EVENTS
Journey to Juneteenth events: 7:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday, inaugural Freedom Walk, starts at Depot Park, and the paintings of Alyne Harris from exhibition open house 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Thomas Center Galleries, 302 NE 6th Ave. The Freedom Walk is meant to educate and engage the community on the rich history, legacy and resilience of Black and African Americans locally and nationally. Community members will be at Depot Park sharing information about their neighborhoods including Sugar Hill, Springhill and Porters Community. The event is hosted by Gainesville’s Office of Equity and Inclusion.
Downtown High Springs Art Walk: Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, High Springs. Featuring 15 to 20 local artists and makers both inside stores and on the sidewalks, with some locations featuring live painting and demonstrations. Art Walk sites include Unique Notions, Bambi’s Café, Lanza Gallery and Art Supplies, Lovely Nails Salon.
Summer Daze Car Show: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Cedar Lakes Woods and Gardens, 4990 NE 180th Ave. Williston. Admission, $12 adults, $7 children ages 6-13, under 5 free and members free. Displaying customs, muscle cars and classics. Admission covers the car show and garden admittance.
Kanapaha Botanical Garden: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. today, 4700 SW 58th Drive. Admission, $10 adults, $5 children ages 5-13, free for children under 5 years old accompanied by parent. (kanapaha.org) Leashed dogs who are up to date on vaccines and have no history of aggression are allowed in the park.
Barnyard Buddies: 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, Morningside Nature Center, 3540 E. University Ave. Free; registration required. (bit.ly/barnbuddies2021) Weekly program where youngsters, with an adult, can meet and greet farm animals by helping staff with afternoon feeding. Number of participants is limited. All attendees must register for each session. Tickets will be made available the Thursday before the next program. Facial coverings are required for all participants over the age of 6 unless exempt. Animals love donations of carrots, squash, apples, sweet potatoes and melons.
Alachua County Library District new expanded hours: Headquarters Library and Millhopper, Tower Road and Alachua branches: Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m.; Hawthorne, High Springs, and Newberry branches: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m.; Cone Park and Library Partnership branches: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Archer, Micanopy, and Waldo branches: Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Patrons can browse, return books, and use computers and printing services during all operating hours. Outside services will continue from 1-5 p.m. on dates branches are open, weather permitting. Patrons are encouraged to wear a face mask and practice social distancing while visiting the library and complete a touchless temperature check before entering. Food and beverages are not allowed in the buildings.
Survival of the Slowest exhibit: Through Sept. 12, Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Road. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (floridamuseum.ufl.edu, 846-2000) Admission, $10, adults, $9, Florida residents, seniors and non-University of Florida college students; $7, ages 3-17, free to museum members and UF students with a valid Gator 1 Card. Complete admission pricing is available online at www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/visit/plan. Guests get an up-close look at a live sloth, tortoise, iguana and other creatures to learn about the unique adaptations some animals developed to survive, despite being slow, small or weak.
Good News Arts, Inc.: Ongoing Conversation: Drawn Together, a collaborative art project curated by Soude Dadras, on view through July 3 at the gallery, 23352 W. Highway 27, Suite 80, High Springs.
COVID-19 Community Archives: Ongoing, curator@mathesonmuseum.org. Free. The Matheson History Museum will create a COVID-19 Community Archive that will be shared digitally over the next few weeks and in future exhibitions. They are asking for Alachua County residents to help document the community’s experience with digital submissions of photographs, video clips, stories or anything else county residents think helps tell their story.
Afternoon Adventure Camp: 2-5 p.m. Wednesdays at the Cade Museum, 811 S. Main St. This mid-week opportunity will focus on challenges that boost kids’ creativity and imagination. Cade Museum educators help children ages 5-11 engage in a broad range of hands-on STEAM experiments and activities. In the Creativity Lab and Fab Lab, children will explore and improve skills in 3D design, coding, robotics and more. Cade’s educators will be available to help children in kindergarten through fifth grade address homework challenges. Registration is open. Members receive a discounted rate.
Little Sparks ages 0-5: 12:15 -1 p.m. Saturday, Cade Museum, 811 S. Main St. Children will receive a personal Little Sparks kit with all of their own supplies, plus make and takes that extend the fun and learning at home. Our BRAIN and Sweat Solution exhibits will also be open for Little Sparks noon–5 p.m.
