🌴 Fort Myers Brief: October 5 - 11

Major Events & Celebrations in Fort Myers

October 05, 2026

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This is the week Halloween season actually shows up in Fort Myers. Gov't Mule and Ziggy Marley share the Barbara B. Mann stage on Tuesday, The Pillowman opens at the Lab Theater on Thursday, and Community Cooperative turns The Ranch into Wonderland the same night to fight hunger. Saturday is stacked: orchids and air plants at Edison and Ford, a free fall market at Buckingham Farms, lawyers in gold at The Veranda, and roller derby in costume at the Skatium. Here it is one day at a time, so you can plan the week the way you actually live it.

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🗓️ Monday, October 5

🎨 Arts and Culture Town Hall on Amendment 3
📅 Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Cape Coral Art Center, 4533 Coronado Pkwy, Cape Coral
🗳️ Details: The Alliance for the Arts and the Cape Coral Art Center host a panel on arts funding, public art and what Amendment 3 on the November ballot could mean for local arts money, with audience questions after. If you care about where the next mural or after-school art class comes from, this is the room to be in.

🐄 Goat Snuggling with Marsala the Highland Calf
📅 Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐐 Details: Sit in the grass and let the goats climb into your lap while Marsala, the shaggy Highland calf, wanders over to see what the fuss is about. Monday is the quiet session, which means more goat per person.

🏃‍♀️ Let's Get MOVING, City of Fort Myers
📅 Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Riverside Community Center, Fort Myers
💪 Details: A free city-run movement class in the air conditioning, built for people who want to get moving without anyone yelling at them. A low-pressure way to start the week.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 6

🎸 Gov't Mule and Ziggy Marley
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW, 13350 FSW Pkwy, Fort Myers
🎶 Details: Warren Haynes and his long, heavy Southern rock jams on the same bill as Bob Marley's son doing sunny reggae, which sounds like an odd pairing until you remember both crowds love a long night. Early start for a Tuesday, tickets from $84.50.

🍺 Trivia Night at Point Ybel
📅 Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🧠 Details: Free to play, downtown, and the regulars are good enough to make you sweat. Bring one friend who knows sports and one who knows 90s music.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 7

✏️ Instructed Life Drawing at Alliance for the Arts
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM
📍 Location: Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
🖌️ Details: A guided figure drawing session that works on both quick gesture sketches and the slower structural stuff underneath. Good for rusty artists and for anyone who has always wanted to try it with a teacher in the room.

💻 Senior Planet Lectures, Workshops and Courses
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📚 Details: Free technology classes for older adults, taught slowly and kindly. Forward it to the relative who still prints their emails.

💃 Weekly Line and Partner Dance Lessons and Open Dance
📅 Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 3061 E Riverside Dr, Fort Myers, FL 33916
🕺 Details: A lesson first, then the floor opens up, and the line dancing part does not need a partner. One of the friendliest midweek crowds in town.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 8

🎩 Becoming Cosmopolitan: Mad About Hunger
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: The Ranch Concert Hall and Saloon, Fort Myers
🍸 Details: Community Cooperative turns The Ranch into an Alice in Wonderland party with cocktails, food, live entertainment and auctions, all to fund its soup kitchen, Meals on Wheels and mobile food pantries. It is the most popular event in this week's listings, and last year's version raised $162,000.

🎭 The Pillowman at The Laboratory Theater
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026 (runs through October 25)
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: The Laboratory Theater of Florida, 1634 Woodford Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🖋️ Details: Opening night of Martin McDonagh's dark, funny thriller about a writer being interrogated because real crimes look a lot like his short stories. Not one for the kids, absolutely one for October, and tickets run $15 to $30.

👟 Point Ybel Run Club
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🏃 Details: Every Thursday, every pace, run the loop and then claim your beer. The evenings are finally cool enough that this stops feeling like punishment.

📄 Resume Writing, Job Search and Job Application Workshop
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📝 Details: Free and hands on. Bring the resume you have, however old it is, and leave with one that gets read.

