There are several fun community events taking place at Amelia Island in the coming months, starting with the Amelia Island Book Festival, and the famed Concours d’Elegance.
The Amelia Island Book Festival started in 2001 and each year since has been hosting a festival with the purpose of literacy skills and the love of reading for children and adults across the Northeast Florida area.
The festival is a two-day showcase that will be held on Friday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, March 1 and it kicks off with the organization’s award-winning Authors in Schools program, which stives to put a book in the hands of every student in Nassau County and bring authors to speak at the various schools.
Authors are selected by the schools and have included New York Times best-selling award winners in the past.
The festival’s first day will conclude with the featured authors gala, which will feature an elegant evening of fine food and drink accompanied by discussion a question-and-answer format as well as a live auction at the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island located at 4750 Amelia Island Parkway beginning at 6 p.m.
Authors then get to showcase their work and interact with the community even more in-depth during the official festival which will take place on March 1 at Fernandina Beach Middle School located at 315 Citrona Drive in Fernandina Beach. The festival will be from 8 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of The Amelia and Amelia Island Concours week.
The celebration of speed and style will feature hundreds of cars across eras of time and is a marquee event each year as the automobile industry and the car collector world turns its attention to the First Coast.
The Amelia Cars & Community event is returning for another year and will be held on Saturday, March 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Golf Club of Amelia Island and will offer plenty of fun for the whole family, including RADwood, where vehicles from the 1980s and 1990s and their unique styles will be featured.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to ride and drive various vehicles as part of a free and interactive initiative.
The main showcase will take place on Sunday, March 9 with the official 30th Annual Amelia Concours d’Elegance where 275 historically significant vehicles across 35 different classes will be on display and judged for the ultimate prize of “best in class.”
