Make your list, check it twice and start your holiday shoppingand fun at the Vista’s 32nd annual street party!

Whether this is your fi rst or 32nd visit to Vista Lights, let this insert be your guideto everything Columbia’s Congaree Vista, an offi cial South Carolina Cultural District,

has to offer this Thursday night. Check out this overview of what’s happening.

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Join us and celebrate the holidaysat the 32nd annual Vista Lights!WHEN?Thursday, Nov. 16 from 5 - 10 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early, shop up an appetite, help us light our tree and stay late. Enjoy our new family-friendly Kid’s Zone and Merry Marketplace on Lincoln Street. And just because the offi cial celebration ends at 10 p.m. doesn’t mean you can’t stay for more late-night entertainment and a nightcap with

your friends.

WHERE?The Vista community will take part in the festivities. Vista Lights starts at 5 p.m. with Park and Lincoln streets closed to traffi c from Lady to Senate from 5 - 10 p.m. Gervais Street will close to traffi c from Gadsden to Assembly streets at 6 p.m. Galleries, shops, restaurants, bars and nightclubs will stay open late, showcasing their holiday goods. See centerfold map for participating businesses.

PARKINGParking on streets open to traffi c is free after 6 p.m. There’s more free parking until 2 a.m. Friday in the city garages on820 Washington Street (behind Aloft Hotel) and on Park Street (beside the Hilton Hotel). Parking is free at the South Carolina State Museum. Hit up Vista galleries and shops along Huger Street before heading up to the heart of the Vista, or take the complimentary shuttle up to the action.

THE LIGHTS COME ON IN THE VISTAThe traditional tree lighting ceremony will be held again this year at 7 p.m. This year’s lighting will be spectacular, with more lights than ever before. Emcee Mary King of WIS will join Mayor Steve Benjamin and other city offi cials to light the tree with dance performances, Christmas carols and much more by Vista arts organizations. Meet us at 6:15 p.m. around the tree in front of River Runner Outdoor Center near the intersection of Gervais and Lincoln Streets.

VISTA LIGHTSENTERTAINERSThe main stage is located by the Christmas tree at River Runner. See the map on pages 4 and 5 for a complete listing of entertainment.

■ Trustus Theatre ■ The Souhern Strutt Dance Studio■ Columbia City Jazz■ Columbia City Ballet

THURSDAY, NOV. 165-10 pm

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■ Palmetto Performing Arts■ Unbound Dance Company ■ Candice Pipkin■ USC Dance Conservatory

Get in the holiday spirit and take in music, dance and performances by:

■ Carolina Ballet’s Nutcracker Ballet Bon Bons

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What’s happening at this year’s Vista Lights?

SHOP (LOCALLY) TIL YOU DROP!

To learn more about Vista Lights 2017 and keep up with the growing list of happenings, visit www.VistaColumbia.com. Follow

@VistaColumbiaSC on Twitter and Instagram, and The Vista on Facebook. E-mail info@VistaColumbia.com or call 803.269.5946.

After We’ve Gathered ‘Round the Tree, the Party has just Begun!■ The Vista Guild will offer wristbands to Vista Lights

attendees who are 21 and older to purchase beer,

which will be for sale on Lincoln Street at the corner of

Gervais (near Starbucks) from 5 - 9:30 p.m. On tap for

the evening are $5 drafts, including Stella Artois, Stella Cidre, Palmetto Espresso Porter, and Catawba White Zombie. Cash only.

■ Prettier than Matt will play on the main stage from 7:30 -

8 p.m. and Soda City Brass Band will play from 8 - 9:45 p.m.

PARTICIPATING VISTA BUSINESSES:

As you stroll through the Vista making merry, share your photos using #VistaLights17. We want to see how you light up the Vista!

■ The Backpacker Quality Gear (1215 Wayne St.): Offering refreshments and 15 percent discounts on all regularly priced sportswear, jackets and footwear, as well as free gift wrapping. Open until 8:30 p.m.

■ Bella Bridesmaid (911 Lady St.): Don’t miss this pop-up shop with Steel Garden, a Five Points boutique.

■ Carol Saunders Gallery (1003 Gervais St.): Kick off the holiday season and visit the gallery full of holiday gifts and ornaments.

■ City Art (1224 Lincoln St.): Patricia Moore-Pastides will be selling and signing her new book. Vista Lights will also mark the opening reception for Laurie MacIntosh’s

“Environmental Abstractions” exhibit. Cindy Saad will also show her handcrafted jewelry and Angel Allen will show her new ceramic works.

