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Free family fiesta with music, dance, comedy, food – and the world premiere of Loco for Love, a play about Cervantes and Shakespeare coming back from the dead to wrestle in a storytelling smackdown, where you get to vote on who wins.
Loco for Love fiesta combines high-spirited family fun with captivating cultural exploration and an attractive ticket price.
Like a party during Florida’s Spanish past, this fiesta offers a whole tapas-menu full of treats. Here you can taste foods that Cervantes celebrated in Don Quixote, sing songs that Shakespeare wrote into Hamlet, tap your foot to dances that date back to times before anyone Spanish or English had set foot in America, and laugh along with comic scenes that poke fun at ... view more »
ADMISSION INFO
free admission
Friday, September 22
5 p.m. Spanish treats
6:30 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical guitar
7:30 Loco for Love
Saturday, September 23
9:00 a.m. Samantha’s Gift serves arepas and empanadas
Astronomical Italian Ices serves helados
9:30 a.m. That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Basics”
10 a.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
10:30 noon “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
11:00 Loco for Love
1:30 p.m. “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
2 p.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
2:30 p.m. Terry Galloway performs Shakespaearosaurus
Loco for Love
3:30 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Psychology”
6 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical Spanish guitar
6:45 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling
“Protagonist v. Antagonist Dynamics”
7:30 p.m. Loco for Love
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Additional time info:
Friday, September 22
5 p.m. Spanish treats
6:30 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical guitar
7:30 Loco for Love
Saturday, September 23
9:00 a.m. Samantha’s Gift serves arepas and empanadas
Astronomical Italian Ices serves helados
9:30 a.m. That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Basics”
10 a.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
10:30 noon “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
11:00 Loco for Love
1:30 p.m. “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
2 p.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
2:30 p.m. Terry Galloway performs Shakespaearosaurus
Loco for Love
3:30 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Psychology”
6 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical Spanish guitar
6:45 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling
“Protagonist v. Antagonist Dynamics”
7:30 p.m. Loco for Love