The next ninety days of arts & theatre on the coast.
100 events
THU 8/27–THU 10/15
Mobile Museum of Art
The museum runs a free Thursday afternoon art session most weeks, working through materials and techniques borrowed from artists on view.
Thursdays 8/27 through 10/15 (except Sept 8) · 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Friday 10/2
Building 82, Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Mainstage Theatre, UWF · Pensacola
UWF Theatre stages Alice in Wonderland on the Mainstage in Building 82's Center for Fine and Performing Arts, open to the general public.
7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
TUE 9/15–SUN 11/1
West Regional Library · Mobile, AL
West Regional Library hosts this youth exhibition tied to the Jazz Art Writers South Festival, a partnership between Mobile Arts Council and Amp Up Arts.
THU 9/24–FRI 12/11
Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts · Pensacola
A gallery exhibition by artist Wanda Sullivan runs at Pensacola State College's visual arts center through mid-December.
Now through December 11
FRI 8/28–MON 10/5
Quayside Art Gallery · Pensacola
Quayside Art Gallery in downtown Pensacola is showing Summer's End, an exhibition about the turn from late summer into autumn, through October 5.
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
MON 10/5–FRI 10/9
Valparaiso Library
The Valparaiso Library hosts Indios Amigos, a traveling exhibit made by the Florida Public Archaeology Network and the UWF Archaeology Institute, for Hispanic Heritage Month.
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
THU 10/1–FRI 11/20
UWF Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, The Art Gallery · Pensacola
Make It Last is an exhibition in The Art Gallery at the UWF Center for Fine and Performing Arts, curated by a UWF graduate.
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM · opening reception Thursday 10/8 · 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Mondays
Artel Gallery · Pensacola
Life Drawing Group is a weekly life drawing session at Artel Gallery, a volunteer-run contemporary art gallery at 223 Palafox Pl in downtown Pensacola.
6 PM-9 PM
SAT 10/3–SAT 10/24
Blue Morning Gallery · Pensacola
Monochrome is a group show by three artists at Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox Place in downtown Pensacola, running through Saturday, October 24.
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Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach · Suite B-8
Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach is an artist-led canvas painting studio at 255 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Suite B-8, in the Publix shopping center in downtown Fort Walton Beach.
Classes most weeks: Sunday 3 PM, Monday evenings, Saturday all-ages open studio
Tuesdays thru TUE 12/15
Pensacola Museum of Art: Classroom
Next Generation Homeschool Art is a visual arts course for ages 7 to 9 that follows National Visual Arts Standards.
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Wednesdays
Niceville Senior Center
This acrylic and watercolor painting session at the Niceville Senior Center is led by Kathleen LoGalbo, whom the city describes as a self-taught art enthusiast who keeps learning from…
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Wednesdays
West Regional Library · Mobile, AL
Adults bring their own craft project to work on together at West Regional Library's Crafternoons, an informal two-hour afternoon session.
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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First City Art Center · Pensacola
Make Your Own Glass is a hands-on hot glass session at First City Art Center in Pensacola, where each participant makes a piece with a glassblower.
By appointment: Wednesdays 5 PM-9 PM, Saturdays 8 AM-11 AM
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Painting with a Twist Pensacola
Painting with a Twist Pensacola is an artist-led paint-and-sip studio at 4771 Bayou Blvd Suite C11 with several classes every week.
Classes most days: family days Saturday 10:30 AM, brunch Sunday 11 AM, evenings Wednesday to Saturday
18+WED 10/7
Niceville Library
The Niceville Library hosts an adults only craft session on Wednesday, October 7 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM.
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Thursdays thru THU 12/17
Pensacola Museum of Art: Classroom
After School Art is a 16 week studio program for grades 2 through 6 at the Pensacola Museum of Art.
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Thursdays thru THU 10/15
Pensacola Museum of Art: Classroom
Mini Makers is an eight week art program for ages 4 to 6 at the Pensacola Museum of Art.
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Thursdays thru THU 11/19
Grand Bay Library
Grand Bay Library hands out pre-drawn canvases and paint for a children's painting club, run for ages 6 through 11.
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Thursdays
Monte L. Moorer/Spring Hill Branch Library · Mobile, AL
The Spring Hill branch of Mobile Public Libraries hosts an evening watercolor session aimed at painters who are already working at an advanced level, not a beginner class.
