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!
Note: Due to COVID-19 regulations from Federal, State or County governments, events may be postponed or cancelled. Please refer to the event and/or the event host's website for the most accurate and up-to-date information regarding each event.
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In this inventive and theatrical adaptation, join Peter and Lucy on their travels to Narnia! The White Witch has cast a spell that makes it always winter and never Christmas. Peter and Lucy travel to Narnia and along the way meet Mr. Tumnus the faun, Aslan the Great Lion, and all the talking...
- 10:00am - 11:00am
FREE Tours of the 1927 Historic Venice Train Depot and the new Circus Train Car Museum
- 10:00am - 1:00pm
Exhibition curator, Peter Barberie, will discuss the life and work of Richard Benson, an extraordinary photographer, master printer, and mentor who helped shape many of the greatest photography books of the past fifty years. Barberie, the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center...
- 10:00am - 11:00am
The second annual Myakka River Rendezvous brings traders, craftsmen, and historical re-enactors together on Crowley Museum...
- 10:00am - 5:00pm
Adeline’s Mystic Earth is hosting a DIY Manifestation Jar Workshop: Manifesting Self-Love and Self-Healing on Feb. 4th from 10:30-noon at The Bazaar on Apricot...
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
In our twelfth year, we are the longest running anime convention run by middle schoolers and made for middle to high school age students with a cosplay contest, laser tag, bounce houses, gaming tournaments, panels, hoverball archery, drawing lessons and more! We have local artists, including...
- 11:00am - 5:00pm
Join a Naturalist from Around the Bend Nature and Discovery Tours for a free guided nature walk at The Bay every Wednesdays at 9:00am or 10:00am. Then gain a new perspective from the water on a kayak or paddleboard to explore the Mangrove bayou and The Bay’s downtown shoreline. Bring your own...
- 12:30pm - 2:30pm
New Weekly Family Program: Saturday Studios
Every Saturday beginning September 10, 2022, 1 - 3 p.m.
Peggy A. Hall Classroom, 134
FREE for Members | Included with admission
Saturday Studios are inspired by works of art in Sarasota Art Museum’s special exhibitions. These drop-in...
- 1:00pm - 3:00pm
oin internationally acclaimed artists and authors Maira and Alex Kalman for an afternoon of artful conversation and an insider look at their exhibition and visual memoir Sara Berman’s Closet.
Maira Kalman, who was born in Tel Aviv and lives in New York City, has written and illustrated...
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will bring in the New Year with its production of “Flyin’ West” by Pearl Cleage. WBTT had previously presented this show as a staged play reading in the summer of 2018 as part of the national Project1VOICE program, during which Black theatres around the country...
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
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