Chiswick Christmas Lights Switch on This Monday
Local school children to do the honours this year
Children with the Ukrainian flag at last year's Christmas light switch on
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November 25, 2023
This year Chiswick Christmas lights are to be switched on by a group of students from Chiswick School.
The illumination of the centre of town will begin at 5pm on Monday 27 November at a decorated Christmas tree near the Hogarth statue on the corner of Annandale Road and Chiswick High Road. The students will be performing a singalong.
There is a rumour that a Very Important Person wearing red, and with a white beard, might appear at the switch-on.
In addition, there will be musical entertainment with a pop-up performance by Wild Arts, an opera company which will be performing Handel's Messiah at St Michael and All Angels on Saturday, 9 December. Playing will be by Orlando Jopling, an acclaimed cellist, musical director, and conductor at the Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet; and Sijie Chen, a renowned period performer and the co-leader of the London Mozart Players.
The programme for the switch on will be roughly as follows, allowing for artistic licence on the night:
4.30 Wild Arts performance
4.40 Singalong with Chiswick School students
5.00 Christmas lights to be switched on
5.05 Wild Arts performance
5.15 Singalong with Chiswick School students
Chiswick will have two other decorated and lit trees this year, as last year. They will arrive the following week and be at the top of Turnham Green Terrace (near the tube station) and on Chiswick High Road outside Empire House (opposite the town hall).
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