Things to Do in Brevard County This Week: September 21 to 27, 2026

Friday, September 25 is a day off for Brevard Public Schools students, which turns this week into a three-day weekend. Brevard is ready for it. There is a watch party with a lighthouse in it, a harvest festival on the river, a honey farm market up in Mims, three shows on stage, and one small downtown where you can park once and stay until dessert.

Here is the week, plus one date in October worth knowing about now.

No school Friday

Friday, September 25 is a student holiday and teacher workday. No school districtwide.

Challenger 7 Elementary in Port St. John runs its own year-round calendar, so its schedule is different. Challenger 7 is on intercession through October 2, and students go back Monday, October 5. If you are zoned there, go by the school’s calendar, not the district one.

Source: brevardschools.org.

No launch on the calendar, and why “check back” is the right answer

Nothing is scheduled at Cape Canaveral or Kennedy Space Center this week. Amazon Leo is still sitting on “September” with no day attached, and Crew-13 has moved to October.

Here is something you learn fast living in Brevard: launch dates move in both directions. Everybody expects a scrub to push a launch later. Fewer people expect a launch with no date to suddenly get one, sometimes with only a few days’ notice. So when nothing is on the calendar, the honest answer is not “nothing this week.” It is “nothing yet. Check back.”

Source: rocketlaunch.org, Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center schedules, checked September 21.

Friday, September 25

5pm. Lighthouse Watch Party. Sands Space History Center, 100 Space Port Way, Cape Canaveral. Free, reserve a seat.
The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation is hosting a watch party for the WUCF Florida Road Trip episode about Florida lighthouses. The lighthouse itself stands on an active military installation, so most people only ever see it on a tour. This is a free way to hear its story with the people who look after it. The Foundation expects it to sell out, so reserve first.

6:30pm. Music at the Manor. Field Manor, 750 Field Manor Drive, Merritt Island.
Field Manor is an 1880s homestead on the Indian River Lagoon, now a living history museum. The Field family came to Florida around 1867 and helped found the community of Indianola on Merritt Island. All summer, on the last Friday of the month, the lawn fills up for live music. Doors open at 6:30 and the music runs 7 to 9. Bring your own chairs or a blanket. This is the last one of the season.

Saturday, September 26

8am. Show Us Your Wheels Car and Bike Show. Daddy O’s, 722 West Avenue, Port St. John. Free.
This one happens the last Saturday of every month. Classic cars, bikes and the people who love them, before the day gets hot.

9am to 3pm. Green Gables Harvest Festival. Green Gables, 1501 S. Harbor City Boulevard, Melbourne. Free admission.
Green Gables is one of Melbourne’s historic homes, restored and run as a living history museum on the river. The harvest festival brings art, crafts, live music, food trucks, vendors and kids’ activities to the grounds. Tours of the house are available for $10 per person, and Sullivan’s Jewelers is running a gemstone dig. Park next door at Reflections. More at greengables.org.

10am to 3pm. The Market at Indian River Honey Company. 6720 US 1, Mims. Free admission.
This is a working honey farm. Local makers and food trucks set up, the honey house opens with a honey bar for tasting and an observation hive, and there is a free craft tent for kids. The hives are on the property but kept away from the market. Restrooms are limited, so plan for that.

Or spend the whole Saturday in Cocoa Village

Some Saturdays you want five stops. Some Saturdays you want one place. Cocoa Village is the second kind. Park once in a public lot, where parking is free, and walk everywhere.

11am. The Saturday Art Market sets up in Myrt Tharpe Square on Stone Street, run by Green Circle Art Gallery. Local artists, original work, and it is free to walk in. It runs until 5.

Then wander. Learn a magic trick at Magic Dove. Find something to read at Hello Again Books.

Lunch. Grab something from French Delights and carry it down to Riverfront Park to eat by the water. If you would rather sit down, Ryan’s Pizza and Pub and Milpa are both right there.

6pm. The 11th annual Pirate Plunder Pub Crawl starts at the Cocoa Elks Lodge on Florida Avenue. It is ticketed and for adults, each ticket covers one drink per stop, and there is a costume contest along the way. It also raises money for The Children’s Hunger Project. Tickets are through Mad Hatter Promotions.

Dessert. End the night at The Fat Donkey, which stays open the latest, until 10:30.

Sources: City of Cocoa calendar, Mad Hatter Promotions.

What is on stage in Brevard this week

Three stages are lit.

Kings of Country, this weekend only, on Stage 2 at Titusville Playhouse, 316 S. Palm Avenue in Titusville. Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Charlie Jourdan, who co-created “Diamonds and Cash,” brings classic country back to the stage, from Hank Williams to Garth Brooks. Stage 2 is a covered, open-air pavilion, so dress for the weather.

Steel Magnolias, closing weekend at Surfside Playhouse, 301 Ramp Road in Cocoa Beach. Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm. Weddings, babies, hard news, and a lot of laughing, all from the chairs of one small-town beauty shop. If you have been meaning to go, this is your last chance.

Come From Away continues at Titusville Playhouse, 301 Julia Street in Titusville. Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm. It runs through October 18.

Historic Cocoa Village Playhouse and Melbourne Civic Theatre are both dark this week. Both open new shows on October 9.

Sources: titusvilleplayhouse.com, Surfside Playhouse, mymct.org.

Did you know Florida’s oldest Puerto Rican Day Parade is in Palm Bay?

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, and one of the best local stories for it happens right here.

Samuel C. Lopez started a Puerto Rican Day Parade in Brevard County in the 1990s, through a nonprofit called U.T.B. United Third Bridge. It grew into a free festival that draws thousands of people, and the money it raises goes to scholarships for Hispanic and Latino students in Brevard County. The City of Palm Bay named a street in his memory, Samuel C. Lopez Way.

This year is the 29th parade. On Saturday, October 24, it returns to what the organizers call its historic site, Palm Bay City Hall. The parade starts at 10am and the festival runs until 7pm. It is free.

We will have more on it closer to the date.

Source: U.T.B. United Third Bridge, Inc.

Thinking about moving to Brevard?

Weeks like this are why people end up staying. A day off turns into a long weekend without anybody having to plan a trip.

I have lived in Brevard since 1997 and owned property here that whole time. I know which downtown lets you park once, which markets are worth the drive, and which parade is older than most people think. If you are moving here, or moving across town, send me a message and let’s talk.

Lisa Kathleen Mark
Dalton Wade Real Estate Group
321-591-5429
brevardsrealestateagent.com