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Holiday Guide 2016 How This Guide Works LAW AND ORDER PARTY HOLIDAY GUIDE 2016 HOW THIS GUIDE WORKS Here are 96 things to do between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, give or take. There’s a little bit of everything, including events that are tangential to the regular Law And Order Party newsletters, like craft fairs and sporting events. WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE TICKET PRICING? All prices listed are for adults on the day of the event unless otherwise noted. If there’s no price listed then it’s free, just LAW AND ORDER PARTY like with the weekly Law And Order Party newsletters. For spatial reasons, and to minimize any chance of error, discounted ticket prices weren’t included. Sometimes tickets are cheaper if you get them ahead of time, or if you’re a child, or if you’re a HOLIDAY GUIDE member of whatever organization is throwing the event. It can’t hurt to ask. 2016 HOW DID YOU PICK THESE EVENTS? Lots of research and also recommendations from Law And Order Matthew Lawrence Party subscribers. Send any feedback and/or ideas for future www.lawandorder.party events to [email protected]. Instagram: @lawandorderparty Twitter: @lawandorderRI THIS IS FAR TOO MANY EVENTS. I know. If you’re really bothered, skip to the end for an easily digestible cheat sheet with one thing per day, in the regular Law And Order Party style. Cover Photo via The British Library, from ‘Funny Books for Boys and Girls. Struwelpeter. Good- for-nothing Boys and Girls. Troublesome Children. King Nutcracker and Poor Reinhold’ (1856) CALENDAR HOLIDAY PARTIES December 3 - Krampusnacht There’s an abundance of parties happening pretty much every single day in December, but here are some that might warrant December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day your attention. The Dorrance turns five! The Germans are celebrating Krampus the anthropomorphic Christmas demon, December 8 - Immaculate Conception and some enthusiastic folks who probably aren’t German are also celebrating Krampus! Headmaster and Recycle-A-Bike are December 12 - Eid Milad ul-Nabi throwing (separate) parties! Finally, a toy drive to benefit children impacted by HIV: you don’t have to be a hairy gay December 21 - Winter Solstice man to attend the Teddy Bear Ball at the Providence Eagle, but you should expect to see a lot of hairy gay men while December 23 - Festivus you’re there. December 24 - Christmas Eve December 24 - Hanukkah Begins 11/26: The Dorrance Five Year Anniversary Party (9pm-1am) The Dorrance – 60 Dorrance Street, Providence December 25 - Christmas 12/3: Krampus Walk (7pm) Prospect Park – 60 Congdon Street, Providence December 26 - Kwanzaa Begins 12/3: Krampusnacht! (8:30pm-12:30am) German American Cultural Center Ratskeller December 29 - New Moon 78 Carter Avenue, Pawtucket 12/6: Recycle A Bike Holiday Party (7-10pm) December 31 - New Year’s Eve Easy Entertaining 166 Valley Street, Bldg. 10, Providence January 1 - New Year’s Day 12/9: Stephen Hogan’s Teddy Bear Ball and Toy Drive The Providence Eagle – 124 Snow Street, Providence $5 or free with an unwrapped toy 12/14: Headmaster Holiday Bowl (8-11pm) BreakTime Bowl & Bar – 999 Main Street, Pawtucket SHOPPING Avoiding dumb chain stores has never been easier, with pop- 11/26: Shop Small at Suite Tart up holiday markets happening just about every weekend. You Suite Tart – 150 Broadway, Providence can buy music – physical, recorded music! – at one of the 11/27: Chez Pascal Holiday Craft Show (11am-3pm) dozen local shops celebrating Record Store Day, or you Chez Pascal – 960 Hope Street, Providence can buy from local artists at events like New Urban Arts’ 12/1: World AIDS Day Bookfair and Day of Remembrance (9am-9pm) Cardboard Pancakes Holiday Art Sale and Don’t Panic!, Barnes & Noble – 1350 Bald Hill Road, Warwick smartly priced items for the last-minute shopper at Yellow 12/3: Cardboard Pancakes Holiday Art Sale (10am-5pm) Peril Gallery. Of special note is the Full Moon Market New Urban Arts – 705 Westminster Street, Providence organized by folks from the AS220 Printshop – that sale 12/3: Marché de Noel (10am-2pm) features work by “young and emerging queer, POC, women, French-American School – 75 John Street, Providence and femme-identified artists, makers, business owners and 12/3: Rhode Island Author Expo (11am-5pm) witches.” If you do end up on Bald Hill Road, December 1 is Rhodes on the Pawtuxet – 60 Rhodes Place, Cranston World AIDS Day and Barnes & Noble is holding a book fair to 12/3-12/4: Open Studios (11am-5pm) benefit AIDS Care Ocean State. If you prefer local authors, The Mill at Shady Lea – 215 Shady Lea Road, North Kingstown 125 of them will appear at this year’s Rhode Island Author 12/4, 12/11, 12/18: Providence Flea Holiday Markets (10am-4pm) Expo in Pawtuxet. Hope High School – 324 Hope Street, Providence 12/9: Peace Club (7pm) The Wurks – 45 Acorn Street, Providence 11/25: Record Store Day (national) 12/14: Full Moon Market (6-9pm) Armageddon Shop, Providence Sutton Street, Providence