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Shillito’s Elves at Findlay Market

Findlay Market
1801 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Generations that grew up visiting Downtown Cincinnati to see the Elves as part of their annual tradition can now introduce a new generation to the much loved, hardworking elves. The Shillito’s Elves first made their appearance in the 1950s and have been set up several...

Generations that grew up visiting Downtown Cincinnati to see the Elves as part of their annual tradition can now introduce a new generation to the much loved, hardworking elves. The Shillito’s Elves first made their appearance in the 1950s and have been set up several...

A 19th Century Holiday Guided Tour

Heritage Village Museum
11500 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241

Dec. 1-4 & 8-10 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Celebrate the season with a holiday guided tour of the Village! Visit Kemper House, Fetter General Store, Schram Print Shop, Vorhes House, Chester Park Train Station, Elk Lick House, and Hayner House and learn how Christmas celebrations...

Dec. 1-4 & 8-10 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Celebrate the season with a holiday guided tour of the Village! Visit Kemper House, Fetter General Store, Schram Print Shop, Vorhes House, Chester Park Train Station, Elk Lick House, and Hayner House and learn how Christmas celebrations...

Scuba Santa's Water Wonderland

Newport Aquarium
1 Aquarium Way, Newport, KY 41071

South

Celebrate a Cincinnati holiday tradition with Scuba Santa at Newport Aquarium! It’s a Water Wonderland full of playful penguins, colorful holiday lights, and a flurry of magical bubbles. See Scuba Santa swim underwater with a tank full of sharks and tell him what you want...

Celebrate a Cincinnati holiday tradition with Scuba Santa at Newport Aquarium! It’s a Water Wonderland full of playful penguins, colorful holiday lights, and a flurry of magical bubbles. See Scuba Santa swim underwater with a tank full of sharks and tell him what you want...

Ornament Blow

Neusole Glassworks
11925 Kemper Springs, Forest Park, OH 45240

The weather outside is frightful, but the fire in our hotshop is so delightful. If you have nowhere to go, make ornaments in our Ornament Blow! With the help of our professional glassblowers, you will blow your own ornament out of hot molten glass. Experience the wonder that is...

The weather outside is frightful, but the fire in our hotshop is so delightful. If you have nowhere to go, make ornaments in our Ornament Blow! With the help of our professional glassblowers, you will blow your own ornament out of hot molten glass. Experience the wonder that is...

Christmas at EnterTRAINment Junction

EnterTRAINment Junction
7379 Squire Court, West Chester, OH 45069

Create a holiday tradition for your family with the magic of Christmas at the home of the World’s Largest Indoor Train Display. Take a “Journey to the North Pole” to meet Mrs. Claus and enjoy a virtual meeting with Santa himself while admiring a winter wonderland of train...

Create a holiday tradition for your family with the magic of Christmas at the home of the World’s Largest Indoor Train Display. Take a “Journey to the North Pole” to meet Mrs. Claus and enjoy a virtual meeting with Santa himself while admiring a winter wonderland of train...

Trains and Traditions, A Cincinnati Holiday

Krohn Conservatory
1501 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

The annual Holiday Show returns to the Krohn Conservatory on November 6th through January 9th. Walk into the majestic floral showroom and revel in the intricately designed Cincinnati theme and laced with lush green foliage, beautiful red poinsettias, holiday trees and, of...

The annual Holiday Show returns to the Krohn Conservatory on November 6th through January 9th. Walk into the majestic floral showroom and revel in the intricately designed Cincinnati theme and laced with lush green foliage, beautiful red poinsettias, holiday trees and, of...

Great Circle Line and Points North Railroad--A Holiday Model Train Display

Glenwood Gardens, a Hamilton County Park
10397 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45215

All aboard for a vintage holiday train display sure to delight both children and serious rail enthusiasts! Take a whimsical journey through Snug Harbor to the resort town of Chillyvilly nestled within the Brawny mountain range. Powered by Digital Command Control (DCC), visitors...

All aboard for a vintage holiday train display sure to delight both children and serious rail enthusiasts! Take a whimsical journey through Snug Harbor to the resort town of Chillyvilly nestled within the Brawny mountain range. Powered by Digital Command Control (DCC), visitors...

