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.
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.).
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 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 “happyâ€, 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 “coolâ€, it makes me “happyâ€.
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!
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.
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:
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”.
Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance
Thanks to Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance for talking with us about Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, an event we’ll be supporting all month long at Urban Jacksonville Weekly.
4th annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes 5K
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Register Online
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Tony Allegracious, co-host
Tony 2010 RAM re-opening
Jonathan 13 Gypsies
Tom We’ll Always Be Pals
Kelly Pulp Juice and Yogurt in San Marco
Joey Spring Fashion Show at TSI (I’ll be DJ’n)
On March 15th we’ll have Josh Jubinsky in the studio to talk about the Zine program at the Jacksonville Public Library. Josh, or Mr. Josh, works in the children’s at the downtown branch and was instrumental in creation one of the largest public zine collections in the United States.
Zine: A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced /?zi?n/ “zeen”) is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock.
Josh Talks About The Jacksonville Library's Zine Collection
video interview With Josh Jubinski (of inertia records) on jaxscene.blogspot.com for ‘zine’ program
Sara Dougherty, Sulzbacher Center PR
We’re welcoming Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance to talk about Walk a Mile in Their Shoes, an event we’ll be supporting all month long at Urban Jacksonville Weekly.
This is the 4th annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Event to benefit the Sulzbacher Center. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2010 and will feature a 5K run and one-mile walk starting and ending at the Sulzbacher Center’s campus in downtown Jacksonville.
You can register online or at any 1st Place Sports location. Following the race, The Home Team, the center’s young professionals group, is hosting a social mixer at City Hall Pub with live music, food, and drink specials after the Walk a Mile in Their Shoes event.
Become a fan of The Sulzbacher Center or follow them on Twitter. You can also join The Home Team group on LinkedIn.