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
THU 10/8
Page & Palette · Fairhope, AL
Page & Palette hosts sportswriter Lars Anderson, Thursday from 6 PM to 8 PM, for a discussion and signing of his new biography of Tom Brady.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
FRI 8/28–FRI 10/16
Mobile Botanical Gardens
Botanical arts instructor Derek Norman leads a casual Friday sketch session in the Larkins Classroom or the Magnolia Hill Studio.
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (space permitting)
FRI 10/9–SAT 10/10
First City Art Center · Pensacola
First City Art Center's 20th Annual Pumpkin Patch opens with a Friday Preview Party on October 9, ahead of a Saturday pumpkin sale.
Fridays
Fairhope Public Library, MakerSpace
Fairhope Public Library's MakerSpace hosts a weekly art class for ages 7 to 12, led by an Eastern Shore Art Center artist, Friday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
FRI 10/9
Fort Walton Beach Library
Tweens and teens ages 10 to 18 add spooky elements to old paintings at this drop-in craft in the Fort Walton Beach Library's children's story room.
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
FRI 10/9
AC Satellite · Mobile, AL
Alabama Contemporary opens a new exhibition at AC Satellite on Friday, October 9 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, during the October Artwalk.
6:00 PM
Saturdays thru SAT 10/17
UWF Pensacola Campus, Building 82
This six week adult ceramics course at UWF meets Saturday afternoons from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, covering wheel throwing, centering, forms, firing, and glazing.
12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Saturdays through 10/17 thru SAT 10/17
Seaside Amphitheater · Santa Rosa Beach
Emerald Coast Theatre Company performs Dragons Love Tacos at the Seaside Amphitheater on Saturday afternoons this fall.
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
SAT 10/10–SAT 10/31
Pensacola Library
STEAM: Midnight Kitty Painting is a step-by-step painting class at Pensacola Library, 239 N. Spring St., where you paint a little shadow kitty watching the moon.
11:00 AM
SUN 10/11
Coastal Makers · Mobile, AL
A Halloween-themed painted planter class at Coastal Makers, where each guest builds a witch-styled planter to take home over three hours.
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
SUN 10/11
Painting with a Twist Pensacola
Paint Your Pet is a three-hour class at Painting with a Twist Pensacola, 4771 Bayou Blvd Suite C11, where you paint your own pet from a photo.
4:00 PM
MON 10/12
First City Art Center, Youth Art Building (Building #6, De Soto St parking) · Pensacola
The Youth Art Camp on Indigenous Peoples' Day is a one-day art camp for ages 5-12 on a student holiday.
9:00 AM
WED 10/14
Page & Palette · Fairhope, AL
Page & Palette hosts Matt Kessler, Wednesday from 6 PM to 8 PM, for a discussion of The Wiregrass: A Tale of Murder and Retribution in the Deep South.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
WED 10/14
Fort Walton Beach Library
Children of all ages, up to 18, make ghost art with paint, squeegees and paper at the Fort Walton Beach Library.
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
WED 10/14
Props Brewery & Taproom · Fort Walton Beach
The Dwarf Jade Bonsai Workshop at Props Brewery & Taproom is a two-hour guided class by Zen Den Bonsai in Fort Walton Beach, on Wednesday, October 14 from 6-8 PM.
6:00 PM
THU 10/15–SUN 10/25
Emerald Coast Theatre Company · Miramar Beach
Four actors play 150 roles in a full-tilt Hitchcock spoof that is clean, fast, and laugh-out-loud.
Thu-Sat 7 PM · Sun 2 PM · Wed 1 PM · Thu 10/22 also 1 PM
18+THU 10/15
Mary Esther Library
Mary Esther Library hosts a monthly crafting night for adults, with all supplies provided so attendees just bring themselves.
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
THU 10/15
Mobile Museum of Art
Alabama Contemporary hosts a free panel on the urban legends, mythology and cryptids of the Deep South at the Mobile Museum of Art on Thursday, October 15 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
6:00 PM
FRI 10/16
Palafox St, Downtown Pensacola
October's Gallery Night goes Halloween, with costumes on closed-off Palafox, art, and street food.
5-9 PM
FRI 10/16–SUN 11/1
Theatre 98, Fairhope
Noël Coward's classic ghost-comedy plays at Fairhope's intimate community playhouse, a witty, dressed-up date in Fairhope.
