If you’re looking for holiday fun, you don’t have to look very far. FCC, the Tower District, and Downtown Fresno have events planned that will help you enjoy the very best that this season has to offer.
The Fresno City College music department presents us with “Singing in the Season,” where our very own Symphonic Choir and City Singers will perform Daniels Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata. This event will be Dec. 6, 2013, at 7:30p.m. in the Old Administration Building Auditorium. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and students.
During the first three weekends of December, the Tower District is giving us some holiday cheer. Sunnyside High School and Roosevelt School of the Arts will be singing in the seasons at Tower restaurants on both Friday and Saturday nights, Dec. 6 through the 21. Also, Saturday, December 7, 14 and 21, Santa Claus is coming to Tower. He will be outside of Tower Theatre greeting anyone who wishes to see him.
If you’re wishing however, to experience some of the finest art that Christmas has to offer, make sure to get your tickets to “The Nutcracker.” You will have two opportunities to catch this classic holiday Ballet: one is part of the Fresno Grand Opera season and is presented to us by the Valley Performing Arts Council, featuring the nationally-acclaimed Sacramento Ballet with the Fresno Ballet Theatre. You can see this Ballet Saturday Nov. 30 at 1p.m. and Sunday Nov. 1 at 1p.m. The other opportunity you have to see “The Nutcracker” is presented to us by the Lively Arts Foundation and Central California Ballet. This show will run Saturday, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. also Sunday, Dec. 15 at 2 p.m.
Some of the most popular Christmas songs find their root in Jazz, so if you’re looking to enjoy these classic sounds of Christmas Love The Captive is Presenting Monday Jazz, Christmas edition, featuring The Jules Winnfield, and DJ Mr. Leonard. The show will be held at Audie’s Olympic on Dec.23 at 8p.m. It is 21 and over, and will also double as a Toys for Tots benefit. Admission is free with a toy, and $5 without one. For more information visit Love the Captive’s website.
To revisit a portion of the classic Christmas books you loved as a child, you can go check out Downtown Fresno’s 84th annual Christmas parade whose theme this year is “A Story Book Christmas.” The Parade will begin at the Fulton Mall at 11a.m. on Dec. 7.
Lastly, Downtown Fresno is gracing us with some classic holiday cheer that our hot Fresno weather has often denied us. Downtown Fresno has opened an ice rink that will be ready for skating now through Jan. 20. The rink is open daily at 11a.m. and is located at the Fulton Mall. There will be events going on at the rink throughout the holiday season and all the information you need is on Downtown Fresno’s website.
