The holiday fun continues at Festival of Trees this week with a Celebrity Lunch today and Jingle Jam tonight! Your last chance to visit the festival is on Saturday for Family Day. Enjoy all the magic and attractions of the Festival at a reduced price!

Join us this Saturday and encourage others to shop local this holiday season by using #ShopSmallQC on social media! Small businesses bring so much vibrancy to our downtown community and the impact they have is crucial to our local economic growth. Small Business Saturday is a nationwide movement to remind shoppers to spend some holiday dollars at small, local retailers

Friday is one of the biggest music events of the year for downtown business Ragged Records with Black Friday Record Store Day! This year features nearly 100 official Black Friday titles and 100's of unofficial titles. Plus there will be free live music all day long and sales from both Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie!

Avoid the holiday hangover and participate in The 29th Annual McCarthy Bush Turkey Trot! The road race takes to our streets on Thursday morning. The event includes a one-mile family fun run, a five-mile run and two person relay. It's a downtown tradition!

A Pink Floyd party gets started at 9 p.m. tonight at the Redstone Room with a showing of the film Dark Side of the Rainbow with local musicians performing their favorite Pink Floyd songs following the film! Taking the Redstone stage on Saturday is the Family Groove Company with Frank F. Sidney's Western Bandit Volunteers!

Need help deciding where to have a night out over the holiday? Me & Billy has you covered tonight for Laid Black Wednesday featuring Free Live Trivia and 2 for 1 draft beer! And they are open early at 8 am Thanksgiving morning for the Turkey Trot!

Give the gift of art this holiday season! The Bereskin Fine Art Gallery offers gift certificates that can be used for classes and/or artwork. Bereskin just released their new class schedule for this winter and it makes for the perfect unique gift for the creative person on your list.

For a complete list of the events this week and beyond, visit our event calendar.

Future Events:
12/05 - QC Food Hub Trivia Night
12/18 - Lightwire Theater

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