South Carolina Calendar of Events, Festivals – December 2009

SC December Events

Dec 1-5: Myrtle Beach International Film Festival - categories include amination, features, and "Anything Goes"

Dec 1-25: Anderson Lights of Hope - display with over a million multi-colored lights - benefits local charities

Dec 1-30: Roper Mountain Holiday Lights - Greenville - over 110 towering light displays - benefits local charities

Dec 1-31: Dove Street Festival of Lights - Hilton Head - thousands of lights - donate to the Deep Well Project

Dec 1 - Jan 2: Holiday Lights Safari Benefit - Inman - drive your vehicle through nearly 100 decorated acres

Dec 1 - Jan 3: Holiday Festival of Lights - James Island - 3 mi drive, walk Santa’s Village & Winter Wonderland

Dec 1 - Jan 3: Lights Before Christmas - Columbia - Riverbanks Zoo - nearly one million twinkling lights!

Dec 2-7: FestiVELO de Charleston - holiday festival of bicycles for families, lots of food, camping available

Dec 3: Holiday Spirits Shopping Party - Charleston - benefits South Carolina Maritime Heritage Foundation

Dec 3: Snow & Santa at Ridgeland’s Christmas Parade - play in real snow! - benefits Jasper Boys & Girls Club

Dec 3-5: Holiday Fair - Greenville - Carolina First Center - more than 300 venders featuring arts, crafts, and gifts

Dec 3-6: ChristmasVille - Rock Hill - carriage rides, Snow Village with real snow, Festival of Trees, cookoffs, 5K

Dec 3-6: Holiday Market - Columbia - state fairgrounds - Junior League event to raise funds for local projects

Dec 3-23: Winter's Wonderland - Murrells Inlet - Santa, stories, music - STF Foundation benefit - not every night

Dec 4: Lowcountry Holiday Market - Hilton Head Island - locally-made gifts, food tasting, book signing

Dec 4-23: Holiday Lights on the River - Columbia - light displays with music, activities - not every night

Dec 4-31: Fantasy of Lights - Sumter - Swan Lake-Iris Gardens with a million lights & Floating Christmas Tree

Dec 5: Carolina Carillon Holiday Parade - Columbia - starts at Bull & Gervais - floats, bands, performances

Dec 5: Holiday Parade of Boats - Charleston - decorate your boat with lights or just watch and enjoy!

Dec 5: Homes for the Holidays Tour - PDF - Anderson - tour nine residences - benefits preservation grants

Dec 5: Reindeer Run - Charleston - 5K run and walk, pet-friendly, benefits local charities

Dec 5: Roast & Toast to Camp Hope - Columbia - oysters, chili, live band - a Columbia Jaycees charity event

Dec 5: St. Nicholas Festival - West Columbia - visit with St. Nicholas, Russian food, crafts, choral performance

Dec 5: Village Christmas Craft Fair - McClellanville - plus children activities - for Archibald Rutledge Academy

Dec 6: Christmas Parade - Prosperity - floats, bands, clowns and more

Dec 6: Greenwood Christmas Parade - "Christmas Through The Eyes Of A Child"

Dec 6: Greer Christmas Parade - featuring over 100 entries - along W Poinsett Street & Main Street

Dec 6: West Metro Holiday Parade of Lights - 12th Street in Cayce & West Columbia - all entries will be lit!

Dec 11-26: Dove Street Festival of Lights - Hilton Head - thousands of lights - donations for Deep Well Project

Dec 12: Candlelight Tour of Homes - Camden - plus activities - benefit for the children of Kershaw County

Dec 12: Colonial Christmas - Camden - Kershaw-Cornwallis House - holiday customs and demonstrations

Dec 12: Olde South Christmas Ball - Greenville - Civil War era - silent auction benefits Boys Home of the South

Dec 12-13: Chesnee Tree Lighting Celebration & Christmas Parade - collecting new unwrapped toys at parade

Dec 13: Mount Pleasant Christmas Parade - along Coleman Blvd - more than 100 floats, fireworks after

Dec 13: Summerville Christmas Parade - "A Southern Christmas" - see local groups and their floats

Dec 19: Hilton Head Regional Medical Center Jingle Jingle 5K Road Race & Health Walk

Dec 19: Holiday Hope - Greenville - community comes together to provide Christmas meal & gifts to needy

Dec 19 - Jan 3: Winter Fest - Columbia - music, movies, day camps, crafts, multicultural events, gift-wrapping

Dec 24: Christmas Eve - not state or federal holiday - Thursday

Dec 25: Christmas Day - state and federal holiday - Friday

Dec 28: Day after Christmas Observed - observed state holiday but not federal - Monday

Dec 31: Happy New Year, Charleston! - alcohol-free, family-oriented New Year's Eve celebration - free!

Dec 31: New Year's Eve - not a state or federal holiday - Thursday

Dec 31: Prelude to Midnight - Greenville - dinner, wine, show, silent auction - Chautauqua theater group benefit

Dec 31: WOW! 2010 - Columbia - family celebration - fireworks, rides, entertainment, face painting, karaoke

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