Business Networking Event
2020-08-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Luna Cafe, 525 FL-16 #130, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Building Community: A free monthly business networking meeting focused on the exchange of business information, ideas, and support.
New contacts and referrals
Visibility
Staying Current
Problem Solving
Sharing knowledge & Experience
Confidence & Morale
Fourth Tuesday from 10-12pm @ Luna Cafe
Hosted by Jacksonville Business Connections & Jodi Casella – Casella Sells Real Estate-Florida Homes Realty & Mortgage
https://www.facebook.com/events/172041860723384/

Adult Yoga at the Pier
2020-08-25 18:00 - 19:00, 2020-08-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2020-09-01 18:00 - 19:00 | St Johns County Ocean Pier, 350 A1A Beach Blvd, St. Augustine Beach
Are you looking to strengthen and increase your flexibility all while getting into shape? We are now offering eight week yoga sessions at $25 per session. Space is limited and each session will be offered to 20 participants. Participants are required to wear comfortable exercise attire and tennis shoes or grip socks and bring a water bottle, yoga mat, and a towel to each class. Register for Adult Yoga classes. For more information, contact Ashley Brown at abrown@sjcfl.us or 904.209.0379.

CANCELLED – Night Market at The Amp
2020-08-25 18:00 - 21:00 | St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A South, St. Augustine
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Meeting the demand for locally-made goods and gifts is the Night Market, taking place the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 6pm to 9pm. The Night Market showcases over 50 vendors specializing in handmade crafts, goods and art and features fantastic dinner options, a full bar and live entertainment! The Night Market is open to the public with free admission and free parking!

Sweatin’ Out the Summer Challenge
2020-08-26, 2020-08-27, 2020-08-28, 2020-08-29, 2020-08-30, 2020-08-31, 2020-09-01, 2020-09-02 | VIRTUAL
The Sweatin’ Out The Summer Challenge was created to encourage everyone to keep moving and push through these hot summer days. This online community of runners, walkers and joggers, will motivate each other throughout the rest of the summer. Yes, you heard it correctly. This will be a 5 week challenge, hence the name “Sweatin’ Out The Summer.” All participants will receive a shirt and a sweet finisher medal.
The Sweatin’ Out The Summer Challenge will be from August 1 – September 7. Run, walk, jog, hike, skip, treadmill etc. Any intentional on foot sweat shesh with start and stop verification. Track and total your miles with us…
The goal is to go as many miles as you possibly can, or want, or think you want. There is no amount too little, or too many. You can’t lose with this challenge! Jump start to better fitness? Or training for 5k, 10k, Half or Full Marathon? Register now for the Sweatin’ Out the Summer Challenge! No matter your speed, no matter your location, no matter your experience–you can & you will challenge yourself! By registering now you will receive sweet race swag: a custom T-shirt and finisher’s medal, plus you can print your own personal race bib!
✔ Run or walk on trails, treadmills, cities, beaches. You choose.
Register @ https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/Anywhere/SweatinOutTheSummerChallenge
To sweeten the deal, you can set your own personal distance goal! A mile every day? 75 miles a week? This Challenge can be a start for you to just move each day. This Challenge can get you ready for long runs. You set the goal. If you reach a total of 50 miles your T-shirt will announce your accomplishment! We will have T-shirts for all! – 50 Mile Club, 100 Mile Club,150 Mile Club, 200 Mile Club, and the 250 Mile Club!
RaceSmith will host a Facebook group to help motivate you to press through 5 weeks of moving. We will share pics, posts, accomplishments & struggles along with you. Click here to join.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sweatinoutthesummer
Register today. Price increases 7/27. There’s even a Referral Rewards program. If you get 5 friends to join you will receive a $20 refund or if you get 10 friends to join you will get a $40 refund.

Wednesday Market at the Pier
2020-08-26 08:00 - 12:00 | St Johns County Ocean Pier, 350 A1A Beach Blvd, St. Augustine Beach
Every Wednesday, artisans and growers gather their goods at the St. Augustine Beach Pier. The market is a destination, a place that serves as a setting for the community and visitors to the area to gather and learn something new from a farmer, grower, producer or local artist. To build a community where we work and live. We support local economy, increase market opportunities for farmers and small businesses, and provides access to an assortment of local and regional sourced products.

CareerSource Northeast Florida
2020-08-26 10:00 - 15:00, 2020-08-28 10:00 - 15:00 | Hastings Library Branch, 6195 S Main Street, Hastings, FL, 32145, United States
CareerSource Northeast Florida will be available to assist job seekers with a variety of career and employment-related services, including help with applying for Reemployment Assistance benefits from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays, beginning May 20, at the Hastings Branch Library, 6195 S. Main Street. Assistance is available by appointment only and temperature checks and face coverings are required. For more information or to make an appointment, please visit www.careersourcenefl.com or call 904.356.5627.

