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Nisswa City of Lights
November 27, 2015 @ 8:00 am - 5:55 pm
Nisswa welcomes the holiday season with a countdown to lighting up the town that culminates with a fireworks display on Friday, November 27. The downtown area lights up all at once at 5:30 pm, with holiday lights adorning trees and fences, stores and other buildings. Festivities for the annual event begin in the afternoon with horse-drawn wagon rides, live reindeer, storytelling, food merchants, bonfires, hot cider and donut holes at the Pioneer Village and holiday carolers. After the countdown to turning on all the lights, Santa Claus makes an appearance and fireworks shoot up over town at 7:30 pm.
Schedule of Events:
2:00 – 7:30pm Eats & Treats – Enjoy Delicious Food Items Around Town
2:00 – 4:00pm Write a Letter to Santa & Kids Christmas Crafts – Nisswa Chamber Office Lighting of Bonfires – Paul Bunyan Trail & Nisswa Square
2:30 – 7:00pm Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides – Nisswa Square
3:45pm Polar Express Storytelling – Caboose on Main Street (Limited Seating)
3:30 – 6:30pm Live Reindeer – BlackRidgeBANK parking lot
4:00 – 7:00pm Strolling Carolers Throughout Downtown
4:00 – 5:45pm Santa Claus – Come See Santa at the Nisswa Square
4:00pm Storytelling – Turtle Town Books & Gifts
4:15pm Polar Express Storytelling – Caboose on Main Street (Limited Seating)
4:30pm Central Lakes College Brass Ensemble – Nisswa Square
4:45pm Polar Express Storytelling – Caboose on Main Street (Limited Seating)
4:45pm Free Hot Cider & Donut Holes – Pioneer Village
4:45 – 7:00pm Kids Crafts with Black Bear 4H Club – Pioneer Village
5:00pm Lighting of the Luminaries – Pioneer Village
5:30 – 6:00pm Holiday Carolers – Gazebo on Main Street
5:00 – 7:00pm Live Nativity Scene, Provided by Lake Country Parish Youth – Pioneer Village
5:29pm Countdown to the Lighting of Nisswa!
5:30pm LIGHT UP THE TOWN!
5:45pm “Love Lights a Tree” Ceremony, Good Samaritan Communities – Pioneer Village
6:00pm “Here Comes Santa Claus!” Christmas Carolers Perform and then SANTA Arrives! Gazebo on Main Street
7:30pm Fireworks! – Nisswa Community Center
8:00 – 11:59pm Live Music – Indoors at the Nisswa American Legion AND Drawing for the “Lighting of the Lights” Raffle 34th Annual
***Schedule subject to change
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