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Art Festivities This Weekend
Holiday Festival of the Arts December 14-15, 10 am-5 pm Free Williams Park Details here George Bragg - The Dance The 6th Annual St. Petersburg Holiday of the Arts showcases original artwork by more than 100 artisans from throughout Florida and across the U.S. in downtown Williams Park. Original works in painting, photography, sculpture, metalwork, digital art, [...]
Tenea Johnson
Arts In: Tenea Johnson . . . . . . Tenea Johnson is a writer of speculative fiction, a poet and musician. In this conversation with Barbara St. Clair she talks about her imaginative stories and novels, and how her childhood in Kentucky shaped her views of life. Tenea shares enticing details from her stories, and how she’s built a [...]
Ann Hampton Callaway Sings the Songs of Linda Ronstadt
December 5, 2019 | By Eric Snider A Love Letter to Linda Singer Ann Hampton Callaway’s current show interprets the music of Linda Ronstadt December 19 at 7:30 pm The Palladium Theater Details here Anne Hampton Callaway, regarded as one of our finest purveyors of the Great American Songbook, adds a new wrinkle to her current show. She rocks. The [...]
Midnight in Paris at The Dalí
December 4, 2019 | By Steven Kenny Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929 Through April 9 The Dalí Museum Details here Brassaï (Gyula Halász) (Brașov, 1899 – Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 1984) Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) c.1930-32 Gelatin-silver print - Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de creation industrielle Purchase, 1997 Photo credit © Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou [...]
A Royal Tannenbaum at freeFall Theatre
Family dysfunction, holiday carols and intense period drama saddle up to a buffet of delicious wit in freeFall’s The Lion in Winter.
The Radical Act of Seeing
Artists Reflect on the Radical Act of Seeing Helen Hansen French (L to R) Helen Hansen French (dancer/choreographer), Corinne Proctor (actor), Carol Downing (ASL Interpreter). Script by Jaye Sheldon and Dr. Lillian Dunlap based upon interviews with Jasmina Kuljanac. Photo by Chris Zuppa. I worked with Your Real Stories, telling Jasmina Kuljanac’s story [...]
Making History at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
December 2, 2019 | By Jennifer Ring Making History at the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art at St. Petersburg College Tarpon Springs Details here Collections Manager Michele DiMattia, Director Teresa Wilkins and Curator Christine Carter standing between Deborah Masters' Dionysis and Lady Pretty Nose There’s an old quote that anyone who’s ever taken a [...]
Jake Troyli Takes Off
December 1, 2019 | By Tenea D. Johnson Jake Troyli Takes Off 2004 All-Star by Jake Troyli . . . Jake Troyli is on his way. In 2017, the St. Petersburg artist received a Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant in Visual Art to honor his talent, technique and promise in the field. To no one’s surprise that promise [...]
Take a Blind Date with a Book
Local Independent Bookstores NEWEST . . . Tombolo 2153 1st Avenue S St. Petersburg tombolo.com Grand opening: December 14 Author talk: Sterling Watson (The Committee) on January 5 from 4-6 pm, with Colette Bancroft interviewing. UPCOMING Book + Bottle 7 16th Street St. Petersburg book+bottle.com Scheduled to open in 2020. OLD FAVORITES . . . [...]