Arts, Music & Culture · “Nights & Days”
Isobel Grange
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Culture
MIT's Public Library Innovation Exchange named its 2026-2027 Library Ambassador cohort on Oct. 6, fourteen library professionals and three mentors, and one of the fourteen runs programs at the St. Johns County Public Library System's Main Branch. The county announced it two weeks later. The stated goal is twelve portable STEAM kits any branch can use, and the system has six branches and a bookmobile. Neither document puts a figure on any of it.
October 23, 2026
Nights & Days
To Kill A Mockingbird previews Thursday and opens Friday in a 127-seat house on Old Mission Avenue. Four of the thirteen performances the theatre lists are marked sold out, and three of the four are the run's three Sunday matinees. A seat is $35 or $40, a subscription works out a little above $34, and the theatre adds 5 percent to every card transaction and nothing to cash.
October 18, 2026
Nights & Days
The city asked what to call the land it owns at 865 Fish Island Road. Sixty-eight people answered and thirty-one names came back, and the recommendation going to the commission Monday night is the working name the survey asked about. The creek it honors was renamed in the 1850s and filled in by a developer, and the city's own historical note says so.
October 12, 2026
Nights & Days
Three programs since Aug. 31, all of them about rivers: an exhibition by Nicole Antebi on the channelized Rio Grande, a two-week residency by a biologist who works on fish, and now Sasha Wortzel's documentary reworking of Marjory Stoneman Douglas's 1947 book, Tuesday the 13th at 6 p.m. in the Gamache-Koger Theater. All free. Seating is limited and the RSVP is required. The exhibition comes down Nov. 7.
October 7, 2026
Nights & Days
Resolution 2026-07 took the season off the year-to-year calendar and made it permanent. The resolution in the packet ran from the second Saturday before Thanksgiving to the second Sunday of January. The motion that carried changed both ends. Six months later the only city document naming a 2026-27 date is a trolley contract.
October 2, 2026
Nights & Days
Thirty-six acts, one open-air park, two bars, a gastropub and a clam shack, Sept. 24 to 27. The festival's own site asks for an email address before it will show a set time. The same set times are published free, as a picture, on the Sing Out Loud schedule page.
September 24, 2026
culture
The City Commission approved the one page flyer Sept. 14 and asked that it go out far and wide before the season opens Nov. 7. It cites Sec. 3-23(e)(6), which since 1996 has required clear or white lights, set the season, and ordered anything under ten feet down within 30 days of its close. The flyer also specifies a gauge of wire and a bulb.
September 17, 2026
Nights & Days
One is at a golf clubhouse on Royal St. Augustine Parkway and has been running monthly since the 1990s. The other is on the four acres of lakefront Stetson Kennedy bought in 1948, where Woody Guthrie wrote eighty songs, and the county's own page for the park does not mention that music happens there.
September 12, 2026
Nights & Days
Jet, the Indigo Girls, a Jacksonville band older than the road you'll take to see it, and a hall small enough that none of them can hide.
September 11, 2026
Nights & Days
The Limelight raises the curtain on Catch Me If You Can at 7:30 Thursday and runs it through Sept. 27. Singles are $35 and $40, a subscription brings that to $34, and the theater's own box-office page gives its credit card fee two different ways.
September 9, 2026
Nights & Days
More than 160 acts at 17 venues, all of it free, closing Sept. 18-20. Meanwhile the Amp books eleven ticketed nights and two free events in nineteen days.
September 8, 2026