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Indian River County


Ongoing - 10:30 a.m. - Friday Morning Story Hour with Miss Erinat VB Book Center
Wednesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m.: VBMA Museum Stories for children 0-24 months

Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m.: VBMA Museum Stories for children 2-4 years
Third Wednesdays - Art Talk at Vero Beach Museum of Art

Second Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m. - Italian Interest Group - Italian genealogy group at IRC library main branch, Vero Beach
Second Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. - Photography Forum at VB Art Club Gallery & Marketplace



​Through March 26 - Pippin at Vero Beach Theatre Guild - Ben Earman director
Through March 28 - Form & Fire - Functional, sculptural, decorative, and experimental pieces in clay at Raw Space Gallery, VB - Indian River Clay
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​Through March 28 - Jill Kerwick solo exhibition at Center for Spiritual Care
Through March 28 - The Honor Roll  at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach. Past & present Indian River County art teachers
Through March 31 - Spring Exhibition at The Galleries at First Pres
Through March 31 - Red Umbrellas and Abstraction - Janet Kipp Tribus at Gallery 14

Through April 5 - Cultural Council of Indian River County Artist Choice Members Exhibit at Indian River County Administrative Complex A&B

Through April 19 - Indian River Photo Club exhibition at Vero Beach Museum of Art
Through April 19- Cultural Council of Indian River County - Merana Cadorette solo exhibit: Acrylic Art: a Retrospect, at Indian River County Courthouse
Through April 30 - Rolling Sculpture: Streamlined Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles at Vero Beach Museum of Art
Through April 30 - Jason Gamrath's Garden of Glass at McKee Botanical Garden
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Through May 31 - Spring Fling Art Show at Environmental Learning Center
Ongoing - Qigong at Environmental Learning Center
Ongoing -Tuesday-Sunday, 2 p.m. - Docent-guided tours at Vero Beach Museum of Art
March 19, 1 p.m. - Grant Farmer's Market - Grant Seafood Festival Grounds
​March 19, 3 p.m. - Symphonic Jukebox - Space Coast Symphony Orchestra at VBHS PAC
March 19 -  Phenomenal Women, A Cabaret with Ami Brabson - Vero Beach AAUW fundraiser - at Emerson Center

March 20, 7 p.m. - The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - Community Church of Vero Beach concert series - Jill Truax, Andrew Galuska, Rachel Carter Murphy.  
​March 21 - Color & Form/Experimental Collage at Vero Beach Art Club
March 21, 6 p.m. - A.J. Tata 
at Vero Beach Book Center
March 21-April 18, 1:30 or 7 p.m. - Film Studies at Vero Beach Museum of Art - Finding Your Voice: Celebrating the Healing Power of Music  
March 21-April 9- Oleanna - Waxlax Stage at Riverside Theatre
March 22,  4:30-6:30 p.m. - Meet and Greet the artists of the Spring Fling Art Show at Environmental Learning Center. Gifford Youth Orchestra. Ballet Vero Beach at 6:30
March 22 & 23, 2 p.m. - Vero Beach Opera's Rising Stars Vocal Competition and Concert VBHS PAC
March 24, 7 p.m. - Live! from Vero Beach - Eaglemania, The World's Greatest Eagle Tribute Band at Emerson Center

​March 24, 9:30 a.m. - VBAC Plein Air Painters meet at Jungle Trail, Jones Pier, Vero Beach. Bring lunch.
March 24, 7 p.m  - Vero Beach Opera's Rising Stars Awards Concert -VBHS PAC
March 25, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. -Indian River Genealogical Society - IRGS 2023 The Art of Storytelling: Connecting Ancestors through Family History. Free, open to all. Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Sailts, 3980 12th St., Vero 

