The Corn Exchange Newbury’s Festival of Light is a winter lantern celebration in Newbury town centre on Sunday 13 December 2026, with handmade lanterns, performers and a large illuminated sculpture in the sky.

It is free and there is no booking required – just come into the town centre on the evening. Families who want to carry a lantern can join the Corn Exchange’s lantern-making workshops in the weeks before.

Newbury railway station is a few minutes’ walk from the Market Place, where the festival centres.