Community Calendar

Double your impact for local wildlife this March. 🦉🍀 Every gift helps rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured and orphaned animals along the Emerald Coast! Last year in 2025, we treated 1,566 wildlife patients at no cost to their rescuers! Your donation helps directly fund the medications, vet visits, food, and cleaning supplies we need to rehabilitate and raise wildlife. From specially made wildlife formulas to surgical operations, there is always a patient in need here at ECWR that you can help make a difference for!
During our "Double the Luck - Matching March" Fundraiser, your gift is matched dollar for dollar, helping more pelicans, owls, opossums, and other native neighbors return safely to the wild than ever before. This is one of our most ambitious fundraisers, and matching offers like this don't happen very often! We want to take full advantage of this donor's generosity, and try to raise $50k that will be DOUBLED to $100k!
What does our organization plan to do with these funds? Our main priority this year is updating and expanding our outdoor patient enclosures. These enclosures (which we call "Multispecies Enclosures") are made to safely contain a variety of commonly treated species such as raccoons, opossums, foxes, and fawns. These enclosures must be spacious, as they not only provide a comfortable resting area for recovering patients, but also serve as our "Boot Camp" enclosures for orphaned wildlife. As these animals have grown up in our hospital and not in the wild, we try to utilize our Multispecies enclosures to introduce them to local weather events, food foraging, social behaviors, and to allow them time to build their strength and skills before release. We plan to use these donations to begin building a second Multispecies area from the ground up, demolish our well used original habitats, and then build a SECOND Multispecies habitat area. At times, we receive so many orphaned wildlife patients in the Spring, we cannot possibly fit them all outside, leading them to spend longer indoors than we prefer as it puts them at risk of heightened human interest post release. So, please help us keep them wild today by Doubling our Luck!!

Spring Break is in full bloom at the Emerald Coast Science Center! Enjoy hands-on workshops, Creature Features, sciPad fun, Animal Tales shows, and daily planetarium adventures, from journeys to the Moon and Mars to mind-bending brain science and immersive audio tours of the solar system, plus special evening events featuring Ancient Egyptian myths and adults-only planetarium shows. The museum will be open Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., making it easy to spring into a week packed with curiosity, creativity, and unforgettable science fun.

For a full schedule of events, please visit ecscience.org/events

Be prepared to get up close and personal with unique animals like you’ve never seen! We'll have a Kinkajou, Tegu, Kookaburra, Fruit Bat, Rainbow Boa, and Tarantula in attendance at interactive shows with Animal Tales. You'll even get to touch some of the animals after each show. Talk about a Spring Break photo op to remember for years to come!

Showtimes
10:30 a.m. & 11:45 a.m.

Double your impact for local wildlife this March. 🦉🍀 Every gift helps rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured and orphaned animals along the Emerald Coast! Last year in 2025, we treated 1,566 wildlife patients at no cost to their rescuers! Your donation helps directly fund the medications, vet visits, food, and cleaning supplies we need to rehabilitate and raise wildlife. From specially made wildlife formulas to surgical operations, there is always a patient in need here at ECWR that you can help make a difference for!
During our "Double the Luck - Matching March" Fundraiser, your gift is matched dollar for dollar, helping more pelicans, owls, opossums, and other native neighbors return safely to the wild than ever before. This is one of our most ambitious fundraisers, and matching offers like this don't happen very often! We want to take full advantage of this donor's generosity, and try to raise $50k that will be DOUBLED to $100k!
What does our organization plan to do with these funds? Our main priority this year is updating and expanding our outdoor patient enclosures. These enclosures (which we call "Multispecies Enclosures") are made to safely contain a variety of commonly treated species such as raccoons, opossums, foxes, and fawns. These enclosures must be spacious, as they not only provide a comfortable resting area for recovering patients, but also serve as our "Boot Camp" enclosures for orphaned wildlife. As these animals have grown up in our hospital and not in the wild, we try to utilize our Multispecies enclosures to introduce them to local weather events, food foraging, social behaviors, and to allow them time to build their strength and skills before release. We plan to use these donations to begin building a second Multispecies area from the ground up, demolish our well used original habitats, and then build a SECOND Multispecies habitat area. At times, we receive so many orphaned wildlife patients in the Spring, we cannot possibly fit them all outside, leading them to spend longer indoors than we prefer as it puts them at risk of heightened human interest post release. So, please help us keep them wild today by Doubling our Luck!!

Master Gardener Volunteers will offer selections of cherry, paste, slicing, and patio-type tomatoes, along with a variety of sweet and hot peppers. We will have some selections of herbs, squashes, and small fruit. Cash or check only. Funds support educational outreach.
There will be an educational session on Growing Tomatoes in Containers at 9:15 a.m.

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

Dr. William Thiele, PhD, will facilitate a day retreat at the Naval Live Oaks National Seashore, Gulf Breeze, Florida, on Saturday, March 21, 2026. This will be an experiential contemplative retreat with a theme of “Walk Slowly and Bow Often: Eco Spirituality as a Contemplative Practice."

