▪ Tuesdays – Show & Tell - Ages 5-12, 4 PM
▪ Wednesdays - Toddler Story Hour - 10 months to 2, 10:30 AM
▪ Thursdays - Baby Group - Ages 0 to 12 months, 10:00 AM; Tween Read - Ages 10-14, 4:30 PM
▪ Fridays - Preschool Story Time ages 3-5, 10:30 AM; Teen Time - Ages 9-17, 4 PM
▪ Saturdays - Family Hour - Ages 3-8 - Films & Crafts, 1 PM; Teen/Tween Club - Ages 11-17, 3:30 PM

Visual Arts

▪ Watercolor for Beginners with Sean Callahan; October 21-23, Studios of Key West, 600 White St, 296-0458 or www.tskw.org.

▪ Jim Salem Painting classes Tuesdays. 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $15; Sugarloaf Lodge, MM 17 Overseas Hwy., Sugarloaf; 744-9880 and Wednesdays at Cocco & Salem Imagine Art, 1111 Duval St, 10 AM – 1 PM, 292-0072

▪ Life Drawing Session, Wednesdays, 6-8 PM
The Studios of Key West, 600 White St. 296-0458, or www.tskw.org; Informal, no instruction. Bring your own materials, model provided. $12 ($8 Friends/TSKW)

▪ Painting Bootcamp with Rick Worth, Tuesdays, 6-8:30 PM
The Studios of Key West - 600 White St; Painting class with artist Rick Worth. Class starts 6 SHARP. Cost of class includes all materials. $25 Members/$30 non-members. 296-0458, or www.tskw.org

▪ Plein-air painting - KW Plein-Air Painters, Wednesdays 9:30 - 12 PM; Free, bring your own supplies, lunch afterwards. fran@frandecker.com, or 849-1581.

Music

▪ Keys Chamber Orchestra Rehearsal – Sundays, 2 PM. Lounge at Venture Out Resort, 701 Spanish Main, Cudjoe Key. Marvin Perry, 304-7544, or kco@sunlink.net. All musicians welcome.

▪ Key West String Orchestra rehearsal - 879-0560, or www.keywestviolinstudio.com

▪ The Music Room - Private piano, woodwind and guitar lessons. Robin Kaplan 294-7382

▪ Violin/Viola/Cello classes – Individual lessons in Key West – Beginning to Advanced. Local violinist, 40 years teaching. All welcome, preschool to adult. Paul – 879-0560.

▪ West African Drumming Classes - Sundays, 1-2:30 PM; 1011 Truman Ave; $7 per class, all levels welcome. Drum rental through Bongo D, 942-6716. www.tamtamkeywest.com. duane@reggaekeywest.com

Keys-wide Dance classes and socials:

Key West

▪ Bruce Moore’s Absolute Beginner Tap Dance Classes; 294-0250, or bruce@broadwaykeys.com for schedule.

▪ CoffeeMill Dance & Yoga Studio. 916 Pohalski Lane, Key West; Classical Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop, Latin, Belly Dance, African Dance, Capoeira, Yoga, Tai Chi, Aerobics and more! Year round workshops. Performance Opportunities. 296-9982, or coffeemilldance@aol.com

▪ The Dance Factory. 906 Kennedy Dr., Key West, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip-Hop & Ballroom classes for children and adults. 296-5015 for schedule, or dancefactory@bellsouth.net .

▪ Key West County Western Dancers, Cowboy Bills, 610 Duval St, Key West. Jay, 293-0198, or www.keywestdance.wordpress.com.

▪ Paradise Ballet Academy, Mary Immaculate School, Windsor Lane. Year round classes. Children, adult & teen classes in RxP Barre, Ballet all levels, Stretch & Strength, Tumbling & Capoeira, Jazz. Unlimited parking, air-conditioned, sprung floor. For schedule go to paradiseacademy.com.

▪ Paradise Health and Fitness Dance Studio, 1706 N Roosevelt Blvd, Key West. 305.296-6348, or www.keywestdance.wordpress.com; Hustle, Swing, Texas 2-Step, Salsa and Ballroom. All levels. 2610fog@bellsouth.net

Marathon & Big Pine

▪ Beginning & Advanced Tap Lessons; Marathon Community Theatre, MM 49.5, Overseas Hwy, Marathon. 743-0408

▪ Belly Dance Classes, Wednesdays, 5:30 PM; Marathon Community Theatre - MM49.5. www.marathontheater.org

▪ Line Dance instruction. Mondays, 1:30-4 pm and Wednesdays 6-8:30 pm
Big Pine Key Community Center; Norma 745-2383, drnormally@hotmail.com

