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2024 Haiku Contest Results & Comments

2024-04-09T14:35:55-04:00April 9, 2024|News|

The Cultural Council’s fourth annual Haiku Contest was a great success with dozens of individual entries and over 100 poems. Antoinette Libro and Michael Henry Lee chose one winner from two categories as well as honorable mentions to fit this year’s theme of William Bartram's travels in East Florida [...]

St. Johns Cultural Council Announces Retirement of Executive Director Christina Parrish Stone

2024-04-04T10:29:00-04:00April 4, 2024|News|

The St. Johns Cultural Council which promotes arts, culture, and heritage in St. Johns County, Florida, announced today that Christina Parrish Stone will retire from her role as Executive Director at the end of the current fiscal year on September 30, after a dynamic and highly successful five years of leadership. The Cultural Council’s [...]

The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra to headline Romanza Festivale of Music and the Arts in St. Augustine, Florida on May 12

2024-03-18T18:30:33-04:00March 18, 2024|News|

St. Augustine’s Romanza Festivale of Music and The Arts and the St. Johns Cultural Council have partnered to present The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra during the 2024 Romanza event. The concert will be held on Sunday, May 12 at 4 PM at Flagler College Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada Street in [...]

ACOUSTIC POWERHOUSES ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY PLAY THE WATERWORKS MARCH 16TH

2024-02-19T12:32:38-05:00February 19, 2024|News|

The GRAMMY-nominated duo are joined by special guest Larry Mangum in the Gamble Rogers Concert Series The Gamble Rogers Folk Festival and St. Johns Cultural Council co-present “Live from The Waterworks,” a monthly concert series hosted at this beautiful venue built in 1898. The series is now in its second [...]

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Solo Visual Arts Exhibition

2023-12-11T13:02:03-05:00November 9, 2023|News|

The St. Johns Cultural Council presents an opportunity for local artists to exhibit at the St. Johns County Administration Building from February through March 2024. Visual artists are invited to submit their work for a solo exhibition opportunity at the St. Johns County Administration Building. There are no generic, [...]

10th Annual SEA Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival to be held on December 2

2023-10-05T11:36:03-04:00October 5, 2023|News|

The St. Johns Cultural Council, the organization that promotes arts, culture, and heritage in St. Augustine, has announced the 10th Annual S.E.A. Gullah Geechee Heritage Festival will be held on Saturday, December 2 to celebrate more than 450 years of West African influence on the communities of Spuds, Elkton, and [...]

St. Johns Cultural Council receives grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support new funding program for individual artists and cultural organizations

2023-05-26T14:39:02-04:00May 24, 2023|News|

The St. Johns Cultural Council has been approved for a $60,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support a new local program, Arts for All. The program will provide funding for individual artists and cultural organizations in St. Johns County to create [...]

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