Calling all photographers! The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is now accepting submissions for its 19th Annual Members Show.

Museum members can submit photographic art to the show now through August 23. There will be five categories featured in this year’s exhibition: People and Portraits, Travel, Landscape and Cityscape, Animals and Nature, Still Life, Abstract. Winners from each category will receive a prize awarded by our sponsors.

All submissions will be installed in the museum’s Community Gallery.

To participate in the show, each artist must already be a member of the museum or sign up for a membership at the time of submission.

Members are allowed one physical entry for a $35 submission fee. The second submission is $25 or free for monthly donors. Members can take advantage of becoming a monthly donor if they wish to submit a second entry.

Hitchcock’s Rebecca meets The Pink Panther. Spymonkey’s deliciously demented take on the pulp gothic romance overflows with brilliant characters, rip-roaring farce and virtuoso physical comedy. This is the show which made them an international comedy sensation from Just For Laughs Montreal to Sydney Opera House.

A spooky mansion, a plucky young heroine and a handsome English aristocrat. Add a German butler and a Spanish soap star and you’re all set for a night of HYSTERIA with Spymonkey!

“One of the funniest pieces of theatre you will ever see, performed by four of the greatest clowns working in Britain.” Time Out (UK)

Directed by Cal McCrystal, the comedy genius behind James Corden’s Broadway smash One Man Two Guvnors.

Please note that the performance includes partial nudity, smoke, haze, a firearm and ping pong balls are fired across the stage.

Ever wanted to learn how to make furniture and get hands-on workshop experience?

This class will teach you all the basics of how to use plan and design furniture and give you the necessary skills to be able to build it. We will teach you how to use woodworking machinery safely, and how to get the right cut for any project.

Perfect for anyone who is looking for a new hobby, how to get started in woodworking, wants to learn a new skill or wants a good refresher in woodworking.

It’s open to everyone!

Tickets are $460 per person and can be purchased at https://schoolofwoodwork.com/events/beginning-woodworking-weekend-class-sept-21/

New for 2019, join the History Center for a 90-minute walking tour of Tampa’s historic downtown. This guided tour highlights the iconic landmarks, colorful characters, groundbreaking events behind what was once the entire city of Tampa, the first economic hub on Florida’s west coast.

You’ll stroll past City Hall, Sacred Heart Church, the Floridan Palace Hotel and even Tampa’s oldest bar, The Hub!

Tours meet in the center of Lykes Gaslight Park (241 E Madison St). Participants will walk about a mile along public sidewalks & streets. Tours are rain or shine. You may wish to wear comfortable outdoor attire and bring bottled water.

Tours are limited to 25 people & pre-registration is required. Call us at 813-228-0097 with any questions.

Disturbed is touring in support of new album Evolution (Reprise Records), which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, as well as No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

Since launching the tour back in January with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Disturbed (vocalist David Draiman, guitarist Dan Donegan, drummer Mike Wengren and bassist John Moyer) has drawn rave reviews for their emotionally powerful live show. Critics point out the band’s uplifting messages and the many moving moments that take place during their nightly set, including a tribute to the late Chester Bennington and Pantera’s Vinnie Paul and a call to help those in need who are battling addiction and depression.

Disturbed is touring in support of new album Evolution (Reprise Records), which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, as well as No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

Since launching the tour back in January with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Disturbed (vocalist David Draiman, guitarist Dan Donegan, drummer Mike Wengren and bassist John Moyer) has drawn rave reviews for their emotionally powerful live show. Critics point out the band’s uplifting messages and the many moving moments that take place during their nightly set, including a tribute to the late Chester Bennington and Pantera’s Vinnie Paul and a call to help those in need who are battling addiction and depression

For WHO fans everywhere, the announcement of a brand new tour means only one thing: the world’s most untamable rock band is about to deliver the goods once again. Never ones for nostalgia, singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend will be unleashing the combustible force that is The Who, with symphonic accompaniment this summer and fall in 2019. Produced by Live Nation, The Who’s North American MOVING ON! TOUR will bring their indelible brand of powerhouse rock to 29 cities beginning in May. The MOVING ON! TOUR will make a stop at Tampa’s AMALIE Arena on Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 7:30 PM.

