Saturday December 5, 2015 

8:45am Free. 63rd Annual Winter Park Ye Olde Hometown Christmas Parade, Park Avenue Winter Park, FL. Each year the event attracts thousands of spectators who look forward to and enjoy the pageantry of the parade as the festive holiday season begins. We are proud to be a part of this event. Make a memory or continue the tradition!

6pm Free. Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra. Band shell Lake Eola 195 N Rosalind Avenue.  The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra will kick off the holiday season with the sixth annual WKMG News 6 Holiday Concert benefiting the Salvation Army Angel Tree, a spirited performance of holiday-inspired classics at Lake Eola Park. In celebration of the holiday season, the event will be broadcast live by WKMG Local 6, and will feature all four orchestras of the FSYO.

“It’s a highlight of our year to partner with WKMG and have our student musicians provide live music in the annual holiday concert at Lake Eola,” said FSYO President Stephen Schenck. “This concert gives us the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season with the community and at the same time help the Salvation Army Angel Tree Program, which provides children in our community gifts to open Christmas morning. Gifts they would not normally receive.”

Hosted by WKMG the News 6 Morning Show talent, Bridgett Ellison and David Hall, the concert will feature holiday sing-alongs and a very special appearance by Santa Claus. Admission is free to all, but a monetary donation or unwrapped toy donation for the Salvation Army is encouraged.

7pm to 9pm Free. Shuffleboard at Orlando’s Beardall Courts. Orlando’s Beardall Courts 800 Delaney Ave Orlando FL. Shuffleboard at Orlando’s Beardall Courts at 800 Delaney Ave on the 1st Saturday of each month. The next Shuffle will be Sat., Sept. 6, at 7 pm. Free fun! https://www.facebook.com/OrlandoShuffle?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite

Sunday December 6, 2015 

10am to 5pm SPARKLE handmade art market. Dandelion Communitea Cafe 618 N Thornton Ave, Orlando, Florida. Sparkle is an outdoor event featuring unique, talented, CF artists and their handmade goods. Come peruse the best hand made jewelry, organic body products, pottery and much more. Eat well and shop handmade! This event has free parking.

10am to 12:30pm $10 Crealde Sketch Class. Crealdé School of Art, 600 St Andrews Blvd, Winter Park, FL. Life drawing from  a nude model.

7pm to 9pm Free. Angel of Hope. Sunshine Park, Altamonte Springs, FL. A candle-light ceremony for women who have lost babies.

Saturday November 21, 2015

1pm to 4pm . Free. Orlando Fringe Open House. Orlando Fringe 812 E Rollins St, Orlando, FL.  See the new space and rehearsal hall on the second floor of the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Suite 300. Light bites and champagne will be served.

7:30pm to 10:30pm Free. JC Sevcik’s Farewell Reading. Kerouac House 1418 Clouser Ave, Orlando, Florida.  Doors will open at 7:30, and light refreshments will be available. You are welcome to bring something you’d like to drink.

7:30pm to 9:30pm $15 FIASCO: A Night Of True Stories, Entertaining Disasters. East End Market 3201 Corrine Dr, Orlando, Florida. Storytellers of Central Florida present Tellebration—A Global Event. Join us for a great night of crafted, personal stories, as cities around the world celebrate the art of storytelling through Live Performance. All centered around comic disaster.

Tickets: $12 in advance / $15 at the door.

Questions? 407-721-1999

Sunday November 22, 2015 

Noon to 2pm. Free, but grab some food. Florida Gospel Jam. Fish on Fire 7937 Daetwyler Drive Belle Isle FL. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday.

1pm to 3p m. Free but get some coffee. Irish Music. Olivia’s Coffee House, 108 N Bay St, Eustis, FL. http://www.oliviascoffeehouse.com/

1pm to 3pm Free Yoga. Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL near the red pagoda. Every week.

Saturday November 7, 2015 

3pm to 6pm Free. Facility Tour and Tasting. Breyting Community Roaster 1220 Biscayne Blvd 145 North Woodland Blvd, DeLand, FL. Breyting Community Roaster celebrates the Grande Opening of its 4,000 sq ft state-of-the-art coffee manufacturing plant in DeLand, FL capable of producing over 3.4 million pounds annually in two custom built 2,400 pound roasters. Organic certified production is slated to begin in the Summer of 2016. The roastery’s upbeat, socially conscious and avant-garde coffees have met with rave reviews, sparking considerable national buzz.About Breyting Community Roaster & Our New Location.

Breyting Community Roaster is a socially responsible, mission-driven business that seeks to align their coffee brands with worthy causes and support non-profits through an innovative fundraising program. Their long-held business strategy is to build brands that have modest, yet consistent, earning power with good returns on equity and support these brands with worthy causes, talent and honest management.

