In March, The Englewood Fine Arts Festival has a showing of selected professionals. New voices are always welcomed at the Suncoast Oratorio. This fifty-voice combined professional and amateur choral group performs throughout the year. Other local merchants dot the area with various retail outlets along with an array of boutiques to suit the needs of residents and visitors alike. For your wining and dining pleasure, there is a wide variety of establishments ranging from elegant waterfront restaurants to quaint seafood or barbecue restaurants as well as the usual variety of fast food drive-throughs.
Causal dress is usually acceptable.
The Sarasota and Charlotte Vocational Technical Centers provide additional education and adult and community programs are also available. Religion Twenty-four area churches encompass most Protestant denominations while Hebrew fellowship is available in nearby Venice, North Port and Port Charlotte. The Catholic Diocese of Venice has two local churches, a cathedral, a convent and a school.