Kangaroo CD’s & Tapes, North Providence 12/16-12/18: Thirsty Mill Craft Holiday Sale Looney Tunes, Wakefield (Fri 6-10, Sat/Sun 12-5) In Your Ear, Warren 532 Kinsley Ave (Units 101 & 104), Providence Music Box, Newport 12/22: Don’t Panic! Newbury Comics, Providence/Warwick/North Attleborough Yellow Peril Gallery – 60 Valley Street, Providence Olympic Records, Providence Sunset Records, Somerset Vinyl Guru, Newport What Cheer? Records & Vintage, Providence CHRISTMAS If David Letterman’s cancellation left you worried that now-1/1: La Salette Shrine Christmas Festival of Lights you’d never again hear Darlene Love singing “Christmas (Baby 947 Park Street, Attleboro Please Come Home)”, fret not! She’ll be at the Park Theatre 11/25: Newport Boat Parade (6pm) on December 9th. That’s just one of the many Christmas Newport Harbor events happening this month, from a big screen showing 12/9: Darlene Love (7:30pm) of A Christmas Story to the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s Park Theatre – 848 Park Avenue, Cranston performance of Handel’s Messiah. If Christmas lights are $35-$55 your thing, check out La Salette Shrine’s surreal display, 12/10: Handel’s Messiah (7pm) which features over 100 nativity scenes from around the The Vets – 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence world as well as 300,000 lights. $32-$100 12/15-12/18: Christmas Village at Purple Cat Winery Purple Cat Winery – 11 Money Hill Road, Chepachet 12/16, 12/18: A Child’s Christmas In Wales A Christmas Story First Unitarian Church (12/16) Living Literature is offering a two-person, 40 minute 1 Benevolent Street, Providence (8pm) rendition of Jean Shepherd’s Duel in the snow, or Red Slater Mill (12/18) Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid, the book on which A 67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket (3pm) Christmas Story is based. It’s playing at four libraries in $30 December: 12/17: Fiestas Navideñas Southside Cultural Center –393 Broad Street, Providence 12/8, 12/15: Westerly Public Library (7pm) Free 440 Broad Street, Westerly 12/22: A Christmas Story (7pm) advance registration required Stadium Theatre – 28 Monument Square, Woonsocket 12/10: Rochambeau Library (2pm) Free 708 Hope Street, Providence 12/23: Judy Collins: The Holidays and Hits Show (8pm) 12/12: Rogers Free Library (7:30pm) Park Theatre – 848 Park Avenue, Cranston 525 Hope Street, Bristol $35-$45 12/17: Woonsocket Public Library (2pm) 12/23: Christmas In Song (5pm) 303 Clinton Street, Woonsocket Ocean House – 1 Bluff Avenue, Westerly Free CHORAL Christmas offers a chance for choirs to shine (and pack seats). Newport’s Swanhurst Chorus is doing a traditional sing of Handel’s Messiah, while RPM Voices of Rhode Island is planning a more contemporary performance called Messiah Got Soul. The Rhode Island Civic Chorale is doing an English translation of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in both Providence and Newport. The Chorus of Westerly has their annual Christmas Pops performance, while the Providence Gay Men’s Chorus is doing their annual Naughty or Nice holiday show – proceeds from Friday’s performance will be donated to the Providence Animal Rescue League. 12/3: Messiah Got Soul (7pm) Beneficent Congregational Church 300 Weybosset Street, Providence $20 12/3-12/4: Jubilant Bach Christmas The Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul – 30 Fenner Street, Providence (7:30pm Saturday) St. Joseph’s Church – 5 Mann Avenue, Newport (3pm Sunday) $30 12/8-12/11: Providence Gay Men’s Chorus Naughty or Nice Holiday Show (7pm Thurs-Sat, 4pm Sun) Beneficent Congregational Church 300 Weybosset Street, Providence $25 12/17: Swanhurst Chorus Messiah Sing (7pm) Emmanuel Church – 40 Dearborn Street, Newport $10 12/19: Chorus of Westerly Christmas Pops (4pm/6pm) George Kent Performance Hall – 119 High Street, Westerly $25-$70 THEATRE now-12/31: A Christmas Carol Trinity Rep – 201 Washington Street, Providence $25-$100 11/25-12/23: A Christmas Carol: The Musical Granite Theatre – 1 Granite Street, Westerly $25 11/26-12/10: Carol’s Christmas Arctic Playhouse – 117 Washington Street, West Warwick $10 11/30-12/24: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Ocean State Theatre – 1245 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick $39-$59 12/2-12/11: Christmas Spirit Barker Playhouse – 400 Benefit Street, Providence $25 guest tickets 12/2-12/24: An Evening With Donner and Blitzen Contemporary Theatre Company – 327 Main Street, Wakefield A Christmas Carol is kind of the default festive thing to do $25 in town, theatre-wise, but there are plenty of other options 12/5-12/6, 12/11-12/12: The Edwards Twins (6pm) if you’re looking for something different and/or cheaper. Newport Playhouse – 102 Connell Highway, Newport West Warwick’s Daydream Theatre Company is doing something $49.95 called Carol’s Christmas, while Westerly’s Granite Theatre 12/6-12/11: The Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is doing A Christmas Carol: The Musical.
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