Weekend Top 6 Picks for March 18th and 19th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday March 18, 2017

9am to 6pm. Free. Saturday and Sunday Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. Central Park in Winter Park. By City Ordinance, no pets are allowed in Central Park at any time
nor on Park Avenue between New England and Canton Avenues during regular Festival hours. Also by City Ordinance, no artists may create while on the merchant side of Park Avenue sidewalks during the festival or at any other time.

10am to 4pm. Free. Commander’s Call. Museum of Military History 5201 West Irlo Bronson Highway Kissimmee, FL 34746 This ongoing program is held on the 3rd Sat of each month is designed to appeal to families, military memorabilia collectors, history buffs, re-enactors and others interested in military history. In addition, persons interested in displaying, trading or selling their military items such as honor coins, swords, photographs, military buttons, scale model boats & planes, military art, uniforms or other equipment register in advance by calling the museum to reserve a spot. Re-enactors & veterans are welcome to come in uniform to add to the history & authenticity of the military experience. Non-military booths such as health care providers, home improvement, local attractions or other businesses are invited to be vendors for minimal donation. 

INFO and Register: 407-507-3894 or to register your table space.

4pm to 8pm Free.  Cruisin’ Downtown DeLand Car Show! East Indiana Ave Downtown DeLand, Deland FL. Classic cars & rods.  Live DJ, giveaways, shopping & dining. Fun for the family! Every 3rd Saturday night!

INFO: & for showing your car 386-738-0649

Sunday March 19, 2017

10am to 4pm Free. Lake Eola Farmers Market. South East corner of Lake Eola Park.

9am to 5pm. Free. Saturday and Sunday Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. Central Park in Winter Park. By City Ordinance, no pets are allowed in Central Park at any time
nor on Park Avenue between New England and Canton Avenues during regular Festival hours. Also by City Ordinance, no artists may create while on the merchant side of Park Avenue sidewalks during the festival or at any other time.

10pm to midnight Free, but get a coffee. 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.

Weekend Top 6 Picks for March 11th and 12th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday March 11, 2017

4pm to 6pm Free. Young Voices. JB Callaman Center 102 North Parramore Ave Orlando FL. Teen Open Mic Every second Saturday of the Month.

6pm to 8pm Free. Artborne Monthly Party. Spacebar 2428 E Robinson St, Orlando, Florida 32803. The March 2017 issue of Artborne Magazine features the confrontational imagery of Becky Flanders, Chris Carr’s Reflective photo series, and the “natural glitches” of Brooks Dierdorff.

Also in the March Issue:

Architecture: Polytechnic University

From the Desk of Pat Greene Mike Kelly House

Spotlight Jim Leatherman

Spotlight Derek Demeter

Out of Towner Rosemarie Romero

Literature: Sherdes Leona

First Contact: Chakra Kahn

Fashion: Freehand Goods

Curatorial Perspective: Around Town

Review: Bo Bartlett

6:00PM Bidding for Artborne proof posters (size 40″x28″) -View Event Discussion for poster images available.

7:00PM Performance by The Timucua Arts white house

7:45PM ‘Bring Your Own Vinyl’: Sign-up sheet at entrance.

 7:30pm to 9:30pm Welcome Potluck Dinner for Shasta Grant. Kerouac House 1418 Clouser Ave, Orlando, Florida 32804. Please join us in welcoming Kerouac House Spring resident Shasta Grant. This event is a potluck dinner, so please bring something to eat and/or drink and share.

Shasta Grant is the author of Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home, a chapbook forthcoming from Split Lip Press, and the 2016 Smoke Long Quarterly Kathy Fish Fellow. Winner of the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, judged by Ann Patchett, her stories and essays have appeared in cream city review, Epiphany, Hobart, Pithead Chapel, wig leaf, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and divides her time between Singapore and Indianapolis.

Sunday March 12, 2017

Noon to 1pm Free. Yoga. Lake Eola lawn near red gazebo.  Bring your own mat.

