All Events
Archangels
Opens: Friday, January 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Friday January 31st • 5pm
Visual artist, Frank Henriquez, a native of Pinar Del Rio, Cuba began his art studies at the age of 14 at the Instituto de Instructores de Arte, and at the age of 16 was offered a scholarship and enrolled in an intensive course for gifted artists in Cuba sponsored by Juan Miguel Suarez, one of Cuba’s most recognized realist artists.
Heat Stroke
Opens: Friday, January 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Friday January 31st • 5pm
Heat Stroke by Ehren Fritz Gerhard is an exhibition of mixed media monotypes and botanical paintings in oil and acrylic. The imagery contains decorative tropical plants, fruit trees, and edible landscaping cultivated by the artist. Working from life, Gerhard created a series of gesture drawings inspired by an immersive experience in his garden.
SWFL Symphony: Stradi – Various
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Stradi – Various
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Guest Artist:
– Violin: Gilles Apap
– Violin: Caroline Sikuta, 2018 Concerto Competition Winner
Bach: Double Violin Concerto
Trio Gaspard
Friday, January 24th
7PM Cocktails | 8PM Concert
Founded in 2010, Trio Gaspard is one of the most sought-after piano trios of its generation, praised for their unique and fresh approach to the score.
David Mayfield Parade
January 31st, 2020
Doors: 7:00PM Performance: 8:00PM
Featuring 2-time National Bluegrass Banjo Champion, Steven Moore, Colorado native and former member of “The Railsplitters” Christine King on fiddle and vocals, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bonnis on bass and vocals and former member of “Cadillac Sky” and Grammy & Emmy nominated producer David Mayfield on guitar, mandolin, and vocals.
TGIM February 3rd. 2020
Monday, February 3rd
Doors: 6:30PM • Films: 7:00PM
Watch short indie films and get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process.
FMHS IB Visual Arts Students
Opens: Friday, February 7th • 6pm
Closes: Friday, February 28th • 5pm
Fort Myers High School is proud to present the 2020 International Baccalaureate Senior Visual Arts Exhibition, showcasing the creativity of 48 students.
Shodopia
Opens: Friday, February 7th • 6pm
Closes: Friday February 28th • 5pm
Shodo is a Japanese word used for the art of calligraphy. A work of shodo is considered a work of art, like for example a painting. I am fascinated and inspired by shodo and the zen philosophy behind it.
Puddles Pity Party
Saturday, February 8th 2020
As seen of Americas got Talent, The ‘Sad Clown with the Golden Voice’ is here with his heartfelt anthems and a suitcase full of Kleenex! This Pity Party is not all sadness and longing. The show is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.
Author Lecture Series: Karna Small Bodman
Monday, February 10th
Event Starts 12:00PM
Karna Small Bodman is the author of five published thrillers that have hit “#1 in
Thrillers” on Amazon and won several international awards.
Weaving Workshop: The Amulet Bag
Wednesday, February 19th, 10am - 3pm
Learn to weave an Amulet on a simple tapestry loom. Select a sacred charm or stone to place in the amulet and choose to give as a gift or keep for remembering a special intention.
Art and Poetry Feb 20
Thursday, February 20th | 8:00PM
Take part in the monthly Art and Poetry Networking Event from Gulf Coast Leisure! Experience the best talent SWFL has to offer.
American String Quartet
Friday, February 21st
7:00PM Cocktails | 8:00PM Concert
Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous.
Weaving Workshop: Triaxial Weaving
Wednesday, February 26th 10am - 3pm
Create artwork with hand-painted and jacquard woven ribbons. Paint satin ribbons with acrylics then weave Vertical, Horizontal and 45 degree angles of ribbons on canvas or foamcore board.
Fire and Rain
Friday February 28th
Doors 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The members of Fire & Rain - The James Taylor Experience have been touring the country in various groups for the better part of the last 3 decades, and have now come together to pay tribute to this great music and the greatest singer/songwriter/guitarist the world has ever produced.
24 hour fest 2020
Sunday, March 1st
Visual artists, filmmakers, theatre artists, dancers, musicians, and poets race against a 24-hour clock to create unique works based on prompts given by Artistic Director of Ghostbird Theatre, Barry Cavin.
TGIM March 2nd, 2020
Monday, March 2nd
Doors: 6:30PM • Films: 7:00PM
Watch short indie films and get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process.
