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A Lecture Series Featuring Graduate Student Research. Lectures are held at the Ocean Discovery Visitors Center on Fridays from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free, however space is limited to 30 guests. Please call 772-242-2293 to reserve a spot.

Meet you local First Responders and learn about local resources. Fun for the whole family! Food, games, giveaways, prizes & more!

Hollywood stars debut under Fort Pierce skies this season, as “Movies in the Fort” brings big-screen entertainment to local parks for the very first time. On various Friday nights from January to May, parks in six local neighborhoods will host FREE outdoor movies featuring today’s blockbusters and classic family favorites. Movies in the Fort gives residents in all parts of the city an opportunity to engage with their neighbors and community. Fort Pierce is committed to increasing access to family-friendly cultural opportunities, and this new movie-series is a perfect example of this work. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Patrons are also welcome to bring their own picnic dinner. Visit the City’s Facebook page for details about pre-show activities on select movie nights. Movies, dates and times are subject to change, for more information call 772.467.3031.

Longineu Parsons – singer, flutist and one of the world’s finest trumpeters; Ted Shumate – blazing, soulful, guitarist – world class musicians who express the heart and soul of American music! 21 Blue will take you from Louis Armstrong to Howlin’ Wolf to Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. This group does what no other group can in terms of playing the history of American music and making you love the fact that you are there to dance to it. Parsons has been hailed by critics internationally as being one of the world’s finest trumpet players and has performed and recorded with such greats as: Cab Calloway, Nat Adderley, Cecil Taylor, Nancy Wilson, Joe Williams, Herbie Mann, Frank Foster, Sam Rivers, and many others. Ted Shumate guitarist, composer, and recording artist, was born in Meridian, Mississippi. In 1983 Ted was hired as a full-time bandleader/guitarist at the Hurricane Jazz Club in Passagrille, Florida.

Through the years, Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and superb performances. In the early years, Darlene’s background vocals as lead singer for The Blossoms behind The Righteous Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley (to name but a few) set the stage for her emergence as a star in her own right. Her Billboard hits include: He’s A Rebel, The Boy I’m Gonna Marry, Wait ‘Til My Bobby Gets Home, He’s Sure the Boy I Love and the #1 holiday classic Christmas Baby Please Come Home, a song that she performed annually with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Symphony Orchestra on The Late Show With David Letterman for some 29 years before David retired. With over five decades of entertainment under her belt complete with a number one single, Los Angeles native, Darlene Love, is still one of the most adored entertainers of the 20th century.

Come enjoy the extraordinary Downtown Fort Pierce Farmers' Market where there are over 70 friendly vendors that offer a wonderful and diverse selection of delicious foods, exotic plants, savory spices, and much much more! Bring the whole family and your pets out to the Downtown Fort Pierce Farmers' Market every Saturday rain or shine between 8am to noon. Come enjoy our special events and great bands. There is always great music, great food, and a great time waiting for you.

Every Saturday, the Fort Pierce Jazz & Blues Society hosts a Jazz Market "featuring creative arts & crafts" in Historic Downtown Fort Pierce on the waterfront of the Indian River. Original hand made crafts, stained glass, Highwaymen paintings, hand-painted glassware and much, more are available for purchase. Funds raised support education programs and local scholarships.

HEADLINER IS STEVE ZIMMERMAN! ?Steve has performed all around the world on cruise ships, super clubs, casinos as well as Broadway, TV and film. A class act comedian that everyone will enjoy. Steve draws from all his talents, training and experiences to take you away from your problems and bring you to a everyday life. He will have you laughing out of your seat with his clean and original humor done by no other. Seen on the movies TAP with Gregory Hines & Sammy Davis Jr, Major League Harlem Nights and Broadway’s Tap Dance Kid, Black & Blue and more! From cruise ships to land, to films, to Broadway, his presence will fill a room on any planet. See him live at the Black Box Saturday Feb 23rd at 8:30! PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS COMICS! These shows are always brought to you and hosted by Sunrise Theatre and Casey N Spaz Comedy!!!

WE ARE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! WE LOVE FT. PIERCE! Come enjoy the beautiful view at the River Walk Center City of Fort Pierce, and have dinner & dessert with some of the best South Florida food trucks! Trucks will be serving from 5:00 - 9:00 PM. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us!! Chow Down Food trucks is bringing in the A-Team of South Florida Food Trucks!!! Food Trucks scheduled to participate will be announced soon! Bonner Mobile Bar will also be there with some tasty adult beverages.

The Ocean Science Lecture Series provides a forum for the community at large to learn about Harbor Branch's most recent discoveries directly from the scientists and engineers who make them. The invited speakers from other institutions are colleagues who work on topics relevant to our Harbor Branch research themes. Lectures are held in the auditorium of the Johnson Education Center on the Harbor Branch campus, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. There is no charge to attend.

Hollywood stars debut under Fort Pierce skies this season, as “Movies in the Fort” brings big-screen entertainment to local parks for the very first time. On various Friday nights from January to May, parks in six local neighborhoods will host FREE outdoor movies featuring today’s blockbusters and classic family favorites. Movies in the Fort gives residents in all parts of the city an opportunity to engage with their neighbors and community. Fort Pierce is committed to increasing access to family-friendly cultural opportunities, and this new movie-series is a perfect example of this work. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets. Patrons are also welcome to bring their own picnic dinner. Visit the City’s Facebook page for details about pre-show activities on select movie nights. Movies, dates and times are subject to change, for more information call 772.467.3031.

Metallica, Deep Purple, Leonard Cohen…the best hits of all-time musical legends come together in Born To Dance, an impressive extravaganza created by award winning group Los Vivancos. Born To Dance. A coral work in which tap-dance, humor, martial arts, musical virtuosity and aerial performances converge to create a beautiful onstage utopia. A concert in which flamenco, symphonic and metal scores alternate with live musical interpretations, an avant-garde wardrobe design and a daring technical production. With an innovative set design that turns dance into a near balancing act performance, the show is an audacious display of spectacular athleticism, great technical virtuosity and artistic eclecticism. With this work Los Vivancos end a cycle of their careers, concluding a trilogy – 7 Hermanos, Aeternum, Born To Dance that took them nine years to complete. You don’t want to miss this superb show!