Raise Your Spirits at The Great Dickens Christmas Fair this Holiday Season! Immersive and uplifting Victorian adventure brings Charles Dickens’ London to life with live theatre, holiday shopping, and festive cheer for five weekends at the Historic Cow Palace, November 21-December 20, 2026. Presented for five weekends, plus the Friday after Thanksgiving, The Great Dickens Christmas Fair transforms over 140,000 square feet of the Cow Palace Exhibition Halls into an immersive recreation of Christmas Eve in Charles Dickens’ London. From the moment visitors enter the environment of the Fair, the modern world gives way to bustling streets populated by hundreds of costumed characters: chimney sweeps and street vendors, sailors and shopkeepers, carolers and musicians, literary icons, colorful denizens of Victorian society — and, of course, Mr. Charles Dickens himself!