7pm to 10pm. $150 Neanderthal Ball. Orlando Science Center, 777 E Princeton St, Orlando, FL.  Party like it’s 100,099 B.C. at Orlando Science Center’s 9th Annual Neanderthal Ball on Saturday, November 7. Benefitting the Orlando Science Center and its mission to inspire science learning for life, this event is part of Orlando Science Center’s year-long 60th anniversary celebration and promises to be an evening of prehistoric fun for everyone! New this year, Mayors Jewelers presents: Champagne on the Rocks with the chance to win a diamond necklace by purchasing a glass of champagne to toast the Science Center’s 60th anniversary.

7pm to 10pm. Free. Monster Bash with B-52s Fred Schneider. In celebration of Breyting Community Roaster’s Grande Opening come join us for the Monster Bash After Party with Fred Schneider, frontman of the iconic rock band, the B-52s.

Fred Schneider’s caffeine-crazed monsters are back from remote villages with the perfect coffee beans for the fire-breathing dragon to roast Fred Schneider‘s Monster Blend to a frighteningly intense flavor.To celebrate this galactic find, join us to taste what’s been roasted up and party down as Fred DJ’s the dance mix. Space Vixens will be serving cosmic coffee cocktails: Godzilla’s Kiss, Rodan and Rum and Yetti Freddy.

To prove you were actually at this party, take a selfie with Javapussrex or one of the other monsters. Grab your best pals and rocket on over to Fred Schneider’s Monster Bash to celebrate his out of this world coffee and party like it’s 3015!

Sunday November 8, 2015 

11pm to 1pm Donation based community YogART class: 7 Chakra series. Artegon Marketplace 5250 International Dr, Orlando, Florida. Every 2nd Sunday of the month YogART will be hosting FREE Color Therapy Yoga classes for the community at Artegon Marketplace (located in the community room across from section B6 – use movie theater entrance)

We are excited to bring you our “7 Chakra Series” that will focus each class on each individual chakra: breaking down it’s color, meaning, location and function. This particular class will revolve around our second major energy point known as “The Sacral Chakra”.

Color Therapy glasses will also be provided for those who wish to experience the effects of color therapy. Orange will be the primary focus for our Root Chakra but you may wear any color you want to work with.

This is an ALL LEVELS class which incorporates stretching, breathing exercises and light yoga poses geared around the Sacral Chakra.

We also have a color wheel on our site that explains the benefit of each color (glasses) Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. http://www.yogartinc.com/color-therapy-chart/

Please bring your own yoga mat and prepare to unwind.

11pm to 5pm. Free. The Japan Association of Orlando’s 15th Annual Orlando Japan Festival. Village at Hunter’s Creek, 13574 Village Park Drive.

Performances include:

one-hundred-member Japanese Taiko drum ensemble

Koto (Japanese harps)

Iaido (Japanese swordsmanship and martial arts)

Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance)

Edo Satokagura from the National Theater of Japan’s Wakayama Performance Troupe

Experiences:

try on Yukatas (kimonos)

participate in the cosplay contest

play Japanese-style carnival games

watch a Judo demonstration

enjoy Japanese music and dance

observe a traditional Japanese tea ceremony

learn Japanese calligraphy

enjoy traditional Japanese cuisine

3pm to 5pm Free. Open Art Party. Kissimmee Lakefront Park 201 Lakeview Dr, Kissimmee, Florida. There will be Hot dogs, Hamburgers, Chips, Soda, and Water. Free for Artists. Please tip the chef. It will be held at the Heron Pavilion. Please RSVP with the amount of people you will be bringing or inviting. (We want to make sure we have enough food for all!!)

For more information please contact Tee at 407-732-3846

Saturday October 17, 2015

4pm to 9pm Free The Blend Orlando Presents ‘4OXO’. Aero 60 North Orange Ave, Orlando, Florida. Aero and The Patio, will host the ultimate relationship building phenomenon from 4pm – 10pm. The Blend is known as a “Pop up Shop” installation that will provide local fashion Designers, Painters, Artist, Musicians, Singers and hip hop Lyricist, Producers, and the Orlando media in one continuous flow.

The attendees will gain knowledge and have access to network in a blended environment with the creative elite in the Orlando. The 6 hour experience will host 2 performance rooms, a fashion pop up shop, live paintings, interviews, Art Auction, Dancers and more. The focus is to create a cultural experience while continuing the growth of instilling the importance of these various platforms in our youth.

6pm to 9pm Free Creative City Project. Downtown Orlando, South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL. La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil, Orlando Ballet, Central Florida Community
Arts Orchestra, Orlando City Soccer Club, a 1000 student marching band,
the Downtown Arts District, and dozens of other artists and performers
bring the streets of Downtown Orlando to life.

You won’t want to miss this night of unexpected experiences as you get
up close and personal with artists like never before as the Creative
City Project removes the barriers between art and you.

