Artsy Fartsy, or Awesome Things Day 4

For the last day in my series of posts about fun things to do in South Florida (to balance out all the times I make fun of it), I’d like to highlight the really great local arts scene.

Seriously, there are about 5 art festivals every weekend in various places across the state.  Don’t believe me?  Look here.  I’ve been to several festivals already, including one on my first date with my boyfriend.  Plus, I’ve hit up a couple art galleries and a giant art show at a convention center.

There are also numerous theater companies.  This weekend, I’m driving up to Vero Beach to see a friend of mine from college (who now lives in New York) in South Pacific.  I’m so excited!  If I wanted to, I could also go see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, In the Heights, or other shows this weekend.

The dance culture is pretty great, too.  (And we all know that dance is quite near and dear to my heart!)  In the next few days, I could go watch a bhangra (type of Indian dance) performance by Ranjana Warier, take (free!) salsa lessons, learn to tango (also free!), enjoy a ballet called Doctor Ouch!, see a modern dance performance by Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, and much, much more.

Oh, and speaking of dance, I would just like to let y’all know that yesterday, I took my first ballet class after a 6 year hiatus, and it was wonderful.  I found a really great studio with drop-in classes for adults!  Yay!!  I’m completely useless and rather sore, but it was all worth it.  I’m going to keep it up!

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On that note, I am going to take some time to recover from my ballet adventure.  I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!  See you Monday!!

Street Painting, Rain, and Life’s Big Questions

I went to a really neat street painting festival recently.  The city closed off its main downtown drag, and dozens of artists created some pretty rad images with chalk, drawing colorful pictures on the asphalt in the middle of the road.  There were also live music and food booths, because clearly everything tastes better when fried and/or on a stick.  Duh.

I wish I had pictures to share with you, but in true South Florida fashion, it started raining about 10 minutes after we got there.  We spent most of our time alternately dodging raindrops and dodging other people dodging raindrops.   If the art wasn’t being ruined by the rain, it was covered by tarps.  Not the best photo op.  Oh well.

I did get to sneak a picture of this:

 

 

Visitors to the street festival had filled in their answers to the question, utilizing every inch of space.  Everybody was looking at the wall and taking pictures.  What an insightful idea!  I hope that people went home and discussed their responses with friends and family.

And because I know you’re wondering, no, I did not write anything on the wall.  I do have an actual bucket list, but in the moment, I didn’t know what to say.

Hmmm…

Upon a bit of reflection, I think I know my answer:  I want to acccomplish the things on my bucket list, but I also want to always be adding to the list, too.  That way I’m always hungry for more adventure.