⌨️ Self-Paced Typing and Computer Digital Training
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
🖥️ Details: Drop in, work at your own speed, leave when you are done. Same building as the morning workshop, so one parking spot covers the whole day.

🗓️ Friday, October 9

🤠 Boots and Bling Line Dancing
📅 Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Millennial Brewing Co., Fort Myers
✨ Details: Line dancing in a brewery with the dress code right there in the name, so wear the boots and add something sparkly. A big crowd has already said they are interested, so expect a full floor.

🎤 Poetry and Storytelling Open Mic
📅 Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 1342 Colonial Blvd, Unit C18, Fort Myers, FL 33907
📖 Details: Poems, short stories and true tales read out loud to a room that wants to hear them. Bring something to read or just come to listen, both count.

🌸 Orchid Bench Show at Edison and Ford Winter Estates
📅 Date: Friday, October 9 through Sunday, October 11, 2026
📍 Location: Edison and Ford Winter Estates, 2350 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🏆 Details: A judged orchid show sanctioned by the American Orchid Society, open to the public. Friday is the quiet day to see the blooms before the weekend plant sale crowd arrives.

💬 Uplift Peer Group
📅 Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 AM
📍 Location: 2506 Second Street, Suite 106, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🌅 Details: Early morning peer support downtown, same time every week. Steady, quiet and there no matter how the week went.

🗓️ Saturday, October 10

🛼 Fort Myers Roller Derby 4th Annual HallowBout
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Fort Myers Skatium, 2250 Broadway, Fort Myers
🎃 Details: A Halloween mini tournament with skaters from all over Florida playing on spooky-themed teams, plus a costume contest at halftime and Halloween vendors. Wear a costume, sit near the track and expect to scream at least once.

🌵 O.C.T. Plant Sale and Workshops
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Edison and Ford Winter Estates, 2350 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🪴 Details: Free workshops on orchids, cacti and tillandsias under a tent in the research gardens, plus vendors and food trucks, with no ticket needed unless you want the museum or the river side. You will come for one air plant and leave with six.

🚜 Fall at the Farm: Market and Music
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Buckingham Farms, 12931 Orange River Blvd, Fort Myers
🍂 Details: Free admission, local vendors, live music and the slow pace of the Buckingham side of the county. A good excuse to drive east and eat lunch on a farm.

🥂 LCBA Bench Bar Gala: Golden Hour
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: The Veranda Courtyard, 2122 Second St, Fort Myers, FL 33901
⚖️ Details: The Lee County Bar Association's yearly night honoring local judges, this time with a golden hour theme in one of downtown's prettiest courtyards. The dressed-up night of the week.

🧘 Goat Yoga with Marsala
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐐 Details: Same farm as Monday, same goats, now with downward dog. At least one will use your back as a step stool.

🍅 Downtown Fort Myers Farmers Market
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Fort Myers Farmers Market, 2200 First St, Downtown River District
🧺 Details: Every Saturday under the bridge, rain or shine, with Kaye Krest's jewelry table in its usual spot. Go early for the best produce.

🧘‍♀️ Poses and Pints Yoga
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍺 Details: Yoga on the brewery floor, a pint afterward, done before lunch. It pairs neatly with the farmers market a block away.

🎧 Live from 2 to 5 at Point Ybel Brewing Co
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍻 Details: An afternoon set in the taproom with no cover. The natural stop between the plant sale and the roller derby.

🎭 All Week

🎸 Forever Everly: The Everly Brothers Rockumentary
📅 Date: Through Sunday, October 25, 2026
📍 Location: Florida Repertory Theatre, ArtStage Studio, 2267 Bay St, Fort Myers
🎶 Details: Two singers perform the Everly Brothers live alongside documentary footage, with some Paul Simon and Beatles mixed in. It is the small studio, so every seat is close. Box office 239-332-4488.