The sacredness of nature fills our beings like nothing else. Join us as we practice spiritual truths from Mary Oliver’s poem, “When I Am Among the Trees,” in real time. Dr. Thiele will lead us in learning divine truths of contemplative living from the nature beings all around us, tapping into the feeling of oneness with all beings in the natural world, and letting go of the illusions of separation from God and from one another.

We will weave centering practice (inner sanctuary) into Eco-practice (outer sanctuary), dissolving the illusion of separation, “holding space for the sacred within and wherever we go.”

For one night only, our original, legendary storyteller returns, spinning cosmic yarns you can't afford to miss!

6 P.M. True Crime Special Feature (Ages 21 and up)
Our galaxy can be very dark, but have you ever wondered how dark? The True Crime planetarium will answer that question, and many more. While touring through the solar system, we'll discuss some of the most infamous crimes associated with outer space. Learn about the curious deaths of ancient astronomers such as Socrates and Hypatia of Alexandria, the cult that worshipped the 1997 Hale-Bopp comet, and numerous stories of astronauts behaving badly. Adultery, witchcraft, and moon rock robbery are only the beginning when you join us for a mysterious and murderous night under the stars.

7 P.M. Sordid Secrets of the Stars Zodiac Edition (Ages 21 and up)
What's your sign? Enter our planetarium for a deep dive into the 12 signs of the zodiac. In this adults only show, we’ll talk about what your individual zodiac sign says about your personality, both in and out of the bedroom. We’ll also talk about which signs you're most compatible with, which signs to avoid, and the bizarre (and sometimes sultry) Greek myths that inspired the zodiac symbols.

Double your impact for local wildlife this March. 🦉🍀 Every gift helps rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured and orphaned animals along the Emerald Coast! Last year in 2025, we treated 1,566 wildlife patients at no cost to their rescuers! Your donation helps directly fund the medications, vet visits, food, and cleaning supplies we need to rehabilitate and raise wildlife. From specially made wildlife formulas to surgical operations, there is always a patient in need here at ECWR that you can help make a difference for!
During our "Double the Luck - Matching March" Fundraiser, your gift is matched dollar for dollar, helping more pelicans, owls, opossums, and other native neighbors return safely to the wild than ever before. This is one of our most ambitious fundraisers, and matching offers like this don't happen very often! We want to take full advantage of this donor's generosity, and try to raise $50k that will be DOUBLED to $100k!
What does our organization plan to do with these funds? Our main priority this year is updating and expanding our outdoor patient enclosures. These enclosures (which we call "Multispecies Enclosures") are made to safely contain a variety of commonly treated species such as raccoons, opossums, foxes, and fawns. These enclosures must be spacious, as they not only provide a comfortable resting area for recovering patients, but also serve as our "Boot Camp" enclosures for orphaned wildlife. As these animals have grown up in our hospital and not in the wild, we try to utilize our Multispecies enclosures to introduce them to local weather events, food foraging, social behaviors, and to allow them time to build their strength and skills before release. We plan to use these donations to begin building a second Multispecies area from the ground up, demolish our well used original habitats, and then build a SECOND Multispecies habitat area. At times, we receive so many orphaned wildlife patients in the Spring, we cannot possibly fit them all outside, leading them to spend longer indoors than we prefer as it puts them at risk of heightened human interest post release. So, please help us keep them wild today by Doubling our Luck!!

Double your impact for local wildlife this March. 🦉🍀 Every gift helps rescue, rehabilitate, and release injured and orphaned animals along the Emerald Coast! Last year in 2025, we treated 1,566 wildlife patients at no cost to their rescuers! Your donation helps directly fund the medications, vet visits, food, and cleaning supplies we need to rehabilitate and raise wildlife. From specially made wildlife formulas to surgical operations, there is always a patient in need here at ECWR that you can help make a difference for!
During our "Double the Luck - Matching March" Fundraiser, your gift is matched dollar for dollar, helping more pelicans, owls, opossums, and other native neighbors return safely to the wild than ever before. This is one of our most ambitious fundraisers, and matching offers like this don't happen very often! We want to take full advantage of this donor's generosity, and try to raise $50k that will be DOUBLED to $100k!
What does our organization plan to do with these funds? Our main priority this year is updating and expanding our outdoor patient enclosures. These enclosures (which we call "Multispecies Enclosures") are made to safely contain a variety of commonly treated species such as raccoons, opossums, foxes, and fawns. These enclosures must be spacious, as they not only provide a comfortable resting area for recovering patients, but also serve as our "Boot Camp" enclosures for orphaned wildlife. As these animals have grown up in our hospital and not in the wild, we try to utilize our Multispecies enclosures to introduce them to local weather events, food foraging, social behaviors, and to allow them time to build their strength and skills before release. We plan to use these donations to begin building a second Multispecies area from the ground up, demolish our well used original habitats, and then build a SECOND Multispecies habitat area. At times, we receive so many orphaned wildlife patients in the Spring, we cannot possibly fit them all outside, leading them to spend longer indoors than we prefer as it puts them at risk of heightened human interest post release. So, please help us keep them wild today by Doubling our Luck!!