Name: Winter Solstice Party
Start: 2025-12-14T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-14T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Original Gabes by the Park

**[2025 WINTER SOLSTICE PARTY!](https://mnatheists.company.site/Winter-Solstice-Dinner-2025-p706276293)**
**Hosted by Minnesota Atheists**

**Sunday, December 14, 2025**
**5:00-6:00 pm.** Social Time
**6:00-7:30 pm.** Dinner
**7:30-8:30 pm.** Entertainment

**[Gabe’s Bar & Kitchen](https://www.gabesmn.com)**
991 Lexington Parkway N.
St. Paul, MN 55103
(NW corner of Energy Park Drive & Lexington Parkway N.)

**Join us for a festive time, with a great meal, joyful company, and engaging entertainment!**

**FOR DINNER CHOICES WE HAVE:**

• **Chicken Breast** (dill-lemon white wine sauce), roasted broccolini, roasted rosemary baby red potatoes.
• **Salmon** (cajun remoulade), roasted broccolini, roasted rosemary baby red potatoes.
• **Vegan:** Vegetable stir fry.
•• All dinners come with a dessert cookie, brownie, or bar treat.
•• All dinners come with your choice of non-alcoholic soft drink or coffee.
•• A cash bar will be available.

The price is **$40,** which includes a meal, tax, tip, and entertainment. It’s **$35** if you are a member of **[Minnesota Atheists](https://mnatheists.org/become-a-member)** or **[HumanistsMN](https://humanistsmn.org/join/#join)**. It’s better if you become a member before signing up for this Party.

You can sign up for this event and pay for multiple people in a single visit to the **[website](https://mnatheists.company.site/Winter-Solstice-Dinner-2025-p706276293)**, but each registration is a separate step.

At the point of checkout you will have two payment options:
• To pay by PayPal, which can be linked to one of your credit cards or to your bank’s checking or savings account.
• To just select your meals and then mail us a check to our P.O. Box to cover the cost. **Your meal and attendance will not be confirmed UNTIL we receive payment.**

**Replying to this Meetup does not secure you a place at this event. You must register at the [site](https://mnatheists.company.site/Winter-Solstice-Dinner-2025-p706276293)** **and make your payment, either online or by mail.**

**We can also email you a pdf flyer of this event, that you can print out and return with a check.**

**THE DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS EVENT IS DECEMBER 3, 2025.**

**AFTER-DINNER ENTERTAINMENT**

Our after-dinner entertainer will be storyteller **Kyle B. Dekker,** who will perform his solo show **"[Audacious Ignatius Lost in Atlantis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeyn92q5fU)”**. It is the true tale of Ignatius L. Donnelly. Populist, politician, and conspiracy theorist. Donnelly came to prominence as Minnesota’s 2nd Lieutenant Governor (1860-1863). His fiery and combative personality, as well as his penchant for conspiracy theories, derailed what could’ve been a storied political career.

His legacy nearly forgotten, all that remains are excerpts of his firebrand speeches, bad poetry, early speculative fiction, and volumes of conspiracy theories about the Lost City of Atlantis and the true author of Shakespeare’s plays.

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**AT THIS EVENT WE ARE COLLECTING GIFTS FOR PATIENTS AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL**

***• Gifts must be unwrapped.***
***• Must be new. No used items.***
***• No toy knives, guns, or any other weapons.***

**GIFT IDEAS**

**Infant:** rattles, O-balls, sound and light toys, Fisher Price Aquarium or Melody/Motion Soother, Mozart Magic Light Cube, mirrors, stacking and sorting toys.

**Toddler:** Matchbox / Hot Wheel cars, Fisher Price Little People, Playmobil, Disney, Fisher Price medical kit, puzzles, story books.

**School Age:** Uno, Connect Four, Sorry, Candy Land, Lego sets, puzzles, Barbie (all ethnic backgrounds) and clothes, I Spy, Seek-N-Find Books.

**Adolescents:** Gift cards to Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, or Michael’s; playing cards, chess sets, Monopoly, Life, Risk, sketch/doodle pads, nail polish.

**Arts and Crafts:** Play-Doh, crayons, markers, fussy posters, watercolor paints.

**Favorite Characters:** Blues Clues, cars and trucks, dinosaurs, Curious George, Doc McStuffins, Dora, Fancy Nancy, Pete the Cat, princesses, super heroes, Thomas the Train.

Caroline

August Berkshire

Minnesota Atheists Meetup Group

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