New & Ongoing Events

DAY TRIPPIN’ ANNOUNCES COOL MUSEUM TRILOGY

Day Trippin’ with Patti & Vicky announces its Cool Museum Trilogy this summer.  The first trip, scheduled for Thursday, July 16th visits the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg for the Dali & Da Vinci – Where Minds, Machines and Masterpieces Meet exhibit. Following the morning tour, the group will enjoy lunch at the Hangar Restaurant and Flight Lounge before heading to the Florida Orange Grove Winery for a tour and tasting. The cost is $90 per person that includes bus transportation, museum admission and winery tour & tasting.  Lunch is on your own.  The bus will depart from the IHOP Restaurant in Vero Beach at 7:30 am and return at approximately 8:00 pm.  Future museum tours are scheduled for August 12th to Orlando for Mummies of the World at the Orlando Science Center (Cost is $80 pp) and on September 30th at the Elliott Museum in Stuart to see Illuminating the Deep:  Glimpsing the Largest and Least Known Ecosystem on Earth (Cost is $75 pp). To learn more about the COOL Museum Trilogy, call Vicky at (772) 569-8372 or e-mail Patti at pgibbon49@gmail.com.   Sign up for all three museum tours at one time and receive $10 off the total ticket purchase.

Wednesday, July 8 and Friday July 10

The Vero Beach International Music Festival continues this week at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Royal Palm Boulevard in Vero Beach, with performances on Wednesday, July 8th and Friday, July 10th beginning at 7:30 pm.  These concerts feature faculty and advanced students of the Mike Block String Camp with performances of  bluegrass, jazz and more.  Admission is free, however a $10 donation is suggested to support the Mike Block String Camp Scholarship Fund.  For more information visit VeroBeachInternationalMusicFestival.com

Thursday, July 9

THE ART OF NETWORKING ON THURSDAY

Meet new people and network with arts professionals, arts organization representatives, businesses and patrons who support the arts in a happy hour atmosphere!  Join the Cultural Council of Indian River County, Thursday, July 9th, at the Art of Networking from 5 to 7 pm at the new Offices of Indian River Press Journal/TCPalm.com, 2066 14th Avenue, Suite 201, in Vero Beach’s lively Arts District. The Art of Networking is free for CCIRC members, guests are only $5. RSVP to the Cultural Council by calling 772-770-4857.

Friday & Saturday, July 10 & 11

COMEDY, LIVE MUSIC & MORE AT RIVERSIDE THEATRE

Riverside Theatre’s Comedy Zone features comedians  Shaun Jones  and Tim “The Dairy Farmer” with shows at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, July 10th and 11th. In addition, free outdoor concerts are held at Live In The Loop with Soul Jam (Blues Rock) on Friday and Live Pan Steel Drum (Island Rock) on Saturday beginning at 6:30 pm.  Enjoy backyard games like corn hole, ladder ball, and others played on Riversides backyard. Comedy Zone Tickets: $16 general admission, $18 reserved seating.  For tickets: RiversideTheatre.com

MEDITATION CLASSES AT CSC

The Center for Spiritual Care, 1550 24th Street in Vero Beach, offers two opportunities to learn techniques of meditation this week. A Transcendental Meditation Presentation with Nancy & Sue Dudley will be held on Friday, July 10th at 7:00 pm.  Easy to learn and enjoyable to practice, the benefits of TM include eliminating stress and anxiety and developing creativity, focus and memory.  Donations are appreciated.  RSVP by calling 772-567-1233.  Then, on Saturday, July 11th, learn Sacred Healing Meditation with Reverend Scott Sherman (pictured) at a seminar and  demonstration from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.  (Free will love offering), and/or sign up for an Individual Session with Rev. Scott Monday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (40 minute sessions are  $60)  To make reservations, please call Scott at 772-999-5721 or 561-222-0701.

 

Sunday July 12

SCSO WEST SIDE STORY

The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform a two part concert, West Side Story,  at 3:00 pm on Sunday, July 12th at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center, 1707 16th Street.  West Side Story includes the work of fiery composers Leonard Bernstein, Michael Daugherty and Kenneth Fuchs.  The concert will open with the Letters from Lincoln, by Michael Daugherty.  Central Florida baritone, Michael John Foster  joins the Space Coast Symphony to present the historically-inspired work, with texts taken entirely from Lincoln’s own words and writings.  The second half of the concert features Kenneth Fuchs’ An American Place.  Fuchs, who will be on hand for the summer concert, wrote An American Place to express the “brash optimism of the American spirit.”  Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story completes the performance. $20 advance tickets are available at www.SpaceCoastSymphony.org Tickets at the door are $25.  The performance is free for those aged 18 and under or with a college student ID.  Call toll free to 855-252-7276 for more information.