September 2016
A Petrified Forest
A Petrified Forest features 2 outdoor scare trails over a mile long. All new each year with more intensity and creativity than ever. In our "Front Yard" enjoy impromptu characters, live bands and entertainment on stage, vendors, great food, and as always, watching the unsuspecting guests run out of the trails.
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Sea World’s Halloween Spooktacular
It’s an ocean of Halloween fun for the whole family at SeaWorld Orlando’s Halloween Spooktacular®. During this daytime event, families are immersed in an underwater "fantasea" including trick-or-treating, whimsical pumpkin fish, sea-themed arts and crafts and up-close animal encounters in a family-friendly event that could only come from SeaWorld. SeaWorld offers children the ultimate in safe and exciting trick-or-treat fun. Kids can follow the special Halloween Spooktacular pathways to many different stations throughout the event, each featuring treats galore. With…
Find out more »LEGOLAND Brick or Treat
Brick or Treat, presented by Shutterfly, will be back with more spooky, kooky Halloween fun for kids. Expanded in 2016, the friendly-not-frightening event features trick-or-treating along the Brick or Treat Trail, larger-than-life LEGO® models, LEGO build activities, the world's largest LEGO jack-o-lantern, a scavenger hunt with prizes, and an exclusive, Halloween-themed fireworks show in Pirates' Cove. It runs weekends through October and is included in regular admission.
Find out more »Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party
HALLOWEEN… WITH A DISNEY TWIST! The witching hour’s almost here, so get your favorite costume ready for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, a separately ticketed event in Magic Kingdom park! Back again in 2016, it’s the happiest haunting on Earth! Don’t miss your chance to collect candies, sweets and frightfully delightful treats—all while the park hosts grim grinning ghosts, eerie entertainment and Disney Characters that go bump in the night. Best of all: since the tone of this event is “not-so-scary,”…
Find out more »Lake Mary Food Truck Bazaar
The Food Truck Bazaar visits Lake Mary on the 1st Wednesday of each month. This event is part of the nation's first traveling food truck event that brings unique & delicious food all around Central Florida. The event is family-friendly and dog-friendly, although there is no seating provided, so please bring your own chairs. Food trucks subject to change without notice.
Find out more »Sunset at the Zoo
Come to the Zoo for an alternative to the standard happy hour! The Zoo will reopen at 5:30 p.m., this time for adults only! Stroll around the Zoo in the cool of the evening, and witness the animals at one of their most active times of the day. Beer, wine, and snacks will be available for purchase. Live music will fill the air. The evening will also feature up close encounters with some of our animal ambassadors! And did we…
Find out more »Llama Llama
Jump into the world of little Llama and his Mama as they encounter daily adventures of Llama life – the first day of school, a trip to the supermarket, and bedtime drama! Llama learns about self-control and finds bravery with help from his Mama. Based on the beloved rhyming books by Anna Dewdney, playwright Ernie Nolan has crafted a show that is sure to put a smile on the faces of children and parents alike!
Find out more »Rock The Presidents
Rock The Presidents is a high-octane musical revue spanning the entire history of the American presidency – from George Washington to Barack Obama, while looking ahead to the future! The men who rose to the highest office in the land are brought to life through all-new original songs in a variety of genres: rock, hip-hop, blues, pop, jazz, reggae, country, and more! Audiences young and old alike will learn something new about our Presidents, while perhaps seeing something of themselves reflected…
Find out more »Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Are you brave enough to step into the laboratory? Dr. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant scientist frustrated by dull "respectable" life in 1888 Victorian London. He creates a potion to unleash his inner bestial nature, transforming him into the brutish but eerily endearing Edward Hyde. Hyde lives the high life while Jekyll's mundane doctoral career continues -- until Hyde's passions begin to turn up a body count. Equal parts thrilling and deviant, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will captivate those…
Find out more »Oktoberfest 2016
Oktoberfest is almost here! This year we will expand the event to two days, Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th. On Thursday night, we will continue to team-up with the Sanford Welcome Center for Alive After 5, Central Florida’s longest running street party. On Friday, we move the party to Magnolia Square, where guests can stroll to the sounds of Sonneschein Express as they enjoy the wares of unique vendors and German street food, including brats, pretzels and of course, bier!
Find out more »Corazon Flamenco
Silence. Circular hand movements flutter like doves. An explosion of percussion. A tangle of guitar chords. Joy, sorrow, longing, a heartbeat…el CORAZON FLAMENCO. For the first time in Orlando and direct from Madrid, flamenco dance great Angel Rojas performs alongside Flamenco del Sol in CORAZON FLAMENCO, formally announcing their artistic partnership embodied in the Sanford based Academia Flamenco del Sol. Join us in celebration of the music and movement that breathes life… the art of flamenco.
Find out more »Dr. Phillips Center presents Second City Hits Home
On October 14-15, Chicago’s legendary sketch and improv comedy theater comes to the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts with “The Second City Hits Home,” a new show featuring hilarious sketches, songs and improvisation about Orlando, as well as material from the famed Second City archives. This is a must-see night of comedy featuring some of Chicago’s brightest comedy stars in a special two night engagement. Doing what they do best, The Second City finds laughs in everything from…
Find out more »Winter Springs ARToberFEST
The Winter Springs ARToberFEST is an art, wine and music festival with a German twist. Enjoy German food, plenty of German beer and our German band – Europa! “ARToberFEST”! Patrons stroll along beautiful Blumberg Boulevard viewing the work of 125 fine artists, enjoying live music and entertainment and tasting a variety of German foods including plenty of German beer! The festival is located on the northwest corner of SR 434 and Tuskawilla Rd. on Blumberg Blvd, which is behind the…
Find out more »Sanford Art Walk Pumpkin Festival
Sanford Pumpkin Fest: Out of Our Gourd - Join us as ghoulish gourds glow in the streets of Sanford! Plus enjoy food trucks and a pumpkin carving contest. Anyone and everyone of all ages are invited to submit their original carved pumpkins (or gourds) in the pumpkin carving contest and be a part of this "Out of Our Gourd" Sanford Art Walk event! Your original carved pumpkin could win the $100 Grand Prize or one of the bonus prizes for…
Find out more »Chompin’ Stompin’ Bar-B-Que
The Rotary Club of Lake Mary is pleased to present our 7th Annual Rotary “ Chompin’ Stompin’ Bar-B-Que Festival to be held at the Seminole Harley Davidson, 620 Hickman Circle, Sanford, FL. The event features flavorful delicacies and foot-tapping-good sounds from local restaurants and musicians respectively. All tickets include admission, 1 complimentary beverage, free BBQ tasting, and live entertainment by great local musicians.
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