Cathedral Arts Project 7th Annual Spring for the Arts Fundraiser

Dear Neighbors,

This note is very important. Please skip a few nights this month at your normal restaurant haunt and attend the "gala of the year" this Friday for C.A.P.!

C.A.P. brings over 1100 disadvantaged children in Jacksonville 4 HOURS WEEKLY of FREE EDUCATION in HIGHLY SPECIALIZED VISUAL or PERFORMING ARTS and the children enrolled do so voluntarily in order to open their own eyes to the very big world of life's opportunities...its truly an amazing organization, TRULY CHANGING CHILDREN'S LIVES DAILY AND FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE. READ PROVEN AND MEASURABLE RESULTS HERE

Several nationally recognized and celebrity R. Roberts Gallery artists have donated some of their best works to aid the "gala of the year" - which also creates 60% of C.A.P.'s operating revenue...and the price points begin at half the value of this original art!

PLEASE DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO DANCE YOURSELF SILLY, EAT SCRUMPTIOUS DELICACIES, HOB NOB WITH JACKSONVILLE'S GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL CITIZENS & CHANGE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN'S LIVES - PURELY BY HAVING A BLAST ON MARCH 11, 2011! Details for you to party down in style this Friday follow...

In great appreciation of your attendance consideration,
Jennifer Jones ~ President, R. Roberts Gallery & Board Member, Cathedral Arts Project

ps. As my girlfriend always says - dress "smart" (business/cocktail attire)

YOU ARE ONE CLICK AWAY FROM PURCHASING EXCITING RAFFLE TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR ATTENDANCE - JOIN JEN, DONNY & TERRIE THIS FRIDAY



Support Cathedral Arts Project though its 7th Annual Spring for the Arts fundraiser!

Friday, March 11, 2011 6:30 PM at Deerwood Country Club

Tickets

Still available! Purchase your tickets online or by mail, today! $125 general admission or $75 young professional (35 and under)

Raffle

Trip to Visit Bill & Carol Foley's Santa Barbara Wineries: Four days and three nights in wine country. Roundtrip airfare for two, hotel and rental car. Private tour and tasting at Firestone Vineyard. Gourmet lunch at Lincourt Vineyards, in the village of Solvang. A visit to Foley Estates Winery for the perfect finish!

Single raffle tickets are $20. Six tickets are only $100! Enter the raffle, today!

Live Auction

Rafting trip for two through Idaho's famous Middle Fork of the Salmon River from July 25 to July 30, 2011.
Trip for four to the Russian River Valley and Bill Foley's luxury hotel, Le Mars.
An inspiring dinner for 12 at the art-filled residence of Joan and Preston Haskell.
River Club lunch with John Delaney, Hugh Greene, Mike Hightower and Wayne Weaver.
Behind the scenes tour for 10 of the stadium at EverBank Field.
Exquisite in-home evening for 20 by chef Karen Glenn, sommelier Allan DeVault, home stylist Liza Chung, personal stylist Melissa Intemann of M.I.A. Styling, and Riverside Liquors.

Silent Auction
A football signed by Bobby Bowden from his very last game.
Duneswept beach house on Vilano Beach.
Jewelry, accessories, golf and tennis packages, wine tastings, gourmet food baskets, hotel packages, and much more!

Toyota Farm to Table Tour | March 12th 2011

Toyota will kickoff its Farm to Table Tour at the Riverside Arts Market this Saturday, March 12th from 10am-2pm.

The third installment of this event will feature a bevy of Jacksonville's top local chefs as they use fresh local ingredients to prepare a multitude of complimentary bite size foods. The event is meant to highlight the connection between farmers, the farmer's market, local chefs, and our local communities. In addition to what will surely be an appetizing menu, all visitors will receive free potted herbs, and Toyota will be giving away John Boos signature cutting boards to those visitors that test drive Toyota's new energy efficient hybrid cars. There will also be drawings for additional prizes.


Some of the chefs that will be participating:

* Brian Siebenschuh - Orsay
* Sam Efron - Taverna San Marco
* Tom Gray - Bistro AIX
* Eddy Escriba - Uptown Market
* Nick Robson - Speckled Hen Tavern & Grille
* Roderick Smith - Sweet Pete’s Catering
* Brian Vandenburg - Burrito Gallery
* Sean Irwin- Chew Restaurant
* Ben Groshell - Marker 32

Time: March 12th 10am-2pm

In appreciation of the benefits that the farmers' markets provide to local communities, The Toyota Farm to Table Tour will also be making a financial donation to the Riverside Arts Market as well as the other farmers' markets on the tour.

