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.
Enjoy a fun night of camping with your family, under the trees, along the shore of this beautiful riverside park. Bring bikes and scooters and do your own thing or join the organized games. There will be a community campfire after dark for s’mores.
BYO tent, family, food, and camping gear. This is the easiest camping you are ever going to get!
The cost is just $20 per tent; however, limited riverfront sites are available.
Check in between 2-4pm on Saturday and kids activities will begin at 3pm. There are a limited number of “premium” camp sites under the trees along the riverfront available. Once those sites are filled, there will be other spaces available out in the park; however, there are no picnic tables or grills at those sites. Advance registration is required.
Registration deadline is 1/30 or when space is full.
For more information or to RSVP, call Rotary Park at 239-549-4606.
REGISTER BY 12/30/18 — you’re guaranteed to get your T-shirt size! RunToTheArts.com
So much more than any ordinary 5K, the Publix Run To The Arts brings together the best that life has to offer: health and fitness, arts and culture, friends and family, and the scenic beauty of the Fort Myers waterfront.
Post-race festivities include a scrumptious breakfast, a chance to be involved with the Group Art Experience, CHIP TIME race awards, live entertainment, fabulous door prizes, and much more.
Take part in a Fort Myers tradition, register for the Publix Run To The Arts today!
The Course
The course will begin and end on Bay Street at the corner of Monroe Street – front of Harborside Event Center. The route will be Bay St. to Lee St. over the Calossahatchee Bridge and
back the same route – that’s right over the bridge both directions.
With professional CHIP TIMING services by Endurance Sports Timing, you can have your results posted as soon as you finish the race.
Preferred Parking
Free runners-only parking will be available at West First Street and Carson Street.
Look for the colorful signs. Park all day and enjoy ArtFest!
Race Day Schedule
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Race day registration and packet pick-up: Corner of Edwards Drive and Hendry Street. Photo ID required for packet pick-up.
8:15 a.m. Race starts … woo hoo!
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Breakfast, awards, Group Art Experience, and raffle. Be there for all the fun!
Registration Fee:
$30 until 12/30/18, — you’re guaranteed to get your T-shirt size!
$30 from 12/31/18 to 1/20/19, includes T-shirt (while supplies last)
$35 from 1/21/19 to 1/30/19, includes T-shirt (while supplies last)
Visit http://runtothearts.com/
for more information!
2 Day Event!
Saturday, February 2nd and Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
10am-5pm
Free to attend! Specific location is Edwards Drive at Hendry Street in Historic Downtown Fort Myers.
Art Fest will be on the waterfront in downtown Fort Myers. Always during the first weekend in February, Art Fest enlivens the Fort Myers waterfront with art, entertainment, vendors and children’s art activities. There will be original art by more than 200 artists which you’ll get to meet the artists, face-to-face. There will also be food and drink vendors with items available for purchase.
The follow up to the hilarious Mid-Life The Crisis Musical, Midlife 2! takes us back into the middle ages once again with a hilariously tuneful look at the aches, pains, and joys of getting older. From ever-increasing trips to the doctor’s office, to the horrifying moment when one qualifies for a senior discount, the aging Baby Boomers and beyond are sure to see their lives reflected in this brand new, witty musical revue.
Put on your “Boogie Shoes” for one of the most adored dance stories of all time that captures the passion, energy and life-changing moments that have thrilled audiences for over forty years! Tony, a young man from Brooklyn, tries to escape his problems and dance his way to a better life. With his electric dance moves, he hits the dance floor every weekend at the discotheque, where he tries to win the admiration of the crowd, and his crush. Based on the 1977 film that became a cultural phenomenon, the score is packed with Bee Gees’ hits including the Night Fever, Stayin’ Alive, How Deep Is Your Love?, Jive Talking, You Should Be Dancing and more!
Cultural Park Theater Proudly Presents…The Butler Did It!
Onstage February 1-10, 2019
Performances: Friday/Saturday @ 8pm & Sunday @ 3pm.
This is a very funny comedy written by Tim Kelly that spoofs the various English detective writers that we’ve all come to know. Miss Maple invites a group of these writers to eerie Ravenswood Manor, where they are to assume the personalities of their fictional characters. When an actual murder takes place, each of the guests realizes he or she may also be marked for death! Thus ensues a race to solve the clues of who the true killer really is!
For more information or to purchase tickets please call the box office at 239-772-5862.
