Please note… event details can change at the last minute, so please confirm all information before attending.
Also.. for any event that did not supply an end time, the end times are defaulted to 2 hours after the event begins. The actual event may last longer, so please plan accordingly.
Saturday, September 8th, 2018
8pm-10pm
Free to attend! No flashlights, please!
The Southwest Florida Astronomical Society, Inc. (SWFAS) will be hosting a free, family night of night sky observation at Seahawk Park! Experts from the Society will have telescopes and viewing equipment set up and will be on hand to explain what can be seen.
For more information, please email Brian Risley at:
swfasbrisley@embarqmail.com
A day of celebrating Peace.
And Helping it grow.
A community event In honor of the International Day of Peace. Peace starts with us.
In our hearts, our homes and our neighborhoods.
A free event for the Whole family even your pets!
Canned and dried goods and supplies collected for our neighbors AND pets in need, as well as a Blood drive for “peace blood” to save local lives.
Be part of the Change that’s all around us right here in SWFL.
AWESOME LIVE MUSIC, ART, VENDORS, PET ADOPTION, YOGA, FACE PAINTING, TEEN ART AREA, MEDITATIONS, CRAFTS, LOTS of YUMMY FOOD, RAFFLES, EDUCATION, WORKSHOPS and A WHOLE BUNCH of FUN!
Claim your piece of peace, join us once again this year for Peace Day and experience a living culture/sensation of COMMUNITY & PEACE! ✌🏻 We are the change !
This years theme is “Expansion” of Peace and we couldn’t do it without amazing businesses like Fafco Solar, Feng Shui By Nan, Zak’s Jewelry, Yoga Bird, Grand Illusion, All Smiles Entertainment, The Mystical Moon Fort Myers, Natural Awakenings Magazine – Naples and Fort Myers Area, Sierra Club Calusa Group, Iona Cannabis Clinic, Studio 44, Debonair Concierge Travel Services, LLC, CREW Solar, Bath Fitter, What’s Up SWFL, Alliance for the Arts, EPEC – Environmental and Peace Education Center, Fresh Squeezed Productions, CasaShanti, and Planet Protein, Inc. They are helping us help peace grow right here locally.
Community is Unity –
This years theme is Expansion!
Join us on Wednesday, October 3 to kick off the 17th season of the Sunset Celebration!
Sunset Celebration at the Cape Coral Yacht Club
3pm-Sunset
First Wednesday of every month (Oct-May)
FREE ADMISSION
Join us for this monthly family event. Celebrate the beauty of our beautiful SW Florida sunsets while listening to live music on the beach!
There will also be food trucks, vendors selling unique arts & crafts, jewelry, gift items and more.
7:30am-6:30pm Wildlife Drive is open FREE to hikers/bikers only; closed to vehicular traffic except special TBE trams throughout the day
8-11am FREE Bunche Beach Birding Tram, meet at EC flagpole
8:30-10am 25% OFF Breakfast Nature & Sea Life Cruise, TBE*
9-10am FREE Beach Walk at Perry Tract with Educator Sara Hallas, meet at Gulfside CIty Park pay station, city parking fees apply
9:30-11am FREE Refuge Birds & Wildlife Tour Caravan with Ranger Jeff, meet at EC flagpole
10am-12noon 25% off Low Tide Paddle, TBE*
10am, 11:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm, 4pm 25% off special Friday Narrated TBE Wildlife Drive Tram Tours
Ongoing 10am-3pm FREE Animal Olympics Games at Bailey Tract, self-guided, Tarpon Bay Rd.
10am-11:30am FREE Refuge Bike Tour with Ranger Toni, meet at EC flagpole
11am-12:30pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
1-2pm FREE Showing of Million Dollar Duck Film, EC Auditorium
1pm-2pm FREE Ranger Hike & Storytime at Wildlife Education Boardwalk with Ranger Monica, meet at EC flagpole
1-3pm 25% OFF Commodore Creek Paddle, TBE*
1:30-3pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
5-7pm 25% OFF Sunset Rookery Kayak Tour, TBE*
(Experience necessary)
5-7pm 25% OFF Evening Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
https://www.dingdarlingsociety.org/articles/ding-days-calendar
FREE Chalk Art Drawing in the Parking Lot
FREE Wildlife Artist Nancy Tome Painting Demo
FREE Santiva Chronicle Dress-Up Photo Booth
ALL DAY: 10% off select art items in the Refuge Nature Store
7:30am-6:30pm FREE admission to Wildlife Drive; look for Plein-Air Artists.
