The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

A Victorian Christmas Card Come to Life

Opens this Saturday!
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In 2013, we celebrate 35 years of bringing to life the dazzling world of Charles Dickens.

A beloved Bay Area tradition and one of the most elaborate, inventive and authentically-Victorian Christmas events anywhere in the world, the Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party presents a brilliant facsimile of London circa the 1840s-1860s - a Victorian Christmas Card Come to Life!

Join us for FIVE WEEKENDS
Nov. 23 ~ Dec. 22 from 10am to 7pm,
including the Friday after Thanksgiving!

Our talented staff, crew, performers, vendors and volunteers are already preparing for this year\s event. Once again, over three acres of old-world exhibition halls at San Francisco\s legendary Cow Palace will magically transform into a Victorian holiday world of dancing, feasting, entertainments, and shopping for one-of-a-kind treasures! An ever-changing recreated slice of Charles Dickens’ London, warmly lit and lovingly decorated, with winding lanes, shops, pubs, tearooms, lecture halls, a grand Music Hall and the London dockside brought to life by more than 750 authentically-dressed actors.