2018 Florida Biennial Open Call to Artists

2018 Florida Biennial Open Call to Artists Deadline: June 11, 2018 The 2018 Florida Biennial presented by the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood is open to artists residing in the state of Florida working in any medium with any subject matter. This ninth edition focuses on exploring multicultural identities, discussing ecological issues, and imagining a robust cultural climate for Florida within the global economy. The exhibition opens September 14 and will run through Oct. 21, 2018. Dates/Timeline April 1: Submissions Open June 11: Deadline June 25: Announcement of participating artists Honorarium Jurors Pick - $1000 Honorable Mention - $500 For the first time in our history, all selected artists will be awarded a stipend to refund their submission fee to defray exhibition costs, as well as a Friend-level membership. The membership is part of the North American Reciprocal Program, providing free admission to nearly 1,000 art and culture institutions. SUBMIT TODAY! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Sarah Fritchey, Juror Sarah Fritchey is the Curator and Gallery Director at Artspace in New Haven, Conn. Her practice seeks to ignite conversations around the body, identity, representation, and the need for greater equity in the arts. Artspace is a Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) Certified non-profit organization championing emerging artists and building new audiences for contemporary art in a 5,000 square-foot space. In addition to her full-time role at Artspace, Fritchey has curated and written independently for many notable institutions, including the NYPOP Gallery NYC; the African American Museum in Philadelphia; Queens College in New York; Hessel Museum of Art at Bard in Hudson; UMass Amherst; Artscope Magazine; Big, Red and Shiny; and Artforum.com.

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The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood; the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation; and the Josephine S. Leiser Foundation. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.

ArtWalk at the Projects in FATVillage - Grand Opening of "Opposing Futures" Saturday, April 29 - posted by FFAB

OPPOSING FUTURESArt Exhibition

FATVillage Projects, 523 NW 1st Ave, Fort Lauderdale
Curated by Leah Brown, Elle Schorr, Peter Symons

April 29th 6-10 pm
May 27th 6-10 pm
June 24th 6-10 pm
Artist talks: May 18 7 pm

About Opposing Futures:
Human beings have always imagined what the future might have in store. Yet speculative fiction writers and filmmakers seem to have grappled with these ideas more than have the creative thinkers in the realm of visual art. This exhibition seeks to change that. Opposing Futures is an exhibition of contemporary art by 19 Florida artists/artist teams who are envisioning what may actually lie ahead.

Will we solve the world’s health, water, food and energy problems? Bring prosperity to the far corners of the globe? Extend the life cycle? Weave technological innovation into meaningful and productive activity from youth through advanced old age? Expand civilization into outer space?Bring about world peace?

Or…will we succumb to regional conflicts, bombs and biological/chemical warfare, or digital takeovers, overt and covert actions, fears of “the other”, climate change, environmental destruction, epidemics, famine, natural disasters?

Who will win? Who will lose? How will these and other changes affect our societies, and what consequences may flow from these changes? What new challenges will arise?

Curators Leah Brown, Elle Schorr and Peter Symons have challenged artists from across South Florida to envision and create new artworks based on these and their own questions about what the future holds. Artworks are across all media, including traditional art forms and media, as well as performance, video, installation and interactivity.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Devin Caserta
Orlando Chiang
Jenny Day
Shannon Ellis
Ryan Farrell
Isabel Gouveia
Kim Heise and Ingrid Barreneche Collaboration
Sibel Kocabasi
Beju Lejobart
Daniel Listwan
Fahan Sky McDonagh
Sue Montoya
Rick Newton
Glomus Orbis Collaboration
Karina Pais
Elle Schorr
Christina Nicola Sidberry
Laurencia Strauss
Peter Symons

About the Curators:
Elle Schorr is an artist and independent curator living and working in Lake Worth, Florida. She has exhibited her artwork widely, and has garnered critical attention for her multiple perspective/single image photographs. She has created and leads an ongoing monthly series of Art Salons at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, focusing on artist lectures that explore how individual professional art practices relate to the broader world of contemporary conceptual art.

