Events

Join Art Instructor Curtin Green of Palos Verdes Art school for Instructed Life Drawing Classes (all levels) with Victorian Costumed models!
Complimentary Paper and pencils will be availble.
Kids under 12 draw for free
Sponsored by Art Supply Warehouse in Westminster!
Come out to the Riverside Dickens Festival and join the fun with this free event Bingo game that sends you on a hunt to meet historical characters, enjoy new foods, try on victorian costuming and engage in free activities.
The game is fun for all ages!
Download your Bingo Card here or on DickensFest.com OR pick one up at our information booth on the corner of Mainst and University.
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Go to our Info Booth to collect your Dickens Fest Sticker
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A special knighting ceremony at the Queen’s Pavillion with Queen Victoria at 3:30pm & a commemorative Dickens Fest 2023 Pin!

Peter Rabbit Children’s Tea Party 12 to 12:30

Join our “Choose your own adventure Tea Party! You and your children will navigate the perils of sneaking into Mr McGregor’s garden with Peter Rabbit and his friends. Enjoy a trip exploring your own imagination!
Includes: Tea (juice), cookies, souvenir bunny ears, and an interactive show with Beatrix Potter reading some of her favorite Peter Rabbit books, teaching the bunny hop and much more. Photo Ops Available!

Queen’s Children’s Tea 1:15 to 2:00

Join us for Queen Victoria as she teaches children about life in the royal palace, what it takes to be a Queen, and crazy Victorian rules of etiquette.
Includes: Tea (juice), cookies, souvenir crowns & tiaras, and an interactive show with her majesty Queen Victoria and her royal court. Photo Ops Available!

The Villain’s Children’s Tea. 2:45

Have tea with our favorite Dickens villain, FAGIN from the book, Oliver. Our comedic version of Fagin will have children and parents laughing together with his skewed vision of the world, trying to recruit you for nefarious purposes and trying to decipher the wrong from the right.
Includes: Tea (juice), cookies, bag of Victorian marble game, terrible advice, comedic bad manners, and an interactive show with Oliver’s favorite villain (Fagin) trying to find new recruits to join him and the Artful Dodger. Photo Ops Available!

Evensong – Presented by the Raincross Master Chorale 

Dickens After Dark Festival Fundraiser

Join us for an adventure into the Dickens Victorian Underworld filled with unsavory characters, can can dancers, variety acts, boos, music, curiosities, burlesque, bawdy jokes and photo ops.
A dickens fest fundraiser for our 2023 festival!
6-9pm $40 Cover (Includes 1 drink ticket) It’s a fundraiser after all….
Doors open @ 6 (Show at 6:30) Be on time or miss our fantastic opening number with plenty boo’s, brawds, bawd-y jokes.
Located: The Charles Dickens Tavern outside City Hall on the Dickens Fest thoroughfare. (Main st. Next to city hall)