The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention: noon – 5 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, general admission. (info@cademuseum.org) Group tours can be scheduled for Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
The Florida Museum of Natural History: Now through Sept. 6 offering Blue Star Museums 2021 program which provides free admission to all fee-based exhibits for active duty military personnel and their families including members of the National Guard and Reserve, U.S. Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members.
University Galleries: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through June 18, Grinter Gallery, 1523 Union Road. (arts.ufl.edu/university-galleries) “We are all curators” is a project which seeks to dismantle the traditional expectations of what it means to be a curator, or how much one must know to be qualified as one. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery: GFAA Gallery and the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project (ACCRP) present the exhibition ‘Umoja: A Celebration of Black Artists in Alachua County.’ The exhibit ends Saturday at the gallery at 1314 Main St. Gallery hours: 1-5 p.m. Tuesday- Friday. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday. Smaller original artworks for sale in giftshop.
Matheson History Museum: “Trailblazers: 150 Years of Alachua County Women,” celebrating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the United States, on display online; “Lights of Conversation” on display outside.
“COVID-19 Community Archives” on display online; “McCarthy Moment: The Johns Committee in Florida” on display online and in person. Hours are 1-4 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 513 E. University Ave. (378-2280, mathesonmuseum.org)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Rails into the Sun: A History of North Central Florida Railroads: 4 p.m. June 26, via Zoom webinar Free. Learn more about North Central Florida railroads. Historian Jonathan Nelson will discuss the railroad’s contribution to the development of Florida, with the primary focus on Alachua County railroads. The construction of David Yulee’s first cross-state railroad in the 1850s linked Florida with two oceans and made possible the mass migration of people and cattle. This put Gainesville on the map and caused Alachua County to boom, a trend that continues to this day. Registration is free via Zoom webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_au6GJBT1Rj6Lk8mmLo-icQ. The program will also be streamed live via the Matheson’s Facebook page.
Sunday Assembly, a secular committee: 11 a.m. June 20, via Zoom. (SundayAssembly32601@gmail.com, sagainesville.weebly.com) Guest speaker Pippa Evans, one of the two founders of Sunday Assembly, which has become a global phenomenon. Evans is a performer and author. She will share practical life hacks from her new book “Improv Your Life.” There will be music and time after for a short social and sharing time.
The Artisans’ Guild Gallery: 2nd Saturday Art Market: 11 a.m.–5 p.m. June 12, and second Saturday of the month, 224 NW 2nd Ave. Rain or shine. (www.aritisansguildgallery.com) .The Artisans’ Gallery offers the area’s largest selection of quality handmade fine arts and fine crafts from 50 regional artists. Come meet the artists and enjoy safe, outdoor shopping. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6 p.m. daily.
BENEFITS
Gainesville Bridge Club fundraiser for Alzheimer’s research: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today. Bridge Club members will accept donations and sell raffle tickets outside the Millhopper Shopping Center Publix for a chance to win the $1,000 gift card. (904) 326-3113, sclogue@alz.org) Tickets are $20 each, only 300 tickets will be sold.
DANCE
Smooth Flava Dance Group Line Dance schedule: 3-6 p.m. Sundays, intermediate line dancing, 3-4 p.m. Sunday’s Swingout partner required. The classes are held in an outdoor parking lot at 106 SW 6th St. Beginner line dance is available from 5:45- 6:45 Tuesdays at the Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville.
MUSIC
Black Music Month Celebration: 7 p.m. June 18 via Zoom, http://bit.ly/ccmccbmm In recognition of Juneteenth — a historical look at drumming, spirituals, jazz, spoken word, play-time musical games such as Ring-Around-the Rosies. www.cottonclubmuseum.com/events
Free Fridays Concert Series Live: 8-10 p.m. Friday, Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza, downtown Gainesville.(www.freefridaysgnv.com.) Featuring jazz singer Decyo McDuffie with the Larry Newcomb Quartet. McDuffie is an up-and-coming jazz vocalist who embodies the essence of classic swing jazz styles from the 1920s & ’30s. Critics have compared him to the greats.
The Impostors: 8-10 p.m. Saturday, Heartwood Soundstage, 619 S. Main St. Tickets $12-15 (www.Heartwoodsoundstage.com/events/ Classic ’60s and ’70s rock band featuring Mike Boulware, Don David, Rob Rothschild, Michael Deery.
THEATER
Juneteenth w/JaQueen & Friends: 7-8:15 p.m. Saturday, Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place. Tickets $15 (www.eventbrite.com) Jacquelyn “JaQueen” is a graduate of UF Fine Arts who has worked at Disney World, been on Broadway and returns to Gainesville to pay homage to her roots.
