Celebrate The Season Big Band-Style with Aqus Community
A Very Special, Vintage-Themed Holiday Party at
Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, Saturday, December 5th, 2015
Community members, friends, guests and newcomers to Sonoma County are invited to take part in a spectacularly fun new holiday tradition, this December 5th, 2015.
"It's A Wonderful Life" themed party takes place at Petaluma's Historical Library and Museum, in the heart of the city's downtown heritage district.
Tickets are just $25 per person and profits will benefit the museum's vital capital campaign to restore and protect this beautiful building.
"Everyone is invited," says John Crowley of Aqus Community." Museum supporters and first time visitors alike, all, over aged 21 are welcome. We wanted to create an opportunity for all Petalumans to gather together, get dressed up and celebrate this iconic Petaluma treasure.”
Aqus Community's event team has designed this inaugural holiday party at the museum as the first of a brand new Petaluma holiday tradition.
Ted Langford's Little Big Band is set to play live tunes from the 1940s on while partygoers are encouraged to dress up in dressy vintage attire and step out in style. Prizes will be awarded in a James Stewart and Donna Reed lookalike contest.
Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and sweets are included in the ticket price. Local wine, beer and cocktails will be available for purchase. Festive partygoers are encouraged to practice their limbo and bring their dance cards!
Harry Nieuwboer, President of the Petaluma Museum Association comments “A vintage-style holiday gala is an ideal way to raise community awareness of the museum's work and its future needs".
$25 Tickets available online at: http://aqus.com/museum/ or at the Petaluma Museum, 20 Fourth St. and Aqus Café, 189 H St., Petaluma.
The mission of the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum is to preserve and protect the history of Petaluma, to protect its artifacts and to provide educational and cultural services to the Community.
The cornerstone for Petaluma's stately Carnegie Library was laid in 1904. Local architect, Brainerd Jones designed the building in the neo-classical style, featuring original fan-glass windows, round leaded-glass windows, interior wood paneling and columns. It was constructed from locally quarried stone. It features the largest freestanding leaded glass dome in Northern California.
It was one of 2,509 library buildings built in towns and neighborhoods throughout the English-speaking world between 1886 and 1919 with the aid of Carnegie funds.
Six Carnegie Libraries were built in Sonoma County. Only three remain today. Healdsburg’s Carnegie Library is also a museum and the city of Sonoma’s houses its Visitors Bureau. Aqus Community is delighted to focus its efforts this holiday season on helping to maintain this Petaluma treasure for future generations to enjoy and encourages everyone to come raise a glass to preserve this historic landmark.
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