Eighth Year for Hampton Roads’ Most Unique Holiday Event:

Hollydazzle

Friday, December 2, 2011; 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
City Center at Oyster Point

NEW: The 45’ Tree Will Now Be Synchronized
to Change Colors While Playing Holiday Music

See here for the Hollydazzle 2011 Program

See here for a map showing road closures for the event

See here for video of Last Year's 2010 Hollydazzle Fireworks Show

Newport News Parks, Recreation & Tourism will present Hollydazzle, Hampton Roads’ most unique holiday event, on Friday, December 2, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at City Center at Oyster Point. Hollydazzle is a free family event with activities and entertainment leading up to the spectacular BayPort Credit Union “Fountains of Light Show” at 8:45 p.m. with fireworks and special effects by Pyrotecnico and the lighting of the 45’ BayPort Credit Union Tree on the Fountain Plaza.

The evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. with free “make and take” holiday crafts, holiday costume characters, and holiday entertainment at locations throughout City Center at Oyster Point. This year’s event will feature new entertainment including a “jump stilt” performer and fire poi juggling. The Wells Fargo Children’s Area will include three “make and take crafts” (holiday ornaments, elf hats, reindeer headbands) and a magic show by Krendl.

At 8:30 p.m., crowds will gather around the fountain for a helicopter fly-over by WAVY Chopper 10 and the crowd will join in the "WAVY Wave" using the special light-up item from BayPort Credit Union.  The BayPort Credit Union “Fountains of Light Show” (at 8:45 p.m.) will be shot from floating islands within the fountain and the lower perimeter edge of the fountain. This “one of a kind” show will combine fireworks, theatrical lighting, ground-based pyrotechnics, and special effects all choreographed to festive music. The show will transform City Center into a kaleidoscope of color reflecting on the fountains’ five-acre water surface.

The finale of the BayPort Credit Union “Fountains of Light Show” is the illumination of the BayPort Credit Union Tree which combines the latest technology in LED light animation to create its own continuous “light show.” The tree fades from color to color, shimmers, chases lights, and creates unique patterned effects. New for 2011 is the addition of synchronization between the tree’s lights with recorded holiday music. The “sights and sounds” of the tree can be enjoyed on the Fountain Plaza through January 1, 2012.

Food vendors will sell dinner items, snacks, and holiday treats (kettle corn, popcorn, cotton candy, candy apples, hot chocolate, German roasted nuts, funnel cakes, hamburgers, turkey legs, hot dogs, corn dogs, seafood, and gyros) ($).

Admission to Hollydazzle is free. For more information on Hollydazzle, please call (757) 926-1400.. The raindate for the Hollydazzle fireworks, if needed, will be at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 3. Please call (757) 926-1400 or visit www.nngov.com/parks-and-recreation for weather updates. For your pet’s safety, and the safety of the crowds of people attending the event, please leave your pets at home. Only service animals permitted on HRT shuttle buses. A designated viewing area for those in wheelchairs is available on the Fountain Plaza for the BayPort Credit Union “Fountains of Light Show.”

PARKING INFORMATION: Free parking will be available at the City Center Merchants Walk Parking Garage, the Fountain Way Parking Garage, the Mariners Row Parking Garage, at a satellite lot at Canon Virginia, Inc. (free, continuous shuttle bus service provided to and from the event area from 5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.), and at non-restricted on-street parking spaces along open streets in City Center. The Canon satellite parking lot is recommended as the easiest accessible parking site as it allows guests to arrive and exit the event easily without getting stopped in the traffic around City Center. Attention: Private business parking lots in Oyster Point may enforce towing. Handicapped parking is available in designated spaces in all parking garages, at the Canon Virginia, Inc. satellite lot (shuttle buses are handicapped accessible), and at designated spots along open streets in City Center; ask for parking assistance on site.

DIRECTIONS:
From I-64 Exit 256A – To Canon Satellite Parking: Exit onto Oyster Point Rd., turn left onto Canon Blvd., turn left on Old Oyster Point Road into Canon Virginia, Inc. (satellite parking). The event site shuttle drop-off/pick up is on Lake Front Commons.

From Jefferson Ave. into the City Center Parking Garages: From Jefferson Ave., turn left onto Thimble Shoals Blvd, turn left onto Town Center Drive and left on Merchant’s Walk to access the Merchant’s Walk Parking Garage; or turn left on Thimble Shoals Blvd. then left onto Fountain Way to access the Fountain Way Parking Garage; or turn left onto Canon Boulevard then left onto Mariners Row to access the Mainers Row Parking Garage.

ROAD CLOSURE INFORMATION:
See here for a map showing road closures for the event

ROAD CLOSURE on Wednesday, November 30, Thursday, December 1 and Friday, December 2:
1)The EDA parking lot off of Town Center Drive, near Canon Boulevard (across from the Marriott), closed at 8:00 a.m.

ROAD CLOSURES on Thursday, December 1:
1)Town Center Drive, at the corner of the Merchants Walk Parking Garage exit, and Pearl Way across from the EDA parking lot, at 9:00 p.m.; and,
2) Fountain Way, between Town Center Drive and Mariners Row closed at 9:00 p.m.

ROAD CLOSURES on Friday, December 2 :
1) Town Center Drive, at Pearl Way to the corner of Canon Blvd closed at 8:00 a.m.
2) Town Center Drive, at Merchants Walk to the corner of the Merchants Walk Parking Garage at 8:00 a.m.
3) Town Center Drive, from Pearl Way to the turn-around in front of the Marriott on Pearl Way at 8:00 a.m.
4) Merchant’s Walk, at Town Center Drive to the corner of Mariners Row closed at 8:00 a.m.
5) Mariners Row, at Fountain Way to the Suntrust Bank building cut through (off of Mariners Row - across from the Marriott), closed at 8:00 a.m.
6) Merchant’s Walk, at Mariners Row to the corner of Thimble Shoals, closed at 12 p.m.
7) Mariners Row, at Merchant’s Walk to the corner of Fountain Way closed at 12 p.m.; and,
8) Fountain Way, at Mariners Row to the corner of the Fountain Way Parking Garage closed at 12 p.m.