United Arts searching for local street performers
United Arts of Central Florida (Website) has just issued a call for local performance artists and street musicians who would be interested in popping up in community spaces in the heart of Downtown...
View ArticleOMA offering free admission on May 16
The Orlando Museum of Art (Website) is partnering with the Art Bridges Foundation to host an Access for All event, offering free admission to the museum on Thursday, May 16th. Visitors can expect a...
View ArticleMilk Mart celebrates 8 years this Sunday
Milk Mart (Instagram), Milk District’s popular quarterly artist/maker market, is celebrating eight years of dairy-inspired goodness on Sunday, May 26. The event takes place at the Robinson and Bumby...
View ArticleRollins College pitches new art museum use for former WP library
Soon-to-retire Rollins College President, Grant Cornwell, has allegedly floated an idea to convert the former Winter Park Public Library into a new home for the Rollins Museum of Art, according to a...
View ArticleWinter Park turns down canal mural project pitch
The Public Art Advisory Board pitched Winter Park City Commission at the May 22 meeting asking that they consider a new mural program for the city’s Chain of Lakes canal system. The Board has been...
View ArticleUnited Arts launches new downtown arts initiative
We told you HERE in April that United Arts of Central Florida (Website) had scored a contract to activate downtown Orlando with an ambitious new art program, and as of last week, they have...
View ArticleCreative City Project names new executive director
Arts-instigating organization Creative City Project (Website) just announced the promotion of its executive producer, Melyssa Marshall, to the role of Executive Director today. Marshall has been with...
View ArticleJanet Jackson returning to Orlando this summer
Janet Jackson and special guest Nelly will make their return to Orlando’s Kia Center on Saturday, July 20. The last time Jackson toured Orlando was back in April 2023, for her Together Again tour,...
View ArticleOrlando Fringe shares numbers for 33rd annual festival
Orlando Fringe (Website) just celebrated its 33rd year of presenting fringe theatrical productions in the City Beautiful, and this year’s fest featured over 1,200 artists from around the world. The...
View ArticleSAK Comedy Lab hosting grand opening of new venue on June 8
SAK Comedy Lab (Instagram | Website), downtown Orlando’s only improv comedy theater, has found a new home at 55 West Church Street. They are finally ready to open their doors to the public following a...
View ArticleOrlando Museum of Art names Florida Prize 2024 winner
The Orlando Museum of Art (Website) opened its annual Florida Prize in Contemporary Art this past weekend, featuring some of Florida’s most progressive artists. Each year, OMA’s curatorial team...
View ArticleCentral Florida Public Media returns with Tiny Desk Concert showcase
The public radio station formerly known as WMFE is back with its annual spotlight on Central Florida talent in NPR’s national search for talent for their Tiny Desk Contest series. This year, a...
View ArticleJennifer Lopez cancels tour, including Orlando stop
Jennifer Lopez has canceled her North American tour, which would have kicked off at Orlando’s Kia Center later this month on June 26. Lopez announced on her website last week that her This Is Me …...
View ArticleOMA hosting free admission day, June 20
The Orlando Museum of Art (Website) is offering free admission on Thursday, June 20, from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. as part of an Access for All event with Art Bridges Foundation. Guests can enjoy the Florida...
View ArticleFirst of many public art sculptures in the works for downtown pop-up park
Creative City Project (Website) is hard at work creating the first of many new pop-up public artworks in downtown Orlando, at the bequest of the Downtown Development Board. We told you HERE in April...
View ArticleBlue Bamboo clinches former Winter Park Library building
After four hours of civic intercourse, the Winter Park City Commission voted four-to-one to approve Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts to transform the former Winter Park Library building into a new...
View ArticlePlaza Live hosting “Jim Henson’s Labyrinth” in concert, October 25
Witness the jaw-dropping splendiferousness that is Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and the award-winning masterpiece soundtrack penned by gorgeous Martian immigrant David Bowie, as performed by a live band in...
View ArticleThe Ren Theater brought back that immersive 1920s party play thing and you...
Renaissance Theatre Company (Website) will be hosting an immersive theatrical experience themed to the Roaring Twenties through early August. ’24 is a new production set in a notorious speakeasy...
View ArticleZymarium Meadery opening new multi-purpose event space
Zymarium Meadery (Facebook | Website), Orlando’s first and only meadery first opened for business in Mills 50 back in July 2023. They are now announcing the opening of an expanded, multi-purpose space...
View ArticleEDC releases Orlando 2024 lineup
The Electric Daisy Carnival will return to Orlando November 8-10 at Tinker Field at Camping World Stadium and we’ve got a copy of the lineup at the bottom of this post, which includes names like...
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