73 Results for tag "Family-friendly"

• Performance: Visit a Nation Builder

  Step into the past with a Nation Builder. Through stories, discussion, and questions, explore the hopes, choices, and challenges they faced.

• Evening Program: Revolutionary Points of View

  Step back in time to the eve of the American Revolution. There are just as many opinions about war and independence as we hear about politics and religion today.

• DIY Craft: Quilting

  Discover the story of Emma Russell, quilter, and enjoy a mini-quilting project.

• Tour: Stables Behind-The-Scenes

  Get a behind-the-scenes look at our modern stables and learn more about our carriages.

• Presentation: The Necessity of Order in Battle

  Witness a demonstration of tactics that are crucial to success in combat.

• Hands-on: Daily Life

  Participate in the daily activities of an 18th-century family at the Geddy House.

• Special Event: Lighting of the Cressets

  Join us on the historic Duke of Gloucester Street as we bring our 18th-century streets to life at night.

• Tour: Custis Square Archaeology

  Take a guided tour and talk with archaeologists in the field about the current archaeological investigations at John Custis IV’s four-acre home and early 18th-century gardens.

• Tour: Nassau Street, Past, Present, and Future

  Join us at the First Baptist Church site for a walking tour and learn how a century of archaeology is contributing to a dynamic past, present, and future on Nassau Street.

• Public Auction

  Take part in an exciting auction! Bid on selected items from Colonial Williamsburg stores as well as exclusive items not available elsewhere.

• Hands-On: Under Arms

  Guests of all ages will step into the shoes of soldiers enlisting in the army during the American Revolution.

• Performance: Beyond The Walls

  The scholars of the Bray school have a lot that they can learn from the tiny creatures within its walls.

• Performance: Harvest's In, Fiddle's Out

  Join some of the members of the Play House Players as they play 18th-century songs and dance tunes from the Williamsburg harvest season.

• Performance: Play House of Horror

  Horror-as-entertainment was as popular in the 18th century as it is today, and in both centuries, it was fodder for fun as much as fear!

• Music: Fife & Drum

  Watch and listen to the Fifes and Drums as they demonstrate the music and drill of various military ceremonies from an 18th-century soldier's working day.

• Conversation: Meet a Person of the Past

  Meet people of the past for some informal conversation or activity.

• Hands-On: Company of Comedians

  Children of all ages! Join the Play House Players on the Duke of Gloucester Street to learn about Williamsburg’s theatre and participate in 18th-century entertainments.

• Conversation: Farming with George Washington

  Meet George Washington at our Ewing Field where you can discuss farming practices, innovation, and the importance of agriculture to society.

• Event: Williamsburg Old Time Radio Hour

  Travel back in time to the golden age of radio with unique stories about Williamsburg during the Colonial Restoration. Enjoy live music, sound effects and holiday nostalgia!

• Evening Program: Dancing at the Governor's Palace

  "Virginians will dance or die" wrote an 18th-century diarist. What better time than the 21st century to learn a few "new" dance steps? Audience participation encouraged.

• Music: A Fiddler's 75th Christmas

  Part of the Hennage Holiday Concert Series, join master fiddler John Turner for an hour of holiday-related melodies gleaned from a lifetime of listening, performing, and composing.

• Hands-On: The Art-full Tree

  Explore the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and discover the Folk Art Christmas Tree, then make your way to the Goode Education Studio and create an ornament to take home.

• Horticulture Workshop: Fresh Fruit Decorations

  In this hands-on class, Colonial Williamsburg's landscape designers will show you how to make a decorative apple candle and fragrant orange pomander to take home.

• Event: A Big Band Christmas

  Swing your way into the holidays with the great big band sound of the Williamsburg Classic Swing Orchestra in their 15th annual performance.

• Event: Christmas Dreams - Institute for Dance

  It's Christmas in Williamsburg, and Janie Sparkle wants just one thing this year: for all her wishes to come true! Join iDance for this local holiday tradition.

