For more details on all upcoming events and to register for these, see " The Week Ahead " section here . March 4, 9:30 a.m. -- Indian River Land Trust Guided Conservation Tours March 4, 4 p.m. -- The John and Barbara Ferrera Ocean Science Lecture Series at FAU Harbor Branch March 6, 9:30 a.m. -- Indian River Land Trust Guided Conservation Tours March 6, 7 p.m. -- MusicWorks Concert Series 2025-26 Season March 6, 7:30 p.m. -- Indian River Symphonic Association -- Orpheus Chamb

If you've never heard a fairy tale told through strings, next Saturday morning at the Vero Beach Museum of Art is a good place to start. The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra returns to VBMA on March 14 with The Princess and the Pea , Hans Christian Andersen's classic, reimagined through violin, viola, and cello, and admission is free! Conductor and Artistic Director Aaron T. Collins narrates the 45-minute performance, part of the Symphony's Once Upon an Orchestra  series.

We couldn’t let this week’s Vero Minute pass without honoring Ray McNulty , who passed away on February 18.   An award winning and celebrated journalist, yes, but his real genius was in those opinion pieces that landed like news.   His “My Vero” columns had the snap and certainty of a straight report, sourced, detailed, full of who said what and who did what, and then, before you knew it, you were deep inside his very specific take on what it all meant. When Ray weighed in, i

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Trinity Episcopal Church on March 25 , and if the last two performances are any indication, tickets will not last! Violinist Benjamin Beilman will be joining CMS mainstays David Finckel (cellist) and Wu Han (pianist) for an evening that moves from Brahms to Shostakovich to Schubert and encompasses a profound range of emotional experiences along the way. The program opens with a piece of musical mischief: Brahms wrot

Vero Beach’s first and oldest cultural treasure has just become the first—and only—to have its story published by Rizzoli , the legendary house behind the world’s most beautiful art and design books. Few places are more deserving than McKee: a once-endangered jungle garden, saved and lovingly restored by this community, now celebrated as one of North America’s great sanctuaries of beauty and imagination. It took a century to grow the story, and this fall the world gets to rea

Much of Indian River County's conversation about literacy centers on children, and rightly so. Organizations like The Learning Alliance have done essential work confronting the early childhood reading crisis, making sure kids arrive at third grade with the foundation they need. But there's a parallel crisis that gets far less attention: the adults who never got that foundation -- or who came to the country without it -- and are now working towards building a better life. The

Every March, the artists of Indian River Clay bring their best work out of the studio and onto the gallery floor. Form + Fire is back for its fourth year, this time at Raw Space Gallery, and 2026 promises to be the strongest yet, with 60 artists and more than 80 pieces spanning functional pottery to full sculptural experimentation — the only rule being that clay has to be the primary material. Local artists from Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin Counties are joined this

There has never been more to do in Vero Beach. World-class theater. A botanical garden of international renown. A museum in the middle of a $105 million transformation. This is not "Zero Beach," and Vero Beach's "cultural trinity" (McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach Museum of Art, and Riverside Theatre) has the programming to prove it. Last week, Let's Talk Vero brought all three together on Riverside's Stark Stage, where Rochelle Wolberg, Brady Roberts, and Jon R. Moses ,

Ballet Vero Beach brings Made in America  to the Leonhardt Auditorium this Saturday, February 28 , with performances at 12pm and 3pm . The program features original choreography inspired by American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection , the museum's ongoing celebration of America's 250th birthday. Ballet Vero Beach's choreographers and dancers respond to the themes and stories the exhibition holds in paint and sculpture, translating them into mo