📆 Around town this weekend
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Today
💃 1 Night Beginner Square Dance @ Beaumont Presbyterian Church | Friday (11/28) at 7:30pm – Turkey still lingering? Trade those stretchy pants for boots and do-si-do with the DO-SI-DOS Square Dance Club. No experience needed, just easy calls, big smiles, and sneaky cardio. Bring the family, friends, neighbors, and that coworker who’s always looking for a new hobby.
🎭 Studio Players presents Having Hope At Home @ Studio Players at the Carriage House Theatre | Friday (11/28) at 7:30pm – Studio Players is delivering a PG comedy where Thanksgiving dinner meets a home birth, an obstetrician dad, and a midwife posing as the vet. Expect cozy farmhouse chaos, sharp laughs, and a tender reminder that families, like babies, arrive on their own schedule.
This weekend
🎅 Santa Arrives by Train| Saturday (11/29) at 10:00am – If you’ve been waiting for a sign the holidays are here, it is Santa rolling into Midway by RJ Corman, because of course he does. Free Santa visits, coffee and cocoa, local shops and eats, free parking, and exactly zero mall chaos.
🎄 The Ebony Nutcracker (2) Shows @ Lyric Theatre and Culture Center | Saturday (11/29) at 3:30pm – Craving more spice in your holiday classic? The Ebony Nutcracker whisks Clara through Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the U.S., blending ballet, tradition, and hip hop that will have you swaying in your seat. Two shows, zero sugarplum boredom.
🎷 The LEX Smooth Jazz Concert Series @ The Embassy Suites By Hilton Lexington/ UK Coldstream | Saturday (11/29) at 8:00pm – Give the holiday playlist a night off and slide into a club-style smooth jazz set where one song might shapeshift all evening. Daryl Beebe and Erin Stevenson lead the Holiday Edition, with fine bites, bourbon, and that unmistakable Kentucky swagger. Grown-up night out, guaranteed.
❄️ Feral Folk Winter Market @ Greyline Station | Sunday (11/30) at 11:00am – This curated winter market brings Appalachian, land-loving craft to Greyline Station, with naturally dyed clothes, beeswax candles, herbal goods, ceramics, woodwork, and more. Knock out your gift list, support local, earth-minded makers, then reward yourself with lunch, a drink, and zero mall parking drama.
🦌 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Jr. @ Lexington Children’s Theatre | Sunday (11/30) at 2:00pm – Rudolph, Hermey, and the whole misfit crew are taking over the Lexington Opera House in a brisk, one-hour musical that keeps kids hooked and adults happily humming. Expect nostalgia, big smiles, and even a Pay What You Will option, which feels downright North Pole neighborly.
🖌️ MAVEN Women’s Art Experience @ Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center | Sunday (11/30) – Need a culture refill that is more inspiring than your inbox? The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center hosts a women-led art takeover with paintings, sculptures, and performances, plus plenty of conversation. Show up, support local women artists, and leave seriously inspired.
Next week
🖼️ Holiday Art Market & Auction @ LexArts | Monday (12/1) at 12:00pm – Skip the big-box scramble and pop into LexArts for a holiday art market and auction. Curated pieces from local artists and the LexArts stash, from stocking-size treasures to wall-commanders, so you can shop local, upgrade your walls, and feel delightfully virtuous.
🎬 Free Public Screening: Lexington Resilience in the Redline @ Central Library | Tuesday (12/2) at 6:00pm – Back on the big screen, this free screening of Lexington: Resilience in the Redline actually earns the hype. A powerful look at our neighborhoods, our history, and the people who kept hope alive, it might even make you skip the couch, and call a friend.
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