SWFL Symphony: Cabaret with Kabaretti
Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Cabaret with Kabaretti
Featuring: Lisa Vroman, Soprano
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Munich Meets Fort Myers
Opens: Friday, March 6th • 6pm
Closes: Friday March 27th • 5pm
In her new show Heidi Schmitz presents an overview over her latest works
of water color , mixed media and resin paintings.
Plasticity
Opens: Friday, March 6th • 6pm
Closes: Friday March 27th • 5pm
People in the modern world are obsessed with controlling and shaping their surroundings.
“Plasticity” holds a mirror up to the world’s tendency to focus on the superficial.
Resurrection
Saturday, March 7th, 2020
7:00PM Cocktails | 8:00PM Concert
Setting out to create the most authentic Journey experience anyone has ever witnessed, Vic, Ryan, and the band spent countless hours discussing the look, sound, production, and FEEL needed for this Journey tribute to deliver a live experience that would resonate on the highest level with the most avid Journey fan.
Author Lecture Series: Tom Corcoran
Monday, March 9th
Event Starts 12:00PM
Tom Corcoran is the author of nine Key West-based mysteries and numerous
books of non-fiction.
Author Workshop: Tom Corcoran
Monday, March 9th, 3pm - 5pm
Each participant in a writing workshop arrives with a unique set of priorities, a bundle of concepts, a different philosophy—and a list of questions.
Terrell Stafford Quintet
Thursday, March 12th 2020
7pm: Cocktails | 8pm: Performance
Founded by Terell Stafford, the members of the quintet are highly accomplished educators, composers, arrangers and band leaders. The Terell Stafford Quintet albums include: Time To Let Go, Centripetal Force, New Beginnings, Taking Chances, Fields of Gold, and This Side of Strayhorn.
Art Walk the Runway
Friday Local Fashion, March 13th , 2020
Saturday Couture Fashion, March 14th, 2020
Cocktails 7:00PM | Runway 8:00PM
Art and Poetry Mar 19
Thursday, March 19th | 8:00PM
Take part in the monthly Art and Poetry Networking Event from Gulf Coast Leisure! Experience the best talent SWFL has to offer.
Andrew Collins Trio
Friday, March 20th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
5x JUNO (Canada’s Grammy equivalent) nominee and 7x Canadian Folk Music Award winning mando-maestro Andrew Collins and his fellow Trio string-pullers just borrowed a page from basic carpentry, hitting the nail on the head
American Virtuosi 2020
Friday, March 27th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Chamber Music Series culminates in an incredible performance by some of the most celebrated musicians in the genre. American Virtuosi invites audiences to take part in an unforgettable evening of live classical music.
SWFL Symphony: Transfigured Night
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Transfigured Night
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Featuring various SWFLSO musicians
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto
G.Jacob: Rhapsody for English Horn
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Schonberg: Transfigured Night
The Gala for the Arts
Thursday, April 2, 2020
6pm cocktails | 7pm dinner
As southwest Florida develops, a refined venue for the arts like Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center is increasingly important to the region. The Gala will help bring the entire community Closer to the Arts. Proceeds from this fundraiser will go directly toward programming for the arts education, art shows, concerts, and special events, plus Rooftop Sculpture Garden development and maintenance.
Visions of the Underworld
Opens: Friday, April 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday April 23rd • 5pm
After nigh a lifetime of exploring the inner worlds of the mind, local artist Danielle Branchaud has built a tremendous body of work that brings personal and universal dreamscapes to life.
Sanctus Carnem
Opens: Friday, April 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, April 23rd • 5pm
Within this work, What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a manifesto of grief, desperation, and heartache, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the possibility of a new beginning.
Pianist Javor Bracic: The Art of Listening
Friday, April 10th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Art of Listening is an interactive tour through the essential works, concepts, and characters of classical music. Mingling live performance and collaborative inquiry, each session of this unique conversation-concert takes the audience on a deep dive into the rich inner world of a chosen masterwork.
Author Lecture Series: Jane Lorenzini
Monday, April 13th
Event Starts 12:00PM
JANE LORENZINI spent thirteen years as a television news anchor and reporter, nearly seven of those at WINK-TV. She went on to co-write two New York Times bestselling books with her dear friend and Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb, Jane’s coworker at WINK during the 1990s.
Author Workshop: Jane Lorenzini
Monday, April 13th, 2020 3pm - 5pm
Jane will share the most impactful lessons she learned during the process, and offer insights that might make your experience writing fiction more efficient and enjoyable.