​March 26, 11 a.m. - Walking Meditation at ELC
March 28 - Introduction to Handbuilding 
at Indian River Clay
March 23, 30, 11 a.m. - Lenten Organ and Poetry Series - Community Church of Vero Beach
March 23, 5-7 p.m. - Concerts in the Park at Vero Beach Museum of Art - Mike Telesmanick
March 24, 7 p.m. - Vero Beach Opera's Rising Stars Vocal Competition and Concerts VBHS PAC
March 24, 7 p.m. - Live From Vero Beach! - Eaglemania - The World's Greatest Eagles Tribute Band at The Emerson Center
​March 24, 7:30 p.m. - IRSA - Palm Beach Symphony/Gerard Schwarz with Mischa Dichter, pianist, at Community Church of Vero Beach
March 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. - Sebastian River Art Club's Art by the River in Riverview Park, Sebastian
​March 25 - IRGS Annual Conference - irgs.org - The Art of Storytelling: 
Connecting Ancestors through Family History, at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints located at 3980 12th Street, Vero Beach. Free, open to all - Register at tinyurl.com/IRGC2023
March 26, 3 p.m. - Rhapsody in Blue concert with Henry Hutchinson, Matt Stott, Viera Borisova, Ana Ruth Bermúdez and Marcos Flores at Christ by the Sea UMC, 3755 HWY. A1A, Vero Beach. Ticketed
March 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. - Vero Beach Art Club's Art in the Park - Humiston Park, Ocean Drive
March 26, 7:30 p.m. - 
Vero Beach International Music Festival Presents: Mike Block, Christylez Bacon, & Patricia Liguia at First Presbyterian Church, VB
March 27, 4 & 6 p.m. - Bjorn Lomborg - Distinguished Lecturer Series - Riverside Theatre
March 28, 7:30 p.m. - IRSA - Buffalo Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta; Sandi Cameron, violinist, at Community Church of Vero Beach
March 28 - 8-week Open Studio Wheel class with Nancy Blair at Indian River Clay
March 28, 7 p.m. - Reversing the Course of Sea Grass Loss in the IRL - Dr. Dennis Hanisak
March 29-May 30 - Forever in Bloom at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach
March 29, 4:30-6 p.m - Cultural Connections - Cultural Council of Indian River County at McKee Botanical Garden 
March 30, 11 a.m. - Lenten Organ and Poetry Series - Community Church of Vero Beach
March 30, 7 p.m. - The Best of Classic Rock with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra at the Emerson Center

March 30, 2 p.m. - The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix - Cinema on Wheels video series at Vero Beach Museum of Art
March 30, April 6 & 12 - Backstage Access classes at Riverside Theatre - Class 1 - 42nd Street
​March 31, 9:30 a.m. - VBAC Plein Air Painters meet at Blind Creek Beach, Fort Pierce. Bring lunch.
March 31, 6:30 p.m. - A Musical Evening at Majestic Theater - Music Angels Education Fund - Fundraiser, ticketed

April 1, 7:30 p.m. - Vero Beach International Music Festival Presents: Hanneke Cassel Trio at First Presbyterian Church, VB
April 1, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. - LagoonFest at ELC. Free Admission
April 1, 2-3 p.m. - Author Karen Tripson at McKee Botanical Garden with The Food Explorer: True Adventures of the Globe Trotting Botanist Wh Transformed What Americans Eat, (David Fairchield)by Daniel Stone. Ticketed

April 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. - Vero Beach Art Club's Art in the Park - Humiston Park, Ocean Drive
April 2, 3 p.m. -  Atlantic Classical Orchestra Chamber Series Three - Winds in the Afternoon Air at Vero Beach Museum of Art
April 2 & 3 -VBHS Performing Arts Dept. presents 30th Annual Red, White & Blue concert
April 3, 4:30 p.m. - International Lecture Series 
at Vero Beach Museum of Art - Amber Butchart - Planes, Sails, and Automobiles: Travel, Style and Society in the Interwar Era
April 5, 6 p.m. - CK Westbrook 
at Vero Beach Book Center
April 6, 6 p.m. - Christine Thomas silk scarf painting Wine & Design at Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Marketplace

April 7, 6:30 p.m. - The Art of the Cocktail  at Vero Beach Museum of Art - Rolls Royce Rickey Racer
​April 7-22-  Yours, Mine & Ours art exhibit at Raw Space Gallery - Indian River Clay and friends

April 7, 7 p.m. - Requiem by Kim Andre Arnesen - Community Church of Vero Beach concert series - Jill Truax, Andrew Galuska, Rachel Carter Murphy
April 7-May 31 - Sharon Sexton and Sean Sexton: Collaboration 
at Center for Spiritual Care
April 8, 4:30 and 7 p.m. - Easter Cantata at Christ by the Sea UMC, 3755 HWY. A1A, Vero Beach. Free will offering
April 8, 10 a.m. - Easter on the farm at LaPorte Farms
April 10, 5 p.m. - Diane Morgan 
at Vero Beach Book Center
April 11-30 - 42nd Street at Riverside Theatre
April 12, 5:30 p.m. - Artists reception - Forever in Bloom at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach
April 13, 7:30 p.m. - Atlantic Classical Orchestra Masterworks IV at Community Church of Vero Beach
April 13, 6 p.m. - Robert N. Macomber at Vero Beach Book Center
 April 14, 7 p.m. - TLC Jazz Duo: The American Songbook in the Leonhardt Auditorium at Vero Beach Museum of Art​
April 14-15 - Ballet Vero Beach Program 3, Choreographer's Notebook: Samuel Kurkjian - Vero Beach HS Performing Arts Center
April 14-16 - Peter Shaffer's EQUUS 
at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
April 14-May 14 - Indian River High School and Middle School Student Exhibition at Vero Beach Museum of Art
April 15 - Treasure Coast Jazz Society's final season event - Gene Bruno with vocalist Pat Dyer - Oak Harbour

