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The Great Gingerbread Build-Off Academy

Port Hope High School 130 Highland Dr., Port Hope, ON, Canada

Class is in session. Things are about to get messy.

New this year, the Great Gingerbread Academy brings the competition to intermediate and high school students!

Teams will go head-to-head to build an epic gingerbread creation against the clock. Sounds easy? Not so fast.

Expect Roadblocks, surprise challenges, Building Inspectors, and plenty of opportunities for things to go hilariously wrong.

 

GRAB YOUR TEAM. BRING YOUR A-GAME.

Gather your classmates, friends, or school crew and get ready to build, decorate, and compete.

We provide the gingerbread, icing, and supplies. You bring the creativity, teamwork, and ability to keep it together when the unexpected hits.

When the clock runs out, the judges decide who nailed the assignment and who takes home Great Gingerbread Academy bragging rights.

“One Night Only”

Westben - The Barn 6698 County Road 30, Campbellford, ON, K0L 1L0, Canada

One Night Only
Saturday November 28 & Sunday November 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM at The Barn
Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM at Norwood United Church
Start your holiday season with a favourite Westben tradition!

This year, there’s a good chance this will be the last Christmas Roy and Ruth Bartlett will spend on the farm that has been their home for over fifty years. And yet…might there be some magic among those snowflakes sweeping across the fields and swirling around the old barn? Roy has a crazy idea for one final night of celebration: an event that will light up the night sky over the Bartlett Farm.

Join author/musician Christopher Cameron along with the Westben Choruses in a narrated concert celebrating the season. Based on Lynn C. Bilton's original story, published in Watershed magazine and adapted by Christopher and Lynn for the Westben stage, One Night Only is a lively celebration of family, community, togetherness—and just plain fun!

Choose the coziness of Norwood United Church or bundle up and experience this heart-warming show in The Barn, complete with home-made cookies and a cup of hot apple cider. A perfect start to the season for the whole family!