▪ Theo & Ganine's Dance Center, Classes & workshops in ballroom and latin dance. 11450 Overseas Hwy., Suite 203 Marathon. 743-0660

Upper Keys

▪ Ballroom & Latin Dance Group Class, Thursdays & Fridays
10-11 AM; Froggy's Gym – Tavernier; Theo and Ganine group class & private lessons throughout the day. 766-3428, www.keysdance.com

Key West

Custom House Museum
281 Front St, 295-6616, or www.kwahs.com
▪ Ships and Their Stories: A Maritime History of Key West, (Thru November 30, 2009)
▪ J Seward Johnson - Man in the Street Sculptures, (Thru December 31, 2009)
▪ The Best of Times, the Worst of Times - Key West in the early 20th Century

Fort East Martello - 3501 S Roosevelt Blvd. 296-3913, or www.kwahs.com
▪ The Ghosts of East Martello

Key West Heritage House - 410 Caroline St
▪ WPA in Key West: Revisiting The Depression Era
296-3573, or heritagehouse@aol.com

Marathon & Big Pine

▪ Pigeon Key Historic District & Gift Shop,
Guided tours available. Transportation provided by ferry service daily at 10:00, 11:30, 1:00 and 2:30. Admission and transport is $11.00 for visitors, discount for Monroe county locals. Also Pigeon Key Marine Science Center offering marine based environmental education. 743 5999, or www.pigeonkey.net

▪ Daily - Monday thru Friday
Organ/Piano Recitals featuring Joe Lowe and Auwinna Weed, Noon - 1 PM
Free. St Paul's Episcopal Church, 401 Duval St, Key West. 296-5142

▪ Nightly
The Keys Piano Bar, 5 PM
1114 Duval St; 294-8859, or www.akeywestpianobar.com; Bringing in entertainers from New York every two weeks.

▪ Nightly
The Wine Galley at the Pier House Resort with Larry Smith, 8 PM
One Duval St; 296-4600, or www.keywestislandnight.com; Sunday showcases highlighting local entertainers, as well as weeknight piano entertainment.

Oil paintings.

Scratch art.

"Lighthouses of the Florida Keys", original oil & acrylic paintings by Glenn Lahti

(Summer Schedule) Meets every Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Lounge in Venture Out Resort, 701 Spanish Main, Cudjoe Key.

All musicians welcome! This is a great opportunity to keep up your skills, or dust off an old instrument and regain those skills. Call for info.

A gathering of people who are seeking to enhance their self-awareness. The Garden presents spiritual teachings, ideas and philosophies from all over the world in a cinematic format.

Suggested goodwill offering of $5

Meets first Sunday of each month. Open to all interested in poetry.

Explore the genius of Shakespeare through this fun and affordable class - for everyone who ever wondered how actors prepare and perform the beloved Bard's work.

Bring in can goods to Tropic Cinema and get free popcorn. Benefits Mutter Hubbard's Cupboard Food Bank.

Help Feed Key West!

Tropic Cinema.

The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, it's an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Course based on Julia Cameron's book 'The Artist's Way"

Perhaps even more vital in today's cultural climate than when it was first published a decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.

The book has started a movement and has helped nearly two million people cultivate their creative selves.

www.theartistsway.com

TSKW Members $300, Non-members $350, Limited to 20

About The Instructor
Brackenbury is an award winning English writer living in Key West, who has published eleven novels and four poetry collections.

This will be the tenth time Brackenbury has presented The Artist's Way, and each student who registers before September 15 will receive the 10th anniversary edition of the Sourcebook. All other students are asked to furnish their own copy.

The merchants and galleries of Upper Duval St from Truman to United Streets open their doors to a district wide open house. 

All welcome. Refreshments served. Featured speakers.

Every week a classic film is shown

Free parking, no dues. Informal critique group. All genres and levels welcome.

A read-aloud critique group for all forms of creative writing; prose, poetry, screenplays and more.

Free, open to the public.

Big Pine Key Library, Big Pine Shopping Plaza, MM 30. Big Pine Key.

Monthly meeting discussing anything by or about a specified author. Call for details.

For ten years international guitarist Matthew Jampol has regaled diners with his dinner concerts.  Join him for a romantic evening of gourmet cuisine, wine pairing and classical music.

"World class concert..."  Miami Herald

Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, Peter Mayer has been quietly and steadily building a fervent following across the country. Known for his role as one the lead guitarist for Jimmy Buffett, Mayer is gaining more listeners with his own band and his latest project, Beyond Abbey Road. The Studios of Key West is proud to welcome Peter, and equally musical brother Jim, also a Coral Reefer, for a very special performance at the Historic Armory. For one night only, Wednesday, November 4, the Mayer brothers will bring their eclectic and electrifying arrangements of the Beatles down to Mile Marker Zero. Just in time for the Meeting of the Minds...

