Ultimate Holiday Guide: County-by-county events

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With the calendar flipping to December, vacation events are successful afloat swing. Before you cognize it we volition usher successful a caller year.

No substance wherever you unrecorded astir northeast Florida and southeast Georgia, stitchery your household and friends and caput retired to bask an lawsuit adjacent you.

Here are events successful Florida breached down by county:

Duval County

Free movie astatine the Florida Theatre (12/19) -- The Florida Theatre and CSX contiguous How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), to payment Feeding Northeast Florida. Admission is FREE for each big and kid with a acquisition of canned oregon nonperishable food. How the Grinch Stole Christmas begins astatine 2 p.m. Runtime is 104 min. Click present for much details.

Deck The Chairs successful Jacksonville Beach (11/24 - 1/1/2022) -- This lawsuit puts a unsocial twist connected Christmas decorating! The show features implicit 20,000 pieces of discarded that were each collected on the coast. The finished task volition beryllium connected show from Nov. 24 to Jan. 1.

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VyStar Credit Union Presents “Jason Woods’ A Christmas Carol” (12/22) -- VyStar presents “Jason Woods’ A Christmas Carol,” a one-man vacation storytelling acquisition connected Wed., Dec. 22, extracurricular of the VyStar Tower astatine 76 S. Laura St. successful downtown Jacksonville. The show volition beryllium held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and is free and unfastened to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs and blistery cocoa volition beryllium provided portion supplies lasts. For much information, delight sojourn VyStar’s Facebook page.

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‘Dazzling Nights’ astatine Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens (11/19 - 1/9/2022) The Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is lighting the municipality during “Dazzling Nights,” a three-quarter-mile interactive vacation experience. The family-friendly lawsuit begins Nov. 19 and volition extremity connected Jan. 9, 2022. Click present for much details.

Illuminating Nature (12/7, 12/10, 12/14 &12/17) -- View the Cummer Gardens successful a full caller light. Illuminating Nature features an installation of implicit a twelve glowing cloth sculptures passim the Museum’s 2 ½ acre backyard. Click present for tickets and details.

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ZOOLights (12/10-12, 17-19, 22-24 & 26) -- The 10th yearly ZOOLights, a fantastical vacation airy acquisition acceptable to alteration Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, volition instrumentality guests connected a magical travel of the artistry of lights, sound, and quality itself. During this nightly event, the animals settee down for their agelong winter’s nap, portion the lights instrumentality halfway stage. (Click here to acquisition tickets)

Historic Springfield’s Annual Holiday Bicycle Ride (12/14) -- Join implicit 300 friends and neighbors for this Springfield contented -- the Holiday Bicycle Ride. It’s a leisurely evening riding done the Historic District to bask the lights and spectacle of the holidays. Kids are encouraged arsenic are motorcycle decorations and vacation costumes! Sesquicentennial Park (1527 N Main St) volition beryllium the meet-up spot with euphony and drinks disposable earlier and aft the ride. The parade volition footwear disconnected astatine 6 p.m. and instrumentality earlier 8 p.m.

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Fun Walk successful Jacksonville Beach (12/15) -- The amusive locomotion is simply a escaped locomotion to look astatine Deck the Chairs and Christmas lights successful Jax Beach. It is astir a 5k walk. It volition statesman astatine 6:30 p.m. astatine 429 1st St. S Jax Beach 32250. Click here for much information.

Christmas Toy Giveaway (12/18) -- North Jax Baptist Church is hosting a artifact giveaway connected December 18 from 9-11 a.m. astatine 8531 N Main Street. The artifact thrust is to assistance those connected the Northside of Jacksonville. Last twelvemonth the religion had 850+ radical travel through. Every kid gets a artifact and a accidental to triumph a bike! Click here for much information.

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Clay County

Christmas connected the Corner (12/18) -- This lawsuit volition beryllium held connected Dec. 18 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. “We person decorated our religion spot with thousands of Christmas lights acceptable to euphony for you to locomotion done and enjoy. This nighttime volition besides person a unrecorded nativity with animals that you tin pet, Santa, carolers, refreshments and more.” Click here for much information.

Nassau County

2021 New Years Eve Shrimp Drop (12/21) -- The Annual New Year’s Eve Shrimp Drop features unrecorded music, laser shows, kids’ portion with a bounce house, food, section vendors and a fireworks show. It volition beryllium held connected Centre Street successful Fernandina Beach. It volition statesman astatine 5 p.m.

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St. Johns County

Night of Lights successful St. Augustine (now until (1/31/2022) -- The award-winning show lit up for the 27th play astatine dusk Saturday and volition tally each nighttime done Jan. 31.

2021 Saint Augustine Nutcracker Ballet (12/18) -- The Saint Augustine Ballet presents the 13th Annual Nutcracker — “a timeless classical featuring nonrecreational ballet dancers and creation students astir the area. This vacation favourite volition beryllium staged December 18-19, 2021 successful Lewis Auditorium astatine Flagler College.” PERFORMANCES: 1:30 p.m. connected Saturday, Dec. 18; 7 p.m. connected Saturday, Dec. 18; 2 p.m. connected Sunday, Dec. 19. Click here for tickets and much information.

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St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum to big archetypal yearly Lighthouse Illuminations lawsuit (now - 1/21/2022) -- Discover twenty-one uniquely decorated trees, each with a chiseled theme. Available connected prime days betwixt November 22 and January 21.

Here are events successful Georgia breached down by county:

Camden County

Christmas Underwater (until Dec. 24) -- The Adventure Aquarium lawsuit returns for its 13th season! Enjoy lively interactive shows and travel face-to-face with Scuba Santa arsenic helium dives with sharks, oversea turtles, stingrays, and much fishy friends! Reservations are powerfully encouraged.

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Glynn County

Christmas astatine Sea Island (12/22 - 12/26) -- This lawsuit has it all! “From storytime with Santa’s elves to our life-size Gingerbread Advent Cottage successful the Solarium to a Reindeer Dash amusive run, we person each crushed for you to articulation america this Christmas holiday.” Click here for much information.

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