1pm to 5pm Free. Family Day. The Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32803. The make-and-take craft table is open from noon-2:30 p.m., and docents are available to give mini-tours of the museum. Then it’s open house in the galleries until 4:30 p.m.

6pm to 8pm Free. Spring Pops Race for Space. Central Park, West Morse Boulevard, Winter Park, FL. Free Philharmonic Concert.

Weekend Top 6 Picks for February 25th and 26th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday February 25, 2017

2:30pm to 4:30pm Free but try the beer. Sanford Brewing Company’s Grand Opening Party. 400 Sanford Ave, Sanford, FL 32771.

6pm to 9pm Free. Opulence Art Show Reception. The Barefoot Spa 801 Virginia Dr, Orlando, Florida 32803. “Opulence” features the work of 25 Central Florida artists. The connecting theme of this show is the use “rooms of spectacular opulence” in art. Included are paintings, sculptures, photography and multi media pieces. The collection is diverse vibrant and interesting.

This show will be up for the months of Feb. & March.
Hours; 10 to 5 daily (closed Sundays)

Most of the artists will be available at the reception to speak to you about their art. Please make time in your schedule to support the Central Florida art community!

8pm to 11pm Free but get food and drink. Jazz Saturdays.  Cork and Fork American Grill 5180 S. Conway Road, Belle Isle, FL 32812.  Jazz Saturdays will feature live entertainment by Jazzanova musicians.


Sunday February 26, 2017

Noon to 1pm Free. Yoga. Lake Eola near red gazebo. 

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

2pm to 4pm Free but get food and drink. Irish Music. Olivia’s Coffee House, 108 N Bay St, Eustis, FL

Weekend Top 6 Picks for February 11th and 12th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday February 11, 2017

Noon to 5pm Free. Indie-Folkfest 2017. The Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E Princeton St, Orlando, FL 32803. Indie-Folkfest 2016 drew thousands of festival-goers in celebration of local Florida music, artists, food and community.

The 2017 festival promises to be the biggest yet! Join us again as we showcase local, national and regional art, music and culinary talent in the beautiful lakeside Sculpture Garden of The Mennello Museum. This free family-friendly and pet-friendly event will take place on Saturday, February 11, 2017, from 12 to 5 p.m.

Interested in being an Indie-Folkfest sponsor? Download our sponsorship application here, or call 407.246.3294.

More details to come.

4pm to 6pm Free. Young Voices. JB Callaman Center 102 North Parramore Ave Orlando FL. Teen Open Mic Every second Saturday of the Month.

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

Sunday February 12, 2017

1pm to 5pm Free Family Day on the Second Sunday. The Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32803. The make-and-take craft table is open from noon-2:30 p.m., and docents are available to give mini-tours of the museum. Then it’s open house in the galleries until 4:30 p.m.

5:30pm to 11:30pm $10 Southern Fried Sunday with Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, The WildTones, Clem Mcgillicutty and The Burnouts. Will’s Pub 1042 N Mills Ave, Orlando, Florida 32803. 18+, $5 BBQ plates by Clay BBQ Watson!

Over the last three decades, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys have kept up a constant cycle of traveling back and forth across the lower 48, then hopping across the pond to Europe and beyond. They bring with them a brand of American music that has earned them an induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, several national television appearances, guest spots on The Grand Ole Opry, and a slew of adoring fans.

“I truly love being out on the road, and I feel blessed to have the opportunity to sing my songs all over the world,” said Sandy. “But when I’m away from the U.S. for too long, it’s like I need a recharge… like I need a solid dose of everything Americana. Give me a Chuck Berry song while rolling down the interstate, or a truck stop conversation with a waitress who once danced with Lefty Frizzell, and I’m good for another three thousand miles”.

10pm to Midnight. Free but get a coffee. 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.

WeekendTop 6 Picks for February 4th and 5th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday February 4, 2017

9am to 5pm Free All weekend. 42nd Annual Mount Dora Art Festival. Downtown Mount Dora.

