Holiday events include “Gift Local” this weekend

Get handmade items at “Gift Local”

Buy your holiday gifts from a local artisan, chocolatier, jeweler, painter, clothier, felter, glass artist, book artist, fabric artist, wood turner, hatter, neighbor, friend at Gift Local at Bemis Hall on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 6-9 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24 starting at noon. Sponsored by Old Town Hall Exchange.

“An English Christmas” choir concert

Live from Lincoln Center! Vox Lucens, a 13-member choir Renaissance choir, will present a full-length concert of English Renaissance polyphony on Sunday, December 15 at 3 p.m. as part of the new concert series at the First Parish in Lincoln. This concert will include works by Gibbons, Byrd, Parsons and other English masters, and the choir will collaborate with organist Ian Watson, music director at First Parish and principal keyboard player of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra. Suggested donation: $20.