Find yourself immersed in the music of an orchestra – standing among 100
musicians, Be shaken by a wall of sound from 1000 person marching band.
Stand in awe as a performer from Orlando Aerial Arts flies just above
your head. See visual art come to life before your very eyes. And
encounter hundreds of interesting and unusual surprises throughout the
city’s streets and public places.

Gather your friends and family for a night of your life.

7PM to 9pm. Free. The Orlando Shuffle. Beardall Senior Center, 800 Delaney Avenue, Orlando, FL.The Orlando Shuffle is always free, family-friendly, and fun. It takes place the 1st and 3rd Saturdays every month. Come play, learn, or just hangout 7 to 9 p.m. Retro attire is encouraged.

Sunday October 18, 2015 

Noon to 5pm. Free. Ten10 Art Market. Ten 10 Brewing Company 1010 Virginia Dr, Orlando, Florida. ..it’s been a few years since 7-11 landed on Blank Space. David Charles has turned the page and persuaded Patrick and Mike from Ten10 Brewery to try and resurrect the dead by bringing back to life a regularly scheduled business hosted Art Market. It will be Visual Art-Centric like blank space was (although David, the organizer is down for whatever), one Sunday a month, starting it in the fall, at the new brewery, next to the trail with a big parking lot. Live local music, and old vinyl spinning during day. A set or two from local musicians and everybody promotes and pulls heads Alden Electric Supply (the neighbor) has made the.” parking lot available which enables tons of visitor parking. Their maybe get some interactive art stuff going on. Hopefully this will become a regular place to be outside and get together, surrounded by great local art, music, food, and drink…so if that sounds like good times then, please join us!

Art..music..food..beer …plus other interesting things…

Every 3rd Sunday

1pm to 3pm Free. Yoga. Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL. Every week.

9PM to 11 pm Free. Comedy Open Mic. Austin’s Coffee, 929 W Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park, FL. Free comedy show! Come out & laugh, or give it a try yourself.

Saturday October 3, 2015.

11pm to 1pm. Free. Book Launch Party: Perspective Made Easy by Robbie Lee. Bookmark It 3201 Corrine Drive, Suite 109, Orlando, Florida. What better way to celebrate Florida Bookstore Day than with a Book Launch Party! Join local illustrator, beloved art teacher and now AUTHOR, Robbie Lee, on Saturday, October 3 for the launch of his new book “Perspective Made Easy” by Impact Press (2015).

Besides giving us a peak into his creative process, Robbie will be leading hands-on drawing demonstrations, so bring your imagination! Delicious treats will be provided by Audubon Park favorites La Femme du Fromage and Bikes, Beans and Bordeaux. Budding artists of all ages welcome!

Designed to teach readers of all skill levels how to draw the world around them- everything from cars, rooms, and landscapes to rockets, furniture, and pants- with realistic and convincing depth, Perspective Made Easy’s format is a colorful blend of a comic and traditional step-by-step instruction.

Plus rumor has, it’s pretty dang funny too.

1pm to 4pm Free. Fan Faire 2015. Hart Memorial Central Library, 211 East Dakin Avenue, Kissimmee, Fl. The time has come, geeks one and all, for our yearly Fan Faire! A comic-con celebrating all fandoms. If you love Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, GoT, OUaT, LOTR, Anime, Manga, Comics, Pixie Hollow, Minecraft, or more, cosplay your best and join the rest! Games, prizes, costume contests, and crafts aplenty. View presentations by experts and shop local artists.

Check out our website!

Presenters:

Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament – Orlando

Grand Artifice at www.fb.com/GrandArtifice

7pm to 9 pm. Free. Functionally Literate presents: Padgett Powell. Celebrate 3 years of Functionally Literate, plus Florida Bookstore Day, and the release of Padgett Powell’s latest book: Cries for Help, Various.

Readings begin shortly after 7pm and feature: Padgett Powell, Rebbecca Evanhoe & Beth McKee.

Free & open to the public.

Beer & wine by donation.

Books for sale by Bookmark It Bookstore.

Book signing to follow the reading.

This event is part of Burrow Press’ 5-year anniversary double-header. Consider making a tax-deductible donation to Burrow, or purchasing tickets to our October 7th Literary Death Match. More info here: burrowpress.com/tix

Sunday October 4, 2015.

3pm to 5 pm. Free. Pine Castle Historical Society quarterly meeting. Pine Castle Woman’s Club 5901 South Orange Ave, Orlando FL 32809 (at the corner of Oak Ridge Road).Christie Woods will present on the Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library as a potential vision for our new Pine Castle History Center.
Please join us for snacks and root beer floats courtesy of our local A&W!

9pm to 11pm. Free.  Comedy Open Mic. Austin’s Coffee: 929 W Fairbanks Ave Winter Park, FL. Free comedy show! Come out & laugh, or give it a try yourself.

9pm to 11pm. Free. Solo Acoustic Spoken Word. Natura Coffee & Tea, 12078 Collegiate Way, Orlando, FL. 407 482-5000