# Oklahoma City Tree Lighting Festival > Event for families in the Oklahoma City area (OK). Times are Central Time. - When: Thu, Nov 12 · 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM - Where: Mickey Mantle Plaza, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73104 - Ages: Family-friendly - Price: Free - Organizer: Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership - Official page: https://downtownindecember.com/ - Last checked: Sat, Oct 24 Source: Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. https://grassyknees.com covers 42 metro areas as of Oct 24, 2026, with more added regularly. About: https://grassyknees.com/about Freshness: listings are re-checked on a daily research run (latest check 2026-10-24), and new events are added as organizers post them. Sell-outs, weather cancellations and time changes show up on the live page first: https://grassyknees.com/oklahoma-city/activities/oklahoma-city-tree-lighting-festival--listing-d796b5c015d22eed00512e3b ## About The 25th annual tree lighting that opens Downtown in December, held on the Mickey Mantle Plaza of the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. The free festival has photos with Santa, a Letters to Santa station where children write and mail letters to the North Pole and decorate holiday postcards, a make-and-take ornament station, a life-size snow globe, face painting, balloon art, OKC ThunderBolt and entertainers, and Metropolitan Aerial performers. Downtown restaurants hand out free samples, and the stage features the Oklahoma Opry House Band, Ballet Folklorico Yetzali, lion dancers, OKC Ballet and the Thunder Drummers. Mayor David Holt counts down to the lighting of the Bricktown Christmas Tree at 6 p.m.; the tree stays lit through New Year's Day. 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