904 Naturalist Series – Exploring the Life of Mammals
2020-08-26 18:00 - 20:30, 2020-08-29 18:00 - 20:30, 2020-08-30 18:00 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL
In this 904 Naturalist Series, learn about six different mammals indigenous to Northeast Florida. This program is free, but you must sign up for all six classes, and is open to those 18 or older. Register here. For more information, contact AyoLane Halusky at ahalusky@sjcfl.us.
Online through Zoom. Field trip locations to be announced during classes.

6 – 8:30 p.m., Wednesdays, August 19, 26, and September 2.
Field Trips on August 22, 23, 29, and 30. Times to be announced.

Featured image via Facebook

Virtual Florida Master Naturalist – Environmental Interpretation
2020-08-26 19:00 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL
Adults of all knowledge and skill levels are invited to join us to learn about environmental interpretation. Participants of this course will gain deeper insight into how exhibits are made, effective presentation crafting, and the components of a successful guided program. The course is entirely online and is comprised of twice a week classes and guided assignments to be completed on your own. To register or for more information, contact Kelly Ussia at kussia@sjcfl.us or 904.209.0335.

Lightner After Hours
2020-08-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Lightner Museum, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
At this free monthly social event, enjoy an early evening of libations available for donation and the elegant surroundings of this beautiful and unique historical museum in St. Augustine. Each month features something different and exciting – learn something new about the museum and its offerings! Guests may enter at the Granada Street entrance to Café Alcazar (the entrance with the blue and white awnings, located across from the Corazon Cinema).

Augustinian Day
2020-08-28 18:00 | Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, 38 Cathedral Plaza, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
The August 28 feast day celebration of St. Augustine of Hippo, patron saint of the city, the Cathedral Basilica, and the Diocese of St. Augustine, will pay tribute to the establishment of the diocese 150 years ago. Historian Susan R. Parker, Ph.D., will deliver the Augustinian Address titled “St. Augustine in 1870 when the new diocese was created.” Pope Pius IX created Florida’s first diocese on March 11, 1870. Its first bishop, Augustin Verot, previously bishop of the Diocese of Savannah, was installed in the Cathedral on Oct. 23, 1870.
Solemn vespers, in honor of the feast, will begin at 6 p.m. in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, led by Bishop Felipe Estévez of St. Augustine. He invited Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to give the homily at vespers. The title of his homily is “Our full stature in Christ.” He was appointed Hierarchal Proistamenos of the St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine in 2019.
“Jesus Christ wished his disciples to be united,” Estévez said. “Since Vatican II, the Catholic and the Orthodox churches are in an ongoing dialogue seeking full reconciliation. Bishop Demetrios and I are seeking ways to draw our communities closer together.”
Demetrios said he is “truly honored to be invited to offer this homily. This is the second part of our joint celebration of the feast of St. Augustine.” The two bishops spoke during a national webinar on June 15, the Greek Orthodox observance of St. Augustine’s feast.
Parker’s address follows at 7 p.m. in the Cathedral. Father Tom Willis, the rector, invited Parker to speak. “I am looking forward to hearing what she has to say about the city, the people and how the press reported the events (in 1870),” he said.
“It is important to remember the city in 1870 was only five years away from the Civil War being over,” Parker said in an interview. “St. Augustine and most southern cities were still trying to make a comeback. It is a very different picture of St. Augustine than the late 1800s when (Henry) Flagler arrives.”
Parker holds a doctorate in colonial history from the University of Florida. She was editor of The Oldest City: History of St. Augustine, published in 2019 by the St. Augustine Historical Society. She is historian for the St. Johns County Clerk of the Court and a former executive director of the St. Augustine Historical Society. Her weekly column, “Oldest City,” is published in The St. Augustine Record.
The Augustinian Address speaker series was inaugurated in 2000.
Vespers and the Augustinian Address are open to the public, free of charge. Seating is limited in the Cathedral because of social distance requirements. Attendees are required to wear masks. The evening’s events will be live-streamed August 28 on the Cathedral Basilica’s Facebook page beginning at 6 p.m.

Dark of the Moon Tour
2020-08-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-08-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-08-30 19:30 - 21:30 | St. Augustine Lighthouse, 81 Lighthouse Ave, St. Augustine
The Dark of the Moon Ghost Tour is the only tour that gets you into the Lighthouse at night. The Lighthouse offers two options for this experience, both of which include the option to rent EMF readers.
Ghost tour: This 1.5 to 2 hour tour includes a guided talk through the 1876 Keepers’ House and the 1874 St. Augustine Lighthouse tower. Your guide will share true tales from the history of our Light Station. Tours are offered year round on Friday, Saturday and Sundays and more days during peak times. Purchase a combo ticket with regular daytime admission and save on this tour. Expect larger groups during peak season and holidays.
Investigation Only: See for yourself why we are consistently ranked as one of the most haunted sites in St. Augustine! Investigation Only tours are offered on a more limited basis than the Ghost Tour, with fewer spaces available at each. Rent readers or bring your own equipment.
Space is limited! Purchase tickets online in advance to secure your spot.
On a Dark of the Moon Ghost Tour you not only hear spooky stories based on real history in the lighthouse at night, you also help the Lighthouse investigate our maritime past. Ghost Tours support both maritime archaeology and historic research discoveries at the Museum. Stepping up to shiver down your spine helps save our underwater heritage!

