ONGOING
Through Our Eyes 2015: Wouldnt Take Nothing for My Journey (An Artistic Revolution) art exhibit on display through July 31, Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. Exhibit features visual autobiographies created by 20 Jacksonville-area African American artists. Many special events, workshops and gallery talks offered during the exhibition. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
SATURDAY
Flight to Freedom, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Fort Mose State Park, 15 Saratoga Blvd., St. Augustine. Features a living history event retelling the saga of travelers fleeing to freedom in Spanish Florida on Americas first Underground Railroad. Includes Freedom Trail guided tours, colonial Spanish military drills, period food and demonstrations. Museum admission, $2, children 5 and younger get in free. (904) 461-2033, floridalivinghistory.org or floridastateparks.org/fortmose.
Pride Book Club features Brooke Stephens with Men We Cherish, 3 p.m., Main Library, 303 N. Laura St. The book includes stories from 30 African-American women as they celebrate fathers and grandfathers, brothers and best friends, sons and husbands with essays, memoirs and love letters. The men in the lives of established black women writers, including Bebe Moore Campbell, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and the Delany sisters, reflect the diversity, honesty, generosity and depth that is the reality of African American men. (904) 630-2665.
SUNDAY
Reigniting the Revolution: The Giants Whose Shoulders We Stand Upon, 3 and 6:30 p.m., Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum, 829 N. Davis St. The music features a journey through the Civil Rights movement with excerpts of the first African-American Marines that fought for the country and assisted in winning World War II. $33. (904) 632-5555 or ritzjacksonville.com.
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