A new exhibition featuring some of photography’s most famous female artists will open June 10 at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in downtown Tampa.

The exhibition, which runs through mid-September, will feature fine-art photographs from 12 prominent female photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Judy Dater and Imogen Cunningham.

The featured photographers represent different eras, styles, and techniques, but they all share the same subject: men. By switching the traditional roles of the male artist and the female subject, the collection flips the male-dominated narrative of the art world and establishes an individual space for female artists.

The exhibition’s curator and one of the contributing artists will speak about her work and the curatorial process at 6 p.m. on June 23 at the museum as part of FMoPA’s Fourth Friday lecture series.

Phones will be flashing from June 14 – 21 as our bartenders, servers and hosts fight over who gets to be your BFF.

Dine or drink with us during our week of selfies (June 14-21) and help your favorite member of our Bizou crew win. The Bizou associate in the most selfies with our guests (must include the hashtag #BizouBFF) between June 14 and closing time on National Selfie Day, June 21, will win an awesome prize!

Here’s the Rules:

1. Each photo should have at least one Bizou associate and one guest in it. Thirty photos of the same associate with the same guest will still count as just one selfie entry. Don’t be that person. Believe in your selfie.

2. Our associate MUST ask for your permission before they engage in a selfie with you. Drive-by selfies, while often funny, are not allowed. (Photobombs may be accepted if, and only if, all other requirements are met.)

3. Either the associate or the guest in the photo must post the photo to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #BizouBFF. The photo must be “public” for us to be able to find it and count it as an entry. You’ll make your selfie even easier to find if you “check-in” at Bizou Tampa when you post, as well.

4. Your favorite member of our Bizou crew can only win if you help them take the most selfies! So, play along with us and give ’em a smile. Your visit may just be for today, but selfies are forever.

We’ll be watching for that #BizouBFF hashtag from June 14 – 21, so don’t forget to include it in your post. But first, let me take a selfie!

mad Theatre of Tampa presents Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy Company. Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the dark-comedy, modern-musical genre and the winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Lyrics and Best Book.

On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks, and even a wedding, his friends — “those good and crazy people [his] married friends” — explain the pro’s and con’s of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.

Company features a brilliantly brisk and energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim’s best known songs. The strength of the piece lies in its vivid yet real characters, meaning impressive technical aspects aren’t necessary to convey the story. It can be told as effectively with a cavalcade of automated set pieces as it can with a chair or two. Every audience member will see reflections of themselves in at least one of the characters on stage.

Starring Ricky Marenda, Justin Batten, Peter A. Belk, Kelsey Ehrenberger, Francesca Guanciale Jay, Jen Martin, DeAnna McMahan, Heather Lynn Mendoza, Jay Morgan, Jessica Moraton, Lisa Prieto, Bill Rolon, James Faroute and Lindsay Yarbrough.

Step into the enchanted world of the modern classic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, where Patel Conservatory students grade 9-college bring this “tale as old as time” to life.
The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

***Sensory-friendly performance: SUN • JUN 25 • 2PM***
The Straz Center’s Patel Conservatory Theater is pleased to present a sensory-friendly, student performed, professionally produced production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Often, because of the challenge of sitting quietly for long periods of time, loud noises and light changes, children with sensory processing disorders such as autism and Asperger’s aren’t able to enjoy theater. In this performance, audience members will enjoy the full production with adjustments made to the show’s lighting and sound effects. Audiences will also have the freedom to move, wander, verbalize and utilize break areas. This performance allows all patrons to enjoy theater without barriers.

THE ART OF THE BRICK is a global touring exhibition rated by CNN as one of the world’s “Must See Exhibitions.” These are the first art exhibitions to focus exclusively on the use of LEGO^® bricks as an art medium and artist Nathan Sawaya has taken it to new heights.

This award-winning artist has multiple unique exhibitions created solely from standard LEGO bricks often with several new sculptures created specifically for each exhibition. Each show has countless colorful LEGO pieces which Sawaya has transformed into whimsical and awe-inspiring creations.

