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PHOTOS: THE FLORIDA KEYS & KEY WEST
Only in the FLORIDA KEYS
BY SABRINA PIRILLO
The Florida Keys is your one-stop-shop
The Key Players, a local theatre troupe. In a duo
gered Key Deer in this natural mangrove for embracing quirky and unique art
outdoor concert blast, one held in Islamorada
wilderness. Indoors, let the Artists in Par- and culture. Key Largo, Islamorada,
the other in Key Largo, music lovers can spread
adise Gallery whisk you away into a Marathon, the Lower Keys and Key West are
a blanket during the Florida Keys Community
wonderland of art from oil, acrylic and water- the five major fantasy islands in this island
Concert Band’s Pops in the Park season, run-
colour to a broader array of jewellery, pottery chain where the natural scenery draws on the
ning from January to April.
and sculptures.
artistic creations. It’s time to imagine, be
inspired and start to create, thanks to these
HISTORIC DISCOVERIES
AUTHENTIC KEY WEST
dreamy surrounds.
IN ISLAMORADA
History and inspiration live in Key West with Over at the Islander Resort, your cultural crav-
a potpourri of private residences of America’s CLASSIC KEY LARGO
ings are sure to be satisfied at the on-site
finest writers now open as museums. The This northernmost island gained fame when
interactive Keys History & Discovery Center.
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum brims the 1948 movie classic Key Largo starred
Learn about the Florida Keys’ early Native
with Papa Hemingway’s personal mementoes. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Today,
Americans, pirates and salvagers and view
Take a guided house tour and see Key West’s Key Largo presents musicals, comedies and
films inside the 35-seat theatre. Arts enthusi-
first swimming pool. The Tennessee Williams Broadway productions like the hit, The Addams
asts, meanwhile, can take an artsy walkabout
Museum, which was the Pulitzer-prize-win- Family: The Musical, running next spring by
in the Morada Way Arts and Cultural District,
ning playwright’s former home, has a treasure a popular gallery hub.
chest of literary artifacts. Now as the sun sets at Mallory Square, the curtain rises at the NATURAL AND ROMANTIC
Waterfront Playhouse while the Truman WONDERS IN MARATHON
Waterfront Park Amphitheater boasts a 223- Best known for the Seven Mile Bridge, your
square-metre band shell.
sense of cultured curiosity continues at the Crane Point Hammock Museum and Nature Trails. Among this 25-hectare property is the Adderley House, one of the oldest homes in the Keys. Celebrating its 80th season, The Marathon Community Theatre kicks off the new year with playwright Neil Simon’s romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park.
REFUGE AND PARADISE
IN BIG PINE KEY
This is wild Florida! The National Key Deer Refuge in Big Pine Key protects the endan-
Lights, camera, action! Around Florida, nobody does original arts better than the Florida Keys. DS
Travel Planner
For more arts inspired info about the Florida Keys see fla-keys.com/arts-culture
24 DREAMSCAPES WINTER 2023/2024