Christmas is here! Some of the great holiday events that have been going on all season long are coming to an end this weekend. While some will end after the New Year.
This weekend is also the last chance this year to take the little ones to see Santa. Click here to check out our Santa Guide.
Also check out some of the holiday photos from around Hampton Roads, and don’t forget we want to see yours! Send them to: photos@hrscene.com.
See anything we missed? We want to know about it! Send us an email: info@hrscene.com or submit your events to our calendar by clicking here.
All Weekend
Cape Charles
Festive Fridays in Cape Charles: Holiday Charm by the Bay | All Around Cape Charles
Free holiday movies at the local historic theatre, free live music, carriage rides, and local shop and restaurant specials—so many opportunities to make one-of-a-kind memories with your family and loved ones this holiday season.
Every Friday through December 23.
Newport News
Celebration in Lights | Newport News Park
Newport News Park will be transformed by over 800,000 individual lights, creating animated holiday and fanciful scenes.
Click here for pricing information through January 1.
Norfolk
Dickens Christmas Town | Half Moone Cruise & Celebration Center
Hampton Roads’ newest holiday tradition returns in 2016 with an entirely new entertainment line-up of musicians, parlor magicians, jugglers, actors, and carolers! Plus, a new enchanted Christmas tree forest, an animated puppet show, a magical snow fall, a petting zoo and more.
Click here for the full schedule of events through December 31.
CHRISTMAS EVE – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY
Dominion Garden of Lights | Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Don’t miss Virginia’s favorite holiday tradition. Bring your family and friends to our 21st annual light show extravaganza for a magical holiday experience. During this event, the Garden is transformed into a winter wonderland where you will enjoy a 2-mile drive through a million sparkling lights bringing the four seasons to life.
Click here for pricing information through December 31.
Portsmouth
Winter Wonderland | Children’s Museum of Virginia
The Children’s Museum of Virginia transforms into a fully interactive Winter Wonderland. Events include planetarium shows, gingerbread house making workshops, parties with Santa, live music and so much more. There will even be SNOW falls!
Click here for a full schedule of events through December 31.
CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY
Winter Wonderland | Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center
From Victorian scenes of animated skaters and carolers to the enchanted forest of bears, deer and Santa’s workshop, the displays are sure to delight visitors of all ages. During Winter Wonderland we also offer an array of holiday activities including crafts, face-painting, tasty treats, performances including plays, music and song, and horse-drawn carriage rides.
Click here for the full schedule of events through December 31.
CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY
Virginia Beach
Santa’s Seaside Village | 30th Street & Atlantic Avenue
Take a spin on carnival rides, visit with the animals at the petting farm, take a pony ride, and thrill to the holiday lights and decorations throughout the village. Best of all, visit with Santa and take a photo as a souvenir.
Weekend ONLY through December 31 – Click here for the schedule.
McDonald’s Holiday Lights at the Beach | On the Boardwalk between 2nd and 34th Streets
Take a shiny journey into nautical, holiday, and adventure lands – all along the beautiful Virginia Beach boardwalk. Festive fish, jumping dolphins, frolicking porpoises – all in bright, colored lights against the clear night-time sky, are the stars of McDonald’s Holiday Lights at the Beach.
Click here for the full schedule through January 1.
Williamsburg
A Colonial Christmas | Jamestown Settlement
“A Colonial Christmas” at Jamestown Settlement and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown offers a glimpse of 17th- and 18th-century holiday traditions through interpretive programs and demonstrations.
Click here for a full schedule of events through December 31.
CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY
Friday
Norfolk
8 p.m. | The Improv Riot: The Short Form Improv Show | The Push Comedy Theater
Get ready for short form improv at the Push Comedy Theater. A short form improv show with all the fun of Whose Line is it Anyway, right here in Downtown Norfolk.
Tickets are $5
Saturday
Norfolk
6 p.m. | Barrel’s Ugly Sweater Xmas Eve Party | The Barrel Room
Spread the Holiday Cheer with the worse looking sweater of all! Ugliest Christmas Sweater wins $100 in cash! Barrel Room will be tapping some very special kegs for your tasting pleasure.
FREE
6 p.m. | A Christmas Carol | The Wells Theater
It wouldn’t be the holidays without Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at VSC! This heartwarming tradition for the whole family follows the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future as they visit Ebenezer Scrooge and remind us all of hope, redemption, and love.
Click here for ticket information
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