St. Augustine Guest Houses

Last Sunday Open Mic Poetry
2019-01-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Corazon Cinema & Cafe, 36 Granada Street, Saint Augustine, 32084
On the last Sunday of the month, Ancient City Poets hosts an Open Mic Poetry night at Corazon Cinema and Cafe. Share your own poems or read some of the poetry you love in a supportive environment. Poets of all skill levels are welcome to come and add their names to the signup sheet. The mic will be turned off at 4:30 p.m. to allow guests to enjoy a half hour of getting to know each other.

Crash Test Dummies
2019-01-28 20:00 | Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A North, Ponte Vedra, 32082
Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies will reunite for the first time in 17 years to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal sophomore album God Shuffled His Feet. The North American tour will launch November 23 and will feature the original line-up of Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid, Dan Roberts, and Mitch Dorge.
“After a huge hit in Canada with our folksier debut album, our next effort was dubbed ‘too new a sound’ by our Canadian compatriots. In America however, it managed to pique the interest of a new and frankly much larger group of listeners and soon “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” became a bonafide hit south of our border, and eventually all over the world,” says Brad Roberts. “It was a wild ride for us that year. Now we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary reuniting with our original line-up and dusting off our old set lists. It will be the first time we’ve toured with the full band since 2001, and we’re very excited about it.”
The 1993 platinum selling and Grammy-nominated album God Shuffled His Feet hit #1 in Austria and New Zealand and also reached the Top Five in the national albums charts of numerous countries including Australia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The album reached #6 in the Netherlands national albums chart, #2 in the UK and broke the Top 10 landing at #9 in the United States Billboard 200 albums chart. God Shuffled His Feet features their most unusual and highly popular single, “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” as well as other fan favorites. The memorable cover artwork featured the superimposed the faces of the band atop figures in the Titian painting “Bacchus and Ariadne.”
In 2008, Consequence of Sound featured the album in their Guilty Pleasure column stating, “God Shuffled His Feet made the Dummies famous worldwide with a handful of folk-rock songs that shattered the perception of what rock radio could play. “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”-yeah, the humming song about blue hair and birthmarks-had everyone from soccer moms to metal heads singing along and tapping their toes. ‘Afternoons and Coffeespoons,’ a hypochondria and T.S. Elliot-inspired romp, soars with gorgeous acoustic strumming, the trademark quirky harmonica playing of Ben Darvill, and the angelic backup vocals of keyboardist Ellen Reid. Songs like the album’s title track, ‘Here I Stand Before Me,’ and ‘How Does a Duck Know?’ are odd philosophical rockers, taking on everything from theism to Descartes. I credit these particular tunes for making my college philosophy courses bearable.”

Beginner’s Acrylic Art Classes
2019-01-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Palencia Neighborhood, 654 S Loop Pkwy, Saint Augustine, FL, 32095, United States
Anyone can paint!! I will show you different techniques and how to find joy in the act of painting. Depending upon the needs of each class, I will teach about color, composition, and light and shadow, as well as exploring lots of cool painting techniques. Each student will start working on the same project and then we will branch out so that each student works on their own individual project, with my guidance.

Lightner After Hours
2019-01-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Lightner Museum, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Guests are invited to enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres, and wine, while they browse the fine art on display at this supremely elegant museum. This free monthly social event is open to the public. Donations are appreciated. Visitors may enter the beautiful and unique historic Lightner Museum at the Granada Street entrance (with blue and white awnings, located across from the Corazon Cinema).

Ideas & Images Series
2019-01-31 19:00 | Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada Street, St. Augustine, 32084
Specifically designed this year to celebrate Flagler College’s 50th Anniversary celebration, the Ideas & Images Series offers free public lectures on a wide range of locally-relevant topics. January’s installment of the series will focus on sea level rise. Professor Elizabeth A. Andrews will present on “Sea Level Rise: Policy Challenges for Historic Coastal Communities,” and Dr. Marcus DuBois King will present on “Climate Justice: Sea-Level Rise and Sinking States.”

An Enemy of the People
2019-01-31 19:30, 2019-02-01 19:30, 2019-02-02 19:30, 2019-02-03 14:00 | Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine, 32084
A small Norwegian town has just begun to win fame and wealth through its medicinal spring waters – until the resident physician in charge discovers that the waters are poisoned. After public outcry against his previous play Ghosts, this classic tale by Henrik Ibsen tells the story of a man who dares to speak an unpalatable truth and is punished for it. The shows will take place Thursday-Sunday with matinees on Sunday. Tickets are $26.