Virtual Bridge of Lions 5K
2020-08-29 | VIRTUAL
Walk, jog, run or race with us this year virtually! You have an option of t-shirt and medal or just a medal. Online virtual results will also be available for both options. Shirts and medals will be available for pick up on Saturday, September 5, from 8 AM – 12 PM, at Service Pros USA, 1711 Dobbs Road Suite A, St. Augustine, FL 32084. Any shirts and medals not picked up then will be shipped shortly after.
Virtual Race Entry Fee (T-Shirt, Medal, and Virtual Results) = $25
Virtual Race Entry Fee (Medal and Virtual Results) = $15
For more information or to register, go to: www.BridgeofLions5K.com
Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing everyone in person in 2021!

Farmers Market at The Amp
2020-08-29 08:30 - 12:30 | St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A South, St. Augustine
Join us every Saturday morning under the oaks out front for a gathering of St. Augustine’s finest growers, artisans and artists. For 20 years this community event has brought together the region’s finest fresh food, prepared goods and fine art. Shop for groceries and gifts, grab a bite to eat or drink, mingle with friends and stay for awhile to enjoy some old-time music from the Free Rangers on the Front Porch!
Monthly Events at the Farmers Market:

2nd and 4th Saturday of each month – The St. Johns County Public Library Bookmobile
1st Saturday of each month at 9am – Yoga at the Market

Online Live Auction for Fostering Connections St. Johns
2020-08-29 09:00 - 17:00 | VIRTUAL
Due to ongoing COVID concerns, Fostering Connections St. Johns will be having an Online Live Auction on Facebook August 29 from 9-5 to benefit our Career Readiness Academy program in partnership with Kookaburra. This will be in lieu of an in person event. The community is welcome to join us online to learn more about our program supporting teens in foster care and young adults with achieving their career goals and ways they can give support.We plan to have the Career Readiness Academy classes in August with low student ratios and social distancing guidelines as long as it is safe to do so. There will be a variety of auction items to bid on throughout the day and additional opportunities for giving support. Register today!

STA City Market
2020-08-29 10:00 - 15:00 | Eddie Vickers Park, 399 Riberia Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
With food trucks, live music, and local artisans as well as all the fresh produce and goods that you’d expect, the STA City Market is so much more than just a farmers market. So grab your bags and basket, make your way to the park, and plan to spend the day.

Penelope Ann’s Revenge: A Reading
2020-08-30 15:00 | Ancient City Baptist Church, 27 Sevilla Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
First Coast Opera and A Classic Theatre will perform Penelope Ann’s Revenge: A Reading on Sunday, August 30, at 3pm in the sanctuary of Ancient City Baptist Church in Saint Augustine. This free program will be open to a limited in-person audience, with social distancing measures in place. It will also be streamed online.
A brand new one-act opera written by composer Curtis Tucker, FCO’s Artistic Director, and librettist Nelson Sheeley, Penelope Ann’s Revenge is a sequel to Arthur Sullivan’s one-act comedy Cox and Box. It continues where the other ended, with two brothers sharing a rented flat in Victorian England. Their lives are turned upside down when Penelope Ann, who was formerly engaged first to Box, then to Cox, arrives!
The cast features four FCO veterans. Singing the title role of Penelope Ann is soprano Elena Galván, who last appeared with FCO in Bernstein’s Broadway and The Stranger’s Tale. Mezzo soprano Emily Heumann sings Lydia. Emily sang Cherubino in FCO’s 2019 production of The Marriage of Figaro, and she was in town rehearsing The Little Prince when COVID-19 shut the production down. Tenor Daniel Bates returns as Box, having sung the tenor roles in two other Tucker/Sheeley operas, Jay in The Stranger’s Tale and B. B. Wolf in The Trial of B. B. Wolf. He also sang Beppe in FCO’s I Pagliacci. Singing Cox is baritone Sean Stork who has appeared in numerous First Coast Opera productions and concerts, most recently singing Tonio in I Pagliacci.
The two companies will mount a full joint production of both Cox and Box and Penelope Ann’s Revenge in the Spring of 2021. For more information about attending or watching the Reading, check www.firstcoastopera.com for more specific instructions about watching it online. Whether in-person or online, audiences will be able to hear the new one-hour piece, hear a Q&A with artists afterwards, and complete a survey to provide feedback about the work.
And visit www.aclassictheatre.org, as we are expanding our offerings during this pandemic hiatus presenting online productions via StA Home Theatre. and are looking forward to coming seasons with more exciting productions.
