by Noella Noelophile®
(Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
Would you like to spend part of this weekend with Scrooge, Miss Havisham and Mr. Micawber–and print your own Victorian Christmas cards?
Thanks to the International Printing Museum, you can.
This Saturday and Sunday, the International Printing Museum, in Carson, will be hosting their annual “Dickens Holiday Celebration”! Both days, the museum gets turned into Fezziwig’s Warehouse, and appropriate Victorian festivities ensue.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
Characters like the insane Miss Havisham and the nefarious Fagin will be strolling about. Guests will get to print their own Christmas cards on 1850’s antique presses. An English lunch, featuring sausages (“bangers”, if you prefer the British term!) will be served, with gingerbread and hot apple cider.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
And, of course, there will be caroling.
(Photo courtesy of Jim Whobrey, and used with permission.)
And the highlight of the afternoon, both days, will be a chance to interact with a certain Mr. Charles Dickens, as he retells his classic A Christmas Carol–becoming Scrooge in the process and involving random audience members in an interactive performance.
You’re invited to come in your finest Victorian dress (here are downloadable guidelines, courtesy of the International Printing Museum), and warned to get your tickets early. This event sells out, and no one wants you to feel like Scrooge left alone at his boarding school.
The International Printing Museum, located at 315 West Torrance Boulevard, west of South Main Street in Carson, hosts its annual “Dickens Holiday Celebration” this Saturday and Sunday, December 13th and 14th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. According to the Museum’s website, tickets are still available for Saturday’s 3:00 pm presentation of “A Christmas Carol”, as well as the three Sunday shows.