May 2019
Craft and Gift Market
Boston's Craft and Gift Markets offers a selection of bespoke, unique items, perfect for gifts or beautiful additions to your home. The Craft and Gift Markets run every Thursday in the Market Place, Boston. If you would like to trade at the Craft and Gift Markets, please email events@boston.gov.uk or download our application form and our terms and conditions.
Find out more »Craft and Gift Market and Dementia Awareness Day
Our Dementia Awareness Day will be running alongside the Boston Craft and Gift Market. There will be information, crafts and more and it's free to attend! Boston's Craft and Gift Markets offers a selection of bespoke, unique items, perfect for gifts or beautiful additions to your home. The Craft and Gift Markets run every Thursday in the Market Place, Boston. If you would like to trade at the Craft and Gift Markets, please email events@boston.gov.uk or download our application form…
Find out more »June 2019
Nostalgic Boston Talk – Roy Hackford
Roy Hackford joins us to share through images and words some of the history of the town of Boston. With art work from George Hackford, a relation to Roy, who during his life painted scenes of Boston, ran a curio shop from Church Keys and took photographs of Boston there’s lots to talk about and view both before and after the talk.
Find out more »1940s Outdoor Cinema Screening – Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
To fit with Boston's 1940s weekend, we will be showing two films from around the 1940s era. On Friday 21st June we will be showing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and on Saturday 22nd June we will be showing The Dam Busters (1955). In this Disney Classic, Snow White is pursued by a jealous queen, forced to make new friends and find her happy ending. Get your tickets here. Gates will open at 5pm on the night, Film start…
Find out more »1940’s American Themed Afternoon Tea
With the 1940’s vibe throughout Boston for this weekend, we wanted to join in with the theme and all things 1940’s. To highlight our historic links with America we have added an American twist – we have opted to share an American Tea Party theme for this special event! For a copy of the menu or for more information please contact us. If you’d like to book your tickets please contact us here at Boston Guildhall Wednesday – Saturday 10:30am…
Find out more »1940s Event
One of Boston's most popular events will be returning for 2019! There will be live music and entertainment in Central Park from 10am, featuring a vintage fair, afternoon tea parlours, live performances from Dream Belles, Sarah Jane, Kirton Brass Band, Coningsby Military Wives Choir and much more plus vintage cars, tractors and engines, re-enactments and vintage trade stalls. A flypast will be confirmed nearer the date. All of this is available for free due to funding from Boston Big Local.…
Find out more »July 2019
Through the Ages
Walk through the ages at Boston's Central Park on Saturday the 6th and Sunday 7th July! The park will be taken over by different re-enactment groups including Victorians, vikings and more! You can watch blacksmiths at work, witness epic battles, and learn about how people in different times used to live.
Find out more »Get Cycling Roadshow
The Get Cycling Roadshow is a great free family day out where you can try out a range of conventional and unconventional bikes as well as KMX karts and the Mega Bike*. This is a free event thanks to Boston Big Local funding this event. *subject to availability
Find out more »August 2019
Teddy Bears Picnic
Following the success of this event for 2018 we are pleased to announce it will return to the calendar for 2019 with the support once again from Oldrids & Downtown. Activities will include: face painting, circus Skills, photo Booth, children's rides & much more! This is a free event to attend but some activities may have a small charge.
Find out more »Messy Hand and Feet Painting
Join The Joker Entertainment in Central Park to create masterpieces with hands and feet. Messy Hands and Feet Painting means you can get involved and work is displayed for all to see. The activity is simple and quick allowing all ages and abilities to take part. Free event. The image used is from Unsplash by Bernard Hermant
Find out more »Active Boston
At the Active Boston event, you can try out different sports and activities, have a go at the climbing wall, learn more about healthy eating and loads more! This is a free event thanks to Boston Big Local funding.
Find out more »Boston Beach Days
Boston Beach Days will return for 2019 supported again by Boston Big Local to allow us to run two free days of activity with donkey rides, beach fun, bouncy castles and much more.
Find out more »Pirate Gold Digging
The Joker Entertainment will give you the chance to dig for gold; find the gold coins and gems hidden in the sand pits and re-bury them for the the next little pirate to find. Suitable for all ages. Free event
Find out more »September 2019
Outdoor Cinema – Mary Poppins Returns
Supported by Chattertons Solicitors & Wealth Management Boston's outdoor cinema will return again. Get your tickets here. 'Mary Poppins Returns': In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. 100 Early bird tickets are available at a discounted rate, once sold the standard tickets will become available. These online tickets will be available to buy up to the day of the screening providing there…
Find out more »Outdoor Cinema – Moana
Supported by Chattertons Solicitors & Wealth Management Boston's outdoor cinema will return again. Get your tickets here. 'Moana': Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated adventure about a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a…
Find out more »November 2019
Boston Christmas Market 2019
Boston Christmas Market will return for 2019 on the 21st of November. The Christmas Market will feature live entertainment in the evening, a variety of stalls in the Market Place and Wide Bargate, Santa's Grotto (in the Stump), the Lights Switch On, by Christmas in Boston.and much more! As with previous years, the event will feature an Illuminate Parade by Transported Arts to celebrate our historical links with the Pilgrims and our ties to America.
Find out more »December 2019
Festive Market and Santa Fun Run
The Boston Festive Market will be joined, once again, by the Santa Fun Run! In 2018 there were over 350 Santas running through the town. The event will include live entertainment throughout the day and plenty of stalls to get those last minute presents! Watch this space for more information.
Find out more »August 2020
Market Day
No market town is complete without the hustle and bustle of it's market day, and Boston hosts traders from across the region each Wednesday and Saturday. Traditional market goods of fresh fruit, vegetables and meats are on offer, together with contemporary clothing, electronics and arts & crafts. To apply for a stall please fill out the Markets Policy and Application Form A stall can be made available on the market every Saturday for use by charities and local organisations. This…
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