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Ice Skating & Family Activities all weekend

Make a family day of fun for the Fourth of July, and start already on Friday with lots of activities for the family. Come to the Veterans Memorial arena between noon and 9 p.m for arts, crafts and interactive games including: Rock Climbing Wall, Dance Dance Revolution, Inflatable Twister, [...]

Visit St Johns Town Center Farmers Market for fresh vegetables, plants, organic food and much more. This is one of Jacksonville’s newest farmers market. It takes place on Fridays from 3 pm to 8 pm.
Click here for the calendar entry for St Johns Town Center Farmers Market

If you like beer, and want to learn more about beers and brewing, come to the 2009 Jacksonville Craft and Import Beer Festival. Here you have the opportunity to sample over 30 different breweries with over 200 beers to taste. There’s also great food to go along with your beverages. Local restaurants are serving up [...]

During the summer you can take your whole gang to the cinema for selected free screenings at Regal Cinema. Regal Entertainment Group has a nine week long Free Family Festival going on at selected theatres, now for the 19th year.
Participated theatres show G and PG rated movies for free on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at [...]

The City of Jacksonville invites you to “Make A Scene Downtown” on Thursday, June 4 at a street festival on Bay Street (between Newnan and Ocean streets) featuring Happy Hour at the Ivy Ultra Bar beginning at 5:30 p.m. Entertainment by the George Aspinall Band and AIA, the official Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show will [...]

Visit downtown Jacksonville for the monthly art walk on Wednesday June 3th, 2009. This event takes place the first Wednesday of the month from 5 pm – 9 pm, rain or shine.
Several venues downtown serve as galleries during the art walk event. Start your self-guided tour at  Art Walk Headquarters with Fogle Fine Art’s exhibition [...]

Here in the south it’s hot, and as you know, not all plants do well in our climate, especially plants in containers. Now you can get tips and tricks about what plants can do well so that you can let your inspiration flourish for your container garden.
The first Summer Garden Tour of 2009 will [...]

This year the Jazz Festival offers free performances from renowned artists Roberta Flack, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Chris Botti, Boney James, Stanley Clarke Trio, Jazz Attack, Joe Sample & Patti Austin, Jimmy Cobb, Guitars & Saxes, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Latin Jazz All Stars, Mindi Abair, Dr. John & the Lower 911, Bill Frisell’s 858 [...]

Jacksonville Film Festival kicks off again on Thursday May 14th with reception and the opening movie at the Florida Theatre. The opening film was actually completely shot in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra and is the acclaimed “Like Dandelion Dust” with Mira Sorvino and Cole Hauser.
The movie is based on the Karen Kingsbury’s best-selling novel
Like Dandelion [...]

Jacksonville Green Expo takes place twice a year. We visited the recent expo at Prime Osborne Center. There was so many vendor booths to visit with lots of interesting new technologies, sustainable products and ideas about green living. Coastal Companion was one of the proud sponsors for the Jacksonville Green Expo.
Take a look at this [...]

As you know, it’s nothing but golf – golf – golf – this week and as part of the upcoming PLAYERS Championship, THE PLAYERS Downtown Experience returns for the third time to Downtown Jacksonville on Tuesday, May 5, through Sunday, May 10.
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On Tuesday, May 5, you can visit the beautiful Cummer Museum of Art and [...]

Enjoy the nice weather with a free movie under the stars. This time it’s the funny family-friendly flick “Beetlejuice” from 1988 with Michael Keaton. This movie was directed by Tim Burton.
Bring your own picnic blankets or chair to Treaty Oak Park for a night out with the family. Create your own dinner and a movie [...]

Come downtown for the 2009 Jacksonville Jazz Festival on May 21-24, 2009. The event will feature renowned jazz performances in the heart of downtown Jacksonville on Laura Street. The whole downtown area will turn into a colorful, vibrant street festival. Besides music, you can enjoy the Heart Art Show & Sale, Wine Down Tasting Experience, [...]

We had a great time at the Butterfly Festival. There was so much to see, so many cute animals, and some not so cute, and a whole bunch of kids joined the fun.
Take a look at this little video from the Butterfly Festival to see what the excitement at Tree Hill Nature Center was all [...]

We can never resist a fun event on the beach – and a sand castle competition draws a crowd all day long.
Take a look at some of the fun and creative creations that we found on Jacksonville Beach during the opening of the beaches weekend.

We met with Executive Director of the Tree Hill Nature Center, Lucy Cortese, to chat about the upcoming Butterfly Festival.
Find out exactly what’s happening this Saturday at Tree Hill Nature Center in Jacksonville.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.  Florida’s Birding & FotoFest will take place along the Northeast coast of Florida April 22-26, 2009. Now it in its seventh year, this year’s events will be headquartered at the Center for Marine Studies at the University of Florida’s Whitney Lab at Marineland – approximately 15 miles south of St. Augustine on [...]

Based on the number of scheduled performer, this The Cecil Field Airshow 2009 is turning out to be the biggest airshow in the country. So if you love planes, flying and exciting performances – this is a show you can’t miss.
Here you’ll experience everything skydivers to wing-walkers and military tactical demonstration to simulated [...]

Jax Green Expo takes place at Prime Osborne Center in Jacksonville on Saturday April 25th – Sunday April 26th.
This is your opportunity to learn how to live green and to check out some of the new products available. There will be over 100 vendors at the event. Some highlights include:
Solar-powered car demo
Organic Beer, Wine & [...]

The Butterfly festival at Treehill Nature Center in Jacksonville, Florida, is a great event for the whole family. The festival takes place on April 25th, 2009, from noon to 5:00 p.m. and culminates with nature’s fireworks – a live native butterfly release. This is something you can’t miss.

“You will experience a close encounter [...]

Arts enthusiasts travel to this event to visit during the two-day weekend.
Here you’ll find everything from painting, jewelry, glasswork, to pottery, sculpture, photography and more. There will also be a variety of homemade goodies at the Bake Sale at the Mandarin Art Festival.
The festival is hosted by Mandarin Community Club new and returning artists compete [...]

The Riverside Arts Market had its Grand Opening in April. This riverfront artists’ market was visited by over 40,000 people on the first day, so this market to be one of the hot spots to visit in downtown Jacksonville.
The market takes place on Saturdays from 10 am – 4 pm beneath the Fuller Warren Bridge. [...]

Two of the Bravo Channels Top Chef’testants from the popular show Top Chef are coming to Jacksonville for an exclusive cooking demonstration. The two chefs are Richard Blais and Sandee Birdsong.
This will take place at Hemming Plaza, 117 W Duval Street, Jacksonville.
Look for the big trailer!
Thursday April 9 at 10.30 am, 12.00 and 1.30 pm

This weekend the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has its third annual spring plant festival, Spring Into Bloom on April 11-12, 2009. There will be lots of plants and arts and crafts vendors throughout the Zoo. You also get a chance to talk directly with Zoo Horticulture staff in the Zoo gardens, including the new [...]