This is the last week to see famous painter Sheba Sharrow’s work at Monmouth University in Long Branch. The event will close on December 3rd.
The Community House is the most beautiful and joyful place to visit during Christmastime. Our production of Scrooge has become a holiday tradition for generations of families. If you’ve never experienced this spectacular production, treat yourself and your loved ones to our thirty-fifth annual production. The tale of the mean, old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge is known and loved by everyone. No one does it better, we promise! Order early, we usually sell out by Thanksgiving. Thank You Very Much, Happiness, Father Christmas, The Wish, Beautiful Day are some of the beloved songs that are part of this legendary musical.
Tuckerton Seaport rolls out the holly for the Annual Christkindlmarkt on December 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. This is a family fun three day event with late night hours on Friday, celebrating the traditions of the season with a Holiday Market and Craft Fair under a huge heated tent and throughout the Seaport buildings. Come jump start your holiday shopping. Get in the holiday spirit with a horse drawn wagon ride.
Interested in making your own holiday gifts or decorations? Drop in to Master Basketmaker Mary May’s Christmas Ornament Class on Saturday or Sunday. Classes begin at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm with a fee of $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers plus $7 for materials. Students can come for two hours and make one stocking, or stay all day and make more.
Featuring:
• Family Friendly Holiday Market & Craft Fair
• Food Truck Food Court
• Live Entertainment
• 50 Craft, Gift, and Gourmet Vendors
• Demonstrators throughout the Seaport’s buildings
Get into the holiday spirit and enjoy an evening of shopping, Christmas Caroling, and dining at Boonton! Businesses will be open late and the Main Street will be decorated for your convenience and enjoyment. Enter your gingerbread house to win the annual Best Gingerbread House in Boonton Contest!
The Christmas Holiday Market Place is an indoor crafter and vendor event with vendors offering arts, crafts, gifts, holiday items, and new merchandise. There will also be Christmas activities and Santa.
Come to the Manasquan Business District for the annual Manasquan Candy Cane Hunt! The night will begin with the tree lighting ceremony, followed by the hunt. Please bring a non-perishable item to donate to the Manasquan Food Pantry. Items will be collected in bins on Main Street.
The Historic Organ Restoration Committee will conclude their 2017 series with their annual Christmas Spectacular. Showing off the versatility of the W.W. Kimball Opus 7073 we will have silent film shorts, a Christmas Carol Sing Along as well as other various acts with both the curatorial and outreach staff as well as their volunteers serving up plenty of Chirstmas Cheer!
Join us for a wonderful retelling of “A Christmas Carol” to get into the holiday spirit. The program takes place in our Historic Allaire Chapel and is presented by Maggie Worsdale and the Traveling Literary Theatre at 5 PM. Tickets are $20 per person.
A unique and entertaining spin on an age-old tale. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever has an edge – but the edge is funny, irreverent, and irresistible. Author Barbara Robinson’s prose is fast, clever, and very funny. Though it’s all in fun, it offers a subtle but important lesson: Just because you’re bad doesn’t mean you’re hopeless.
There’s no better way to celebrate the holiday season than to spend a special evening with the Orchestra of Saint Peter by the Sea in a program of holiday classics and carols under the direction of Reverend Alphonse Stephenson. Distinguished vocalists perform beautiful arias and treasured classics in between humorous and personal anecdotes imparted by Reverend Alphonse Stephenson, the consummate entertainer. Be sure to get your tickets early for this annual sell out!
A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren’s 1973 solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular music.
The American Cancer Fund and Run2Health.com team up for our annual “Run Santa Run” 5K Fun Run and 1-Mile Walk at Brookdale Park in Montclair / Bloomfield, NJ. A family fun morning in one of Essex County’s most beautiful parks. Our 5K Fun Run / 1-Mile Family Walk is led by the one and only, Santa. Register by November 15th to receive a free Santa hat.
Originally from New York, now dividing his time between Buenos Aires, Argentina and New York’s Hudson Valley, Richard Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be.
Ever wonder what goes on behind those closed doors at the aquarium? Join our staff members as they take you on a guided tour of the building from top to bottom! Pre-registration and sneakers are required. Call 732-899-1659 to reserve your spot(s) today. For ages 5 and up only.
