Events

North Florida’s art scene swings into high gear on Saturday , November 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the highly acclaimed 36th Annual Downtown Festival & Art Show. The streets of historic downtown Gainesville, from City Hall to the Hippodrome State Theatre will be transformed into a celebration of art and creativity complete with live music, performing arts and a spectacular array of food. More than 100,000 art lovers will fill the streets to enjoy and purchase one-of-a-kind artwork. The festival features 240 local and national artists displaying original oils and acrylics, vibrant watercolors, unique sculptures, dazzling jewelry, decorative ceramics and vivid photography. Children can create their own art at the Imagination Station, a free hands-on art activity area including sidewalk-chalk drawing, painting, mask design, puppet creation, clay sculpting and interactive entertainment. For music lovers enjoy continuous, live entertainment on four stages by local bands, solo musicians and dance companies.

The festival weekend will kick off with a free Downtown Blues Concert on Friday, from 7 to 10 p.m. featuring Gracie Curran & The High Falutin’ Band at 9 pm, with Mr. Aullie (7 pm) and the DevilJays (8 pm) opening the show by virtue of winning the 2017 North Central Florida Blues Society Blues Challenge. Produced by the North Central Florida Blues Society

If you are looking to add a member to your family, this weekend is a great time to do it! It’s the National PetSmart Charities Adopt-a-thon Weekend and we will be there with several of our adorably adoptable bunnies. We hope to see you there!

Time: 11am – 4pm

Location: 3736 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608

To check out our adoptables in advance, visit them here.

Join us at the 13th Annual Central Florida VegFest.  This will be our 5th year attending VegFest and it is ALWAYS a great time!

Time:
Saturday, October 28, 2017
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Location:
Orlando Festival Park
2911 E. Robinson Street
Orlando, FL 32803

 

Central Florida Veg Fest is an exciting day of colorful and educational exhibits and activities! It will take place at beautiful Orlando Festival Park near downtown Orlando on October 28, 2017 from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Admission is FREE! Veg Fest is a family-friendly, dog-friendly, and smoke-free event. Veg Fest, now in its 11th year, is one of the biggest and best vegetarian festivals in the country!

Central Florida Veg Fest will draw both committed vegetarians/vegans and those who want to learn more about how veg-living enhances our health, the planet, and its inhabitants. Come enjoy a diverse cross-section of vegetarian cuisines and lifestyles. Discover new products and ideas from over 200 vendors and 100 contributors and enjoy a wide variety of presentations and food preparation demos. Not a vegetarian? Whether you’re looking for new ideas to add color and variety to your meals or you’re a “seasoned” vegetarian interested in expanding your knowledge of nutritious and ethical foods, this is the place for you. Please RSVP on the Veg Fest event page and join the Veg Fest community page for regular updates about the event. And please share these pages with your family and friends.

Enjoy speakers, food preparation demonstrations, a veggie kids zone, a humane education center, an animal haven, an artist corner, music on an acoustic stage, lots of other activities (including parades, performances, workshops, and a drum circle presented by Earth Sponsor and special guest Ibex Puppetry!), and many veg-friendly vendors. There are so many fun and interesting things happening at Veg Fest you will want to stay all day. And so much delicious vegan food that you can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner with plenty of snacks in between!

Speakers include Monica Aggarwal, Brian Clement of Hippocrates Health Institute, Andrew Kirschner of Kirschner’s Korner, Zavia Menning of Ethical Choices Program, Victoria Moran of Main Street Vegan, Spring Paone, and Zoe Sigle of The Humane League.

The themes of Veg Fest include:

• health and wellness
• vegan cuisine
• the environment
• animal welfare and rights
• community-building activism

The goals of Veg Fest are to:

• support all vegetarians and people who are on the road to becoming vegetarians, regardless of their motivation

• proactively promote vegetarianism in a non-judgmental way

• help empower people to make positive changes in the way they eat and live

If you are looking to add a member to your family, this weekend is a great time to do it! It’s the National PetSmart Charities Adopt-a-thon Weekend and we will be there with several of our adorably adoptable bunnies. We hope to see you there!

To check out our adoptables in advance, visit them here.

Time: 11am – 4pm

Location: 3736 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608

We will be at the Alachua County Library | Alachua Branch to share the wonderful world of House Rabbits.
Stop by to learn all the ins and outs to bringing a House Rabbit into your family.

Time:  2pm – 3pm

Location: 14913 NW 140th St, Alachua, FL 32615

For more information about the Alachua County Summer at the Library activities, visit there website.

Head over to Petsmart on Archer Road to visit some of our adoptable bunnies and talk with our knowledgeable volunteers.

Time: 11am – 4pm

Location: 3736 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608

Head over to Petsmart on Archer Road to visit some of our adoptable bunnies and talk with our knowledgeable volunteers.

Time: 11am – 4pm

Location: 3736 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608

Head over to Newberry Tractor Supply to visit some of our adoptable bunnies.

Time: 10am – 2pm

Location:  14151 W Newberry Rd, Newberry, FL 32669