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• The City of Orlando welcomed two new swans to Lake Eola today. The Swan-A-Thon fundraising program bought the two male birds to give female black neck swan, Queenie, a companion. City of Orlando staff released the swans from their acclimation pen to Lake Eola.
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• The swan population at Lake Eola is dwindling due to increased human interference with the birds and their nests.
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• Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Pulse shooting survivors will join local political leaders in speaking out about gun laws tomorrow in downtown Orlando. The event is part of a national voter registration drive.
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• Access to public parks in Orlando is improving according to the Trust for Public Land, which ranks park systems in the 100 largest US cities. The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore Index places Orlando’s park system 46th, 7 places higher than last year.
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• There’s a special exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art called “Enduring Beauty: Seminole Art and Culture” that has inspired a fun family day celebrating Native American culture. This free event features hands-on activities, storytelling, music, dancing, free ben & Jerrys ice cream Saturday 10 to 3 at Orlando Museum of Art. Learn how to weave your fingers through a few basic knots to sculpt a beautiful handmade macrame work of art during a class led by Macrame mama! Tickets provide you with materials, 2 drink tickets for the bar, and a take home, step by step guide to help you remember what you learned. Macrame mamma’s class is Saturday at 4 at Lil Indies in the Mills50 District. What …
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• Learn about Islam and the Muslim community from the source while enjoying an international dinner at the Open House Invitational Dinner Saturday at 5:30 at the Islamic Society of Central Florida. Go to iscf.org. An exhibition of the largest existing painting by American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt, on loan from the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in Vermont all weekend at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park. Go to MorseMuseum.org. Do you enjoy poker and have the equivalent of 20 Venti Skinny Vanilla Almond Milk Lattes in your pocket? Then you belong at the Cattle Baron’s Ball Charity Poker Tournament Saturday 11 to 6 at Harry Buffalo at Church Street Station. Go to a real food and …
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• Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer says the confederate statue at Lake Eola should be moved to Greenwood Cemetery.
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• A group of Orlando residents will urge city commissioners Monday afternoon to remove the 100-year-old statue of a confederate soldier in Lake Eola Park. They say it is a symbol of decades of white supremacy and discrimination against people of color. They insist that it be removed before June 12th when city officials will hold a ceremony at the public park for Orlando United Day.
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• If you care about others…. Folks will be putting together lunches including sandwiches, bananas, water, cookies and chips for the homeless then split up into two groups at Lake Eola and near the Coalition for the Homeless on Central to pass them out. The goal is pass out up to 300 lunches. Children are encouraged to join in to decorate the lunch bags and pass them out. This wonderful event takes place Sunday at 10 at Julie’s house at 515 West Harvard Street in College Park. Technically it’s sold out but just show up anyways and help package 70,000 healthy meals for hungry people all around the U.S. for the children’s charity Feeding Children Everywhere. This project is for children …
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• Thousands of people are expected to flood into downtown Orlando Sunday evening for a vigil to remember the Pulse nightclub shooting victims. The vigil comes a week after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others.
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