This year, Tampa’s longest-running Summer Series celebrates nine decades of filmmaking with Silent Shorts, Modern Classics, a Sing-Along, and Post-Show Film Talks.

Audiences are also invited to stick around after select shows for Film Talks with some of the community’s most knowledgeable film experts, including retired USF film professor Harriet Deer and retired Tampa Bay Times film critic Steve Persall, who will examine the films’ themes, structure and cultural significance, and answer questions from the audience. (Film Talks are included with movie admission.)

• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 2h 9m / Not Rated / Drama
3:00pm Sunday, June 2

• Some Like It Hot (1959) 2h 1m / Not Rated / Comedy
3:00pm Sunday, June 9

• Jaws (1975) 2h 4m / PG / Thriller
3:00pm Sunday, June 16

• Cool Hand Luke (1967) 2h 6m / PG / Drama
3:00pm Sunday, June 23

• Dial M for Murder (1954) 1h 45m / PG / Thriller
3:00pm Sunday, June 30

• Sing-Along Grease (1978) 1h 50m / PG-13 / Musical
3:00pm Sunday, July 7

• All That Jazz (1979) 2h 3m / R / Drama
3:00pm Sunday, July 14

• Jurassic Park (1993) 2h 7m / PG-13 / Adventure
3:00pm Sunday, July 21

• The Wizard of Oz (1939) 1h 42m / PG / Fantasy
3:00pm Sunday, July 28

• The Philadelphia Story (1940) 1h 52m / Not Rated / Comedy
3:00pm Sunday, August 4

• 9 to 5 (1980) 1h 49m / PG / Comedy
3:00pm Sunday, August 11

• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2h 22m / R / Drama
3:00pm Sunday, August 18

• The Silent Clowns: Comedy Shorts 1h 42m / Not Rated / Comedy
3:00pm Sunday, August 25

• Casablanca (1942) 2h / PG / Drama
TWO SHOWS! 3:00pm Saturday-Sunday, August 31 & Sept. 1

TICKETS are $10 ($7 for Tampa Theatre Members) for all of the regular films and $13 ($10 for Members) for the Sing-Along and Silent Sundays. The tickets will be available by noon Friday, May 3 at the historic Franklin Street Box Office and online at www.TampaTheatre.org ($2 convenience fee applies).

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.

Monster Jam Triple Threat Series brings adrenaline-charged family entertainment to fans across the country. These world-class Monster Jam vehicles and athletes deliver what fans want to see most, more trucks, more racing, more freestyle, more donuts, more wheelies, more action! Each event tests the versatility of the athletes as they go head-to-head in seven different competitions driving three different vehicles Monster Jam trucks, Monster Jam Speedsters and Monster Jam ATVs. These athletes battle for points in challenging Racing and Freestyle events that push themselves and their machines to the limit. The point leader will receive an automatic bid to the prestigious Monster Jam World Finals® to compete for the title of World Champion.

SHOW TIMES: 1pm and 7pm

Join us on a journey through sight, sound and movement during a yoga class by Pose by Pose Yoga ‘Flow with the Fishes’ in front of the Aquarium’s largest habitat—the coral reef—taking in serene sights of sand tiger sharks, stingrays, reef fishes and other sea life from inside our coral reef room.  Please bring your mat and water bottle.

Adults who registered for the Yoga session can also register children for a separate Aquarium yoga session located in the Heart of the Sea exhibit featuring sea turtles, sharks and coral reef fishes.  Our children’s class will seek to introduce self-regulation techniques through movement, breath work and meditation appropriate.  Great for ages 5-9, older children are welcome to attend the adult class.  Bring water bottle, no mats required for the children’s class.

At the conclusion, each class you will meet one of our animal ambassadors and learn about our environmental conservation work in which proceeds from this session help support. Meet one of our animal ambassadors and learn about our environmental conservation work in which proceeds from this session help support.

Each Session Ticket includes a single Yoga session and same day admission to the Aquarium:

Adult: $30 | Member Adult: $25
*Child: $20 | Member Child: $15

*An Adult must be registered for the Yoga session in order to sign up a child(ren).

Aquarium members will receive discounted price by logging in to your account at checkout.  Tickets are non-refundable.

Get tickets here.

Spoon carving is a wonderful way to engage in both woodworking, and carving on a small scale.

It is easy to do, productive and fun activity. There is something very satisfying about hand making a utilitarian object. This is just a fun Sunday class and no experience is necessary just a desire to have a go. You will leave this class with new skills and a lovely wooden spoon you created yourself.

Using traditional tools and a few easy power tools in this wooden spoon carving class, you will learn how to design, carve and hollow out the bowl of the spoon, shape the handle as well as sand and finish the piece. It’s a fun class and easy for anyone to learn. The best part is that you get to leave the class with your very own custom creation.

All supplies are included and will go home with you. This workshop is ideal for adults and also appropriate for kids (12 ) if accompanied by an adult.

