’Tis the Season: Holidays at MIM
December 14 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
🔔Ring in the season at MIM at this annual holiday-themed event as you explore several distinct winter holiday traditions from around the world.
✨Included with paid museum admission, free for members.
🔔Craft: Handbells
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Make your own handbell and play along with the day’s performances.
🔔Photo Booth
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Have your picture taken in our hands-free photo booth! Digitally share your pictures and tag us with #MIMphx for a chance to be featured on our social media.
🔔Curator Talk: Holiday Mummers
9:45-10:15 a.m.
Learn about holiday mumming traditions—with costumes, music, dance, and theater—around the world and in MIM’s galleries from education curator Mike Silvers.
🔔Pop-Up Performance: Dickens Carolers
10:15–11:15 a.m.
Join the Dickens Carolers for a stroll along El Río and listen as they sing spirited seasonal carols.
🔔Performance: Mariachi Alma de Mi Pueblo
11:30 a.m.–noon
Listen to holiday classics from an award-winning mariachi group!
🔔Orchestrion: Holiday Playlist
Noon and 3:00 p.m.
Enjoy unique versions of familiar holiday tunes as played by MIM’s largest instrument, the orchestrion!
🔔Youth-led Mini-Tours
12:15 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Follow Junior Museum Guides on a short, informative tour of MIM’s galleries with a special focus on holiday celebrations from around the world.
🔔Music-Making Workshop
12:15 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Join Junior Museum Guides for a fun, family-friendly musical activity that teaches guests to play holiday classics on the handbells!
🔔Performance: Rural Street Klezmer
1:30–2:00 p.m., Saturday
Get in the spirit for Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, with a klezmer performance.
🔔Performance: The Hot Beignets
1:30–2:00 p.m., Sunday
Experience a New Orleans–style holiday with a lively performance by the Hot Beignets.
🔔Performance: Arizona School for the Arts
2:30–3:00 p.m., Saturday
Enjoy holiday chamber music with Arizona School for the Arts’ World Guitar Ensemble.
Part of the Sweetwater Student Showcase Series, supported by Sweetwater.
🔔Performance: Kwanzaa Storytelling
2:30–3:00 p.m.
Join storyteller and musician Súle Greg Wilson in this participatory exploration of Kwanzaa traditions.
🔔Performance: Las Palomas del Norte Handbell Ensemble
3:30–4:00 p.m.
Ring in the holidays with a festive handbell performance.