Neko Case with guest Kimya Dawson
2019-01-31 20:00 | Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A North, Ponte Vedra, 32082
“Hell-On is one of [Case’s] best… her voice remains a force all its own.” [Rolling Stone] … “Soaring” [Entertainment Weekly] … “Gutting” [New York Magazine] … “A pitch-perfect roar of female defiance” [The Guardian]. These are just a few of the peerless reviews of Hell-On, Neko Case’s 8th and latest studio album. In the midst of her US fall headlining tour, Case performed three songs from the record on CBS This Morning: Saturday.
When Neko Case returned to the US and walked through the ruins of her home, the fire that had blazed after these songs were written became part of the record. For the cover, she made a warrior’s helmet out of cigarettes. Interior and exterior shots of her incinerated house appear on the gatefold and booklet. And a tiny pop-open charred Brothers-Grimm cottage serves as the set for the video of “Bad Luck.”
It was as if nature invented a landscape for Hell-On after the fact: a melted ladder, seared insulation dangling in ribbons, the internal organs of pianos. She thought it should all be included in solidarity with those who had lost so much in the past year.
All the living creatures present at the time of the fire were found alive, and so Case was able see beauty in the bleak scene. “It felt like this out-of-time Jacques Cousteau undersea expedition through a sunken World War II ship. Of course there’s some shit I miss,” she says, citing family photographs and a favorite sweater. “But none of it matters.”
And as for those fairy tales she’s writing and the history she’s remembering: “We need them now more than ever. We need stories from all sectors. Stories without endings. Stories with multiple endings. Stories that don’t end happily, cautionary tales, everything. We don’t need Disneyfied stories anymore.”
The record was born at the hands of some three dozen performers in all, from k.d. Lang, Laura Veirs, Beth Ditto, and Robert Forster on backing vocals, to Joey Burns of Calexico and Doug Gillard of Guided by Voices on guitars, and Barbara Gruska and Matt Chamberlain on drums. The sidelong perspective is part of the known Neko galaxy, but the production is more expansive and edgier, moving into new universes. These are songs that can swallow you.
A force of nature, an act of a mercurial, forgotten god, Hell-On is a record sealed by fire, filled with love and rage and dangers that might lay waste to everything at any moment. So if you wake up dazed in a smoking landscape, walking through the detritus of your own lost civilization with the smell of ash in your hair, your favorite sweater gone and a new song in your head, don’t say you weren’t warned.
Neko Case has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket will go to Peer Solutions and support their positive youth leadership and development program designed to prevent harm before it begins and engage lifetime ambassadors of positive change. For more information on Peer Solutions, please visit www.peersolutions.org.

Butterfield Gallery February 2019 Feature Artist, Sydney McKenna’s Atmospheric Oil Paintings
2019-02-01 18:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-02 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-03 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-04 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-05 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-07 11:00 - 17:00, 2019-02-08 11:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date | Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King Street, St. Augustine FL, 32084
An Artist Talk, First Friday February 1st, at 6pm is an opportunity to hear Sydney explain her motivation behind the magnificent cloud paintings she is recognized for.
To stand in front of one of Sydney’s paintings, the viewer is connected back to every moment he/she has been awed by the sky above. Her inspiration becomes ours, to contemplate and appreciate anew. Sydney McKenna’s Florida landscape paintings express the state’s atmosphere in a unique and poignant way. Especially sensitive to the subtle color shifts that occur in the vaporous skies of the South, these original oil paintings are created in the classic technique of the Old World; using thin layers of oil paint to build up a subtle luminosity, unifying classical style with contemporary themes.
Sydney explains her fascination this way, “Over the years of painting clouds I have grown to see quite a bit of symbolism in the water cycle. The fact that it can transform itself, rise into the heavens and move around the world through the skies, is somewhat miraculous; as if the clouds are the ‘spirit form’ of water. They have come to remind me of the spark of life; a lifting of the physical, into the spiritual…. I was recently intrigued by an article describing life systems in cloud formations. This thought makes me aware that the world we experience is really a collision of a multitude of worlds.”
Sydney began her painting career in the Sarasota area in the mid- eighties as a mostly self-taught watercolor artist and gained quick success, winning awards and exhibiting in Sarasota Art Galleries. After obtaining a degree in Visual Arts from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida and making the switch to oil painting in 1996, she attended a semester of graduate studies in fine art at Cortona, Italy through the University of Georgia. Sydney then returned to the United States, where she relocated to St. Augustine and operated the Sydney McKenna Gallery from 1997 to 2013, and is one of the original founding members of Butterfield Gallery. She sees St. Augustine as the perfect combination of her two favorite locales: European architecture combined with the lush Florida environment.
Sydney McKenna’s paintings are widely held in both corporate and private collections, have been featured on many magazine covers, and have awards and recognitions to numerous to mention. She has grown to become one of St. Augustine’s premier artists.