 6pm to 8pm Free. Dr. Deborah Willis Talk. Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave, Box 2720, Winter Park, Florida 32789. This lecture, at Rollins College, is in conjunction with the ‘Posing Beauty in African American Culture’ exhibition at Snap! Space (on view January 13 through February 11) curated by Dr. Deborah Willis.

Professor Deborah Willis is a theorist and historian of African American photography, as well as a photographer herself. Dr. Willis is chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and has an affiliated appointment as Professor with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. She has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Fletcher, and MacArthur fellowships, the Infinity Award in Writing from the International Center for Photography, and recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award. Named one of the “100 Most Important People in Photography”.

PLEASE NOTE : Eventbrite ticket does not guarantee entrance. This is a free event, eventbrite helps us to gauge numbers. We recommend that you arrive early, as entrance will be granted according to arrival and capacity. Thank you!

Free admission. Tickets

7pm to 10pm $35 Trash2Trends. Ports of Call Sea World 7007 Seaworld Drive, Orlando, Fl 32821. Trash 2 Trends is a Keep Orlando Beautiful, Inc fundraiser that brings
the fashion and art of local artists together with the environmental
community to promote sustainability in an innovative way. The show
features local designers who create runway looks from items headed to
the landfill. A complimentary dessert and coffee bar will be provided
during intermission for all guests. Must be 18 or older to attend.

Sunday February 5, 2017

10am to 4pm Free.  Lake Eola Farmers Market.  South East corner of Lake Eola Park.

7pm to 9pm Free. Erotic Poetry Night V: Smut, Actually. Vinyl Arts Bar 75 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, Florida 32801. The Drunken Odyssey presents its annual live show of erotic poetry, erotic prose, amorous thoughts, and smut, this year in the posh bohemian confines of Vinyl Arts Bar.

The Drunken Odyssey All Stars will feature

Naomi Butterfield

Ephraim Scott Sommers

Diane Turgeon Richardson

Wilson Santos

Stephanie Rizzo

Brian Downes

Rachel Kohlman

Teege Braune

Lisa Roney

Madison Strake Bernath

& your host, John King.

7:30pm to 9:30pm Free. Helena – contemporary vocal ensemble. The Timucua Arts white house 2000 S Summerlin Ave, Orlando, Florida 32806. A sisterhood of six of Central Florida’s most dauntless singers, Helena is an ensemble committed to irradiating gems from all genres of vocal music.

Helena will be performing choral and vocal works by David Childs, Gwynneth Walker and John Prine, among others. They will also perform Libby Larsen’s song cycle Try Me Good King, in collaboration with pianist Lynn Peghiny Mells.

Weekend Top 6 Picks for January 20th and 21st.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday January 20, 2017

9am to 4pm Free. A Cops n’ Cars for kids Car Show. Oviedo Mall, 1700 Oviedo Mall Boulevard, Oviedo, FL. Law Reinforcement, fire an antique cars.

1pm to 4pm Free. A Women’s Rally Central Florida. Lake Eola Amphitheater. In conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, we will Rally in solidarity as peaceful advocates and defenders of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families.
The Women’s Rally–Central Florida is a non-partisan call to action,
through unity in diversity, on behalf of all women. We invite supporters
and defenders of all ages, races, genders, orientations, socio-economic
groups, and religious beliefs to join us.
In the spirit of
democracy, and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and
justice who have come before us, join us and have a voice in our
individual and collective futures.
This is an inclusive event, and everyone who supports women’s rights is welcome.

SPEAKERS: TBD

Visit our web site. 

7pm to 9pm Free. Functionally Literate presents: Kelly Luce & Dan Lopez.  Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts 1905 Kentucky Ave, Winter Park, Florida. Our first Function of 2017 features readings & signings by:

KELLY LUCE, former Kerouac House resident and author of Pull Me Under.

