Celebrate the season by visiting the wonderful galleries included in the 3rd Annual Southern Lights Gallery Hop. Travel via holiday trolley to various galleries in the Historic District. Participating galleries include the SCAD Galleries, Galleries of City Market, Chroma Gallery, The Telfair Museum of Art and Dimensions Gallery. There will be a kickoff reception at The Telfair Museum of Art.
Call 912.644.6452 or visit www.savannahsouthernlights.com for more information.
Candlelantern Weekend – Savannah, GA
On the evenings of December 13 and 14, Fort Pulaski staff and volunteers will recreate the Confederate Nog Party of 1861. Hot cider, special tours, and period music highlight these evenings of merrymaking. Advance reservations are required.
For more information please call 912-786-5787 or visit our website www.nps.gov
Southern Women’s Show – Savannah, GA
One of the most highly anticipated events in Savannah, the annual Southern Women’s Show, attracts thousands of local women each year for three jam-packed days of fashion shows, cooking demonstrations, beauty tips, health screenings, decorating ideas and personal growth opportunities — all tailored especially for women — as well as celebrity appearances.
This year’s show also promises more than 300 exhibitors ranging from boutiques and jewelers to travel agents and health care professionals and making it the perfect one-stop shop for on-the-go women.
While attendees are welcome to window shop, the hands-on, interactive nature of the Southern Women’s Show makes it the perfect opportunity to actually try out new products and services, consult with experts and register for prizes and giveaways.
On-site health screenings will enable women to undergo risk-factor assessments, with blood pressure, cholesterol, spinal screens and bone density checks.
Throughout the show, watch for live cooking demonstrations, seminars and fashion shows.
Show hours are Friday 10 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission is $9 at the door, $5 for children 6–12 years old and free for children under 6 years of age. Readmission tickets are $5. Groups of 10 or more can buy tickets in advance for $7 each. For group discount tickets and more information, call (800) 849-0248 or visit www.SouthernWomensShow.com.
The Tybee Island Christmas Parade
Fun, family Christmas themed parade featuring Santa Claus and other unique participants. Parade begins at Tybrisa Street and ends at Memorial Park. Children’s Christmas party immediately following.
Savannah-Northeast Florida Workshop on Wheels
There are plans for an early 2009 bicycle tour that will advance trails in both Georgia and northeast Florida. For five days starting January 14, 25 coastal Georgians will ride the invitational Savannah-Northeast Florida Workshop on Wheels that begins in St. Marys, Georgia, and continues along off-road trails, bicycle lanes, backroads and ferries through Florida’s Amelia Island, Jacksonville, Clay and St. Johns counties.
“The tour will greatly advance regional ecotourism,†says Visit Jacksonville President John G. Reyes.
“Cycling and trail-riding is just one of the many experiences that the Savannah area has to offer,†says
Savannah Convention & Visitor Bureau President Joseph Marinelli. “The Workshop on Wheels will be good
exposure for the sport through coastal Georgia.”
“It will greatly focus trail-building through our six coastal counties,†says Jo Hickson of the Coastal Georgia
Greenway.
“It will put the East Coast Greenway on the map in its two most important southern states,†says Herb Hiller,
Southeast Region Program Consultant to the East Coast Greenway Alliance. Bankers, elected officials, educators, land developers, lawyers, and MDs are among the touring group. They’ll not only ride an average of 25 miles a day. “Evenings,†says host committee chairman David Strickland, Community Bank Vice Chairman of Everbank, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, “they’ll meet with political leaders, parks and transportation planners, tourism leaders, trail advocates and others to learn the best so far accomplished in northeast Florida and about issues affecting how the region further develops trails.â€
The touring group is expected to report back to Savannah, Chatham County and regional authorities about
how best to connect trails through Georgia’s six coastal counties. Earlier this year the Coastal Georgia
Greenway and East Coast Greenway Alliance designated their first sections of state trail in Woodbine and in
Richmond Hill.
Also earlier this year, Visit Florida, ECGA and tourism agencies in Nassau, Duval and St. Johns counties
published the first guide to the East Coast Greenway in Florida.
The touring group will overnight in St. Marys B&Bs, at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Ponte Vedra
Beach Resorts, and at Amelia Island Plantation.
Additional organizations involved in the event include the Trust for Public Land, St. Johns River Alliance, St.
Marys Tourism, Camden Community Trails, Bike Florida, the North Florida Bicycle Club, Amelia Island Tourist Development Council, and the St. Johns County Tourist Development Council.