9am FREE art kits for first 100 kids
10am, 11:30am, 1pm, and 2:30pm 25% OFF Narrated TBE Wildlife Drive Tram Tours*
10am-12noon 25% OFF Commodore Creek Paddle, TBE*
10-11:30am FREE Face-Painting, EC
10am-12noon Low Tide Paddling Tour, TBE*
Ongoing 11am-1pm FREE Meet the Blue Goose for chances at prizes, EC
11am Dave Horton Personalized Wildlife Cartoons for first 50 guests
11am-12:30pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
11:30am-12:30pm Conservation Cartoon Awards, EC Auditorium
12:30-1pm “Ding” Darling Days Nature Photography Contest Awards, EC Classroom
1-3pm Meet the Champs: Winning Duck Stamp Artists; Junior Duck Stamp (JDS) Awards, EC Auditorium
Meet and greet with current Federal Duck Stamp winner Bob Hautman plus Federal JDS winner Rayen King and State JDS winner Anna Grace Swanson
(1:45pm Intermission: snacks and duck stamp signing)
1-3pm 25% OFF Commodore Creek Paddle, TBE*
1:30-3pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
5-7pm 25% OFF Evening Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
Choice of FREE Activities:
3-4pm Make & Take Nature Portrait (limited to first 25 children who sign up that day), EC Classroom
3-5pm Nature Sketching at the Wildlife Education Boardwalk with artist Nancy Tome, free journals and charcoal pencils for first 25 participants, meet at flagpole
https://www.dingdarlingsociety.org/articles/ding-days-calendar
The Coastal Cleanup is the only cleanup where trash is collected and recorded. The data cards are then sent to the Ocean Conservancy where the information is used in the development of new environmental protection acts and change the behaviors that cause marine debris in the first place. The data cards are designed to have groups of 4 working together, 3 to collect litter and debris and 1 to record the findings. Latex gloves will be handed out, however some of the marine debris will be rough so please feel free to bring work gloves.
The annual cleanup is organized nationally by The Ocean Conservancy, and is coordinated locally by Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc. (KLCB) and SCCF.
The 2 goals of the cleanup are to remove unsightly and environmentally harmful debris from Florida’s coastlines and raise awareness about this preventable litter problem. Litter poses a threat to wildlife – plastic bags are mistaken for jellyfish and eaten by sea turtles. Lost and discarded fishing tackle is eaten by birds and becomes an entangling death trap to many types of animal life.
3 Bros Production Proudly presents:
Walk n Style Fashion Show/ Black and White Affair.
October 13th, 2018 come experience fashion on the board. The JC Cruise, downtown ft. Myers. With 3 floors of entertainment, there is something for everyone.
Attire is grown & sexy
No athletic wear
No T-shirt w/out blazer
For tickets:
Exclusive Men Barbershop & Spa
239-693-8428
2200-c DR MLK Blvd
Walk n Style shoes
239-287-7056
Ticket Prices:
$40 Early Bird – July -Aug 31th
$50 Sept. 1 -Sept 31st
$60 Oct. 1- Day of cruise
Music by
DJ D1 – Hip Hop
Mike B. – Old School
9:45am Flag-raising ceremony, EC entrance
10am Sing to “Ding!” Free birthday cake to celebrate “Ding” Darling’s 142nd birthday (Oct. 21) & giveaway of free reusable goody bags giveaway to the first 250 kids, EC Auditorium
10am-12noon 25% OFF Commodore Creek Paddle, TBE*
10:30am-2:30pm FREE Live music from the Americana Community Music Association
10:30am FREE Walk on the Wildlife Side Puppet Show, Littleton Elementary, EC Auditorium Kidz Kool Zone
11am FREE Live Wildlife Presentation: Birds of Prey by CROW, EC parking lot
11am-12:30pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
12noon FREE One Tiny Turtle story and sea turtle craft with Ranger Toni, EC Kidz Kool Zone Auditorium
12noon FREE Make & Take Nature Portrait (limited to first 25 middle school children who sign up that day), EC Kidz Kool Zone Classroom
12noon FREE People & Panthers program, EC parking lot
12:30pm FREE The Black Water Mystery Puppet Show, Littleton Elementary, EC Kidz Kool Zone Auditorium
1pm FREE Kids Animal Yoga program by Ambu Yoga and Ranger Toni, EC Kidz Kool Zone Auditorium
1pm FREE Live Wildlife Presentation: Do’s & Don’ts of Animal Rescue by CROW, EC parking lot
1-3pm 25% OFF Commodore Creek Paddle
1:30pm FREE Spiny Stranger Puppet Show, Littleton Elementary, EC Cool Kid’s Zone Auditorium
1:30-3pm 25% OFF Sea Life & Nature Cruise, TBE*
2pm FREE Snakes Alive! program with Calusa Herpetological Society, EC parking lot
2pm FREE Reddish Egrets & Mangrove Cuckoos Research Show-&-Tell by Dr. Ken Meyer, EC Auditorium
