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Aruba Christmas Fair 2025

Saturday 20 December · San NicolasMusic · Food · Art

Hosted by ArtisA Gallery and Space 21 Gallery

For one night in December, San Nicolas put its lights on and opened its doors. Galleries stayed open late, tables went up along the street, and the work of more than thirty of Aruba’s makers was out where everyone could see it. This is what the fifth edition looked like.

6 PM

7 PM

8 PM

9 PM

10 PM

11 PM

DJ Sky

Gucci Dancers

Club di Movemiento

Uptown Choir

Maruba

All evening

Workshops

The workshops

The making didn’t stop at the stalls. Inside ArtisA, tables filled with people who had never painted before — bottles, canvases, driftwood ornaments, hands covered in colour.

Alejandra Valejo’s driftwood ornament workshop ran at 7 PM, AWG 95 a seat, materials and a hallaquita and ponche crema included. Every seat went.TBC

Galleries

The galleries

Walls hung floor to ceiling — the eye prints, the small landscape canvases, the large abstract work — and visitors moving slowly through all of it. A fair that happens inside galleries is a different kind of fair.

Makers

The makers

Candles poured with soy wax. Crochet shell bags. Macramé and wire-wrapped stones. Ornaments cut from wood and lettered in Papiamento. Resin set with real Aruba beach sand. Every stallholder brought something they’d made themselves — a table of their own for AWG 35, or a booth we built for AWG 50.

On stage

6–7 PM

DJ Sky

7–7:30 PM

Gucci Dancers

7:30–8 PM

Club di Movemiento

Jazz and jingle bells

8–9 PM

Uptown Choir

After dark · San Nicolas, lit up

After dark the street did the rest.

10–11 PM

The stage

Maruba

Closing the night

Also that night · Gifts

Hasi Un Mucha Feliz

The part of the night that wasn’t for sale. Fruit cake, ayaquitas, ham di Pasco, calacuna, salada di batata — and a wrapped gift for every child on the list.

children on the list

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