Calendar for Dec. 3

THURSDAY

Festival of Trees benefit

South County Outreach, an organization providing food and housing to low-income individuals and families, will hosts its second annual Festival of Trees fundraising event at 6:30 p.m. at Fairmont Hotel, 4500 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach. Tickets are $100. For more information, call (949) 380-8144 or visit sco-oc.org.

Home tour

Costa Mesa High School will host its home tour with six houses, a food presentation by Williams-Sonoma, a gingerbread house demonstration by Surfas Culinary District, choir performance at SoCo and more. The event is from 3 to 8 p.m., and tickets are $50. For more information, visit costamesahometour.com.

Shogun & JES

EDM performers Shogun and JES (pictured) headline Sutra, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. The 21-and-older show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $15 to $20. For more information, visit sutraoc.com.

THURSDAY TILL SATURDAY

Pacific Symphony Concert

Pacific Symphony will perform Beethoven’s “Eroica” on a program that includes Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, performed by Chinese American musician Conrad Tao (pictured). The show are at 8 p.m. at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Drive. Tickets are $25 to $110. For more information, call (714) 755-5799 or visit pacificsymphony.org.

TILL DEC. 15

Holiday Cookie Contest

Lucca Cafe in Irvine and Provenance in Newport Beach will conduct a county-wide search for the best holiday cookie, offering a baker $1,000 for a winning recipe. Entries will be collected through Dec. 15 and five finalists will be notified and invited to a final judging where cookies will be evaluated on taste, appearance and holiday spirit. Participants must submit a recipe and photograph of a cookie along with name, age and city of residence via email to [email protected].