Barefoot Movement
Friday, April 17th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Barefoot Movement is anything but your standard bluegrass band. They stretch from a strong foundation of traditional Appalachian music, borrowing the best from other roots based genres to shape their hallmark sound.
City of Fort Myers Grant Show
Opens: Friday, May 1st • 6pm
Closes: May 28th • 5pm
City of Fort Myers Individual Artist Grant Art Show.
Digital Lee 2020
Opens: May 1st • 6pm
Closes May 28th • 5pm
Experience a Design & Technology showcase featuring the best student projects of 2019-2020. Featured art will include graphic design, animation, photography manipulation, web design, publication design & multidimensional design.
ArteMoke Mar y Tierra
Opens: Friday, May 1st • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, May 28th • 5pm
Having spent most of her life traveling and living by the ocean, Monika's appreciation for the natural world and mother earth (Tierra Madre)
is encompassed in this, vibrant and uplifting collection of art.
Rumors or Reality
Opens: Friday, June 5th • 6pm
Closes: June 25th • 5pm
Rumors or Reality?
Take part in one of the biggest juried art exhibitions in Southwest Florida! The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center’s call for artists extends to those inside and outside of the Southwest Florida area. Rumors vs. Reality is sure to host some of the best works from local and regional artists. If you’d like to be considered to be a part of this call for artists, please visit the entry and guidelines page. It’s show to be a fantastic show!
Freedom
Opens: Friday, May 5th • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, May 25th • 5pm
Group show of WW2 Survivors and Veteran Artists
Introspection
Opens: Friday, July 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, July 30th • 5pm
A collection of new works, where the artist explores the juxtaposition of beauty and evil.
Wicked Floromancy
Opens: Friday, July 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, July 30th • 5pm
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique Lesley Marrow Opens: August 7th • 6pm Closes: August 27th • 5pm General Admission: $1 entry donation Call the box office for more info 239.333.1933 The Feminist Mystique Lesley Marrow From the beginning of time women have always been a...
Miniature Masterpieces 2020
Opens: Friday, August 7th • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, August 27th • 5pm
Miniature Masterpieces comes back again for 3rd-year installment.
All Events
Archangels
Opens: Friday, January 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Friday January 31st • 5pm
Visual artist, Frank Henriquez, a native of Pinar Del Rio, Cuba began his art studies at the age of 14 at the Instituto de Instructores de Arte, and at the age of 16 was offered a scholarship and enrolled in an intensive course for gifted artists in Cuba sponsored by Juan Miguel Suarez, one of Cuba’s most recognized realist artists.
Heat Stroke
Opens: Friday, January 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Friday January 31st • 5pm
Heat Stroke by Ehren Fritz Gerhard is an exhibition of mixed media monotypes and botanical paintings in oil and acrylic. The imagery contains decorative tropical plants, fruit trees, and edible landscaping cultivated by the artist. Working from life, Gerhard created a series of gesture drawings inspired by an immersive experience in his garden.
SWFL Symphony: Stradi – Various
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Stradi – Various
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Guest Artist:
– Violin: Gilles Apap
– Violin: Caroline Sikuta, 2018 Concerto Competition Winner
Bach: Double Violin Concerto
Trio Gaspard
Friday, January 24th
7PM Cocktails | 8PM Concert
Founded in 2010, Trio Gaspard is one of the most sought-after piano trios of its generation, praised for their unique and fresh approach to the score.
David Mayfield Parade
January 31st, 2020
Doors: 7:00PM Performance: 8:00PM
Featuring 2-time National Bluegrass Banjo Champion, Steven Moore, Colorado native and former member of “The Railsplitters” Christine King on fiddle and vocals, multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bonnis on bass and vocals and former member of “Cadillac Sky” and Grammy & Emmy nominated producer David Mayfield on guitar, mandolin, and vocals.
TGIM February 3rd. 2020
Monday, February 3rd
Doors: 6:30PM • Films: 7:00PM
Watch short indie films and get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process.
FMHS IB Visual Arts Students
Opens: Friday, February 7th • 6pm
Closes: Friday, February 28th • 5pm
Fort Myers High School is proud to present the 2020 International Baccalaureate Senior Visual Arts Exhibition, showcasing the creativity of 48 students.