Eves + matinees
FRI 10/16
Navarre Library
Craft and Chat is a two hour open crafting session at the Navarre Library, held on a recurring schedule through the fall.
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
FRI 10/16
Aurora Light Arts · Navarre
The Monster Slime Party at Aurora Light Arts in Navarre is a two-hour party on Friday, October 16 at 6 PM where children mix, stretch, swirl, color and decorate their own glow-in-the-dark…
4:00 PM
Sep 19 and Oct 17 thru SAT 10/17
First City Art Center · Pensacola
First City Art Center runs a Saturday morning mixed media art class open to anyone age 6 and up, from 9:30 AM to noon.
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
SAT 10/17
Page & Palette · Fairhope, AL
Page & Palette hosts Wayne Miller for a children's signing, Saturday from 1 PM to 3 PM, for his locally set pirate adventure about kids playing around Fairhope's beaches and parks.
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
SAT 10/17
Capt. Royal Melvin Heritage Park (Harbor Front) · Destin
An outdoor rock-painting session at the harbor-front park comes with snacks.
9-11 AM
SAT 10/17–SUN 10/18
W.O. Lott Park · Daphne, AL
Olde Towne Daphne fills with more than one hundred local and regional artists showing handmade jewelry, paintings, pottery, sculpture, wood and mixed media work along the Eastern Shore of…
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sunday 10/18 · 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
SAT 10/17
Aurora Light Arts · Navarre
Acrylic Workshop: Palm Trees is a painting class at Aurora Light Arts in Navarre, led by a coastal artist, on Saturday, October 17 at 4:30 PM.
2:00 PM
SAT 10/17
Century Library (West Florida Public Libraries)
Leather Crafting is a basic leather design class at Century Library in Century, at 1 PM on Saturday, October 17.
1:00 PM
SUN 10/18
Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach · Suite B-8
Paint Your Pet is an all-ages session at Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach, 255 Miracle Strip Pkwy SE, Suite B-8.
3:00 PM
MON 10/19
Mattie Kelly Arts Center · Niceville
A touring musical adaptation of Clifford the Big Red Dog brings Clifford and Emily Elizabeth to the Mattie Kelly Arts Center stage with a story built around friendship, imagination and…
9:45 AM-10:30 AM (second show 11:30 AM-12:30 PM)
MON 10/19
Coastal Makers · Mobile, AL
Coastal Makers runs this stained-glass snake plant class twice on the same day, a morning session and an evening session, so guests can pick whichever fits their schedule.
9:30 AM to 12:30 PM or 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
MON 10/19
Aurora Light Arts · Navarre
Maker Mondays is a monthly maker class at Aurora Light Arts in Navarre that rotates through oil pastels, acrylics, beading and clay.
Time not posted
TUE 10/20
Page & Palette · Fairhope, AL
Page & Palette hosts historical fiction author Ariel Lawhon, Tuesday from 6 PM to 8 PM, for a talk and signing centered on The Pirate Queen, her novel about Irish chieftain Grace O'Malley.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
TUE 10/20
Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach · Suite B-8
The Chunky Knit Blanket workshop is a three-hour craft class at Painting with a Twist in Fort Walton Beach.
6:00 PM
WED 10/21
Page & Palette · Fairhope, AL
Page & Palette hosts a poetry discussion with Jeanie Thompson about The Myth of Water, paired with live music from Larry Mitchell, Wednesday from 6 PM to 8 PM.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
WED 10/21
Westside Library · Pensacola
Costume & Cosplay Open Sew Lab is a drop-in sewing session at Westside Library, 1301 West Gregory Street.
5:00 PM
Thursday 10/22
Coastal Arts Center of Orange Beach
The Coastal Arts Center of Orange Beach hosts its Arts Afire Fall Festival on Thursday, October 22, from 5 to 7 PM.
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
FRI 10/23–SAT 10/24
Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter · Pensacola
This boxing-gym whodunit downtown is the longest run of the series, four nights across two weekends.
Doors 6:00 PM · Show 7:00 PM · also 10/29-10/30
FRI 10/23
Mattie Kelly Arts Center · Niceville
Meredith Willson's The Music Man takes the stage at Mattie Kelly Arts Center on Friday, October 23, from 7 PM to 9 PM.
