Santa Rosa Beach Artist Named 2024 Festival of the Arts Poster Contest Winner
By Zandra Wolfgram
Artist Kelly Pierre hails from South Louisiana’s vibrant culture, where his Cajun French-speaking family owned shrimp boats. Summers spent learning the shrimping business along the Gulf Coast deeply connected him to the seafood industry.
“I got...
Northwest Florida’s champion of the arts for all abilities was awarded $30,000 (one of four national grants totaling $127,000) recently from the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.
Founded in 2002 by Chef Emeril Lagasse and his wife Alden, Emeril Lagasse Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity headquartered in New Orleans. The Foundation’s...
Programs Available in Freeport, DeFuniak Springs and Miramar Beach
Emerald Coast Theatre Company’s (ECTC) 2024 Fall Educational Theatre programs are bigger and better than ever. These programs provide creative and engaging classes designed especially for young thespians from elementary to high school, as well as adult classes. ECTC offers classes...
By Tamara L. Young, PhD, Public Information Director, World’s Luckiest Fishing Village
Wearing a green dress with thousands of tiny white flowers, carrying hundreds of pieces of her artwork into the Destin Library on one of the summer’s hottest days, she still wears a smile.
She is whimsy and childlike and...
A gathering of theatre students came together recently at Emerald Coast Theatre Company (ECTC) to celebrate the close of their 11th Season, induct Jr. Thespians and commemorate the end of a fruitful season of children’s educational theatre. This event allowed ECTC’s students and parents to come together with food...
By Will Estell
If you live among the coastal communities of Northwest Florida, you have likely become aware of the Destin-based Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation (MKAF) and the outreach this wonderful organization does to promote the arts within the growing communities it serves. One such initiative by which the MKAF...
Emerald Coast Theatre Company (ECTC) hosts its inaugural signature event, titled “La Vie En Rouge,” Thursday, March 28 from 6-9 p.m.
The non-profit theater company, located at Grand Boulevard at Sandestin®, is transformed into a 19th-century Parisian cabaret, courtesy of décor sponsor, Clay 30A and features exhilarating live performances, dazzling...
By Scott Thomas
As we cozy up indoors during this chilly weather, thoughts of sunny spring days filled with gardening and crafting activities dance in our minds.
Drawing from over 50 years of gardening and crafting expertise, Scott Thomas shares a few gardening tips.
Tip #1: When acquiring seeds for your vegetable garden,...
By Anna Fisher, Associate Artistic Director, Emerald Coast Theatre Company
Back when I was a little baby acting student in grad school, I had the pleasure of playing the character of Meg in “Crimes of the Heart.” She’s the sister who has returned home after an unsuccessful attempt to make it...
