St. Paul is buzzing with creative energy all year round — but that’s especially apparent during the holiday gift-giving season, thanks to a mini-industry of craft markets and art festivals that pop up all over town.

The markets in this list are hosting hundreds of local artists and makers over the next month, and some are offering interactive art-making activities for you to get creative, too.

At Interact Center, a visual and performing art studio that serves artists with disabilities, you can browse hundreds of original works each priced at $20, between noon and 4 p.m. Interact’s theater company will present free performances from “A Christmas Carol Farce” at 12:30, 2 and 3:30 p.m. Meanwhile, at the nearby Interact Gallery (1902 W. Minnehaha Ave.), several exhibitions are on view, inclu

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