KIDS’ WINTER WONDERLAND: (Gym) enjoy cookie decorating, mak-ing a Christmas craft, winter carnival games and a 6 hole mini golf course!

CHILL ZONE : (classrooms upstairs in DiscoveryLand) chill out to Xbox, foosball, air hockey, a gingerbread house building competition & snacks.

STREET HOCKEY: (north parking lot) enjoy free-play outdoor hockey Canadian style! Sticks provided.

OUTDOOR MAIN STAGE: (west parking lot) featuring the talent of Ryan Gartner and his band.

POLAR EXPRESS (Mtg. Place 2-3): lose yourself in the magic of model railroading in this impressive minia-ture train layout!

PETTING ZOO & LIVE NATIVITY: (East Entrance) enjoy a variety of ani-mals and live nativity starring Mary, Joseph, and Elevate! kids’ choir.

LIVING STATUES: (indoors) make a small donation to the Calgary Dream Centre to watch these wintery characters come to life before your eyes!

DREAM CENTRE TREES: (various locations indoors): these sponsored, one-of-a-kind decorated Christmas trees make great photo ops with family and friends (details on page 6).

HORSE-DRAWN SLEIGH RIDES: (outside the east entrance) groups of 20 can enjoy a tour around the area to the clip-clop of horse hooves.

SNOWBALL THEATRE: (Sanctuary) Enjoy alternating performances of the Wednesday Night Big Band, a Frozen sing-along, and a “12 Days of Christ-mas” comedic sketch.

TREE LIGHTING FINALE: (west parking lot, Main Stage) you won’t want to miss this spectacular ending to a great afternoon!

CORNERSTONE CAFÉ: (Atrium)warm up with a Christmasy snack & drink available for purchase (cash/debit/credit) from our featured menu.

STARLITE ROOM: (Harvest Rooms) unwind over free snacks with the sounds of The Rick Cleman’s Jazz Group and family-friendly sketches by Improv Adventure Theatre.

Everything is FREE with exception of Cornerstone Cafe and voluntary live statue donations for the Calgary Dream Centre.

Look for our volunteers wearing Christmas-themed hats or make your way to the Information Desk [see page 4-5] and we’d be happy to help you. Wristbands are available at the Info Desk for younger children so parents can write their cell phone # on, for easy contact in case of separation.

Fun for EveryoneGeared for Adults (open to everyone)

Geared for Kids under 12 yrs.Geared for Youth 12 yrs. +

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OutdoorMain StageRyan Gartner Band 3:50-4:20

OutdoorMain StageRyan Gartner Band 4:40-5:00

Tree Lighting Finale! (Outdoor Main Stage)5:40-6:00, East Entrance

Tree Lighting Finale!(Outdoor Main Stage)5:40-6:00, East Entrance

EVENTS EVENTS

3:00 PM Starlite Room(Harvest Rooms)Jazz3:00-3:20

Improv3:30-3:45

Jazz3:55-4:15

Improv4:25-4:40

Jazz4:50-5:10

CornerstoneCafé3:00-5:30

Live Nativity3:10

Petting Zoo

Petting Zoo

Petting Zoo

Petting Zoo

Live Nativity4:10

Live Nativity5:10

Snowball Theatre(Sanctuary)Big Band3:05-3:25

Frozen Sing-Along3:35-3:55

Big Band4:05-4:25

Frozen Sing-Along4:35-4:55

Big Band5:05-5:25

PolarExpress(Mtg. Place 2-3)3:00-5:30

WinterWonderland3:00-5:30(Gym)

Chill Zone(Room 255)3:00-5:30

Outdoor Street H

ockey 3:00-5:00

OutdoorMain StageRyan Gartner Band 3:00-3:30

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

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ActionCentre

Information(Main Level)

(Sanctuary)

(Gym)

Bookstore

CornerstoneCafé

North EntranceEast Entrance

West Entrance SouthwestEntrance

Kitchen

sleigh rides

live nativitypetting zoo

SnowballTheatre

STARliteroom

STREETHOCKEY

MAIN STAGE

WINTERWONDERLAND

POLAREXPRESS

(Upstairs inDiscoveryLand)

CHILL ZONE

Use this map as a “passport”

to fun! Get a STAMP for each

station marked with a star.

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First Alliance Church is proud to partner with the Calgary Dream Centre (5598 4510 Macleod Trail South) in their ongoing mission to help people to restore Dignity, discover Destiny and realize their Dreams – providing second chances to men and their families right here in Calgary. Their Recovery, Transition and Community re-integration program offers life management skill training, career skills development and spiritual care to the individuals they serve.

Enjoy the distinctively decorated Christmas trees along our “Main Street” foyer here at FAC, provided by groups who partner with the Dream Centre in raising awareness and involvement during their “Festival of Trees” fundraiser.

The Calgary Dream Centre is able to make life change possible because of people like you supporting their work.

To learn more, visit www.calgarydreamcentre.com.

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T he Rick Climans Jazz GroupThis ensemble has actively performed at public and private/corporate events and venues across Alberta for the past 11 years. A few highlights in-clude performing at the Banff World Media Fes-tival, performing at the Sylvan Lake Jazz Festival, collaborating musically with the Food Network’s Top Chefs Canada to provide a series of culinary getaway weekends at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, and performing a number of times at the Cliff Bungalow Jazz Concert Series in Calgary. To-day’s trio includes Rick Climans (saxophones), Andrea Petrity (keyboards) and Stefano Valdo

(upright bass). Each of them are following their passion of being full-time jazz musicians and are happy to be a part of the Stars of Christmas!

Wednesday Night Big Band

“30 years of concert big band jazz in Calgary.“ The Wednesday Night Big Band was formed in 1982 by Brian Thorlacius. Over the years, many of Cal-gary’s top jazz musicians have been regular members of the band. All members of the band are accomplished musicians with a love of big band jazz. The band’s repertoire includes jazz standards, modern compositions, and original arrange-ments. To learn more, visit wnbb.ca.

Improv Adventure T heatreEssentially, “improv” is theatre without a script. That means everything Improv Adventure Theatre does is made up on the spot – and the comedy is unavoidable! Improv Adventure Theatre is a not-for-prof-it theatre company in Calgary founded by Phil and Melissa Abusow, focussing on making stuff up and having fun doing it. Thanks for sharing a laugh with us! “Like” facebook.com/ImprovAdventureTheatre

T he Superstars: Our Volunteers!To all the amazing Christmas-themed characters, to the Elevate! Kids’ Choir, Ryan Gartner and band, the carollers and many other musicians, costume coordinators, the food hospitality team, all the greeters, our set-up and take-down crew, set builders, decorators, model railroaders ... We literally could not have celebrated the Stars of Christmas without you! “Thank you” simply isn’t enough to express our gratitude for your time and talent.

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Christmas Eve Services1:00 pm*3:00 pm* (live Spanish translation available)5:00 pm* (live Mandarin and Spanish translation available)7:00 pm (live Mandarin and Farsi translation available)

*Childcare will be offered on the main level of DiscoveryLandfor infants-kindergarten for the 1:00, 3:00 & 5:00 pm services