Make magical memories at the Fourth Annual Holiday Enchantment and Tree Lighting! Adults and children are invited to gather on the campus of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts on Lyme Street from 3-5 pm for an afternoon of festive outdoor and indoor activities. These will include art demonstrations, music by the Old Lyme Town Band and the Lyme-Old Lyme High School Select Singers, a visit and selfies with Santa, food and drinks by the fire, and holiday craft-making.

A s’mores galore station, coffee, and hot cocoa will be available for all to enjoy. If the weather is chilly, guests will have an opportunity to warm up at one of the many fire pits on site, as well as to watch Lyme Academy artists draw and paint from a live model, do some holiday shopping, and more.

Join Children’s Librarian Miss Meg from Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library for a selection of holiday stories. Stories will start at 3:15 pm and repeat at 3:45 pm.

Young artists are invited to make their own festive ornaments to “Deck the Walls” for the holidays, with help from the Lyme Art Association.

Our campus art store, de Gerenday’s Fine Art Materials and Curiosities, will be hosting jewelry by artist Ann Lightfoot. Every Ann Lightfoot creation is born of a devotion to design, beauty, and elegance. Raw and delicate natural materials from all over the world dictate elemental and feminine design. Ann Lightfoot Jewelry makes a perfect holiday gift to treasure forever!

At 4:30 pm, a tree lighting will be led by the Town of Old Lyme’s First Selectwoman, Martha Shoemaker. This will be followed by caroling around the tree.