A beloved Bay Area tradition and one of the most elaborate, inventive and authentically-Victorian Christmas events anywhere in the world, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party presents a brilliant facsimile of London circa the 1840s-1860s - a Victorian Christmas Card Come to Life!
While you and I were busy baking pies and setting the Thanksgiving table, an army of talented staff, crew, performers, vendors and volunteers of the Dickens Christmas Fair were celebrating having put the finishing touches on this years event for a pre-Turkey Day opening.
More than three acres of old-world exhibition halls at San Francisco's legendary Cow Palace have once again magically transformed into a Victorian holiday world of dancing, feasting, entertainments and shopping for one-of-a-kind treasures.
An ever-changing, recreated slice of Charles Dickens' London, warmly lit and lovingly decorated, with winding lanes, shops, pubs, tea rooms, lecture halls, a grand music hall and the London dockside is brought to life by more than 750 authentically dressed actors.
FIVE WEEKENDS
Nov. 23 ~ Dec. 22 from 10am to 7pm,
including the Friday after Thanksgiving!
Make way for the Queen! Smartly uniformed soldiers lead young Queen Victoria and her Royal Consort Prince Albert through the streets of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair.
Photo credit: Rich Yee
Four authentic English pubs - and the Bohemian Absinthe Bar - serve up hearty Christmas cheer at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair.
Photo credit: Rich Yee
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