Trick-or-treat in the wildest neighborhood in town during the ZOO Boo Bash, the Central Florida Zoo’s annual Halloween event complete with daily costume contests and other fun activities. Family friendly costumes are welcome. Treat stations, crafts and other fun activities available from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. It’s a safe, fun, and not-too-scary event for young and old alike. Kids are...
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Throughout this historic community, the streets come alive with more than 400 talented crafters & artists from all over the country displaying and offering for sale their finest works to the more than 100,000 visitors who are expected to attend this two-day event. Plus there's food and entertainment to round out a perfect day outdoors. This is one of Central...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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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...
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...
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...