April 16, 7:30 p.m. - IRSA - Brevard Symphony Orchestra/Christopher Confessore; Mark Kosower, cellist, at Community Church of V​ero Beach
April 17, 
4 & 6 p.m. - Author, historian, journalist Walter Isaacson - Distinguished Lecturer Series - Riverside Theatre
April 19, 12 p.m. - VBMA Art Talk - Rolling Sculpture: Concept Cars
April 20, 7 p.m. - Poetry and Barbecue kickoff, Collaboration, in the music room at Community Church of Vero Beach - Laura Riding Jackson Foundation
​April 20, 6 p.m. - Acrylic on Wood class 
 at Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Marketplace
April 21, 9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
- Laura Riding Jackson Foundation Adult Writer's Workshop at LRJF Writing Center, 14th Ave. Ticketed
April 21 - Laura Riding Jackson Foundation- 
Teen Writer’s Workshops will be taught by Married Poets Jim May and Chelsea Rathburn at local area schools.
April 21-23 - Peter Shaffer's EQUUS at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
April 22, 2:30-7 p.m. - Laura Riding Jackson Foundation 12th Annual Poetry and BBQ, Tying the Knot: WHEN POETS MARRY - at IRSC Richardson Center campus, College Lane, VB Ticketed
April 22,
 11 a.m.-1 p.m. - Free Kids Art Class at Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Marketplace.
April 23, 9-11:30 a.m. - Veterans Writing Workshop at LRJF Writing Center. Veterans and families only.

April 23, 2 p.m. - Vero Beach Chamber Orchestra at VBHS PAC
April 27, 2 p.m. - Heart Like a Wheel - Cinema on Wheels video series at Vero Beach Museum of Art
​April 28, 6 p.m. - Ballet Under the Stars at Tree House Vero Beach - Ballet Vero Beach
April 29, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.- Children's Art Festival 2023 
at Vero Beach Museum of Art
April 29 & 30, 4 p.m. - Vero Beach Choral Society performs Mass in Blue and other selections at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Royal Palm Blvd., VB


May 5-21 - Agatha Christie's Murder on the Nile at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
​May 12 - Music Fit for a King - Paradise Master Chorale at St. John of the Cross Catholic Church, VB
May 17, 12 p.m. - VBMA Art Talk - 
Highlights from the Permanent Collection
May 18, 25, & June 1, 10 a.m.-noon - Backstage Access classes at Riverside Theatre - Class 2 - Honky Tonk Angels
May 20-Sept. 3 - Treasure Coast Creates: A Tribute to Local Artists at Vero Beach Museum of Art
May 25, 6 p.m. - Jellies - Acrylic painting class 
 at Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Marketplace
​May 28, 3 p.m. - the Best of John Williams: Side by Side Concert - Space Coast SO at VBHS PAC
May 30-June 18 - Honky Tonk Angels at Riverside Theatre
May 31-July 27 - Land and Sea
 at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach.

​June 7-11 - Vero Beach Film Festival. Events and venues vary
​June 8, 5:30 p.m. - Artists reception - Land and Sea at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach
June 14, 4:30-6 p.m. - Cultural Connections - Cultural Council of Indian River County at Vero Beach Museum of Art

July 21-Aug. 6 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
​July 28-Oct. 26, 2023 - UU Members & Friends at Art at the Emerson, Vero Beach

Sept. 29-Oct. 15 - The Adams Family at Vero Beach Theatre Guild

2024 
Feb. 2-4 Old Heart at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
March 8-24 - 9-5 at Vero Beach Theatre Guild
​May 3-12 - Sondheim Review at Vero Beach Theatre Guild

Beyond the Treasure Coast

​Every Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Saturday GreenMarket, 10091 McGregor Blvd. , Fort Myers
Every Saturday 1 p.m. - Saturday Exhibition Highlight Tours at Rollins Museum of Art
, Winter Park
Every third Saturday - Family Art Labs -10091 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers
Ongoing, Saturdays, 2 p.m. - The Bass Highlights Tour at The Bass
Sundays at 2 - Upstairs Downstairs Live Theater at the Plant Museum

