The event will run Friday from 3 to 11 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Some museums will offer complimentary evening admission and other features include the Gator by the Bay stage and dance floor, traditional International Spirits Garden and a new Plaza de Panama beer and cocktail garden.
The festival is the city's largest free event and has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to Balboa Park over the past four decades. Gloria and Councilman Stephen Whitburn will kick off the event by lighting the tree at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion at 6 p.m. on Friday. "We are excited to bring a new charitable initiative to this year's December Nights — a sock drive to benefit unsheltered San Diegans," said Kazeem Omidiji, director of community relations at SDG&E."We encourage everyone going to December Nights to bring a pair of new socks to donate to our nonprofit partner, PATH San Diego.
The Family Zone features a mural creation opportunity by the Comic-Con Museum and a solar system bracelet making opportunity by San Diego Air and Space Museum.
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