Ivanhoe Village’s holiday bash Jingle Eve is back on Saturday, with festive fun to spare.
Jingle Eve happens on Saturday, Nov. 22, starting at 4:30 p.m. all along the main drag on Orange Avenue, taking in chunks of Virginia Avenue and Gaston Edwards Park. The free family event promises no shortage of beer gardens, music, local vendors, food trucks, a children’s holiday village, deals from neighborhood shops and a fireworks display to cap the whole thing off.
If you’re in the mood for a more “spirited” holiday, there’s the concurrent 12 Wines of Christmas walk. For $50, you can sample red and white wines curated by Tim’s Wine Market and offered up from not 12, but 20 different participating Ivanhoe Village locations. And you’ll score a commemorative glass.
(4:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, Ivanhoe Village Main Street District; ivanhoevillage.org, free-$50)
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Ivanhoe Village ushers in the spooky season with its brand new “Once Upon a Halloween” event this weekend.
The early evening event features a “potion walk,” wherein attendees can purchase a commemorative glass for $25 and then sample all manner of libations from participating neighborhood businesses.
There will be trick-or-treating available at some spots for the kids, and an outdoors screening of the campy, witchy classic Hocus Pocus.
Perhaps most intriguingly, select homes in Ivanhoe Village and Lake Formosa neighborhoods will be taking part in a “Ghost Stories in the Neighborhood” walk. From 5:30-8 p.m., you can stroll from house to house and hear a selection of ghostly tales every 10 minutes.
5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, Ivanhoe Village, ivanhoevillage.org, free-$25.
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A neglected parcel of land on Virginia Drive in Ivanhoe Village is set to transform into a fun-sized urban green space, or a “pocket park.”
Pocket parks serve areas — like Ivanhoe Village — where larger, traditional-sized parks don’t fit. Urban areas and cities across the country, from Philadelphia to Seattle, have used pocket parks for decades to create accessible spaces for community members to gather. The conversations surrounding the possibility of Orlando adopting a pocket park are not necessarily new, but have certainly been reinvigorated.
In 2021, the Ivanhoe Village Design Committee began drawing up plans to make use of an untapped green space in front of a city well. An “overwhelming” number of positive responses from community members fueled the spark behind the project, and proved residents wanted a space they could go to relax, mingle and create a deeper sense of community in Ivanhoe Village. With hopes to bring the pocket park concept to life, the committee partnered with Orlando Utilities Commission and the City of Orlando.
The design plan for the small-but-mighty park includes eye-catching sculptural seating, sheltered spaces for social interactions and a majestic canopy of trees overhead. Vibrant art installations and mood-setting lighting for a chill after-dark experience will only increase the park’s aesthetic pleasure.
The first phase of the project includes a plan to reclaim the front-facing part of the site, and taking the steps necessary to inject it with life. The organization anticipates the beginning of the project’s second phase to come in three or four years, when a permanent surface will replace gravel.
Details for a “Name Our Park” competition are coming soon. To support the vision of the Ivanhoe Village Design Committee, visit the organization’s website.
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