• Theatre Jacksonville’s performance of “Guys and Dolls” will be from June 8-23. The director of the musical, Caryl Butterley, returned to Jacksonville after spending over 20 years working in New York City. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and military and $10 for children 12 and under. For more information or to purchase tickets please call 396-4425.
• Speaking of Theatre Jacksonville, they are looking for talented actors and actresses to fill the roles in their upcoming show “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Auditions will be held June 10 at 6 p.m. for the show that will begin production on Sept. 14. Those who wish to audition are asked to prepare a classical monologue of no more than two minutes. There will also be readings from the script.
• The Blackbeard ferry is out of operation for repairs this week. The Jean-Ribault is currently the only ferry running.
• The Museum of Science and History’s Cosmic Concerts are returning to the museum this summer. The shows are held Friday and Saturday nights starting May 25 and ending Aug. 18. Some of the shows include music from Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Buffett, Aerosmith, Garth Brooks and The Beatles. For more information on dates and showtimes, please visit www.themosh.org.
• Sylvester Robinson, plant manager at Anheuser-Busch’s Jacksonville Brewery, presented a $65,000 check on behalf of the brewery to HabiJax. This will be the eighth home that employees of the brewery and their families have built for HabiJax since 1999. The donation will fund the materials and construction costs of a home for a Jacksonville family.
• The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will have new hours beginning June 1. The museum will continue to be closed on Mondays. Tuesday’s hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Hours for Wednesday-Saturday are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday’s are noon-5 p.m.
• Congratulations to Stacey Whitman, a former Hubbard House resident assistant and now a family victim’s advocate for the shelter’s residents. Whitman recently received the Glenda A. Watkins award from the Florida Coalition against Domestic Violence (FCADV) for her involvement in various community education programs sponsored by the Hubbard House as well as her ongoing advocacy and support for victims. She will receive the award at FCADV State Conference May 22.
• The Florida Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars is celebrating 77 years this year and they’ll hold their annual convention June 14-17 at the Hyatt.
• International Cafe on Hogan Street is closed through the end of the week due to a family emergency.
“Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.”
– George Santayana