Torpedo Factory Art Center joins the fun on Alexandria’s most festive weekend of the year! Santa arrives by fire boat around 3:30 p.m. on the Waterfront. Music fill the halls and the Waterfront, beckoning people to brows three floors of open artists’ studios and galleries.
Timed Tickets for Santa Visits
Visits with Santa will be scheduled in ticketed time windows running every 15 minutes. Visitors interested in reserving a guaranteed time slot will need to collect a ticket at a designated ticketing booths located by the entries on-site in Torpedo Factory Art Center. Tickets will become available at 2pm.
Visitors unable to reserve a time slot will be able to wait in a “standby” line operating on a first come first serve basis and subject to the availability of each reserved time window.
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Schedule:
- 10 am: Open Studios and Galleries
- 10:30am – 4pm: ESP Tea & Coffee Pilot Pop-Up Program at Torpedo Factory Art Center: Serving hot coffee, tea, matcha, and chai along with some of their most popular food items!
- 12 – 5:30 pm: The Alexandria Commission for the Arts serves hot cocoa and cookies (Free)
- 2 pm: Holiday Festival begins / Timed tickets for Santa visits become available
- 2 – 5 pm:
- Hands on art making in Grand Hall
- Jarrett Laskey, Acoustic Guitar in the Grand Hall
- Alexandria Archaeology Museum hosts Ship Biscuit Ornament-making in their 3rd floor Museum
- 2 – 5:30/6pm:
- Yoshiko Ratliff, Painting and Ceramics, Studio 203: 10% Off Select Items (- 5:30pm)
- Sermin Ciddi, Acrylic Paintings, Studio 328: 10% Off Select Items (- 6:pm)
- 2 – 8pm:
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- Sarah Bentley, Oil Paintings, Studio 204: 5% Discount
- Gregory Logan Dunn, Painting, Studio 330: 20% off Paintings and Prints
- Susanne Tabet, Pete Kledaras, Mike Stevens, Painting/Lamps/photography, Studio 337: A Public Reception to Highlight New Work
- Berit Estabrook, Acrylic Painting, Studio 341: A Public Reception to Highlight New Work & 25% – 40% Discounts
- Berit Estabrook & Lesley Clarke, Painting, Studio 341: A Public Reception to Highlight New Work & 10% Discounts
- Sally Veach, Painting and Drawing, Studio 342: A Public Reception to Highlight New Work
- Guido Zanni, Fluid Acrylic Art, Studio 344: 20% Discount for unframed works
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- 3–3:30 pm: Live music by Silver 5 Brass Quintet at the Waterfront entrance
- 3:30 pm: Arrival of Santa Claus at Waterfront entrance
- 3:45 – 5:30 pm: Santa visits children in the Grand Hall (1st floor) (free tickets)
- 4pm: Sally Veach, Painting and Drawing, Studio 342: Artist Talk
- 4:30-8pm: Lights, Cocktails, & Torpedo Merriment: A Holiday Boat Parade of Lights Viewing Party with an Artistic Twist (ticketed)
- 6-8pm: Quintet from Alexandria City High School performs in Grand Hall (1st floor)
- 7pm: Guido Zanni, Fluid Acrylic Art, Studio 344: Fluid Art Demo
- 5:30 pm: Video projections by Monica Stroik begin on the Waterfront side of the Art Center
- 5:30 pm: Annual Boat Parade of Lights begins on the Waterfront side of the Art Center
Featured photo courtesy Santa Tom
Monica Stroik, 2021
