You have to love a show when there are like 3 different logos and flyers from different folks. Here is the latest and greatest in notes below. You might get this in an email if you used to get emails from me about events. No need to unsubscribe, I won't do it again until the next big JAM!
This even below started as Ian (Triclops I) and I discussed the decision of DVI not to do Jazz in June. I actually found that out at a retail task force meeting looking at a list of DVI's monthly events. No JIJ. No June. No Karen Barnes. Dern.
But we needed a fix, we have been throwing jams on the river since, well a long time ago. Ian even longer than I. They used to rock the break dancing over on the southbank! But you might remember Take Me to the River or Jax Parks Get Out There.
Anyway, so we needed a space and a theme. Mas Appeal and his new radio program was a good tie in as we did a Summertime in the City behind the Burrito last year. We started hitting up our old standbys and have added even more accomplished arteests from a regional perspective. You can hear artists from Orlando, Ft Lauderdale, Savannah, Atlanta, and of course heavy helpings of Duval's finest.
With Ian and Mas handling the entertainment I wanted to highlight walkable sustainable neighborhoods but also highlight that there is NO RECYCLING DOWNTOWN. I don't have the answer to that, but the conversation has to rise to the top. How can the cultural, business, and spiritual center of one of the largest cities in America shove recyclable materials into landfills? I don't know either but lets talk about it. Surely these new residents flowing in won't tolerate it. For full disclosure my mom asks me like everyday since she lived in the Knight.
And if you haven't seen our home town heros, the MainIngreedyAntz Crew break, its worth the walk. Believe it. Oh yeah, and its all free. And there is an afterparty as some Springfield Shanty Bar or whatever its called. Come on out!SUMMERTIME IN THE CITY “Hot Soul | Cool People”
Free And Peaceful Soul, Roots, Jazz, Hip Hop Artists
Regional Break Dancing Competition
THE URBAN CORE
(Adams & Main)
July 15th, 2007
NOON - 10PM
Don’t Forget your Sunscreen!
Drink lots of water!
Sustainable Neighborhood Program Bullet Points
ECO
• We are encouraging in-city dwellers to walk, bike, blade, sail, etc to our event on Sunday July 15. We hope this event can be well attended yet still have a small carbon footprint, environmentally. Our ultimate goal is to have nearly 1000 folks stream in off the riverwalk from Riverside/Avondale, down Main from Springfield, and across the Main Street Bridge from San Marco. If living in an outlying neighborhood we are encouraging car pooling and public transit.
• Short Lectures and Sponsor Recognition Kick off at noon
• Awareness lecture from Freeport Recycling. We will recycle all plastic and aluminum from this event (glass free event). We will also announce a temporary recycling program downtown. Downtown has no recycling program currently with nearly 2000 residents and 40,000 workers and growing.
• The
Jacksonville Carbon Neutral Initiative will be giving out various edible seedlings to help you start your own garden, while promoting their riverside garden project.
• Solar Works, a local solar energy provider, will be demonstrating the power of the sun through solar cookers and other demonstration models.
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JEA's conservation campus will be present giving away free compact flourescent bulbs as part of the Energy Star pledge campaign with additional energy efficiency and conservation information from JEA
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The Northeast Florida Sierra Club will be gathering petitions for the Florida Hometown Democracy ballot initiative.
HOUSING/NEIGHBORHOODS
• Affordable Housing info on available properties, projects, and process, from our sponsors
RADO (RIVERSIDE AVONDALE DEVELOPMENT ORG)• My Community Financing consulting and other mortgage questions for first time home buyers by
Silverstone Mortgage • Healthy Lifestyle information and special deals from our neighborhood gym,
Golds Downtown.
MUSIC & FOOD
• 10 hours of continuous Jazz derivative and ROOTS HIP HOP music (a shout out to last years successful Jazz in June project). More than a dozen bands and djs from Jacksonville and the surrounding region.
• Cool off tents with plenty of seating and tables to enjoy lunch.
Tentative Line Up:-Special Guests Speaking of Walkable Neighborhoods and Sustainable Urban Things.
-Dedication.
-The Royal Treatment DJ Crew (on the tables all day)
-Break dance Battles for over $500 cash- hosted by Kenski of The Main Ingreedyantz Crew
-Snacks Blues Band (Jacksonville, FL)
-The Elevated Hip Hop Experience (full band, "like a Jacksonville Roots")
-The N Word (Hip-Hop Hell Records)
-Simple Complexity (Jacksonville true school Hip-Hop)
-Dope Sandwich Productions (Savannah, Ga.)
-Dillon (ATF REcords, Atlanta, Ga.)
-Fusik (full four piece funk band from Fort Lauderdale, Fl.)
-Heizikiah (Rawkus Records, DC/Maryland area)
-X:144 and SPS (Nonsense Records, Orlando)
-The So.illaquists of Sound (Anti Records, Orlando)
-The Smile Rays (Therepy and Heavenly Noise)
-The ABs (formerly Asamov) (Hometown Hip-Hop heroes!)
THANKS To:
Atlanta Ice Company,
Burrito Gallery,
Lyricist Hour,
1951 Market,
Entertaining U Jacksonville, City Market, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer,
16: Flat,
undergrounghiphop.com, Fm Firefly multimedia, Bloc 55,
Giglio Signs,
Legal Art Works, WJCT Electro Lounge, Image Factory, JaxGreen.org, Freeport Recycling, JEA,
Shantytown Pub, NLightN Co.,
FuelMultimedia, Tomato Festival, Urban Autonomy,
Cycle Spectrum,
Allegretti Consulting
Riverside Avondale Development Organization (RADO)Cheney Brothers, Golds Gym Downtown
More added daily! Thanks!
PS- This is a shine or shine event. Should it rain on our parade, we will move the event. Stay tuned to WHERE. ITS A SECRET!
