Lighting up
Pop group S Club 7 perform the annual ritual of switching on the Christmas lights in London's Oxford Street next week. The ceremony takes place outside John Lewis. They will then be lit at dusk until January 6.
Monday, November 19, 6pm. Free. oxfordstreet.co.uk.
Mud tussle
Watch rally drivers, including Britain's Colin McRae and Richard Burns, splash up the mud next week on a gruelling tussle over almost 1,000 miles of Forestry Commission roads.
Network Q Rally starts and finishes in Cardiff. November 22 -25. Ticket prices (for individual, some or all stages) £15-£125 adults, £7.50-£85 children (aged 8 and under free). 01327 850291, networkq.co.uk.
Tor by torchlight
A mile-long illuminated procession will wind through Glastonbury today as the Somerset town stages its annual Guy Fawkes carnival. Singing, dancing and some 10,000 light bulbs.
From 7pm until around 9pm. Free. 01458 832954.
Newson's choice
A cosmonaut's space suit and a hand-made Rich Harbour surfboard are among the choices made by designer Marc Newson, this year's guest curator invited by Sir Terence Conran to spend £30,000 on "things you'd like to live with".
Conran Foundation Collection at the Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1. November 24-February 24, 10am-5.45pm (last admission 5.15pm). £6 adults, £4 concessions, £16 families. 020-7940 8790, designmuseum.org.
University collage
Collages by the celebrated Scottish artists Philip Reeves are on display in a retrospective exhibition at the University of Edinburgh.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, South Bridge. Until December 15, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Free 0131-650 2211, trg.ed.ac.uk.
Sounds of Africa
Ranging from township jazz to spirituals and drawing on Xhosa, Zulu and Suthu vocal traditions, the South African Gospel Singers are on stage in York tomorrow night.
Theatre Royal, St Leonard's Place. 7.30pm. £10-£16 adults/children, £8-£14 concessions. 01904 623568, theatre-royal-york.co.uk.
Seasonal eatings
Learn the history of punch, Christmas puddings and mince pies and how to make them from chef Alison Sloane in Norfolk tomorrow.
Oxburgh Hall, King's Lynn. 11.30am-4pm. £14. 01366 328258.
Formal dressage
Elegant riders and white Lipizzaner stallions of Vienna's Spanish Riding School perform dressage from Pas de Deux to Caprioles at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.
November 22-24, 8pm, November 25, 3pm. Tickets £15£55 (plus £1.75- £3.75 booking fee). 0870 9094133, necgroup.co.uk.
