Great Dickens Christmas Fair
Great Dickens Christmas Fair
& Victorian Holiday Party
Weekends – Nov 23 – Dec 23, 2012
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is one of the first Steampunk and Victorian Faires that I ever read about and to be honest is probably the reason that I included the Steampunk genre on this site. The sheer number of entertainments offered at the fair and the size of the marketplace the present rival any Ren faire you will ever attend and it just looks like everybody is having a great time.
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I have not been to this fair yet, but I do say yet, I will eventually make it there. When you attend the Great Dickens Christmas Fair you are in for a treat though. You get to celebrate the season by stepping back into Victorian London. You will see the traditions that people practiced back in the Victorian era, from sing-a-longs , to caroling, to puppetry and much more. If you are wanting your kids to experience a simpler side of Christmas and the Holiday season this is the place to be. See handmade crafts, shows, street performers and a cast of characters straight out of Charles Dickens stories. You might find yourself standing around with Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim or even listening to a story with Mr Dickens himself.
Six stages of entertainment, a huge cast of costumed characters walking around the village, great shopping and of course food galore!
Entertainment:
- Adventurers’ Club
- Aladdin & Cinderella Meet the Monkey King
- Bangers & Mash
- Brass Farthing
- Broadside Music Hall Revue
- Can-Can Bijou
- The Cozy-n-Mez Magic of Christmas
- The Daredevil Chicken Club
- The Dickens Family Parlour
- Father Christmas
- The Kondor Brothers
- La Legion Fantastique
- The Mikado
- Paddy West School of Seamanship
- The Piccolo Puppet Players
- Pipe & Bowl Morris
- Royal English Opera Gala
- Siamsa Scottish & Irish Dancers
- Saucy French Postcard Tableaux Revue
- Silk Road Stage
- Tales from Mother Goose
- The Three Musketeers
- Toy Parade
- The Villain’s Revenge
- Word Pictures: Storytelling for All
- Amsbury’s Ceramics
- Artisan Flameworks
- Astrolabes and Puzzle Rings
- Ballena Bay Pewtersmiths
- The Basket Maker
- Benitez Jewelers
- Blythe Spirits
- Box Clocks
- Broom Magic
- Caswell Harps
- Curious Things
- Curli Q-Ity
- Dancing Flame Candles
- Dangerous Puppets
- Dark Garden Unique Corsetry
- Daylight Artworks
- Dorr Eddy Designs
- The Elegant Fowl
- Fellowship Foundry
- Fitz-Gerald Manor Shop
- Fyne Wood & Stone Boxes
- The Happy Christmas Store
- The Heart and Skull at Pirate’s Cove
- Holzer & Combe Haberdashery
- Lodema the Potter
- Madame Louise’s Fashion Accessories
- Madera Cup Company
- The Magick Crystal
- Marley’s Chains
- Morgan’s Manes
- Mr Alan Jefferies – Fine Gentleman’s Apparel
- Nuyens Art Studio
- Oudeman Art Glass
- Pale Moon
- Passiflora
- Pat’s Hats
- Patterson & Sons Stationers
- Peekaboo Masks
- Petrushka
- Pingenuity
- PiumaMia Feather Creations
- Primrose Parlour
- Real Rose Jewelry
- Rosie’s Posies
- Schulps Pottery
- Serendipity Leather
- Shuttle Creek Weaving
- Singletree Celtic Design
- Steven Overstreet – Clothier
- Storyteller Keys
- Strawbenders
- Sweethearts
- Taylor Jewelry
- Thaddeus Pumblechooks Exotic Scarves
- Trance Formation
- Velvet Bedlam
- A Victorian Paintress
- Whirlwind Magic Wands
- Whispers from the Past
- Wormwood’s Workhouse Washwares
- Yanna Porcelain Sculpture
- Ye Pellucid Wares
- Xavier Gonzalez Ceramics
Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party
The Cow Palace
2600 Geneva Ave
Daly City, CA
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