Decades Birthday Party and NY New Year’s Eve

Welcome in 2024 with friends and neighbors, new and old. Gualala Arts will host a NY New Year’s Eve Dinner Party Sunday, December 31, 2023.

Doors open with food, music, and more beginning at 7 pm with cocktails, dancing and appetizers, dinner at 8pm, the Ball drops at 9pm and 9:30 pm you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here 😉

On Sunday, December 31st Gualala Arts says “so long” to 2023 with the return of the NY  New Year’s Eve Party that includes a dinner, drinks and dancing. The price is $49 per person will include dinner, a glass of bubbly and desert, Decades Birthday celebrants are welcome gratis, sign up below.

The evening starts with a no-host cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres from 7 to 8 pm with offerings from the martini bar, microbrew beers, fine wines and “mocktails” throughout the evening. Fred Adler, KTDE radio personality, will provide background music from his library of classic New Year’s Eve musical standards. A lovingly home-made buffet dinner prepared by Gualala Arts Culinary Guild will be set out at 7 pm.

One of the truly enjoyable ways to plan the evening is purchasing a table of six or eight, then sharing the costs with everyone. If you are more adventurous and like to meet new people, buy single or couple tickets and be seated with others who enjoy our beautiful coastal lifestyle. Bringing in the New Year among friends is one of the joys of living in a small close-knit community.

Advance tickets are  $49 per person; $10 more after December 24, decades birthday celebrants get in free.

If you are celebrating your 70th Birthday anytime in 2023 this is the gathering for you!  And, we now encourage those celebrating their 80th, 90th, or 100th birthday this year to join us as well or anyone who did so during the pandemic.

While we have had a hiatus from this annual event during the pandemic, the 70th Birthday Party is one of the lasting legacies of Rosemarie Hocker.  If you had a decades birthday in the past three years, you too are invited to join us as a birthday celebrant.  It has taken place almost every year since the first celebration and continues to bring together a wide selection of people. Many find that friendships are made and/or renewed during the evening and a happy consequence is a strengthened bond with the local community.

Tables will be provided for birthday guys and gals to share their memories. Past presentations have included photo albums, wedding pictures, school yearbooks, trinkets, military service memorabilia, cheerleading pompoms and more. Volunteers help prep and serve the birthday dinner.

Anyone who is not a celebrant but would like to participate as a host, waiter and/or chef, please consider joining us. That makes it a double party for us all! Call the Arts Center at 707.884.1138 to volunteer.