Ongoing: The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum at the Morse.
Ongoing: The Willfulness of Objects at The Bass
ONGOING: Saturdays and Sundays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. - GreenMarket 
- Alliance for the  Arts, Fort Myers.
​Ongoing: Art Outside at The Bass
ONGOING: Live carillon concerts Thursday through Sunday, 1 and 3 p.m. - Bok Tower Gardens. 
Virtual carillon concerts via Facebook Live on the first and fourth Thursday of the month
Ongoing: The Stebbins Collection: A Gift for the Morse Museum at the Morse.
Ongoing: The Alfond Inn at Rollins - Rollins Museum of Art
Ongoing: Every Saturday, 1 & 3 p.m. - Exhibition Highlight Tours - Rollins Museum of Art
Ongoing, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. - History Presentations at  Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Ongoing, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. - Inside-the-Homes Tours at  Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Ongoing, Mondays, 10:30 a.m. - Automotive Tours at  Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Ongoing: Guided Tour in German every Wednesday at Edison and Ford


​Through March 19 - Harrison School for theArts Senior Exhibition at Polk Museum
Through March 21 - Florida Grand Opera - Tosca - Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Through March 25 - Lake Wales Arts Council Member Exhibitions Exhibition  at Crews Gallery, Lake Wales
​Through March 26 - The Hatmaker's Wife- Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers
Through March 26 - True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism at Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete
Through March 26 - Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real - Polk Museum of Art

Through April 1 - 37th Annual All Florida Exhibition at Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers
Through April 2 - Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park
Through April 2 - Visual Field: RMA Staff Picks at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park
Through April 16 - An Artist's Journey: The Lifeworks of Chryssie Bilder Tavrides at Polk Museum of Art

Through April 16 - Phraseology at The Bass
Through April 29 - Cultivating Community- Stories of Immokalee's African American Pillars and Pioneers at Immokalee Pioneer Museum
Through April 29 - Cuba: The Natural Beauty at Marco Island Historical Museum
Through April 30 - Spring Bloom - Azaleas - at Bok Tower Gardens

Through April 30 - Jamilah Sabur: The Harvesters at The Bass
Through May 13 - Collier's Cavalry: The Story of the Southwest Mounted Patrol at Museum of the Everglades

Through May 14 - Art Encounters- One Act of Kindness: A World of Difference at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park
Through May 14 - What's New? Recent Acquisitions at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park
Through 
May 14 - In Our Eyes: Women's, Nonbinary, and Transgender Perspectives from the Collection at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park
Through May 21 - Explore the Vaults: Images Private and Public at MFA St. Pete
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Through June 3 - AFRICA- Birds, Beasts 'n' Peeps at Lake County Museum of Art. Photography of Charlene Edwards

​Through June 25, 2023 - In Dialogue: Unepected Visual Conversations at MFA St. Pete
​Through July 23 - Shashin: Japanese Photographs from the Meiji era, 1870-1900 at Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete
Through Sept 10 - The Interior Life: Recent Acquisitions at National Gallery
Through - Jan. 1, 2024 - Carola Bravo: New Monuments 2023 at The Bass
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Every other Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. - piano performances on Mina Edison's 1932 George Steck piano - Edison and Ford Winter Estates

March 18-19 - Throwing Porcelain workshop with Spanish potter Jose Mariscal at Lake Wales Arts Center
​March 19, 5 p.m. - Songwriters in the Round - Charlie McCoy, Roy Schneider, Kim Mayfield at Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers
March 20, 7:30 p.m. - Hermitage Turns 20: Andy Sandberg & Broadway Friends in Concert - Benefit for Hermitage Hurricane Repairs - at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota.

