Experience “Chanukah: Festival of Lights” at the Missouri Botanical Garden, located at 4344 Shaw Blvd. in south St. Louis, Sunday, December 18, from noon to 4 p.m.
Enjoy storytelling, traditional and modern festive Israeli music and dance, and the ceremonial menorah-lighting. The event is included with Garden admission of $8 adults; $4 St. Louis City/County residents. Free children ages 12 and under.
Festivities begin with the symbolic lighting of one of eight candles on a menorah, which represents the first of eight evenings that the miraculous oil jar burned in the temple.
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Listen to traditional Jewish and Chanukah festival music performed by the female quartet Shir Ami (Song of My People). The group HaShemesh (The Sun) will sing and play contemporary Israeli folk music."
Visitors can browse a traditional “shuk” (marketplace), with merchandise from The Silver Lady, B’nai El Congregation Gift Shop and Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel Gift Shop, or stop by the Garden Gate Shop from Chanukah-themed merchandise.
“Chanukah: Festival of Lights” will be held from noon to 4 p.m. in the upper level of the Ridgway Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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