Saturday, November 30, 2024
Breakfast with Santa at Bocca Italian Kitchen – The Redemption Square restaurant hosts a holiday buffet featuring pancakes, eggs, bacon, hash browns, and other breakfast favorites. Santa will go table to table and pose for photos with guests after the meal to place in a custom frame to take home. $20. 8:30am to 10:30am.
Nutcracker in the Park & Shop Small Market at League Park | FREE – Visitors can enjoy a full day of holiday activities and shopping in historic League City with a makers market, crafts and classes for kids, food trucks, and more. 9am to 5pm.
Bolivar Christmas Market & Christmas Tree Lighting at Swedes Park | FREE – The Crystal Beach shopping experience features local vendors and a visit from Santa at 1pm. 10am to 5pm.
Movember Men’s Health Awareness Exercise Class at Discovery Green | FREE – Nosa Edebor, a yoga teacher at Black Swan and acrobat, leads a 60-minute class designed for men filled with stretching, movement, non-weight strength training and mindfulness. 10:30am.
Yoga with Auhona at Bad Astronaut Brewing Company – Strengthen your flexibility and focus and your flow through classic moves at a class suited for all fitness levels.Don’t forget your mat, a towel and water. $10 includes a draft beer after the class. 11am.
Holiday in the Plaza at CityCentre | FREE – Pose with Santa and 2 real reindeer, then bask in holiday classics sung by the Houston Show Choir. Bring a new, unwrapped toy in exchange for a complimentary picture with Santa. 11am to 4pm.
Small Business Saturday Vibe Market at Sugar Land Town Square | FREE – Explore more than 85 booths, with artists, creatives, and makers. Snap photos with Santa, enjoy live entertainment and grab a bite from participating restaurants. Noon to 5pm.
Santa Paws at Trebly Park | FREE – St. Nick poses for free pet photos in Downtown, plus there will be live music and entertainment, hot chocolate, face painting, a gift-wrapping station, and more. After a few hours break, the event will pop up in the evening over at Market Square Park. Noon to 3pm.
Small Business Saturday at Chapman & Kirby | FREE – Shop local in a vibrant holiday marketplace experience, featuring a curated selection of goods from small businesses, artisans, and makers. Expect tasty food, craft cocktails, and live entertainment. Noon to 6pm.
Blackout & Collage Poetry at CAMH | FREE – Create a poem about your family history using printed text from children’s books and magazines in a hands-on experience for all ages, Inspired by the exhibition, Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… 1pm to 4pm.
Houston Margarita Festival at the Water Works – The celebration of all things ‘rita returns to Buffalo Bayou Park with a day of drink, food, live music, and dancing. Try from 19 flavors, including raspberry, peach mango, jalapeno, pumpkin spice and more. $15 and up. 1pm to 9pm.
Holiday Brews on the Bend at Bayou Bend – Enjoy beer tastings on the house museum’s expansive grounds as the Paul Chester Quartet provides live jazz. You’ll be able to sample brews from 8th Wonder, Kona Brewing Co., Saint Arnold, Spindletap, and 9 other breweries. $45. 2pm to 6pm.
Holiday at Hendley Green in Galveston | FREE – Kick of the season for the 51st Dickens on the Strand, happening next weekend, with a pop-up Dickens pub offering craft beer and wine, roasted chestnuts for sale, photos with Santa, an appearance by Dickens’ Queen Victoria, and more. Afterwards the crew will walk a few block’s to Galveston’s official tree lighting event and Galveston Artwalk. 4pm to 6pm.
A Holiday Cabaret With Houston Show Choir & Friends at Resurrection MCC – Enjoy libations and nibbles as soloists, duettists, and small ensembles entertain you with fun, festive songs in an intimate setting. A silent auction of carefully curated holiday baskets adds to the fun. $19 and up. 6pm.
Brazos Bookstore After Dark | FREE – The store stays open late for Small Business Saturday, allowing you to hunt for great reads for everyone on your holiday gift list. Snacks are available. 6pm to 8pm.
