Bristol’s Grand Illumination and Kickoff to Christmas Community Aid Drive

The signature event of the Christmas season here in Bristol is the Grand Illumination, and you and your family won’t want to miss the fun.

This year, the Grand Illumination is being combined with the Bristol Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary Kickoff to Christmas Community Aid Drive.

Beginning at 5:00 PM, choruses from our public schools and dancers from Extensions School of Dance will perform for us. Just before 6:00 PM, the man in red joins us from the North Pole.

Assisted by with Bristol’s Miss and Little Miss Fourth of July 2019, Santa Claus will flip the switch that lights our Town Christmas tree and the iconic Bristol Snowflake.