Tbilisi locals, visitors invited to Christmas Town for festive events
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If you are spending your holiday season in Tbilisi, you are welcome to Dedaena Park where the city’s central Christmas Town is hosting concerts, theatre shows and children’s activities over the next two weeks.
Unveiled on Sunday and also known as New Year’s Town, the area has been lit up in festive colours and is receiving visitors for day-long program of amusements.
Figures of Santa Claus’ reindeers decorate the Town on the backdrop of Christmas Tree. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
Among the attractions held for celebrating the ongoing Christmas and New Year’s Eve holidays, the Town features a New Year fair, ice rink and open-air cinema.
Visitors photographed at the Town’s launch on Sunday. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
A workshop for wooden crafts and a corner hosting the Museum of Entertaining Science — Experimentorium are looking to offer educational opportunities to those interested.
Santa Claus looking for visitors of the celebrations in Dedaena Park. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
For stage art enthusiasts, Tbilisi-based theatre troupes offer their holiday shows to visitors.
Handmade doll figures found at one of the stalls in and around the Christmas Town. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
These include The Nutcracker staging by Akhmeteli Theatre, as well as productions by Tbilisi State Puppet Theatre and Fingers Theatre.
Decorative items are presented at a stall for visitors. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
Youth ensembles and bands including the children’s orchestra of School No. 19 will showcase their performing talents in the Town.
The Christmas Tree of the Town in Dedaena Park. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
Decorative figures of ballet dancers were lit up for night-time in the Park. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
A number of stalls for workshops, item sale and more can be found in Dedaena Park and adjacent streets marking the festive season. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
They will be joined in the roster of performers by popular singers with daily concerts, followed by shows featuring electronic music artists and DJs later into the night.
Popular singer Niaz Diasamidze (left) performs with his band 33A in Dedaena Park. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
Visitors of Dedaena Christmas Town can also cross the Dry Bridge next to the park to join festive events in New Tiflis — the recently renovated part of Aghmashenebeli Avenue.
Santa photographed with young visitors of the celebrations in the Park. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
The celebrations will also be extended to other areas of Tbilisi, including its Old Town.
The two week-long program involves events in the Park as well as New Tiflis area across the Dry Bridge. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall.
The festive program will run through the Orthodox Christmas date marked in Georgia on January 7.
The 2018 New Year is approaching and Georgia’s capital city Tbilisi is fast transforming into a festive city, with new shimmer and twinkle New Year illuminations.
Tbilisi's newly renovated Aghmashenebeli Ave is hosting a week-long Christmas fair of musical performances, souvenir sales and theatre shows, starting this Sunday.
Dozens of artists will present their craft items and perform for visitors at a celebration of the Christmas and New Year season at Tbilisi's Dedaena Park.
Local businesses have put their creative hats on and designed quirky and unique New Year trees to transform Tbilisi into a fresh, modern city this festive season.
The New Year’s mood is in full swing in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where Santa Clauses have appeared with bicycles. Cycling Santas is a new project launched yesterday by Tbilisi City Hall. They are greeting citizens and handing out candies.
If you are spending your winter season in Georgia’s Gudauri resort, you are invited to an open-air concert involving popular local artists celebrating the Orthodox Christmas on the night of January 6-7.
Public transport will be free on New Year’s Eve in Tbilisi so that people attending outdoor celebrations can later get home more easily. The metro system, buses and cable cars at Rike Park will be free of charge from 11am on December 31 through 4am on January 1, Tbilisi City Hall said.
New Year’s celebrations rang in 2018 last night, bringing thousands of local residents and tourists out into the streets.
Members of the Georgian Orthodox Church, together with part of the Orthodox world, will celebrate Christmas tomorrow, on January 7, according to the Julian calendar. Public transport will be free on Christmas Eve in Tbilisi so that people attending the night liturgy and outdoor celebrations can later get home more easily.
The mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze and Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze have lit up the city's main Christmas tree on First Republic Square today.
Visitors finding themselves at the Strasbourg Christmas Market between November 22 and December 30 will have the possibility to visit a Georgian cottage, and buy Georgian products including Georgian wines of various brands, traditional sweets, Georgian crafts and handmade souvenirs.
Georgian PM Giorgi Gakharia and President Salome Zurabishvili have sent kind wishes to all those worldwide who celebrate Christmas on December 25. “Let the holiday bring happiness and welfare to you and your families,” Gakharia wrote. The Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7 due to the two - week difference between the Gregorian and Julian calendars.