• Music: A Charles Dickens Christmas

  Gabe Stone, Mark Nixon, and David Gardner present a holiday show featuring readings from various Charles Dickens writings paired with Victorian Christmas carols.

• Music: A Very Virginia Christmas

  A concert of songs through the centuries interwoven with stories about Virginia from Wilford Kale’s book “A Very Virginia Christmas."

• Music: A Christmas Peaceable Kingdom

  Doves, donkeys, cattle, sheep and more. Join Kelly Kennedy for the joyous songs, tunes and stories of the animal kingdom from all over the world that mark the season.

• Music: Eastern Virginia Brass

  Celebrate the holidays with the festive music of the Eastern Virginia Brass. Enjoy familiar music, new pieces and always great music.

• Music: Keeping the Home Fires Burning

  Singer, actor, and folklorist Kelly Kennedy shares the music, recipes, tales, and lore from women through the centuries as they continue to keep the home fires burning.

• Music: Holiday Celebration of Dulcimers

  With musicality and seasonal joy, join Timothy Seaman for distinctive American melodies and festive holiday music showcased on a magnificent array of dulcimers.

• Music: Folk Hymns for Thanksgiving

  Join John and Turner and Kelly Kennedy as they play Harvest Home anthems, American hymns of Gratitude, and other lively tunes and songs to observe the Thanksgiving holiday.

• Music: Five Centuries of Holiday Music in Virginia

  As part of the Hennage Holiday Concert Series, join Henley Fork for a celebration of music of the Christmas season from the time of Jamestown through the twentieth century.

• Music: Nowell Sing We Clear

  Join Lynn and Barry Trott in this concert to sing along with favorite English and American carols from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

• Music: All Hail to the Days

  Join Lynn, Barry, and Lee to enjoy music for the winter season from the late 16th through the 17th centuries on lute, cittern, viols, hurdy gurdy, violin, percussion, and voice.

• Music: Profound Joy

  In this concert, Timothy Seaman celebrates the wonder of the holiday season with early American and worldwide melodies and new compositions.

• Music: Jolly Old St. Nicholas

  Celebrate that jolly old elf and discover worldwide traditions with Gabe Stone and David Gardner through tunes and stories about the star of the Christmas gift-giving season.

• Performance: A Holiday Medley

  A Holiday Medley brings the warmth and joy of holiday traditions, telling the tale of winter in Williamsburg over 250 years.

• Music: Breaking Up Christmas

  Dance tunes and songs that create a musical portrait of Virginia from the days of English country dances to the rise of country music in the Appalachian hills and hollows.

• Performance: Lucinda and the Lottery

  Based on a story from The Christmas Frolick (1775), Lucinda, a charming young heiress, devises a stratagem to test whose love is true.

• Performance: Of Christmas Past

  A British servant, newly arrived in the colony, reflects on the holiday traditions he has left behind in the mother country.

• Performance: Winter Revels at Pemberley

  The halls of Pemberley have witnessed years of winter revelry and today, preparations for yet another ball are underway!

• Performance: Christmas Entertainments

  Join the musicians and storytellers of the Play House Players for some 18th-century holiday fun!

• Performance: Gulliver's Travels

  Join us in a humorous retelling of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels, which has been read all over the world since 1726.

• Special Event: A Celebration of the Yule Log

  Follow the Yule Log, hauled by wagon, from Capitol Circle to Market Square, accompanied by music, festivity, and the community of 18th-century and present-day Williamsburg.

• Street Theater: A Joyful Heart

  Join the community of Williamsburg and witness how the free and enslaved pursue freedom and find joy in the Christmastide season.

• Special Event: Community Christmas Tree Lighting

  Join us for our annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, co-sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Williamsburg. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. in front of the Courthouse.

• Special Event: Firing of the Christmas Guns

  In the 18th century, guns were customarily fired in salute to the Christmas season. Join us on Duke of Gloucester Street for a re-creation of this event.

