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New experiences shape our reality. Let yourself connect with new people in Orlando this week.
- This Saturday, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts hosts PechaKucha Night Orlando v28. See a wide variety of presenters have 20 slides and get 20 sceonds to explain each of them.
- Also this Saturday, the Orlando Book Festival happens at Orange County Library System (FL), including panels, writing workshops, book signings, and more from bestselling authors from all over the country.
- Saturday & Sunday, Harry P. Leu Gardens is having their Leu Gardensâ Annual Spring Plant Sale. Over 50 growers and vendors are selling a variety of plants and outdoor accessories.
- This week is your last chance to experience From Here, an original musical by Orlando's Donald Rupe, at Central Florida Community Arts.
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Orlando is so much more than a city for tourists. We're a city for ARTISTS! Connect with Orlando's artistic institutions 'This Week In Art'.
- Friday & Saturday, UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival Concert I, an amazing weekend of jazz currated by UCF professor Jeff Rupert, takes place at the UCF campus.
- Emotions Dance Inc. uses contemporary dance to tell personal stories of courage and perseverance at 'Untold Stories' this Friday & Saturday at Orlando Shakes.
- Opening Friday at Garden Theatre, see the epic Ben Hur like never before ... as a comedy. Struggling actors rehearse the grand tale of the fictional Jewish prince and merchant, offstage rivalries and romances interfere with their chariot races and sea battles.
Get out and experience your city!
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Orlando, experience three classics like never before happening 'This Week In Art'.
- Opening Wednesday, Orlando Shakes hosts the classic adventure, The Three Musketeers, running through March 22.
- Friday, lOrlando Ballet Company and School starts their run of the Disney classic Cinderella presented by the Orlando Ballet, running through Sunday.
- This Saturday, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra performs 'Hansel & Gretel' as part of their Symphony Storytime Series at The Plaza Live series.
You've know them all. Now get out and experience a new take on these classics.
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Connect with Orlando and its many creative communities. We're here to share just a few of the events happening "This Week In Art"
- Friday & Sunday, Opera Orlando takes you into a western in real saloon at The Girl of the Golden West. Specialty cocktails, appetizers, and desserts will add to the evening with cash bars also available.
- Tuesday, jazz-funk-R&B fusion ensemble The Conglomerate returns to Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts.
- Wednesday, Orlando Story Club tells stories of sleepless nights at OSC: Past Our Bedtime at The Abbey.
- Friday & FREE, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park hear world-class organist Stefan Kiessling, organ.
Get out and see your city and all its creativity this week
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Whether you're into art, theater, or orchestra, there's something happening for you this week in Orlando!
- Saturay is Free! Family Day at Orlando Museum of Art.
- Saturday, Orlando Repertory Theatre opens Anne of Green Gables, a play about an orphan girl and her new family living on a farm.
- Saturday & Sunday, revel in the art of over 300 artists at the 45th annual Mount Dora Arts Festival.
- Saturday at Bob Carr Theater, see the world premiere of 'A Fiddle Concerto'.
Go experience something amazing!
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We live in an a vibrant city full of creativity. Experience at least one, if not more, of these wonderful events happening 'This Week In Art'.
- Explore the west with a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers led by one-armed Captain John Wesley Powell as they set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. An all female cast of 'Men On Boats' opens Thursday at Mad Cow Theatre and runs through Feb 9.
- Beginning Saturday, ZORA! Festival 2020 celebrates the life of Zora Neal Hurston with public talks, museum exhibitions, theatrical productions, arts education programming, and a 3-day Outdoor Festival of the Arts.
- Thursday, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park hosts Insights & Sounds: The Greatest Composers You've Never Heard Of. Experience compsoers whose talent has escaped notice in modern times.
- This Friday, Garden Theatre opens 'Violet', a folk musical about a woman's cross-country journey to find healing.
It's a beautfiul week in Central Florida. Get out and see your city!
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Orlando is buzzing this week with theater, orchestra, and robots(?). Experience all our city has to give before the robot apocolypse.
- Running Friday through Monday, Otronicon allows you to walk on the cutting edge through state-of-the-art gaming and simulation technologies, including military and medical simulators not typically available to the public.
- Friday, Central Florida Community Arts opens 'The Lion In Winter'. Typical family squabbles canât compare to those of the English monarchy gathering for the holidays, especially with the kingâs three sons all vying for the throne.
- Wednesday, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra debuts Resonate at The Plaza Live. You will hear the music of Mozart, paired with works by visionary composers of today.
- Saturday, Orlando Repertory Theatre presents Pip-Squeak: An Anti-Bullying Magic Show 2020. Because of his small size as a child, Tony was bullied in the cafeteria, in the gymnasium, on the playground, and generally anywhere there were no adults present. Now using comedy, amazing magic tricks, juggling, and a coat-rack loaded with costumes, Tony gently and humorously teaches children how to cope with being bullied.
Get out and try something new. đ
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Orlando's theater scene is one of the most prominent in the country. This week, we explore 20+ plays happening around the city. No matter what you're into, there's something for everyone to connect to.