Holocaust Speaker Series

Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Visit the website for a list of upcoming speakers and to register. Generously sponsored by...

The Holocaust Speaker Series, held each Wednesday at 11 am, features Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors sharing stories of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Visit the website for a list of upcoming speakers and to register. Generously sponsored by...

Cincinnati Streetcar Food Tour

Findlay Market
1801 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Step on and off the Cincinnati Bell Connector to learn about the city and sample great tastes along the way. Enjoy the attractions near Findlay Market, in Over-the-Rhine near Washington Park and Music Hall, and in Downtown Cincinnati near Fountain Square. Our Cincinnati...

Step on and off the Cincinnati Bell Connector to learn about the city and sample great tastes along the way. Enjoy the attractions near Findlay Market, in Over-the-Rhine near Washington Park and Music Hall, and in Downtown Cincinnati near Fountain Square. Our Cincinnati...

Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s was as groundbreaking as the era itself. The space race, rock ‘n’ roll, the Beatles, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, Pop Art, the Women’s Movement, the widespread use of drugs, the Pill, and the concept...

Jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s was as groundbreaking as the era itself. The space race, rock ‘n’ roll, the Beatles, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, Pop Art, the Women’s Movement, the widespread use of drugs, the Pill, and the concept...

Lumaze Christmas Light Festival

Duke Energy Convention Center
525 Elm St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

For the first time ever in Cincinnati, the Lumaze Christmas Light Festival and Market is coming to the Duke Energy Convention Center.  The 2021 theme for Cincinnati is “Glow Around the World.” Guests will explore magnificent world landmarks and...

For the first time ever in Cincinnati, the Lumaze Christmas Light Festival and Market is coming to the Duke Energy Convention Center.  The 2021 theme for Cincinnati is “Glow Around the World.” Guests will explore magnificent world landmarks and...

ChristmasTown

Creation Museum
2800 Bullittsburg Church Road, Petersburg, KY 41080

South

Stroll through the Creation Museum’s botanical gardens and view the breathtaking display of thousands of multi-colored lights. New designs and more color are added each year throughout the garden trails. Enjoy a live nativity, petting zoo, skating on the Glice® (synthetic...

Stroll through the Creation Museum’s botanical gardens and view the breathtaking display of thousands of multi-colored lights. New designs and more color are added each year throughout the garden trails. Enjoy a live nativity, petting zoo, skating on the Glice® (synthetic...

Light in the Forest

Cincinnati Nature Center
4949 Tealtown Road, Milford, OH 45150

Join us for a new winter tradition! Walk through an enchanting display of lights and illuminated trees, reflecting peace and inspiration. Featuring: * A beautifully lit forest * Installations by Brave Berlin, the creative team behind Cincinnati's Luminosity and BLINK...

Join us for a new winter tradition! Walk through an enchanting display of lights and illuminated trees, reflecting peace and inspiration. Featuring: * A beautifully lit forest * Installations by Brave Berlin, the creative team behind Cincinnati's Luminosity and BLINK...

Journey BOREALIS 2021 Holiday Light Show

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum
1763 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton, OH 45013

The 2021 Journey BOREALIS Holiday Lights is a 2.5 mile drive-through light show that will take visitors on a journey to the North Pole. The journey includes over 1 million LED lights -- including an LED light tunnel, a Candy Cane Forest, projections by Brave Berlin (the creators...

The 2021 Journey BOREALIS Holiday Lights is a 2.5 mile drive-through light show that will take visitors on a journey to the North Pole. The journey includes over 1 million LED lights -- including an LED light tunnel, a Candy Cane Forest, projections by Brave Berlin (the creators...

Journey BOREALIS

Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum
1763 Hamilton-Cleves Road, Hamilton, OH 45013

Journey BOREALIS, an artful adventure through the holiday lights, is Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum’s annual light exhibition. Enjoy this 2.5 mile drive-through holiday light show with over one-million LED lights! Journey BOREALIS is open every evening now through...

Journey BOREALIS, an artful adventure through the holiday lights, is Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum’s annual light exhibition. Enjoy this 2.5 mile drive-through holiday light show with over one-million LED lights! Journey BOREALIS is open every evening now through...

