• City Hall will host several free holiday performances this week. The schedule follows: Monday: Stage Aurora 100 Youth Voices from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.. Tuesday: Old Plank Christian Academy from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Paxon High School Choir from 12:30 to 1 p.m., Lake Forest Band from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday: Little Women with Big Voices from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Lake Forest Band from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday: Florida Community College at Jacksonville President’s Jazz Combo from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday: Griffis Piano School from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Nathan H. Wilson Center of the Arts from 12:30 to 1 p.m., World of Dance from 1 to 1:30 p.m.
• If you were an honorary member of the Brat Pack in the ‘80s, then you won’t want to miss January’s Sweet Charity. The Broadway musical stars Molly Ringwald as Charity Hope Valentine and runs from Jan. 23-28 at the Times-Union Center. Ticket prices range from $19 to $61. For more information, call 632-3373.
• The Museum of Science and History’s winter camps are beginning soon. The first session is Dec. 27-29 and the second session is Jan. 3-5. Elementary-school-aged campers will study topics relating to holiday traditions, science and more. For more information, call 396-MOSH, ext. 230.
• City Council member Gwen Yates and the Department of Parks, Recreation, Entertainment and Conservation paid tribute to Jacksonville’s National Negro League and baseball history with a statue at James P. Small Memorial Park on Myrtle Avenue. Jacksonville was the home of the Jacksonville Red Caps Negro League baseball team from 1938-1942.
• Artists John Bunker and Louise Freshman Brown, gallery owner Leigh Fogle, Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum Administrator Lydia Stewart, Paxon School for Advanced Studies art teacher Mai Dinh Keisling and Rowena Stewart, a former museum director, have been appointed to the Art In Public Places Committee of the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
• Florida Community College at Jacksonville has been awarded a $2 million U. S. Department of Labor Job Training Grant for the Florida Construction Institute at the Downtown campus. FCCJ will expand the curriculum to include plumbing, masonry, carpentry, electricity and HVAC. The program will train more than 700 students in the next three years.
• Attorneys Archibald J. Thomas III and Jeffrey H. Klink have created the firm of Thomas & Klink. They will continue to practice plaintiff’s side labor and employment law exclusively. The offices are in the Riverplace Tower.
The new Downtown This Week is out. Downtown employees told us their holiday wishes for themselves and the urban core. The magazine is free and available all over Downtown.