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“Christmas has become, for a lot of people, an opportunity to put pressure on themselves, a pressure to perform around their families and work,” says John Lawrence, one of the organizers of Fishbon’s Fishmas Bizarre. “It’s a stressful time.”
Well, there will be none of that this weekend in the three-day holiday event on the corner of Mason and Helena Avenue. Instead, the Fishnet Gallery will have home-made, artist-designed Christmas trees, arts-and-crafts vendors, food carts and a nighttime made of music, skits, DJs, fire spinners and aerialists. This is not your average mall-located Christmas adventure, either. It’s an artist collective run wild with yuletide fun.