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COVER: Tamika Kelly, 9, shares her Christmas wishes with Santa Claus Monday evening at Bayview Park.
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‘Coast is Clear’ music festival starts today
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AIDS Quilt on display in Key West
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THIS JUST IN: Croc trapper to speak at Audubon Chris Guinto of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Crocodile Response Team will be featured as the Florida Keys Audubon Society continues its speaker series on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Key West Garden Club. Guinto, a response agent and nuisance alligator trapper, will discuss “The Awesome American Crocodile.” He has been studying, protecting and occasionally relocating crocodiles and alligators in the Florida Keys for more than a decade. Admissions is free and open to anyone. For information, email
[email protected] or call 305-771-5807. The Garden Club is located at 1100 Atlantic Blvd.
Chamber music concerts upcoming The Southernmost Chamber Music Society is planning
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a series of six concerts, beginning Thursday, Nov. 30, at the Old Historic Rectory of St. Paul’s Church. Kicking off the series is Cellobration, featuring cellist Denise Nathanson, as well as guest artists Timothy Peterson, Irie Monte and John Penkoske. Tickets are $30. The series continues on the last Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. The church is located at 401 Duval St., Key West. For information and tickets, visit http://www.southernmostchambermusicsociety.com.
Impromptu will be celebrating the Leonard Bernstein centennial. Bernstein spent a considerable amount of time in Key West. His first published of music, the Sonata for clarinet and piano was written during his first visit to Key West in 1941. At that time he also began a work entitled “ConchTown.” Tickets are $20. Impromptu has asked each of our artists to include a Bernstein composition as part of their program. The complete details and a subscription form are available at http://www.keywestimpromptu.org. For information, call George Korn at 305-292-1828.
Impromtu concerts announces season
Preservation Awards applications open
Now in its 46th season, Impromptu’s Sunday afternoon The Historic Florida Keys Foundation is accepting series has a four-star lineup scheduled for 2018, starting applications for its annual Preservation Awards though on Jan. 7. Each concert is held on Sunday afternoons at 4 Wednesday, Jan. 17. p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Duval Street in Key For information, visit http://www.historicfloridaykeys. West org or call 305-292-6718.
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KWAHS presents rare naval painting Key West Art & Historical Society recently opened a presentation of I.H.F. Düksen’s “The Virginius Affair,” the only known painting that depicts an unprecedented show of naval force that helped postpone war between the United States and Spain in early 1874. “The Virginius Affair is a scantly-examined incident in American history that almost resulted in a war with Spain,” said KWAHS curator Cori Convertito. “Essentially, if we went to war in 1874, the United States would have had a difficult time winning due to its outmoded naval fleet. Instead, the country decided to send a large number of navy ships to Key West to flex its muscles in front of the Spanish who ruled Cuba, the site of the incident that sparked the Affair.” The painting is timely in its arrival as KWAHS is celebrating the connection between the U.S. Navy and the island of Key West with a Custom House Museum exhibit, “The Navy in Key West,” which runs through December. Held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Naval Air Station Key West, the exhibit explores how the island and the navy have relied on each other by highlighting unique images, artifacts, uniforms and military memorabilia along with interactive displays for learning about Key West’s maritime past. “The painting helps visitors examine how strategic Key West was during the time of the incident, and just how hectic the port was, particularly during military engagements,” said Convertito. For information, email Convertito at
[email protected] or call 305-295-6616, Ext. 112. The Custom House Museum is located at 281 Front St.
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National touring artist G. Love is one of the many performers set to take the stage Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the twoday ‘Coast is Clear’ concert festival on Stock Island.
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Coast to host two-day music festival On the last official days of the 2017 hurricane season Thursday and Friday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, the crew at Coast — the Stock Island-based artist and craftsman collective — has organized a twoday benefit concert festival, named “Coast Is Clear,” with the goal of raising money and spirits for the Florida Keys community in the wake of Hurricane Irma. To date, the lineup includes national touring artists G. Love, Langhorne Slim, Rayland Baxter and Rorey Carroll — all of whom play to large crowds from coast to coast and at large festivals like Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza and Monterrey Pop. In addition, area favorites Patrick & the Swayzees and The Skank — among others — will add local flavor to the stages over the two-day event. The schedule calls for the Thursday performances to take place in the Bahama Village
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neighborhood with events shifting between Blue Heaven, Green Parrot and The Coast Outpost at 803 Whitehead St. Friday shows will take place on Stock Island at Hogfish and Coast — both located on Front Street. Coast founder Billy Kearins said: “We were amazed at how well the community came together after the storm hit and it inspired us to try to create something positive and uplifting in the wake of such devastation. Our concerts have always been a great way for locals to come together for a night, so we figured, let’s do that again, while at the same time using the event as a way to raise money for those hit hardest by the storm.” The two-day event will feature more than 10 performances spread over two evenings, and two-day and Friday-only passes can be purchased at the Coast website at http://www.coastprojects.com/store.
The Key West Art & Historical Society welcomes Distinguished Speaker Series guests and co-authors Kirsten Hines and Dr. James A. Kushlan at the Tropic Cinema on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. for an evening presentation of selections from their newly published book “Biscayne National Park.” Through words and pictures, Hines, a nature travel writer and photographer, and Kushlan, a biologist, writer and conservationist, will highlight the rich history that spans over 5,000 years of Biscayne Bay’s timeline — from the original Native Americans, to its “discovery” by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 and three centuries of colonial rule,
to the era of wreckers and rugged homesteaders in the 1800s, to the nouveau riche of the 1920s and ‘30s, up to the modern era, with more than half-million annual park visitors and a nearby population of more than 2.5 million residents. The Distinguished Speaker Series project is sponsored in part by the Helmerich Trust and the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of the Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. Tickets are $10, or $ 5 for members, and are available at http://www.kwahs. org/education/distinguished_speaker_series. For information, call Director of Education Adele Williams at 305-2956616, Ext. 115.
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