Leah Brown and Peter Symons are both independent artists as well as the Exhibitions Directors and Curators of the FATVillage Projects in Fort Lauderdale, FL for the past 6 years. Together, they have put on more than 50 major art exhibitions in FATVillage Arts District, and have received funding for the FATVillage 501c3 non-profit from the Knight Foundation, FAB!, Broward County Cultural Division, Whole Foods, the Florida Panthers, the City of Fort Lauderdale among others. They also form the design team of the public art company, Art+Light+Space Inc, which creates socially engaged, technology-driven artworks for permanent public settings.

About FATVillage:
FATVillage (Flagler Arts and Technology) Arts District is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and is located along the FEC railway line in the 500 block of NW 1st Avenue (between NW 5th St and historic Sistrunk Blvd) just North of downtown Fort Lauderdale. Monthly Artwalks draw thousands of viewers from all over South Florida and beyond. FATVillage supports the creation and exhibition of challenging work that is outside the realm of commercial galleries, allowing for a critical dialog between artists, curators and the public. Here, artists and curators are provided opportunities to show experimental, immersive, and non-traditional media, and to create and install new works on site.

Art Talk: History of Girls’ Club - NSU Art Museum - posted by FFAB

Florida Artist Francie Bishop Good at David Castillo Gallery - posted by FFAB

Francie Bishop Good Comus David Castillo Gallery Opening Reception, Wednesday, February 8, 2017 6 - 9 P.M. Exhibition continues through March 25 420 Lincoln Road, Suite 300 Miami Beach, Florida 33139 United States Hours Tuesday – Wednesday & Friday – Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm and anytime by appointment. Telephone +1 305 573 8110 info@davidcastillogallery.com Francie Bishop Good's Comus Series is a yearbook spread roused to portrait gallery.They belong to the artist, class of 1967, or her mother, class of 1942. They belong to the collective subjectivity of Allentown High School alumna. They belong to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to the embodied affects of memory, to the viewer, complicit in present constructions of alternative pasts. The viewer gazes over her left shoulder in cat-eye spectacles, a wide headband girding her shoulder-length flip. An overexposed oil slick hooks her mouth and obscures her neck, coaxing two tectonic plates from the formal topography of a face. Bishop Good intervenes upon heirloom yearbooks with a shoal of painting, photography, drawing, and collage in a palette rearing between organic and confectionary, tranquil and demonic. These mediations derive from documentation spanning twenty years of the artist's own works, collapsing individual and collective time arcs. Nonetheless, the forms of intergenerational yearbooks endure through Comus Series' successive organization, uniform size, black-and-white, three-quarters views, comely postures, and percolating smiles. Comus remains the active yearbook title of Bishop Good's alma mater. Comus is also the ancient Greek god of mirth and merrymaking responsible for uncontrollable laughter to the point of stitches and, more generally, excess to the point of chaos.  Francie Bishop Good grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. Bishop Good is the two time recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. Her museum solo shows include: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown Pennsylvania, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida and the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida. Bishop Good is represented by David Castillo Gallery, “Comus” is her third solo exhibition. Recent museum acquisitions include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Wadsworth Atheneum, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, and the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. Comus Exhibition Venues The Hilliard University Art Museum Lafayette, Louisiana curated by Jane Hart September 9, 2016 - December 10, 2016 David Castillo Gallery Miami, Florida February 8, 2017- March 25, 2017 Allentown Art Museum Allentown, Pennsylvania April 30, 2017 - June 11, 2017 Griffin Museum of Photography Winchester, Massachusetts October 2017 Coral Springs Museum Coral Springs, Florida Summer 2018

Call To Artists - Juried Biennial Art & Cultural Center/Hollywood - posted by FFAB

