Portside Twilight Christmas Market and Boat Parade
Do your last-minute festive shopping by twilight, and riverside — while watching a Christmas boat parade.
Overview
Last year, Brisbane scored a new riverside market. Also, it nabbed a new festive market, too. That wasn't just a 2021 highlight, however, with the Portside Local Markets returning several times in 2022 — and coming back this Christmas as well.
Everyone likes shopping and hanging out by the water, after all, especially when festive season is approaching. If you really like browsing and buying, taking in the riverside air, and having a reason to stop for a bite and a drink, you'll want to head to Hamilton on Sunday, December 18 from 3pm, with these seasonal stalls popping up at twilight.
Until 7pm, you can shop, stroll, sip and purchase gifts, which sounds like a mighty fine weekend itinerary. More than 50 stalls will be offering up everything from art and plants to ceramics and accessories — and more. If you've been to markets at the Gasworks, or in Fish Lane and Woolloongabba, you'll have a firm idea of what you're in for, because The Market Folk is behind all of the above and runs this Portside event as well.
Festive decorations will deck the halls and walls with more than boughs of holly, grabbing gifts will be the main name of the game, and there'll be three Christmas ornament-painting workshops so you can make something unique for your tree at home.
Plus, Portside's eateries will keep you fed if those hunger pangs strike — and quench your thirst if just keen on having a drink.
In a bonus for this year's Christmas markets, the first-ever Northshore Christmas Boat Parade will run on the same day from 4–9pm, giving your shopping a shipping backdrop.
Images: Claudia Baxter / Markus Ravik.
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