■ CPR Cell Phone Repair (506 Gervais St.): CPR Cell Phone Repair is offering $20 off all phone repairs over $100 and a $10 off any repair over $50.

■ DMR Fashion (617 Lady St.): Enjoy complimentary wine and beer with a live DJ and enjoy 20 percent discounts storewide

■ Ellen Taylor Interiors (1012 Gervais St.): Offering refreshments and wine and exhibiting new paintings by Ellen Taylor Interiors artists. Also showing new furniture and accessories.

■ If ART (1223 Lincoln St.): Offering refreshments and featuring “Edward Rice: Corpus.”

■ Imagine This Boutique (717 Lady St., Ste. C): Enjoy light bites and wine with 10 percent discounts on select items. Open until 8:30 p.m.

■ Lewis+Clark (1001 Huger St.): Featuring “Frolic in the Frontier, Works in Progress,” by Dustin Farmsworth and Clark Ellefson’s studio and recent work including handmade lamps, chandeliers and robots. Check out StormWater Studios construction and listen to live music by Rohvi.

■ One Eared Cow Glass (1001 Huger St.): Watch artists in live glass-blowing demonstrations. Offering light snacks and refreshments and take in unique holiday decorations while local band, Rohvi, plays in the gallery. Free parking available.

■ River Runner Outdoor Center (905 Gervais St.): Offering 20 percent discounts on most merchandise.

■ Urban Outfi tters (912 Gervais St.): Get your holiday shopping started early at Urban Outfi tters.

■ Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 (808 Lady St.): Studio artists present new work for the last time at 808 Lady St before the studio moves to Stormwater Studios.

■ Whit-Ash Furnishings (919 Gervais St.): Offering light refreshments and hot cider. Open until 8 p.m.

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Help keep your Vista clean!Please use the trash receptacles

and ashtrays throughout theVista tonight. Remember,

cigarette butts are litter, too!

Gervais Street closes to auto traffi c at 6 p.m., Lincoln and Park streets close to auto traffi c at 5 p.m.Alcoholic beverages are allowed in the streets until 9:30 p.m, as longas they are in a plastic cup.

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Alley Artistasin the alley next to Grill Marks

Jon Rooksnear if Art Gallery on Lincoln St.

The Time Piratesnear Moriarty’s on Lincoln St.

Live Painting by Local Artist,Jamie Blackburnat Ellen Taylor on Gervais St.

Local Band, Rohviat One Eared Cow Glass andLewis + Clark on Huger St.

USC’s Saint Thomas MoreParish Choirat Regions Bank on Gervais St.

Live Painting by Karl Larsenat SakiTumi in the alleyoff Gervais St.

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Our new family-friendly KID’S ZONE offers face painting,

balloon art, visits with Santa, reindeer food making and more

on Lincoln Street. Don’t miss our new MERRY MARKETPLACE,

where a handful of vendors will be selling unique, locally made,

handcrafted items perfect for gift-giving.

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What’s happening at this year’s Vista Lights?

■ 929 Gervais Street: Join us for an open house and famously hot libations at 929 Gervais Street to showcase the Vista’s newest renovated space for lease.

■ Aloft Hotel (823 Lady St.): Enjoy the fi re on the Aloft porch with free hot chocolate and Carolina Cream Irish Cream and coffee by Six & Twenty Distillery while playing corn hole and giant Jenga.

MIX & MINGLE!

■ Art Bar (1211 Park St.): Enjoy a festive indulgence of grilling, craft beer, cocktails, music and trivia.

■ Blue Marlin (1200 Lincoln St.): Offering samples of Blue Marlin’s famous shrimp and grits under the Lincoln St. canopy and a specialty drinks and a photo booth in the private room.

■ Casual Pint (807 Gervais St.): Check out The Casual Pint’s new beer trailer in front of the store with $5 drafts and 10 percent discounts on growlers and t-shirts.

EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY!

■ Gervais & Vine (620 Gervais St.): Celebrating the release of Beaujolais Nouveau with $20 bottles of Henry Fessy Beaujolais, a French menu and live music.

■ Grill Marks (711 Gervais St.): Join Grill Marks in front of the restaurant for hot chocolate and chicken corn chowder. Also offering free coupons for free French fries with the purchase of a burger when dining in. Check out “Art in the Alley,” an exhibit of local artists’ work available for purchase.

■ Kaminsky’s (930 Gervais St.): Offering a variety of desserts, cupcakes and macaroons with apple cider.

■ Liberty (828 Gervais St.): Offering crab and artichoke dip, warm bleu cheese chips and Korean BBQ beef sliders with beer and wine on the street in front of the restaurant.