- Starting Thursday, enjoy the best of Orlando Fringe at Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest. 22 wildly different plays stretching across genres until Sunday.
- Saturday, Crealdé School of Art hosts the 9th annual Night Of Fire, featuring a variety of art created in-part with fire.
- Becoming Dr. Ruth opens this Wednesday at Orlando Shakes. The play is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became âDr. Ruthâ, AmericaÊŒs most famous sex therapist.
- An extension of 2019's sold out performances, Theater On The Edge presents 'TALK RADIO'.
Get out and see something amazing this week!
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2020 is upon us. The question is ... What are you doing for New Years Eve?
- Bring in the new decade at Wall St. Plaza where one ticket gets you into eight venues.
- 180 Skytop Lounge are hosting a classy NYE party.
- Over in Winter Park, The Alfond Inn is hosting a live band.
- Enjoy a block party in the Thornton Park District.
- For the kids, Orlando Science Center is hosting Rawr-in' Noon Yearâs Eve! during the day.
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As we close out this decade, we want to thank YOU, Orlando, for another incredible year. We foresee the city growing a lot next decade and we can't wait to experience it together. See you 2020! đ„đ
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We don't often remember individual Christmases. It's the Christmas traditions that make the holidays so magical. Start a new tradition this year with one of these Orlando events happening this week!
Friday through Sunday, Opera Orlando presents All is Calm, a poignant and moving musical set during World War I at the Western Front, Christmas 1914.
- Phantasmagoria's "A Christmas Carol" - Orlando Performances opens this Friday and runs through Monday at Orlando Shakes.
- This week is 3rd Thursday Orlando in the Downtown Arts District. There's open galleries all along the streets.
- Saturday, The 502s host their Christmas Special at the Timucua Arts Foundation.
- Sunday, The Buzzcatz Holly Jolly Christmas Show is a Christmas matinee happening at Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts.
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Orlando's arts communities are definitely feeling the Christmas cheer. Are you? Get in the spirit by connecting with your city. It's "This Week In Art".
- Friday at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, see a holiday classic, The Nutcracker, presented by Orlando Ballet, running through December 23.
- Thursday through Saturday, Central Florida Community Arts hosts Tis the Season! A Holiday Extravaganza. Experience the powerful 300 voice community choir, rockin' musicians of the symphony orchestra, as well as the high-kicking, spectacular members of the CFCArts Dance Company for what has become one of Central Florida's most celebrated holiday traditions!
- Wednesday, enjoy live storytelling at Orlando Story Club: Homecoming at Downtown Arts District Orlando. Anyone with a story can put their name in the hat for a chance to share.
- Hear Christmas classics performed by Bach Festival Society of Winter Park this Saturday and Sunday at Knowles Memorial Chapel.
- Sunday, Orlando's inclusive dance troupe, Chance 2 Dance, hosts The Nutcracker Reimagined: An Inclusive Retelling of a Classic.
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Start your week by planning to experience all that Orlando's creative communities have to offer. It's 'This Week In Art'.
- This Friday, the 2019 Tree Lighting Celebration takes place at Lake Eola. Enjoy the annual lighting of the tree, The Daily City's Food Truck Bazaar, and a performance from the Orlando Concert Band.
- Wednesday, Mad Cow Theatre opens The Spitfire Grill, a musical about a restaurant raffled-off and love that sprouts out of this contest.
- Also opening Wednesday, experience the sequel to 'Pride & Prejudice' Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Orlando Shakes.
- Friday, Harry P. Leu Gardens hosts their monthly Movie Night featuring 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
- Sunday, kick-off the holiday season as Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras hosts FSYO's Miracle at Mead Garden.
Get out and experience your city.
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Orlando is booming with arts and culture just waiting for you to join in. Don't miss your opporutinty to connect with your city "This Week In Art".
- This Saturday & Sunday, come celebrate the many cultures that call Orlando home at FusionFest 2019. There will be food, dance, music, fashion, film, and spoken word from all over the world.
- Monday, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents Bach & Beyond. Explore the world and music of South America as in demand soloist Bridget Kibbey, performs a World Premiere harp concerto by Brazilian composer JoĂŁo Luiz Rezende.
- Experience some jazz from Jeff Rupert Quartet Wednesday at Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts.
- Saturday, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents 'Home For The Holidays'. Albert George Schram leads a musical celebration like no other featuring the Holiday Singers and Opera Orlando Youth Chorus, in familiar classics and new surprises.
- The 9th annual Orlando Pottery Festival is this Saturday and Sunday at the Florida Army National Guard Armory.
- Sunday, Messiah Choral Society hosts their 47th Annual Performance at Bob Carr Performing Arts Center.
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It's finally cooling off outside and your Orlando is more alive than ever. Connect with your fellow art lovers at one or more of the followig events happening "This Week In Art".
- Friday, jump into the holiday spirit with Central Florida Community Arts at A Christmas Story, running through December 15.
- Enjoy another Christmas classic as Garden Theatre hosts A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story of Christmas, opening Friday and running through December 22.
