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Wilford & Lee will hold its annual Christmas Open House from
11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, November 3. The Fort Myers store will donate 10% of the Nov. 3rd sales to Abuse Counseling & Treatment. Our Naples store will donate 10% to The Shelter for Abused Women & Children. The Bonita Springs location will donate 5% to each of those charities.
This party will be held at three locations: Fort Myers, Bonita Springs & Naples
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From the author of “Moon Over Buffalo” and “Lend Me a Tenor” comes this zany and hilarious farce that turns a stuffy country club on its head. Mistaken identity, slamming doors, and romantic escapades keep audiences in stitches in this madcap adventure about love, life, and man’s eternal love affair with golf! Marx Brother’s hilarity meets country club politics in this signature Ken Ludwig farce!
Sponsored by FineMark National Bank & Trust
Media Sponsor: TOTI Media Group
Cultural Park Theater Proudly Presents…On Golden Pond
Onstage from October 25th-November 3rd with performances Friday/Saturday at 8pm and Sunday matinee performances at 3pm.
Directed by Gwendolyn Salata
On Golden Pond is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
For tickets and more information contact the box office, 239-772-5862.
Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, Finding Neverland tells the incredible true story behind the creation of one of the world’s most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration for his next work until he meets a beautiful widowed mother and her four young sons. Spellbound by the boys’ enchanting make-believe adventures, he sets out to write a play that will astound London theatergoers. With a lot of faith and a little bit of pixie dust, Barrie shares his journey to Neverland, where nothing is impossible and the wonder of youth lasts forever.
Alice Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. He continues to tour regularly, performing shows worldwide with the dark and horror-themed theatrics that he’s best known for.
With a schedule that includes six months each year on the road, Alice Cooper brings his own brand of rock psycho-drama to fans both old and new, enjoying it as much as the audience does. Known as the architect of shock-rock, Cooper (in both the original Alice Cooper band and as a solo artist) has rattled the cages and undermined the authority of generations of guardians of the status quo, continuing to surprise fans and exude danger at every turn, like a great horror movie, even in an era where CNN can present real life shocking images.
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Learn basic paddle strokes from an experienced GAEA Guide
$40 pp (inlcudes kayak)
ACTIVITY: 145511-01
$40 pp (includes kayak)
East End of 23rd Ter.
Cape Coral, FL 33914
For more information, 239-549-4606.
Paint an Evergreen tree on a whitewashed board. Hang by twine and add a bow if desired. $40
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T.G.I.M. runs first the Monday of every month in season. The 2019-20 schedule is as follows:
November 4, 2019
Host Eric Raddatz; Judges Mike Donlan, FGCU professor; Kyle Cebull, Millennial Brewery; Jade Alexa McClelland, 94.9, 98.5 FM.
December 2, 2019
Host Eric Raddatz; Judges Stephanie Davis, Florida Weekly; Rachel Burttram Powers, Florida Rep.; Stella Zuri, actress; Betsy Opyt, actress.
January 6, 2020
Host Eric Raddatz; Judges Ilene Saffron, filmmaker; Leila Mesdaghi, artist; Amanda Hootman, actress.
February 3, 2020
Host Eric Raddatz; Judges Sunny Lubner; Marc Collins, SalusCare; Terry Tincher, artist; Lindsay Glazer, comdedian; Charles McMullen, actor; Sophia Watson actress.
March 2, 2020
Host Eric Raddatz; Judges Sarah Owen, SWFL Community Foundation; Angela Melvin, Valerie’s House; April Florio, actress.
Our festival next year is May 6-10, 2020.
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 September 2 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.
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 May 6-10, 2020 at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Alliance for the Arts, Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, IMAG and Edison & Ford Winter Estates, with parties and dinners at BLU, 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, Aux Delices and more. Watch last years video here https://vimeo.com/336103431. 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 films include “Examine and report” which 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 Fort Myers Film Festival supports Lee County Schools filmmakers and Golisano’s Children’s Hospital. Sponsored by Sam Galloway Ford List Distillery – Mr.Tom’s Spirit’s Unit A, Florida Weekly, Bennett’s Fresh Roast, Twisted Vine Bistro, Davis, J Bert MD FACS, La Trattoria Cafe Napoli, Black Tie Tuxedos, Market Earth, Blu Sushi – Downtown, Riverside Realty Group, Douglas E. Spiegel. P.A., Kearns Restaurant Group, Tim Hart- Loan Officer, Ford’s Garage, Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza and Five Star Talent and Productions
The incomparable Herr Helmut Heiss of Austrian-German Restaurant fame joins us for a new weekly event dubbed Deutches Essen Nacht (German Food Night!)
He will serve schnitzel and other rotating German specialties each week and we will do our best to serve up delicious beer that stands up! Come out for a late lunch, a happy hour snack after work, or just a damn good authentic German dinner.
Open 3–10 every Tuesday, mention this event and get a discount on your drinks! PROST!
Based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, Finding Neverland tells the incredible true story behind the creation of one of the world’s most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration for his next work until he meets a beautiful widowed mother and her four young sons. Spellbound by the boys’ enchanting make-believe adventures, he sets out to write a play that will astound London theatergoers. With a lot of faith and a little bit of pixie dust, Barrie shares his journey to Neverland, where nothing is impossible and the wonder of youth lasts forever.