The Museum of Arts and Sciences' Mini-Zoo houses more than 70 awesome animals, including mammals, reptiles, birds and insects. Many are native to Georgia, while sill more hail from exotic locales! Our daily Live Animal programs showcase the Zoo's coolest living creatures.

Farmer's Market offering local homegrown produce, fruits, flowers and plants, as well as homemade jams, jellies, pickle,relishes,cakes,and pies. Every Saturday and Tuesday morning 8:00am-12:00noon

The daily planetarium feature presents a new astronomical topic every few months. Hear stories about constellations or find out about the latest discoveries in our solar system. Please visit www.MASmacon.com for info about the Planetarium's current shows.

During the months of January and February, Jekyll Island commissions a group of highly skilled artisans from across the U.S. to create an array of stunning, hand-worked glass creations. Then “Beach Buddies” hide these floats along Jekyll Island's beach for lucky visitors to find.

A historically documented tour, "Labor Behind the Veil: The History of Slaves and Free Persons at Georgia's Old Governor's Mansion 1839-1868," provides mansion visitors a glimpse of the working lives of men and women who lived and worked on the mansion grounds.

FOCUS: The Collections Tour, hosted by the Mansion Curator, provides visitors with an opportunity to hear an in-depth discussion of the Mansion's varied material and textile collections, the process of building the collection following the recent $9.5 million dollar restoration of the structure, an

The 22nd annual Georgia National Junior Livestock Show, February 22-26, 2012, features Georgia’s 4-H and FFA students competing for statewide championships.

Offered Tuesdays through Saturdays at 1 p.m. Learn about Civil War infantry and weapons from staff historians. Fee plus $5 parking. 912-727-2339.

Learn about Civil War artillery on Wednesdays at Fort McAllister. Fee plus $5 parking. 912-727-2339.

The Gainesville Theater Alliance presents this Tony Award-winning adaptation of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the Joad family's eipc journey to California in search of land, jobs and dignity.

The Gainesville Theater Alliance presents this hilarious musical celebrating six adolescent outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

A special exhibit illustrating stories in and about Roman Theaters from the Bible as well as non-Biblical sources.

Working South, an exhibition of dozens of Mary Whyte’s masterful, large-scale watercolors, is a sympathetic portrayal of the urban and rural working class of the South whose jobs are gradually disappearing.

Among one-of-a-kind and rarely displayed artifacts in the exhibition are James Brown's cape and jumpsuit, Michael Jackson's fedora, the Supremes' dresses, Cab Calloway's baton; Sammy Davis' childhood tap shoes; Ella Fitzgerald's dress; Miles Davis' flugelhorn; LL Cool J's jack and hat; and more!

Chicago artist Richard Hunt is an exceptional international sculptor who creates works out of bronze, stainless steel, or Corten.

The Savannah College of Art and Design presents deFINE ART, a showcase of leading artists, art professionals, SCAD students, faculty, alumni and special guests in Savannah and Atlanta.

Avenue Q  
Music & Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, Book by Jeff Whitty  
Directed by Heidi Cline-McKerley  
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical  
January 13th - February 26th, 2012

Legacy Museum opened a new exhibit on Horace King, on display through February, 2012. The exhibit highlights King's remarkable life as a 19th century freedman, master bridge builder and architect. The exhibit also hails his sons as talented builders and architects in their own right.

Time to grab your earmuffs and...Have An Ice Day! Ice Skating returns to the Conyers Olde Town Pavilion, 949 S. Main Street, for its 10th year. The outdoor rink will be open thru February 26. Visit www.icedays.com for a complete schedule.

"Women as war workers", "Women on the front lines" "Women in war service", "Women and the Home Front", "Women in the resistance" and "Women in the Holocaust" are among the new displays in this traveling exhibit from Kennesaw State University Museum of History and Holocaust Education. $6 - $10.

Join a tour of the museum at 11:00 am and see and touch real fossils, reptiles, and more. At 3:00 pm learn all about lizards, turtles, and snakes. $5 parking. 912-598-2300.

Meet docents in the lobby for a tour of highlights from the permanent collection.

Radiating incandescence at every turn, Leila Josefowicz in the spellbinding violin concerto of Thomas Adès. The myriad fascinations of Debussy’s timeless ode to the sea and Wagner’s gorgeous Prelude display the talents of internationally acclaimed American conductor James Gaffigan.

Join us Thursday, February 23 for W Atlanta - Downtown’s DRINKSHOP Live! Featuring Ben Deignan with special guest Scotty Cram. Doors open at 6pm, Music begins at 9:30pm. Enjoy drink specials and custom cocktails crafted by DRINKSHOP, including $5 import beers and $6 Old Fashioned.

At 12:00 pm come for a 2-3 mile walk through a maritime forest. Meet at the Big Ferry Trail entrance. Then at 3:00 pm come learn how to build a fire using different fire starting techniques. $5 parking. 912-598-2300.