5-7pm 25% OFF Sunset Rookery Kayak Tour, TBE*
5-7pm 25% OFF Evening Sea Life & Nature Cruise
FREE & continuous throughout the day
- FREE naturalist-narrated 60-minute tram tours (check in at tram booth upon arrival)
- FREE Refuge System response vehicles and demos, EC parking lot
- FREE archery demos and clinics, adjacent to upper parking lot
- FREE Learning Lavatories Scavenger Hunt, pick up sheets from info table, drawing for five prizes
- FREE Let’s Get Outdoors canvas painting, EC Kidz Kool Zone
- FREE live music, EC parking lot
- FREE fly-fishing demos, Sanibel Fly Fishers
- FREE face painting, EC Kidz Kool Zone
- FREE hot dogs, EC parking lot
- FREE Butterfly House, EC parking lot
- FREE Santiva Chroicle Dress-Up Photo Station, EC Kidz Kool Zone
- FREE parking at Special Events Parking site (look for signs)
- FREE shuttle service
- FREE hands-on nature crafts, EC parking lot
- FREE environmental displays and informational booths with giveaways, EC parking lot
- FREE Special 2017 Federal & Junior Duck Stamp Art Exhibit, EC Auditorium
* Reservations recommended: Call 239-472-8900
https://www.dingdarlingsociety.org/articles/ding-days-calendar
This is the local Fort Myers, Florida event. Main Statewide Tallahassee event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/482670665586588/?ti=icl
What if 10,000 of us stood in solidarity all across the state at the same time, for water?! We did it before, let’s do it again!
Make your voices heard on Saturday, October 20th at 2 pm! Join this peaceful demonstration as we read an open letter to elected officials and political candidates, letting them know that we demand action regarding the current environmental disaster occurring in the gulf.
On August 12th, 2018, Hands Along the Water succeeded in rallying almost 10,000 Floridians throughout the state to stand united in protecting water and marine life. We need your help in Tallahassee and across the state to make an even bigger statement to attract media attention and let politicians know that we will not accept further inaction.
Join us here in Fort Myers at Centennial Park for our local Hands Across the State event.
These local events are happening simultaneously and the leaders will be reading the same open statement that is being read in Tallahassee.
To join this event:
1. RSVP as “Going”
2. Share widely.
Things to remember for this event:
1. No signs or signage of any kind.
2. This is a peaceful event to show solidarity. This is NOT a protest.
3. Please wear a blue shirt to represent healthy water.
4. Please bring reusable water bottles to reduce waste.
We’re excited to see you on Saturday, October 20th!
Main Statewide event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/482670665586588/?ti=icl
See the Statewide Link to find other locations in Florida. They’re also looking for local leaders to volunteers to lead local simultaneous events so those that cannot travel to Tally can participate.
I think it’s time for another boat ride!
Here is the agenda:
-Begin in Cape Coral about one hour before sunset
-Meander through the canals and down the Caloosahatchee River
Cruise out to San Carlos Bay
-Watch playful dolphins and other wildlife native to Southwest Florida
-Listen to the symphony of nature as you experience the breathtaking beauty of Southwest Florida at twilight
-Your captain will teach you about the precious local ecosystem and wildlife as you relax in the salty evening air. Before you return to land, enjoy one of the light refreshments offered on the cruise or bring a small cooler of your own so you can toast the end of another beautiful Florida day in your own unique way.
Cost is $30.00 plus $3.60 taxes/fees
Here is a link to buy your tickets:
https://bananabaytourcompany.com/sunset-dolphin-cruise.html
The cruise starts at 5:30, but please plan on arriving early so we don’t hold up the rest of the passengers!
Also, please note the return policy from the company’s website:
Once purchased, tickets cannot be refunded and cannot be rescheduled because your space is being guaranteed at the event.
The activity usually runs in light rain and other moderate weather conditions, but the seller may cancel the activity up to a half hour before the start time in the event of severe or unsafe weather conditions. If the seller cancels the event, ticket-holders will be allowed to reschedule tickets (subject to availability) or receive credit for a future event. Tours may run up to 1 hour past the scheduled return time.
I hope you can join us!
https://www.meetup.com/Wine-Dine-and-Finds-in-Lee-County/events/255438746/