The program at The Studios of Key West will also serve as a CD release party for latest recording, Beyond Abbey Road, which will be available to Key West audiences to purchase that evening. Tickets to Peter Mayer's Beyond Abbey Road are $25 plus handling fee, and will also be available by phone from 1 pm today through Keystix: 305-295-7676.
 
Melding a unique melodic styles, distinctive voices, and virtuoso musicianship, the Mayer brothers create compelling and accessible music that has captivated audiences across the country. Their upcoming program and new renditions of popular Beatles songs, a special musical evening at the Historic Armory, will be the island's early season event not to be missed.

The November 4 concerts will include 2 one-hour sets. To learn more about Mayer and Beyond Abbey Road, see www.petermayer.com or visit The Studios of Key West website at www.tskw.org

For Mac or PC Users!!!
This two-day workshop is designed to give artists an overview of the options available for making their work available to a world-wide audience using online web-based tools.

The merchants of the
Caroline Street Art and Design District invite you to join them as they
open their doors for a district-wide open house. This
historic Key West neighborhood has become a shopping destination filled
with art galleries, specialty clothing and home furnishing boutiques,
restaurants and even a coffee house. Now the Seaport Shops have joined
the party! Visit the island's most unique and diverse shops!

Presenting the hottest, funkiest, most avant-garde open mic night in town.  $5 buys 1st drink.  See everything from home made house music & improv to performances.

Presented by Susan Chaires, Esquire

In this lunch time seminar participants will learn about creative ways they can gain visibility for their art works and earn additional income, beyond the sale of the works themselves.  The topics will include a discussion of the licensing process, an exploration of the variety of ways art works can be licensed for use by others, and the important terms to include, and to avoid, in the license agreement.

We will discuss specific examples of licensed art works and participants are invited to bring their own ideas and experiences.  

Susan Chaires is a Washington DC based intellectual property lawyer who has assisted numerous artist clients in licensing their works for such varied uses as calendars, books, fabrics, commemorative coins and movies.

Note: This workshop is scheduled to proceed Day 2 of the Website Design Workshop.

Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center and Artists in Paradise Gallery host this event. Art exhibitions, music and receptions at galleries and shops within the plaza.

Big Pine Shopping Plaza, MM 30, Overseas Hwy, Big Pine Key. GMAC Schwartz will be handing out the grand prize of a $75 gift certificate to Winn-Dixie.

Participating businesses include: GMAC Schwartz, Artists in Paradise, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge Center, Bagel Island, Pizzaworks, Joe's Cash Flow Pawn, Cyber Center, Radioshack, Now Showing Video, Bert & Frannies, Big Pine Key Chiropractic and the Buck Store.

Monthly Open House at Theo & Ganine's Dance Center, 11450 Overseas Hwy, Suite 203, Marathon.

Call 743-0660 for more information and a schedule of classes and workshops.

Tasting pour of any 3 wines only $10! 

Listen to guitarist Paul James.

Book sale in the library garden. Key West Library, 700 Fleming St, Key West.

11/10 Rated PG-13 104 mins A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada

3 PM Matinee on Sunday, November 29. No show Thanksgiving Day.

All newcomers welcome.

Kelly's Caribbean Bar, 301 Whitehead St, Key West.

$10 admission

11/17 PG-13 114 mins The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life

Special exhibitions and receptions at galleries and shops along White St, from Southard to United streets, Key West. Includes Harrison Gallery, The Studios of Key West, White Street Deli, & Cafe, White Street Healing Arts, Coldwell Banker, Bone Island Appraisal, Stone Soup and more.

Call for more info, or pick up a Gallery Guide from a participating Art Gallery.

Open to the public, Free. A light lunch is served following a brief meeting and presentation.

A concert of Broadway music where genders are switched: men sing numbers made famous by women and dolls do guys' numbers. Featuring Key West's best performers. November 20 (Friday) will be $70 with gala post performance party and free champagne throughout the evening. November 21 (Saturday)will be $35 with no party.

Admission and parking are free.

Contact:

Sue Sullivan (305 )
294-3362

salsully@masmed.org

Debby Crowley (305)
293-1309

winedeb@aol.com

Ballroom, Latin, Swing/Balboa, Hustle, Country Western and more.

$5. Singles Welcome!

11/24 Rated R 101 mins For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Writing group meets last Wednesday of the month.

Key Largo Library, Tradewinds Shopping Center, MM 101.4, Key Largo.

Bi-monthly board meeting.

 New location, same great art!

Hosted by Rich Simone- $10 gets entry, costume contest
& prop bag!  No, you don't have to wear a costume, but it's more fun
if you do. Besides, "It's just a step to the left!"