Events & Festivals
There's always something happening on Florida's Gulf Coast. Find out what events will be going on during your stay, or take a look at some of our favorite annual festivals!
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This workshop, by a Master Botanical Artist and her team, will reveal the intricate beauty of the orchids highlighted by The Orchid Show. Sketch, create color studies, and follow The Art of Botanical Illustration as you indulge in a study of orchid art and science.
Open to all ages/experience...
- 10:00am - 5:00pm
Selby Gardens’ annual Orchid Show brings together two of Sarasota, Florida’s most renowned legacies —orchids and the circus. Presented in collaboration with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (The Ringling), The Orchid Show 2021: Aerialists from the Tree Top to the Big Top!, is presented...
- 10:00am - 5:00pm
Explore Selby’s Annual Orchid Show in black...
- 10:30am - 1:30pm
Fall means it's time for Rocktoberfest! No matter where you celebrate Oktoberfest, there are common ingredients: lively music, mouthwatering food, big, big pints of beer, family and fun.October 15-17, 2021, Paragon Festivals with the Downtown Sarasota Enrichment Association and their special...
- 4:00pm - 10:00pm
Countless musical genres emerged during the first half of the 20th Century, and there was only one place you could find them all: The Jukebox. In this jazzy music revue, The Swingaroos put a dynamic twist on the Jukebox’s greatest hits, including “Get Your Kicks On Route 66,” “Heart and Soul,”...
- 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Body Language: An Exploration of Movement and Poetry
with Hermitage Fellows Jules Downum and Pedro Serrano
Friday, October 15th @ 6pm
The Hermitage Campus
6660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood, Florida 34223
Attendees are encouraged to dress comfortably for some voluntary...
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Countless musical genres emerged during the first half of the 20th Century, and there was only one place you could find them all: The Jukebox. In this jazzy music revue, The Swingaroos put a dynamic twist on the Jukebox’s greatest hits, including “Get Your Kicks On Route 66,” “Heart and Soul,”...
- 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Taking place in Mary’s Chapel at Selby Gardens' Historic Spanish Point campus, Make Thee an Ark is a new play set 300 years in the future in a New Ark floating above an undersea Florida. Moored to an old oil rig, the New Ark harbors what may be the last vestiges of humanity after global warming...
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
By far one of the most exciting new faces in the Latin music space, Cimafunk defies classification on a funk pilgrimage in search of a new musical miscegenation of Black music. Singer, composer and producer, the young Cuban sensation offers a bold mix of funk with popular and traditional Cuban...
- 7:00pm
Opening Sarasota Contemporary Dance’s 16th Season is Voices – Rising Choreographers, a showcase of budding choreographers and movement makers, including guest artists and SCD’s own company members. Voices present’s rising choreographers who were selected by adjudication from SCD's Summer...
- 7:00pm