{"id":21724,"date":"2020-12-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000017070"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:11:14","slug":"yes-there-will-be-a-tree-lighting-and-yes-you-can-watch-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/yes-there-will-be-a-tree-lighting-and-yes-you-can-watch-from-home","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there will be a tree lighting and yes you can watch, from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve driven by the Long Beach Performing Arts Center lately, seen the 50-foot tree and oversized ornaments you can drive a scooter through and wondered and hoped that, indeed, there would be a tree lighting, let us scratch that Yuletide itch for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, the giant tree will be lit in all its 160,000 bulb glory on Wednesday, Dec. 2.<\/li>\n<li>No, you won&#8217;t be allowed on the Terrace Theatre&#8217;s plaza to watch Mayor Robert Garcia flip the switch around 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, you can watch the tree lighting ceremony, live, starting at 7:30 p.m. on <a href=\"http:\/\/lbtv3.com\/?fbclid=IwAR0fkjYFoHDerC7dKASsZBu6bRxsqKliW5uUl0meYMGk3O-_kAYoK-8E0-o\">LBTV<\/a> and on any of the city of Long Beach&#8217;s official social media platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In just half a dozen years, the tree lighting event has joined the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade as one of the most popular public events of the holiday season. Last year, the event, a tradition started by Garcia, saw big crowds, kiddie trains, Santa photo-ops and performances ranging from brass bands to ballet dancers, all of it punctuated by the dramatic lighting of the tree accompanied by a burst of fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all changed this year, of course. This year, expect a pared down ceremony, minus the fireworks and crowds. In its place, beginning at 7:30, a multi-camera presentation that will show some tree lightings past, and then emcee Steve Goodling, President and CEO of the Long Beach Convention &amp; Vistors Bureau (LBCVB), introducing prerecorded messages from public officials as well as a performance by SoCal VoCals.<\/p>\n<p>And then, live, Garcia will flip the switch to light the tree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no fireworks when the tree is lit because we can&#8217;t have people coming to the area,&#8221; said Jeff Forney of the LBCVB &#8220;We&#8217;re keeping it pretty mellow this year: no Santa, no trains. It&#8217;ll still look beautiful, but this is a time to reflect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the days after the tree lighting, the plaza will be available for anyone who would like to take a photo next to the tree, in the giant ornaments or just would like to take a gander. All protocols governing the pandemic are to be followed, of course.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/372947593811419\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can watch the tree lighting ceremony, live, starting at 7:30 p.m. on LBTV and on any of the city of Long Beach&#8217;s official social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":71388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[590],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-21724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-christmas-tree-lighting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=21724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}