gents, Hamish McCann's pole act, and last year's show-stopper Denis Lock's bubble act, plus a host of fresh and thrilling new talent. So shimmy on over to the vintage Spiegeltent in its new home at Christmas in Leicester Square, a velvet-draped salon of carved wood, polished mirrors, crystal and leadlight and prepare to be charmed, astonished and electrified by the loveable crème de la crème of the cabaret world. Further acts will be revealed in due course. La Soirée is presented by Brett Haylock, Mark Rubinstein and Mick Perrin.

Underbelly and Westminster City Council are also delighted to announce Winter Windows as part of Christmas in Leicester Square. This community engagement project will give 20 schoolchildren in Westminster the opportunity to exhibit their stained Glass window designs on the north side of Leicester Square. Twenty schools (primary and secondary) will run internal competitions to select a pupil to design a winter stained Glass window. The designs are then enlarged, rear lit and displayed as a free exhibition in Leicester Square.

Underbelly Directors Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood said: "We're delighted to be bringing a European Christmas to the centre of London and presenting Leicester Square with something for everyone from the world famous La Soirée and their perfect Christmas night out, to the Christmas Market from Germany for shoppers to the Santa's Grotto for children."

Tickets for La Soirée and the Santa's Grotto can be purchased from www.christmasinleicestersquare.com

Artwork by Nuffsed.co.uk

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