Holiday calendar

Published: Thursday, Dec. 22 2005 11:55 a.m. MST

PoinsettiaLand at Vineyard Garden Center, through Dec. 24 at the corner of Geneva Road and 400 South, Orem. Bring your camera and take pictures of the family against the live poinsettia and Christmas tree background. Monday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Call 225-4357. Free.

Holiday lights through Dec. 31, at Electric Park at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. Cost: $7 a car, $3 for wagon rides, $25 for buses; $20 carriage rides. Call 768-2300.

"The Forgotten Carols," stage adaptation by Scott McLean, through Dec. 23, 7:30 p.m., Provo Theatre Company, 105 E. 100 North. Tickets prices vary. Call 379-0600.

Utah Regional Ballet's "The Nutcracker," through Dec. 23 at 7:30 p.m. (no shows Dec. 13, 14, 20), matinees Dec. 17, 23. Cost: $18/$16 children. Call 225-2569.

SCERA Christmas Splendor 2005, 6:30-7:30 p.m. through Dec. 23, SCERA Center, 745 S. State, Orem. Activities include reading with Mrs. Claus. Call 225-2569. Free.

Provo Downtown Creche Exhibit, through Dec. 31 in windows of downtown businesses along Center Street. Free.

Christmas Cruise through Dec. 31, Monday-Thursday 6:30-9 p.m. Friday/ Saturday 6:30-10 p.m., 3606 W. Center, Provo. Cost: $5. Call 373-8897.

Tube 'N Train Adventure, through Dec. 31 (except Christmas day) at 11 a.m. Heber Valley Railroad Station, 450 S. 600 West, Heber City. Cost: $26 adults, $18 students, $15 children. Call 435-654-5601.

Christmas Eve Celebration with the Utah Valley Mass Choir and Rock Canyon Church. Dec. 24 from 5-6 p.m. at the Provo Towne Centre Cinemark Theater Complex. Santa and Mrs. Claus will also be on hand. Free. (Donations will be accepted for hurricane relief efforts.)

Candles at the Cemetery at the Salem, Provo and Spanish Fork cemeteries. Visitors may bring candles and sacks and fill them with sand provided at the city cemeteries to make luminarias to place at the gravesites. The cemeteries will be open early Christmas Eve and remain open until midnight Christmas Day.

Christmas Eve luminaria display in Alpine and Cedar Hills. Residents put lighted luminarias along the streets and in front of their homes. The lights may be seen by car as soon as it's dark on Christmas Eve.