March / April 2026 Issue

Orlando Ballet’s Balanchine, Godden, Gill will feature George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Heath Gill’s Confronting Genius and Mark Godden’s Angels in the Architecture. For more information, see Balanchine, Godden, Gill.

Thrive

Sara Elliott and Jenna Foor

Chris Keough

Jos N. Banks

Rhonda Meyers

Chroma

Soot, Felt and Form

Mexican sculptor Jacobo Alonso has chosen some surprising materials from which to create his art: felt and soot. The result is The Situated Body: Reconfiguring the Symbolic at the Maitland Art Center.

Features

Creative Aging

A pilot program called Creative Aging is designed to examine the effects of arts activities on the health and wellness of seniors.

Cat Power

Creative Arts Therapy (CAT) is integral to patient care at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida.

Fishy but Fun

Orlando Family Stage will wrap up its 100th (yes, 100th!) season with a more music heavy version of Finding Nemo.

Well-versed

Thanks to Page 15, a creative nonprofit, young people from a historically underserved neighborhood will have their say through Pop-Up Poetry in Parramore.

Where All Things Are Considered

Central Florida Public Media is looking for the next generation of news broadcasters by intensifying its outreach to budding journalists.

Creative Conservationists

Orlando Utilities Commission's Water Color Project raises environmental awareness through calendars and rain barrels adorned by students in Orange County.

Cultura

Looking for something to do? We’ve got a few suggestions in this roundup of upcoming events—in every artistic genre—offered by Central Florida’s plethora of arts and cultural organizations.

The Secret River

Opera Orlando
March 6 and 7
Mead Botanical Garden

Art After Dark

CityArts
March 14

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial in Concert

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
March 14
Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center

Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival

March 20 to 22
Central Park, Winter Park

7th Annual Women’s History Breakfast

Orange County Regional History Center
Thursday, March 26
West Club, Inter&Co Stadium

Balanchine, Godden, Gill

Orlando Ballet
March 27 to 29
Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center

UCF Celebrates the Arts

March 30 to April 12
Dr. Phillips Center

Florida Film Festival

Enzian
April 10 to 19

Betsy Ross & Friends: History as It Never Happened

Stage 55, Central Florida Community Arts
April 11 and 12
Schaeffer Hall at St. John Church

Winter Park Paint Out

Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens
April 19 to 25

Safe Sax

The Merrie Melodies Strolling Sax Quintet
April 26
Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts

Timucua Celebrates Latin Jazz at Festival

Tapestry

Echoes of Expression

Winter Park is known as the City of Arts and Culture. The Winter Park History Museum’s current exhibition Echos of Expression: The History of Arts & Culture in Winter Park, shows that it’s more than a slogan.

Moroccan Memories

Terry Olson, the county’s former “arts instigator,” visited Morocco and made a film, The Call. An exhibition at Mills Gallery, Exotic Landscapes of Morocco, will feature photographs taken by Olson during his time in North Africa.

Time to Flourish

Solana Fine Art will encourage visitors to celebrate renewal, possibility and the energizing shift that accompanies spring’s arrival in Flourish, its upcoming exhibition of works by Wyanne Thompson and Lorra Kurtz.

Tiffany Beyond Glass

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art’s Beyond Glass: The Paintings of Louis Comfort Tiffany highlights the artist’s skill with a brush. In conjunction, the museum has launched Salon-Style Paintings, an exhibition that features 50 works from the permanent collection.