2023 Luminaria Festival: Homegrown & Handmade
December 10, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
| FREEThe holidays are a perfect time to show your commitment to the environment and support for small businesses. Come to the Garden Club of Jacksonville’s Luminaria Festival for Homegrown & Handmade, a pop-up shop of vendors that sell homegrown or handmade items.
Celebrate Riverside Avondale Preservation Luminaria Night with a party at the Garden Club of Jacksonville and luminaria tours by Go Tuk’n. Take in the view of the luminaria from the front lawn of the Garden Club while you listen to holiday music, sip a beverage, nosh on small bites, and play lawn games. Visit our craft table to make holiday decorations.
Visit vendors selling plants, garden-produced goods, honey, artwork, jewelry, handcrafts, and much more. If you are interested in being a vendor at this event, please email info@gardenclubjax.org.
Free and open to the public
Go Tuk’n Tour Tickets on Sale Soon
Catch a tour from Go Tuk’n and enjoy an open-air ride through the lights of Riverside and Avondale. Each Tuk Tuk seats six. Go Tuk’n will also run its Tuk’n Bus this year. Tickets are free for children ages 3 and younger, but they will need to sit on an adult’s lap.
Current Garden Club members will receive a $5 discount on each ticket. Details to come.
Tour Times
- 8:45-9:45 p.m.
Luminaria Night Kits on Sale in December
The Garden Club invites you to participate in Riverside Avondale Preservation Luminaria Night by purchasing your own kit, which is a major fundraiser for RAP. The Garden Club is also inviting all of the neighbors on our stretch of Riverside Avenue to participate. We have invited all of them to purchase kits, and Garden Club volunteers will assemble the kits, place them in front of their businesses, and remove them at the end of the evening.
Sponsor
The Garden Club of Jacksonville thanks the Jessie Ball duPont Fund for a generous grant to create signature events like these that establish the Garden Club of Jacksonville as the place in the community to encourage environmental responsibility, forge our connection to the earth, and celebrate green spaces.