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BayLUG Holiday Show
Hit the road with the Bay Area LEGO User Group and BayLTC, the Bay Area L-Gauge Train Club, this season as the groups present their annual holiday display of miniature scenes and electric trains built from LEGO bricks. Visitors can check out tiny cityscapes and whimsical holiday villages created by club members, who range in age from grade school to about 90 years old. Members also contribute to a sprawling, themed central display, taking to the highway this year with the theme “The Great American Road Trip.” The show takes place weekends through early January at the Museum of American Heritage.
Open weekends Dec. 6-Jan. 10 at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto; $4 per person; baylug.org/baylug_event/annual-holiday-show-2025-2026.
The Members Peninsula Arts Guild Fundraiser
Giving Tuesday may have just passed, but here’s a fundraiser that will be music to everyone’s ears. Peninsula garage band The Members will play a concert to support the Peninsula Arts Guild, the nonprofit organization that runs the Guild Theatre. The Members, a longtime local band, donate their time to play shows and raise funds for a variety of community causes.
Dec. 5, 7 p.m., at The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park; $38; guildtheatre.com.
Garden of Lost Macarons II – Mirage
The phrase “we eat first with our eyes” typically applies to the culinary world, but Qualia Contemporary Art is hosting an event that features visual arts created from edible media. Food installation artist Gao Panpan has created a Zen garden in which all of the elements, down to the pebbles and sand, can be eaten. “Growing” in this garden is an array of macarons, a Western confection that’s typically sweet. But here, the cookies are filled with savory Asian flavors, “complicating assumptions about identity and origin,” according to an event description. Elsewhere in the garden are unusual butterflies and fish. Audiences can taste their way through this unique landscape. The event is a sequel to the artist’s 2023 installation, “Garden of Macarons.”
Dec. 6, 3-6 p.m., at Qualia Contemporary Art, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; $65; qualiagallery.com.
Foothill Symphonic Winds Anniversary
Community band Foothill Symphonic Winds got its start in 1980 as a class offered to students in the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. Thirty-one years later, when the district discontinued performance classes, the group decided to march on, becoming its own as a nonprofit, according to the group’s website. The ensemble brings together over 50 community members of all ages and a variety of occupations to perform a wide range of classical and contemporary music. To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the ensemble presents a program that includes “Amazing Grace,” selections from “The Wizard of Oz” and “Wicked,” Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, “Romantic” and more.
Dec. 7, 3:30 p.m., at Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto; $10-$20; fswinds.org/#concerts.
Looking for some festive fun this weekend and beyond? Find holiday concerts and other performances, markets, Santa visits and other seasonal special events in our Holiday Guide.