The Community House is the most beautiful and joyful place to visit during Christmastime. Our production of Scrooge has become a holiday tradition for generations of families. If you’ve never experienced this spectacular production, treat yourself and your loved ones to our thirty-fifth annual production. The tale of the mean, old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge is known and loved by everyone. No one does it better, we promise! Order early, we usually sell out by Thanksgiving. Thank You Very Much, Happiness, Father Christmas, The Wish, Beautiful Day are some of the beloved songs that are part of this legendary musical.
Tuckerton Seaport rolls out the holly for the Annual Christkindlmarkt on December 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. This is a family fun three day event with late night hours on Friday, celebrating the traditions of the season with a Holiday Market and Craft Fair under a huge heated tent and throughout the Seaport buildings. Come jump start your holiday shopping. Get in the holiday spirit with a horse drawn wagon ride.
Interested in making your own holiday gifts or decorations? Drop in to Master Basketmaker Mary May’s Christmas Ornament Class on Saturday or Sunday. Classes begin at 10am, 11am, 2pm, and 3pm with a fee of $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers plus $7 for materials. Students can come for two hours and make one stocking, or stay all day and make more.
Featuring:
• Family Friendly Holiday Market & Craft Fair
• Food Truck Food Court
• Live Entertainment
• 50 Craft, Gift, and Gourmet Vendors
• Demonstrators throughout the Seaport’s buildings
From its earliest settlements, Ocean Township—like most of Monmouth County—was farmland. Our founding families—the Potters, Drummonds, Whites, Tuckers, land that today is covered with homes, apartments, offices, and shopping centers.
The mini-exhibit opening Holiday Weekend tells the story of our rural beginnings and traces the forces that transformed the Township from a farming community to a modern, high-density (2,497 people per square mile) suburb.
Celebrate the holidays with your friends and family at the Casino Pier Arcade! This event will include an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest, arts & crafts, an indoor snowball fight, and a visit from Santa himself! Please bring any non-expired can goods for donations!
Take a guided walk with a Park System Naturalist along the beach at Fisherman’s Cove Conservation Area, Manasquan, collecting and identifying some of the ocean’s natural treasures. Make sure you dress in warm clothing and bring along something to carry shells. Meet on the beach. FREE!
Join Magician Steve Woyce for a magical adventure in Winter Wonderland. You will help him make a snowman appear, candy canes disappear, and play a magical game of hide and seek.
“This is a family show so ages 4-12 would be best. I have performed shows where younger children were in the audience and had a blast as well.” – Steve Woyce
Come to Long Beach Island this holiday season and enjoy the 38th Annual Ship Bottom Christmas Parade! The event will begin at 1:00pm (end time depends on participants) and will take place between 5th street and 25 street on Long Beach boulevard. Boats, floats, and cars alike will be competing to be crowned this year’s champion. The theme this year is “Deck the Hulls!”
The musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol is the timeless tale of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who hates Christmas. Shocked into action by visits from three ghosts that take him on a journey to the past, present, and the future; Scrooge discovers the true meaning of Christmas. The music and dancing of A Christmas Carol will help put everyone in the holiday spirit!
Start the Tour with Tea & Cookies at The Breakers on the Ocean. Tea, coffee, hot cocoa and cookies will be offered at two pre-assigned seatings and will be designated at the time of ticket purchase. Participating Inns & Properties include:
The Breakers on the Ocean, Chateau Inn & Suites, Two Private Homes & The Duggan Building featuring a Holiday Train Spectacular. More inns will be confirmed later this summer.
Capital Ringers combines music on handbells, percussion instruments, movement, audience interaction, humor, visual technology, and an actor to create a “Holiday Classic” show that will appeal to all ages. This creative and upbeat performance will entertain and educate audiences with the timeless holiday songs you love. Featuring favorites such as “White Christmas”, “O Hannukah”, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”, “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year”, and many more, you’ll leave with a smile and warm feeling of the holiday spirit.
Experience the high point of Cape May’s holiday season during these self-guided walking tours, which feature homes, inns, hotels & churches specially decorated for the holidays. During the tour you will enjoy Christmas caroling and strolling musicians, trees and garland & good old-fashioned cheer. There will also be hospitality centers with warm beverages & home-baked goodies