Urban Jacksonville

I would be missing an essential component of the promotions if I failed to post about the Live Urban Jacksonville Weekly tonight at the 5 Points Theatre. A few things have changed over the week, mainly new giveaways and I’ll post them all below.

Big News – No Banksy Trailer

You might have seen my tweet about this today, but the film is in NYC until midnight on Thursday and has to be rushed to the airplane after the movie ends to make it JAX in time for the opening Friday night. Soo boo hisss, whaaaa!

Features and Giveaways

* FREE ENTRY!
* sets by After the Bomb Baby
* guest co-host Melissa Ross from WJCT’s First Coast Connect
* movie ticket giveaways for Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop
* beer and wine ($$$ required)
* after party at Anomaly/Underbelly with two live bands
* Bold Bean Coffee giveaways
* Burro Bag giveaway
* Burro “I LOVE DOWNTOWN” shirts giveaway
* Official Exit Through the Gift Shop movie poster giveaway

So there you have it. Tell a friend and see you tonight!

Jacksonville’s best downtown and urban neighborhood news podcast is on the move again! We’ve been a morning show for the past couple months, but we moving back to an afternoon slot. The time has not been decided, but we’re looking at doing it on Thursday’s between 5:30 and 8:00. We’re hoping to do our first Thursday show June 3rd.

Urban Jacksonville Weekly Bold Bean Blend

If you listen to the show you know Bold Bean has been a pretty awesome sponsor. Let me count the ways: free coffee maker, mugs, beans and our own blend just for the show. If you haven’t tried the Back Alley Blend you should. You’ll love it and I’m not just saying it.

You can only get the Urban Jacksonville Weekly blend a RAM on Saturdays. If it get popular and Jay starts selling it at Publix, we’ll let ya know!

Maceo Parker at funk fiesta, vienna. Credit: franzj

The Jacksonville Jazz Festival is this weekend and we cover as much as humanly possible in 30 minutes. Tiffany Valla from COJ’s office of special events joins us on the show.

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The SAMBA May13 General Meeting will focus on Using Social Media to Attract Customers. The speakers will provide information to help you use Facebook, Twitter and other social media in you business.

Joey Marchy, of Urban Jacksonville, will present various ways to use social media in your business. Clinton and Sonya Bush, City KIDZ Ice Cream Cafe, will share their practical experiences in marketing a new business.

I’ll be discussing

• Review sites like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Google Local
• Local search
• Google Local business center
• And more!

There will be several special announcements, one about summer youth employment from Beverly Toney of Fresh Ministries and the other about the national the 3/50 project from Jason Fisher of Content Design Group.

City KIDZ Ice Cream Cafe at 6 PM
1303 North Main Street (at 3rd St.).

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The Jacksonville Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and DOCOMOMO/US Florida are sponsoring their third one-day symposium and tour highlighting the achievements of architecture from the Recent Past in Northeast Florida.

The event will be held at the Cathedral of Faith Church of God in Christ (2591 W. Beaver Street, Jacksonville, FL 32246) on March 13, 2008. A morning session with presentations by important figures from North Florida’s architectural history and others will begin at 9:00 a.m. and last until 11:30 p.m.

The lead presenter will be one of Jacksonville’s best-known architects, Robert C. Broward, who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright during the early part of his career.

An optional afternoon bus tour will visit five of Mr. Broward’s most important buildings. The tour – including lunch prepared by the Ladies of the Church – will be offered at a $60. The morning presentations will cost $5.

All attendees will receive a full-color brochure and driving map of all of Mr. Broward’s buildings in Jacksonville. All attendees will also have the opportunity to join the speakers for lunch on the church grounds after the morning presentations. For those not going on the afternoon tour, lunch will be available for an additional $10.

Invitation by Jeff Harrington, Kelly Young, David Brent Lee and MOCA Jacksonville. Photo by Ingrid Damiani

I received my Off the Grid Launch Party invite in the mail Thursday. It looks tight. Jacksonville, downtown specifically, is getting a little swagger. Off the Grid is:

a partnership between artists, property owners, Downtown Vision, Inc. and the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. Off the Grid facilitates introductions between Jacksonville artists and Downtown property owners in an effort to activate vacant spaces in the urban core with artistic energy and provide artists with much needed work and exhibition space.

This movement started here and was formerly called Creative Communities. I like the new name, a big improvement. Listen to Terry Lorince, DVI Pres talk about the program, and other things.

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I Hope This Makes You Happy

I Hope This Makes You Happy is a new project from Nick at Art Behind the Fridge. It has the potential to keep me walking up and down the streets of 5 Points on Fridays.

The idea involves me creating a 5×5 drawing that I will take and put up somewhere in Jacksonville for whoever to find it. The idea behind it is this, I believe that art makes people “happy”, or at least thats the case for me. I know that when I look at an illustration, a painting, a sculpture, street art, or even a film that I think is “cool”, it makes me “happy”.

At least I’m hoping he leaves one or two in 5 Points for us to find. Keep an eye out for free art today!

Mesh Magazine Looking for ArtWalk Photos and Events

If anyone has ArtWalk photos, send your links to Mesh Magazine so they can post them up on the site with credit for you. You can also send them events you have coming up in the next month.

I Saved the Best for Last

Each year the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville presents their Annual Arts Awards at a luncheon. The event is held on stage at the Times-Union Performing Arts Center. This year’s awards ceremony will be held on April 20th.

A new part of this celebration of the arts in Jacksonville will be using technology to feature the regions artists on a huge screen running across the back of the stage.

The Cultural Council is looking for artists to submit images for this event. If you want to be included please send or deliver up to 10 of your digital images to the address below. Digital Images must be:

• Professionally photographed.
• Full images, as well as, detail shots are welcomed.
• We would like both 2D and 3D work to showcase.
• Images must be at least 300 dpi and SGA 1024 x 768.
• We will need the images no later than March 17th.
• Indicate how you would like your name credited.

Send or drop off your disk of digital images
Martha McManus
(904) 358.3600
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville
300 W Water St., Jacksonville, FL 32202

Or if you have a Flickr account, place the images in a group called “Cultural Council 2010” and send a link to martha@culturalcouncil.org

The goal is to highlight as many artists as possible. The Cultural Council cannot guarantee that your work will be included and by submitting your images you are agreeing to allow Cultural Council to use your images in the future to help promote the arts in Jacksonville.

I’m Board 4 – Interview with Chad Landenberger from Thought & Theory on Vimeo.

I understand quite a few people have seen this video, so re-posting here is just to close the loop of people who will be interested to see it, but haven’t.

This is part of new interview series for Urban Jacksonville so keep an eye out for more. We’re taking recommendations for who to interview next if you have suggestions.

Dennis Eusebio came to me a couple months ago with an idea to shoot a series of videos for Urban Jacksonville. This aligned perfectly with my assertion that 2010 would be the year Jacksonville moved beyond text and branched out into audio and video.

We moved this trend along with the Urban Jacksonville Weekly podcast so I was excited to have Dennis work on this video interview series.

This piece stands by itself as a testament to everything that is fun and good in the city. I would love to see Downtown Vision or the Jacksonville Convention and Visitors Bureau use this video as a promotional tool for promoting city life.

Please enjoy the hi-res versions on Vimeo or Facebook and share with a friend next time they say Jacksonville is boring, lame, uninteresting, etc.

Filmed and Edited by: Dennis Eusebio and Varick Rosete. Thanks to Chad Landenberger, 229 North Hogan with music by Holy Ghost “Hold On”.