2011 Festival of Lights

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Highlights include

• Santa's Living Room: Dec. 9 - 24 with Santa appearances 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 p.m.
• Svend and Jens, our Scandinavian Christmas Elves appear nightly in the Centre Court
• Dancing Lights on Livingstone Lake: starting at 4:30 p.m. Two different shows - one show on the half hour and a different one at the top of the hour. Two different shows repeating in sequence throughout the evening.
• Gingerbread Wood
• Golden Chain Walk
• Community Choir Concerts on the Deck (see schedule)
• Make-a-Wish Candle Shrine
• Candy Cane Lane
• Sparkling Spruce in the Centre Court
• Candy Cane Express model train

Food services

• Dinner nightly at Shaughnessy Restaurant, reservations recommended 604-261-0011
• Dr. Waffle serving up fresh-made sweet and savoury waffles, home-made chicken soup, real apple cider and a selection of gourmet hot chocolates - Cash Only
• Mrs Claus' Kitchen next to Santa's Living Room and Shaughnessy's Patio both serving: Hot dogs, smokies, fresh-popped kettle corn, chicken fingers, fresh-baked apple-walnut-cranberry turnovers, and other sweet treats along with hot coffee/tea , hot cider and hot chocolate, pop and bottled water - Cash Only
• Dr. Waffle's Gingerbread Hut serving giant traditional German gingerbread cookies, spiced nuts, hot apple cider and gourmet hot chocolate - Cash Only
• Mr. Ken's Donuts, a perennial favourite in the Perennial Garden - Cash Only
• Whistler Wood-Fired Pizza Company , pizzas by the slice and whole, baked on site in a wood-fired oven, near the Perennial Garden - Cash Only
• Truffles Café, casual dining in the new Visitor Centre, full menu available

Dates and times

4:30 to 9 p.m. every night, December 9, 2011 through January 2, 2012 except December 25th when the Garden is closed.

NOTE: In the case of heavy snow storms or other extraordinary weather conditions: please call the Garden Shop 604.257.8665 to confirm that FOL has not been closed for that one evening.

Ticket and price information

• Festival of Light Hours and Admissions

Watch the videos

Simi Sara of Telus TV came out and taped two segments of My Vancouver around the set up of FOL. These segments are large and have been kept in their zipped format for ease of downloading:

Telus TV, Behind the scenes at FOL Part 1 (43mbs)
Telus TV, Behind the scenes at FOL Part 2 (35mbs)

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