Find shows, activities marking ongoing festive season in Tbilisi’s Christmas Village

While a major part of Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations has already taken place, locals and visitors in Tbilisi can look for more daily entertainment events in the city’s Christmas Village, to mark the Orthodox Christmas and the Old New Year dates.

Set up on First Republic Square, near Rustaveli Avenue, the location has been hosting visitors of all ages for theatre shows, music performances and more since December 28.

Troupes like the Puppet Theatre and groups like Tbilisi Big Band have been taking to the stage next to the central Christmas tree of the city to entertain their audiences, with a fair also open at stalls.

Young visitors of an ice rink set up at the location. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge.

See our gallery of photographs showing sights of the Christmas Village

The events will continue for the next 10 days, to involve celebrations of the Orthodox Christian date for Christmas on January 7 and the second New Year’s Eve celebration in Georgia on January 13.

The latter is a custom dating from the historical era when the New Year’s Eve was marked based on the Julian calendar, before it was replaced internationally in 1582 by the current Gregorian calendar.

Santa Claus and other fairytale characters are in the Village for festive mood. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge.

The daily programme of shows and activities in the Christmas Village can be found below:

January 3

2pm: March of the Nutcrackers

4:30pm: Concert for children by the Tchokhonelidze Sisters’ Kids Studio

7pm: Musical show by Nika Tsereteli and Elarji band

9pm: Young Georgian Lolitaz band

January 4

2pm: March of the Nutcrackers

3pm: Concert for children by the Wasps Studio

4pm: Dub drive show by the ensemble Mziuri of the Georgian National Youth Palace

9pm: ‘Radio’ musical show of Georgian pop artists

January 5

2pm: March of the Nutcrackers

3pm: Combined concert by the Georgian National Youth Palace

6pm: Travelling the Books project

9pm: Musical show by Giorgi Tsagareli/SvanSikh

10pm: Electronic music performance

January 6

2pm: March of the Nutcrackers

3pm: Travelling the Books project

5pm: The Jose Show

9pm: Gala concert for a Christmas carol

10pm: Electronic music performance

January 7

2pm: March of the Nutcrackers

3pm: The Jose Show

5pm: The Movement Theatre show

9pm: Musical The Wedding of the Jays based on a popular Georgian tale

January 13

9pm: A fresh New Year Program by artist Nino Katamadze