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where to shop, craft, donate this season BY JOHANNA BERNHARDT
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Magic makers We’ve always enjoyed holiday markets for their festive vibes. This year these events have the added benefit of being a solution to the woes of globally gummed-up supply chains. Buy local and walk home with your gift list done? Heaven.
Alton Mill
The 17th annual Holiday Treasures Arts & Crafts Sale is on at Museum of Dufferin in Mulmur December 1 to 12. Last year’s hybrid in-person and online event had record-breaking sales. This year the gallery features about 60 vendors with an assortment of jewelry, textiles, pottery and woodworking. Prefer online shopping? Nine vendors are available on the MoD website.
Theatre Orangeville is back with live shows for the winter season. A Christmas Carol will be running December 1 to 23. Rod Beattie – beloved as Walt Wingfield and all the other characters in the Wingfield Farm series – is playing every charac ter from Scrooge to the three ghosts. And in March, Leslie McCurdy takes the solo reins as both writer and performer of the one-woman show Things My Fore-Sisters Saw. The play revolves around four women of African descent whose stories shaped Canadian history, including Marie-Joseph Angélique, an enslaved Montreal woman sentenced to death in 1734 for arson, and Mary Ann Shadd, the first Black female newspaper publisher in Canada. The show runs March 3 to 13.
On December 10 to 12, Caledon’s Cambium Farms hosts their first Holiday Market featuring local artisans as well as wreaths and Christmas trees. Fuel up at their food trucks, and if you’re hankering for something stronger than cider, there’s a cash bar. Proceeds from a silent auction support Bethell Hospice in Inglewood. The entire Alton Mill feels like a holiday market right through the holidays. In addition to its art galleries and shops brimming with gift ideas, Headwaters Arts hosts the Artful Giving Show – full of one-of-a-kind art, jewelry, fashion, funky functional pieces and more from a wide range of Ontario artists – until January 2. And on the weekend of December 11, families can book a family photo with the Grinch with Femke Photography.
A little hygge tealight lantern home is one in a series of workshops offered by Caledon Art Studio.
DIY TIME:
Back in the studio Sleigh bells ring! If your family considers a horse-drawn sleigh or wagon ride through snowy trails part of the fun of fetching a Christmas tree, be sure to plan a visit to one of these local farms: Erin Hill Acres (formerly Wintersinger’s Tree Farm) in Hillsburgh, Adams Tree Farms in Laurel or Hockley Valley Farm in Mono. Bundle up!
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The Caledon Art Studio (formerly 4Cats) in Bolton offers eight super cute crafts for kids and adults each month. In December, create your own whimsical clay ornaments, hygge tealight lanterns or a gorgeous stoneware clay serving bowl for holiday entertaining. Workshops can usually be completed in one to two sessions. M O R E O N N E X T PA G E
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