Dunster House will hold its formal at Zanzibar, a club in downtown Boston. The dance will be held next Sunday from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. and the price for tickets is as yet undecided.

Light snacks and an open bar will be available. Approximately 200 people, mostly Dunster residents, are expected to attend, according to Brett C. Conner '96, a house committee chair.

Admission to the Eliot House dance will be free to all dues-paying residents and their respective dates. The formal will begin at 10 p.m. on Saturday in the holiday-themed house dining hall and the house's junior common room.

Students bedecked in optional black-tie will enjoy '90s dance music supplied by a DJ, according to Eliot House Committee Chair Benjamin S. Abbott '96.

Abbott said that cheese and crackers, as well as a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, will be served.

A semi-formal holiday dinner-dance will be held at Kirkland House on Saturday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event is open only to house members and their dates. Approximately 250 people are expected to attend, according to Arvind M.R. Krishnamurthy '97, the house social chair.

Dinner will be served in the dining hall, and "should be a notch better than regular dinning hall food," Krishnamurthy said. Snacks, drinks and beer will also be available.

"This is probably the most community thing that we do," said Krishnamurthy. "We have Secret Santa the week before and it culminates in the dance and dinner."

Students attending the Leverett House formal will enjoy the atmosphere of the Bay Tower Room in Boston. The semi-formal-to-formal dance will be held Sunday night and will last from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

Appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, dessert and drinks, including an open bar, will be available. Tickets will cost $25 per couple and $15 per person. A hired DJ will provide the dance mix.

"It'll be really great," said Jeffrey A. Smagula '96, who co-chairs the house committee along with Neda Ratana-wongsa '96. "We're providing busing [to the dance] and people can have dinner in the city."

The Lowell Music Society has been planning the Lowell House formal, which will be held on Saturday night at 9 p.m., according to Clarissa J. Ngo '97, a member of the music society.

She described plans to turn the dinning hall into a winter wonderland by erecting a life-size gingerbread house in the foyer, putting up theater sets depicting a forest along the walls, and using air fresheners to waft the scent of pine needles throughout the room.

Music will be provided by the Harvard Radcliffe, Orchestra, and a fare of cheese, crackers and champagne will be available.

Tickets will go on sale for $10 Monday but are also available at the door for $12.50. More than 250 people are expected to attend the black-tie affair, according to Ngo.