{"id":27468,"date":"2018-11-30T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=27468"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:27:15","slug":"alexandra-palace-is-ready-to-celebrate-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/alexandra-palace-is-ready-to-celebrate-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Palace is ready to celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The reopening of the theatre is good reason to get excited as it last hosted a show 80 years ago. After a nearly 20 million pound restoration, the theatre is ready to kick Christmas things off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqmyJudAx4a\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC Christmas Family Orchestra will have the honour of being the first to fill the Victorian building with warmth and joy again on 1 December.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the reopening the Palace is organising the Ally Pally Christmas Carnival running through December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqkNJ1pg3SH\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the opening weekend, the carnival will welcome a Santa\u2019s grotto as well as a Christmas market where local producers\u2019 booths will make you want to spend your entire salary on festive decorations.<\/p>\n<p>And the celebrations don\u2019t end here, a funfair and in-house ice rink will give you one more excuse to make the journey to North London &#8211; if ice skating makes you hungry stop by the StrEAT food market.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the place will host the winter pop-up Luna Cinema, so you better get ready for the screenings of Elf and Love Actually on 10 December.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Kiara Vigo l Subbing: Millie Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reopening of the theatre is good reason to get excited as it last hosted a show 80 years ago. After a nearly 20 million pound restoration, the theatre is ready to kick Christmas things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":27485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1332,1645,3769],"class_list":["post-27468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-culture","tag-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}