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Business + Networking
June 23: 2015 CityWide Job and Resource Fair
June 27: Ocean Street Alleyway Clean Up
Arts + Culture
June 26: Sweet & Soulful Jazz Dinner Party
June 26-27: Coming Out Monologues Jacksonville
June 27: Jax on Tap
June 28: Laurent Boukobza, Piano
June 28: Summer Movie Classics Series: Back to the Future
Live Music + Nightlife
June 25: MOSH After Dark: Wine Workshop
June 26: STYX
June 28: Stonewall in the Park
Family Fun
June 27: All Pro Dad Father & Kids Experience
June 27: Asian Food Festival
June 27: Dozing with Dinos Camp-In
Sports + Fitness
June 27: Get Inspired 6K
Stories From BlogDTJax.com
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News of the Week
- How about a water park? Ideas abound at kickoff meeting on Jacksonville Landing redesign
- Jacksonville’s entertainment district hopes this rebranding – and its new mission – gets you Downtown
- Baptist Health snaps up Downtown Jacksonville office buildings
- Dots show Landing’s good, bad, potential
- 75-year-old showroom joins Brooklyn renaissance
- Riverplace South office building sells for $9M
- Company seeking $1.8M in incentives to bring 123 finance jobs to Downtown
- After attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors to Hemming Park, Friends now attracting money
- Jax Outings Project Makes Downtown Streets A Museum Gallery
- Reworked water taxi proposal heading to council; DIA would oversee deal
- ‘Top Chef’ winner Kevin Sbraga’s restaurant to open in fall at 220 Riverside
- Hemming Park transformed into a skate park over the weekend
- Gatlin Development’s website confirms Jacksonville headquarters
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DVI Updates
DVI and entertainment venues of The Elbow are partnering to program live music, games, food trucks, outdoor seating, lighting and more in Downtown’s entertainment district. Part of this initiative will include sprucing up the alleyway off Ocean Street. We need your help! Volunteer to lend a hand with various clean-up tasks this Saturday, June 27. All 21+ volunteers will be treated to one free beer courtesy of 1904 Music Hall! Learn more, and sign up to volunteer here.
Art Walk volunteers needed
Looking for a new – and fun! – volunteer opportunity? We’re recruiting volunteers to help with our “Celebrating the Art of Jacksonville” Art Walk next month, Wednesday, July 1. Learn more, and sign up to volunteer here.
DVI and The Elbow announced ‘The Bender’ for July 9Check out the full details at theelbowjax.com.