Join us August 10!

4:00-5:00 PM - Returning students - Join us anytime within that timeframe at the Academy building

5:00-6:30 PM - Freshmen and new students meet in the CFK library for an info session. (Arrive in the library promptly at 5:00 for an important information session.

-Pick up your class schedule
-Meet your teachers
-Pick up your Chromebook
-Transportation information
-Complete back to school forms packet (notary on site)
-CFK Bookstore popup
-Take your school ID picture
- Issue student parking sticker: license, registration, and insurance

Location: CFK Academy 

Join us in welcoming our new students to campus! Meet faculty and staff, connect with fellow students, and receive important information and resources to help make your transition to CFK a smooth and successful one.

Mandatory for Lagoon Landing residents. 

Location: Key West Campus Breezeway

Learn about CFK's student clubs. Meet new friends, get involved and make a difference! Free food and fun! 

Location: Front Lobby

Learn about CFK's student clubs. Meet new friends, get involved and make a difference! Free food and fun! 

Location: Breezeway

Join us for a guided paint-along and learn how to paint a fish scene. All art materials will be provided.

Location: under the CFK Academy awning

Blas Falconer is the author of four poetry collections, including Rara Avis (Four Way Books, 2024), for which he received the 2025 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and Forgive the Body This Failure (Four Way Books, 2018). He is also the coeditor of two anthologies: The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity (The University of Arizona Press, 2011), with Lorraine M. López, and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), with Beth Martinelli and Helena Mesa. 

Falconer is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. He teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University and is the editor-in-chief at Poetry International Online.

Admission is free.

Location: Tennessee Williams Theatre. 

Join us for our Tugapalooza - Welcome Back event! Students will have the opportunity to tie dye their own Tugapalooza annual t-shirts, pickup Tuga swag, participate in games, BBQ dinner and much more!

Location: CFKA Pation and Cafe Breezeway

Join us for a guided paint-along and learn how to paint a pumpkin. All art materials will be provided.

Location: under the CFK Academy awning

Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing at Kansas State University and former poet laureate for the State of Kansas. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal, as well as the forthcoming essay collection The Grief Artist. Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic. She’s received fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, the National Park Service, the Guggenheim Museum, and Purdue Library’s Special Collections to study the lost poem drafts of Amelia Earhart.  

Admission is free.

Location: Tennessee Williams Theatre. 

Join us for a guided paint-along and learn how to paint a fun house. All art materials will be provided.

Location: under the CFK Academy awning