Your guide to holiday events, parades and pop-up bars in NWA
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Here's how to maximize the season with festivities in NWA.
🎭 Christmas classics on stage
👻 "A Christmas Carol" — The Charles Dickens classic is on stage at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville through Christmas Eve. Get tickets.
🩰 "The Nutcracker" — Catch Ozark Ballet Theater's production Dec. 13-14 at the Fayetteville Public Library or Dec. 20-21 at the Don Tyson School of Innovation in Springdale.
- Or see Northwest Arkansas Conservatory of Classical Ballet's performance Dec. 20-21 at the Arend Arts Center at Bentonville High School.
🎄 "A Christmas Story" — Ralphie just wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. Dec. 20-22 at The Medium in Springdale. Get tickets.
🎷 Symphony of Northwest Arkansas — SoNA will perform classic holiday music at two concerts on Dec. 7 at Walton Arts Center. Get tickets.
🍾 Themed pop-up bars
🥂 Winter Nights — This kid-friendly bar at Walton Arts Center offers trivia, karaoke and movie nights. Open 6pm to midnight on Friday and Saturday nights through Dec. 21.
🍸 Pinpoint — This pinball-themed bar in downtown Fayetteville is temporarily a Christmas bar.
🥃 Miracle on 2nd Street — Undercroft in the basement of Preacher's Son in Bentonville is decked out.
🧒 Take the kids
⛸ Go ice skating at Lawrence Plaza in downtown Bentonville.
⛄️ Enjoy a family concert, The Snowman, with Symphony of Northwest Arkansas on Dec. 8 at Walton Arts Center. Get tickets.
🎅 Take them to hot cocoa with Santa plus crafts and storytimes on Dec. 7 at TheatreSquared.
🗓 Your parade schedule
- Lights of the Ozarks in Fayetteville — 6:30pm Dec. 5 in downtown Fayetteville
- Rogers — 6:30pm Dec. 6 in downtown
- Siloam Springs — 5:30pm Dec. 7
- Farmington — 6pm Dec. 7
- Lowell — 5:30pm Dec. 7 at Ward Nail Park
- Centerton — 6pm Dec. 13. See the route.
- Bentonville — 6pm Dec. 14 in downtown
Editor's note: This story was updated to note Pinpoint is located in downtown Fayetteville, not Bentonville.
