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FEATURES
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The Pendulum
Get in the holiday spirit with Elon’s campus events
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the spirit of the upcoming holiday season
.^se Knorrs
Reporter
beginning today and continuing until winter break,
Won’s campus will be filled with holiday spirit by celebra-
*ons and festive activities intended to entertain and enlight-
The types of activities taking place during December
widely, including everything from hot chocolate and
ristmas carols to poetry and Moravian buns.
The Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life will
. the Holiday Celebration with Luminaries at 6:30 p.m.
S=ott Plaza today.
This annual Holiday Festival of Lights will include hot
ocolate, carols, and the lighting of hundreds of lights
®^g Elon’s pathways, as well as a tree lighting.
Air was really fun,” noted sophomore
ison Pariani. “It gets you in the Christmas spirit.
Today, the Truitt Center will present a special Moravian
ristmas Love Feast and Candle Service at 5 p.m. in Elon
, immunity Church. This traditional service is particularly
■"‘^resting due to its historical relevance-the Christmas
“stoms were brought to Old Salem, North Carolina by
^vian settlers from Germany.
J he Moravian Christmas Love Feast and Candle Service
include the singing of a children’s Christmas carol
j^^led “Morning Star,” the sharing of coffee and Moravian
the lighting of pure beeswax candles.
Also today. The Elon University Camerata, Elon’s choral
ensemble, will perform in Whitley Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
The concert, called Celebration of Light, is directed by
Stephen Futrell and sponsored by the Department of Music.
The group’s a cappella performances, will also be accompa
nied by a poetry reading of the works of T.S. Eliot, holiday
decorations, and a candlelight processional.
Finally, the North Carolina Symphony will perform a
Holiday Pops concert in Koury Center at 8 p.m. on Dec. 10.
The North Carolina Symphony will be performing well-
known, favorite holiday songs and carols.
Off-campus, the Greensboro Jaycees Holiday Parade, on
Dec. 10, will attract many to the streets of downtown
Greensboro from noon to 2 p.m.
The Polar Express is showing at Raleigh’s IMAX theatre
from until Jan. 5, and Raleigh’s Carolina Ballet is staging
shows of the Nutcracker from Dec. 16 to Dec. 23.
The Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, from Dec. 6
to Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be celebrating
National Cookie Week with the invitation to decorate and
eat a holiday cookie.
Finally, until Jan. 8, The Green in Charlotte will host hol
iday ice skating, for a $5 fee and a $3 skate rental fee.
Contact Alyse Knorrs atpertdulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
Photo submited
The community gathers around the fountain outside of
Alamance and waits for Christmas lights to be turned on
during the Holiday Celebration with Luminaries last
year.
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