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Glastonbury starts tonight with Abbot Extraordinary: The Life of Walter de Monington at Abbey House, before Thursday's Little Discoverers - Sparkle Jars and a Saturday packed with yoga and two life-drawing workshops. Street then gets its own evening spectacle with Street FC fireworks night on Saturday, before both towns pause for their respective Remembrance services on Sunday.

Shepton Mallet has rather decisively solved the problem of an empty November diary. Illuminate the Night - Somerset brings fireworks, lasers and entertainment to the Bath & West Showground on Thursday, before the Antique & Collectors Fair opens on Friday. Saturday brings both Shepton Mallet Rotary Club fireworks and the wetlands walk at Heal Somerset, before Sunday turns to the town's Remembrance service at the Cenotaph.

Wednesday, 4 November still has time for some history in Glastonbury, where Abbot Extraordinary: The Life of Walter de Monington takes place at Abbey House from 7pm to 8pm. Dr Tim Hopkinson-Ball will explore the life and legacy of Walter de Monington, Abbot of Glastonbury from 1342 to 1375. Doors open at 6.30pm and tickets cost £6, with attendance limited to 40 people. Medieval abbots do not usually get Wednesday night billing, but Glastonbury has never been especially constrained by ordinary diary rules.

Also continuing in Glastonbury is Art of Touch, a six-day deep-tissue massage training course for women running until Sunday, 8 November. The listing offers both course-only and accommodation options, with prospective participants asked to contact the organiser for individual pricing and further information.

Thursday, 5 November starts gently at Abbey House with Little Discoverers - Sparkle Jars from 10.30am to 11.30am. The session is aimed at children under five and their carers, who will make mini lanterns from recycled materials inspired by the way Glastonbury Abbey was once lit. The activity is included with Abbey admission or membership, and suitably messy clothing is recommended. Small children, recycled materials and glue before lunch: experienced carers will know the drill.

Bonfire Night gets considerably louder later on Thursday as Illuminate the Night - Somerset takes over the Bath & West Showground from 4pm to 9pm. The programme combines fireworks and laser displays with a funfair, street food, bars, fire breathers, LED robots and roaming entertainers. It is not a particularly restrained interpretation of 5 November, which is probably rather the point.

Friday, 6 November sees Antique & Collectors Fair open at the Bath & West Showground for a three-day run. Around 600 stands are expected, selling everything from jewellery, china and paintings to coins, postcards, vintage toys, militaria and luggage. The fair is open from 9am to 5pm, with free parking, and dogs are welcome on short leads. Anyone entering with the words "I'm only looking" may wish to remember them for later.

Shepton Mallet also has its regular Friday market on 6 November, running in the town from 8.30am to 1pm. The market forms part of the town's recurring weekly programme, giving shoppers a rather more traditional Friday morning option before the weekend properly gets ideas above its station.

Saturday, 7 November is where the diary becomes particularly crowded.

Glastonbury Abbey House hosts Life Drawing with Sticks and Ink from 9.30am to 12.30pm. Artist and teacher Lucy Litchfield will guide participants through life drawing using natural materials including sticks, stones, herbs and berries. The workshop is open to all abilities and costs £55, including materials. Apparently pencils were simply too predictable.

At 10am, Abbey House also hosts a Winter Mini Yoga Retreat. The three-hour session uses gentle movement, breathwork, yoga nidra and meditation to prepare for the colder months. It costs £40, tea and coffee are provided, and both beginners and experienced participants are welcome.

The drawing continues at Abbey House in the afternoon with Life Drawing with Collage from 2pm to 5pm. Participants will use cut and torn papers, including vintage wallpaper, maps and books, to create collaged interpretations of the human form. The workshop costs £55 and includes materials. Those doing both sessions will have spent a very respectable portion of Saturday reconsidering what counts as drawing equipment.

Near Frome, Wet, Wet, Wet: Beaver and Human Wetlands of Heal Somerset runs from 10am to noon at Heal Somerset. Rewilding ranger Daniel Hill will lead a walk and talk looking at how beavers and people are helping restore wetland habitats, including the effects of dams, ponds and scrapes on water movement and biodiversity. It is probably the week's strongest opportunity to discuss civil engineering carried out by something with considerably larger front teeth than most contractors.

