Join us for a special 3-day event and enjoy 20% off your total purchase (some exclusions apply) as our way of saying thank you for being part of our family.______________________________
Christmas Tree Lighting: 5:45pm
Drone Show: 6pm
Children who have not yet reached their 4th birthday will not need a ticket when accompanied by a paid adult.
Saturday December 7th, 2024 at VISTA Theater, Fresno Music Academy & Arts
1298 N. Wishon Ave. Fresno CA. 93728
(just up the street from the Tower Theater, North of the corner of Olive and Wishon)
Doors open 6:30pm • Cartoons start at 7:00pm • Movies at 8:00pm
ALL AGES WELCOME! • Admission is Pay What You Want.
We’ll see a cornucopia of short Christmas-themed silent movies, including Laurel & Hardy’s classic about the bizness of selling Christmas trees “Big Business” (1929), “Santa Claus vs. Cupid” (1915), “The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus” (1914), the Polish-Russian stop-motion animation curio “Rozhdyestvo Obitatelei Lyesa” (‘The Insects’ Christmas’ featuring real insects, 1911), plus the 1898 “Santa Claus” by George A. Smith (a former magic lanternist and hypnotist who was something of an English Georges Méliès), and only Santa knows what else will happen. Ho ho ho!
About The Fresno Music Academy & Arts:
https://www.fresnomusicacademy.com/
Fresno Music Academy & Arts is the largest independent music school in Fresno and the immediate Central San Joaquin valley. We are conveniently located in the heart of Fresno’s historic cultural center the Tower District, and have a new studio on the northern side of town! We serve music students from Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Reedley, Madera and other surrounding communities who visit our studios every week. Why don’t you join us?
Fresno Music Academy & Arts has been voted the California Parent Magazine’s Readers Choice for the four years. Join us now and start learning to play the instrument you have always dreamed about playing. YOU CAN DO IT! CALL TODAY! 559-222-7464
* RSVP Required * No walk ups *
Please bring a wrapped gift for our white elephant gift exchange.
This is a tobacco and alcohol free event.
Fresno Pacific University welcomes Christmas with annual “Lessons and Carols”
Fresno Pacific University presents “Arise, Shine, For Thy Light Is Come: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” to celebrate Christmas, at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, December 8, 2024, in University Presbyterian Church, 1776 E. Roberts Avenue, Fresno.
Ticket prices, reservations and more information at: A Festival of Lessons and Carols 2024 Tickets, Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite
This mix of readings and music, including congregational singing, will combine talents of the university and the Fresno community. Ensembles will be the FPU Concert and Chamber choirs, Fresno Choral Artists, the University Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir and San Joaquin Chorale.
Jeffrey S. Wilson, D.M.A., professor of music, is artistic director of the event and director of the FPU Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, Women’s Ensemble and San Joaquin Chorale community group. Fresno Choral Artists is directed by Adeline Hollingsworth with Jordan Williams as pianist, and University Presbyterian Church Handbell Choir is directed by David N. Knudson.
Individual musicians will include Matthew Horton, piano; Scott Horton, organ; John Morrice and Cynthia Stuart, violin; Claudia Shiuh, viola; Judy Robinson, cello; Heidi Franklin, double bass; Chris Janzen, guitar; Karen Madden, piano; and Steve Madden, clarinet. Readers will be students, faculty, administration, staff and friends of FPU, including President André Stephens, Ph.D., and Roy Klassen, D.M.A., faculty emeritus and founder of FPU’s Lessons and Carols.
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1720 10th St, Reedley, CA