Sawaya’s ability to transform this common toy into something meaningful, his devotion to spatial perfection and the way he conceptualizes action, enables him to elevate what almost every child has played with into the status of contemporary art.

The Signature Bar Event of Tampa.

WHAT YOU’LL GET!
Free stuff for days – here’s what awaits you:
– Free Drinks – One free welcome drink at every bar!
– Free T-Shirt – Limited edition, world famous Crawler shirt!
– Free Transport – Crawler Bus, karaoke, shotgun beers!
– Free Raffle ticket – Win drink vouchers and more!
– Free Fun – Stock up on happiness for the month ahead!

WHAT TO DO NEXT?
Get your ticket. Share with your friends. Bring your crew. Press the weekend button and let the good times crawl.

This is the BIG ONE, the big chalupa, the whole oyster (is that even a thing?) well, we’re making it one!

Last Saturdays in Tampa will never be the same. We’re hot on the heels of making this the signature bar event of Tampa. But we can’t do this alone – WE NEED YOU to bring your A-Game for a Saturday of fun. What else are you going to do on a Saturday? Dust off your stamp collection? Come on, we know you can do better.

Let us take care of your weekend entertainment needs. We’ve got our legendary Crawler Bus on stand-by to shuttle you from bar to bar – but not just any bar – you’ll be visiting only the finest, DT Crawler certified bars in Tampa. Mark your calendars for the rest of the year.

Mark your calendars for the rest of the year – Last Saturday Bar Crawl – Tampa.

Your Crawler Team,
Andreas, Thomas, Markus, Laura

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SAVE THE DATE for Saturday, June 24 when BeerFest 2017 kicks summer into high gear with Barley’s Angels, featuring craft beers and local brewers, plus snacks and samples from some of Tampa’s top independent restaurants.

A limited-capacity premium sampling will begin at 7:00 p.m., and grand sampling ticket-holders can enter at 8:00 p.m. Costumes inspired by the grrl-power action movie starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are encouraged!And though the themes may be silly, the purpose of Tampa Theatre fundraisers like BeerFest and WineFest is most serious: together, the two events raised $162,000 last year to benefit the not-for-profit historic movie palace’s artistic, educational and community programs, as well as its ongoing preservation and restoration.

Water Works Park in Tampa will be the setting for the debut of Multicultural Family Day to recognize and honor diverse cultural differences and being held Sunday, June 25, from 11:00am to 7:00pm. The event is being hosted by Cloe Cabrera and Lynda Guzman.

Attendees can arrive by car or take a water taxi to this free event. A special section will be set up to accommodate wheelchairs.

Organized by the Taste of East Tampa, founded by Caregiver’s Helping Hand and Central Florida Community Planning and Development, Multicultural Family Day will feature performances by Caribeno Tropical, Trinity 7, STP Freddo, Paradise Hawaiian Dancers, Chinese Dragon Dancers, and Butterflies and Caterpillars Mexican dance troupe out of Dade City featuring girls ages 5-12.

Along with multicultural food trucks providing Thai, Mediterranean, Japanese fusion, and American foods, merchant vendors will be selling their wares at the event.

Children can enjoy an area just for them – a Kid Zone, sponsored by Sunshine Healthcare featuring face painting, henna tattoos and a splash pad. In addition, Molina Healthcare is sponsoring an art contest. A $200, $100 and $50 prize will be awarded to a Hillsborough County student, ages 13-18, who best depicts the theme of “The Colors of the World.” The winners will be announced at 3pm that day.

There’s a good reason why Redbook has called Taylor Jenkins Reid a “genius when it comes to stories about life and love”—her four previous novels have offered unique and infectious looks at relationships while garnering raves from People,Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Buzzfeed.

Jenkins Reid’s new novel “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” however, may be her masterpiece. Boasting a scope that’s been unprecedented in her previous work, “Evelyn” is a fast-paced but complex tapestry of the sublimity and secrets of Hollywood’s golden age—a masterfully woven exploration of the cost of fame, the divide between our public and private selves, and what it means to love, to desire and to be a woman.