March 20, 3 p.m. - Lecture series at Society of the Four Arts - Discover the Castle of Beloeil with Her de Ligne
March 21, 6:30 p.m. - Moa Petersén special lecture and book signing at Polk Museum of Art
March 22, 6:30 p.m. - Fashion Show at 
 Polk Museum of Art
​March 23 - Free virtual lecture - Exploring the Oceans for Public Television - Bailey-Matthews
March 23, 6 p.m. - 
What in the World? How Walt Created Disney World - Fernandina Beach - Florida Humanities
March 24, 7 p.m. - Concert Under the Stars: Steep Canyon Rangers at Bok Tower Gardens
March 24, 7:30 p.m. - Frost Music Live! Calefax Quintet at UM Gusman Concert Hall
March 24-26 - 10th annual Celebration of the Arts - UpTown Art Expo at Cranes Roost Park, Altamonte Springs
March 25, 10 a.m. - Potted Bulb Garden Class at Bok Tower Gardens
March 25, 3 p.m. - The Lakeland Symphony Orchestra at Lake Wales Art Center -An Afternoon of Woodwinds
March 26, 9:30 a.m. gates open - Vintage "Base Ball" tournament at historic Terry Park in Fort Myers. Game begins at 10
March 26-27, 7:30 p.m. - Frank & Me starring Chris Eisenberg at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
March 27, 11 a.m. - 
March 15, 3 p.m. - Lecture series at Society of the Four Arts - Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and Invention of the Self with Andrea Wulf
March 27, 7:30 p.m. - Sarasota Concert Association- Buffalo Philharmonic/JoAnn Falletta - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
​March 27, 3 p.m. - Lecture: An Unnatural Journey with Mandy Baker at Society of the Four Arts
March 28 - July 29 - 1923: Exploring Collier County's Founding Year at Collier Museum at Government Center
March 28, 7:30 p.m. - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta/Sandy Cameron at Van Wezel
March 31 - Rescheduled Appalachian Road Show concert at Edison and Ford Winter Estates
March 31, 7:30 p.m. - Brasil Guitar Duo - 
Frost Music Live! at UM Gusman Concert Hall
​March 31, 7 p.m. - the Lake Wales Brass Ensemble - Sacred and Serious at First Methodist Church of Lake Wales

March 31, 7:30 p.m. - Opera Orlando - The Marriage Contract and Gianni Schicchi at Bella Collina, Montverde
​March 31, 8 p.m. - Fat Ham fam with National Black Theatre Night at American Airlines Theatre, NYC

April 1-2 - Phoenix AZ Bonsai Society annual show
​April 1 - Dunedin Highland Games
​April 3, 6 p.m. - April Fools Fete fundraiser for Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe at Michael's on East
April 4 and 22 - Sound Bath with Crystal Singing Bowls at Bok Tower Garden
April 7-8 - Grow Fort Myers Orchid Symposium at Edison and Ford Winter Estates
April 8, 11 a.m. - Easter Bunny Woodland Dance at Bok Tower Gardens
April 9 - 97th Annual Easter Sunrise service at Bok Tower Gardens. Gates open 6 a.m., service begins 7 a.m., free admission until 8 a.m.
​April 11, 2 p.m. - 
Feb. 14, 2 p.m. - Eleven Defining Days in Collier County - Second Tuesday Lectures at Collier Museum at Government Center
April 11-16 - Mean Girls at Van Wezel

April 13 & 15 - Florida Grand Opera - Tosca - Broward Center for the Performing Arts
​April 15-16 - 2023 Chain of Parks Art Festival - Park Avenue, Tallahassee
April 19, noon - Natalie Helm and Jesse Martins in 
Sarasota Concert Association's noontime series - concerts at David Cohen Hall Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center. Preregister
April 19-May 28 - Big Sexy: The Fats Waller Revue at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
April 21, 7 p.m. - Concert Under the Stars: The Steel Drivers at Bok Tower Gardens
April 21 & 23 - The Daughter of the Regiment - Opera Orlando with Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and dancers from Orlando Ballet - Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips CPA
April 22 - Opera Orlando - The Mozart Dinner at Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
April 24 - Museum Gala at 
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum - Still Standing, with Kevin Nealon - A benefits for the recovery of the museum - AT BROADWAY PALM DINNER THEATRE, FORT MYERS
April 24, 7:30 p.m. - Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo at Van Wezel

April 26, 10 a.m. - Biodiversity Walk - Bailey Matthews Shell Museum - Estero Bay Preserve State Park, Estero
April 26, 7:30 p.m. - 
Frost Music Live! Chucho Valdés & Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra at UM Gusman Concert Hall
April 28
, 7 p.m. - Concert Under the Stars: The Travelin' McCourys at Bok Tower Gardens
April 29, 8-11 p.m. - Night at the Museum at The Bass - members only

April 29-May 2 - Florida Grand Opera - The Barber of Seville - Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

May 5-7 - The Secret Garden - Central Florida Vocal Arts - Pugh Theater at Dr. Phillips Center, Orlando
May 12-June 10 - 2023 Spring Season at Symphony Hall - Boston Pops
May 13, 8 p.m. - Tom Jones: Ages & Stages Tour at Van Wezel

May 13-14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.  - 51st annual Mayfaire by-the-Lake™️ - Polk Museum of Art Fine Art Festival - downtown Lakeland. Call for Artists deadline March 1. 
May 18 & 20 - Florida Grand Opera - The Barber of Seville - Broward Center for the Performing Arts
May 19 & 21 - Baseball: A Musical Love Letter - Opera Orlando at Harriett's Orlando Ballet Centre
​May 20-21, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Tile Fest '23 at TileWorks of Bucks County, Doylestown

May 24, 2 p.m. - Biodiversity Walk - Bailey Matthews Shell Museum - Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, Fort Myers

Sept. 30 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 48th Anniversary Spectacular Tour at Van Wezel

​Nov. 3 - King Fling at Societyof the Four Arts
Nov. 18, 8 p.m. - NEW DATE AND TIME: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at Van Wezel

Martin County

​Through March 26 - La Cage Aux Folles at The Barn Theatre
Through April 15 - Works in Living Color - artist Dorothy Gillespie at Court House Cultural Center
Through April 27 - Free Electrons, the art of Danuta Rothschild and Torenzo Gann at the Elliott. 