Open to All

Tickets are $90 per person and can be bought at https://schoolofwoodwork.com/events/sunday-funday-learn-spoon-carving-aug-2019/

Tampa Theatre remains one of the only movie palaces in the world that can revive its original programming by presenting a silent film with live musical accompaniment on the theatre’s original 1926 Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. This summer, we are happy to announce a selection of silent comedy shorts: The Immigrant, a 1917 Charlie Chaplin short about his Tramp character making his way to America (and getting in trouble the whole time); Never Weaken, a 1921 Harold Lloyd comedy prominently featuring his patented brand of thrilling, madcap stunts; Big Business, a 1929 Laurel and Hardy short featuring the two as Christmas tree salesmen in an escalating war of vandalism; and One Week, a Buster Keaton classic about the construction of a house for his new bride (and the first film made by Keaton on his own).

Nationally renowned theatre organist Dr. Steven Ball  — a familiar face to fans of our silent film presentations — will be traveling down from St. Louis once again for this very special afternoon of hijinks and hilarity, performing scores of his own creation. The program will be presented with a brief intermission.

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

A year-long collaboration with area veterans, civilians and local and national organizations culminates in this heartfelt, deeply personal evening of veteran performance, dialogue, entertainment and inspiration. Learn about the exciting strides taken to build bridges among veterans, arts and civilians and see the incredible results when people decide to come together to shine light in the dark places of life. Free, open to the public, all are welcome.

VetArtSpan is a Florida project that is part of Creative Forces, an initiative of The National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs and state and local arts agencies.

What better way to celebrate Labor Day Weekend than at the

2019 Summer of Rum Festival ft. Sublime with Rome, The Expendables, & Inner Circle

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LISTEN to live music while enjoying a variety of rum drinks from the featured rum bars.  Whether it’s a Frozen Daiquiri, Pina Colada, Rum Runner, Cuba Libré, or even an Exotic Tiki Drink, the Summer of Rum Festival will have it all for you and your friends to enjoy!

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GRUB on food from our Caribbean Food Market, SHOP of our curated vendors, SIP on 40+ rums from our Island Rum Tasting Party, and end the night with a BANG with an amazing fireworks display! 

Casablanca lands so routinely in listings of the top two or three movies of all time, it’s become almost boring to call it great. It’s the definition of a Hollywood masterpiece. The scenes and the characters have taken on mythological lives of their own. But Casablanca manages to be strongly original while also synthesizing parts of many films of its time: a wartime setting, a hero with shades of grey in his past, a female lead who wants something she can’t have, humor and tragedy and parody and sacrifice. And, of course, doomed love. Good art tells us stories; great art makes demands of us. Casablanca demands we break our own hearts like Rick, make dangerous choices like Ilsa, sing like Sam and scheme like Louis. The movie remains timeless because those feelings are as well.

Immediately after the film will be a short discussion and audience Q&A, led by Tampa Theatre’s own James DeFord on Saturday and retired USF film professor Harriet Deer on Sunday. The sessions are included with film admission.

Global music icon, world-class entertainer and Grammy Award winner Chris Brown will be hitting the road for the epic INDIGOAT Tour with some of the hottest names in hip-hop including Tory Lanez, Ty Dolla $ign, Joyner Lucas and Yella Beezy. Following last year’s highly successful Heartbreak on a Full Moon Tour, Brown is returning to the stage, where he’ll wow audiences across the U.S. with a fresh high-energy show complete with his signature dance skills and strong vocals, as well as new music.  Chris Brown will perform at Tampa’s AMALIE Arena on Saturday, August 31 at 6:30 PM.

About Chris Brown:

Chris Brown, a consummate entertainer who has shifted the climate of R&B culture since his eponymous 2005 debut, has sold in excess of 30 million albums worldwide and has surpassed over 10 billion audio streams across digital outlets to date. Brown has won more than 125 awards including a Grammy Award for his album F.A.M.E. in 2011 and has amassed over 7.5 billion YouTube views – including over 40 music videos that each have more than 100 million views earning him the title of male artist with the most Vevo certified videos ever and ‘Diamond’ status from the streaming platform.

A chart-topping force, Brown has made more Billboard Hot 100 entries since the start of his career than any contemporary male singer alive to date, spending 160 consecutive weeks charting on the Hot 100. His last album Heartbreak on a Full Moon has been streamed over one billion times on Spotify and has been certified two-time platinum. The album spent more than a year on the Billboard Hot 200.

An accomplished entrepreneur and business owner, Brown’s tenacity behind his venture into fashion with his Black Pyramid brand has transformed his business from a digital fashion giant to acquiring a worldwide distribution deal and being carried in major retailers globally. In addition, Brown’s commitment to philanthropy is as important to him as his professional pursuits – including his dedication to the Symphonic Love Foundation, a charitable organization that he founded which supports and creates arts programs for youth. Brown has also donated his time and resources to various non-for-profit organizations including St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Best Buddies, Hurricane Harvey victims, and Colin Kaepernick’s recent “10 for 10” million-dollar pledge.