Submissions: Aug. 1 – Sept. 30, 2016 Exhibition: Jan. 21 – March 5, 2017 All artists residing in the state of Florida are invited to submit entries for the Art and Culture Center's 8th All-Media Juried Biennial. Original paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, video, computer-generated images, performance, and site-specific installations will be considered. Submissions $50 for up to three artworks. Katherine Pill, JurorCurator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. Awards Cash awards totaling $6,500 will be distributed: $3,000 Best in Show $2,000 First Place $1,000 Second Place $500 Third Place Dates/Timeline Aug. 1 – Sept. 30, 2016: Submissions accepted Nov. 7: Announcements for accepted entries mailed Jan. 9 – 13, 2017: Accepted artworks to be delivered to Center Fri., Jan. 20, 6 – 9 pm: Opening reception and awards presentation Jan. 21 – March 5: Exhibition dates March 6 – 10, 2017: Artwork pickup

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The Art and Culture Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported in part by its members, admissions, private entities, the City of Hollywood, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council; and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. We welcome donations from all members of the community who wish to support our work.

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65th All Florida Invitational - Boca Raton Museum of Art - July 16th - posted by FFAB

July 16th 

Boca Raton Museum of Art will open the 65th All Florida Invitational


Flora, fauna, politics, and psychosis make up but a few of the themes of the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 65th All Florida Invitational an exhibition with as wide a variety of artistic mediums as it has subject matter. On view July 16 through September 25, this year's iteration of the longest-running juried art competition in the state brings together the work of five distinguished Florida-based artists alongside the work of 25 early-career Florida artists. The result is an exhibition of 30 works that provide a unique perspective onto current artistic practice in our state a perspective guided by the voices of the artists themselves. 

The Museum made the decision to change the format of the exhibition in 2015, switching from a submission to an invitational design. 

Five established artists with strong ties to Florida; Edouard Duval Carrié of Miami, Elisabeth Condon of Tampa and Brooklyn, Christopher Harris of Orlando, Carol Prusa of Boca Raton, and Sergio Vega of Gainesville were invited to each select five artists who they believe show great promise. With artists involved in the curatorial process, the All Florida Invitational offers a new and personal perspective.

The invitational format has strengthened this much-beloved exhibition, says Marisa J. Pascucci, the Museum’s Curator of Collections, who worked on the project.

The All Florida Invitational is now much more inclusive of all of Florida both geographically and artistically. And interestingly, more than half of the artists in the exhibition are female.

Irvin Lippman, the Museum’s Executive Director, notes that as the Museum was founded by artists, we thought the best way to advance the All Florida was to create an artist-centered curatorial selection committee. We have chosen artists who definitely have their finger on the pulse.

Edouard Duval-Carrié shared:

"I moved here twenty years ago and what has excited me is the diversity and breadth of the artists that have found their way to this region and their individualistic take on their artistic production. The artists I have chosen are highly individualistic in their art practice but very accomplished, each in their own way.”

About Boca Raton Museum of Art
Founded by artists, the Boca Raton Museum of Art was established in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton. The organization has grown to encompass an Art School, Guild, Store, and Museum with distinguished permanent collections of contemporary art, photography, non-western art, glass, and sculpture, as well as a diverse selection of special exhibitions. The Museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 AM until 5 PM; on Thursdays from 10 AM until 8 PM; and on weekends from 12 PM until 5 PM.Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month, and otherwise $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, and free for students with IDs and children under 12. Learn more at www.bocamuseum.org

Out of this World: The Art and Artists of NASA - Vero Beach Museum - posted by FFAB

Andy Warhol's "Moonwalk (Pink)," features an astronaut in a pink space suit standing proudly 

on the moon's surface beside an American flag in the artist's trademark style. 

(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART)

NASA artwork lands at Vero Beach Museum of Art June 25
By Amanda Hicks of TCPalm

People on the Treasure Coast will appreciate a new exhibit coming to the Vero Beach Museum of Art this month.

"Out of this World: The Art and Artists of NASA," a collection from the NASA Art Program, will be on display starting June 25.

Chief preparator Matthew Mangold and museum curator Jay Williams chose 71 pieces from more than 300 works of art at the Kennedy Space Center.

The museum staff expects the exhibition to be appealing to Floridians since the Kennedy Space Center has made it possible for many to experience launches first hand.

"I think it will be extremely well received," Williams said. "Most Floridians feel a sense of connection with NASA's space program, I believe. I know it's true for me. The exhibition will appeal to a wide range of ages."

