09/08/2018  – 05/18/2019

9:30 am – 11:00 am
Children’s Art Studio – FREE!
Children’s Art Studio – FREE!
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Grades 4 – 6. Fun & creative art activities. Each week a different activity. Walk-ins welcome. Reservations recommended. Space is limited.

01/26/2019  – 05/18/2019

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Teen Open Studio – FREE!
Teen Open Studio – FREE!
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

This free program gives teens the unique opportunity to create their art alongside a different professional working artist from the community every month. Our artists will guide you to use new mediums & techniques and inform you about careers as an artist. All supplies included. In partnership with the Tampa Museum of Art. This class made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Lightning Foundation.

03/06/2019  – 04/10/2019

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Painting Studio S2
Painting Studio S2
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

This is 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. A fun, flexible class for all students.

03/09/2019  – 04/27/2019

10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Spray Painting and Mural Planning
Spray Painting and Mural Planning
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Gain practice working with spray paint. Learn different spray-painting techniques, how to plan and execute large-scale murals, and create a collaborative class mural. In partnership with the Tampa Museum of Art. 

03/21/2019  – 04/25/2019

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Painting with Watercolors – Session 2
Painting with Watercolors – Session 2
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Students will learn and explore: color (complementary colors, analogous colors, the chromatic richness of neutrals); brush strokes (from flat and variegated washes to dancing with your brushes); techniques (from wet-into-wet to spattering, pouring, spraying, stenciling, scrubbing).

03/25/2019  – 04/17/2019

9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Large-Scale Printmaking
Large-Scale Printmaking
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

A relief printmaking class for beginning to advanced students focusing on the creation of large-scale prints. In partnership with the Tampa Museum of Art.

03/25/2019  – 05/20/2019

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Arts Education Straz Center Musical Theater: Grades 2 – 12
Arts Education Straz Center Musical Theater: Grades 2 – 12
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

An overview of Musical Theater from the historical & performance perspectives. Students will explore American musical theater pieces; musical, theatrical and dance styles from throughout the 20th century.

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12:00 AM - Healthy Gardens
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Healthy Gardens
Saturday, January 10, 2015 – Sunday, May 31, 2015    
All Day
Learn about sustainability and conservation; try new, fresh foods and recipes. We will also grow plants for eating, cooking, creating, and sharing in the new FCC garden. We’ll experiment with a wide variety of veggies, herbs and flowers growing in everything from straw bales to tires to homemade garden beds. Digging in the dirt and caring for plants is a wonderful way to have fun, learn and connect to each other and our shared natural world.
10 Jan
Saturday, January 10, 2015    
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
ROY BOOK BINDER, has earned his stripes.... THE BOOK, travelled with The Rev. Gary Davis in the 60's, Re-discovered Pink Anderson and revived his career in the 70's and has been included in THE BLUES WHO'S WHO & THE BIG BOOK OF BLUES. Roy has appeared on TNN's NASHVILLE NOW (TV SHOW), 30 times with many of Country Music's bigest legends and has toured nationaly with BONNIE RAITT, JJ CALE & HOT TUNA...you name it, he's done it! "The stories are as good as the songs", said The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. He is still out on the road entertaining audiences around the world, where he is well known as a SINGING-SONGWRITING-STORYTELLING-FINGERPICKIN' BLUES LEGEND.
Literary Series with Tess Gerritsen
Sunday, January 25, 2015    
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen's books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world. Tess will be at the Firehouse for a book talk and book signing! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from one of the most critically acclaimed authors of our time.
World of Wonder
Thursday, January 29, 2015    
10:15 am
Leland Faulkner uses the disciplines of acting, mime, story writing, and magic to create a world teeming with characters and imagination. This is a program designed for the whole family as well as school groups. It is theatre that charms audiences of all ages with the actor's imagination, the mime's skill, and the conjuror's craft.
31 Jan
Saturday, January 31, 2015    
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Earn professional development points. Explore magic and myth. Learn new intriguing ways of presenting ideas and curriculum. Faulkner will teach a unique method based on the research and work of Francois Delsarte for uncovering the meaning behind movement and gesture as well as the techniques and disciplines of acting, mime, story, writing, and magic to create a world teeming with characters and imagination.
Tom "T Bone" Hamilton & the Blues All-Stars
Saturday, January 31, 2015    
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Bassist/Leader - Tom "TBone" Hamilton returns to the Firehouse Pub …this time as a bluesman presenting an intimate evening of really good roadhouse blues music from New Orleans to Chicago to Austin to Detroit and back to Florida. “Tbone” just released 3 new blues singles on I-Tunes dedicated to one of his bass playing heroes, Mr. Willie Dixon. Joining “Tbone” are the Blues All-Stars comprised of top State of Florida blues.
Events on Saturday, January 10, 2015
Healthy Gardens
10 Jan 15
Ruskin
10 Jan
10 Jan 15
Ruskin
Events on Sunday, January 25, 2015
Events on Thursday, January 29, 2015
World of Wonder
29 Jan 15
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, January 31, 2015