Holiday Walk at the Flint Cultural Center

Tuesday, December 3rd 2024, 5:00-8:00pm

Join us at the Flint Cultural Center on Tuesday, December 3rd 2024 at 5:00pm to 8:00pm for Holiday Walk 2024. Tree lighting at 5:15 in Durant Plaza, between Sloan Museum of Discovery and Whiting Auditorium.

Visit Santa Claus and enjoy caroling, festive live music, planetarium shows, arts and crafts, fun holiday
activities, refreshments and more!

Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony | 5:15pm

In the Durant Plaza, between Whiting Auditorium and Sloan Museum of Discovery
With Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus, Mayor Sheldon Neeley, and Steve & Rosanne Heddy!

Food Trucks on East Kearsley Street | 5-8pm

Food Trucks in front of Whiting Auditorium

  • Northern Smoke BBQ
  • Mr. Prince Gourmet Food Truck
  • Bella Concessions & Catering

For more information, please call us at 810-237-7333. Download a PDF with all this information, including a map here.


Old Newsboys of Flint has been selected as the charitable recipient of donations. Old Newsboys of Flint is a charitable organization designed as a safety net to provide gifts to children from birth to age 18 who might otherwise go without. Participants are invited to bring clothing, socks, gloves, dental hygiene products or toys during the Holiday walk and deposit them in one of the Old Newsboys of Flint donation boxes located inside all nine Flint Cultural Center venues along the Holiday Walk route.

- Applewood - Bower Theatre - Dort Music Center - Elgood Theatre - Flint Cultural Center Academy - Flint Institute of Arts -
- Flint Public Library - Kearsley Street - Longway Planetarium - Sloan Museum of Discovery - Whaley Historic House - Whiting Auditorium -

To find out what is happening at each building for the Holiday Walk, click on the links above.
All activities and supplies are FREE unless indicated otherwise by


Applewood | 5-8 pm

  • Carolers
  • Ice Carvings
  • Hot cider & cookies

Bower Theatre

  • “The Snowflake Adventure,” a 360-degree virtual ride in the Bower Dome (timed tickets available starting at 4:30 p.m. in E. Kearsley St. tent in front of Flint Repertory
    Theatre, first-come, first-serve; timed entry every 15 minutes limited to 15 people per show; last entry 7:45 p.m.)

Dort Music Center | 5:30-8 pm

  • Musical performances and family activities
  • Take your own photos in the giant Nutcracker rocking chair (Line closes at 7:45 p.m.)
  • Hot chocolate and cookies provided by Allegro 5:30-7:30 p.m.
  • Improv games

5:30–5:50pm

  • Exclamation! Percussion

6:00 – 6:20pm

  • Dort Honors String Quartet

6:20 – 6:40pm

  • FSPA Honors String Quartet

6:40 – 7:00pm

  • Flint Youth Chorus

7:10 – 7:30pm

  • New Horizons Band

7:30 – 8:00pm

  • FSPA Community Strings

Elgood Theatre | 5:15 - 8 pm

  • A musical cabaret of new and old holiday classics, featuring some of your favorite Flint Rep performers.
  • Special holiday treats

Flint Cultural Center Academy (FCCA)

  • Maker’s Fair
  • Popcorn/refreshments

Flint Institute of Arts | 5 - 8 pm

  • Glass blowing demonstrations in the Hot Shop until 7 p.m.
  • Make & take art activity in Isabel Hall
  • Free family-friendly short films in the FIA Theater all evening long
  • Museum galleries open - don’t miss the Monet on view now
  • Palette Cafe - special Holiday Walk menu, beer and winer
  • Visit the Museum Shop for the perfect gift!

Gloria Coles Flint Public Library | 5:30 - 8 pm

  • 5:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. performances – Carman Ainsworth High School String Orchestra
  • 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. performances – Richard Paul, Ventriloquist
  • 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Create your very own holiday themed crafts
  • Refreshments provided by Friends of the Library

Kearsley Street Foor Trucks | 5 - 8 pm

  • Northern Smoke BBQ
  • Mr. Prince Gourmet Food Truck
  • Bella Concessions & Catering

Longway Planetarium | 5:30 - 8 pm

5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm & 7:30pm

  • Free sampler shows of Cosmic Christmas
  • Tickets available starting at 4:30 p.m. in E. Kearsley St. tent, first-come, first-serve. No late seating.

Sloan Museum of Discovery | 5 - 8 pm

  • Discovery Hall hands-on science gallery
  • Hagerman Street early childhood interactive gallery
  • History Gallery
  • Durant Historic Vehicle Gallery
  • Coffee Beanery Café open for snacks and hot cocoa
  • Sloan Museum store open for holiday shopping (discounted pricing)

Whaley Historical House | 5 - 8 pm

  • 6 p.m. performance – St. Cecilia Society Choir
  • Classical pianist performances
  • Victorian Parlor Games
  • Victorian Christmas Tours

The Whiting Auditorium

5:30–8:00pm

  • Free Photo with Santa! Visit with Santa Line closes 7:30pm

5:30–8:00pm

  • EBFE Mariachi Band