For more info please visit:
Farm to Table Tour
Riverside Arts Market

Photo & info courtesy of Wayne Wood & The Riverside Arts Market

The 5 Points Theatre Presents:

The new Matt Damon movie, The Adjustment Bureau will be playing at the 5 Points Theatre now through March 17th.



Synopsis

"Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) -- a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself-the men of The Adjustment Bureau-who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path.. or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her".*


Showing March 4th until March 17th.

Showtimes
- 03/07/11 at 5:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm
- 03/08/11 at 5:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm
- 03/09/11 at 5:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm
- 03/10/11 at 5:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm

- Price: $8.50, or $7.50 with senior, student or military ID
- Featuring Matt Damon & Emily Blunt
- Rated: PG-13


Info and synopsis courtesy of the 5 Points Theater & Universal Pictures.

Riverside Avondale Spring Home Tour 2011

It’s almost that time of year again. Riverside Avondale Preservation will be hosting its annual Spring Home Tour 2011 and is looking for residents who are interested in participating. The event will be held on the weekend of April 16th and 17th. If you have just completed renovating your historic Riverside Avondale home, please consider supporting Riverside Avondale Preservation and all that it does for our community! If your home is currently not finished, that’s alright, too! RAP encourages residents in the midst of a renovation to participate so that your fellow neighbors may see the home’s progression to completion. Funds raised during this event will benefit Riverside Avondale Preservation and our community as a whole. If you would like to participate in the Spring Home Tour or would simply like to donate to Riverside Avondale Preservation, contact information is below.
Riverside Avondale Preservation

2623 Herschel Street
Jacksonville, Florida 32204

Phone: 904-389-2449
Fax: 904-389-0431
Email: info@riversideavondale.org

Inaugural Jacksonville Fine Art Festival | April 9th & 10th 2011

Introducing the Inaugural

JACKSONVILLE FINE ART FESTIVAL

April 9 & 10, Jacksonville Florida

Greetings,

This is a message to let you know about the upcoming and inaugural JACKSONVILLE FINE ART FESTIVAL. This juried art festival is being presented by the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, the Avondale Merchant Association, Hewlett Packard and many other major, high profile sponsors who are underwriting the most important feature – prize monies!!!

It will be held in Boone Park, just blocks away from the Shoppes of Historic Avondale, in Jacksonville, Florida, April 9th and 10th.

The Jacksonville Fine Arts Festival will accept entries for the following categories: Clay, Digital Art, Drawings and Graphics, Fiber Arts, Fine Jewelry, Glass, Metal, Mixed Media, Paintings, Photography, Sculpture, Watercolor, Wood Turning and Wood Carving. Applications can be submitted at www.Zapplication.org.

Entry fees are $25, and booth fees are $150 for 10×10, and $250 for 20×10. Artists must provide their own white tenting. This is a juried event being modeled after the Raymond James sponsored, 30 years’ strong, FAMED Tampa Art Fair ~ Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts ~ renowned for its exquisite fine art offerings and massive success.

We will be laying the booth spaces out to mirror an historic shopping district and anticipate the participation of the Symphony and various, important children’s choirs and choruses in Jacksonville and the outlying areas. Those interested in performing classical, jazz, choral, or chamber music, please contact my pal Ken Stutes at Avondale Artworks. His number is 904-384-8797.

Top Rated Restaurants (rated by Urbanspoon.com) will act as the food vendors creating an air of gourmet expertise. Those already on board are Biscottis, The Brick, the Casbah, Green Gourmet, Let Them Eat Cake, & Blue Fish!!!

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is creating a “Cummer in the Park” and showcasing important works of art in the style of a miniature Cummer Museum!

This event has a warm, neighborhood feel with a deliciously, fresh, ELEGANT air. “Fine” is the operative word, every step of the way…

It’s going to be highly attended, so don’t miss out – visit www.Zapplication.org today to apply for selection! Media outlets on board are Lite 96.1, The Florida Times Union, Arbus Magazine, Comcast, The Buzz Magazine – if you are a media outlet interested in being associated with this seminal event, please contact the wonderful Brad Trader at Avondale Gallery, 904-389-6712.

Please pass along this information to those who may be interested in attending, exhibiting or accentuating THE FIRST EVER, OUTDOOR, JURIED, FINE ART EVENT IN NORTH FLORIDA!

Courtesy of:

Jennifer E. Jones

President

R. Roberts Gallery

Historic Avondale, 3606 St. Johns Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32205

904.388.1188

Calendar & Artist Info: www.rrobertsgallery.com

HOURS Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment daily

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