Spotlight: Central Florida's Weekly Arts, Culture and Entertainment Podcast
by Central Florida Public Media · 20 episodes
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“Spotlight” covers arts, culture, and entertainment from a Central Florida perspective. But, like the arts itself, “Spotlight” strains its boundaries and may even cross them if there’s a need! “Spotlight” aims to call attention to people and events that offer enrichment to its listeners. That enrichment comes in many forms: from a discussion about how art can take its audience on an emotional journey that creates empathy where none existed before…to news about a local theater or museum when its inner workings have outsized consequences…to a belly laugh from much-need comedic relief. “Spotlight” will also share performances from creators of all s...
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SPOTLIGHT: Bach Festival explores ‘classical surround sound’ with Berlioz Requiem
Have you ever heard classical music written for a surround sound performance? The Bach Festival Society offers that rare chance Sunday, when 300 musicians present Berlioz Requiem a…
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8 min
SPOTLIGHT: Downtown Sanford goes Renaissance for Halloween with Enchanted Knights festival
A Renaissance festival takes over downtown Sanford on October 24, in time for Halloween. Costumes are encouraged. Enchanted Knights: Dungeons of Downtown is free for all loyal subj…
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10 min
SPOTLIGHT: Rock Cauldron Cabaret brings some ‘hocus pocus’ to Orlando
The Rock Cauldron Cabaret is a jukebox musical that brings the “hocus pocus” of Winifred, Mary and Sarah to the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts this weekend.
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12 min
SPOTLIGHT: Orlando-based film features filmmaker’s sister in focus on caregiving and disability
“Take Me Home” was filmed at the home of writer/director Liz Sargent and stars her sister, Anna, who has cognitive disabilities. It examines disability, aging, and the work of care…
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10 min
SPOTLIGHT: Celebrity impersonators converge on Orlando for industry convention
Marilyn Monroe, Captain Jack Sparrow, Britney Spears, and Austin Powers walk into a bar. No, that's not the setup for a joke, it’s a few of the personalities seen at the Sunburst C…
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SPOTLIGHT: Orlando Mural Festival makes downtown a colorful canvas
Downtown Orlando gets a glow-up this weekend, as the Orlando Mural Festival comes to paint the town red (and other colors, too). You can watch 15 artists create new large-scale mur…
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14 min
SPOTLIGHT: Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his 9/11 poem “The Names” at Rollins commemoration
A commemoration of 25 years since 9/11 at Rollins College will feature former U.S. Poet Laureate and author Billy Collins reading his poem, “The Names.”
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SPOTLIGHT: “The Guys” marks 25 years after 9/11 with story of firefighters, human connection
The play “The Guys” was written by journalist Anne Nelson. It’s based on her true story of helping a bereaved fire captain write eulogies for the firefighters he’d lost on 9/11.
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9 min
SPOTLIGHT: Orlando Out Fest celebration of LGBTQ artists returns for third year
The 3rd annual Orlando Out Fest runs September 10 -13. It’s a weekend-long performing arts and film festival featuring local LGBTQ+ stories, artists and history.
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8 min
SPOTLIGHT: What’s a Skunk Ape? Orange County History Center chases cryptids in History After Dark
"Swamp Legends" is the theme of this weekend's History After Dark event, featuring drinks, games and a hunt for the elusive Florida cryptid called the Skunk Ape.
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9 min
SPOTLIGHT: Art gallery at Orlando’s Hourglass Brewing grew from ‘Artistic Acorn’
Sometimes you find art in unexpected places. Orlando's Hourglass Brewing is one. You could say it’s growing from an Artistic Acorn, the nom de guerre of curator Alex Ramirez.
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11 min
SPOTLIGHT: Orlando artist premieres “phygital” book 'Journey' with music and color
Yezdan Givci's physical-slash-digital – or phygital – book is called “Journey,” a narrative coloring book for kids and adults with original music accompanying every page.
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9 min
SPOTLIGHT: Orlando Story Club and the art of connection through shared experience
Orlando Story Club is holding a live storytelling competition the evening of August 5. What storytellers say and how they say it is up to each participant.
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10 min
Spotlight: Guyanese chef brings Emancipation Day flavor, history to Palm Bay
This year, Palm Bay will see its first celebration of Emancipation Day, when Caribbean nations were freed from British imperial slavery in 1833. Guyanese chef Hollis Barclay tells…
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10 min
SPOTLIGHT: Winter Park Playhouse’s grand opening kickstarts the next 25 years
Winter Park Playhouse has been rebuilt from the ground up, with a public Grand Opening slated for July 17th after Tuesday's official ribbon-cutting.
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9 min
SPOTLIGHT: For America 250, Morse Museum celebrates special ties to Independence Day
The Morse Museum is celebrating July 4th and America 250 with events that highlight arts accessibility, music and a special exhibition of some quintessentially American items.
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9 min
SPOTLIGHT: Magician Caleb Wiles gives you permission to call them “tricks”
Caleb Wiles creates magic tricks from the ground up and performs them for audiences, as he's done on TV shows like “Penn & Teller’s Fool Us." He'll be at Magic Studio on I-Drive th…
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6 min
SPOTLIGHT: ‘Lenox Avenue’ celebrates Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance this Juneteenth
A locally written musical set in New York during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance and centered on Langston Hughes' poetry is coming to Judson's Live, opening on Juneteenth.
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12 min
SPOTLIGHT: A new Pulse-related play examines how we grieve after tragedy
A new play from a Central Florida playwright examines trauma, grief and recovery through the eyes of a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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10 min
SPOTLIGHT: Make Music Orange County aims to fill the county with music
Make Music Orange County is a Central Florida project that aims, for one day, to blanket the whole county in music performed by the community that’s free to the community.