LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Rider University will hold its fourth annual Celebration of Lights, a multicultural observance of the holiday season, on Thursday, December 5, at 4 p.m. in the Student Center Cavalla Room on the Lawrenceville campus. The event is open to the public.

The annual festival features five holiday stations representing Chanukah, Christmas, Diwali, Kwanzaa, and Three Kings Day. Each station includes students from various campus organizations dressed in traditional holiday garb sharing holiday traditions, music, prayers, and stories in a celebration of the diversity of the Rider community. The Posada, a Latin American community holiday tradition, will tie the stations together with a musical procession for visitors.

William Guthrie, associate dean of Rider's College of Education and Human Services, will begin the ceremony with Native American stories, and will use the ancient method of rubbing sticks together to create the flame which will light Rider's Unity Candle. This flame will also be used to ignite several other candles in a centerpiece display which will provide most of the festival lighting.

Rider University's Lawrenceville campus is located five miles south of Princeton and three miles north of Trenton on Route 206 in Lawrence Township. The campus is one-half mile south of exit 7A of Interstate 95.