Explorations V Children’s Museum host Holiday Out of School Camps!

Friday, December 2, 6:00 – 9:00pm Downtown continues the holiday festivities with a “Cookies and Carols” theme at the December First Friday.  Come down and enjoy holiday music and entertainment, visits with Santa and so much more. Plus, it’s a great time to work on that holiday shopping list as shops are open late.  Don’t [...]

Don’t miss this vintage home & garden market on Saturday, November 12th from 9 am until 4 pm on Kentucky Avenue in Downtown Lakeland.

Polk Museum of Art will host “Elves Shelves Gift Shoppe,” on Saturday, November 19 – December 4, 2011, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Admission is free.  Children are invited to this special Secret Shoppe. Gifts will be reasonably priced for children to purchase.  Elves Shelves fun include a gift wrapping center.

We hope to see YOU this Saturday for our season opening 8 a.m. -2 p.m.! We have new and returning vendors, live music, ready-to-eat food and more! Who won the 1st Annual “Curbie” Award? Who won the awesome bolga basket filled with vendor goodies? Contest and prize winners will be announced at 10 a.m.! Look [...]

The Polk Theatre presents the film A Better Life Starring: Demián Bichir, José Julián and Eddie ‘Piolin’ Sotelo Director: Chris Weitz Genre: Drama, Special Interest Running time: 1 hour and 38 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13 for some violence, language, and brief drug use A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from [...]

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! (click image for link) Saturday, October 1, 2011        9:00 – 3:00 South Kentucky Avenue (between Main and Lemon Streets)   Downtown Lakeland Help uncover Polk County’s undiscovered talent in this festival for lovers of all things “Book”! Here’s your chance to meet and support local authors, illustrators and publishers (just in time for the [...]

We appreciate you! On August 5 the First Friday theme in Downtown Lakeland is “Back To School” .  To show our teachers that we appreciate them, the shops listed below will conduct drawings for door prizes. All you have to do to qualify is be a Polk County teacher. In addition, all of the shops [...]

You spoke, and Sparky listened! Lakeland natives as well as visitors have been requesting both Lakeland and The General Store shirts, so, thanks to the artistic talents of Rob Smith Jr. and Marty Jones at Jones and Sons Printing, your wishes have been granted! The 100% preshrunk cotton tees feature Sparky, our hard-working and tail-wagging CFO (Chief [...]

Explorations V Children’s Museum, a downtown Lakeland fixture for two decades now, will celebrate 20 years of hands-on, fun-filled adventures in learning at its 20th Birthday X-travaganza on Saturday, August 27, 2011. The birthday party fun will run from 10am-3pm and will feature Radio Disney-AM 1380 from 10:30am to 12:30 pm! There’ll be hula-hooping fun, [...]