ZORA! Festival

Eatonville, FL · Arts & Culture

When: January 29–31, 2027
Where: Historic Eatonville festival grounds · Eatonville · FL
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A multi-day outdoor arts and humanities festival honors author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston in the historic Black township of Eatonville where she grew up. Running since 1990, it is one of the oldest African American heritage arts festivals in the country. It typically falls the last weekend of January.

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ZORA! Festivalsame spot
A multi-day outdoor arts and humanities festival honors author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston in the historic Black township of Eatonville where she grew up.
Eatonville incorporates0.5 mi
Twenty-seven Black men bought land and chartered their own town, one of the first self-governing all-Black municipalities in America, with its own mayor, marshal and council.
Zora Neale Hurston's Eatonville0.5 mi
She trained as an anthropologist under Boas, collected folklore across the South and Haiti, and wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in seven weeks.
The Morse Museum and the Tiffany chapel2.3 mi
The largest collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany anywhere, including the entire chapel interior he built for the 1893 Chicago fair.
Christmas in the Park (Winter Park)2.5 mi
Century-old Tiffany leaded glass windows from the Morse Museum's collection are illuminated in Central Park during a free outdoor choral concert.