DAN LOPEZ, Lambda Literary Award-winner and author of The Show House
Doors 6:30pm, show 7:15pm
FREE :: RSVP below via Eventbrite
Beer & wine available. Books for sale by Bookmark It.
Seating note: “Local” and “Orlandoan” level members of the Burrow Press Illiterati need not reserve a seat via Eventbrite. They also get a free drink at each event and a classy (trashy?) FuncLit koozie. Does this sound nice? Join the Illiterati: burrow press.com/hush

PARKING

Parking lots: available in grass lot across from the venue, and paved lot to the west.

Ride Share: If you sign up for Lyft using the code LYFTBP you’ll get a free ride and they’ll donate $10 to Burrow Press!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kelly Luce is the author of Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail and the novel Pull Me Under. Her work has been recognized by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Ragdale Foundation, the Kerouac Project, and Jentel Arts, and has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Salon, O, the Oprah Magazine, The Southern Review, and other publications.

Dan Lopez’s work has appeared in The Millions, Story chord, Time Out New York, Los Angeles Review of Books and Lambda Literary, among others. The Show House is his first novel. He lives in Santa Monica.

Sunday January 21, 2017.

10am to 4pm Free. Lake Eola Farmers Market. Lake Eola Park, East Washington Street, Orlando, FL. Weekly. 

2pm to 4pm Free. Yoga. Near the red gazip0, Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL. 

10pm to 4pm 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.

Weekend Top 6 Picks for January 14th and 15th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday January 14, 2017 

 8am to 9pm $5 – $25 40th Annual Central Florida Highland Games. Saturday and Sunday. Central Winds Park 1000 Central Winds Dr, Winter Springs, Florida 32708. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
games by watching traditional athletics, listening to Scottish music
including bagpipes, learn about the Scottish Clans, and taste
traditional Scottish food and beer. For more information about tickets
and the games, please visit www.flascot.com.

5pm to 8pm Free. Crealde Night of Fire. Crealde School of Art, 600 St Andrews Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32792. Tour Crealdé’s studios and galleries, participate in hands-on workshops
and demonstrations including a bronze pour, and register for specially
priced classes. There will be live music, food, refreshments, and
storytelling around the fire.

6pm to 8pm Free.  Art Splash. Downtown Mount Dora. Can sell art for free. Busking allowed.

Sunday January 15, 2017 

Noon to 3pm Donation. Music at the Casa. Casa Feliz Historic Home Museum, 656 N Park Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789. Matt Festa Jazz Saxophone. Members of the public are invited to visit our historic home museum to listen to live music and take a tour
of our historic home museum and the James Gamble Rogers II Studio by
trained docents.  Come as
you are–casual attire, light refreshments served, children welcome!
For information on upcoming “Music at the Casa” performances, visit Upcoming Events.

2pm to 4pm Free Yoga. Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL. Every week.

7pm to 10pm Free. Going Native. Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, Autograph Collection, 325 S Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801. Exhibit featuring local artists,

Donna Dowless

Tom Sadler

Margaret Juul

Greg Byrd

Phillip Anthony

Ursela Schwartz

Sally Evans

Alana Ohern,Elizabeth St Hilare

Weekend Top 6 Picks for January 7th and 8th.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday January 7, 2017

10am to 4pm Free. Sanford Farmers Market. Sanford, First & Magnolia.

5:30pm to 11:30pm Free. Doc Ellis Orchestra. Tin House Ranch 3300 Stone St, Oviedo, Florida.

8pm to 10pm Free, but order food and drink. Music Mount Dora. One Flight Up 440 N Donnelly Street, Mount Dora FL 32757.

Sunday January 8, 2017 

Noon to 4pm Free Family Funday: Mare Run. The Mennello Museum of American Art 900 E Princeton St, Orlando, Florida 32803. The make-and-take craft table is open from noon-2:30 p.m., and docents are available to give mini-tours of the museum. Then it’s open house in the galleries until 4:30 p.m.

