Holiday Fair and Kringle Village

The Greenville Convention Center will be transformed into a Winter Wonderland featuring a massive vendor market, roving performers, a European Bier Garden, the North Pole children’s play area, Santa’s Workshop, The Enchanted Tea Party, Little Miss Kringle Pageant, holiday movie night, snowball fights, main stage entertainment, the Grand Carousel, visits with Santa and more!

•    Mingle @ Kringle – Don festive apparel and welcome local favorite, RANDOMONIUM, to the  main stage for the opening night party Thursday 5:30 pm. Purchase group tickets for your holiday office party or enter with your Thursday general admission ticket. 

•    Vendor Market – More than 350 crafters and commercial vendors offering the region’s largest  selection of holiday arts, crafts and gifts under one roof. Exhibitors from throughout the southeast will be selling a wide range of  products, from holiday décor, jewelry, beauty items, home and garden goods, artisan goods, toys  and games, clothing, pet products and more. 

•    Join the community Friday night for a  showing of a family friendly Christmas movie, Elf.  Bring blankets and fuzzy slippers and enjoy popcorn, hot cocoa and visits from a local cast of holiday characters that bring the film to life. 

•    Kringle Village Main Stage – All three days of Holiday Fair & Kringle Village will feature live entertainment on the main stage from local bands, community choirs, performance and dance  troupes, holiday DJ’s and an Oompah-Band. Magicians, acrobats and circus performers will  surprise and delight attendees throughout the event. 

•    Throughout all three days of Holiday Fair & Kringle  Village, enjoy authentic European mulled wine and a variety of craft beers paired with giant pretzels, brats, homemade strudel, cinnamon buns and all your favorite holiday treats. Alcohol sales are 21+ and a photo ID is required.

•    The North Pole – Bring your kids for snowball fights, giant inflatable snow slides and bouncy  gingerbread houses. Visit Santa’s workshop and make gifts for family and friends before riding the old-world Carousel and taking photos with Santa.

•    Silent Auction and Kringle Cash – Throughout the event, a silent auction featuring gifts from local  businesses and one-of-a-kind travel destinations will take place. Participation in the  silent auction doubles your holiday giving, providing an opportunity to bid on holiday gifts where proceeds benefit the community. Additionally, guests can purchase $5 tickets to win a 50/50  cash drawdown at the end of the event. Auction items will be announced online prior to opening night and bidding will occur in-person and virtually.

The Greenville Convention Center has been producing Holiday Fair for 55 years, one of the most successful holiday markets in the Southeast drawing more than 375 vendors from around the country. Local artisans and crafters are featured alongside purveyors of gifts for everyone on the shopping list.

The Rotary Club of Greenville has been raising money for charity through holiday events for more than 50 years. From 1969 to 2000, the Rotary Club of Greenville produced the Singing Christmas Tree. Rotarians then created and operated Roper Holiday Mountain Lights for 26 years, and in 2021 Kringle Holiday Village began at Fluor Field to bring a European inspired festival to the upstate.