Long Beach photo studio hosts Santa, including both Black and White Father Christmases

Cal Lights astatine the f/8 Studios, successful Long Beach’s California Heights, volition instrumentality this twelvemonth with COVID-19-safe visits with Santa — including a Black Santa.

The Santa photograph shoots volition tally from Nov. 26 (the time aft Thanksgiving) to Dec. 19,with the Black Santa Claus successful residence for 15-minute visits and photograph shoots connected Saturday, Dec. 11.

“The extremity of Cal Lights is to make a magical Santa Claus experience,” workplace manager Marni Farmer said successful a release, “and bring backmost a consciousness of vacation normalcy to Long Beach families this year, each wrong an outdoor, COVID-safe environment.”

For $149, families volition get a backstage sojourn with Santa successful a wintertime setting, implicit with snow. A nonrecreational lensman volition beryllium connected manus to supply socially distanced photos of the experience.

The Black Santa acquisition volition besides rise wealth for Black Lives Matter, with 10% of the proceeds that time being donated to the organization, according to the release.

Throughout Cal Lights, guests volition beryllium asked to bounds groups to contiguous household members who unrecorded unneurotic — and dogs are welcome. COVID-19 information protocols volition beryllium followed, with the lensman and unit remaining masked and staying astatine slightest 6 feet distant from guests.

f8 Studios, 3764 Orange Ave., is owned by Michael and Marni Farmer, with Michael the award-winning nonrecreational photographer. The determination besides acts arsenic a concern collective, with six companies sharing the space.

Information and to marque a reservation: fatestudioslongbeach.com/santa.

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