Noon to 2pm. Donation based community YogART class: 7 Chakra series. Artegon Marketplace 5250 International Dr, Orlando, Florida 32819. 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

Check out our lovely YogART instructor’s website for more info on her, and some great articles:

Any children who attend must be able to participate in the session quietly to respect the space of other guests. If your child is unable to partake without disruption we ask that you please refrain from bringing them. Thank you! Namaste ~

For more info contact us at:

info@yogartinc.com

2pm to 4pm Free. Script Reading Workshop. Sleuths Mystery Dinner Show, 8267 International Drive, Orlando, FL. Read and workshop plays

Weekend Top 6 Picks for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday December 31, 2016

6pm to 2am Free. New Year’s Eve with the Bronx Boys. Claddagh Cottage Irish Pub 4308 Curry Ford Rd, Orlando, Florida 32806.  Come out and have your last pint at the Claddagh Cottage and listen to The Bronx Boys ring in the new year with traditional Irish and Americana music. Alan Murray will be joined by the other 1/3 of the band, Isaac Alderson on uilleann pipes and vocals as well as Alasdair White on fiddle and Anna Colliton on bodhran. This party will be the last day the original Claddagh Cottage so come out and help us drink everything up!

9:30pm to 2am General Admission Tickets: $49 All Inclusive Tickets: $89 DRIP’s New Year’s Eve 2017. 8747 International Dr Suite 102 (Behind Denny’s and Senor Frogs), Orlando, Florida. Celebrate 2017 on New Year’s Eve in Orlando rock ‘n’ roll VIP style complete with glamour stations, champagne cocktails topped with rock candy, fabulous people, interactive adult painting, gorgeous performers, raw theatrical show, dancers performing in paint, flying water, colored sand, live rock band, a LIVE performance leading up until midnight, after party with dancing and SO. MUCH. GLITTER.

GLITTER & GLAM STATIONS

***********************************

INTERACTIVE ADULT COLORING: Try out a new larger version of adult coloring with a table top sized design and paint!

GLAMOUR STATION: Be pampered at the Glamour Station by getting glitter nails, lips or even a sparkling temporary tattoo!

GRUNGE VS. GLAM WALL: Add the things you want to leave behind in 2016 on the Grunge Wall and then write your dreams for 2017 on the Glam Wall. Later that night, you’ll be able to destroy the Grunge Wall with paint balloons!

PHOTO BOOTH: Snap all the selfies and group shots that you want in the photo booth area that is filled with sparkling textures and props!

FULL THEATRICAL SHOW

********************************

Enjoy a full theatrical love story with dancers performing in paint, flying water, and sand to a LIVE rock band. It’s a standing room experience with performances happening in front of you, behind you and in between you! DRIP’s live rock band plays the soundtrack to colors that fly with abandon creating unique works of art on your special edition NYE shirt!

THE COLOR BAR + THE CHAMPAGNE BAR

*****************************************************

Enjoy drinks by the color! DRIP’s Color Bar has Red, Blue, Orange and Yellow beer, cocktails, shots, wine and non alcoholic beverages for sale. This New Year’s Eve, a special champagne bar will be added featuring champagne cocktails topped with rock candy of all colors!

WHAT’S INCLUDED

************************

All Tickets Include:

-Special Edition DRIP NYE T-Shirt for you to get colorful that night!

-Paint Station to paint yourselves and your friends

-A Glamour Station treatment (Glitter nails, lips or tattoo)

-Photo Booth

-Grunge/Glam Wall

-Table Sized Adult Coloring with Paint!

-Full DRIP show with dancers and live band

-Countdown performance to Midnight

-Champagne Toast at Midnight

-After Party with dancing

-Interactive Paint Shower

All Inclusive Tickets also include:

-Custom t-shirt cutting (have your special edition NYE shirt turned into a tank top, dress, corset, etc.)

-DRIPdanna Headwrap for you to wear and paint

-All you can drink for 3.5 hours.