Reignwolf will provide support for this engagement.

The Who will also be releasing their first album of new songs in thirteen years later this year. On stage, the line-up will be rounded out by familiar Who players featuring guitarist/backup singer Simon Townshend, keyboardist Loren Gold, bassist Jon Button and drummer Zak Starkey, and complemented by some of the best orchestras in the U.S. and Canada.

18^th  World Congress on Nutrition and Food Chemistry  commencing from September 25-26, 2019 Copenhagen, Denmark  is the most important opportunity for meeting renowned expert researchers in areas of nutrition ,food chemistry  ,food and nutrition. This conference will be an exceptional platform for interdisciplinary interactions to exchange views and share knowledge under a single roof. Nutrition & Food Chemistry 2019 Organizing Committee is gearing up for an exciting and informative conference program this year also which includes plenary lectures, symposia, workshops on a variety of topics, poster presentations and many programs for participants from all over the world. We invite you to join us at Nutrition & Food Chemistry 2019, where you will be sure to have a meaningful experience with scholars from around the world. All members of the Nutrition & Food Chemistry 2019 organizing committee look forward to meeting you in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Oxford Exchange and Tampa Theatre collaborate again for a special OE Programming conversation with Writers’ Guild Award-winning, New York Times Bestselling author, Salman Rushdie, in celebration of the release of his new book, Quichotte.

Quichotte is an ageing traveling salesman obsessed with the “unreal real” of TV who falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen and sets off to drive across America on a picaresque quest to prove himself worthy of her hand; accompanied, in the passenger seat, by the son he has imagined into being. In Rushdie’s masterpiece, Quichotte’s story is also the story of a deranged time, the “Age of Anything Can Happen,” and deals, along the way, with father-son relationships, sibling quarrels, unforgivable things, racism, the opioid crisis, cyber-spies, science fiction, the story of the Author who created Quichotte, and the end of the world.

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels—Luka and the Fire of Life, Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction—Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line—and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.

Tickets are $42 for a single admission ticket and $52 for a double admission, and are available at the historic Franklin Street Box Office or online ($1 service fee applies). All ticket packages include a pre-signed hardcover copy of Quichotte.

Due to overwhelming demand, Live Nation and S2BN Entertainment has announced a limited run of Phil Collins Still Not Dead Yet, Live! dates for fall 2019. The 15-city U.S. tour will kick off September 23 in Dallas, TX and arrive in Tampa on September 26 at AMALIE Arena.

Performed by one of the world’s most acclaimed hitmakers with over 100 million record sales and an unstoppable catalogue of Number 1 albums, Phil Collins Still Not Dead Yet, Live! follows his highly successful Phil Collins Not Dead Yet 2018 outing which included multiple sold out dates. The tour will once again feature Phil Collins accompanied by longtime guitarist Daryl Stuermer, keyboardist Brad Cole, bassist Leland Sklar, percussionist Richie Garcia), 4-piece horns, stellar backup vocalists and Phil’s son, Nicolas, who is once again handling the iconic drum beats Phil himself made so famous and compelling a generation before.

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Miles Davis is the one jazz figure of the postwar era who had, and still has, the larger-than-life quality of a pop star. Other jazz artists, of course, became legends (Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, etc.), but Miles, like Picasso or Dylan, had a mystique rooted not just in his genius but in his cult of personality. Horn player, bandleader, innovator, Miles was a singular force of nature, the very embodiment of cool. The central theme of Miles Davis’ life, and of director Stanley Nelson Jr.’s new documentary film, is Davis’ restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool explores archival photos and home movies shot by Miles and his colleagues, his manuscripts and Miles’ original paintings, to explore the man behind the music. It’s a tantalizing and unflinching look at every side of a complicated man: rich, probing, romantic, triumphant, tragic and blisteringly honest. Featuring interviews with some of the most well-known musicians on the planet, including Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, The Roots, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the film explores why Miles continues to be a relevant voice in today’s world.