Shodopia
Opens: Friday, February 7th • 6pm
Closes: Friday February 28th • 5pm
Shodo is a Japanese word used for the art of calligraphy. A work of shodo is considered a work of art, like for example a painting. I am fascinated and inspired by shodo and the zen philosophy behind it.
Puddles Pity Party
Saturday, February 8th 2020
As seen of Americas got Talent, The ‘Sad Clown with the Golden Voice’ is here with his heartfelt anthems and a suitcase full of Kleenex! This Pity Party is not all sadness and longing. The show is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.
Author Lecture Series: Karna Small Bodman
Monday, February 10th
Event Starts 12:00PM
Karna Small Bodman is the author of five published thrillers that have hit “#1 in
Thrillers” on Amazon and won several international awards.
Weaving Workshop: The Amulet Bag
Wednesday, February 19th, 10am - 3pm
Learn to weave an Amulet on a simple tapestry loom. Select a sacred charm or stone to place in the amulet and choose to give as a gift or keep for remembering a special intention.
Art and Poetry Feb 20
Thursday, February 20th | 8:00PM
Take part in the monthly Art and Poetry Networking Event from Gulf Coast Leisure! Experience the best talent SWFL has to offer.
American String Quartet
Friday, February 21st
7:00PM Cocktails | 8:00PM Concert
Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous.
Weaving Workshop: Triaxial Weaving
Wednesday, February 26th 10am - 3pm
Create artwork with hand-painted and jacquard woven ribbons. Paint satin ribbons with acrylics then weave Vertical, Horizontal and 45 degree angles of ribbons on canvas or foamcore board.
Fire and Rain
Friday February 28th
Doors 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The members of Fire & Rain - The James Taylor Experience have been touring the country in various groups for the better part of the last 3 decades, and have now come together to pay tribute to this great music and the greatest singer/songwriter/guitarist the world has ever produced.
24 hour fest 2020
Sunday, March 1st
Visual artists, filmmakers, theatre artists, dancers, musicians, and poets race against a 24-hour clock to create unique works based on prompts given by Artistic Director of Ghostbird Theatre, Barry Cavin.
TGIM March 2nd, 2020
Monday, March 2nd
Doors: 6:30PM • Films: 7:00PM
Watch short indie films and get a look at how the Fort Myers Film Festival views submissions for independent films and participate in the selection process.
SWFL Symphony: Cabaret with Kabaretti
Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Cabaret with Kabaretti
Featuring: Lisa Vroman, Soprano
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Munich Meets Fort Myers
Opens: Friday, March 6th • 6pm
Closes: Friday March 27th • 5pm
In her new show Heidi Schmitz presents an overview over her latest works
of water color , mixed media and resin paintings.
Plasticity
Opens: Friday, March 6th • 6pm
Closes: Friday March 27th • 5pm
People in the modern world are obsessed with controlling and shaping their surroundings.
“Plasticity” holds a mirror up to the world’s tendency to focus on the superficial.
Resurrection
Saturday, March 7th, 2020
7:00PM Cocktails | 8:00PM Concert
Setting out to create the most authentic Journey experience anyone has ever witnessed, Vic, Ryan, and the band spent countless hours discussing the look, sound, production, and FEEL needed for this Journey tribute to deliver a live experience that would resonate on the highest level with the most avid Journey fan.
Author Lecture Series: Tom Corcoran
Monday, March 9th
Event Starts 12:00PM
Tom Corcoran is the author of nine Key West-based mysteries and numerous
books of non-fiction.
Author Workshop: Tom Corcoran
Monday, March 9th, 3pm - 5pm
Each participant in a writing workshop arrives with a unique set of priorities, a bundle of concepts, a different philosophy—and a list of questions.
Terrell Stafford Quintet
Thursday, March 12th 2020
7pm: Cocktails | 8pm: Performance
Founded by Terell Stafford, the members of the quintet are highly accomplished educators, composers, arrangers and band leaders. The Terell Stafford Quintet albums include: Time To Let Go, Centripetal Force, New Beginnings, Taking Chances, Fields of Gold, and This Side of Strayhorn.
Art Walk the Runway
Friday Local Fashion, March 13th , 2020
Saturday Couture Fashion, March 14th, 2020
Cocktails 7:00PM | Runway 8:00PM
Art and Poetry Mar 19
Thursday, March 19th | 8:00PM
Take part in the monthly Art and Poetry Networking Event from Gulf Coast Leisure! Experience the best talent SWFL has to offer.