The Bodyguard Musical: 8 p.m. Thursday -Saturday, June 17-19, 3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 19 -20, Star Center Theatre, 11 NE 23rd Ave.Tickets: $22 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students. Tickets available at (https://bit.ly/3pgJHAe or at the door). Starring Maxine Green as Rachel Marron and Rod McNealy of Gainesville as Frank Farmer in the roles made famous in the film starring the late Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. Limited seating due to Covid-19 restrictions. Social distancing and masks must be worn while in the venue. To reserve tickets, information 352-378-3311, www.starcentertheatre.org
Annie presented by Apex Theatre Studio: Thursday-Friday, performances will livestream from the Concert Hall stage via www.showtix4u.com/events/apexannie. The Saturday, June 19 performances will be live, and in person. Tickets for Apex Theatre Studio’s Annie in person performances go on sale at 10 a.m. now at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office or Ticketmaster.com. The Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Box Office remains closed at this time
Y-Not Theatre and Good News Arts: 6:309:-30 p.m. second Thursday of the month at Good News Arts 23352 W. Highway 27, Suite 80, High Springs. Group meets on the second Thursday of the month at Good News Arts. Everyone that acts directs, studies, writes, designs, works in, or just loves the theater is invited to come and enjoy new American plays and connect with others, outdoors with social distance. It’s kind of a book club for plays. No preparation is needed. The goal of High Springs play readers is to broaden the lens and introduce new American plays to new audiences. The content of the play readers program is focused on mature audiences. Some of the pieces have adult language and situations. For more information, contact Paul Gabbard via email at paul@ynottheatre.org
PAGES
Writers Alliance of Gainesville: 2:30 p.m. today, via Zoom during the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) meeting www.writersalliance.org. Learn how the pandemic affected Matheson History Museum staff and WAG members, their families and friends through their stories, essays, poems, illustrations and a play. Free and open to everyone interested in the written word. More than 50 contributors shared their personal experiences. The collaboration between the Matheson and WAG evolved into a book, titled “Local Lives in A Global Pandemic: Stories From North Central Florida,” Archway Publishing. The anthology was edited by WAG members Pat Caren, Ronnie Lovler, and Mallory O’Connor, along with Dr. Charles Cobb, curator and Lockwood Professor of Historical Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. Cobb and Lovler are also members of the Matheson Board. All four editors will narrate the June 13 program. The published book will be for sale on Amazon and in the Matheson gift shop, 513 E. University Ave.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Shinedown with special guest Dirty Honey: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, presented by 107.3 Planet Radio. (shinedown.com) Tickets, $42.50- $82.50 on sale 10 a.m. May 17 at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office and Ticketmaster.com.
A Peter White Christmas: 8 p.m. show, 7 p.m. doors open Dec. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, in partnership with The Florida Theatre. (Ticketmaster.com $66-$116.50) Tickets for A Peter White Christmas go on sale at 10 a.m. at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office Ticketmaster.com)
Country Roots Maverick Steve Earle & The Dukes: 8 p.m., doors open 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, presented by Ponte Vedra Concert Hall in partnership with Flying Saucer. seated, full capacity performance. Tickets $58-$78 on sale now at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office or Ticketmaster.com. Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Box Office remains closed at this time. Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation, a worthy heir to Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, his two supreme musical mentors.
Wynonna Judd: 8 p.m. show, 7 p.m. doors open, Sept. 17 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Tickets $59.50-$99.50 at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office or Ticketmaster.com. The Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Box Office remains closed at this time.
Indie Rock Chart-Toppers Modest Mouse: 7 p.m., 6 p.m. doors open, Oct. 17 at The St. Augustine Amphitheatre. Tickets $52.50 are on sale now at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office and online at Ticketmaster.com.
Thundercat: 7:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. doors open, Oct. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. Channel Tres will be the opening act, and special guests will appear at certain shows as well. Tickets on sale, $35 in advance, $40 day of show (Ticketmaster.com and The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office). Thundercat is the bassist/singer Stephen Bruner.
Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo: Oct. 29, Saint Augustine Amphitheatre. Special guest star John Waite. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. May 21 at, Amphitheatre Box Office and Ticketmaster.com) Together they have created two multi-platinum, five platinum and three gold albums, as well as nineteen Top 40 hits. They have sold over 30 million records worldwide and won an unprecedented four consecutive Grammy awards.
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