ParkLights at Caesar Ford Park

Caesar Ford Park
520 S. Stringtown Rd, Xenia, OH 45385

Forget deck the halls, we’ve decked the park with dazzling lights! You’ll wind your way through our Winter Wonderland, North Pole Car Show, Winter Farm, and Festive Festival, then wave to Santa at the North Pole. Drive through once, and you’ll want to do it again. We...

Forget deck the halls, we’ve decked the park with dazzling lights! You’ll wind your way through our Winter Wonderland, North Pole Car Show, Winter Farm, and Festive Festival, then wave to Santa at the North Pole. Drive through once, and you’ll want to do it again. We...

Christmas Nights of Lights

Coney Island
6201 Kellogg Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45230

East

The annual two-and-a-half-mile drive-through light show synchronizes the lights to both traditional and rocking holiday music through your car radio. Visitors of all ages will be awed by the larger-than-life trees, glowing snowflakes, dancing candy canes and fantastic tunnels of...

The annual two-and-a-half-mile drive-through light show synchronizes the lights to both traditional and rocking holiday music through your car radio. Visitors of all ages will be awed by the larger-than-life trees, glowing snowflakes, dancing candy canes and fantastic tunnels of...

Christmas 1900: An Edwardian Christmas

Heritage Village Museum
11500 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241

Cheri Brinkman will present a holiday program that will look back through time at what Christmas was like at the turn of the last century in England. The traditions started by Queen Victoria affected how Christmas was celebrated for years to come. The new and the old customs...

Cheri Brinkman will present a holiday program that will look back through time at what Christmas was like at the turn of the last century in England. The traditions started by Queen Victoria affected how Christmas was celebrated for years to come. The new and the old customs...

Cinderella

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati
1127 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

What do you get when you combine a nearsighted bookworm heroine, two fabulously self-absorbed stepsisters, one devilishly diva stepmother, along with a self-empowering Well-Wisher? A fun spin on the classic fairy tale that demonstrates being smart is true beauty! When the King...

What do you get when you combine a nearsighted bookworm heroine, two fabulously self-absorbed stepsisters, one devilishly diva stepmother, along with a self-empowering Well-Wisher? A fun spin on the classic fairy tale that demonstrates being smart is true beauty! When the King...

A Christmas Carol

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
962 Mount Adams Circle, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

A holiday family favorite! Our production of A Christmas Carol combines faithful storytelling with spellbinding stage magic to bring to life the familiar story of a sinner given one last chance at redemption by four persuasive ghosts. Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a miraculous...

A holiday family favorite! Our production of A Christmas Carol combines faithful storytelling with spellbinding stage magic to bring to life the familiar story of a sinner given one last chance at redemption by four persuasive ghosts. Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a miraculous...

An Evening with author Rachael Cerrotti

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45208

Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and Joseph-Beth Booksellers for a special evening with author Rachael Cerrotti. Rachael will join us for a discussion abut her memoir, We Share the Same Sky. In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in...

Join the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center and Joseph-Beth Booksellers for a special evening with author Rachael Cerrotti. Rachael will join us for a discussion abut her memoir, We Share the Same Sky. In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in...

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!)

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
1195 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

What begins as another annual production of A Christmas Carol, soon devolves into a slightly irreverent look at all of our favorite “Beloved Holiday Classics” including It’s a Wonderful Life, Frosty, Rudolph, Charlie Brown and more! Three actors (with the help of Santa)...

What begins as another annual production of A Christmas Carol, soon devolves into a slightly irreverent look at all of our favorite “Beloved Holiday Classics” including It’s a Wonderful Life, Frosty, Rudolph, Charlie Brown and more! Three actors (with the help of Santa)...

Wicked (Special Engagement)

Aronoff Center for the Arts
650 Walnut, Cincinnati, OH 45202

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.   WICKED, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another girl, born with emerald-green skin—smart, fiery, misunderstood, and...

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.   WICKED, the Broadway sensation, looks at what happened in the Land of Oz…but from a different angle. Long before Dorothy arrives, there is another girl, born with emerald-green skin—smart, fiery, misunderstood, and...

Need Your Love

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
962 Mount Adams Circle, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

From the creator of Cincinnati King comes the life and times of King Records star Little Wille John. You love the music, now hear his personal story. This intimate and captivating world premiere recounts his meteoric career and turbulent life in the music industry fast-lane. The...

