Shildon Hearts 2025
Friday 14th of February 2025
Baccanalia’s ‘Shildon Hearts’ occurred on Friday, 14th February 2025, across Shildon Town Square and Locomotion Railway Museum. The event was a follow on from last year’s Shildon Leap Festival.
Heritage Festival Bishop Auckland 2024
Saturday 28th of September 2024
Baccanalia produced the Bishop Auckland Heritage Festival 2024 on Saturday 28th September, in partnership with Bishop Town Council, predominantly taking place in Bishop Auckland Market Place & Town Hall. This is the second time Baccanalia has produced the festival.
Family Festival 2024
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of August 2024
Baccanalia produced the Bishop Auckland Family Festival, at Jane Armstrong Park, Bishop Auckland. Linking with Bishop Auckland Town Hall’s summer activity program and the national touring exhibition, Carboniferous Monsters, the family festival was all about ‘100 million years before the dinosaurs.
pride bishop Auckland 2024
Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd June 2024
Baccanalia produced the inaugural two-day Pride
Bishop Auckland festival along with the students
at Bishop Auckland College on Friday 21st and
Saturday 22nd June.
Shildon Leap Festival 2024
Thursday 29th February 2024
The event was a fantastic success. Throughout the evening, over 2,000 residents gathered to enjoy the entertainment, culinary delights, and installations created by the pupils of St John's CE Primary School.
Bishop Auckland's Christmas Town
Friday 24th - Sunday 26th November 2023
Even bigger than the previous two years, this year's Christmas Town commanded nearly 40,000 visitors to enjoy the festivities! Including Santa's Grotto, the ice rink, the giant snow globe and a Ferris wheel new for 2023.
The cabaret club 2023
Over the course of 2023
We welcomed multi Cabaret acts to Bishop Auckland. We had a mixture of comedy, music and also some that merged the two.
One of the acts, Nana Funk, was so popular that we invited her back to host our Big Christmas Quiz at Christmas Town!
street food markets 2023
On the last Friday of every month March-October
We teamed up with Bridge Creative to bring you the Street Food Markets. This included various traders offering different cuisines and treats, along with live entertainment.
Heritage Festival Bishop Auckland 2023
Saturday 23rd September 2023
A journey of discovery and memories of the town and its people. Free exhibitions: walking tours, family activities, vintage cars, guest speakers, displays, and a whole host of local partners and organisations who brought our heritage to life!
Bishop Auckland's Christmas town
18th - 20th November 2022
Attracting 17,000 people with Christmas Joy, our Grotto, Markets, Ice Rink, performances, workshops and entertainment were a roaring success in 2022.

hallows haunt
22nd October 2022
Our Halloween events included a giant troll & animatronic spider stomping around the Marketplace and a spooky piece of theatre with Tales from a Haunted Bookshop!
Simon David: White Gay
28th October 2022
Simon belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay! Simon had a catchy song for just about everything wrong with the community he loves to hate!
the platinum jubilee
2nd - 4th June 2022
In June we produced a Jubilee party and picnic with live entertainment, lighting of the beacon, and traditional games accompanied by afternoon teas, a vintage car show and fair ground rides.

Baccanalia festival
30th April - 1st May 2022
Our entertainment festival with something for everyone began with cabaret, music, theatre, comedy and family shows. Our headliner was Paul Sinha who received a standing ovation.

Bishop Auckland's Christmas town
26th - 28th November 2021
Christmas Town began in 2021 and despite challenges, it received incredible feedback making it an endeavour we had to bring back for 2022!

