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Christmas at the Bay

Christmas at the Bay

06 Dec 2025
Christmas at the Bay

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The City of Holdfast Bay will celebrate Christmas 2025 with an afternoon and evening of Christmas-inspired activities in Moseley Square and the Bay Discovery Centre, including Christmas crafts, youth market stalls, face painting, games and photos with Santa, ending with an evening of community carols on the lawns of Jimmy Melrose Park.
When
Saturday 6 December at 3:00pm - 8:30pm
Where
Jimmy Melrose Park
Cost
Free
Contacts
Name:
Events Team
Phone:
8229 9999
Email:
events@holdfast.sa.gov.au

This vibrant community event, filled with colour, music and magic, marks the beginning of the festive season in the City of Holdfast Bay. Traditionally, Council hosts the Glenelg Christmas Pageant, however, due to the Transforming Jetty Road Glenelg project construction schedule and associated road closures, a street parade is not possible for 2025.

Instead, Council will celebrate Christmas 2025 with an afternoon and evening of Christmas-inspired activities in Moseley Square and the Bay Discovery Centre, including Christmas crafts, youth market stalls, face painting, games and photos with Santa.

The evening will feature traditional community carols at twilight, complemented by a small stage show on the Glenelg Foreshore.

The following free activities will fill Moseley Square and its surrounds from 3pm - 6pm

  • Face painting on the lawn near the playground on the foreshore
  • Christmas craft by the Glenelg Library

You will be able to visit Santa and Mrs Claus in the Gallery of the Bay Discovery Centre between 3pm - 6pm

Bookings can be made online - bookings will open closer to the date.

  • Tickets are free.
  • Tickets are distributed for 15-minute time slots, with the first session beginning at 3pm, and the last session at 5.45pm.
  • There will be no professional photographer, but we encourage you to take photos on your devices.

We will set up an area for you and your family to safely queue when it is time to get in line to see Santa, with shade provided. There will also be a pram parking bay.

This year, the Youth Markets will be at the Christmas event.

In Moseley Square, you will find a series of young designers and creatives aged 10 - 25 who will be selling their wares. With a wide range of crafted items, be sure to come along and show them your support.

The Youth Markets will be open for sale from 3pm - 7pm.

With so many cafes and restaurants down Jetty Road, you will be spoilt for choice, but if you need something quick whilst you wait for Santa, the lovely volunteers from the Rotary Club of Glenelg will have their BBQ fired up from 3pm to 8.30pm for a quick sausage sizzle.

Location

See "Jimmy Melrose Park, South Esplanade, Glenelg South SA, Australia" on Google Maps

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