- Monday at CityArts, The In-Between Series: Afro-Puerto Rican Rhythms celebrates the musical style with a little bit of history, demonstration of the rhythms and dance, and applications in modern music.
- Wednesday & Thursday, Winter Park Playhouse presents the latest in their "Spotlight Cabaret" series with Opera Orlando's Gabriel Preisser. This event is sold out, but some standing room tickets remain, and they have a wait list for seating.
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You don't have to live a life disconnected from your community. Orlando is full of creatvitiy and events waiting for you. Here's what's happening "This Week In Art".
- This Saturday, enjoy an evening of jazz, R&B, rock, and more all along Edgewater Drive at College Park JazzFest 2019.
- Experience "The Greatest Show (& Tell) On Earth" this weekend at Maker Faire Orlando 2019. There will be more than 300 exhibits highlighting technology, sceince, robots, & all things creativity.
- Playing Friday through Sunday, Mister Rogers: The Musician shares the musical side of our childhood friend and Rollins College alumni with special guest musicians and a capella group Voctave.
- Friday at Fierce Entertainment Studios in Fashion Square Mall, OIFW Style Night Out - Sip, Mix, Mingle, Party is a night of makeup, fashion, hair and more!
Get out and do something new.
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Experience Orlando's thriving arts communities this week. Don't be ... scared to do something new! đ
- Opening on Halloween, Orlando Ballet's Vampire's Ball is a riotous tale of two vampires, told through exquisite dance as only Orlando Ballet can.
- Opening Friday, Opera Orlando & Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra present 'The Marraige Of Figaro' where a blissful day to remember is quickly overrun by a perfect storm of scheming, confusion, and hilarity.
- Tuesday, Orlando Lutheran Towers hosts Spooktacular, an organ concerto in the spirit of Halloween.
- This weekend, enjoy over 300 artists and crafters and 50 food vendors and trucks at Fall Fiesta in the Park Presented By Your Local Ford Dealers.
- Sunday, Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras's Jazz Ensemble performs at Blue Bamboo Center For The Arts (FSYOâs Jazz Orchestra - Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts).
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Connect with your Orlando arts communities and live a more creative life. Here's what's happening "This Week In Art".
- This Saturday & Sunday, Bach Festival Society of Winter Park presents Haydn's "The Creation", described as the âchaosâ of a non-existent world, the bliss of Adam and Eve, and the humor of a creeping lowly worm.
- Saturday, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents Beethoven's 5th, Rei Hotoda, leads your Orlando Philharmonic in the most iconic piece in all of classical music.
- Friday & Saturday, Central Florida Community Arts performs A Heroâs Journey. Place yourself in the center of the story as we reflect on what it means, how it sounds, and how it feels to be a hero.
- Starting Saturday, Orlando Shakes opens Miss Nelson is Missing!, a musical about a classroom in peril after their teacher goes missing, running through November 16.
- Starting Wednesday, Mad Cow Theatre opens Boesman and Lena. The human need for kindness, hope, and compassion is on display during a particularly violent era of governmental racism and suppression, running through November 17.
Don't forget, IMMERSE's The Worlds Of CORKCICLE & Architects Of Air are open all this week. Get your ticket at creativecityproject.com/corkcicle2019
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Orlando is full of artists doing cool stuff. Join the community. Here's what's going on 'This Week In Art'.
- Wednesday, Orlando Shakes opens the classic Macbeth, running through November 24.
- Friday, a two-part Halloween event at Harry P. Leu Gardens. Haunting Tales starts with family-friendly stories then, after intermission, continues with wicked, hair-raising tales.
- All this week at Enzian Theater, the South Asian Film Festival celebrates the Eastern culture with five selected films.
- Opening Friday, Orlando Repertory Theatre hosts How I Became A Pirate, a pirate-themed musical, running through November 10.
- Also opening Friday, Central Florida Community Arts hosts the thrilling musical Sweeney Todd about a barber turned serial killer.
Do something this week! And don't forget Immerse 2019, October 18 & 19.
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Cities shouldnât be defined by theme parks. They should be defined by artists. Get out and enjoy one of the many events happening this week in Orlando's arts communities.
- Wednesday, jump into the scary spirit with Orlando Story Club: Spooked! at The Abbey.
- Thursday, (talented or not) sing your heart out when Opera del Sol & Central Florida Vocal Arts present Celebrity Lip Sync Battle & Fundraising Event! also at The Abbey.
- You have two weeks left to see Mad Cow Theatre's rendition of the literary classic, Pride and Prejudice.
- Friday, Harry P. Leu Gardens hosts Movie Night, featuring the psychological horror film 'The Others'.
- Friday & Saturday, celebrate Latinx culture at ARTE BAJO La Sombrilla, a music, art, dance, and food festival at Center for Fine and Performing Arts at Seminole State College.
- Saturday, celebrate the Woodstock 50th Anniversary with Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra as they remember legends like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Santana, Janis Joplin, The Who, and so many more.
- Sunday, enjoy four classical orchestras at Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras's 63rd Season Opener.
Get out and do something new.
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