{"id":363794,"date":"2026-08-05T22:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363794\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:37:20","slug":"ocean-conservation-festival-adds-st-pete-pier-stop-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363794\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Conservation Festival Adds St. Pete Pier Stop for November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Fin Fest will host a two-day event at the St. Pete Pier on Nov. 13-14. This marks the Jacksonville Beach-based festival&#8217;s first expansion into another city.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetheburg.com\/florida-fin-fest-st-pete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">I Love the Burg<\/a>, the event blends ocean conservation education with live music and food. Tickets are on sale now, but organizers haven&#8217;t announced which bands will perform.<\/p>\n<p>The production team behind Reggae Rise Up backs Florida Fin Fest. Past lineups have featured Neil Frances, Cimafunk, Tank &amp; The Bangas, Moon Taxi, St. Paul &amp; The Broken Bones, and John Oates, though the St. Pete performers remain under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>An Education Village will offer underwater VR experiences, touch tanks, and panel discussions. The Ocean Conservancy and OCEARCH will participate in programming.<\/p>\n<p>Trinidadian cuisine and fusion tacos will be sold. Kona Big Wave will flow on tap.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Jacksonville Beach version, this stop requires paid admission. The production avoids single-use plastics. Beverages come in 100% recyclable aluminum cans, and eco-conscious brands will occupy the festival village.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees can participate in hands-on learning activities between performances. The event&#8217;s goals is to merge conservation education with entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Fin Fest will host a two-day event at the St. Pete Pier on Nov. 13-14. This marks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[684,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-363794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-events","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}