The NASA Art Program started in 1963 when NASA administrator James Webb suggested artists help tell the story of the agency's adventures.

"Important events can be interpreted by artists to give a unique insight into significant aspects of our history-making advances into space," Webb said. "An artistic record of this nation's program of space exploration will have great value for future generations and may make a significant contribution to the history of American art."

The exhibit features different art work from 1963 when the program started to Elizabeth McGrath's wall sculpture "Moon Mission" created in 2008, representing astronaut Alan Sheperd's golf shots on the moon during the Apollo 14 expedition.

Williams said a lot of Floridians feel a sense of pride in NASA's space program.

"We all knew about Cape Canaveral as the place where the Space Race was taking shape," he said.

Several Florida artists who participated in the art program will have their work on display in the upcoming exhibition.

Martin Joseph Hoffman (1935-2013), a Florida native who lived the last years of his life in Vero Beach, will have his painting, "Launch Window" (1981), on display.

Samuel Ward, who lives and works in Sarasota and observed several shuttle launches in the 1980s, will have his painting, "Cathedral" (1985), on display which depicts the inside of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.The art will be displayed in the Museum's Holmes Gallery for three months and is supported by a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts..

"The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to nurturing artists and the arts in communities across the country," said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "Supporting projects from organizations like the Vero Beach Museum of Art represents a wise investment in Indian River County and the creative vitality of the nation."

IF YOU GO

What: "Out of this World: The Art and Artists of NASA"
When: June 25-Sept. 25; 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-4:30 p.m. Sunday
Admission: Off-season (Memorial Day to Labor Day), adults $6; seniors $5; students $5 with valid ID; children 17 and younger free; military free with valid ID. Season rates, adults $10, seniors $9
Information: www.verobeachmuseum.org

Stan Stokes' "Ascent of Atlantis" is a dramatic, highly realistic view of the shuttle orbiter, shown at the moment it is clearing the gantry, surrounded by billowing smoke and gases. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART)

Glad to see the Vero Museum exposing the public to part of this important but mostly unknown collection. 

I have been to Cape Canaveral many times and always visit the artwork from the collection that is displayed. The collection is undervalued by NASA in my opinion and not utilized nor displayed as it should be. A traveling show of the best of the collection, with published works, books, posters and educational material should be developed and shared with museums around the country.

Another idea I have is to finally get an artist up to the space station to work from that unique point of view! Maybe a plein air artist who could work while attached to the arm they use for space walks? Why not?!? A guy can dream... Glenn

The new Center for Asian Art at Ringling Museum makes a big impression - posted by FFAB

The new Center for Asian Art at Ringling Museum makes a big impression
Tampa Bay Times
by Lennie Bennett

The Center for Asian Art in the Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Gallery of Asian Art is a big name for a big project at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

It opened grandly in May with galleries for its permanent collection and notable loans — a study area that will serve both visiting scholars and a new Asian arts program for students at Florida State University, which owns the museum, and a lecture room that can accommodate an audience of 125.

The art will be of greatest interest to most visitors. Curator Fan Zhang has done a heroic job of compressing thousands of years of history and vast geographic and cultural territory using only about 400 works.

...

The new pavilion, designed by the prestigious Boston-based architectural firm Machado Silvetti, is gorgeous. It is sheathed in 2,736 green-glazed, rippled terra-cotta tiles, all handmade, that cover its cube shape that is elevated on concrete legs. It is done no service by the way it has been connected to the renovated wing. The design would have worked best as a free-standing structure with space around it to lighten its density. Pragmatically, that couldn't have happened because it is only part of the center and needs to be in close proximity to the renovated wing, which houses much of the art. The way they are joined is unfortunate. They seem jammed together with no transition, creating a visually jarring exterior. And without some sort of transition, the vibrant jade of the tiles, so evocative of Asian architecture, fights with the pastel color of the rest of the museum.

Those are aesthetic judgments, however, and the more important point of this new addition is that it broadens the museum's reach into its future and honors its past. John Ringling is best known, rightfully so, for amassing a great collection of Baroque art.