Through July 21 - Highwaymen - From Street Corner to the Smithsonian at the Elliott
Every Sunday, 1 - 4 p.m. - Rock'n Riverwalk​, 300 St. Lucie Ave, Stuart
Every Sunday, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Market on Main, Flagler Park, Stuart


Through April 2 - Over the River and Through the Woods at A.C.T. Studio Theatre, Stuart

March 19 - Youth Arts Celebration 2023 at the Lyric
​March 19, 4:30 p.m. - Treasure Coast Classical Guitar Society Orchestra at Blake Library. Free
March 22, 6:30 p.m. - Jazz Jam with the Billy Cofrances Jazz Quartet - Cork'd Wine Bar, Jensen Beach
March 22, 7 p.m. - Disco Explosion at the Lyric
March 23, 6 p.m. - Jammin' in Jensen
​March 24, 6:30 p.m. - Movie Night in the Park - The Lorax - Memorial Park, Stuart

March 25, 10 a.m. - Creation Station at The Children's Museum of the Treasure Coast
March 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - Water Fest, Memorial Park, Stuart
March 25-26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - 26th Annual Downtown Stuart Spring Craft Festival - Osceola Street
March 26 - John Nemeth at the Lyric
March 29, 6:30 p.m. - Jazz Jam with the Billy Cofrances Jazz Quartet - Cork'd Wine Bar, Jensen Beach

March 31, 4 p.m. -  Atlantic Classical Orchestra Chamber Series Three - Pittenger Center at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

​April 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - Bookmania! at Jensen Beach HS PAC
April 7-8 - An Elvis Easter, with Matt Stone at A.C.T. Studio Theatre, Stuart
​April 7, 5 p.m. - First Friday CREEK Walk
April 10 - TC Youth Symphony - Zeppelin Symphony - Lyric Theatre

April 14, 4 & 8 p.m. - Atlantic Classical Orchestra Masterworks IV at Lyric Theatre
​April 15 - Larry McCray
 at the Lyric
April 21-30 - Red at A.C.T. Studio Theatre, Stuart

May 5, 5 p.m. - First Friday CREEK Walk
May 7, 3 p.m. - St. Mary's Concert Series - Trio Paradigm

May 19-28 - Designer Shorts 2 at A.C.T. Studio Theatre, Stuart

St. Lucie County


MONDAYS YEAR 'ROUND 10 a.m.-NOON - ART ON THE PORCH WITH THE FORT PIERCE ART CLUB - at Cool Beans Brew
Third Wednesday of each month, 2-4 p.m. - Bonsai Collection Tour at Heathcote Botanical Gardens
Fourth Wednesday of each month, 3-4 p.m. - Bonsai Clinic with the curator at Heathcote Botanical Gardens
Every other Tuesday, 7-10 p.m. - Pro Jazz Jam & Big Band with the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society at Sunrise Theatre Black Box

Every other Wednesday, 6:30-9 p.m. - Pro Jazz Jam & Big Band with the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society at Port St.Lucie Botanical Gardens
Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. - Jazz Market along the Indian River waterfront, Fort Pierce
Wednesdays - Music in the Bonsai Gallery, 12-1 p.m. - Heathcote Botanical Gardens

Through April 2 - Chapter Two at Treasure Coast Theatre
Through April 30 - Fine Print: Rediscovering the Backus Portfolio on Paper and Canvas at Backus Museum & Gallery

​MARCH 19-24 - Jazz Week in Fort Pierce
March 19 - Jazz 
Week in Fort Pierce - 1:15-2:30 p.m. FPJBS's Jazz Ensemble; 3-5 p.m.-  Reckless Shots 
March 20, 4 p.m. - Music Monday in the Square - Tradition Square - Classical pianist Uriel Natero
March 21 - Jazz Week in Fort Pierce - 7 p.m. - Live at the Black Box Jazz Jams; 8:30 p.m. - Matt Wigler Trio
March 22 - Jazz Week in Fort Pierce - Blues in the Gardens - Home 
Bread at PSL Botanical Gardens
March 23 - Jazz Week in Fort Pierce - 6:30 p.m. - FDO Swingin' big Band - Dancin' on 2nd Street - free - 2nd Street Bistro
​March 24& 25 - Seussical The Musical at Pineapple Playhouse
March 24 - Jazz Week in Fort Pierce - 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Latin Swing Band - free - downtown waterfront; 7 p.m. - Live at the Black Box - Joe "Survival" Caruso - 117 S. Second St.

