Collaboratory is inviting the public to their fourth, spring-themed Night Market from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, March 17 on Collaboratory’s campus at 2031 Jackson St. in downtown Fort Myers.

“Spring is in the air and we can’t wait to welcome the community to enjoy the music, retailers and food trucks but also to share a conversation, meet our co-collaborating tenants and tour our eco-friendly hub where ideas for social change are reimagined,” said Stacey Mercado, events lead for Collaboratory.

This Night Market will feature live music by The Line Up Band and will be included as a stop on the River District Alliance’s St. Patrick’s Day Block Party.

Collaboratory resident partners – Captains For Clean Water, FutureMakers Coalition and Lee County Coalition for a Drug-Free Southwest Florida – will be onsite to connect with attendees.

Food trucks and food vendors include Kings Tacos and Burritos, Dynamite Street EatZ, Vesuvius Wood Fired Pizza, Nickel City Red Hots and beer by Millennial Brewing Co.

Retailers on site will include Amorist Jewelry, Wild at Heart Flower Truck, Chaotically Copeland Creations, Brandy’s Wax and Wicks, Flying Eagle Kombucha, Laura Louise Crystals, Groovy Growing, Bubbly Bee, Willow and Hitch, Holicow, Good Hearted Mama, The Mystical Misfit at Crystal Heart Healings, The Adventuring Nerd, Wild Krystals Wall Flower Scents, Boom Chakra Laka, Make, Bake and Destroy, OILE and more.

Activities during the evening will be provided by Artsemble Underground, Curate Entertainment, Protected Harbor and more.

Anyone interested in participating as a partner vendor can email smercado@collaboratory.org.

To R.S.V.P. visit collaboratory.org/events.

ABOUT COLLABORATORY

Collaboratory is committed to coordinating the solving of all of Southwest Florida’s social problems on an 18-year deadline including homelessness, poverty, mental illness, racism, illiteracy and more. We plan to do this with the entire community working together including people of all ages, colors, beliefs and imaginations across all five counties. We’re committed to coordinating all of this on a massive scale, in the way NASA coordinated the hundreds of thousands of businesses, universities, institutions and people to get us to the moon in nine years. We’re not oblivious to people saying this is ridiculous, insane and crazy but we’re driven by the inspiration of all those great figures in history who have come before us to achieve things no one ever thought remotely possible. Steve Jobs’ observation sums it up for us: “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” We’re building the largest, most democratized living laboratory for community problem-solving in history.

Collaboratory was founded in 1976 as the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. It has made over $100 million in grants since then and is home to more than 400 philanthropic funds. It is upon that legacy of a commitment to community we plan to fulfill on that mission at the level of its greatest expression. As Collaboratory, we will finish what we started.

To learn more and get involved, call 239-274-5900 or visit collaboratory.org.

Source: Collaboratory