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
FRI 10/23–SUN 10/25
The Temple Downtown · Mobile, AL
Mobile Opera stages Gounod's Romeo et Juliette in French with English supertitles, with a Friday evening show and a Sunday matinee.
7:30 PM and Sunday 10/25 · 2:30 PM
FRI 10/23–SUN 11/1
Pensacola State College, Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8
Pensacola State College stages Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Ashmore Auditorium over two weekends, October 23 to 25 and October 30 to November 1.
Fri and Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM
SAT 10/24
Saenger Theatre · AL
Mobile Ballet brings its production of Dracula to the Saenger Theatre for one Saturday night performance.
7:30 PM
Saturday 10/24
Mattie Kelly Dugas Pavilion Green · Destin
The Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation's 31st Annual Festival of the Arts is free to attend, including parking, on Saturday, October 24.
SAT 10/24
Foley United Methodist Church
A community craft vendor market ahead of the holiday season sets up at Foley United Methodist Church.
9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
SAT 10/24
Aurora Light Arts · Navarre
The October 24 workshop at Aurora Light Arts in Navarre is an art class starting at 4:30 PM on Saturday.
2:00 PM
SAT 10/24
Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach
The Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach is celebrating its 70th anniversary on Saturday, October 24 at its gallery on First Street.
Start time not posted
MON 10/26–TUE 10/27
Pensacola Saenger Theatre
The touring musical Waitress plays the Pensacola Saenger for two nights.
7:30 PM
MON 10/26
Coastal Makers · Mobile, AL
A two-hour class at Coastal Makers where guests burn a Lichtenberg fractal pattern into their own drinkware to take home, priced per person.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
MON 10/26
The Gab Spot · Fort Walton Beach
The Dwarf Jade Bonsai Workshop at The Gab Spot is a two-hour hands-on class by Zen Den Bonsai in Fort Walton Beach, on Monday, October 26 from 6-8 PM.
6:00 PM
MON 10/26
Brownsville Library · Pensacola
Bad Art Night: Self-Portraits is an informal art night at Brownsville Library, 3300 W. De Soto Street.
5:00 PM
THU 10/29–MON 11/9
Downtown Pensacola · FL
Foo Foo Festival runs across downtown Pensacola from October 29 through November 9, one of the destination's own signature annual events.
THU 10/29–MON 11/9
Artel Gallery · Pensacola
Lightspill is a large temporary public art installation by Friends of Downtown on the front of the historic Artel Gallery building in downtown Pensacola.
Times not posted
THU 10/29–FRI 10/30
Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center
HalloZine Fest is the second annual zine fair at Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center, held October 29 and 30 as part of Foo Foo Festival. 309 Punk Project puts on a zine marketplace,…
11:00 AM
FRI 10/30–SUN 11/8
Pensacola Little Theatre
Pensacola Little Theatre's Mainstage opens the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show on Halloween weekend, directed by Justin Gaylard, and runs through November 8.
At 7:30 PM · runs through 11/8
FRI 10/30–SUN 11/8
The Gordon Community Art Center · Pensacola
Side Show is a musical staged by PenArts at The Gordon Community Art Center in Pensacola, about conjoined twins who became vaudeville stars.
7:30 PM
SAT 10/31
Painting with a Twist Pensacola
The Halloween Paint & Sip is a Halloween-day painting class at Painting with a Twist Pensacola, 4771 Bayou Blvd Suite C11.
2:00 PM
SAT 10/31
Painting with a Twist Fort Walton Beach · Suite B-8
The All Ages Blacklight painting session is a Halloween morning class at Painting with a Twist in Fort Walton Beach.
11:00 AM
Sunday 11/1
Monte L. Moorer/Spring Hill Branch Library · Mobile, AL
More than fifty paintings by artists ages 8 to 18 who attend local public schools interpret jazz music at the Monte L. Moorer/Spring Hill Branch Library.
SUN 11/1–TUE 11/3
The Clark Family Cultural Center · Pensacola
Carnival of the Animals is an original family ballet set to Saint-Saens's score, danced by Ballet Pensacola's Student Company and Youth Ensemble.
See showtimes
TUE 11/3–SAT 11/7
Pensacola Museum of Art
STEAM2026 Week at the Pensacola Museum of Art is a week of programming around the STEAM2026 exhibition, which runs August 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027.
