For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District will maintain quite a lot of vacation and winter-themed occasions designed to offer enjoyment for all age teams all through the winter. A vibrant cultural hub, the District is residence to greater than 100 arts and humanities organizations, arts venues, points of interest and leisure companies. Advanced reservations or tickets are required for lots of the occasions.

Upcoming occasions within the Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District will embody:

• Maryland Youth Ballet is performing The Mini Nut as an abbreviated Nutcracker vacation present for households. Saturday, Dec. 2, Sunday, Dec. 3, and Saturday, Dec. 9. 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and three p.m.  
• Reflections Holiday Concert, Saturday, Dec. 2. 4 p.m. NIH Community Orchestra Chorus presents picks from Copland’s Rodeo to the reflective choral work Fern Hill by John Corigliano. It additionally may have picks from Handel’s Messiah. The full orchestra and refrain will carry out on the Silver Spring United Methodist Church.
• Sounds of the Season: Saturday, Dec. 2, to Saturday, Dec. 23. Downtown Silver Spring is providing vacation performances by quite a lot of native bands with sizzling cocoa and s’mores stations. Times range.
• Meet Santa or the Grinch at Downtown Silver Spring’s Turn Up the Cheer. Saturdays Dec. 2, 9 and 16. Noon-3 p.m. Enjoy cheer stations and take a selfie with particular visitors: Santa (Dec. 2 and 16) and the Grinch (Dec. 9).
• Block Print Holiday Cards (Adult Class) at Create Arts Center. Saturday, Dec. 3. 1-4 p.m. In this three-hour printmaking workshop, individuals will compose a design, carve their design into a straightforward minimize block and print the design onto folded greeting playing cards.
• Silver Spring Holiday Market and Craft Show on the Silver Spring Civic Building on Saturday, Dec. 3. Noon-4 p.m. More than 80 artisans, crafters and impartial companies will showcase arts and crafts, jewellery and baked items.
• Ceramic Holiday Ornament Making Workshop (Adult Class) at Create Arts Center. Wednesdays, Dec. 6 and 13. 6-8 p.m. Create stunning and personalised ceramic ornaments to offer as items, show for the vacations or grasp in your house year-round.
• Collage Holiday Ornament Making Workshop (Families) at Create Arts Center on Saturday, Dec. 9. 11 a.m.-2m. Create collaged vacation ornaments. Choose from a collection of colourful, textured papers to layer onto papier-mâché varieties that will probably be reworked into your designs.
• Mosaic Jewelry Making Workshop at Arts on the Block on Saturday, Dec. 9. Noon-2:30 p.m. Make a vacation reward or a chunk for your self of 1 bespoke mosaic necklace and one pair of mosaic earrings. With hands-on assist, sketch out a design, be taught primary glass-cutting and puzzling strategies and get to work on the mosaic jewellery.
• Kids Winter Wreath Making Workshop at Create Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 10. 1 p.m. During the 90-minute workshop, individuals will adorn and personalize grapevine wreaths appropriate for holidays, particular events, year-round decorations and extra.
• Breakfast with Santa at Dave and Busters Silver Spring on Sunday, Dec. 10. 9 a.m. Meet Santa at a breakfast buffet that may embody a $10 Power Card® with Unlimited Video Game Play, kid-friendly crafts and a photograph with Santa.
• EWI’s 10th Annual Women Owned Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 16. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Latino Economic Development Center continues to assist ladies entrepreneurs all through the area with a vacation market with majority Black, Latina and immigrant-owned companies on the Silver Spring Civic Building.
• Artisan Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Eat, drink and store at a vacation artisan market alongside Ellsworth Drive between Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street.
• Nutcracker Night and Mini Nutcracker on Saturday, Dec. 16. 2:30 p.m. and seven p.m. The Akhmedova Ballet Academy will carry out the best-known dances from The Nutcracker on the Mini Nutcracker and the full-length ballet on the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center.
• A Gospel Big Band Christmas at Jesus House on Dec. 23. 7-9 p.m. A Gospel Big Band Christmas is a soulful celebration of Christmas by means of the rendition of conventional Christmas carols.
• The Majestic Theater is exhibiting vacation film favorites Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and different vacation classics from Dec. 2-23. Showtimes range. 
• Holiday Classics at the AFI Silver: Enjoy perennial Christmas classics A Christmas Story, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on thirty fourth Street, Little Women and ’80s favorites Die Hard and The Muppet Christmas Carol and extra. Screenings from Dec. 5-24.
• Create Arts Center is providing a sequence of Winter Break Art Camp days for ages 6-12 in addition to Counselors in Training. Dec. 26, 27, 28, 29 and Jan. 15. Parents can select the times that work finest for his or her schedule, with actions from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. with before- and after-care accessible.
• Silver Spring Ice Skating, the out of doors ice-skating rink at Veterans Plaza, is open each day, together with Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Skating classes are for 2 hours. Reservations can be found as much as two weeks upfront. To buy tickets, go to the web site or buy on-site. The rink has greater than 400 pairs of skates accessible to lease, sized from toddler to grownup. 

Designated as an Arts and Entertainment District by the State of Maryland in 2001, the Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District is a hub of efficiency venues, eating places and nightlife, festivals and group celebrations and household pleasant enjoyable. An Arts and Entertainment District helps develop and promote group involvement, tourism and enterprise revitalization by means of tax-related incentives that appeal to artists, arts organizations and different inventive enterprises. 

For extra data and an occasions calendar, go to the official Silver Spring website.

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Media Contact: Elizabeth Gallauresi, 301-793-2928, egallauresi@themodernmuse.com, Catherine Rytkonen, (240) 401-5030, catherine.rytkonen@montgomerycountymd.gov.

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Media Contact: Elizabeth Gallauresi 301-793-2928

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