The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VIII is delighted to express our gratitude for support from the Literacy Alliance of Northeast Florida and its Chief Executive Officer, Marcus Haile. And we’re even more excited to announce that, for the first time, adult learners from their program will join writer/readers from UNF, FSCJ, and DA in the Student Showcase on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in Downtown Jacksonville.
The JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VIII would like to thank international artist Erin Kendrick for designing two beautiful posters for JaxbyJax, using images from the exhibit by Deepressionist artist Overstreet Ducasse, inspired by the vision of Shawana Brooks of Moving the Margins.
Please spread the word far and wide by sharing these beautiful creations on social media.
Valarie Esguerra grew up writing and directing plays for her church, as well as performing in local theatre. She worked as a creative for TeleNext Media and Flyover Studios, companies that produced family-friendly movies of the week for Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. Valarie was one of four artists chosen for the arts integration residency program “Lift Every Voice” sponsored in part by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and Duval County Public Schools.
One of her favorite quotes is by Fredrick Buechner: “The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Hear Esguerra read her work at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, October 16th at the Jessie Ball DuPont Center in downtown Jacksonville.
Brad and Darlyn Kuhn would like to invite you to the screening of our first collaborative short film for the 48 Hour Film Project, “Fourth and Long.” You can buy tickets and read about the project and all the other films at https://www.48hourfilm.com/jacksonville-fl Our team, River of Grass Studios, will be featured in Group B on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. at the MOSH Bryan-Gooding Planetarium1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville 32207
Group A will show its films on Tuesday, Sept. 14, and Group C will screen on Thursday, Sept. 16. The premise – more than 20 teams of local filmmakers all learn their genre, character, prop, and line of dialogue on a Friday at 7:30 p.m. and turn in their finished film on that Sunday at 7:30 p.m. It’s absolute madness and mayhem, but somehow results in some terrific movie-making miracles.