Join thousands and thousands of your friends, family and neighbors at the launch of Honolulu City Lights tonight at Honolulu Hale.

Festivities begin at 4 p.m. with food booths and kids activities. The tree lighting is at 6 p.m.; the Electric Light Parade also begins at 6 p.m., at 'A'ala Park, and makes it way toward City Hall. A holiday concert — featuring Nix Performing Arts Center, Afatia, Wasabi, Taimane Gardner, Brother Noland, Sean Na'auao and Robi Kahakalau — begins at 7:30 p.m. at Sky Gate. Admission is free.

Other attractions include rides on a 1936 fire truck, which will tour the City Lights from 6:30 to 11 p.m. today (after it takes part in the Electric Light Parade) and continue through Jan. 3, except Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. It's $7 a ride, partly benefiting the Mission Houses Museum. www.firetruckhawaii.com.

The Christmas wreath display, themed "Plantation Holiday," at Lane Gallery in Honolulu Hale also launches tonight and continues from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily through Jan. 1. The wreaths were created by O'ahu residents who competed in adult, youth and theme categories. Admission is free.

And don't forget to bring new, unwrapped toys for the Toys for Tots drive, today through Dec. 19 in the Honolulu Hale courtyard.