Art & photo by Stefan Villan


Become a Sponsor

Join us in celebrating Creativity and Community

Sponsoring the Festival is a wonderful way for businesses, individuals or families to show their support for community, creativity and the holiday spirit. Sponsorship benefit options include your name/logo on publicity posters, mention in press releases and social media posts, signage at the event, and a logo/link or mention on this website. See chart below for levels and benefits.

How about a Gingerbread Art Piece that Speaks for You? 
Consider entering the contest with a creation that represents your business! It can be both a unique advertisement for your business and a creative team-building project for your employees. Five themes are offered to inspire (but certainly not to confine) gingerbread artists. Perhaps one of these themes resonates with you and your business. Whatever the inspiration, there’s sure to be fun in the making!

Impact Highlights from 2023

Our first Port Gingerbread Festival exceeded our expectations by many measures!

Financial contributions and in-kind support came from 62 business sponsors and individual donors.

Gingerbread creations - We hoped for 30, and we had 32 submissions to display!

Visitors - Our hope was for 600 visitors. We nearly doubled that with a final count of 1,022!

Volunteers - We aimed to have an intergenerational volunteer force of 30. A whopping
107 volunteers were involved, ages 12-92!

Charitable donation - We far surpassed our goal of $300 by raising a total of $2,009 which
was donated to the Among Friends Meal Program at St. Paul’s Church in Newburyport.

Community non-profit organizations generously offered help with outreach and publicity, and several groups contributed gingerbread creations for the contest and exhibition. We thank the following groups for their participation in 2023:

• Anna Jaques Hospital Aid Association

• Boy Scouts of America Troop 251 (Newburyport)

• Custom House Maritime Museum

• Essex Tech High School Culinary Arts Program

• Girls Inc. of the Seacoast Area

• Greater Newburyport Community Media Hub, Inc.

• Museum of Old Newbury

• Newburyport Art Association

• Newburyport Youth Services

• Theater in the Open

• Tinkerhaus

• YWCA Greater Newburyport

Contest Themes

Five themes are offered here, only to inspire you but never to confine you! You are free to go your own way in choice of theme and subject.

  • art, history & architecture

  • home sweet homes

  • seafarers

  • the great outdoors

  • food, glorious food!

Sponsorship Enrollment Form

2024 PORT GINGERBREAD FESTIVAL