Michael Francis, conductor
Aldo Lopez-Gavilan, piano

Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Mason Bates: Mothership
Ravel: Bolero

Michael Francis conducts a melting pot of music that reflects Tampa Bay, with Cuban pianist Aldo Lopez-Gavilan on Grieg’s instantly identifiable Piano Concerto, Ravel’s Bolero, Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, Mason Bates’ Mothership and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3.

Join us for a pre-concert conversation one hour before the performance.

Each month, a living historian will tell stories, show artifacts and give a short presentation on a different Florida-related theme. Discover what life at sea was like for an 18th century privateer, listen to a young couple navigating changing social attitudes during the 1960s, or hear about the home front in 1940s Tampa during WWII. Free with admission.

A Pirate’s Life: Tales from Florida Waters

Both male and female pirates lived normal lives – they ate, drank and entertained themselves at sea. Rob and Anne Jacob describe the real life of pirates during piracy’s “golden age.”

Tampa Theatre and AEG Presents are pleased to announce the return of SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque, coming LIVE to the historic Theatre’s stage at 9:00pm Saturday, Sept. 28 (Doors open at 8:00pm).

SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque is the sexiest, smartest, geekiest, and most fun definitive pop-culture burlesque show! Featuring none other than SuicideGirls themselves, the show has been performed hundreds of times, delighted millions of fans in more than six countries, and has been touring since 2003. Don’t miss your chance to see it live during the 2019 US Tour!

SuicideGirls has been redefining beauty since 2001 with its network of over 3,000 SuicideGirls and almost 9 million pinup-style photographs on the premier, members-only social network SuicideGirls.com. Check out blackheartburlesque.com for more information about the tour and to see where the girls are headed next!

The Florida School of Woodwork is a remarkable place of craft, where students of all ages and experience levels learn how to design and build furniture, carve and turn on a wood lathe.

You’ll jump right into a hands on experience of designing and making your own cutting board out of local woods. The groups are small (10 – 12) so you will get lots of guidance and help – don’t worry if you haven’t done this before, we’ll show you how! Be prepared to have fun laying out your boards and learning how to glue them up, before taking a break for lunch at one of the local eateries.

Once you come back, you’ll learn how to use a few easy woodworking machines to do the final work on your beautiful artisan chopping board. Once it’s all smooth and shaped, you’ll apply an organic blend of oils and wax to “pop” the grain and keep the wood at its best.

Pre Registration required.
$90 $20 materials
Minimum age 12yrs

Students interested in pursuing a college degree in dance, theater, music or musical theater are encouraged to attend the Straz Center’s annual Performing Arts College Fair.

The following schools are scheduled to attend:
Boston Conservatory
Brenau University
Butler University
Florida Southern College
Florida State University
Ball State University
Hillsborough Comm. College
Jacksonville University
Manhattan School of Music
Montclair State
Savannah College of Art and Design
Slippery Rock University
Stetson University
University of Central Florida
University of Illinois
UNC School of the Arts
University of South Florida
And more!

Walt Disney, on the advice of his daughters, tried for more than two decades to turn Mary Poppins into a movie. They got Julie Andrews, an acclaimed stage actress, to make her motion picture debut; they got Dick Van Dyke, a huge TV star, to do the world’s worst Cockney accent. And with its innovative mix of animation and live actors, its timeless songs, and its uplifting and optimistic message, the film was such a smash success (Walt’s only movie to get a Best Picture nomination in his lifetime) that the fortune it made at the box office funded the purchase of huge swaths of Central Florida land that would eventually become Walt Disney World. In other words, you have Mary Poppins to thank for the contemporary Orlando metropolitan area. Who knew?! Mary Poppins is perennially one of our most popular sing-alongs, so practice your best-worst cockney accent and join twelve hundred of your closest friends for Sing-Along Mary Poppins!