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Titusville art gallery celebrates Endless Summer
Summer never ends at Titusville’s Downtown Art Gallery, home of the Endless Summer Soiree from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 26.
Meet artists at the gallery at 335 S. Washington Ave., where the focus this month is on Terrence Cope and his cool “Endless Summer Surfers Series” of paintings and sketches. Relax and chill while enjoying works by 20 local artists featuring Florida beaches, birds, sea turtles, manatees and more. Cope will be on hand with a live painting & sketching demonstration.
Beat the heat with refreshing summer ale tastings, watermelon wine spritzers and cool tasty summer bites all evening while you are inspired by Florida art, including paintings, photography, basketry and gourds, pottery, jewelry and more!
Everyone is welcome, with no cover charge to attend. Call 321–268–0122 or visit facebook.com/downtownartgallery.
Alfie Silva: Impressions Unplugged
Celebrity impressionist Alfie Silva, known for impressions of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash and others, will perform at The Tangiers, 4500 Dixie Highway, Unit 1A, Palm Bay. Performances at the Vegas-style entertainment venue will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 26-27, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28. Tickets start at $41. Call 321-327-8759 or visit https://thetangiersflorida.com/.
Pipe organ concert planned in Suntree
Advent Lutheran Church’s impressive pipe organ will be put through its paces during a free concert at 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 28, at 7550 N. Wickham Road in Suntree.
Guest organist Dr. Samuel Blackman will play the A.E. Schlueter organ of 2,196 pipes during the first concert of the church's 2022-22 season, performing a program of diverse works.
The audience will hear classical works by Elgar and J.S. Bach, in addition to several of Backman's own arrangements. These stylings include “English Folk Song Suite,” by Vaughan Williams, "Litany for All Souls" by Schubert and four dances from “Terpsichore” by Michael Praetorius. Backman's arrangement of John Philip Sousa's rousing "The Washington Post" march will serve as the program's finale.
Director of sacred music at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Backman chairs a multi-faceted music program across three campuses, functioning as principal organist and conductor of the Holy Cross Choir, St. Helena Singers and Tenebrae Choir.
For more information about the pipe organ concert, visit AdventBrevard.org or call 321-259-8515.
Back to School Carnival
The family-friendly event will be at the Eddie Lee Taylor Sr. Community Center, 3316 S. Monroe Street, Melbourne, on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will include refreshments and activities such as ring toss, obstacle course, dunk tank, sack race, bounce house, selfie station, informative stations, competitive games, contests, shaved ice, police demos, popcorn, face painting, free hotdogs, truck displays and more. Admission is free. Call 321-608-7450 or visit melbourneflorida.org.
Still playing
‘The SpongeBob Musical’: The show is playing at Titusville Playhouse, 301 Julia Street, through Aug. 28. Adapted from the Iconic Nickelodeon series, this musical has SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and all of Bikini Bottom facing annihilation, until an unexpected hero rises. Tickets start at $27. Call 321-268-1125 or visit titusvilleplayhouse.com.
'Assassins': Melbourne Civic Theatre, 817 E. Strawbridge Ave., presents the musical through Sept. 11. The musical explores the dark side of the American experience through the lives of the nine people who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. Tickets are $30. Call 321-723-6935 or visit mymct.org.
Free Love
The Rad Movement hosts this free event at Rad Ink Tattoo & Piercing, 760 W. New Haven Ave., Melbourne, on Friday, Sept. 2 from 5 to 10 p.m.
It will include vendors, live entertainment, raffles, refreshments and a meet-and-greet with “Ink Masters” season 5 competitor Robbie Ripoll. The first 50 guests can receive free “love” tattoos with the idea of paying it forward by doing a good deed. Call 321-499-3357 or visit radinkflorida.com.
Melbourne Yacht Club celebrates 75 years
Melbourne Yacht Club, mainstay of the regional sailing community, is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a Kockpit Krawl from 6 to 8 p.m., Sat., Aug. 27. The public is invited to attend this free event, which will be at the MYC Clubhouse and on the water at its docks. The Club is located on the south side of the Melbourne Harbor on Crane Creek, just off U.S. 1.
The “Kockpit Krawl” will feature MYC members’ boats. Guests are invited to walk the docks, check out the boats’ features and amenities, and meet their captains and crews. Sailors and non-sailors alike will be able to ask questions about the boats and sailing in general.
Approximately 150 families belong to MYC and enjoy the camaraderie of the sailing community, whether they are boat owners or not. All members have access to a fleet of Collegiate 420 sailboats, Sunfish and Lasers for their personal use. MYC is also resource for the community, offering sailing classes to children and teens aged 9-17 and adults. Classes are open to the public.
Additional information about MYC’s schedule of races, regattas and social activities is available at melbourneyachtclub.com.
