8TH ANNUAL “ART FLICKS” FILM PROGRAM BEGINS JANUARY 28TH

Marco Island, FL—January 17, 2025—The Marco Island Center for the Arts will show the first film of the 2025 Art Flicks series at 1010 Winterberry Drive at 10AM on Tuesday, January 28th. 

Interrupted for several years by COVID and hurricane aftermaths, the Art Flicks program, featuring foreign, independent and “art” films, has been relaunched by members of the original committee who launched the original themed film program in 2014.  The series features FREE theme-based films, FREE refreshments, followed by lively discussions for both residents and island visitors who are interested in the art of film. 

Now shown at the Art Center itself instead of the Marco Movie Theater, the first film in the 2025 “Happy Endings” series will be “Enchanted April,” a 1991 film about four English women who are unhappy with their dull lives in gray, rainy England just after World War 1.  By chance, the women come together as strangers to spend a month in a beautiful Italian villa. This is a film for those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine, and a recollection of a time when women and movies could be purveyors of enchantment. 

The line forms outside the Art Center starting around 9am, with Art Center doors opening for the start of the program by 9:45am. Seats will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Each film’s introduction starts at 10am.  All films will be shown with subtitles for a better movie going experience.

“While the movie and refreshments are always free, donations are happily accepted at the end of each film, with 100% of the money presented to the Art Center,” commented committee chair Joan Gerberding. “Because funding for the arts has been drastically cut in 

Florida, we encourage patrons to donate as much as they can to keep this vital organization’s doors open to our Marco Island community,” continued Gerberding.

For more information about the Art Center programs, including classes, exhibit schedules, the Art Center’s “Second Tuesday”, or the Art Center Theater, call 239-394-4221 or go to www.marcoislandart.org. 

This year’s sponsors include Collier Community Foundation, Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB), WGCU PBS and NPR, Condee Cooling & Electric Inc., Southmade Marketing and the Coastal Breeze News.

About Marco Island Center for the Arts

Marco Island Center for the Arts brings a wide variety of arts to its community through art exhibitions, engaging educational programs for adults and children and a diverse assortment of events. The Arts Center Theatre offers both produced and presented theater productions as well as other live entertainment. The Art Center and its theater serve as professional and financial drivers for visual and performing artists and educators through exhibition, performance and teaching opportunities while being a catalyst that fuels economic development, an understanding of cultural diversity and community cohesion.

Mission: Marco Island Center for the Arts inspires artistic expression and advances education and appreciation of the arts. The Art Center honors Marco Island and Southwest Florida’s rich, diverse, and creative heritage through active community engagement in the visual and performing arts.