In its 42nd year, The Maitland Rotary Art Festival brings music, food, and of course, art to the centerpiece of Maitland’s Cultural Corridor, Lake Lily. For the 2018 festival, 135 artists will display their artwork competing for top prizes from the show. The show also offers art demonstrations, live entertainment, numerousRead More →
Celebrating their 30th year, the Orlando Shakespeare Theater officially kicks off their 2018 and 2019 season with their annual Season Opening Gala on Sunday, September 16th, 2018 at 5 pm at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Loch Haven Park. In addition to performing such works as the Tony AwardRead More →
The 2018 Global Peace Film Festival will take place around several venues in Orlando, Winter Park, and Maitland on September 17th through September 23rd, 2018 to utilize film and media to help promote world peace. Global Peace Film Festival The Global Peace Film Festival describes itself as a celebratory event with aRead More →
When it comes to attending and experiencing theater shows in Orlando, visitors to the area will most likely think of Disney World and it’s large-scale production stage shows like Finding Nemo at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Beauty and the Beast at Disney’s Hollywood Studios or the dinner shows located in KissimmeeRead More →
Orlando is very fortunate to have several premium art festivals throughout the year to attend and browse great art with the Festival of the Masters at Downtown Disney and the Fiesta in the Park Festival at Lake Eola in Downtown Orlando in the Fall. The Mount Dora Arts Festival isRead More →
About a 50 minute drive Northwest of Downtown Orlando sits a bedroom community by the name of Mount Dora that has one of the state of Florida’s largest art festivals during the first weekend of February each year. Mount Dora The historical district of Mount Dora is one of theRead More →
Now in it’s 81st year, the 2016 Annual Bach Festival in Winter Park will feature world class musical artists and scholars to celebrate the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Many of the concert performances will take place at the beautiful Rollins College campus in the Knowles Memorial Chapel and TidtkeRead More →
With the great weather and holiday season beginning in November and continuing through the months of December and January, the city of Orlando comes alive with great Christmas and holiday events in Downtown Orlando and Lake Eola each year. This is Orlando Local Guide’s recommendations on the best way to celebrate the ChristmasRead More →
The Candlelight Processional Christmas Concert at Epcot in Disney World is the best Christmas event to be experienced in any of the theme parks in Orlando and also has the most history of any other event, beginning with Walt Disney himself, organizing the first event for Disneyland in California inRead More →
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet from Russia, adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” that is celebrated across the United States during the Christmas season. The story takes place on Christmas Eve and includes interactions between children, nutcrackers, and mice. The Orlando Ballet performs theirRead More →
The Russian Ballet of Orlando will be returning to Lake Eola in 2015 to present their free performance of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, at the Lake Eola Disney Amphitheater in Downtown Orlando. Russian Ballet Nutcracker The two hour performance will begin at 7:30 PM on Saturday, December 19th, 2015. This is theRead More →
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will hold their annual Christmas concert at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 28th, 2015 at 2 PM and 8 PM. Home for the Holidays Home for the Holidays celebrates the Christmas season with traditonal classics like Let There Be Peace on Earth, O HolyRead More →
The Osceola Fall Art Festival will be held Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, February 15th in Downtown Kissimmee from 10 AM until 5 PM that features the mediums of painting, wood and metal sculpture, mixed media, jewelry, fiber, clay and ceramics, graphics and drawing pastels, glass, and photography. Osceola Art Festival Over 100Read More →
2014 was a banner year for the city of Orlando with grand opening of the new state-of-the-art Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. For it’s original season, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts started off the season with The Phantom of the Opera and The Book of Morman. TheRead More →
The Florida Film Festival is Orlando’s premier annual Film Festival that happens each year in the month of April. The 2015 event takes place beginning on Friday, April 10th, 2015 and continues to Sunday, April 19th, 2015. 2015 Florida Film Festival The 2015 Florida Film Festival features 170 films, and featureRead More →
One of UCF’s best kept secrets is also one of the city of Orlando’s best kept secrets. The UCF Orchestra presents Symphony Under the Stars at the heart of the UCF campus at the Reflection Pond on Thursday, April 16th, 2015 from 8:00 pm until 10:00 pm. UCF Symphony Under theRead More →
Altamonte Springs will be hosting an art festival on Saturday and Sunday, March 28th and 29th, 2015 called the Uptown Art Expo. The event will be held at Uptown Altamonte around Crane’s Roost Park. Uptown Art Expo The free art festival will showcase family art and live music performances with arts andRead More →
Zora Neale Hurston grew up in the historic town of Eatonville, Florida, a small town just six miles north of Downtown Orlando along Interstate 4, that was one of the first all-black towns to be formed after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Hurston was an American author that was bestRead More →
The University of Central Florida Opera is kicking off the 2014-2015 season with its 10th-annual gala concert entitled “It’s a Grand Knight of Singing” on November 15th and 16th, 2014 in the Visual Arts Building on the main campus of UCF. UCF Opera 2014/2015 Season “It’s a Grand Knight ofRead More →
One of Disney World’s hidden gems during the Christmas Season is the Voices of Liberty Christmas Caroling that takes place from the day after Thanksgiving through the end of December. A Capella Christmas Caroling Before there were popular television A Capella shows like Glee, there was the Voices of Liberty.Read More →
Sometime between 672-754 AD, Christian lore states that St Boniface of Germany cut down a tree of Thor in order to disprove the legitimacy of the Norse gods to the local German tribe of the time. Spotting a fir tree growing in the roots of an old oak tree, BonifaceRead More →
Park Avenue is Winter Park’s main street with shops and restaurants that cater to the affluent citizens of Orlando and beyond. What Palo Alto is to California, Winter Park is to Florida. While Palo Alto’s main street starts with Stanford University, Winter Park’s main street starts with Rollins College. WhileRead More →
Cirque du Soleil got its start in 1982 by performing on the streets of the small town of Baie-Saint-Paul in Canada where a band of colorful characters roamed the streets, striding on stilts, juggling, dancing, breathing fire, and playing music. On November 1st, 2014, Cirque du Soleil will return toRead More →
The 36th annual Christmas in the Park celebration in Winter Park, Florida begins at 6:15 pm on Thursday, December 4th, 2014 when the Morse Museum presents nine illuminated Tiffany windows in Central Park. Christmas in the Park To help usher in the Christmas season the 150-voice Bach Festival Choir, Children’s Choir, andRead More →