It’s been a whole month since I wrapped filming for the movie “Blackview”, and I am missing being on set already. As you know, I was casted for a leading… Read More
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Tampa Fringe Fest Artists
Tampa’s 6th annual Fringe Festival gathers 23 bold companies from Tampa Bay and beyond, plus a family-friendly Kids Fringe. “We want to make the indie performing arts popular and accessible for everyone.” Our artists and audiences mingle with those from elsewhere, so we can all benefit from expanded perspectives and artistic developments. We are also one of the few platforms in Tampa Bay where local artists can affordably experiment and take artistic risks…. Read More
Theatre In The Time Of Plague.
As our company in Prague battles with Covid outbreaks, I am thinking about how Shakespeare’s world of theatre survived near devastation from the Bubonic Plague, which claimed nearly a third… Read More
Inspired by the Jazz Jam
On Monday nights from 7-9 the Hangar Restaurant at the Albert Whitted Airport in downtown St. Petersburg overlooking Tampa Bay is the place to be if you like jazz! This… Read More
Woyenji, Mother of Fate (Excerpt, AQUARIUS and RIETTA)
Woyenji, Mother of Fate (Excerpt, AQUARIUS and RIETTA) Note: In the Woyengi creation myth of the Ijo people of Nigeria, she is known as the goddess of fate or destiny,… Read More
Music Can Do Anything
Music Can Do Anything. It might seem strange for a writer to say, but I believe music was my first voice; my dad was a jazz pianist, and sitting on… Read More
MATH CLASS IS TOUGH
Do you remember that Teen Talk Barbie Doll from the early 90s that was promptly removed from shelves after accusations of sexism? She had an embedded speaker that said, “Math… Read More
Rodin at The Polk Museum
By Kurt Loft. The famed French sculptor Rodin, who created the iconic “The Thinker,” takes center stage through the end of October at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. The free exhibition, Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams, includes 40 works from the acclaimed B. Gerald Cantor Collections. It marks the largest installation of sculptures in the museum’s history…. Read More
Celeste Davis Shares Her Vision
By Jake-ann Jones. Celeste Davis became executive director of Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts (TBBCA) in February of 2021, bringing decades of professional design experience along with an insightful curatorial eye. She points to the growing appreciation of both established and contemporary Black artists and their work coming to area museums as “a natural experience for curators, for visitors, for everyone to think more broadly, more diversely, more inclusively…. Read More
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