■ Longhorn Steakhouse (902 Gervais St.): Selling beer outdoors and offering free s’mores on Gervais Street at the fi re pit as well as drink specials.

■ Mellow Mushroom (1009 Gervais St.): Offering four select draft beers, including the seasonal Highland Cold Mountain and selling $3 pizza slices and chicken caesar wraps.

■ The Oyster Bar (1123 Park St.): Live music by Etheridge & Kimpton beginning at 8 p.m.

■ Pearlz (936 Gervais St.): Offering $5 Crawfi sh pies and a Stella Artois station outside of the restaurant. Also serving wine.

■ SakiTumi (807 Gervais St.): Check out the annual “Gathering in the Alleyway.” Sample SakiTumi food and craft beer samples, and local artist Karl Larsen will also be painting a piece live in the alleyway. Beer, wine and sake also for sale.

■ The Peanut Man (1215 Lincoln St.): Enjoy Christmas performances by Freeway Music students and free samples of chocolate while watching candies being made.

■ SC Pedal Parlor (stationed on Lincoln St. during Vista Lights): Offering discount vouchers, free Pedal Parlor stadium cups and candy.

■ Cupcake (1213 Lincoln St.): Enjoy a special hot chocolate cupcake just for Vista Lights.

■ Grace Outdoor (1201 Lincoln St.): Enjoy wine and enter to win a week of free advertisements on a digital billboard.

■ Regions Bank (1010 Gervais St.): Copper Horse Distilling will serve their Copper Cream Whiskey liqueur and USC’s Saint Thomas More Parish Choir will perform.

■ Studio Cellar (912 Lady St.): Offering freestyle painting and drinks at the bar as well as a hot cocoa bar and $5 ornament painting special.

FUN FOR ALL AGES!

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What’s happening at this year’s Vista Lights?

REVEL & RELAX!

Special, special thanks to #VistaLights2017 sponsors:Free Times, Carolina International Trucks, Stella Artois, Aloft Hotel, City of Columbia,

Experience Columbia SC, Garvin Design Group, 94.3 The Dude, ColaDaily.com, Nephron

Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Sowell Gray Robinson Stepp & Lafi tte, Grace Outdoor, Arnold

Companies, Hyatt Place, Eye on Gervais, Art Bar, City of Columbia Parking Services, River

Runner Outdoor and the South Carolina State Museum.

And after all the festivities wrap up?To all a good night and we encourage you to shop in the Vista and other local spots this holiday season.We’ll see you November 15, 2018at our 33rd annual Vista Lights!

Through the years, Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 (808 Lady Street),has hosted Vista Lights parties that go down in history.

Don’t skip this beloved gallery space with artists’

studios this year or you’ll miss the opening reception

for “Moving Sale.”

After years on Lady Street, Vista Studios/Gallery

80808 will soon relocate to Stormwater Studios on

Huger Street. It’s the end of an era, but cheers to these

artists and that they’ll be in the Vista in their new home

for years to come.

■ Columbia’s The Salon and Giftique (620 Gervais St.):Enjoy a pop-up LuLaRoe, Scentsy and LipSense party.

■ GlowOut Salon (1202 Park St.): Stop by for bubbly and bites, as well as a braid bar and holiday polish changes.

■ Occo (1218 Pulaski St.): Offering specialty cocktails, brow waxing, braid bar, polish changes and chair massages. Door prizes available for the fi rst 100 guests.

■ Pura (807 Gervais St.): Offering discounts on microblading, Botox and dermal fi llers, pigmented lesion removal, massages and facials as well as free brow sculpting and more.

■ Southeastern Esthetics Institute (823 Gervais St.): Offering Glo & Image swag bags for all guests, free makeup applications with lash strips, $30 mircrodermabrasion facials, $5 brow sculpting and $20 aromatherapy body scrubs.

■ Vista Tanning & Nail Salon (514 Gervais St.): Free mini manicures and free tans in the tanning bed. Offering $15 gel manicures and $15 mini facials and body scrubs. All can be paid for in advance and purchased to use later.

Spread some holiday cheerand check out what’s

new this year at Vista Lights!Join us at the tree for carols just

before 7 p.m. and help us ringin the holiday season!

DECK THE HALLSDeck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la!‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la!Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la!

Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la!

See the blazing yule before us, Fa la la la la la la la!Strike the harp and join the chorus, Fa la la la la la la la!Follow me in merry measure, Fa la la la la la la la!While I tell of Yuletide treasure, Fa la la la la la la la!