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02/03/2025

First Coast Connect: 02/03/25

01/31/2025

01/30/2025

✨ Unwrap the literary gifts of 2025! We’re starting the with Remarkably Bright Creatures, the clever and imaginative novel by American author Shelby Van Pelt.
This award-winning debut novel tells the story of a friendship between a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus and a 70-year-old widow who cleans at the aquarium where Marcellus lives. And catch new heartwarming animal stories in the new season of PBS All Creatures Great and Small!
Join us in 2025 for new plot twists, discussions, and surprises! 🎁

01/25/2025

Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices — collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming, and performance — to form an altogether new field. He seamlessly merges art, code, film, and community-building to create immersive experiences that explore the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and futurism. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between identity politics, social practice and abstraction.
Assembly, his groundbreaking exhibition and film, brings together dancers, artificial intelligence, animation, collage, sculpture, holography, and soundscapes to reimagine collective liberation. Central to this work is Being, the Digital Griot — an AI-powered entity that embodies radical storytelling. Acting as both mirror and provocateur, Being demonstrates AI’s potential as a tool for liberation rather than control.
Newsome will offer an in-depth exploration of the conceptual frameworks and processes behind Assembly and Being. He will discuss how his work dismantles systems of oppression and reimagines physical and digital spaces as arenas for liberation. Through dynamic storytelling, dance, and the collaboration between human and non-human performers, Newsome pushes artistic boundaries while sparking critical conversations about how art and technology can shape futures beyond binary thinking, paving the way for a more liberated world.
Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, SFMOMA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. He has received multiple honors and awards for his work, including a 2014 Headlands Center for the Arts Visiting Artist Residency, and a 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
In tandem with Newsome’s appearance in the Penny Stamps Series, the Institute for the Humanities is hosting Chimera, an immersive exhibition built around a newly commissioned film of the same name. This exhibition reflects a bold shift in Newsome’s practice toward sci-fi filmmaking, layering the architecture of film, movement, and world-building to probe themes of identity, resistance, and creation. Chimera opens directly following this event at the Institute for the Humanities gallery with an opening reception and artist meet and greet. Chimera will be on view from January 16 through February 28, 2025 at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.
Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.
Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.

01/22/2025

Important Update: ENO Film Screening Rescheduled

In light of the current weather conditions and for the safety of our community, the screening of ENO has been postponed to Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

Join us at WJCT Studios (100 Festival Park Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32202) for an exclusive look into the creative world of Brian Eno, directed by Gary Hustwit.

01/21/2025

📚✏️ Calling all young authors and illustrators! The 2025 Jax PBS KIDS Writers Contest is here! 🖍️✨

Students in grades K-3 can write and illustrate their very own stories for a chance to win exciting prizes, including the People’s Choice grand prize: a $100 gift card! 🎉

📅 Deadline: All entries must be postmarked by March 24, 2025
🏆 Winners for each grade level will be selected for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place!

Let’s get those creative juices flowing! Parents and teachers, check out the official rules and helpful tools at https://buff.ly/3E58hQ5.

01/20/2025

01/17/2025

Are you curious about bariatric weight loss surgery? Join Drs. Uchal and Motamarry for an insightful discussion on "The Gold Standard" of weight loss surgery, hosted by Ascension St. Vincent’s Bariatric Weight Management Program!

🗓 When:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (Registration begins at 11:30 AM)

📍 Where:
WJCT Studios
100 Festival Park Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida 32202

🔑 Topics include:
✅ Types of Bariatric Surgery
✅ Risks vs. Positive Outcomes
✅ Live Patient Testimonials

This is a fantastic opportunity to get all your questions answered and hear firsthand from those who have transformed their lives. Reserve your seat now:

Ascension St. Vincent’s Bariatric Weight Management Program Join Drs. Uchal and Dr. Motamarry for an informative discussion on weight loss surgery. Topics

01/16/2025

Join PBS Books as we meet the newest member of the PBS Kids Family Carl the Collector and all his friends with show creator, author and illustrator Zach OHora. This new series, which premiered last fall, is the first PBS Kids program to center on a neurodiverse character. Learn more about Carl and all his adventures while celebrating the diverse way kids think and express themselves.

01/10/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/10/25

01/09/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/09/25

01/08/2025

🎥 YOU’RE INVITED! 🎥
Get ready for Film at WJCT Studios! Join us for three unforgettable films that explore the music, culture, and artists who shaped history:
🎸 Jan 15: Elvis: That’s The Way It Is
🎧 Jan 22: ENO
🎤 Jan 29: Summer of Soul

📅 Wednesdays in January
📍 WJCT Studios, Jacksonville
🎟️ Tickets: Just $5 (Popcorn + drinks available)

RSVP today and enjoy a night at the movies: https://buff.ly/4agwO0r

01/08/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/08/25

01/07/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/07/25

01/06/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/06/25

01/03/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/03/25

01/02/2025

First Coast Connect: 01/02/25