⚠️ Please verify all event details with the respective organizers before attending, as schedules and venues may change.

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📰 What's Happening in Fort Myers

🔗 Mayor Kevin Anderson Quit a Third Nonprofit Board as the NAACP Called for Him to Resign
Anderson stepped off the United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades board this week after already leaving the FGCU Alumni Association and Valerie's House, and while the Lee County NAACP now wants him out of office over the sexual misconduct allegations two young men made at a council meeting, he calls the claims false and says he is staying.

🔗 Work on the New Fort Myers Beach Pier Has Started
Lee County has fenced off a 150-foot safety zone around the old pier, crews expect to drive about three concrete piles a day with plenty of noise and vibration, and beachgoers are being routed off the sand at Times Square, along Estero Boulevard and back on past Lynn Hall.

🔗 Fort Myers Beach Switched Off Its License Plate Cameras
All six Flock Safety cameras on the Matanzas Pass and Big Carlos Pass bridges and near Times Square are dark after council ended the $15,000-a-year contract, with Town Manager Will McKannay saying he was not comfortable paying for cameras the town had no role in operating or monitoring.

🔗 DiamondHead Dropped Its Tower Plan for a Smaller 55-Room Expansion
After the Local Planning Agency voted against the original design and neighbors objected to the tower, general manager Neil Hopgood brought Town Council a scaled-back version that adds rooms on the east and west sides of the existing building instead.

🔗 The Lani Kai Opened a Sixth-Floor Sports Bar Over the Beach
The new Island View Sports Bar sits on the sixth floor of the Lani Kai Island Resort next to the Sun Deck restaurant, which makes it the highest place on Estero Boulevard to watch a game.

🔗 Cape Coral Voted 5-3 to Push Ahead With North 3 Utility Assessments
Over a packed room of objecting homeowners, council kept the $35,264 (east of Burnt Store Road) and $41,029 (west) assessments on track, with a homeowner information meeting October 19, a final vote November 2 and construction starting in December.

🔗 Cape Coral's City Manager Got a 3.9 Out of 5 and a One-Time $11,380 Payment
Michael Ilczyszyn's scores ranged from Joe Kilraine's perfect 5.0 to Laurie Lehmann's 2.2 on relations with elected officials, and council separately gave City Attorney Aleksandr Boksner a 3.8.

🔗 New Lee Commissioner Amanda Cochran Says Growth Rules Come First
The Alva resident, who beat a DeSantis appointee while being outspent roughly $326,000 to $205,000, will be sworn in November 17 to finish the late Mike Greenwell's term and says protecting the comprehensive plan and making infrastructure keep up with growth are her top two goals.

🔗 The Lee School Board District 4 Race Is Getting Heated
Incumbent Debbie Jordan, who voted against the latest budget over cuts to instructional staff, faces first-time candidate Tony Beougher, who has the superintendent's and several board members' backing and has raised about $83,000 to her $32,000.

🔗 Florida Started Handing Out a Redesigned Driver License
The new card, available at service centers since September 30, has Castillo de San Marcos, a manatee, an alligator in the REAL ID star and Space Shuttle Discovery on the back, and your current license stays valid until it expires.

🔗 Cape Coral Police and U.S. Marshals Caught a Fugitive After Nearly Four Years
The department's Special Victims Unit and the Marshals arrested 42-year-old Jesus Leon Leyva, who had been wanted in a child sexual battery case for close to four years.

🔗 Fort Myers Ward 1 Residents Get a Community Meeting October 13
Councilperson Teresa Watkins Brown hosts city utilities, public works, fire, police and parks staff at 6 PM at Riverside Community Center, with a Zoom option for anyone who cannot make it in person.

🔗 The Arts Have a Stake on the November Ballot
The Alliance for the Arts and the Cape Coral Art Center say Amendment 3 could affect local funding for arts programs and education, which is why they are holding Monday's town hall before mail ballots are filled out.