This program is for children birth to 5 years with an adult caregiver. The program includes stories, books, fingerplays, nursery rhymes, and songs that promote language development, vocabulary building, and comprehension.

One-on-one assistance with downloadable media, email, the Internet, online applications, and basic technology instruction. For downloadable media support, please bring your charged laptop or mobile device. Times and locations vary. You can now sign up for your appointment online at https://jpl.libcal.com/booking/techtutor. Please visit or call your local branch if you need help booking an appointment.

One-on-one assistance with downloadable media, email, the Internet, online applications, and basic technology instruction. For downloadable media support, please bring your charged laptop or mobile device. Times and locations vary. You can now sign up for your appointment online at https://jpl.libcal.com/booking/techtutor. Please visit or call your local branch if you need help booking an appointment.

This is an ongoing class that meets every Friday for all artists levels. The class will focus on pastels, materials and techniques.

Students will work from a live model and still life setups on a rotating basis using various types of soft pastels and supports. Check our website for the recommended supply list.

Questions can be directed to Kevin Arthur @ 904-327-7439

Festivities begin Thursday, May 16, with the Lads and Lasses tournament. The VIP and Friends bass tournament takes place on Friday, May 17.

Late registration for the main event begins at 3 am Saturday, May 18, at the Palatka City Docks. Boats will begin launching around 6:15 am in flights of 50. The drawing for a rigged, 21-foot-10-inch Bullet Boat Model 21XRS with a Mercury 250 Pro XS motor and trailer, valued at $65,000, will take place following weigh-in Saturday evening.

For more information on the tournament, visit wolfsonbasstournament.com.

This is NOT your ordinary, everyday 5k!  Get ready for 3 miles and 30 obstacles set in a classic North Florida landscape! Your abilities will be put to the test as you encounter fields, swamps, streams, and hardwood forests peppered with fun and exciting obstacles. Experience a fun yet demanding course right here within the Jacksonville city limits!  Swamp Battle is open to, and fun for, ALL fitness levels.  Groups are encouraged to sign up as a team; this is an excellent team building opportunity.

Native grassroots expert, Delores Goslin, will present a Monarch Butterfly Program.

She will explain what she’s learned on her journey into the world of the monarch butterfly, the importance of planting milkweed, the dangers of pesticides and much more. Visitors will learn what actions they can take as a community to help. Goslin will bring monarch butterflies and the caterpillars in various stages to demonstrate.

The Butterfly Release will follow Goslin’s talk. Native species will be available for participants to release. There will also be an exhibit on gardening for pollinators focusing on the plants butterflies and bees need with give-away seeds and plants.

About Riverside Arts Market

A Program of Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) the Riverside Arts Market celebrates the arts and our Northeast Florida community. The weekly market features live music, food, art, fresh produce under the canopy of the Fuller Warren Bridge. For more information, including directions and a calendar of events, visit riversideartsmarket.com.

$10 covers your yoga class and 1 pint of beer, Kombucha, or sparkling water, the pint following the 1 hr All Levels Yoga practice.  These Postures+Pints Sunday classes supports local small businesses, charities, and the community and participants have a lot of fun doing it.

Christianna Alexander, teen CEO of the plant-based skincare line, Sweet Christi’s, will launch a new product line during the grand opening of her new soap studio. Thirteen year old Jacksonville native, Christianna, has been in the soap and skincare business for a year. After showing that she could make enough money to sustain her very own studio, Christianna has decided to take her business to the next level with the encouragement and support of her parents, Christopher and Hilda Alexander.