Annual Holiday Trade Fair
200 N. Main Street
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
9:00 am · 6:00 pm
A 2 day event hosted by Fairfield First Fridays Art Walk
Get ready shoppers, it’s that time of year again! The 14th Annual Holiday Trade Fair, one of the largest holiday gift and craft show in SE Iowa, will be held December 8th and 9th at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center.
The Holiday Trade Fair is a one-stop holiday shopping event with over 60+ local and regional craftspeople, artisans, and importers offering unique gifts and creations. Shoppers will find a great selection of unique handcrafted and imported products to select from including the best in beautiful handmade crafts, beautiful art, handmade, vintage and stylish jewelry and clothes, children’s toys, specialty food items, and much more. The selections include everything imaginable. Plan to meet your friends for an incredible shopping experience.
The Holiday Trade fair is an exciting event to polish off that shopping list. Bring the whole family to the trade fair, Friday night, December 8th from 5pm to 9 pm and come back again on Saturday, December 9th from 9am to 6pm at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center.
For more information: email Fairfieldartwalk@gmail.com.
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Contact: Fairfield First Fridays
fairfieldartwalk@gmail.com Website
Holiday Sip & Shop
117 E. Burlington Avenue
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
10:00 am · 3:00 pm
Holiday Sip & Shop at Scarlett & Co. Creative Studio
Saturday, December 9, from 10am - 3pm.
117 E. Burlington Avenue
- Make a wax melt stocking stuffer
- Fun holiday drinks & snacks
- Special sales
- $15 off permanent jewelry!
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Contact: Scarlett & Co. Creative Studio
Olive Oil Tasting - At Home Store
52 N. Main Street
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
1:00 pm · 2:00 pm
A new shipment of Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Azienda Agricola Cordioli in Verona has just arrived! Come on Saturday, December 9th from 1-2 pm and experience two varieties.
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Contact: At Home Store
(641) 472-1016
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SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT - BOARD GAME & PUZZLE MEET-UP @ FPL
104 W Adams Ave
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
1:30 pm · 3:30 pm
Join us every month for classic board games, jigsaw puzzles, and new friends! This event is free and open to all ages but primarily geared toward adult members of the community. FPL will provide a selection of board games such as Chess, Scrabble, and Dominion, and attendees are encouraged to bring their own favorites games and puzzles to share. This Saturday the themed game is Scrabble. Do you know anyone who loves to play? 1:30-3:30 in the Meeting Room. There will be other games to play as well!! If you need assistance related to a disability in order to attend this event, please contact the FPL Front Desk at 641-472-6551, Ext. 2.
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Contact: Front Desk
(641) 472-6551
circ@fairfield.lib.ia.us Website
THE POET'S FORGE @ FPL
104 W Adams Ave
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
3:00 pm · 4:30 pm
THE POET'S FORGE Date & Time: Every second Saturday from 3-4:30pm
Location: FPL Meeting Room
Audience: Adults
Host: Craig Deininger
The Poet's Forge is a workshop that emphasizes craft—hence "forge" and its connotations with smithing—the actual work we do within and upon the substance of language. This emphasis does not omit the many subtler elements vital to poetry like inspiration, imagination, meaning and so on. Rather it simply holds the techniques of the craft as its primary focus. The workshop is geared to those who are serious about developing their skill in composing poetry and not toward merely having a platform for voicing opinions or having one's work affirmed. That said, the atmosphere will be professional and respectful, attending precisely to the poetry of the participants. Anyone interested in writing more poetically, regardless of experience, is quite welcome provide they are prepared to honor what their poetry has to say as its own autonomous entity, so to speak. Auxiliary content on poetry and poetics will be included, but will not be prepared in advance. Rather, we will let the poetry that is on the table before us at any given moment determine our direction. About Craig Deininger Craig is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & Literature at Maharishi International University. Before moving to Fairfield, Craig taught at Naropa University, Lees-McRae College, Studio Film School in Los Angeles, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he earned an MFA in Creative Writing, served as an editor for the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and was Coordinator of the MFA’s Visiting Writers Series. He also earned an MA and PhD in Mythology and Jungian Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. His poetry has been published in several literary journals, anthologies, and newspapers, including The Iowa Review, Glyphs, Between, Moab Happenings, and Riverbend. He is a regularly featured writer for the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and his first book of poetry, Leaves from the World Tree, was recently published by Mandorla Books.
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Contact: Front Desk
(641) 472-6551
circ@fairfield.lib.ia.us Website
Visit Santa on the Square
The Square
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
6:00 pm · 8:30 pm
Join us in Festive Fairfield! Every Friday and Saturday evening from Black Friday to Christmas, join us for our decades-old tradition and see Santa from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
Volunteers at the Santa houses are from Iowa State Bank! Thanks for helping us make Christmas magic!
Santa will be waiting for you in his house where you can get your photo taken with him then travel over to his workshop and add your photo to an ornament.
Hot cocoa and cookies for all as well as candy canes and books for the children.
Stroll around the square and enjoy all the holidays have to offer.
Don't forget to sign-up and win Chamber Bucks!
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(641) 472-2111
chamber@fairfieldiowa.com
Iowa Dance Collective Winter Showcase 2023
200 N. Main Street
Fairfield, IA
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December 9, 2023
6:00 pm · 7:30 pm
An all blacks, informal look into what the kids have been working on thus far this season.
Ticket price $15 General Admission
Run time: 1 hr. 30 min
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Contact: Fairfield Arts and Convention Center
(641) 472-2000
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