Barry Manilow and Bette Midler come to life in this incredible tribute featuring British entertainer Terry Davies and the amazingly talented Sherie Rae Parker. Hear Mandy, Copacabana, Can’t Smile Without You, Hero, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Wind Beneath My Wings and more!
https://broadwaypalm.com/shows/the-magic-of-manilow-and-midler/
Barry Manilow and Bette Midler come to life in this incredible tribute featuring British entertainer Terry Davies and the amazingly talented Sherie Rae Parker. Hear Mandy, Copacabana, Can’t Smile Without You, Hero, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Wind Beneath My Wings and more!
https://broadwaypalm.com/shows/the-magic-of-manilow-and-midler/
T.G.I.M. runs first the Monday of every month. The 2018-19 schedule will be as follows:
Feb. 4, 2019
Join host Eric Raddatz, judges Ilene Saffron, Katarina Danks and Leoma Lovegrove with co-host Melissa Tschari DeHaven for fresh short indie films, music, comedy and fun. Get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process. Have a say whether or not they should make final programming. The house opens for cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7p.m. in the Grand Atrium of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, located at 2301 First St., Fort Myers. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and students.
“This is one of the highlights of our season. It’s so much fun! Everyone loves coming out on Monday nights. There’s always something happening that you wouldn’t expect on a weeknight,” says Melissa Tschari DeHaven, producer and co-host of TGIM and the Fort Myers Film Festival, who is excited for a full season of film.
The season kicks off Monday night August 6 at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center with host Eric Raddatz, and co-host Melissa Tschari DeHaven. Get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process! Have a say whether or not they should make final programming.
The house opens for cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7p.m. in the Grand Atrium of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, located at 2301 First St., Fort Myers. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and students.
Come watch them judge short indie films EVERY FIRST MONDAY in season submitted to the Fort Myers Film Festival and have your say as to whether or not it makes the grade for final programming during our festival!
The Fort Myers Film Festival is an Intelligent independent filmmaker’s preferred event to create, unite and showcase the finest artistic cinematic works. We’re celebrating nearly a decade of the finest indie films on the planet. For submission, volunteer and sponsorship opportunities contact eric@fortmyersfilmfestival.com
The Fort Myers Film Festival’s 9th annual festival will be held in the sunny, beautiful SW Florida region in April 2019 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Alliance for the Arts, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, Library and Imaginarium with parties and dinners at Twisted Vine Bistro, Firestone and other select venues. The Black Tie Red Carpet Gala will be celebrated with excitement and style beginning with the red carpet rolling out, paparazzi clicking and doors opening at 5 p.m. for drinks, mingling & musical entertainment with local and international filmmakers prior to the featured movie.Enjoy a star studded backstage afterparty with the stars of the opening night’s films, with music, dancing, fully-stocked bar and chance to meet with the stars of the evening’s film, filmmakers and event VIP. The event will provide the delicious foods from La trattoria Cafe Napole, Norman Love Confections, Aux Delices, Crave Cuisine and more. Watch last years video here http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150579767950565. http://www.facebook.com/fortmyersfilmfestival
The Fort Myers Film Festival is an intelligent independent filmmaker’s preferred event to create, unite and showcase the finest artistic cinematic works. The Fort Myers Film Festival is known for world-class swagger and support of local filmmakers. The festival event offers ‘the most vibrant intellectual and edgy crowd to grace Lee County in decades.’ The event has featured hundreds of local filmmakers and is a must attend for cineasts who love indie film and film festivals living in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties. That’s right, Fort Myers has a film festival now, so come out for the excitement! For more information go to http://www.fortmyersfilmfestival.com or join http://www.facebook.com/fortmyersfilmfestival for updates and events. TO GET VIP TICKETS for the whole season to see everything head to http://fortmyersfilmfestival.ticketleap.com/
The edgy and fresh programming for the Fort Myers Film Festival has gotten the attention of a global independent film community. Last years opening night film “Examine and report” was the world premiere for Marcus Jansen’s documentary. The previous year “Most Likely to Succeed” provided the edge in a community that embraced the award-winning film that had only played at Sundance prior to our screening to a packed house at Barbara B. Mann. The year before that “Alive Inside,” a story about how music can significantly and most positively impact those suffering with dementia and Alzheimer’s was attended by filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett and Dan Cohen, founder of Musicandmemory.org, both from the film. It received by standing ovation, warm commendation from the Fort Myers mayor Randy Henderson and attending community. The year before “When I Walk” had, like “Alive Inside,” only played at one or two venues, including Sundance Film Festival, making the Fort Myers Film Festival heading the pack of festivals playing new and fresh films not in distribution. It too was later picked up for major distribution with stories in Time, New York Times, CNN and others picking up on the movie months after it played here in Southwest Florida.
The follow up to the hilarious Mid-Life The Crisis Musical, Midlife 2! takes us back into the middle ages once again with a hilariously tuneful look at the aches, pains, and joys of getting older. From ever-increasing trips to the doctor’s office, to the horrifying moment when one qualifies for a senior discount, the aging Baby Boomers and beyond are sure to see their lives reflected in this brand new, witty musical revue.