Further north, the RNLI Mendip Branch Christmas Pop-Up Sale takes place at Winscombe Community Centre from 10am to noon. Entry is free, with Christmas cards, stocking fillers, jigsaws, bulbs, cakes, puddings, household goods and other donated items on sale, alongside refreshments and a raffle raising funds for the RNLI. Christmas puddings have entered the diary, so November is now officially committed.

Street gets its own Bonfire weekend celebration on Saturday when Street FC fireworks night returns to The Tannery. Gates open at 6pm, with live music, food stalls and an open bar planned alongside the fireworks. The exact display time is being communicated separately by the club.

Shepton Mallet is also lighting the sky on Saturday with Shepton Mallet Rotary Club fireworks at West Shepton Playing Fields off Old Wells Road. Gates open at 6.15pm, with the bonfire due to be lit at 7pm. Advance tickets are listed at £6 for adults, £3 for children aged five to 15 and £18 for two adults and three children, while under-fours go free. Parking is limited and dogs, sparklers and personal fireworks are not permitted. Shepton has therefore provided both an enormous commercial fireworks event on Thursday and a community bonfire on Saturday, in case one evening of staring upwards was insufficient.

The Antique & Collectors Fair also continues throughout Saturday and Sunday at the Bath & West Showground, with its hundreds of stands offering a somewhat calmer alternative to the evening pyrotechnics.

Wells Art Contemporary reaches the final day of its run at Wells Cathedral on Saturday. This year's "For what is time?" exhibition includes 20 installations around the Cathedral and 100 artworks in the Cloisters. After nearly a month devoted to asking what time is, Saturday finally supplies one definite answer: closing day.

Sunday, 8 November is Remembrance Sunday, with commemorations taking place in Wells, Glastonbury, Street and Shepton Mallet.

In Wells, the Remembrance Sunday parade and service begins with a service at St Cuthbert's Church at 10.15am. A two-minute silence will be observed at 11am, followed by wreath-laying at the War Memorial. Veterans, Armed Forces personnel and the Wells Civic Party will then parade along the High Street before continuing towards Brown's Gate and the Harry Patch Memorial. City-centre road closures will be in place from 8am until noon.

Wells Cathedral holds its own Remembrance 2026 programme, beginning with a Cathedral Eucharist and Act of Remembrance at 10.30am. At 3pm, Wells Cathedral Choir will perform Fauré's Requiem in a free devotional service, which concludes with the Cathedral's traditional poppy drop. A retiring collection will support the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal and Wells Cathedral.

In Shepton Mallet, the Remembrance Sunday service takes place at the High Street Cenotaph. Those attending are asked to assemble at 10.35am, with the parade falling in at 10.45am, the service beginning at 10.47am and the two-minute silence observed at 11am. Wreath-laying follows before the parade moves to St Peter and St Paul's Church.

Glastonbury's Town Remembrance Service takes place at St John's Church at 11am, following the town parade, wreath-laying and two-minute silence. The church service will also be live-streamed.

Street's Remembrance Parade and Service begins at 2.30pm. Organised by Street Parish Council with Street Royal British Legion, the service includes wreath-laying at Street United Reformed Church and Merriman Park, with everyone welcome to attend.

Monday, 9 November also marks the next stage of Somerset's Guy Fawkes Carnival circuit, with Burnham-on-Sea Carnival beginning at 7.30pm. It is outside the immediate four-town patch, but close enough for anyone already counting down to Shepton Mallet, Wells and Glastonbury Carnivals later in the month to get an early fix of illuminated carts. Shepton Mallet Carnival follows on 18 November, Wells on 20 November and Glastonbury on 21 November.

Wednesday, 11 November brings Armistice Day. At Wells Cathedral, the Armistice Day Act of Remembrance begins at 10.57am at the War Memorial in the North Transept, including the two-minute silence at 11am, Last Post and Reveille. Wells City Council and the Royal British Legion will also hold an observance at the Conduit in Wells Market Place from 10.55am.

Throughout the week, Moments of Light continues at Dorothy House Hospice Care in Winsley. Bruce Munro's large-scale installation marks the hospice's 50th anniversary and runs until 31 December, using thousands of illuminated forms across the grounds to create a space for reflection, remembrance and connection.

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