Calendar

Abilene's only Custom Christmas escape room filled with clues and puzzles. Can you solve them all and save Santa in 60-minutes or less? It's tons of fun for ages 7 and older. It's a great way to kick of the holiday season with fun, family and friends. 

Enjoy hay rides through the Christmas Light display, have your photo taken with Santa, snow every hour on the hour, food trucks, S'mores on open fires, create your own Christmas ornaments and other arts and crafts inside a heated venue. Stop by the farm store for homemade, holiday ice cream and unique toys and gifts. 

Come see 124+ outdoor displays, visit with Santa and enjoy food at the concession stand.

A stirring, tragic tale of jealously, lies, and revenge. The story centers around Othello, a Moorish general in the army of Venice, and Iago, a trusted ensign whose envy leads him down a path of treachery that threatens to consume and destroy everyone it touches.

Family concert event to start your holiday season.

Celebrate the Christmas season with renown gospel singer David Phelps while being led on a journey of inspiration and worship in song.

Head to the Safety City wonderland covered in thousands of lights and amazing Christmas Décor by Lone Star Electric. Take pictures with Santa, world's tallest Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and more. Free candy, cookies and hot chocolate.

Bring your furry friends for an exclusive holiday photo session with Santa. Photo prices vary and are available through Cherry Hill Photo. Sponsored by Abilene Philharmonic.

The Happy Holiday Gift show. Featuring vintage, antique, handcrafted and boutique items. Snack and shop as you suanter from the secret shops to the estate sale. Watch demos on Friday nights and meet local artists and craftsmen. 

Guests can enjoy a continental breakfast of assorted pastries and fresh fruit, milk, juice or coffee along with a fun craft and framed photo with the Old St. Nick. Reservations required. 

Fun for the whole family with Mr. and Mrs. Claus, crafts, pictures, games and breakfast. 

Chorus Abilene's four choirs, grades 1-adult, present an evening of music that features Christmas music from various countries around the world, as well as Christmas songs from the U.S. Tickets available by phone, online or by filling out the email form.

A come-and-go family program offered by our art educators who will help you and your little ones create a work of art using the style and medium of the featured artist in the gallery. Emphasis is on having fun while picking up valuable knowledge.

 Learn 2 basic watercolor techniques and how simple wintry evergreen springs and berries are to paint. Get your coziest Christmas sweater and grab a friend for a night of DIY and festive holiday fun and a hot cocoa bar.

Take a tour of the house to learn the historical significance, see the beautiful Christmas decor and understand the house's unique ability to host events. Fox Coffee will be serving drinks for purchase and Eaaron Pye will be playing the piano. Presented by the Swenson House Historical Society.

Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the whole Peanuts gang as they produce their own Christmas play and ultimately learn the true meaning of the season.

Enjoy a complimentary showing of The Polar Express™ courtesy of Premiere LUX Cine’ 10 and Mall of Abilene. Movie tickets will be given out on a first come, first serve basis at the cinema the night of the event. Tickets available while supplies last.

A come-and-go family program offered by our art educators who will help you and your little ones create a work of art using the style and medium of the featured artist in the gallery. Emphasis is on having fun while picking up valuable knowledge.

Cutting is an equestrian event where a rider and their horse work together to separate a single animal away from a cattle herd and keep it away a certain amount of time. The dynamic duo is judged on how well they accomplish that feat!

A come-and-go family program offered by our art educators who will help you and your little ones create a work of art using the style and medium of the featured artist in the gallery. Emphasis is on having fun while picking up valuable knowledge.

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult. Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia. Color; 104 minutes; Rated PG, 1988.

The first and last, two person exhibition of drawings and sculpture by two contemporary artists who worked together in life and in the studio for decades. The original concept for the exhibition has been transformed by the November 2017 tragic, sudden death of Harry Geffert.  A selection of Geffert’s recent sculpture and new drawings by Ridgway will be a celebration of their life and work. 

The art of Margaret Smithers-Crump is rooted in a life-long love of both our planet as well as personal and global human interactions with the natural world. Her current work examines microscopic and macroscopic relationships in nature. Travels aboard and experience of the vast open spaces of West Texas has had a particular influence on the works to be exhibited at The Grace Museum. Smithers- Crump’s installation will feature new work created from recycled Plexiglas. The delicate and ephemeral quality of the sculpture focuses on the vulnerability and interconnectedness of the Earth’s diverse life forms and ecosystems. 

Robert Langham’s kinetic still life, logic defying, photographs are made with a magician’s slight-of-hand and the skill of a master-of-the-darkroom. Spending time with Robert Langham’s not-so-still life photographs, you will be surprised to discover that they are made using traditional film, low tech hands on tricks and dark room processes without the use of digital media or computer editing.

Philip John Evett’s sculpture exists outside of time. It is impossible to place the work into one particular style or art movement even though he was a prolific artist for more than 60 years.  Retro, modern, contemporary, and classical are all appropriate in describing his elegant sculpted forms. He originally worked with stone, clay, plastic, steel, and iron, but for the last 50 years, maple, cedar, mahogany, and  oak were his been his primary media.

A national art competition open to all artists 21 years of age and over. Artists can submit up to 3 artworks in various mediums. Submitted artwork must not have been shown previously at the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA).

This exhibition will highlight the career of Abilene architect David S. Castle. As one of the most significant and prominent architects in Abilene and the Big Country in the early to mid-1900s, David S. Castle designed and built hundreds of schools, residential buildings, hotels, medical buildings, municipal buildings, churches, recreational buildings, and courthouses. The exhibition will discuss Castle’s role in the history of architecture in Abilene and the surrounding areas, concentrating on Castle’s contributions to the evolution and growth of Abilene. The buildings he designed are a reflection of the development of Abilene as a trade route and important hub in the oil industry throughout the early twentieth century.