Weekend Top 6 Picks for October 26 and 27, 2019

Saturday October 26, 2019

10am to 6pm Free. 14th Annual Central Florida Veg Fest. Festival Park, 2911 E Robinson St, Orlando, FL. . Central Florida Veg Fest is an exciting day of colorful and educational exhibits and activities! Veg Fest is a family-friendly, dog-friendly,
alcohol-free, and smoke-free event. Veg Fest, now in its 14th year, is one of the biggest and best vegan festivals in the country!

Central
Florida Veg Fest will draw both committed vegetarians/vegans and those
who want to learn more about how veg-living enhances our health, the
planet, and its inhabitants. Come enjoy a diverse cross-section of
vegetarian cuisines and lifestyles. Discover new products and ideas from
over 200 vendors and 100 contributors
and enjoy a wide variety of presentations and food preparation demos.
Not a vegetarian? Whether you’re looking for new ideas to add color and
variety to your meals or you’re a “seasoned” vegetarian interested in
expanding your knowledge of nutritious and ethical foods, this is the
place for you. Please RSVP on the Veg Fest event page and join the Veg Fest community page for regular updates about the event. And please share these pages with your family and friends.

10am to 4pm Free. Sanford Farmers Market. First and Magnolia Sanford Fl.  


8pm to 10pm Free but get a drink or 2 and enjoy. Music Mount Dora. One Flight Up 440 N  Donnelly Street, Mount Dora FL.


Sunday October 27, 2019 

9:30am to 10pm Members $225 Non-members $275. Crealde Urban Sketching Class. First of 6 Urban Sketching classes taught by myself. Learn to sketch from subject to the environment. Classroom sessions will
focus on sketching clothed models and progress towards sketching the
model and classroom environment. Learn how to incorporate storytelling
into your sketches in our location sessions. These trips to local venues
will challenge you to use your sketchbook the way a photojournalist
uses a camera. The six-week goal is to produce finished sketches using
pencil, pen, and watercolor within two hours. Skill level: Intermediate

6 week class.

Thomas
Thorspecken (Thor) studied animation and illustration at the School of
Visual Arts in New York City. He worked for ten years at Walt Disney
Feature Animation. In 2009 he made a new year’s resolution to do one
sketch a day and share it with a worldwide community of urban sketchers
through his online site Analog Artist Digital World
www.analogartistdigitalworld.com

Suggested supplies:

  • #2 pencil with an eraser
  • 05 and 08 micron pens
  • Stillman and Birn 9 x 12 inch spiral bound sketchbook (Alpha or Epsion series)
  • Travel sized watercolor pallet (mine is a Windsor Newton with 14 color pans)
  • Pentel water brush (water goes in the handle)
  • Black Prismacolor pencil
  • Compact artist stool
  • Noon to 2pm Free. Bobby Koelble Presents Jazz in the Garden. Mead Botanical Garden 1300 S Denning Dr, Winter Park, FL.  Join
    us as we enjoy an afternoon of electric Jazz music, tasty food, craft
    cocktails, and shopping in a beautiful, serene setting all while helping
    to benefit Mead Botanical Garden.

    The shows, that will fall on the last Sunday of the
    month from September thru November, will consist of world class
    musicians performing a collection of your favorite Jazz standards with a
    twist.
    October’s concert will include two bands. The first being
    The Bobby Koelble Quartet featuring Michelle Mailhot playing from noon
    till 2pm followed by legendary Hall and Oats Saxaphonist “Mr Casual”
    Charlie Dechant and The Kings
    .
    November’s concert will include an
    opening band (TBD) from noon till 2pm followed by the Music of Charlie
    Parker and Django Reinhardt performed by Bobby Koelble, Jeff Rupert and a
    cast of top notch musicians. 

    There will be food and beverages
    available for purchase, a shopping area curated by Suzette’s One Of A
    Kind Finds, as well as a limited number of VIP passes which will include
    an Italian lunch buffet catered by Bites and Bubbles and VIP restrooms.

    10pm to Midnight Free but get a coffee or bite. Comedy Open Mic. Austin’s Coffee, 929 W Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park, FL. Free comedy show! Come out and laugh, or give it a try yourself.

     

    Weekend Top 6 Picks for September 28 and 29, 2019

    Saturday September 28, 2019 

    10am to 5pm. Adults $8. Accidental Historian. Orange County Regional History Center 65 E. Central Blvd. Orlando, Florida 32801. You might be a historian without even realizing it! That’s certainly
    true of many bloggers, urban sketchers, photographers, and more. In this
    engaging exhibition, created at the History Center, learn how
    individuals who are absorbed in documenting the world of today
    accidentally become some of Central Florida’s finest historians for the
    future. Catch a glimpse into some of our favorite collections that were
    created for the now – more than 100 years ago.

    The Accidental Historian features both historic and
    contemporary work and collections, including drawings by the renowned
    artist and teacher Ralph Bagley and Urban Sketchers Orlando, poetry by
    Orlando’s inaugural poet laureate Susan Lilley, audiovisual work by food
    blogger Ricky Ly, historic images by photographer T.P. Robinson, and
    more. Also on display is a tower of my sketchbooks from documenting Orlando Arts and Culture over the last 8 years.

    7pm to 9pm  Free. Brewery Tour. Orlando Brewing, 1301 Atlanta Ave, Orlando, FL.

    10:30pm to Midnight. Free but get food and or drink. Son Flamenco. Ceviche Tapas Orlando, 125 W Church St, Orlando, FL 32801. 

    Sunday September 29, 2019

    11am to Noon. $5 Yoga. Lake Eola near red gazebo. 

    Noon to 2pm Free. Bobby Koelble Presents Jazz in the Garden. 1300 S Denning Dr, Winter Park, FL 32789.  Join
    us as we enjoy an afternoon of electric Jazz music, tasty food, craft
    cocktails, and shopping in a beautiful, serene setting all while helping
    to benefit Mead Botanical Garden.

    Bobby Koelble Presents Jazz in
    the garden, is a series of Jazz concerts that will be hosted by Mead
    Botanical Garden. The shows, that will fall on the last Sunday of the
    month from September thru November, will consist of world class
    musicians performing a collection of your favorite Jazz standards with a
    twist. 

    There will be food and beverages available for purchase,
    a shopping area curated by Suzette’s One Of A Kind Finds, as well as a
    limited number of VIP passes which will include a brunch buffet catered
    by Bites and Bubbles, beer or cocktail and a VIP viewing area.

    7:30pm to 9:30pm $10-$20 suggested donation. Please also bring food or wine to share.  CF2’s 7th Annual Composer DIY Salon Concert.  Timucua 2000 S Summerlin Ave, Orlando, Florida 32806. For
    seven years, Central Florida Composers Forum (CF2) has been offering
    its members a first-come, first-on, get-er-done yerself opportunity to
    present work to the Orlando/Central Florida public. The composers
    themselves perform or arrange for the performers. That always means a
    wider variety of sonic possibilities than a more typical, curated CF2
    concert featuring a unified instrumentation.

    This program
    features Rebekah Todia’s Crossing The Bar, for piano and voice; Melody
    Cook’s For Two Voices, No. 2, for clarinet and piano; Holly Cordero’s
    Personified Bliss, for string quartet, Bob Jr.’s Conjure the Storm, for
    piano, guitar, bass, and drums; Paul Austin Sanders’ electronic
    compositions Danze Africanne, Spirit of the East, and Bop Latinesque;
    and premieres of Alex Burtzos’ X Codes, for violin, clarinet, and piano,
    and also his Perforation, for solo piano.

    All ears are welcome.