Not Your Mother's Book Club - Girl Dinner
2025-11-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the café as we discuss Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake.
As always, book club books are 20% off at Happy Medium

Closed for Thanksgiving
2025-11-27 | FL

BLACK FRIDAY
2025-11-28 09:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
SHOP SMALL this holiday season. Take advantage of huge holiday promotions and have fun while you are at it!

Small Business Saturday
2025-11-29 08:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us as we celebrate and support small businesses!
Deals, Raffles, specials all day long!
Extended hours 8am-8pm!

Artist Step Glen Ducase
2025-11-30 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Stop by and meet one line artist Steph Glen Ducase and see how she creates her works of her art.
Steph’s artwork are for sale at Happy Medium Books Café.

Learn to Play Mahjong
2025-12-01 10:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
This is a 2 day class for Mahjong Beginners.
$50 covers the 2 – 2 hour classes on Monday, December 1st and Wednesday, December 3rd from 10:30-12:30 Includes the 2025 National Mahjong Card.

Learn to Play Mahjong Day 2
2025-12-03 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Participants must have been to Learn to Play Mahjong Day 1 on December 1st.

Yarning at Happy Medium
2025-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Do you crochet, knit, or just like to hang out with those who do? Join us at Happy Medium for Yarning! New 5pm time! No experience required!

Indie Bookfair
2025-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Meet local authors Peggy Harrell, Dorothy Fletcher, Doug Johnson, and Jim Draper.

Jax Gallery Brunch Hop
2025-12-07 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States

JAG Art Reception with Lisa Lofton
2025-12-07 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium Books Cafe as we celebrate the newest art Installation by Lisa Lofton.
2-4pm Reception – Free food and wine, open to public

Book Club Holiday Party
2025-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
In lieu of traditional book clubs in the month of December, we instead host a celebration party where we can craft bookish ornaments, enjoy good company, and vote for our favorite book club book of 2025! This is also a great opportunity to nominate books for us to read in 2026 📚
No RSVP required, this is also a great opportunity to see what our reading crew is all about if you haven’t attended a meeting before!

Holiday Sip & Shop
2025-12-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the Café for holiday cookies and punch while you shop!
Let us help you find the perfect gift AND wrap it for you.

Tim Gilmore Book Launch - When We Tried to Save the Castle
2025-12-11 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Tim Gilmore’s 25th book, When We Tried to Save the Castle, with a foreword by Wayne Wood, is the story of the vast tapestry of life and lives that moved through a house called the Lomax Castle in Jacksonville’s Five Points District. It’s the story of a man who tried to take it apart, piece by piece, to save it. It’s the story of immigrants and spies, love and suicide, herpetologists and hippies and rock n roll. It’s the story of the historic preservation movement, of how we measure history. It’s the story of story itself and how we mark time.

Paper Quill Holiday Workshop
2025-12-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
This workshop is for anyone who would like to demystify the art of paper quilling.
Each participant will learn basic shapes and a few techniques to make and take home a greeting card and gift tag of your own. You will also take home illustrated instructions, tools, and quilling paper to make several more holiday items.
This is a beginner workshop.
Don’t Wait, limited space!

Meet Ron Whittington
2025-12-13 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Meet award winning thriller writer Ron Whittington, author of In Disguise of the Storm. He will be present and signing all four of his books in the Parker Glynn series.

Cozy Books Cookie Decorating Class
2025-12-14 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
What’s better than cozying up with a good book and a mug of cocoa? Decorating cookies! (And then eating them with said cocoa while reading a book.)
In this 2-hour class, we’ll cover the basics to sugar cookies (so – yes, it’s beginner friendly!), do some piping practice with royal icing, talk about how to strategize the best ways to decorate sugar cookies, and cover the general concepts around dough and icing! Everything you’ll need is provided in class along with a live in-person instructor – just bring a smile (and a friend to make memories with!)
This class we will get cozy with 4 adorable designs and 3 bags of icing each. You’ll leave with a full set of decorated cookies in a bakery box, and a whole lot of skills and tips and tricks to take with you!
This class is for the beginner cookier or for the person who is just curious about what cookie decorating is all about! If you have limited experience with sugar cookies, found yourself frustrated with royal icing, or if you’re trying to have fun with family or friends, this is the class for you! Danielle, owner of “Best Cookies in Jax” winner Little Red Cottage Cookies, will take you step-by-step through these 4 designs.

This class is good for ages 10+, but if you’d like to purchase an add-on kit for kids at home, you can purchase a kit with the DIY Kit ticket option. The kits are great for kids (or anyone) at home, plus – we’ll send you the class PowerPoint so you can teach them yourself! But this class is for YOU to relax, connect, and get in your creative zone.
Your first drink at the cafe is included!

St Paul's School Spirit Event
2025-12-16 15:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Come support St Paul’s Elementary while getting your holiday shopping done.
20% of the pre-taxed proceeds (excluding local art) will go directly back to St Pauls Catholic Elementary School.

Park After Dark
2025-12-18 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | FL

Music Happy Hour with Tom & Natalie
2025-12-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at the café for some holiday tunes with Tom and Natalie!

Closed
2025-12-25, 2026-01-01 00:00 - 23:59 UTC | FL

Mahjong Meet Ups
2026-01-05 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
If you KNOW how to play Mahjong and are wanting to meet up and play, this is for you!
Join our group and get our Group Me notifications about upcoming Meet Ups.
Contact the store to get on our list!
All skills welcome.
Game and 2025 cards are provided.

Reading Sprints
2026-01-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium for a night of Reading Sprints!
What are Reading Sprints?
It is a style of reading that focuses on reading productivity. Similar toThe Pomodoro Technique for learning.
Everyone gathers with their individually selected titles and we spend time chatting, getting drinks and snacks, etc…
Once everyone is settled,
we set a timer for 20 minutes. everybody reads silently until that timer is finished.
5-10 minute stretch break, or time to chat…
Repeat!
We plan on 4 cycles of reading and when we are done, you have read 180 minutes of reading!

Manifest 2026 DIY Vision Board
2026-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us at Happy Medium to create your own vision board for 2026!
All supplies provided and cafe drink is included with $25 registration.

Happy Little Melodies
2026-01-08 09:00 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us for music, movement, and memory-making with your little one in this cozy, welcoming space!
Reserve your spot before they’re gone: www.musictherapynow.net/happylittlemelodies

Happy Little Melodies 10am class
2026-01-08 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States

Happy Little Melodies Saturday Mornings
2026-01-10 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States

Second Sunday with Authors and Poets
2026-01-11 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Happy Medium Books Cafe, 2724 Park St, Jacksonville, FL, 32205, United States
Join us Sunday afternoon at the café to enjoy the works of Rev. Rebecca J Craig,
Rev. Rebecca J. Craig is an ELCA pastor, artist, and former Disney Feature Animation story developer. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Journalism) and Luther Seminary (M.Div) she brings a rich storytelling background to her ministry. She is author of “Once Upon a Nightmare: Through the Looking Glass of Narcissistic Abuse,” “Through Her Eyes: Biblical Women Speak” and illustrator of the children’s book, “Monty: A Tale of No Tail” by A.H. Kay. She currently serves as the lead pastor at Crossroad Lutheran Church in Fleming Island, FL.
No Preregistration required.
