The Festival of Trees, which has raised $4 million for the Moose Jaw Health Foundation over the last 27 years, will be making a few changes for this year's event.

They're moving locations to the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre for Nov. 16 - as well as lowering ticket prices and offering the culinary work of a celebrity chef. The chef for this year's festival is Dale McKay, who was the first winner of Top Chef Canada in 2011.

Jackie d'Entremont, festival chair, said they gained a few things from changing locations to the

“Being able to have it here means that we can go bigger and better with the decorating, with the trees, with everything,” she said. “By moving it here, we can have a plated meal, which we’ve never been able to do before. And by being able to do that, we thought what a great opportunity to bring in a celebrity chef, and hopefully get more people out, who may not realize what Festival of Trees is, but the celebrity chef would draw them in.”

The ticket price for the event has been lowered from $200 to $150. They will have production light and sound, the band Rock Candy – a dance party band – will be playing,

There are also changes to the live and silent auction.

“By having the live auction that we’re planning on doing, you will be able to see in real time when someone outbids you on a silent auction item,” said d’Entremont. “I think it’s going to bring more excitement to not only the live auction, but the silent auction will have more lighting (and) more video. We were restricted by size before and now we won’t be restricted.”

Overall, d’Entremont said they wanted the atmosphere to have more excitement.

“No one knows what to expect here,” she said. “Normally we’ve been in a location where we have been restricted by ceiling height... In the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre, the sky is the limit. We can do whatever we want in there in the space that’s been made available to us.”

Annual staples like Sundaes with Santa and the Sunday Brunch will return this year at the new venue.

Tickets will be available online starting in September, but the Festival is willing to take reservations at any point. Money raised will go to the foundation's new Mammography Matters campaign.