"He wasn't just trying to focus on European art," High said. "He wanted to explore making (his museum) a more encyclopedic institution."

Ringling gathered hundreds of works of Asian art in just a few years. When many people were buying them for decorative purposes, he wanted his to be of museum quality. Many of them are. It's gratifying to see this part of his collection, which had never been properly organized, given its due.

The Center for Asian Art in the Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Gallery of Asian Art is part of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours to 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is $25 adults, $20 seniors and $5 students with ID and youths 6 to 17. It includes the art museum, circus museum and Ca d'Zan, the Ringlings' historic mansion. Admission to the art museum only is free every Monday. (941) 359-5700 or ringling.org.

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ART BOCA RATON ANNOUNCES ART WEEK LINE-UP OF LECTURES & EVENTS - posted by FFAB

ART BOCA RATON ANNOUNCES ART WEEK LINE-UP OF LECTURES & EVENTS


Inaugural Fair Showcases Interactive Art Demonstrations, Documentaries & Late

Nights at the Boca Raton Museum of Art


BOCA RATON, FL – (Feb. 19, 2016) – Lee Ann and David Lester, organizers and

founders of Art Boca Raton, taking place March 18-21, 2016 in the International Pavilion

of the Palm Beaches on the grounds of the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University,

announce Art Boca Raton Art Week, an extraordinary line-up of lectures, events,

interactive demonstrations, local artists at work and off-site events in conjunction with

the inaugural art fair.


All programming will take place at Art Boca Raton in the International Pavilion of the

Palm Beaches located at the Research Park on the ground of Florida Atlantic University

(3450 NW 8th Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33431), unless otherwise noted. Admission to

programming is included with the ticket unless otherwise indicated. For a full schedule

and details please visit www.artbocaraton.com.


“Our international art fairs are successful because we are committed to becoming part

of the community’s arts scene as we continue to do with Art Palm Beach and as we did

as founders of Art Miami. By partnering with local institutions and organizations to

create Art Boca Raton Art Week, and involving community leaders and residents we

create a unique sense of ownership by all who know how beneficial art and culture are

to the city they live and work in, says Lee Ann Lester. “Working closely with Florida

Atlantic University, the Research Park, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Art School

and the Mayor’s office and Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, we have created

programming and events with wide appeal,” continues Lester.

Full Show Schedule after the fold

Convening Culture Conference, Fort Lauderdale - Feb. 1 - 2, 2016

Citizens for Florida Arts, Inc. is proud to present the 2016 Convening Culture Conference, a statewide event that brings together individuals working in arts and culture in Florida, to learn about and share the latest national trends in this industry.

This conference will be the forum for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs to facilitate a deeper look at aspects of its new strategic plan, which has an emphasis on the diversity that makes Florida so distinctive. Featuring discussions on a variety of levels within both cultural programming and cultural organizations, the conference will also highlight the work of artists whose work speaks to this theme. Sessions will touch on areas of marketing, fundraising, collaboration and leadership in addition to others. Opening the conference are two half-day workshops, presented by nationally-renowned speakers, that can be attended as stand-alone events at a nominal fee, or you can choose to pay the $100 conference fee and these workshops, lunches and evening events will be included in your registration fee. Complete Schedule HERE Conference Highlights Monday, February 1, 10AM - 1PM Creating Diverse Audiences for Community Engagement Donna Walker-Kuhne Vice President of Community Engagement for The New Jersey Performing Arts Center @KuhneDonna Monday, February 1, 10AM - 1PM Digital, Social and Mobile Lessons from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art @sree Tuesday, February 2, 11:20 - 12:20 PM Keynote Speaker Valeria Piaggio Ms. Valeria Piaggio serves as the Head of Polycultural Insights & Consulting and Vice President at The Futures Company and served as its Vice President of Multicultural Insights since August 2014. In this capacity, Ms. Piaggio served as the conceptual leader and chief consultant for their launched Total Market subscription offer -- the first and only unified multicultural and general market consumer insights service. Ms. Piaggio serves as Senior Director, Consumer Strategy of Iconoculture, Inc. In addition, she also serves as the Global Knowledge Lead for multicultural marketplace trends in support of The Future Company's strategic insight, planning and innovation consultancy. Tuesday, February 2, 5:30 - 7:30 PM Florida Artists Hall of Fame Presentation Join Florida’s Secretary of State, Ken Detzner and members of the Florida Council on Arts and Culture to celebrate the remarkable career achievements and impact of two exceptional Florida artists being inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame Jane Davis Doggett and Romero Britto.