• Special Event: The Williamsburg Symphony

  The Williamsburg Symphony's brass quintet heralds the spirit of the season.

• Special Event: Dressing the Holiday Bride

  Discover the world of 18th-century bridal wear as our mantua-makers and milliners make a gown and other fineries worn for that happiest "day of days" and beyond.

• Special Event: Grand Illumination

  Enjoy musical performances, Lighting of the Cressets, storytelling on Palace Green, and fireworks displays from the Capitol and Palace. Fireworks begin at 7 p.m.

• Virginia Ballroom Christmas Day Brunch

  Join us for a Christmas Morning Brunch featuring Atlantic seafood treasures, shrimp cocktail, house-smoked salmon, artisan cheeses, and an array of antipasto and marinated salads.

• Virginia Ballroom Thanksgiving Day Feast

  Join us for a traditional Thanksgiving feast at The Williamsburg Lodge Virginia Room.

• Traditions Seafood Buffet

  Join us on select dates in November and December for our Seafood Buffet at Traditions in the Williamsburg Lodge.

• Special Event: Salute to the Presidents

  The pageantry of fifes, drums, cannon, and remarks from Colonial Williamsburg Nation Builders salute our nation’s Presidents on Market Square.

• Special Event: Artful Winter Evenings

  Celebrate the holidays in this magical after-hours event at the Art Museums.

• Performance: Coffee Cantata

  Mrs. Charlton’s daughter is in love with the delicious juice of the coffee bean! A comedic ballad opera based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Coffee Cantata.”

• Event: A Crooner's Christmas

  Good Shot Judy pays tribute to the Classic Christmas Crooner Hits!

• Campbell's Easter Brunch

  Please join us at Christiana Campbell's Tavern for Easter Brunch.

• Music: The Art of Fifing & Drumming

  Join the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes & Drums as they demonstrate the many musical tasks and ceremonies that occurred throughout a revolutionary soldier's day.

• Hands-On: Create Art!

  Drop by the Goode Education Studio and create art inspired by an object on exhibit.

• Performance: Music of Queen Anne's World

  The Jug Broke Theatre Co. explores tunes and songs that wove themselves through the fabric of this important transitional time in the early 18th century.

• Hands-On: Stories on Stage

  In this interactive family program, tell the tale of brave St. George and the Dragon! Learn about items in the Art Museums collection connected to the story & then take the stage.

• Performance: Entertainments at the Play House

  Join members of the Jug Broke Theatre Company as we celebrate the season and play and talk about the stories behind some of our favorite music of the Revolutionary Era.

• Performance: Visit with Colonel George Washington

  Step into the past with George Washington, Colonel of the Virginia Regiment. Through stories and questions, explore the hopes, choices, and challenges he faced.

• Special Event Hands-On: The Art-full Tree

  Explore the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg and discover the Folk Art Christmas Tree, then make your way to the Goode Education Studio and create an ornament to take home.

• On-Screen Captions: It's a Wonderful Life

  Captions will be displayed on the big screen for this select showing of "It's a Wonderful Life."

• Hands-On: Toy Making!

  Drop in and make a toy inspired by toys on exhibit.

• Explore the Declaration of Independence

  Join this guided tour and explore the Declaration of Independence through objects on exhibit.

• Tour: Favorite Family Pets

  Join us on a family-friendly tour as we explore the galleries for animals of all shapes and sizes.

• Family Activities

  Planning a day at Colonial Williamsburg for your family? Try our Family Fun Trek, a curated list of all the must-see and do activities for families and kids.

• Play in the 18th Century

  Children in the 18th century used what they had to make toys. Create modern versions of these toys using recycled or reusable items from your home.

• King’s Arms Tavern Welcomes Diners Back

  Known to cater to colonial elites and influential politicians, King's Eye Tavern treats you to historic culinary delights. Read to learn more about this Tavern.