March 25, 8 p.m. - Matt Vee & The Killer Vees at The Sunrise
​March 25 - Ken Miller  at Sunrise Comedy Corner
​March 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. - The Port St.Lucie Botanical Gardens Art, Craft, and Plant Sale
March 25&26 - Rescheduled from January - I Remember It Well: Kanter's Favorite Broadway Duets at the McAlpinTheatre, IRSC FP

April 1-2, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. - Art, Mind & Soul Fest in Tradition - St. Lucie Cultural Alliance at Tradition Square FREE ADMISSION - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. OPENINGS AVAILABLE FOR ARTISTS AND VENDORS
April 5-May 12 - Entries accepted by appointment for A.E. Backus Museum & Galley's 2023 Through the Eye of the Camera
April 13, 7:30 p.m. - Theresa Caputo Live at the Sunrise
April 13-15 - Singing Spectacular at McAlpin Fine Arts Center
​April 14, 8 p.m. - Don Felder at the Sunrise
​April 18, 7 p.m. - Ambassadors of Swing Dance Night: Remembering Harry James at MIDFLORIDA Event Center
​April 19, 7:30 p.m. - The Martin & Lewis Tribute Show at Sunrise Theatre
​April 20-30 - Steel Magnolias at Pineapple Playhouse, FP
​April 28-30 - Renaissance Chart HS of St. Lucie presents Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical at Sunrise Theatre

May 11-13 - The Council  at IRSC Wynne Black Box Theatre
May 12-June 23 - Through the Eye of the Camera Annual Juried Exhibition at Backus Museum & Gallery. Opening reception May 12, 6-8 p.m.

​July 29, 7 p.m. - The Sunrise Theatre Speakeasy

Brevard County

ONGOING, TUESDAYS, 9 A.M. - PLEIN AIR SESSIONS - ART STUDENTS GUILD OF BREVARD

Through March 19: Steel Magnolias, Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse
Through March 26: Cinderella, Surfside Playhouse

Through March 26 - Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Titusville Playhouse
Through March 31 - 100% Pure Florida at Fifth Avenue Art Gallery
Through April 2 - The Evolution of SLICE and Other Work - Pete Steenland - At Studios of Cocoa Beach

Through April 23 - Leading Ladies at Melbourne Civic Theatre​

Mar 17-19: River Days & Craft Brew Hullabaloo, Sebastian Rotary Foundation, Sebastian Riverview Park
March 21 - The Guess Who at King Center
Mar 22: The Jungle Book (youth theatre), King Center
​March 22-23, 7 p.m. - Melbourne Community Orchestra - University of Saturday Morning Cartoons at Melbourne Auditorium, MLB
Mar 24: Nate Bargatze – The Be Funny Tour, King Center, Melbourne, KingCenter.com, 321-242-2219
Mar 24: New Exhibit - Cryolophosaurus: Frozen-Crested Lizard at Museum of Dinosaurs, Cocoa Beach, DinosaurStore.com/Museum, 321-783-7300
Mar 24 – Apr 2: Godspell, Henegar Center

March 25, 8 p.m. - David Clark's All About Joel: A Billy Joel Tribute LIVE at the King Center
March 31, 7:30 p.m. - Melbourne Municipal Band's Rock & Roll Revue plays music of the '50s and '60s at Cocoa Village Playhouse


April 3-29 -Tom Busby Retrospective at 5th Avenue Art Gallery
​April 3-29 - One Heck of anArt Show - Jerry & Cher Hanzl's Solo Exhibition at 5th Avenue Gallery
April 4-30 - Three Friends, Three Artists, Three Passions - at Studios of Cocoa Beach

April 7, 5:30 p.m. - Opening Reception -Tom Busby Retrospective at 5th Avenue Art Gallery AND One Heck of an Art Show - Jerry & Cher Hanzl

