Phipps involved in weekend Christmas events

The Phipps Center for the Arts is offering special holiday sales and entertainment Friday-Sunday, Dec. 4-6, as part of the downtown holiday kickoff events.

During the Holidays in Hudson Candlelight Stroll from 6-9 p.m. Friday, artist gifts will be for sale at The Phipps, church bell choirs will perform in the lobby from 7 to 8:30 p.m., and the Hudson High School Social Justice League’s Empty Bowls fundraiser for local food shelves will run from 6 to 8 p.m.

On Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m., families visiting Santa and his reindeer in Lakefront Park are invited to warm up in The Phipps and create holiday ornaments using paper cutting and folding techniques with area artist William Ammerman. The Gift Gallery also will be open from noon to 3 p.m.

On Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., a new group of artists will sell their handmade gifts.

“A Gift by the Hand,” the annual holiday sale of handmade items by local and regional artists, is also going on through Dec. 31 in the Gift Gallery. For more information, call (715) 386-2305.

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