Not many movies manage to be timeless while remaining grounded in the time of their creation. The Graduate just feels like 1967: a transitional moment in American culture between the end of the post-WW2 boom and the rise of the hippie counterculture. It was a transitional moment in American movies, too, and it’s full of radical filmmaking techniques — crash zooms and shocking framing. But the subject of The Graduate is a transition we all undergo; Dustin Hoffman plays a college grad in the delicate shift from adolescence to adulthood, torn between his feelings for his girlfriend’s mother (Anne Bancroft as the famous Mrs. Robinson) and his fear of the future. It’s about being told what to do, then suddenly having to decide for ourselves; the people we fall in love with, when we’re not supposed to; all the mistakes we make, and apologize for, and sometimes make again.

Immediately after the film, USF film professor Harriet Deer will lead a short discussion of The Graduate and an audience Q&A. The session is included with film admission.

Doors and bar open at 2:00pm

Daniel Blake (Dave Johns), a carpenter in Newcastle in his late fifties, has a heart attack at work. After treatment, his own doctor tells him he’s not well enough to return to his previous job, but his local benefits office has decided he’s well enough to work and so won’t give him financial aid unless he seeks a new job. Determined to make it but technologically illiterate and frustrated with his situation, he can’t seem to meet anybody’s requirements until he meets Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother driven to welfare to try to feed her kids while she seeks work. The two form a touching and sympathetic friendship as Daniel tries to find purpose in helping Katie get the assistance he can’t get for himself. But navigating the Catch-22 of political bureaucracy in an attempt to appeal his benefits request will inevitably exact its own price.

Join us for Art Meets Jazz Night at The Barrymore Hotel, featuring live jazz music from Johnny Magnussun, art exhibition by local Tampa artist(s), a full buffet and full bar. The event will be hosted in the Riverwalk Room adjacent to Waterworks Bar and Grill Restaurant. Please see host or hostess for seating.

• Admission is Free
• Full Buffet, includes 2 alcoholic beverages (wine or beer): Adult $19.95
• Full Buffet: Child $10

Johnny Magnussun, aka Johnny Mag Sax, is a professional saxophone musician from Orlando Florida and has opened for many high profile acts including Kenny G.

Mashable launched Social Media Day in 2010 as a way to recognize and celebrate social media’s impact on global communication. While every day is essentially Social Media Day, June 30th, 2017 marks the eighth-annual official global celebration. This is the seventh year Tampa Bay is participating and we want to send a special shoutout to our Presenting Sponsor, Reeves VW. We are excited to have a lineup of additional sponsors on board this year, so stay tuned to learn all about these great community supporters!

This year we are expecting hundreds of local social media professionals, influencers, and bloggers. We activate our event by encouraging lots of social involvement by hosting a blogger caravan, raising funds for a local charity, hosting some amazing giveaways and raffles throughout the night and so much more! Be sure to follow along @SMDayTampa leading up the event for all of the latest news and details! #SMDayTampa

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s epic El Topo is a horrifically challenging movie. It’s important that you know that; we don’t want any of our guests to be surprised by what’s in store. It’s a violent, distorted take on Westerns: a man in black rides a horse through the desert, six-gun at his side. But there’s not really a plot driving the action, or developed characters. Symbol-rich, filled with riddles, visually arresting and composed like a series of interlocking dreams, El Topo isn’t a typical movie so much as a kind of surrealist canvas brought to bleeding, squirming, sometimes detestable life.

That said, it’s the first major film in the career of one of cinema’s great visual minds. Jodorowsky went on to make The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre and The Rainbow Thief; he did design work for the film version of Dune before that project went to David Lynch. And El Topo helped birth the midnight movie experience itself. Along with Pink Flamingos and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it was one of the original cult films that die-hard movie buffs (and perhaps people in … altered states of consciousness) would shuffle to theatres at midnight to see. So come to REWIND and be tested by El Topo.