2:30 PM
WED 11/4
Saenger Theatre, Pensacola
Pensacola Opera turns the Saenger into a fashion theatre stage, with large projections, opera singers, ballet dancers and runway models bringing famous operatic scenes to life.
7:00 PM
Thursdays 11/5 and 12/3 thru THU 12/3
Navarre Library
labARTory is a monthly art program at Navarre Library, held on a Thursday from 4 to 5:30 PM.
4 PM-5:30 PM
FRI 11/6–SUN 11/8
Seville Square · Pensacola
The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival fills Seville Square with more than 200 juried painters, potters, sculptors, jewellers and other artists over three days.
9 AM to 5 PM Fri and Sat, 9 AM to 4 PM Sun
First Friday of the month
Quayside Art Gallery · Pensacola
First Fridays Art Walk is a downtown art walk at Quayside Art Gallery, 17 East Zaragoza Street.
Open until 7:30 PM
First Saturday of the month
First City Art Center · Pensacola
Saturday: Family Clay Date is a beginner hand-building clay class at First City Art Center in Pensacola where a parent or guardian and child create together with an instructor.
10 AM-12 PM
THU 11/12–SUN 11/22
Chickasaw Civic Theatre
Michael Frayn's door-slamming backstage farce, one of the funniest plays ever written, plays at Chickasaw's community playhouse.
Eves + matinees
FRI 11/13–WED 12/23
Foley Art Center
Since 1967 the Foley Art Center has opened its Trim-a-Tree holiday show on the second Friday in November, and it runs through December 23.
Daily (hours to confirm)
SAT 11/14
Downtown Mobile art market
Arti Gras is an annual fine art market in downtown Mobile that benefits the Detonti Square Community Garden.
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
SAT 11/14
Emerald Coast Science Center · Fort Walton Beach
The Reduce, Reuse, Refashion Show is the second annual runway show of wearable art made from recycled and repurposed materials such as plastic, paper and old textiles, held at the Emerald…
4:30 PM
FRI 11/20
Palafox St, Downtown · Pensacola
November's Gallery Night turns the street into living pictures, with costumed tableaux holding still down closed-off Palafox and the usual art, music, and street food around them.
5-9 PM
SAT 11/21
Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter · Pensacola
This pirate-crew whodunit downtown includes dinner, a cast working the tables, and a mystery that unfolds between courses.
Doors 6:00 PM · Show 7:00 PM
MON 11/23–WED 11/25
First City Art Center, Youth Art Building (Building #6, De Soto St parking) · Pensacola
The Youth Art Camp for Fall Break is a three-day Thanksgiving-week art camp for ages 5-12 at First City Art Center in Pensacola.
9:00 AM
MON 11/30
Saenger Theatre · Pensacola
This touring stage production of the Christmas classic is a wholesome holiday night older kids can follow.
7:30 PM
THU 12/3
Emerald Coast Theatre Company · Miramar Beach
Emerald Coast Theatre Company closes its season's holiday slot with Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, a stage show built around a rock and roll Christmas jam.
Thursday to Saturday 7:00 PM, Sunday 2:00 PM
FRI 12/11–SUN 12/20
Pensacola Little Theatre, Studio 400
This original musical comedy by a local playwright set Christmas in Fern Forest Trailer Park, Florida.
Fri and Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM
SUN 12/13
Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter · Pensacola
The one daytime show in the run serves a holiday whodunit over brunch instead of dinner, so it is over well before bedtime.
10:00 AM brunch
FRI 12/18
Palafox St, Downtown · Pensacola
The December Gallery Night is the last of the year.
5-9 PM
FRI 12/18
Saenger Theatre, Pensacola
Ballet Pensacola stages The Nutcracker at the Saenger Theatre over the weekend before Christmas as part of its 48th season.
Times to be announced
SAT 12/19–SUN 12/20
Saenger Theatre · Mobile, AL
Mobile Ballet stages its annual Nutcracker at the Saenger Theatre with guest artists, the company and its students.
2 PM and 7 PM · Sunday 12/20 · 2 PM
MON 12/21–FRI 1/1
First City Art Center, Youth Art Building (Building #6, De Soto St parking) · Pensacola
The Youth Art Camp for Winter Break is an art camp for ages 5-12 at First City Art Center in Pensacola.
9:00 AM