April 10 - Our Space Your Place special 35th anniversary event at King Center
April 14, 7:30 p.m. - Modigliani String Quartet  - Melbourne Chamber Music Society - at St. Marks United Methodist Church, 2030 N. A1A, Indialantic
April 15-16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - Blueberry Fest at Wickham Park,MLB
​April 16, 7 p.m. - Colin James Band at Tangiers Concert Hall, Palm Bay
April 22-23 - 38th Melbourne Art Festival - Wickham Park
April 29, 6:30 p.m. - The Flavor Experience - Melbourne Main Street
April 30, 4-7 p.m. - Forks and Corks for the Brevard SO at DeMare Beach House, Indialantic

May 27 - Brit Floyd at King center
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Palm Beach County

Every third weekend - Delray Art League - Art Scape in the City at the Big Apple Bazaar, Delray Beach
Ongoing Fridays and Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - Garden Sculpture Tours at the Norton
ONGOING - Let the Games Begin online exhibit at Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens
Ongoing - Weekly AnimalTalks at Sandoway Discovery Center
Thursdays 6-9 p.m. - Clematis by Night

 Every Friday, 5-10 p.m. - ART AFTER DARK at the Norton
Through March 21 at Wellington /Community Center - Wellington Art Society's new municipal art exhibition, Images.
​Through March 26 - Damn Yankees at the Wick theatre and Costume Museum 
​Through April 2 - The Art of Paper: Washi Transformed at Morikami Museum

​Through April 8 - Visualizing Climate Disruption - PalmBeach Cultural Council
Through April 9 - Café des Beaux-Arts at Flagler Museum
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Through April 29 - Etheard Joseph work at Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Tues-Sat noon- 5p.m.
​Through June 11 - New York Vanguard: Promised Gifts from Stephen and Madeline Anbinder
Through July 16 - At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism at Norton Museum
​Through July 16 - From Man Ray to O'Keefe: American Modernism at the Norton Museum

March 18-19 - Philharmonia No. 4 - Lynn University
March 19, 3 p.m. - 
Architects of the Gilded Age  at Flagler Museum
March 20-24 - Oliver With a Twist - Maltz Jupiter Theatre Conservatory camp production 
March 20-April 5 - 45th Annual Members' Show & Sale at Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta

March 20-April 5 - Best of the Clubs Art Exhibition at Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta
March 21 - The Kingdom Choir at Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center
​March 22 - History at the Pavilion: Women in Jupiter History - Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum
March 23, 5-7 p.m.- Opening reception for 
45th Annual Members' Show & Sale at Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta
​March 23-26 - Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary international fair at Palm Beach County Convention Center
March 24, 7:30 p.m. - Palm Beach Symphony at Community Church of Vero Beach or IRSA  -Gerard Schwarz/Mischa Dichter
March 25-26, 4 p.m. -The Choral Society of the Palm Beaches' tribute to Stephen Sondheim, with Lisa Vroman, at Lakeside Presbyterian Church, WPB
March 25, 10 a.m. - SpringFest 2023 at Jonathan Dickinson State Park

March 26 - Wind - The Symphonia with David Kim, conductor and solo violin at Saint Andrew's School, Boca Raton
March 30, 5-7 p.m. - Opening reception for ​ Best of the Clubs Art Exhibition at Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta
April 1-2 - 13th annual Downtown WPB Art Festival - The Square
April 3, 5:30 p.m. - An A-MUSE-ING EVENING at the Colony Hotel, PB

April 12, 7:30 p.m. - Atlantic Classical Orchestra Masterworks IV at First Presbyterian Church NPB
April 16, 8 p.m. - Palm Beach Symphony with Joshua Bell at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
​April 17, 7 p.m. - TC Youth Symphony - Zeppelin Symphony at Eissey Campus Theatre
​April 24, 7 p.m. - TC Youth Symphony - Zeppelin Symphony at Church of the Good Shepherd, Tequests
April 30 - Water - The Symphonia - Alistair Willis


May 6, 6 p.m. - Twilight in the Garden - Delray Beach Historical Society at Colony Hotel & Cabana Club
May 15, 7:30 p.m. - Palm Beach Symphony with Maria João Pires at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
​May 19, 7 p.m. - Rodney Carrington LIVE at King Center

June 5-25 - The Addams Family - Maltz Jupiter Theatre Conservatory camp production 
July 10-30 - Ever Happily After - Maltz Jupiter Theatre Conservatory camp production 
​Sept. 5- Dec. 2 - Little Lush exhibition at Lighthouse ArtCenter

Oct. 29-Nov. 12 - Agatha Christies's Murder on the Orient Express at Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Nov. 28-Dec. 10 - A Christmas Carol  at Maltz Jupiter Theatre


2024
Jan. 9-28 - Beautify: The Carol King Musical 
 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Feb. 11-25 - Plaza Suite  at Maltz Jupiter Theatre
​March 12-31 - 42nd Street at Maltz Jupiter Theatre

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