Creating the New Year calls for nothing less than a celebration of creativity itself.

This year’s First Night event, hosted by The Production Alliance, will embrace that philosophy with a New Year’s Eve extravaganza featuring live music, performances, interactive art experiences, heritage and history exhibits, food, fireworks, and more.

Beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, the six-hour spectacle will have something for all ages while avoiding the trope of flowing alcohol, inspiring creative juices to get going instead.

“When First Night was formed in Boston in 1975 or so, it was really about making arts and culture and performances and creativity at the forefront of New Year’s again,” said Megan Claflin, director of engagement for The Production Alliance.

The tradition was brought to Port Townsend more than a decade ago by the Jefferson County Historical Society, with The Production Alliance taking things over last year.

“It fits right in with our mission of building community through celebration,” Clafflin said.

To break the event out of the box, it will be a self-guided tour of indoor and outdoor downtown venues including Brigid’s Loft, the Cotton Building, the Jefferson County Museum of Art & History, and Key City Public Theatre.

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What may be the tightest space will also hold some of the most expansive acts.

In Brigid’s Loft on the second floor of the old Jefferson Community School, a variety of circus arts are set to astound.

“We wanted to put together this circus arts acrobatics spectacular,” Claflin said. “There’ll be some acrobatics, some aerial shows, sword swallowing.”

“It’s a great group of people, and it’s always so fun to watch artists get together and see what they come up with,” she added.

With limited space for these shows, registration is required for a specific performance time slot.

Key City Public Theatre’s larger space will host musical performances and comedic stylings.

“It’s a great space to go in if you’re walking around and want to get warm,” Claflin said. “They’ll have their lobby bar open and they’re going to serve mocktails, hot cocoa, and snacks and things.”

Among the acts will be piano duets with Lisa Lanza and Michael Carroll; button accordion and guitar with Michael and Vickie Townsend; a “Key City Artists Karaoke Pandemonium”; chamber music with Matthew Daline and Jennifer Chung; and improvisational party games.

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Father Time will take a turn as the Jefferson Museum of Art & History hosts a series of activities for attendees to explore history while engaging with possibilities.

A scavenger hunt will invite sleuths to search the museum high and low, and puzzles inspired by local historic images will give a chance to learn through play.

The “Resolution in a Bottle” activity, however, aims ahead.

“There’s these little scrolls of paper and you write your own New Year’s resolution — or resolutions — on them and then you can roll them up and stick them in the bottle,” Claflin said. “It’s got a little stopper in it and we’ll have lengths of string so you can make it into a necklace if you want, or decorate it, and then you can open it up next year to see if your dreams came true.”

An invitation to create a light to carry through the darkness will come from the Cotton Building, where Northwind Art will be hosting a lantern-decorating workshop.

Once adorned with a colored LED bulb, the lanterns can then be used as the event condenses and culminates.

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Though the first four hours will be spread across the various sites, the flow of creativity will merge into a parade on Madison Street at 7 p.m. with the Unexpected Brass Band charging the procession with its vivacious music.

“The parade will end on Madison Street and the Unexpected Brass Band will do a couple more songs,” Claflin said. “And then the fire dancers will perform right there on Madison Street.”

Feral Fire Flow Collective’s array of flaming lights will dazzle eyes as they dance through the night leading into the final stretch with multi instrumentalist Elias Alexander, also known as Ramblxr.

“The fire dancers will flow into Elias’ set, and Elias will march everybody back over and we’ll have that momentum into the Cotton Building,” Claflin said.

Alexander is most known for blending electronic dance music with bagpipes, but has also been known to fiddle, or break out into a range of other instruments.

“His performance will be a dance party. He’s just so joyous. He fills you with this sense of hope and wonder. It’s a great, uplifting, super cool beat,” Claflin said.

Once the last beat has been hit, the crowd will be allowed to disperse into the streets once more where at 9 p.m., as the ball drops in New York City, fireworks will explode across the sky.

Tickets are $10 per person, or $20 per family, and can be found along with a schedule and more information at theproductionalliance.org/events/first-night.