Giant winter festival launches at Camp & Furnace with a very Bad Santa visiting after dark

The countdown is on for Camp and Furnace’s massive winter festival, Snö Garden which launches on Monday 18th December and runs for six days until Saturday 23rd December.

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Billed as an event for the whole family, Snö Garden is open early every day from 4.30pm, so younger festival-goers can join in the fun, as well as being a stop off for shoppers, after a day around the stores. Then from 9pm the event becomes adult only and Bad Santa arrives to check if you have been naughty or nice!

 Taking place in the venue’s Furnace room, which will be specially decorated with snow drifts, snowflakes, projections and a giant Christmas tree, each day kicks off with a much-loved Christmas movie being shown on a giant screen.

 The festival’s film programme includes Home Alone, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Elf, and Miracle on 34th Street. There’s also a Pop-Up Sweet Shop which will be selling traditional favourites like Candy Canes and Flavoured Popcorn to munch during the movies, along with bags of edible snow!

Camp and Furnace’s house band will perform live, with a whole variety of festive tunes to get you in the mood, or if you fancy getting on stage yourself, there’s Xmasoke plus you can belt out Christmas Classics in the Snö Garden Silent Disco.

Festival-goers can enjoy delicious twists on festive classics from food traders who’ll be serving up a selection of mouthwatering menus, and of course a trip to the Cocktail and Gin Bars is a must, where bespoke drinks menus have been created.

The Mulling Station will also be offering cider and whiskey versions, plus there’s also boozy Hot Chocolate available for the adults!

As Snö Garden heads into the evening, pay a visit to Bad Santa – the city’s first adults only Grotto. Get a selfie with Santa and find out how good or bad you’ve been this year, (and whether you’ll be punished or rewarded!)

But Bad Santa isn’t just any normal Santa! Legendary city DJ Pete Price will be putting on the classic red suit and white beard, to make his debut at Camp and Furnace. And anyone that expects Pete to appear at the Baltic Triangle venue as a traditional Father Christmas figure may be disappointed – this Santa has claws.

 

 “We’ve always been known for our Winter events at Camp and Furnace, they suit the venue perfectly and Snö Garden will be our biggest seasonal party so far.

There’s a whole host of activities for all the family as well as some of the region’s best food and drink traders, however we anticipate that Bad Santa may have his work cut out!

We’re also looking forward to making it snow every day – it’s under wraps how we’ll do it, but it’s going to be magical and of course it’s all taking place indoors so you can stay toasty warm, even when the temperature plummets!”