Andrew Collins Trio
Friday, March 20th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
5x JUNO (Canada’s Grammy equivalent) nominee and 7x Canadian Folk Music Award winning mando-maestro Andrew Collins and his fellow Trio string-pullers just borrowed a page from basic carpentry, hitting the nail on the head
American Virtuosi 2020
Friday, March 27th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Chamber Music Series culminates in an incredible performance by some of the most celebrated musicians in the genre. American Virtuosi invites audiences to take part in an unforgettable evening of live classical music.
SWFL Symphony: Transfigured Night
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Transfigured Night
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Featuring various SWFLSO musicians
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto
G.Jacob: Rhapsody for English Horn
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Schonberg: Transfigured Night
The Gala for the Arts
Thursday, April 2, 2020
6pm cocktails | 7pm dinner
As southwest Florida develops, a refined venue for the arts like Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center is increasingly important to the region. The Gala will help bring the entire community Closer to the Arts. Proceeds from this fundraiser will go directly toward programming for the arts education, art shows, concerts, and special events, plus Rooftop Sculpture Garden development and maintenance.
Visions of the Underworld
Opens: Friday, April 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday April 23rd • 5pm
After nigh a lifetime of exploring the inner worlds of the mind, local artist Danielle Branchaud has built a tremendous body of work that brings personal and universal dreamscapes to life.
Sanctus Carnem
Opens: Friday, April 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, April 23rd • 5pm
Within this work, What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a manifesto of grief, desperation, and heartache, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the possibility of a new beginning.
Pianist Javor Bracic: The Art of Listening
Friday, April 10th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Art of Listening is an interactive tour through the essential works, concepts, and characters of classical music. Mingling live performance and collaborative inquiry, each session of this unique conversation-concert takes the audience on a deep dive into the rich inner world of a chosen masterwork.
Author Lecture Series: Jane Lorenzini
Monday, April 13th
Event Starts 12:00PM
JANE LORENZINI spent thirteen years as a television news anchor and reporter, nearly seven of those at WINK-TV. She went on to co-write two New York Times bestselling books with her dear friend and Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb, Jane’s coworker at WINK during the 1990s.
Author Workshop: Jane Lorenzini
Monday, April 13th, 2020 3pm - 5pm
Jane will share the most impactful lessons she learned during the process, and offer insights that might make your experience writing fiction more efficient and enjoyable.
Barefoot Movement
Friday, April 17th
Cocktails 7:00PM | Concert 8:00PM
The Barefoot Movement is anything but your standard bluegrass band. They stretch from a strong foundation of traditional Appalachian music, borrowing the best from other roots based genres to shape their hallmark sound.
City of Fort Myers Grant Show
Opens: Friday, May 1st • 6pm
Closes: May 28th • 5pm
City of Fort Myers Individual Artist Grant Art Show.
Digital Lee 2020
Opens: May 1st • 6pm
Closes May 28th • 5pm
Experience a Design & Technology showcase featuring the best student projects of 2019-2020. Featured art will include graphic design, animation, photography manipulation, web design, publication design & multidimensional design.
ArteMoke Mar y Tierra
Opens: Friday, May 1st • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, May 28th • 5pm
Having spent most of her life traveling and living by the ocean, Monika's appreciation for the natural world and mother earth (Tierra Madre)
is encompassed in this, vibrant and uplifting collection of art.
Rumors or Reality
Opens: Friday, June 5th • 6pm
Closes: June 25th • 5pm
Rumors or Reality?
Take part in one of the biggest juried art exhibitions in Southwest Florida! The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center’s call for artists extends to those inside and outside of the Southwest Florida area. Rumors vs. Reality is sure to host some of the best works from local and regional artists. If you’d like to be considered to be a part of this call for artists, please visit the entry and guidelines page. It’s show to be a fantastic show!
Freedom
Opens: Friday, May 5th • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, May 25th • 5pm
Group show of WW2 Survivors and Veteran Artists
Introspection
Opens: Friday, July 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, July 30th • 5pm
A collection of new works, where the artist explores the juxtaposition of beauty and evil.
Wicked Floromancy
Opens: Friday, July 3rd • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, July 30th • 5pm
The Feminine Mystique
Miniature Masterpieces 2020
Opens: Friday, August 7th • 6pm
Closes: Thursday, August 27th • 5pm
Miniature Masterpieces comes back again for 3rd-year installment.
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