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The Town of Jupiter’s Loxahatchee River Center, located at 805 North U.S. Highway One, invites you to flutter on over to the first Atala Butterfly Festival and Family Day. On Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 will be celebrating the Atala butterfly! Once thought to be extinct, this beautiful butterfly is local and flourishing in our own backyard. 

The Atala is a small colorful butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southeastern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and on other Caribbean islands. Its coloration and habits are unique among butterflies within its scale. Due to the decline in the butterfly’s host plant, triggered by overharvesting the root of the plant for starch by early settlers, the Atala butterfly was thought to be

The popular Pineapple Festival is returning this weekend in downtown Jensen Beach. This 30-year old festival is one of the largest in the region and one of the few remaining true street festivals in South Florida.

Produced by the Jensen Beach Chamber of Commerce, the initial Pineapple Festival was held in 1988 in concurrence with the Jensen Beach Centennial Celebration. In 1990 Jensen Beach teamed up with Gregory Town, Eleuthera, Bahamas to start a popular attraction at the festival each year to have an authentic Bahamian Market that features island music, crafts and the Junkanoo parade. The Chamber not only produces the festival, but organizes it as well with the help of sponsors and hundreds of volunteers.

If you haven’t been, you need to come

If you are a fan of fresh seafood, then you cannot miss the Treasure Coast Seafood Festival on Hutchinson Island this weekend!

This festival will not disappoint, with something for the entire family. Besides all kinds of seafood, enjoy live music, arts and crafts, nautical vendors, a conch chowder contest, a craft beer garden, kids zone, fair rides, games and fun!

Seafood items to enjoy: Fresh Fish – Conch – Clams – Ackee & Salt Fish – Conch Chowder – Fried Shrimp – Shrimp Scampi – Lobster Calzone – Conch Fritters – Conch Salad – Cracked Conch -  Fish Tacos – Shrimp Tacos – Crab Fritters – Shrimp Quesadilla – Scallop & Bacon Kabob – Mahi Kabob – Fried Calamari – Lobster Rolls – Maine Lobster – Fried Lobster - Alligator Bites – Mahi Poboys –

The 31st Annual Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center ArtFest By The Sea is coming to Juno Beach Saturday March 9th and Sunday March 10th.

The festival started three decades ago with just a few dozen booths selling artwork form local artists and are displayed along A1A in Juno Beach. This year, the festival returns with more than 300 national and international artists from more than 30 different states displaying their artworks and homemade crafts. The booths will be located along A1A and feature sculptures, woodwork, paintings, jewelry, wearable art and much more. Along with the art work being displayed there will also be a green market featuring live plants, produce, homemade soaps, and live entertainment.

ArtFest is co- produced by The Palm Beach North

 The 16th annual Feast of Little Italy Abacoa brings a sensational, three-day-long celebration of exciting internationally respected Italian and Italian-American performers to its entertainment stage.  This deliciously social event is bursting with authentic Italian food, art, music, tradition, family fun and gelato!

The Feast of Little Italy is a 3-day cultural community celebration in Abacoa, Jupiter. The festival has grown over 16 years and has ended up being a great, big Italian street festival. There will be bocce, cooking demonstrations, wine seminars, festival rides, and a street paining competition. Plenty of live entertainment, delicious food and drinks, as well as gelato fun! 

The Feast of Little Italy started several years ago with an

The 7th Annual Brazilian Festival of Pompano Beach brings the love and passion Brazil is famous for to South Florida.  October 20-21, 2018 the festival returns with all the excitement of past festivals. It’s a vibrant event that includes music, food vendors, fun for kids, dance and drumming performances.

Brazilians have a long, rich history of revelry. Their world-famous street festivals can be traced as far back as the 1700s.  Carnival is one of the world's most famous festivals, held over five days in Rio de Janeiro every year. For those of who you who can’t make it to Brazil for Carnival in February, the  Brazilian Festival of Pompano Beach has lots of similar showcases.  Feel some of that passion and rhythm of the culture.           

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South Florida hosts The International Ballet Festival Miami which features a mix of dance film series, art exhibits, workshops, master classes and more. Attendees can see gifted young ballet artists as well as performances of famous classical and neo-classical ballet repertoire. The mix of modern and contemporary styles feature exciting and eclectic programs.

The 23rd International Ballet Festival of Miami 2018 is considered the most important in the United States. The festival will present an opportunity  to see an array of performances featuring the best ballet, modern and contemporary companies with extraordinary national and international artists. Over 200 dancers from at least 20 prestigious ballet companies globally will be performing.

En plein air is a French expression meaning “in the open air”, and it refers to the act of painting outdoors with the artist’s subject in full view. Plein air artists capture the spirit and heart of a landscape or subject by integrating natural light, color and movement into their works. French impressionist artists, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne, as well as other artists of that period who painted outdoor landscapes, were best known as the greatest plein air artists.

The largest en plein air gathering of its kind in South Florida is hosted by the Lighthouse ArtCenter. The Festival awards over $15,000 in prizes and 35 of the top plein air painters in the country participate. The public can observe artists painting at locations in Palm

On a summers night, what could be more romantic than a breathtaking sunset and a stroll through a peaceful garden with someone you love? Partake in something new this weekend, try the Sushi and Stroll Summer Walks at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach. Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is having a cultural event this Friday, July 12, 2018 from 5:30pm – 8:30pm.   They welcome guests to take part in the occasional chance to stroll the gardens at sunset during their Sushi & Stroll evening.

Visit the 6 distinct Japanese inspired gardens within the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.  Make the special evening complete and enjoy the finest Japanese sake, Pan-Asian cuisine, food trucks and ice-cold beer.

Wellington Bacon and Bourbon Fest begins March 23 – 25, 2018. Venture out of the usual weekend activities on a culinary journey on the welcoming grounds of the new Wellington Community Center and Amphitheater, 12150 Forest Hill Blvd, Wellington.  Socialize with friends and enjoy America’s quintessential bourbon and eat excellent bacon inspired dishes.

What is bourbon exactly? Simply put, bourbon is a spirit made from at least 51% corn aged in new charred oak barrels.  It must be bottled at 80% or more and only in the United States of America. The use of the term "bourbon" for the whiskey has been traced to the 1820s, and the term began to be used consistently in Kentucky in the 1870s.  Bourbon may be made anywhere in the United States and is