In its 37th year, the Riverside Arts Festival is one of the South’s premier juried art competitions, attracting hundreds of artists and thousands of visitors to historic Riverside Park. This year, the Festival will be held September 6th and 7th, from 10 am to 5 pm. The eclectic Five Points area provides a vibrant gateway for those attending the festival, which features watercolors, oils, glass, pastels, drawings, clay, photography, wood, acrylics, fiber, graphics, metal, paper and mixed media, as well as a terrific Art Activities tent for kids. There is always plenty of food, fun, and music to accompany the art, and the highly regarded (and free!) guided bus tours of the district are not to be missed.
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. 9/5/08 – 9/6/08 Saturday & Sunday
Florida Weekly Show 3608
The weekly show from Coastal Companion about upcoming events on the coast of Northeast Florida. This episode is for the week of September 1 – 7,2008 highlighting Sounds on Centre in Fernandina on Amelia Island and First Friday Artwalk in St. Augustine.
Sounds on Centre in Historic Downtown Fernandina Beach, Florida
The concert on Friday September 5th features the group Out of Hand. This is a free community concert held the First Friday of each month from March through October in the historic downtown on Centre Street between 2nd and Front Streets from 6 to 8 p.m.
Bring a chair, your dancing shoes (just in case) and a smile and song in your heart. The Historic Fernandina Business Association is proud to present SOUNDS ON CENTRE.
EverGreen Family Festival in Ponte Vedra with New Date
This festival got moved to a new date due to Hurrican Fay. So mark your calendars and stop by the Cultural Center for an environmentally-themed Family Festival on September 20th! This special day is FREE for our community.
Chalk artist Jo Sinclair will greet you & invite you to create “green-sterpiece,” stroll through a cool rain forest in the courtyard, create a butterfly garden at the JAXPORT & TREE HILL Nature Center butterfly activity table, stop by Guana Research Reserve’s estuary table and make a fun fish project, visit the the JAX4KIDS.com art activity table, visit the water station and Fazzini’s Coffee refreshment area, enjoy special performances and demonstrations throughout the day by Cultural Center artists and instructors, help your child make drums out of recycled Boar’s Head Brand boxes, visit young local artist Chloe Cannan at her recycled art table, get your American Lung Association green tatoo, visit Marie Hurst/GreenSpace Interior Design’s green room filled with fun activities for kids and families, listen to Cultural Center artist Lois Simon read her children’s book, MAC (The Story of a Happy Apple), Cable Spence Kazoo Band will play in the courtyard and more!
For more information about the festival, please contact Ponte Vedra Cultural Center
50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
(904) 280-0614 or visit the website at www.ccpvb.org
Florida Coastal Companion Weekly
Weekly show from Coastal Companion about upcoming events on the coast of Northeast Florida. This episode is for the week of August 25 – 31,2008 highlighting First Annual Songwriter Festival, Fernandina on Amelia Island, St. Augustine’s 443rd Birthday and improv comedy with Mad Cowford in Jacksonville.
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First Annual Songwriter Festival, Fernandina, Amelia Island