Branding Hemming Park
Great cities contain great places, but only in the past few decades has the “science of place” been given the same serious consideration that architects give to buildings. Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach that creates dynamic, vibrant, and magnetic public spaces. Jacksonville’s historically significant public meeting place has been Hemming Park since the city’s humble beginnings. Laid out in the early 1820s, this public...
HRO: Good for Business
As of August 2014, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest civil rights organization in the United States working to achieve equality for LGBT Americans, acknowledges 200+ cities and counties across the US who prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity/ expression in both the public and private sector. The city of Jacksonville and Duval County are currently not on that list. An HRO, or Human...
Hope at Hand, Inc.
During the April Art Walk, an intimate collection titled “I am still me” will be on display from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Cathedral Arts Project’s (CAP) office located at 207 N. Laura Street, Suite 300. This display, presented by local non-profit Hope at Hand, showcases therapeutic poetry and art that reveals the love, pain, hope, and voice of many underserved members of our community. It will continue throughout the month. The uniqueness...
One Spark Art Experience
One Spark, The World’s Largest Crowdfunding Festival, is back for its third iteration in Downtown Jacksonville April 7-12, 2015. This year, One Spark has six categories: art, education, health & science, music, social good, and technology. One Spark, like Arbus Magazine, bring together art and business, and creates and environment for collaboration between creatives and innovators from across the country. This year, we...
Women of Influence, Women Entrepreneurs
Twenty-one years ago Arbus Magazine began dedicating one issue annually to highlighting some of the area’s most influential and award-winning entrepreneurial women. Now, twenty-one years later, this special section continues to serve an important purpose: drawing much deserved attention to the women who change, and contribute to, our community in myriad ways. From a Jacksonville chef and caterer who has garnered a national clientele...
“Silence Is a Bully’s Best Friend”
New campaign to change the culture of bullying Once considered a teenage rite of passage, bullying – thanks largely to the pernicious and relentless nature of social media taunting – has become a mental health issue for many children. The stakes are high. According to a research review conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, youth who are bullied are more likely to be depressed, think about suicide, and actually...
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