55 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.

• Tour: Freedom's Paradox

  Take a 60-minute walking tour of the Randolph Yard, Market Square and Palace Green.

• Evening Program: Revolutionary Points of View

  Step back in time to the eve of the American Revolution, and 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 Rita Mae Pettway, quilter, and enjoy a mini quilting project.

• Hands-On: Shoulder Your Firelocks!

  Engage in a military drill, learning the tactics and drills of the 18th-century soldier.

• 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.

• 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.

• Performance: Street Theater

  The Williamsburg community comes to life in this street theatre experience exploring the daily lives of ordinary people during extraordinary times.

• Tour: Stables Behind-The-Scenes

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

• Public Auction

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

• Conversation: Meet a Nation Builder

  Find a Nation Builder, a significant figure of 18th-century Williamsburg, around the Palace Green for some informal conversation.

• Conversation: Meet a Person of the Past

  Find people of the past near the William Pitt Store for some informal conversation or activity.

• 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.

• Performance: My Story; My Voice

  Witness a compelling story from the life of an 18th-century person, then hear from the actor interpreter as they share how they discover and bring to life a voice from the past.

• Performance: Entertainments at the Play House

  Jug Broke Theatre Co. members discuss and demonstrate the 18th-century theatre world as it pertains to Williamsburg, both past and present.

• 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 14th annual performance.

• Event: Christmas Dreams – Institute for Dance

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

• 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!

• Music: Hogmanay! The Scotsman’s Greatest Day!

  Join John Turner and Kelly Kennedy as they joyfully celebrate the Scottish New Year with traditional songs, tunes, toasts, traditions, and Caledonian nonsense!

• Music: William and Mary Early Music Ensemble

  In this concert, join William and Mary's Early American Music Ensemble to enjoy tunes of the Christmastide seasons of old.

• 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.

• 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.

• Museum Discoveries: 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.

• 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 5:00 p.m. in front of the Courthouse.

• Music: Brass Ensemble

  In this concert, the brass ensemble's bold and festive tunes kick off the season on December 3 and give a lively send-off into 2024 on December 31.

• 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.

• 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.

• Special Event: Artful Winter Evenings

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

• Music: Four Centuries of Virginia's Holiday Music

  Join Henley Fork and special guest Lee Welch for a celebration of the music of the Christmas season from the time of Jamestown through the twentieth century.

• Music: For the Holidays!

  Enjoy the celebration of the Christmas holidays with the sounds of traditional, spirituals, gospel, and contemporary music.

• 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.

• 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 7:00 p.m.

• Music: Now Christmas Comes

  In this concert, join Bill Weldon to celebrate the music from Christmastides Past.

• Music: Profound Joy

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

• Presentation: The Folk Art Christmas Tree

  Join Christina Westenberger and Jan Gilliam, the authors of The Art-full Tree, for a presentation and demonstration that will guide you to create art inspired by the originals.

• 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.

• Special Event: The Magic of Christmas

  This holiday show features mesmerizing magic by renowned stage magician William the Conjuror and a live band of strings, brass, reeds, and drums providing the sounds of the season.

• Special Event: Williamsburg Symphony

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

• Special Event: Millinery for the Holiday Bride

  Discover the world of 18th-century bridal wear as our milliners make cloaks, hats, mitts, muffs, trims for gowns, and other fineries worn on the happiest “day of days.”

• 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.

• Event: A Crooner's Christmas

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

• Event: A Hard Day's Night

  Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV show.

• Event: White Christmas

  A successful song-and-dance team becomes romantically involved with a sister act and teams up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

• On Screen Captions: A Hard Day's Night

  Captions will be displayed on the big screen for this select showing of "A Hard Day's Night."

• 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."

• On Screen Captions: White Christmas

  Captions will be displayed on the big screen for this select showing of "White Christmas."

• 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.

• 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.