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Now in its 62nd year, the festival features world-class musicians and student fellows from the top conservatories and universities across the country and the world. It also gives audiences the chance to witness the behind-the-scenes work of the festival.

Tickets for the upcoming Florida Orchestra season are now on sale.

This weekend: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and ‘A Sea Symphony’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Ringling's "Art of Performance" series features eclectic works that stretch boundaries

The Jervey Theatre, heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian, is expected to open early in 2027.

CROW is asking local knitters and crocheters to create handmade nests for patients being cared for at Sanibel's hospital.

"Rauschenberg at 100: As Large as the World Is" focuses on the Bob Rauschenberg's deep ties to Southwest Florida. The exhibition, which features locally produced and privately held works—most never before exhibited and spanning several pivotal decades of the artist's career – was scheduled to close May 2nd. It will now run through August 1st.

It's the first week of sea turtle nesting season in Southwest Florida, and this year the thousands of loggerheads and greens that nest on our beaches have a new ally in nine-year-old entrepreneur Naomi Haynam. The Cape Coral pre-teen so loves sea turtles she's making beach-themed earrings and selling them at home, online, and in parks to raise money to donate to volunteer sea turtle protection groups.

The vessel was named for its home port in the 1910s, when it performed hurricane patrol and the crew took part in Gasparilla. It rested on the Atlantic floor for 107 years until a British dive team spotted it.

Experts say the estimated 250 pieces of the Berlin Wall’s eastern side likely make up the largest collection outside Germany.