Weekend Top 6 Picks

Saturday May 17, 2014

8:30am to 10:30am Free. Hands Across The Land Orlando. Gaston Edwards Park 1236 N Orange Avenue, Orlando, Fl. Show support for clean energy. Now is the time to stand up let let your voice be heard. Meet like minded people who share your interests in clean energy. If you don’t start to make a difference, will you ever? This event is sponsored by the Central Florida Surf

rider Foundation. http://www.handsacrossthesand.com/

11:30am to Midnight shows on Saturday. $8 Fringe button and ticket price. Fringe! Lock Haven Park 812 E Rollins St, Orlando, FL. The Fringe Festival started May 14th and runs through May 27th. WTF you ask? It is an amazing assortment of un juried shows that run from the sublime to the insane. I will be living here getting as many sketches as possible. Check the Fringe schedule or just go to the green lawn of fabulousnss and ask around to find out what you have to see!

8pm to 11pm  A $15 cash donation is recommended at the door. Guys With Ties “Spring Fashion Show”. 180 Grey Goose Lounge at the Amway Center in Downtown Orlando FL. Central Florida’s Fun and Philanthropic Night of Fashion Returns With Proceeds to Benefit Guys With Ties Philanthropy of Orlando. Orlando Magic Dancer Cori Yarkin will take the stage as Emcee with DJ A-Rock spinning, creative direction by Studio|Couture and strings sensation Fretless Rock starting the show.  This year’s Spring Fashion Show proceeds benefit Guys With Ties Philanthropy of Orlando, who have been hosting themed events for nearly ten years to raise funds for numerous local charities in the Central Florida community. They put the fun back in fundraising!  Total donations made directly from Guys with Ties events are over $200,000. 

Sunday May 18, 2014

 Noon to 4pm. Free. Bookmark Book Fair. Bookmark It 3201 Corrine Drive, Suite 201, Orlando, Fl. The best part of a summer vacation is finally having time to READ. Why not have it be YOUR book ! Bookmark It’s second Local-Author Book Fair is Sunday, May 18, 2014 from noon-4pm. East End Market weekends continue to draw new and repeat visitors. #1 overheard comment at last Locally Grown Words event: “We loved getting to meet the author !” 20 tables (up to 40 authors/publishers) will line both floors and courtyard at East End Market.

2pm to 4pm Free. How the Parthenon came to be Josh Garrick. Winter Park Public Library, 460 East New England Avenue, Winter Park, FL.

5pm to 9pm Free. Orlando Food Truck Bazaar. Orlando Fashion Square, 3201 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL. http://www.thedailycity.com/2011/05/thedailycitycom-food-truck-bazaar.html