COME DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING WITH US!!!

Where:  The Grape Crusher
20 School Street
Westfield, MA  01085

When:  Friday,  December 3, 2010

Time:  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

There will be a consultant from Tastefully Simple, Cookie Lee Jewelry, Miche Bags, Mary Kay & sampling of your favorite wine(s)!!!

Custom Gift Baskets on display & can be ordered with your favorite bottle of wine or craft beer and some of your favorite products.

Join us for a great night of shopping & fun!

Join us for the 7th annual bonfire on the Winter Solstice- Snowfire!

Tuesday, Dec. 21st at 6:30 pm

Meet Father Frost and his Winter Court at Amelia park and promenade with candles and bells to the giant Snowfire for some caroling, cocoa, cookies and fun!

The Westfield High School Brass Quintet help celebrate the Solstice.

FREE!

The 2nd Annual Dickens Days Village Stroll will be held on Saturday, December 4th, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.  Westfield restaurants cook up a feast with olde English breakfasts, Dickens Days dinners and specials.  In the shops there are Dickens Days sales and promotions everywhere!

Follow the stroll map and visit the downtown participating merchants and be entered into our raffle drawing for great prizes!  More details to follow!

Come for Pizza and a Film – “How To Train Your Dragon”

Friday, November 26th, 12 noon – 2pm
Westfield Athenaeum
Lang Auditorium
6 Elm Street

*Registration required:  562-6158, ext 5, Free!

Lanternlight Parade and Holiday Tree Lighting
Monday, November 29th

Mayor Daniel M. Knapik will ring in the 7^th Annual Dickens Days Celebration by lighting the holiday lights at Civil War Memorial Park, at the intersection of Court and Elm Streets, November 29, 2010 at 6:30pm.

Festivities will begin at 6:15pm with the Westfield High School Concert Choir, directed by Korey Bruno.  The Lantern-light parade, featuring Dickens Days Spirits, including Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the Cratchits and Tiny Tim, will escort Santa and Mrs. Claus to the Athenaeum in a horse-drawn carriage, provided by Rich Evans Farm of Granville.

The parade will begin on Court Street at the Berkshire Bank and will circle the green twice and then join the Mayor for the lighting ceremony at 6:30.  The Mayor invites everyone to carry a lantern and join the line of march by assembling at 5:30 pm in the Berkshire Bank parking lot.

Immediately following the ceremony, the Athenaeum will have mulled cider, and holiday cookies available for everyone in the Reed Room.  Hot chocolate will be provided by Mt. Moriah, Masonic Temple.

Dickens Days is produced by Westfield on Weekends, Inc, and the Westfield Business Improvement District (WBID) in association with the City and Westfield State University. The Lantern-light Parade festivities are sponsored by the Westfield Business Improvement District and the Law Office of Attorney Robert Walker.

There are more than forty events throughout the holiday season during Dickens Days, including the next event, a performance of A Christmas Carol by Gerald Charles Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, Friday, December 3 at 8:00 pm at Central Baptist Church.

Breakfast with Santa!
Saturday, November 27th
9:00 am – 10:30 am

YMCA
67 Court Street
Westfield
568-8631

Friday, November 26th

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Come and meet Santa  as he arrives by Helicopter

at Amelia Park located at 21 South Broad Street

Free!

Wednesday, November 17th
7:00 pm

Karen Hardy, Founder of Educate Malawi, Inc.
Lang Auditorium, Westfield Athenaeum
Free!

Friday, Nov. 12th, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm and Saturday, Nov. 13th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

First Congregational Church
18 Broad Street
Free!

Lots of vendors and crafters will have great gifts for the holidays!