Upcoming Events
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Christmas in the Bay has rescheduled the annual parade (postponed for weather last weekend) for December 9 with 5pm lineup at the harbor, rolling at 6pm, with tree lighting to follow at the courthouse on Main Street. See the below for more details!
Below you'll find the Shoofly Magazine's curated events with all the details. We update this page each week, so mark your own calendars and share with friends! For a complete list of events, see our Community Calendar!
- by Ana Balka
- by Ana Balka
Upcoming Events is sponsored by these local businesses:
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12/9 - Friday
There's a classical Christmas concert at the 'Bird! Cocktails and other libations, charcuterie boards for purchase. Call soon to reserve a table or spot at the bar. Benefits the Oaklawn Concert Society and the Mockingbird requests you bring a donation of food for Ruth's Roots or Purina Puppy Chow, Kitten Chow or clumping cat litter for the Hancock County Animal Shelter.
12/9 - Friday
Last week's Grinchy weather shall not prevail! Lineup at the Harbor at 5 with parade rolling at 6 down Beach Blvd. to Court St., up to Second, right to Dumontluzin, down to Beach, over to Main and up to the courthouse, where the tree gets lit!
12/9- Friday
It's time again for Food Truck Friday!
Each month participating trucks park it on Coleman and do their best to overwhelm you with choice in terrific food. Traffic on Coleman Avenue in front of Studio Waveland is closed to accommodate foot traffic and trucks, and the gallery is open. Past vendors have included Home Run Grill, Da GM's Smoke & Soul BBQ, Franny's Hot Dogs & More, Rolling Bayou, Meatbawls, Los Sarapes Tacos & Más, Paule's Snowballs, and more! 12/10 - Saturday
Millsaps professor of history and UMMC's Asylum Hill Project historian Dr. Amy Forbes speaks on Whitfield, or what was also known as the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum. Forbes received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to lead a collaborative research project focused on the institution's history from 1855 to 1935. Attendees with family connections to the asylum are encouraged to share their stories on video for the project following the presentation. Light refreshments served.
12/10 - Saturday
Come to the Hall with your camera and get a Christmas selfie with Santa and Mrs. Claus! Enjoy holiday music, some breakfast and kids' holiday games. Toys and prizes! At 11:30, the MAPS kids will present "A Very Mixed-Up Christmas Pageant"!
12/10 - Saturday
Between fire trucks Saturday and horses on Sunday, Kiln's bringing their A-game to the parade scene this weekend. Get out there and see the fire trucks as they parade through the Kiln and end up at the storm shelter, where Santa awaits!
12/10 - Saturday
Second Saturday during the holidays is always a special one, of course. Great Christmas shopping and gathering with friends in an atmosphere that'll pull you into that holiday mood, and the illumination of the harbor just puts things over the top. See the 15 Minutes Photo Gallery of 2021's harbor lighting by Wendy Sullivan!
December's Hot Spots are Shoofly Page Partners Creole Creamery, 209 Main St. and the Porch at the Bay in the Shops of Century Hall; and Daiquiri Shak, 106 Court St. 12/11 - Sunday
The parade starts at the East Rec pool and playground, 68198 Diamondhead Dr E., and goes west on Diamondhead Drive to City Hall.
12/11 - Sunday
Nothing more beautiful than Kiln's annual horse parade: over 75 horses and wagons start from the end of Bobinger Road up the Kiln/Picayune Road past Dolly's to West River Road, E. River Road to Kiln/DeLisle, over 603 to the VFW Hall, where Santa awaits with refreshments. We wouldn't miss it.
12/12 - Monday
Make the start of the week a little more special: Don your most clangy, garish Christmas sweater and bring the little elf out to McLeod Park for a tree lighting, selfies with Santa, cookies, hot chocolate, and a performance by the MAP Kids of "A Very Mixed Up Chrsitmas Pageant"! That'll put the twinkle in your Monday eve!
12/16 - Friday
This morning market has produce, baked goods, farm-raised beef, veggie plants, and handmade products. Stock up on additions to your holiday season table and find great gifts from vendors on the path at City Hall!
12/17 - Saturday
Hold up! This month La Terre Farms are foregoing Farm Friday and rolling out the carpet for Santa Saturday. Photos are free, and there will be vendors and (weather permitting) hayrides! Cookies and cocoa! It's the perfect setting for those special Christmas memories.
12/17 - Saturday
Get your antlers on for the annual Reindeer Run!
Racers get t-shirts, and there will be prizes! 12/17 - Saturday
Members and non-members alike invited to this combo exhibition, awards, and holiday party. The Arts will furnish food, wine and bevs.
Through 12/30
The Holiday Tree Gala is a community-wide event for which local businesses and organizations create holiday trees for display in Hancock County's libraries, creating a wonderland and “a Storybook Holiday” all around! Last year's event was 110 trees strong.
Sunday, December 4 begins the round of open houses, starting with the BSL Library. Santa will be on hand for photos at each of the open houses, where guests can enjoy refreshments and a scavenger hunt for special hidden ornaments at each of the five Hancock County libraries. Visit all five branches, find the ornament, and have your scavenger hunt card stamped to receive up to five entries into a prize drawing. Kids and adults welcome to play! Visit your local branch December 4–14 to pick up your stamp card and start hunting. Prizes awarded via Facebook Live on Friday, 12/16 at 3pm. 12/31 - Saturday
We arrive now at the 3rd annual dropping of the oyster atop 200 North Beach Restaurant—Think of the ball in Times Square each NYE, but it's a gorgeous oyster sculpture imagined by Jim MacPhaille and created by BSL artist Steve Barney. The free party (see here for limited VIP balcony view tickets at 200 NB and the BSL Lounge) with music at 7 and fireworks show at midnight is now a big draw for Old Town! Check out this Facebook Live vid from NYE 2020!
Rock out with: Dave Mayley Band Andrée and the Giants Dian Diaz Now through January 14, 2023
This exhibit brings together work from across Hancock County and explores our relationships with quilts: creations imbued with love and stories, and which take many hours of painstaking work to create.
Concurrent to the exhibition is a Quilt Trail throughout Hancock County inspired by barn quilt trails throughout the U.S. And HEY check this out: Visit every site and take a photo of or with each barn quilt, post it using #QuiltTrailWGZM or show your photos to a museum staff member, and you'll be entered for a prize! 1/18/23 - Wednesday
Sponsored by Hancock County and the Cities of Diamondhead, Waveland, and Bay St. Louis and hosted by Hancock Tourism Bureau, this 1st annual fundraiser for Hancock County Tourism features a DJ, silent/live auction, raffle, and of course food, with each city providing a course.
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Second Saturday Artwalk in Old Town.
Photo by Ellis Anderson
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