CityArts, the flagship venue of the Downtown Arts District, is marking its 20th anniversary in 2026. And throughout the year, raising visibility and promoting creators through regular on-site soirees will remain a top priority.
One way to accomplish those goals will be through Art After Dark, a recurring mixer that has for the past decade brought young professionals together to mingle and network while perusing exhibitions in the historic Rogers-Kiene Building that now houses CityArts.
Art After Dark’s 10th-anniversary edition, slated for Saturday, March 14, from 7 to 10 p.m., will offer ticketed admission to all six galleries and the attached café, which reopened late last year.
Attendees will also have access to the FORDify the Arts Courtyard, which incorporates salvaged architectural elements from the former Church Street Ballroom and is named for the late Ford Kiene, a philanthropist who restored and donated the building to the City of Orlando in 2018.
In addition to taking in the standing exhibitions, attendees will get to participate in interactive art experiences, watch sketch artists at work, get a henna tattoo or sit for a tarot reading. DJs will spin homegrown music and other live entertainment, not finalized at press time, will be available.
Light refreshments, provided by area restaurants, will be washed down with tastings of whiskey and beer. And don’t worry about an age cutoff: While CityArts’ informal definition of a “young professional” tops out at 40, the event is open to all ages with the purchase of a ticket. In other words, you don’t have to be young to be young at art.
CityArts is located at 39 South Magnolia Avenue, Orlando. For more information, call or visit the website.