City of Galveston’s Official Tree Lighting at Saengerfest Park | FREE – Enjoy live entertainment by the Galveston Ballet and meet Dickens on The Strand’s Queen Victoria, as the lights are switched on. The tree lighting coincides with Galveston’s ArtWalk, where downtown businesses remain open until 9pm. into the evening for shopping and holiday cheer. And, of course, there’s a visit from Santa. 6pm to 8pm.
Santa Paws at Market Square Park | FREE – Fresh off of a break and Trebly Park, Santa lands in Historic Market Square in Downtown for pet photos, hot chocolate, and live music and more fun. 6pm to 9pm.
Tree Lighting Ceremony at Pearland Town Center | FREE – Santa arrives shortly after 6pm to light the tree and set off a brief fireworks display. Expect live music, an LED dancefloor, swings and seesaws, a holiday gift market. 6pm to 9pm.
The Hip Hop Nutcracker at Smart Financial Centre – Blending hip hop dance and Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, the show includes a cast of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop’s founding fathers to opens the show. $28 and up. 7pm.
The Surfrajettes in Concert at the Continental Club – The four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto brings their Easy as Pie Tour to H-TOwn, highlighting their clever mix of psychedelic rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as their guitar strings. Midnight Cowgirls open. $20 and up. 8pm.
Underworld Monthly Bash: Dark Disco Edition at Numbers – Dance all night to a set list blending darkwave, post-punk, and disco elements curated by Underworld’s DJ Mina and Trash Disco’s AC. $10 and up. 9pm to 2am
MK DJ Set at Stereo Live – The American DJ, record producer and remixer, who hit number-one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with the songs “Always” and “Love Changes,” comes to Houston for a live show. $24.99. 10pm to 2am.
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
The Super Happy Toy Show & Art Market at Saint Arnold Brewing Company | No Cover – The vintage toy store presents the return of their annual Christmas Toy Show and Art Market at Texas’ O.G. Brewery. 11am to 6pm.
Phantom Fest at The Secret Group – The EaDo nightspot hosts an afternoon of live music, with performances by Notions, Indirections, Post Profit, Imperial Tide, and more. $14. 1pm to 6pm.
Candela: All Vinyl Salsa y Meringue at Axelrad Beer Garden | FREE – Enjoy an afternoon of good vibes and grooves with classic salsa and meringue on vinyl spun by BoricuaSoul, DJ Dom, and DJ Kan Kan. 2pm to 6pm.
Oh, What Fun! Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration at City Place | FREE – December launches with a holiday bang with a pop-up celebration in Spring featuring a giant gingerbread village, trackless train rides, photos with Santa, snow experiences, a holiday DJ, face painting and balloon artists, a vendor market, and more. 3pm to 7pm.
Harmonia Stellarum Houston: Es begab sich zu der Zeit … Musical Rarities from Rome & Dresden at First Lutheran Church – Usher in the Advent season with a concert featuring the U.S. premiere of an anonymous Christmas story from 1686 that chronicles the birth of Christ, as well as Kapsperger’s “The Shepherds of Bethlehem.” $40. 4pm.
SX Branch & Co: The Invitation at MATCH – As Tracey Ashcroft plans the traditional family dinner, inviting her siblings to her home for the holiday, there’s a crucial element missing. But what will happen when an invitation is issued to an estranged member of the family? $32 and up. 5pm.
Jimmy Webb in Concert at Dosey Doe The Big Barn – The American songwriter, composer, and singer known for writing hits like “Up, Up and Away,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman” and “Galveston” performs live in Spring. $98 and up. 5:30pm.
Houston Symphony: Passport to Vienna: Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven at Jones Hall – Enjoy an evening of chamber music by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. This one-night-only performance allows for a unique, up-close perspective on some of classical music’s most beautiful pieces. $69. 6:30pm.
Comedian Paris Sashay at Punch Line Houston – The New York-based comic—who’s appeared on Comedy Central, HBO Max, and BET—brings her infectious laugh, wit, and style to the Downtown comedy stage. $32.05 and up. 7pm.
Lovecolor in Concert at Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge – The sultry alt-pop project formed by singer-songwriter and record producer Vanessa Silberman and musician-actor Ryan Carnes brings a blend of dark synths, dance rhythms and rock influences to the Midtown spot. Holdfast and Redefining Rescue also take the stage. $10 and up. 8pm.
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