More Info & Tickets.

6pm to 2am $46.46 Midnight Masquerade – New Year’s Celebration. Route 46 Entertainment District 4316 W State Road 46 Sanford, FL 32771.  Come as you are… or as someone else!
Live Music & Dancing with Rockit Fly and TC and Sass.
Party favors and Champagne Toast at Midnight!
Best Masquerade Mask Contest!LIVE MUSIC and DANCING

with Rockit Fly on the Main Stage

and TC & Sass in the Auto Display DINING RESERVATIONS REQUIRED / $46.46 per person

Seating at 7PM & 9PM in Monroe’s & The Saloon

Enjoy a three course dinner (appetizer, entrée and dessert)

and live entertainment.



Sunday January 1, 2017 

10am to 2pm 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.

2pm to 4pm Free. Yoga. Lake Eola Park, 195 N Rosalind Ave, Orlando, FL.Every week.

4:30pm to 6:30pm  Free. Market2Park. Shady Park Hannibal Square New England and Pennsylvania Aye. Winter Park.

Weekend Top 6 Picks for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Posted on by Thor

Saturday December 24, 2016 (Christmas Eve)

9:30am to 4 pm Christmas Eve Open House. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N Park Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789.

6pm, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm Snow Falling Nightly in Celebration. Celebration Town Center.

6pm and continues hourly until closing. Holiday Light Show at Light Up UCF.  CFE Arena.

Sunday December 25, 2016. ( Christmas Day) 

5:30 pm to 7:30pm Chanukah on the Park. Central Park, Winter Park FL.

5:36 pm Sunset St. Augustine Nights of Lights. Take a day trip (about 90 minutes to 2 hours from Orlando) to St. Augustine to enjoy their Nights of Lights display.

St. Augustine’s
popular holiday season city-wide event – the famed Nights of Lights
celebration – will glow with more than three million brilliant white
lights again this year attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to
the oldest city in the Nation.

Nights of Lights runs November 22, 2014, through January 31, 2015, in
St. Augustine, Fla. The festival starts with a countdown November 22,
6:30 p.m. in the Plaza de la Constitucion when the lights are officially
lit.  Holiday music and the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree add
to the splendor of the lighting of one of the world’s greatest holiday
light displays.

Many historic landmarks and locations are beautifully illuminated
during Nights of Lights. The waters of Matanzas bay glow from the
nightly reflections of lights strewn along the bay walk and displayed on
the Bridge of Lions. The Plaza de la Constitucion shines from the top
of trees and throughout the famous center of St. Augustine’s historic
district. The 125-year-old Hotel Ponce de Leon, now the campus of
Flagler College, is outlined in lights. And the Lightner Museum, once a
resort hotel also built by Flagler, is lit so brilliantly it is a
favorite among visitors.

Nights of Lights is inspired by the tradition of marking the holiday
season with a single white candle burning in a window at each home
during the nearly 250 years when St. Augustine served as the capital of
Spanish La Florida. Today, Nights of Lights continues that tradition in a
grand style reflecting the city’s 449 years of history.

Nights of Lights continues to garner accolades. In 2014, Rachel Ray
magazine named St. Augustine one of the Nation’s “Twinkliest Towns.” 
National Geographic declared St. Augustine one of the Top 10 Places in
the World to view holiday lights in 2012 and 2013. The American Bus
Association named Nights of Lights a Top 100 Event in North America..

 6pm to 9pm The Ice Factory. 2221 Partin Settlement Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34744, 407-933-4259

The Ice Factory
is an NHL-size skating and hockey rink located in the heart of Florida.
Staffed by experienced, professional skating instructors and certified
coaches, the Ice Factory features a 750 Seat Stadium and two Ice
Surfaces.

Main Rink $10 admission (includes basic skate rental)

Small Rink $5 admission (includes UPGRADED skate rental)

Small Rink $7 admission (includes basic skate)