Calendar of Events

Current Florida Keys Arts & Culture Events

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  • Dec 6, 2024 - May 18, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Art & Historical Society: Collecting Key West - The Works of Mario Sanchez
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  • Mario Sanchez (1908-2005), a Key West native, is among this country’s finest and most-recognized folk artists. In hundreds of intricately painted wood carvings created in a lifelong labor of love, Sanchez has provided a better history of Key West in the first part of the 20th century than any annals or academic texts. His bas-relief carvings, or intaglios, are a visual feast filled with the music, smells and passion of Gato’s Village, the Cuban-American community of Key West where Sanchez spent much of his life. In the carvings, each person, chicken, dog and fish has its own singular expression, attitude and identity. The exhibit is on display at the Custom House Museum daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 281 Front St.
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  • Jan 15, 2025 - Apr 16, 2025 Islamorada Arts & Culture
  • History of Diving Museum: Art Exhibit - Fintastic Fish of Florida
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  • The History of Diving Museum's latest featured exhibit, "Dive Into Art: Fintastic Fish of Florida" is on display through April 16. The exhibit features artistic creations from students across the Keys, as well as from the Art Guild of the Purple Isles. These works focus on the diverse fish of the Florida coast, along with sustainable fishing, aquaculture, and conservation.
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  • Feb 10, 2025 - Feb 24, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Library Speaker Series: Mondays at 6 p.m.
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  • Authors in the Key West Library Speakers series appear on Mondays through March. February's featured speakers are: February 10: Ellen T. White and Leslie Tinsley. White is author of Key West: Paradise Found and Tinsley is author of more than 70 titles on American crafts and Key West Cottages and Gardens. February 17: Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, author of Sarong Party Girls and A Tiger in the Kitchen. February 24: Michael Ruhlman, author of cookbooks and non-fiction narratives; and Ann Hood, author of memoir and fiction titles. Free to attend, no registration required. Talks take place in the library's Palm Garden, 700 Fleming St. at 6 p.m.
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  • Feb 18, 2025 - Mar 1, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Fringe Theater: Goodnight Oscar
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  • There's a fine line between genius and insanity - and tonight, that line is on TV. It’s 1958 and Jack Paar hosts the hottest late-night talk show on television. It's the sweeps, so tonight's guest is wild card Oscar Levant. Just where does entertainment end and exploitation begin? Smart. Funny. Riveting. 7 p.m. at 600 White St. at the Armory.
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  • Feb 21, 2025 - Feb 22, 2025 Key West Environmental
  • Key West Garden Club: Garden Tours
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  • Take a peek behind five gardens gates of private Key West homes. The Key West Garden Club hosts annual tours of select, beautiful and diverse gardens. Find tickets in advance at keywestgardenclub.com or purchase at any one of this year's garden venues.
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  • Feb 22, 2025 - Feb 23, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Art & Craft Festival
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  • The Key West Craft Show and Old Island Days Art Festival are now combined to create the Key West Art & Craft Festival. The event includes artist demonstrations, a patron comfort station with valet package check, upscale food trucks, plenty of seating, and fun events and activities for children. The location for the combined show is along the Quay at Truman Waterfront Park, 100 Southard Street.
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  • Feb 23, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Impromptu Classical Concerts: Avery Gagliano
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  • Avery Gagliano, pianist, is Impromptu’s 2025 “Rising Star”. Having made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of just 20, 22-year-old, Gagliano is an artist with ‘distinctive young talent’. Avery came to international acclaim as the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize winner at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, and as the only American semifinalist at the 18th International Chopin Competition in 2021. 4 p.m., St. Paul's, 401 Duval St.
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  • Feb 25, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Mel Fisher Maritime Museum Lecture Series: Stories from the Golden Crew
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  • Enjoy a panel discussion with members of Mel Fisher’s Golden Crew moderated by Carol Shaughnessy. Panelists include Tom Ford, Syd Jones, Andy Matroci and Vince Trotta. Shaughnessy will initiate and guide a lively exchange of memories as experienced by some of the key figures who worked the famed Atocha’s “main pile,” recovering priceless historic artifacts from the wreck site. Open seating. No reservation required. Doors open at 6 p.m., program at 6:30 p.m. 200 Green St.
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  • Feb 26, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Theater: Ben Harrison
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  • Ben Harrison is a playwright, lyricist and composer who is also an entertainer. What makes his live performances so enjoyable is that, at his core, he is a barroom guitar player/singer/songwriter who somehow manages to blend history, musical theater, Key West and humor into unusual stories that are mostly true. Key West Theater's Backstage Listening Room. Doors at 6 p.m.; show at 7 p.m. 512 Eaton Street.
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  • Feb 28, 2025 - Mar 2, 2025 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Orchid Festival
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  • The Annual Key West Orchid Festival takes place at West Martello Fort and is open to the public with free admission. Enjoy the beautiful orchids grown by locals in the show area and vote for your favorite. Find orchids and orchid supplies for sale. There will be food vendors and raffles of gorgeous blooming orchids. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. 1100 Atlantic Ave. at Higgs Beach.
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  • Feb 28, 2025 Islamorada Arts & Culture
  • Swords & Tails - A Seaside Soiree
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  • The College of the Florida Keys presents the 13th annual Swords & Tails - A Seaside Soiree. The event takes place at the Islander Resort, mile marker 82, from 6 to10 p.m. This fun evening includes food, drinks, a DJ, dancing and a virtual silent auction. The theme is pirates and mermaids - which will you be? Costumes are encouraged! The event is a fundraiser for the CFK Foundation.
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