Downtown Event
Whitley County Christmas at the Courthouse
Event Details
December 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
You are invited to our 2026 Christmas celebration on December 4th and 5th from 6-8 pm at the Whitley County Courthouse.
Join us to celebrate Christmas with a live nativity, local Christmas music, hot cocoa, and cookies! This is a free community event.
You are invited to our 2026 Christmas celebration on December 4th and 5th from 6-8 pm at the Whitley County Courthouse.
Join us to celebrate Christmas with a live nativity, local Christmas music, hot cocoa, and cookies! This is a free community event.
An evening of joy and good cheer, Merry Museum Christmas will be held on Friday, December 4, 2026, from 3 pm to 8 pm at the Whitley County Historical Museum, with activities planned for the Thomas Riley Marshall Home, Little Turtle Annex and the Education Center facilities on the museum campus.
Join us for the 14th annual Whitley County Lighted Christmas Parade in downtown Columbia City on Friday, November 27, 2026, at 6 p.m.
Friday, December 4 | A Downtown Experience Find unique gifts and local favorites.
Support the small businesses that make our downtown special. Enjoy more time to shop, explore, and experience downtown during the holidays.
Mark your calendar:Friday, December 4 – A Downtown Experience
Put your jigsaw skills to the test! It’s a race against the clock to complete a 500-piece puzzle. Each team will be provided with the same 500-piece puzzle. The first team to complete the puzzle wins! Each team will have 2 hours to complete the puzzle.
All puzzles will be provided, and all skill levels are welcome.
After Hours: An Evening of Creativity, Discovery & Surprises
Join Sage & Stone and Moon Light Love on Friday, November 13, from 6–9 PM for a magical autumn evening open to all genders! Enjoy creative activities, a botanical frame bar, astrology and oracle readings, Tibetan foot bowl healings, refreshments, and a beautiful fall selfie backdrop. Explore the store, hunt for hidden treasures, and enter to win exciting giveaways, including a Reiki session, custom bracelet, mystery box, plant, and gift certificate.
🎟️ Tickets are $15 per person, and attendance is limited to just 30 guests! Tickets are already selling, so reserve your spot soon for this special evening of creativity, connection, and autumn surprises.
Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
Time: 6–9 PM
Location: Sage & Stone, Columbia City, Indiana
Website: www.sageandstonecare.com
A Trick or Treating tradition in downtown Columbia City. Children and families are invited to dress in costume and walk downtown to collect candy, treats and more from participating businesses and organizations set up around the square and more!
Shop Late Fridays are back in Downtown Columbia City! 🎁
Make downtown part of your holiday traditions! Join us for two special evenings to shop local, find unique gifts, and enjoy everything our downtown has to offer.
🛍️ Friday, November 20 | Early Holiday Shopping
Get a head start on your holiday list! Skip the last-minute rush, discover gifts you won’t find just anywhere, and enjoy a little extra time to shop your favorite downtown stores.
🎄 Friday, December 4 | A Downtown Experience
Make a night of it! Shop Late Fridays is joining three favorite holiday traditions: Walk of Trees, Christmas at the Courthouse, and Merry Museum Christmas. Shop downtown, take in the holiday displays, and enjoy an evening full of Christmas spirit throughout Columbia City.
Why shop late?
✨ Find unique gifts and local favorites.
✨ Explore the small businesses that make our downtown special.
✨ Enjoy more time to shop, explore, and experience downtown during the holidays.
📅 Mark your calendar:
Friday, November 20 – Early Holiday Shopping
Friday, December 4 – A Downtown Experience
Bring a friend, make a night of it, and shop local this holiday season. We’ll see you downtown!
Coney ComebackFarm to Fork Fundraiser Dinner!
Join us for an evening with Giving Gardens for our annual Farm to Fork fundraiser dinner!
Farm to Fork brings our community together over good food while supporting the work happening every day at Giving Gardens. Your support helps make nature-based learning, outdoor experiences, and meaningful connections with the land possible for children and families in our community.
The evening will include:
• A farm-to-table dinner with local chefs from Spoke & Ivy and Chance Bar
• Silent auction items
• Time to gather, connect, and enjoy the farm
• An opportunity to support Giving Gardens and the programs we provide throughout the year
Come spend the evening with us, enjoy a beautiful meal, and help us continue growing opportunities for children and families to learn, explore, and connect with nature.
If you would like to sponsor this event or a table, or check out the menu, and purchase your tickets—you can find that information on the link below.
Based on the music of Queen, We Will Rock You is set 300 years in the future in a futuristic and globally corporate world. Planet Earth has been renamed the iPlanet and is controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation. The head of Globalsoft is the sinister Killer Queen, who has banned all non-computer generated music. She has heard of a prophecy that instruments have been hidden somewhere on the planet and that ‘The Dreamer’ will emerge from the people to show the way to them. She orders her Chief of Police to get to the bottom of the matter and crush any rebellion. Meanwhile, Galileo, a young student and an outsider, is desperate to “break free” from this corporate world. He hears lyrics in his dreams and is heralded as the star of the prophecy by the Bohemians who have been searching for the lost instruments. To fulfill the prophecy. Galileo must evade the clutches of the Killer Queen and finally bring back the music. With the help of Pop, an aging hippie librarian, Galileo and Scaramouche find Rock’s Holy Grail–Brian May’s guitar–buried in the remains of Graceland.