12.01–12.07
Mon 12/1
🏆🌳 6–8am: Star Run (monthly running event) // River's Edge North // free ↝
🎭 5:30pm: Holiday Movie Night (Four Christmases & A Bad Moms Christmas) // Starr Hill Brewery // free; 18+ ↝
🎨 6pm: Fresh Wreath Workshop // Green Designs // $60 ↝
✮🧸 6:30pm: Roanoke County Tree Lighting (crafts, music, magic, & Santa)// South County Library // free ↝
♫ 7–8:30pm: Roanoke Valley Choral Society: A Kaleidoscope Christmas // Raleigh Court Presbyterian Church // $20 suggested donation ↝
Tue 12/2
🎨 5–6:30pm: Holiday Still Life Drawing // Stewartsville Library // free ↝
✮ 5–8pm: Portraits with Santa - day 1 // Hotel Roanoke // $20 ↝
♫ 5–8pm: Wilson Henson, Bobby Moore // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
📚 6–8pm: Silent Book Club // Well Hung Vineyard // free ↝
🎨 6–8:30pm: DIY Ceramic Gingerbread House // Motel Studios // $60 ↝
♫ 7pm: Mill Mountain Ringers (holiday handbells) // Raleigh Court United Methodist Church // $10 suggested donation ↝
Wed 12/3
✮ 4–7pm: Spa Open House (door prizes, chair massages, refreshments, & more) // Spa at Hotel Roanoke // free ↝
✮ 5–8pm: Portraits with Santa - day 2 // Hotel Roanoke // $20 ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Jared Stout (country) // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
♫🍔 6pm: Holiday Dinner & Show w/ T-Fox // Hotel Roanoke // $85 ↝
✮ 6–8pm: The Next Chapter (inaugural weekly social group for ages 40+) // The Bibliopub // free ↝
🎨 6–8pm: Live Wreath Making // RND Coffee - Vinton // $49 ↝
🎨 6–8pm: Holiday Centerpiece Workshop // Well Hung Vineyard // $100 ↝
♫✮ 6:30–8:30pm: Shape Note Singing // Roanoke Quaker Meeting // free ↝
♫ 7–11pm: Open Mic Night // The Front Row // free ↝
♫ 7:30pm (doors 7): Lilly Hiatt, Kai-Crowe Getty (Americana, folk) // The Spot on Kirk // $23 adv. $25 day of ↝
Thu 12/4
🎨 5:30–7:30pm: Vinyl Record Painting Workshop // Appalachian Arts Hub // $20–25 suggested donation ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Chasing Fall (rock, jam) // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
🎨 6–7:30pm: Holiday Centerpiece Workshop // Bird Cage Boutique // $71 ↝
🎨 6–8pm: Fresh Wreath Workshop // Well Hung Vineyard // $45 ↝
🎨 6–8pm: Wreath Class // Sycamore Station // $60 ↝
✮📚 6:30pm: Community Care & Open Mic: Mittens & Mindfulness (winter clothes swap & poetry) // The Bibliopub // free ↝
♫ 7pm (doors 6): Last Illusion (Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute) // Grandin Theatre // $28 ↝
📚 7–8:30pm: Writers' Harvest Reading (benefit for Feeding SWVA) // Hollins VAC Auditorium // $10 ↝
💃 7–10pm: Line Dancing with Angela // Tropicana Bar & Grill // free ↝
♫ 9:30pm: JStop Latin Soul (Afro-Cuban jazz) // Martin's Downtown // free ↝
Fri 12/5
✮🧸 2–4pm: Festive Family Friday (movement & music activities, storytelling) // Melrose Plaza // free ↝
✮🎨 5–8pm: A Handmade Holiday Open House (art demos, vendors, refreshments) // Art Project Roanoke // free ↝
✮🎨 5–9pm: Holiday Late Nights: Young Professionals Late Night Lounge // Taubman Museum // free ↝
✮ 5:30–7:30pm: Get2KnowNoke Q4 Social (young professionals networking event // Taubman Museum // free ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Father Sun (reggae) // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
✮ 6pm: Tinsel Trail (free cocoa, firetruck, kids' activities, & tree displays) // Downtown Fincastle // free ↝
✮ 6pm: Salem Christmas Parade & Tree Lighting // Downtown Salem // free ↝
🎨 6pm: Fresh Wreath Workshop // Green Designs // $60 ↝
