Community Calendar

Join us anytime from 5:30 - 7 pm for some social time and drinks with environmentally-minded folks. This month we visit with Bailey Walkinshaw, community science coordinator for the Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program. She'll share more about the upcoming National Estuaries Week and how you can get involved. Mark your calendars and plan to join us.

At Green Drinks Pensacola you can enjoy happy-hour vibes, with food and drinks available for purchase and meaningful dialogue around local environmental issues. It’s a great chance to connect with like-minded locals and be part of Pensacola’s sustainability-minded community.
Questions: Contact Christian Wagley at christian@healthygulf.org

A bridge is just a bridge, right? It connects two points spanning a river, gorge, or even a passageway over a road. But what happens when human engineering and ingenuity forget to take natural forces into account?

Join librarian Travis Souther on Wednesday, September 9, at 6 p.m. for an interactive presentation that bridges both history and science and discover the physics and the flaws that caused a viral video that was seen across the world.

The presentation is part of the Forces of Nature, Failures of Man Tech Library series will be held at the UWF Emerald Coast Library in the Student Government Association room. (Located at the UWF Emerald Coast Campus in Ft. Walton Beach, Building 8)

Come share your talent or be inspired by those of others! Free to attend, free to perform! Sign-up at the door that evening, if you'd like to perform.

James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley: Reimagining the Historic 1965 Cambridge Union Debate

Experience a theatrical reenactment of one of the most memorable public debates of the twentieth century. American Vicarious brings the historic 1965 Cambridge Union debate between writer and civil rights icon James Baldwin and conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. back to the stage.

The debate centers on the provocative resolution:

“The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

Through this dramatic reenactment, audiences will encounter the competing visions of America articulated by Baldwin and Buckley at a defining moment in the nation’s history and consider enduring questions about race, equality, citizenship, and the American promise.

James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley: Reimagining the Historic 1965 Cambridge Union Debate

Experience a theatrical reenactment of one of the most memorable public debates of the twentieth century. American Vicarious brings the historic 1965 Cambridge Union debate between writer and civil rights icon James Baldwin and conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. back to the stage.

The debate centers on the provocative resolution:

“The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

Through this dramatic reenactment, audiences will encounter the competing visions of America articulated by Baldwin and Buckley at a defining moment in the nation’s history and consider enduring questions about race, equality, citizenship, and the American promise.

You'll find the unique, the one-of-a-kind, the precious, the delicious and the off-beat at Palafox Market in Downtown Pensacola. Items originate directly from talented onsite vendors who grow, make, or create each item for sale.

Join us every Saturday for the award-winning Palafox Market from 9:00am-2:00pm, rain or shine for farm-fresh produce, plants, flowers, baked goods, hand-crafted works of art, sculpture, fresh tea and coffee, delicious food and spices, hand-blown glass, ceramics and much more at the event that was named Florida's Best Farmers Market by Southern Living magazine.

NOW AT TWO LOCATIONS!

PALAFOX MARKET NORTH at Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza and PALAFOX MARKET SOUTH at Plaza Ferdinand

James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley: Reimagining the Historic 1965 Cambridge Union Debate

Experience a theatrical reenactment of one of the most memorable public debates of the twentieth century. American Vicarious brings the historic 1965 Cambridge Union debate between writer and civil rights icon James Baldwin and conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. back to the stage.

The debate centers on the provocative resolution:

“The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

Through this dramatic reenactment, audiences will encounter the competing visions of America articulated by Baldwin and Buckley at a defining moment in the nation’s history and consider enduring questions about race, equality, citizenship, and the American promise.

The Pensacola Museum of Art Guild invites you to an inspiring morning with acclaimed portrait artist, Jeff Bass, as he shares the stories behind his remarkable paintings. Enjoy lunch while helping support the Pensacola Museum of Art. Proceeds from this event support the Youth Art Focus and the scholarship fund for the children's art programs, providing many children with their first exposure to a museum and to the visual arts.

Jeff has painted such dignitaries as George H.W. Bush, Governor Jeb Bush, former Secretary of State George Shultz, to name a few. His work's are represented in the US House of Representatives, the Smithsonian, the CIA and our own National Aviation Museum, to name a few.

The University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present The Tu Masters Piano Duo, performing “AS ONE: Celebrating Great Piano Duos of the Past” on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. The concert will be held in the Rolfs Music Hall at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts on the UWF Pensacola campus.

In this vivacious and engaging program, duo-pianists Richard Masters and Hsiang Tu celebrate five great piano duos of the past: Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer, Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser, and Abram Chasins and Constance Keene. These unusual selections do not appear on most modern programs yet represent a significant contribution to the duo repertoire.

Richard Masters is a pianist and opera coach/conductor based in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is associate professor of piano and collaborative piano at Virginia Tech's School of Performing Arts. He has collaborated with Grammy-winning baritone Donnie Ray Albert and flutist Valerie Coleman, and he has performed under the baton of the late Lorin Maazel. Recent performances include the appearances at the English Music Festival in Oxfordshire, American Cathedral in Paris and Nixon Library in California. Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich named his Albany Records disc of American art songs as one of the “best classical recordings of 2020.” A Yamaha Artist, Masters holds degrees from Eastman, Juilliard and the University of Colorado.

Hsiang Tu has been an assistant professor of piano at the University of Florida since 2022. During that time, he has released two albums, including a recording of the complete works for solo piano by Maurice Ravel in January 2026. Last fall alone, he performed and gave masterclasses in Croatia, Peru, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Born and raised in Taipei, Tu moved to the United States as a teenager and earned a BM degree from the University of Calgary and MM and DMA from The Juilliard School. He enjoys building Lego sets and playing video games in his spare time.

This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For tickets or more information, visit https://uwf.edu/cfpa or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

In this vivacious and engaging program, duo-pianists Richard Masters and Hsiang Tu celebrate five great piano duos of the past: Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer, Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser, and Abram Chasins and Constance Keene. These unusual selections do not appear on most modern programs yet represent a significant contribution to the duo repertoire.