Author Archive for: Elaine
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Entries by Elaine Simmons
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9:30 AM - Poetry Workshops
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9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
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9:30 AM - Clay & Play Morning
4:00 PM - Clay & Play Afternoon
6:30 PM - Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Painting with Watercolors with Instructor: Barry Good, for students at all levels. Explore: color; brush strokes from flat washes to dancing with your brushes; techniques from wet to scrubbing; and more. Includes Materials. August 12 - September 16, 2020.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Painting Studio with Dee Hood, A multi-level class for anyone who would like to explore acrylic painting. Work with representational painting, abstraction and collage while improving skills with color, composition and techniques. August 12 – September 16
Thursday, August 13, 2020 – Saturday, August 15, 2020
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Poetic Process Workshop: In this exploratory, generative three-day workshop, poet John Davis Jr. will take participants through the steps of invention, brainstorming, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing their own poems.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 – Tuesday, September 8, 2020
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Tuesdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults.
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Kids age 7 -11
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Kids age 12 - 17
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Adults.
Otis Freedman "The Bishop", Head Waiter, 1905. Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry Plant's grandest luxury railroad resort hotel, opened in 1891 at the height of America's Gilded Age. More than 300 employees were needed for the opulent hotel to run smoothly. Step back in time & enjoy the single-character performances that brings two turn-of–the-century Hotel staff members to life. FREE.
The Firehouse Cultural Center is bringing performer Nathan Coe Marsh into your home via Zoom for an interactive, real-time performance. Every seat is a front row seat as you experience the impossible in comfort. The show features world class sleight-of-hand, illusions involving your mind, and stunning magic that occurs in the room with you. You read that right, Nathan will cause something amazing to happen on your side of the screen.
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry Plant's grandest luxury railroad resort hotel, opened in 1891 at the height of America's Gilded Age. More than 300 employees were needed for the opulent hotel to run smoothly. Step back in time and enjoy the single-character performances that brings two turn-of–the-century Hotel staff members to life.