From the creator of Cincinnati King comes the life and times of King Records star Little Wille John. You love the music, now hear his personal story. This intimate and captivating world premiere recounts his meteoric career and turbulent life in the music industry fast-lane. The...

International Conference on Neuroscience and Brain Disorders

virtual
International Conference on Neuroscience and Brain Disorders, Rome, Italy, OH 00100

International Conference on Neuroscience and Brain Disorders December 02-03, 2021 Virtual conference Central Nervous System Neural Engineering Child Neurology Seizure Disorders Addiction & Alcoholism Sleep Disorders Stem Cells and Neuroregeneration Dementia &...

International Conference on Neuroscience and Brain Disorders December 02-03, 2021 Virtual conference Central Nervous System Neural Engineering Child Neurology Seizure Disorders Addiction & Alcoholism Sleep Disorders Stem Cells and Neuroregeneration Dementia &...

Holiday Junction Featuring the Duke Energy Holiday Trains

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

The Duke Energy Holiday Trains have been a Cincinnati holiday staple for 75 years. Track-level views reveal intricate details of the display, which features over 300 rail cars and 60 locomotives. New for 2021,guests will be able to flip through 75 years of Duke Energy Holiday...

The Duke Energy Holiday Trains have been a Cincinnati holiday staple for 75 years. Track-level views reveal intricate details of the display, which features over 300 rail cars and 60 locomotives. New for 2021,guests will be able to flip through 75 years of Duke Energy Holiday...

The Science Behind Pixar

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Downtown

Take your imagination to infinity… and beyond! Since Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story debuted in 1995, generations have grown up with the studio’s films and characters. Now discover the science that brings them to life. The interactive exhibition showcases the boundless limits...

Take your imagination to infinity… and beyond! Since Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story debuted in 1995, generations have grown up with the studio’s films and characters. Now discover the science that brings them to life. The interactive exhibition showcases the boundless limits...

Exhibition: The Golden Ticket

Clifton Cultural Arts Center
2728 Short Vine, Cincinnati, OH 45219

THE GOLDEN TICKET JURIED ART EXHIBITION 2021 presented by Summerfair Cincinnati, Inc. Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s Golden Ticket Juried Art Exhibition is in its twelfth year of celebrating artists living or working within a 25-mile radius of CCAC. Since its inception,...

THE GOLDEN TICKET JURIED ART EXHIBITION 2021 presented by Summerfair Cincinnati, Inc. Clifton Cultural Arts Center’s Golden Ticket Juried Art Exhibition is in its twelfth year of celebrating artists living or working within a 25-mile radius of CCAC. Since its inception,...

Holiday Mixology Class

Taft's Ale House
1429 Race St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Our popular mixology class is back, this time to teach you how to make special holiday cocktails for your Christmas and NYE parties at home. One of Taft's Ale House most experienced bartenders is teaching an intimate cocktail class, only open to 24 people. This time, the...

Our popular mixology class is back, this time to teach you how to make special holiday cocktails for your Christmas and NYE parties at home. One of Taft's Ale House most experienced bartenders is teaching an intimate cocktail class, only open to 24 people. This time, the...

Gifting Green: Beeswax Food Wraps

Winton Woods/Parky's Farm
10245 Winton Road, Cincinnati, OH 45231

Want to make sustainable, homemade gifts this season, but aren’t sure where to start? Learn how to use beeswax and other natural earth friendly supplies to make five food wraps to use instead of plastic baggies and plastic wraps. Use your food wraps at home or give as handmade...

Want to make sustainable, homemade gifts this season, but aren’t sure where to start? Learn how to use beeswax and other natural earth friendly supplies to make five food wraps to use instead of plastic baggies and plastic wraps. Use your food wraps at home or give as handmade...

Holiday Grand Tasting

Corkopolis Wine Market & Bar
640 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Celebrate the holidays, and our fifth anniversary, with our biggest event of the year! We're returning in person for our Annual Holiday Grand Tasting, featuring more than forty high end wines, light bites, appetizers, and great company! Featured pours from Vilmart, COS,...

Celebrate the holidays, and our fifth anniversary, with our biggest event of the year! We're returning in person for our Annual Holiday Grand Tasting, featuring more than forty high end wines, light bites, appetizers, and great company! Featured pours from Vilmart, COS,...