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If you’re in San Francisco, you could be making a parol (shown in photos) for the upcoming, annual Parol Lantern Parade and Festival<\/a> to be held Dec. 13, 2014. You might also be heading for the Great Dickens Fair <\/a>at the Cow Palace. Further south (and a little West) you can enjoy the Monterey Cowboy and Music Festival<\/a>. \u00a0Other Bay Area happenings this weekend include:<\/p>\n Nutcracker Under the Dome at Westfield San Francisco Centre<\/strong> Embarcadero Lighting Celebration & Ice Rink<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Tree and Interior Lobby Lighting<\/strong> PIER 39 Tree Lighting<\/strong> Hyatt Regency Snow Village Display and Daily Snowfall\u00a0 <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re in San Francisco, you could be making a parol (shown in photos) for the upcoming, annual Parol Lantern Parade and Festival to be held Dec. 13, 2014. You might also be heading for the Great Dickens Fair at the Cow Palace. Further south (and a little West) you can enjoy the Monterey Cowboy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNov. 20, 2014 \u2013 Dec. 31, 2014
\nFree light spectaculars nightly, every half hour from 5 p.m. until the mall closes.\u00a0This holiday season, San Francisco Ballet\u2019s\u00a0Nutcracker<\/em>\u00a0is the inspiration for this extraordinary visual experience crafted by local technology innovators, Obscura Digital. westfield.com<\/p>\n
\nThrough Jan. 4, 2015 Ice Rink Open
\nNov. 21, 2014, 4:00 p.m.\u00a0–\u00a08:00 p.m. Lighting Celebration
\nEmbarcadero Center is brightening the holidays this year with the\u00a028th Annual Building Lighting Ceremony & Carnival.\u00a0Activities include carnival games, face painting, a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, cookie decorating, interactive arts and crafts booths, balloon twisters, musical performances, a special appearance by Mickey Mouse and more.
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\nNov. 21, 2014, 7-7:30 p.m.\u00a0 Five Embarcadero Center
\nThe evening will be filled with free music and entertainment from Glide Memorial Choir, Meshuga Nutcracker and the Young People\u2019s Symphony Orchestra Brass Section as well as guaranteed snowfall and the initial lighting of the hotel\u2019s interior with more than 300,000 cascading lights.
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\nNov. 22 and 23, 2014 at Pier 39
\nJoin Pier 39\u2019s special friends from the Disneyland Resort at the annual PIER 39 Tree Lighting Celebration. Sing songs, give hugs to Disneyland friends and welcome the holiday season with two days of holly-jolly magic and merriment for the whole family. The fun culminates at 6 p.m. each night as PIER 39’s majestic 60-foot tree, adorned with glistening ornaments, bows and twinkling lights is illuminated against a stunning backdrop of the San Francisco city skyline.
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\nNov. 22 – Dec. 30, 2014, Five Embarcadero Center
\nOpen 24 hours a day and free to the public, Hyatt Regency San Francisco will continue its holiday tradition with an engaging and interactive snowfall display in its atrium lobby throughout the holiday season. The 2014 display encompasses more than 1,000 pieces, ranging from traditional holiday-inspired collectibles to entertaining motion-oriented exhibits.
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