Saturday is the Julmarknad, or Swedish Christmas Market Day, from 9 a.m to 2 p.m.

The market is sponsored by the Scandinavian Studies Program and will be held in Jamestown Community College’s Hamilton Collegiate Center. Vendors offer hand made and imported gift items. Coffee and lingonberry drink begins at 9:30 a.m. Lucia and her court will be visiting. Children will demonstrate folk dancing and lead the audience in traditional Christmas ring dances. A Julbord (Swedish Christmas dinner,) for a $10 donation, will be served beginning at noon with such items as korv, rice pudding, Janssons temptation with and without anchovies, Swedish pickled beets, pickled herring and more. Live music will be provided by Svenska Spelmän. The event is free and open to the public and also includes a door prize.

Jamestown has become the center for celebrating the Swedish culture between Cleveland and New York City as well as Toronto and Pittsburgh. The Scandanavian Studies Club’s monthly Culture Day event draws people from Ohio, Buffalo and well into Pennsylvania.

Jamestown’s Julmarknad celebration includes other sites around town including Ecklof Bakery, Peterson Farm, Country Woods Country Store and Antiques, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History and the Fenton History Center. RTPI, 311 Curtis St,. will celebrate Holidays at the Lodge on Saturday with a special $5 admission. Activities include visits with Santa Claus from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by the 11-11:30 am Chautauqua Lake High School Choir at 11 a.m., story time with the Falconer Library at 11:30 a.m., the Westwinds Chamber Choir at noon, the Southwestern Choraliers at 1 p.m., a community sing-along led by Brian Bogey at 1:30 p.m., the Jamestown High School Madrigal Singers at 2 p.m. and bird ornament decorating, cookies and hot cocoa from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Fenton History Center, 67 Washington St was once the home of Governor Reuben Fenton, and contains exhibits showcasing the history of the area. For Julmarknad, the exhibits are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Among the exhibits is the Swedish Room, designed and installed by descendants of Swedish immigrants, which represents the homeland they left behind. The Fenton’s Hall House research library has numerous resources on Swedish genealogy.

For more information call 716-665-0883.