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Happy 4th of July from The Firehouse!

July 2, 2024/in Uncategorized /by Elaine Simmons
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Poetry Workshops
Saturday, August 8, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
Six -1.5-hour Poetry Workshops in 2020. Feb.; Apr.; June; Aug.; Oct.; & Dec. How to write the Love Poem, Seasonal Poem, Reflective Poem, Back-To-School Poem, Imagery-Rich Poem and the Holiday 'Gift' Poem.
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Painting with Watercolors
Painting with Watercolors
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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.
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Painting Studio
Painting Studio
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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
More Info
Poetry 3-Day Workshop
Poetry 3-Day Workshop
Thursday, August 13, 2020 – Saturday, August 15, 2020    
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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.
More Info
Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 – Tuesday, September 8, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Firehouse Cultural Center
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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.
More Info
Clay & Play Morning
Clay & Play Morning
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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
More Info
Clay & Play Afternoon
Clay & Play Afternoon
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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
More Info
Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Workshops & Classes
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.
More Info
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
Friday, August 21, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Firehouse Pub
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino. Come out and meet America's Most Hilarious Teacher Mike Rivera and also featuring Jeff Gerbino. Both are decades-long headliners!
More Info
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Saturday, August 22, 2020    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Firehouse Pub
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.
More Info
Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
Saturday, August 22, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Firehouse Pub
Jimmy Griswold can regularly be found playing guitar at venues of all sizes. Jimmy pays homage to any artist he covers, whether it be the warm tones of T-bone Walker & B.B. King, or the screaming sounds of Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck and Steve Ray Vaughan, all while staying true to his original style.
More Info
Virtual Magic Show
Virtual Magic Show
Friday, August 28, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Firehouse Pub
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.
More Info
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Tuesday, September 1, 2020    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
  • Firehouse Pub
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.
More Info
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Poetry Workshops
Poetry Workshops
8 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Painting with Watercolors
Painting with Watercolors
12 Aug 20
Ruskin
Painting Studio
Painting Studio
12 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Poetry 3-Day Workshop
Poetry 3-Day Workshop
13 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
18 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Clay & Play Morning
Clay & Play Morning
20 Aug 20
Ruskin
Clay & Play Afternoon
Clay & Play Afternoon
20 Aug 20
Ruskin
Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
20 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Friday, August 21, 2020
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
21 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
22 Aug 20
Ruskin
Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
22 Aug 20
Ruskin
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Virtual Magic Show
Virtual Magic Show
28 Aug 20
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Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
1 Sep 20
Ruskin

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    Saturday, August 8, 2020    
    9:30 am – 11:00 am
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    Six -1.5-hour Poetry Workshops in 2020. Feb.; Apr.; June; Aug.; Oct.; & Dec. How to write the Love Poem, Seasonal Poem, Reflective Poem, Back-To-School Poem, Imagery-Rich Poem and the Holiday 'Gift' Poem.
    More Info
    Painting with Watercolors
    Painting with Watercolors
    Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
    1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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.
    More Info
    Painting Studio
    Painting Studio
    Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
    6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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
    More Info
    Poetry 3-Day Workshop
    Poetry 3-Day Workshop
    Thursday, August 13, 2020 – Saturday, August 15, 2020    
    9:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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.
    More Info
    Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
    Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
    Tuesday, August 18, 2020 – Tuesday, September 8, 2020    
    9:30 am – 11:30 am
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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.
    More Info
    Clay & Play Morning
    Clay & Play Morning
    Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
    9:30 am – 11:30 am
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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
    More Info
    Clay & Play Afternoon
    Clay & Play Afternoon
    Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
    4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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
    More Info
    Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
    Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
    Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
    6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Workshops & Classes
    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.
    More Info
    Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
    Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
    Friday, August 21, 2020    
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Firehouse Pub
    Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino. Come out and meet America's Most Hilarious Teacher Mike Rivera and also featuring Jeff Gerbino. Both are decades-long headliners!
    More Info
    Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Saturday, August 22, 2020    
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Firehouse Pub
    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.
    More Info
    Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
    Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
    Saturday, August 22, 2020    
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Firehouse Pub
    Jimmy Griswold can regularly be found playing guitar at venues of all sizes. Jimmy pays homage to any artist he covers, whether it be the warm tones of T-bone Walker & B.B. King, or the screaming sounds of Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck and Steve Ray Vaughan, all while staying true to his original style.
    More Info
    Virtual Magic Show
    Virtual Magic Show
    Friday, August 28, 2020    
    7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Firehouse Pub
    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.
    More Info
    Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Tuesday, September 1, 2020    
    2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Firehouse Cultural Center
    • Firehouse Pub
    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.
    More Info
    Events on Saturday, August 8, 2020
    Poetry Workshops
    Poetry Workshops
    8 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Wednesday, August 12, 2020
    Painting with Watercolors
    Painting with Watercolors
    12 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Painting Studio
    Painting Studio
    12 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Thursday, August 13, 2020
    Poetry 3-Day Workshop
    Poetry 3-Day Workshop
    13 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Tuesday, August 18, 2020
    Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
    Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
    18 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Thursday, August 20, 2020
    Clay & Play Morning
    Clay & Play Morning
    20 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Clay & Play Afternoon
    Clay & Play Afternoon
    20 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
    Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
    20 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Friday, August 21, 2020
    Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
    Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
    21 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Saturday, August 22, 2020
    Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    22 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
    Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
    22 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Friday, August 28, 2020
    Virtual Magic Show
    Virtual Magic Show
    28 Aug 20
    Ruskin
    Events on Tuesday, September 1, 2020
    Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
    1 Sep 20
    Ruskin

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