🏆♫ 6–7pm: Metal Music Yoga // Uttara Yoga // $18 ↝
🎨🍷 6–7:30: Holiday Resin Workshop // Hammer & Stain // $40+ ↝
✮ 6–10pm: Dickens of a Christmas - night 1 (tree lighting, live music) // Downtown Roanoke // free ↝
♫ 7pm (doors 6): QUEENSRŸCHE, Accept (metal) // The Harvester Performance Center - Rocky Mount // $87+ ↝
♫ 7:30pm: Tracy Lynn, Bob Schmucker (singer songwriter, folk) // 3rd St. Coffeehouse // free ↝
♫ 7:30–9pm: RSO's Holiday Pops Spectacular (classical) // Salem Civic Center // $32+ ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 6:30): Sexbruise?, Griefcat (satirical/comedic pop) // 5 Points Music Sanctuary // $26+ ↝
🏳️🌈♫ 8pm (doors 7:30): Make The Yuletide Gay feat. Crys Matthews, Flamy Grant, Heather Mae (singer-songwriter, folk, indie) // The Spot on Kirk // $23 ↝
🏳️🌈💃 8pm–late: Enyazone Friday (drag show & dance party) // The Park Dance Club // cover, 18+ ↝
♫ 8–11pm: Public Consumption (cover) // The Hangout // $10 ↝
🎭 9pm (doors 8): Tinsel & Tassels (burlesque) // Golden Cactus // $23+, 21+ ↝
💃 9pm–12:30am (group lesson 9): Fiesta Friday with SalsaNoke (all-level Latin dance party) // Inka Grill // $10 ↝
♫ 10pm: Lazy Man Dub Band (reggae) // Martin's Downtown // $12 ↝
Sat 12/6
🍔🧸 multiple seatings at 8am, 10am, & 12pm: Breakfast with Santa // Hotel Roanoke // $55 adult, $35 child, $15 toddler ↝
🐾🌳 8am–2pm: Birding Tour // Greenfield Recreation Park // $17 ↝
🛍️ 9am–noon: Winter Farmers Market // Grandin Village // free ↝
🛍️ 9am–2pm: Holiday Vendor Market // Blue Ridge Flower Exchange // free ↝
🛍️ 9am–4pm: Holiday Craft & Vendor Show - day 1 // Berglund Center // free ↝
🌳🏆 9am–5pm: Guided Hike // Devil's Marble Yard // $17 ↝
🎨 10am–noon: Figure Drawing Studio Hours // Appalachian Arts Hub // $15 ↝
🛍️🌳 10am–1pm: Poinsettia Sale // VWCC Community Arboretum // free ↝
✮ 10am–2pm: Gingerbread Competition // Salem Museum // free ↝
🧸 10am–4pm: Candy Cane Celebration - day 1 (activities, music, food, Santa) // VA Museum of Transportation // $11+ ↝
🧸♫ 11–11:30am: Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir Holiday Sing-Along // The Taubman // free ↝
♫ noon–2pm: The Brothers Young (Christmas bluegrass) // VA Museum of Transportation // free ↝
🎨🌳 1–3pm: Foraged Wreath Workshop // Explore Park // $18 ↝
🎨🍷 1:30: Mats & Mimosas (doormat painting) // Hammer & Stain // $45 ↝
🧸 1–1:45pm: Stories & Songs with Santa // Taubman Museum // $10+ ↝
🎨 2–3pm: Christmas Wreath Workshop // Greenbrier Nurseries // $75 ↝
🎨 2–3pm: Natural Garland Workshop // Roanoke History Museum // $40 ↝
🎨 2–4:30pm: Glaze a Ceramic Christmas Tree // Motel Studios // $90 ↝
🎨🐾🍺 2–5pm: Drink & Draw (feat. live animals from SWVA Wildlife Center) // Blindhouse Beer Co. // free ↝
✮ 2–8:30pm: 44th Annual Old Southwest Holiday Parlor Tour of Historic Homes // Historic Alexander-Gish House // $20 adv. $25 day of ↝
🧸 2:15–3pm: Stories & Songs with Santa // Taubman Museum // $10+ ↝
✮ 3–7pm: Winterfest 2025 (live music, food & drink, vendors, ugly sweater competition) // Grandin Village // free ↝
🧸 3:30–4:15pm: Stories & Songs with Santa // Taubman Museum // $10+ ↝
♫ 5:30–8:30pm: Rachael Hester & the Tennessee Walkers (country western) // Parkway Brewing - Salem // free ↝
🎲 6–10pm: Bi-monthly Board Game Night // Mishap Games // free ↝
🍔♫ 6–10pm: First Saturday Vibes (karaoke & DJ) // Caribbica Soul // free ↝
♫ 7pm: Stone & Snow (folk fusion) // Big Lick Brewing // free ↝
