Since you’re reading this, chances are literacy is an important subject to you and your family. In that case, you’ll want to know about the 50th anniversary celebration of the Literacy Services of Indian River County. While the celebration runs through March 2022, the organization is hosting a Launch Party this Friday, Nov. 12. Sponsored by Sandy and Don Mann, the event is free to the public and includes activities to encourage families to read, learn and have fun together. Guests will also help build a time capsule. All activities will be held at the Brackett Library and the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation on the campus of Indian River State College. Prizes will be handed out to the first 300 guests completing all the activities courtesy of the Indian River Chamber of Commerce and Chick-fil-A. The first 100 to attend the party will receive a free Kona Ice. The partner organizations helping with the event are Ballet Vero Beach, Brackett Library, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Buggy Bunch, Environmental Learning Center, Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation and the Learning Alliance. Moreover, current tutors and students of the Literacy Services will become “human books” for participants to check out at a “People’s Library.” Those “human books” will then relate stories and goals about Literary Services, which, in part, seeks to use innovative approaches to teach English language and literacy for everyone. The months’ long celebration culminates in a special event on March 7, 2022 at Sea Oaks. For more information, call 772-778-2223 or visit LiteracyServicesIRC.org.
If you’ve been missing the Vero Beach Art Club’s multi-day workshops, then you’re about to jump for joy because the organization is bringing them back starting tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 12. This group of lessons is “Drawing and Painting on Mixed Media Collage with Christine Peloquin.” It runs three days, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Nov. 12-14 at the Vero Beach Art Club Annex, 1903 14th Ave. Peloquin is an award-winning artist from Florida’s Mount Dora area. Widely collected, the prolific artist has work in galleries and public places including the Daytona International Airport. Peloquin will focus on “the joys” of mixed media collage in a variety of styles, including portraiture, figuratives, landscapes, still life and abstract. Emphasis will be placed on drawing and painting, materials such as papers, fabrics, gelliplate, mono-printing, found objects, personal photos, previous artwork, pencil and/or charcoal drawing and acrylic paint. “The purpose of the workshop will be to explore new mixed media techniques and excavate each students’ authentic voice in their art,” Peloquin says. Students may exhibit their work at Gallery 14, 1911 14th Ave. in Vero’s Historic Arts District. The workshop cost is $350 ($330 for VBAC members). For further information and on-line registration, visit www.VeroBeachArtClub.org or call 772-217-3345.
The Vero Beach Oceanside Business Association also is bringing back a monthly activity missed by many – its Sunset Saturday Night Concert Series. This Saturday’s concert, the second since the series returned, will feature Ryz-N-Soulz, which organizers call a cover band with a “mix of original and multi-genre music with originality and flare that is sure to grab your soul.” The concert runs 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Ocean Drive at Humiston Park. The concert is free. And if you go, do bring your own lawn chair. However, organizers say to “leave your tumblers and coolers at home” because there will be plenty of food and drink to purchase. Do plan ahead where you will park, however, because Ocean Drive will be closed during that time to vehicles between Dahlia and Camilia. For more information, call 771-410-VERO or visit VeroBeachOBA.com.