St. Augustine Fashion Week // Season 5 Fashion Speaks // Panel Discussion
2019-02-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Bokeh Bar Gallery, 137 King St #103, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Join the STAFW board and Guest Speakers in an industry discussion regarding Fashion and the impact it makes on economy, the influence global Fashion Weeks make on consumers, sustainable fashion and how the industry is evolving. Meet local industry leaders and guest speakers for a fashionably intimate conversation.
Special guest appearances by North Florida’s “Super” designers of local Comic-Con Super Hero Costume Designs prior to the Film Release of ” Once Upon a Super Hero”.
TO be held at Bokeh bar gallery located at 137 King Street St. Augustine, FL. 5pm – 8pm – FREE ENTRY
“Once upon a Super Hero” Film release follows “STAFW Season 5 Fashion Speaks” and is $15 at the door made payable to our “Road to Season 5 ” Partners Bokeh Bar / Gallery
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Models & Movie Mayhem
2019-02-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Bokeh Bar Gallery, 137 King St #103, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Saint Augustine has never seen anything like this!!! At 6:30PM Fashion Speaks as part of St Augustine fashion week will have a panel with female cosplay outfits highlighted followed by an exclusive screening of the brand new, award-winning feature, Once Upon a Superhero with filmmakers on hand!

Salt Air Farmers Market
2019-02-03 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-02-10 10:00 - 14:00 | Salt Air Farmers Market, 101 Tolstoy Lane, Marineland, 32080
This is a frendly market along A1A in Marineland with fresh seafood, local produce, sauces & dips, honey, empanadas, artisan bread & pastries, local artists and more. This is every Sunday 10-2:00.

Acclaimed Designer Thomas Jayne at the Lightner Museum
2019-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Lightner Museum, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
The Lightner Museum is pleased to invite the public to a one day only special event featuring award-winning designer and author, Thomas Jayne. Join Museum Executive Director Robert W. Harper and Curator Barry Myers for a Question and Answer session with Thomas Jayne for a discussion of the renowned designer’s latest book, Classical Principles for Modern Design. The event will take place on Monday, February 4, 2019 at the Lightner Museum. The presentation begins at 4:00 pm with a book signing and reception following from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Tickets are only $15.00 and can be purchased on the Museum website. For more information, please call the Museum at (904) 824-2874.

Flagler Forum on Government and Public Policy
2019-02-05 19:00 | Lewis Auditorium at Flagler College, 14 Granada St, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, United States
Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy invites nationally-recognized speakers, journalists, commentators, and industry experts to the Ancient City to discuss current events and issues that matter to our community and the nation at large. February’s forum will feature Maya MacGuineas – President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. Admission to the event is free.

Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy
2019-02-05 19:00 | Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada Street, St. Augustine, 32084
Flagler College’s Forum on Government and Public Policy offers a full schedule of fascinating lectures on political and cultural topics ranging from global dynamics and the internet to federalism and federal finances. The event is free and open to the public.
The February 5th lecture will be by Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt.

Claudio Ruanova
2019-02-07 14:00 - 18:30 | Georgia Nick Gallery, 11 Aviles Street, St. Augustine, 32084
Please join the Georgia Nick Gallery in Welcoming a very special guest – International WaterColor Artist – Claudio Ruanova. Meet the artist and watch him create a magical painting.

Big Band Dinner Dance
2019-02-08 18:00 - 22:00 | The Riverview Club, 790 Christina Dr, St. Augustine, FL, 32086, United States
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the EMMA Concert Association invites everyone to join in the dancing and the party at their celebratory Big Band Dinner Dance. The event will feature the Chris Thomas Band performing 1940s big band music, a multi-course plated dinner provided by By Design Catering, complimentary signature cocktails, wine and beer, and a silent auction. The silent auction will have many unique items up for bid – like an original artwork for the EMMA 40th Anniversary by Rosamond Parrish.

Lightner Learning Lab – All About Sculpture
2019-02-10 10:00 - 14:00 | Lightner Museum, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Children aged 5 – 14 are invited to tour and learn about selected figurative sculptures with Lightner museum educators. Attendees of this informative look at sculpture will be engaged in truly looking at and understanding this 3-dimensional art form. Little Lightners (ages 5 – 9 accompanied by an adult) will meet from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. to look at different types of sculpture to appreciate the stories being told. The Lightner Leaders program (designed for older kids ages 10 – 14) will meet from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. to truly look at and comprehend the types and processes for creating sculpture. Each tour will be followed by an enjoyable model making activity. Tickets are $5 and reservations are required. For tickets and more information visit https://lightnermuseum.org/event/lightner-lab-all-about-sculpture/.
