We’re having a literary pumpkin contest!

Your pumpkin must be a book inspired CHARACTER or SCENE. Pumpkins may be carved or painted and accessories are acceptable. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate! (Please keep in mind that this is a family event.) Pumpkins may be brought to the bookstore anytime from October 24th-31st and will be featured in our store window. Votes will be counted as individual likes on each photo posted on this event! Share the event to help get votes for your Jack O’Lit!

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.

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

The Haunted Brewery will include a zombie apocalypse interactive experience throughout the brewery, produced by Jacksonville Haunts. The experience will resemble laser tag, but the goal will be to shoot the zombies who have taken over the brewery. A team of 10 players will go through the zombie apocalypse every three minutes. The Haunted Brewery festivities will include an art exhibit, food trucks, live music, zombie paintball shooting outside of the brewery and more.

We’re having a literary pumpkin contest!

Your pumpkin must be a book inspired CHARACTER or SCENE. Pumpkins may be carved or painted and accessories are acceptable. The winner will receive a $25 gift certificate! (Please keep in mind that this is a family event.) Pumpkins may be brought to the bookstore anytime from October 24th-31st and will be featured in our store window. Votes will be counted as individual likes on each photo posted on this event! Share the event to help get votes for your Jack O’Lit!

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.

San Marco Branch Library and the Jacksonville Department of Animal Care and Protective Services are offering a program that includes an author talk and book signing, as well as a pet adoption. Too Licky is a story about two sisters’ journey to find the “just right” rescue dog for their family. Gigi and Ryan, the young authors of the book, searched high and low to find the right dog. After months of searching they found Sugar.

The event is free and open to the public, as the community is invited to celebrate the season with Virginia College. The event will feature refreshments, face painting, a costume contest, music, trick-or-treating, a bounce house, pumpkin decorating, popcorn, cotton candy, cookie decorating, campus tours and program demonstrations. All attendees can enter to win prize giveaways such as Amazon gift cards.

Everyone loves a scary story! Join us as we work together to create the scariest of ideas into the most haunting of stories.