Stranraer Christmas Events – Programme
Stranraer Christmas Lights Switch On takes place this Saturday, 29 November.
It marks the first day of events for the Stranraer Christmas Events and there is a fun packed programme which will hopefully appeal to people of all ages.
The Frozen Sing-A-Long which begins at 5pm is the one of the first outdoor screenings in Scotland of Disney’s Most Popular Film of all time. The Oscar Winning Fairy Tale will be screened in full and everyone is invited to wrap up warm and come along to sing to “Let It Go”.
The Giant Snow Globe at the Castle Square is also a free event Photographs of you with your family and friends are available in the Globe and will give the chance to make new memories for the beginning of Christmas 2014.
Fairy Telling Workshops in the Castle of St. John are also free and will run from 1pm – 4.30pm and the Christmas Lights Switch On at 4.45pm will light up the Castle Square. Lantern and Cake Making Workshops will also be held at Stranraer Library from 1pm – 4pm (free) for anyone who wants to decorate their free lantern for the Parade which is taking place with Santa and his Reindeer on Saturday 20 December 2014.
For the full range of events and activities which are taking place, please see the details below:
Saturday 29 November 2014
11.00am – 3.00pm Christmas Fair, Millennium Centre
12.00 – Christmas Music at the Castle Square
12.00 – 5.00pm, Castle of St. John, Open to the Public
12.00 – 5.00pm – Santa’s Post Box and Wish Tree, Castle Square
12.30pm – 4.30pm – Giant Inflatable Snow Globe, Castle Square
1.00pm – 4.00pm – Lantern and Cake Decoration Workshop, Stranraer Library
1.00pm – 4.30pm – Christmas Storytelling, Castle of St. John
11.00am – 3.00pm, Santa’s Grotto (£4.00) and Children’s Fun Fair, Millennium Centre
2.00pm – The Book of Life (U), The Ryan Centre Cinema
4.30pm – Christmas Tree Decoration by Primary School Winners
4.45pm – Christmas Lights Countdown and Switch On, Castle Square
5.00pm – Disney Frozen Open Air Sing Along, Castle Square
Dumfries and Galloway Council and The Stranraer Christmas Events Partnership have been planning for events for several months. Volunteers and employees at the Furniture Project have been making the 300 Lanterns from wood and materials which have been kindly donated from both Cruden and Jewson’s. The talented volunteers have also been making a new Santa’s Post Box which will be situated at the Castle Square for everyone who wants to write to Santa. The Christmas Wish Tree will also be there for anyone who wants to add their Christmas Wishes.
Morrisons have also donated all of the sweets for the Santa Float as well as hosting their Annual Giving Tree in the Store which will be in place until 14 December in aid of Operation Christmas Stocking.
Councillor Marion McCutcheon, Chair of Wigtown Area Committee said;
”We are all incredibly excited about the start of the Christmas Events Programme this year and hope that as many people as possible will come out and attend our events over the following weeks. We are really pleased that we are one of the first places in Scotland to host the open air Disney Sing-A-Long of Frozen so wrap up warm and come and join us”.
Glenda Dewar, Project Manager from the YMCA Stranraer said;
“Stranraer YMCA and Stranraer and Rhins Young Farmers would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been involved in the Santa Float Project. It would not have been possible without all the support we have had. A massive thanks to the Apex U Turn volunteers who constructed the new Stranraer Santa Float with over 980 voluntary hours being put into the project.”
Organisers would also like to say a big thanks to Scott Richardson for setting up the lights and music on the Santa Float, Shire Agri Hire (Glenluce) for providing this year’s tractor and Stuart Ramsay for again providing his trailer.
The Stranraer Santa Float Project has allowed not only partnerships that have already existed to grow but also new ones have been formed.