Register Online Broward Cultural Division is a proud sponsor of this  statewide conference and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts  is the host of the daytime sessions and workshops. Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 SW 5th Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312

Commemorating St. Augustine's 450th with @VivaFlorida500 - posted by FFAB

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Viva Florida Eblast Florida Department of State St. Augustine's 450th Anniversary Commemoration Pedro Menéndez de Aviles formally established St. Augustine with a mass of Thanksgiving along the banks of the Matanzas River on September 8, 1565, making it the longest continuously occupied European city in the United States. To commemorate 450 years since St. Augustine was established, there are many activities planned around the anniversary date, beginning on September 4, 2015.   The festivities kick off on Friday, September 4, with a music and street festival that takes over downtown. Then on the anniversary day a full morning of activity is planned throughout the city. The Spanish fiesta feel continues with a food and wine festival and other community events throughout September to Celebrate 450! Read on to see how you can be a part of this historic moment for St. Augustine.  Celebrate 450! Street and Music Festival: September 4-8, 2015 Celebrate 450! is a free, five-day commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine produced by the City of St. Augustine. Beginning with the Street and Music Festival featuring live entertainment by Aaron Neville, Mavis Staples, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, JJ Grey and Mofro, more than 80 local and regional acts, a giant fireworks display and more. The event is free and no tickets are necessary. Visit StAugustine-450.com for details, including maps of street closures.      Florida Folk Forum at St. Augustine Lighthouse: September 5, 2015  The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum invites the public to a free folklife festival sponsored by the Florida Department of State's Florida Folklife Program. Come celebrate the diverse cultures and living traditions of St. Augustine through interactive presentations and demonstrations by talented local artists. Visit VivaFlorida.org for more information Founding Day Activities: September 8, 2015 This annual Founding Day Heritage Event commemorates the founding day for the City of St. Augustine, Florida's colonial capitol and the oldest continuously occupied European city, port, and parish in the continental United States. Performed by Florida Living History from 9 a.m. on September 8 at Mission Nombre de Dios. With this being the 450th anniversary, the landing and procession are enhanced. Visit VivaFlorida.org for more information.   Spanish Wine and Food Festival:  September 9-12, 2015 The 2015 St. Augustine Spanish Wine and Food Festival presented by Wells Fargo offers a first-class, all-Spanish wine tasting including delicious fresh tapas prepared by Chef Tony and his team from the Publix Cooking School in Jacksonville. This year's festival features five events throughout four days benefiting three local charities.  Each event is unique and geared toward a different audience. Advance tickets are available at SpanishWineFestival.com. El Galeón: September 3-23, 2015 El Galeón, the authentic replica of a ship that traveled the coasts of Florida 500 years ago, will again sail into Matanzas Bay from September 3 - 23, 2015, for St. Augustine's 450th anniversary, offering tours and the opportunity to glimpse back into maritime history by walking the decks and wandering through the ship's quarters. Docked at the St. Augustine Municipal Marina, 111 Avenida Menendez, El Galeón will be open daily for tours. Find out more, including pricing, at StAugustine-450.com. September 2015 Florida Department of State Secretary of State Ken Detzner In This Issue St. Augustine's 450th Commemoration Celebrate 450! Florida Folk Forum St. Augustine Founding Day Spanish Wine and Food Festival El Galeón See more Viva Florida events at VivaFlorida.org. Follow us on  Facebook and Twitter   Join Our Mailing List!  Viva Florida CONTACT US WITH YOUR NEWS FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE! VivaFlorida.org/ Florida500info@dos.myflorida.com Find us on Facebook and Twitter! This newsletter is funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services.

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