State Fair Community College invites the community to its annual “Jingle on the Green” from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, December 2, on the Sedalia campus.
A press release says the event is free, and parking will be available in all campus lots.
At 6 p.m., SFCC President Dr. Joanna Anderson will give a welcome and opening remarks in Stauffacher Theatre. The free celebration features thousands of luminarias, decorated trees, musical performances, Christmas-book readings, desserts and drinks, arts and crafts, cookie decorating and student and faculty technical demonstrations and displays.
Rowdie the Roadrunner and Frosty will be spreading holiday cheer throughout the campus. A new feature this year will be tram rides around the campus.
The schedule of performances and activities (subject to change) is:
Stauffacher Theatre – 6 p.m. opening remarks, Choir performances – 6:15 p.m. SFCC Jazz Choir; 6:30 p.m. Pleasant Hill High School; 7 p.m. Smith-Cotton High School; 7:30 p.m. SFCC Chamber Choir Stauffacher Center, Parkhurst Student Commons – Santa, cookie decorating and coloring stations, desserts, drinks; Campus Store (open until 8 p.m.) will collect mittens, gloves, hats for National Mitten Tree Day (items to be donated to local charities); donors will receive a special discount coupon Daum Museum of Contemporary Art -Desserts, drinks, free art craft kit give-away (while supplies last).
Yeater Learning Center – Lobby – Choir performances – 6 p.m. California High School; 6:30 p.m. Boonville High School; desserts and drinks; Thompson O’Sullivan Studio Theatre (Room 126) – Christmas book readings by SFCC Theatre students – 6:30 and 7 p.m.; tram ride station outside south door.
Heckart Science and Allied Health Center Sylvia L. Thompson Atrium – Band performances – 6:15 p.m. Smith-Cotton Jazz Band; 6:45 p.m. SFCC Concert Band; Gerken Solarium – Choir performances – 6 p.m. Sacred Heart High School; 6:30 p.m. Versailles High School; 7 p.m. Tipton High School.
Fielding Technical Center -Benefactor Hallway – dessert and drink station; Rooms 284, 290, 291 will be robotic, precision machining and 3D printer demonstrations and free snowflake ornaments while supplies last Hopkins Student Services Center – 6:15-7 p.m. Sedalia Chamber Music Society Quintet; drink station; tram ride station outside front door.