Christmas events in San Francisco

Christmas is a festival, which is celebrated around the world. Every country and every city celebrates this festival in its own vigor and enthusiasm. San Francisco is a city, where a number of events are organized. Christmas events in San Francisco are various in kind and they start taking place from the middle of November and continue until the New Year celebrations. Given below are the

programs and events in San Francisco during Christmas:

 

Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco

The annual Lighting Ceremony reaches to its 39 year in 2011. In this event, a colossus 50-foot tall Christmas tree is exhibited. The Christmas tress is decorated with lots of lights and accessories such as Chocolate bars, ornaments, red ribbons, stars, and candles. You can experience the performance by Ghirardelli Christmas carolers. If you want, you can pay a visit to Saint Nick. There are plenty of cafes in this area and Ghirardelli cafí© is one of the most popular ones. This festival takes place on November 26. The show starts with the musical theatre performance, which is followed by various puppet shows, stilt walkers, and the tree lighting ceremony. This is an open-to-all festival in San Francisco.

Great Dickens Christmas Fair, San Francisco

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair takes place at the Cow Palace Exhibition Hall. This is more like a fun fair, where everyone is dressed like the real life characters from the Charles Dickens' novels such as A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. The visitors to this fair can sample their Christmas favors. This fair starts from November 29 and continues until November 31 from 10 am to 6 pm. This is a ticketed event, for which an adult has to pay 16 dollars while a child has to pay 6 dollars.

Celebration of Craftswomen, San Francisco

This festival takes place at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center. Christmas brings the greatest festive season across the year and this festival is the ideal event, where you can witness various artifacts and crafts by the talented artists of the country. This year, the Celebration of Craftswomen festival reached its 25th year. All the crafts and art works are for sale and most of them have a feminine touch. This festival will continue from November 29 to November 30 from 10 am to 6 pm. The entry fee of this festival can vary from 5 to 7 dollars while for the children it is free.

Holiday Festival of Lights

Fisherman's Wharf takes a different shape during Christmas. Bright lights and colorful stores will attract all the visitors to the small corner of the city. This is a heaven for shopaholics, since there are a number of Christmas stores in this vicinity. The list of popular stores includes the Cannery, Pier 39, The Anchorage Shopping Center, and Ghirardelli Square. There is a Christmas tree in this area, which marks as one of the major attractions of this festival. This tree makes the way to the restaurants and stores of Fisherman's Wharf. This festival will start on November 26 and continue until December 31.

Apart from the aforementioned Christmas events in San Francisco, there are many events to mention. Some of them are:

Marin Art and Garden Center: This festival takes place on December 6 and 7.

Macy's Union Square Tree Lighting Ceremony: This tree lighting event takes place on November 28.

Last updated on 18/07/2011