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  • Sponsored Event
  • Apr 17, 2024 - Apr 17, 2024 Key Largo
  • LIONFISH JEWELRY WORKSHOP
  • Website REEF Environmental Education
  • 98300 Overseas Hwy Key Largo FL 33037
  • Amy Lee 305-852-0030 E-mail
  • REEF Lionfish Jewelry Workshops encourage a consumer market that promotes lionfish removal. Workshop instructors will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to make lionfish jewelry, while also giving an informative presentation on the invasive species.
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  • Feb 23, 2024 - Apr 28, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Art & Historical Society: Shadow & Light Art Exhibit
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  • The juried exhibit, "Shadow & Light" celebrates the work of over 50 Keys artists who contributed works in a variety of mediums that capture the natural light of the Florida Keys. These visual expressions evoke contemplation, wonder and introspection. The exhibition runs through April 28 in the Bryan Gallery at the Custom House Museum, 281 Front Street.
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  • Mar 1, 2024 - Mar 28, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Tennessee Williams Festival
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  • In celebration of Tennessee Williams, the Pulitzer-prize winning literary icon that moved to Key West in 1949 and remained a resident for 34 years, the Key West Art & Historical Society hosts an annual ‘Tennessee Williams Key West Festival,’ a month-long series of arts and cultural events that takes place each March across multiple venues. The yearly festival includes a museum fundraiser, plein air painting, poetry and short story writing contests, lectures, museum tours, film screenings, live theater events, and a birthday party complete with cake and bubbly to honor the life and accomplishments of Williams. The full schedule of events is available online.
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  • Mar 5, 2024 - Mar 30, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Red Barn Theater: The Thanksgiving Play
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  • A group of terminally "woke" teaching artists scramble to create a pageant that somehow celebrates both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month. A hilarious, clever and delicious roasting of good intentions and absurd assumptions. Showtime 8 p.m. 319 Duval St.
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  • Mar 13, 2024 - Apr 6, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Waterfront Playhouse: Murder on the Orient Express
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  • A snowdrift stops a luxurious train in its tracks. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, and the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer. This production is Ken Ludwig’s new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Tickets $40 to $85. Showtimes at 8 p.m. 407 Wall Street at Mallory Square.
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  • Mar 15, 2024 - Sep 13, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Art & Historical Society: Flora & Fauna - Early Naturalists in Florida
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  • Enjoy the “Flora & Fauna: Early Naturalists in Florida” exhibit through September 13 at Key West Museum of Art & History's Custom House, Museum, 281 Front Street. The exhibit includes short biographies of the principal naturalists working in the Florida Territory in the early nineteenth century alongside representations of their Florida-inspired works. Their observation of plants and animals was an art as well as a science.
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  • Mar 19, 2024 - Mar 29, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Fringe Theater: The Last 5 Years
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  • A poignant and devastatingly honest look at love and loss between two artists whose first date and last goodbye take place over five years. The musical's innovative structure takes us through their story from start to finish (and finish to start), and is contemporary story-telling at its finest. Tickets $45 to $60. Showtime is 7 p.m. at the Key West Armory, 600 White St.
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  • Mar 28, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Tennessee Williams Festival: The Men of Tennessee Williams
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  • Tennessee Williams, one of the leading American playwrights of the 20th century and a resident of Key West for more than thirty years, often portrayed strong male characters in his works. During the evening’s reading of two one-act plays, at the Little Room Jazz Club, these men will be explored in greater detail. Works that will be examined are "The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer," and "The Big Game." Doors open 5:30 p.m.; performance at 6 p.m. 821 Duval St.
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  • Mar 29, 2024 Key West
  • Sunset Green Event Lawn: Grown Up Easter Egg Hunt
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  • Easter in Key West just got a whole lot more exciting! This all-adult, Grown-Up Easter Egg Hunt includes live music, delicious food and refreshing drinks. There will be lots of prizes to be had, and if you find the golden egg, you win a 1-night stay at 24 North Hotel! 4 to 6 p.m. 3820 N. Roosevelt Blvd.
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  • Mar 29, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • South Florida Symphony: Masterworks IV - Stravinsky, Ravel, Bernstein, Zwilich
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  • South Florida Symphony Orchestra transports you to the high-octane spirit of 1940s Times Square in Bernstein’s "Three Dance Episodes" from the hit Broadway musical On the Town, and a visit with Clarinet Concerto, Zwilich’s stirring elegy on 9/11. Then, be seduced at a Spanish tavern during Ravel’s rhythmic Bolero and be spellbound by Stravinsky’s celebrated nod to Russian folklore, the magical Firebird. Tickets start at $25. Tennessee Williams Theatre, 5901 College Rd. 7:30 p.m.
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  • Mar 30, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Harry S. Truman Little White House: Easter Egg Roll
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  • In addition to the traditional Easter Egg Roll on the lawn, guests will enjoy arts and craft activities, live music, refreshments, photos with the Easter Bunny, and each child will leave with a commemorative wooden Easter egg. The event is free for all ages. 9 to 11 a.m. on the Little White House grounds. 111 Front Street.
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  • Mar 30, 2024 Key West
  • The Marker: Charity Rubber Ducky Hunt
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  • Gather around the pool at The Marker, 200 William St. from 3 to 6 p.m. for a Rubber Ducky Hunt. Purchase duckies for $5 each to win prizes and giveaways. Proceeds will be donated to the Key West Police Love Fund.
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  • Mar 31, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
  • Key West Artisan Market: Let's Get Hoppy!
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  • Key West Artisan Market celebrates all things beer & Easter with the 'Let's Get Hoppy' Edition March 31 from 10 am to 2 pm at Sonny McCoy Indigenous Park, 1801 White St. Bring the kids for the annual free Easter Egg hunt -- kids 12 and under can hunt eggs hidden around the park and exchange them at the Artisan Market booth for candy and prizes. As always, there will be bloody marys, mimosas, a full bar, coffee, juices and cut fruit, multiple food trucks and stalls offering eat-here or take-away items. Shop a curated outdoor market offering fine crafts, art and jewelry from talented Florida Keys makers.
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  • Mar 31, 2024 Key West
  • Schooner Wharf Bar: Wrecker's Cup Race
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  • The third race of the 39th annual Wrecker's Cup Race Series to Sand Key kicks off Sunday at 1 p.m. The all-in-fun race series recalls the tradition of the wreckers from Key West in the 1800s. All sailing vessels, local sailors and visiting yachtsmen are welcome to join the regatta. Spectators can view from Schooner Wharf and the Historic Seaport. After the race, first, second and third place will be awarded in each division, with trophies, a bottle of Pusser’s rum, Schooner Wharf Bar tabs and wrecker T-shirts as prizes. The final race of the series is to be held April 28. Find Schooner Wharf Bar at 202 William St.
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