The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, the presenter of the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA! Festival), has announced this year’s festival theme as “A Salute to Historic Eatonville.” The Town will celebrate its 125th Anniversary as the nation’s oldest, incorporated African American municipality in August.
Over the course of the nine-day program from January 21 – 29, 2012, ZORA! Festival will present a diverse schedule whose focus will be the Town of Eatonville, a small community of 2,800 residents located ten miles northeast of Orlando. Program highlights include a mobile tour of residential yards and gardens, a museum opening reception and gallery talk, panels featuring local and regional scholars as well as a visiting professor from Russia along with the HATitude Brunch, an annual favorite.
Another crowd-pleasing aspect of this special event is the three-day Outdoor Festival of the Arts which extends along the mile-long stretch of East Kennedy Boulevard from the intersection of Wymore Road to the eastern Maitland City Limits.
During the second weekend of the Festival, visitors experience a variety of activities, including a fine arts lane, an international marketplace, a health and community services pavilion, foods from around the globe and local and regional talent performing on the Center Stage and national headliner talent performing on the newly-created Performance Stage.
The Friday evening Performance Stage headliner is Mario; and the Saturday evening Performance Stage headliner is Keith Sweat.
Both concerts are by paid admission.