🎭 7:30–8:30pm: Reimagining Medea (participatory theatre) // Ursula's Cafe // free ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 6:30): Peen, The Big Debbies (Ween tribute) // 5 Points Music Sanctuary // $20+ ↝
♫ 8pm (doors 7:30): Ramona and the Holy Smokes, Rebecca Porter (country) // The Spot on Kirk // $15 ↝
♫ 8–11pm: The Shoobies (tropical rock, cover) // The Watering Hole // free ↝
♫💃 9pm–2am: Party Mortals w/ Star City Soul Club & Soul Call Paul (vinyl DJs, dance, house) // The Front Row // free ↝
♫ 10pm: Phat Anchovies (funk, rock) // Martin's Downtown // $10 ↝
Sun 12/7
🛍️ 9–4pm: Holiday Craft & Vendor Show - day 2 // Berglund Center // free ↝
🏆 10am: Happy Valley Grit Gravel Bike Race // Carvin's Cove // $65 ↝
🍪 10am–2pm: Gingerbread Festival // Longwood Park - Salem // free ↝
🐾 11am–4pm (various time slots available): Winter Pet Portraits // Roanoke SPCA // $35 ↝
🧸 noon–4pm: Candy Cane Celebration - day 2 (activities, music, food, Santa) // VA Museum of Transportation // $11+ ↝
🍺 noon–5:30pm: Merry Notch-mas (bar crawl) // start at Big Lick Brewing // free ↝
🎨 1–3:30pm: Indigo & Shibori Workshop (dying) // Motel Studios // $60 ↝
♫ 1–4pm: The Star City Céilí Band (Celtic) // Twin Creeks Brewpub // free ↝
✮ 1–5pm: MAKE Holiday Social // MAKE Roanoke // $5 suggested donation ↝
🎭📚 1:30pm: Star City Poet's Society Open Mic // Big Lick Brewing // free ↝
🏆 2pm: 12th Annual Stafford's Soldiers (2-mile fundraiser hike) // Fishburn Park // $30individual, $60 family ↝
♫ 3–4pm: RSO Youth Orchestra // Taubman Museum // free ↝
✮🌳 3:30pm: Ugly Sweater Plawking // meet at Golden Cactus // free ↝
🎨 4–6pm: Grinch Paint & Craft Night // Bubba's 33 // $29+ ↝
✮🏳️🌈 5–7pm: RDC Holiday Party Fundraiser (food, silent auction) // The Bibliopub // free; donations encouraged ↝
♫ 7:30pm (doors 7): Squirrel Nut Zippers' Christmas Caravan (swing, jazz) // Shaftman Performance Hall @ Jefferson Center // $41+ ↝
Ongoing/Multiple Dates
🎭 Dec 4–14: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever // Attic Productions - Fincastle // Warm your cold heart with the classic story of misunderstood siblings who become unexpected heroes of the holiday. // $22 adult, $17 youth ↝
🧝🏽 thru Dec 5: The Elf on the Shelf Adventure // downtown Roanoke, multiple locations // "Come on a fun scavenger hunt and find the Scout Elves hiding in downtown stores. Find them all and be entered for a chance to win $1,000!" // join the search for free ↝
🎭 Dec 6–7: Auditions for "The Shark is Broken" // Showtimers Community Theatre // "Set on the open water during the 1974 filming of Jaws, The Shark is Broken is a hilarious and poignant behind-the-scenes look at three actors stuck on a boat — and with each other — as the mechanical shark keeps breaking down. SEEKING: Three male-presenting performers with strong skills in character work, comedic timing, and emotional nuance." ↝
🎭 thru Dec 21: A Christmas Story // Mill Mountain Theatre // "Filled with hilarious and memorable moments...this play captures the nostalgic charm and warmth of a classic American Christmas, reminding audiences of the magic and humor of childhood holiday memories." // $35 adult, $25 youth ↝
💡 thru Jan 4: Illuminights // Explore Park // "Wander a half-mile wooded trail filled with over 650,000 dazzling lights, new themes, and festive fun for the whole family. While you’re here, shop for presents in our artisan market, roast marshmallows around the campfire, and enjoy a visit from Santa on select nights." Bonus: leashed pets are welcome on the trail. // $18 adult, $8 child ↝