Satellite Beach baking academy offers Classic Cakes course
You can have your cake, and eat it, too, at Florida Academy of Baking, 1370 State Road. A1A, Suite E, Satellite Beach, where a five-week Classic Cakes course takes place from 6 to 9 pm., Thursdays, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.
Participants will master five classic cakes with complimentary frostings, receive an offset spatula to take home and, of course, all the written recipes with variations so they can recreate these delicious cakes for years to come. And, yes, they get to take home the cakes they bake. Included in the course are Black Magic Cake, Triple Vanilla Molly Cake, Hummingbird Cake, Red Velvet Cake and Boston Cream Pie Cake. Individual cake classes are $149, and the five-class set is $596. Register at fabbaker.com or 321-622-6185.
Cafe Margaux, Green Turtle and Pompano Grill plan wine dinners
The wine and the dining are fine at local restaurants hosting wine dinners in the next few days.
It’s off to Greece at Café Margaux. The Cocoa Village restaurant at 220 Brevard Ave. will host a Greek wine dinner at 6:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1 and 2. The event features producers from Santorini, Crete, Macedonia and Naoussa, Sigalas, Douloufakis, Alpha Estate, Ktma Kir Yianni and Karydas.
The six-course menu begins with chicken, lemon and egg soup, followed with three-lentil salad over baby red romaine. Shrimp Glyfada with feta, retsine, garlic, shallots and lemon continues the feast. You can’t have a Greek dinner without lamb, so the menu also includes oregano-roasted lamb with eggplant pancakes. A course of Mizithra Greek whey cheese ushers in dessert of toasted almond creak cake.
Cost is $135 per guest. Reserve at 321-639-8343. For complete menu, visit Margaux.com.
Ole & Obrigado, importer of artisanal wines from Spain and Portugal, will provide the selections for Green Turtle Market’s Iberian Peninsula wine dinner, slated for 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 26.
The menu features chilled ajo blanco gazpacho, porcini-dusted corvina atop tomato compote, Andalucian rabbit thigh over saffron Valencia rice, grilled Iberico pork “secret cut” with a truffle-scented croquette and dessert of burnt Basque cheesecake with candied quince.
Price is $110 per guest and includes a $10 credit towards the purchase of wines featured that evening. Reserve at 321-773-2001. Green Turtle Market is at 855 E. Eau Gallie Blvd., Indian Harbour Beach. Visit greenturtlemarket.com.
Pompano Grill, 110 N. Brevard Ave., Cocoa Beach, will host a “Night in Italy” at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 31. Brandon Whitmore will present a selection of Italian wines from Winebow, paired with Chef Ricardo Molinari’s menu, which begins with mushroom ravioli and continues to red snapper in a tomato fennel broth. For third course, it’s Veal Bolognese alla Molinari with fresh pappardelle pasta. Beef short ribs with rosemary polenta and classic tiramisu complete the five-course dinner Cost is $125 per guest. Call 321-784-9005 or visit pompanogrill.com.
Food Truck Friday in Rockledge
The City of Rockledge will host Food Truck Friday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Aug. 26 at Rockledge City Hall. Check cityofrockledge.org for current participating food trucks. Call 321-221-7540 for more details.
Weavers and Fiber Artists meet on Merritt Island
The public is invited to the upcoming Space Coast Weavers and Fiber Artists meeting at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 27 at the Merritt lsland Public Library, 1195 N. Courtenay Parkway. In addition to preparing a fiber demo, members will also showcase fiber works they have created using the grab bag of miscellaneous supplies they were given in June. Results are always amazing. Since 1983, SCW&FA has been Brevard’s go-to group for fiber arts. The guild helps fiber artists, beginning or advanced, learn through workshops and the informal exchange of ideas. They also work to educate the public about the fiber arts.For more information, call 321-266-1610.
Central Brevard Art Association awards scholarship
Each spring the Central Brevard Art Association awards a scholarship to a deserving Central Brevard County high school senior. This year’s recipient is Carley Fernandez from Viera High School.
The Studios of Cocoa Beach and Ridley’s Custom Framing of Palm Bay have teamed up to present an exhibit of Carley’s work. A selection of her work, professionally mounted by Ridley’s, is on exhibit through Aug. 31 at the Studios’ gallery, 159 Minuteman Causeway in downtown Cocoa Beach.
Carley’s two-dimensional designs often begin as a digital image, which is enhanced with alcohol ink pens or acrylic paint. She is enrolled to begin studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall where she plans to major in Illustration with a minor in fine art or art history.
For more information, see cbaaartists.com.
Warbird Air Museum opens early for Artemis launch
Visitors to the Warbird Air Museum on Monday, Aug. 29, should get a great view of the anticipated Artemis launch, scheduled to launch at 8:33 that morning. In support of the launch, the Museum will open at 8 a.m. and remain open until 5 p.m.For more on the museum, located at 6600 Tico Road at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, visit valiantaircommand.com.
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