Events – 31 Jan 15

01/10/2015  – 05/31/2015
Healthy Gardens
Healthy Gardens
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Learn about sustainability and conservation; try new, fresh foods and recipes. We will also grow plants for eating, cooking, creating, and sharing in the new FCC garden. We’ll experiment with a wide variety of veggies, herbs and flowers growing in everything from straw bales to tires to homemade garden beds. Digging in the dirt and caring for plants is a wonderful way to have fun, learn and connect to each other and our shared natural world.

01/31/2015

10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Teacher Workshop with Leland Faulkner
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Earn professional development points. Explore magic and myth. Learn new intriguing ways of presenting ideas and curriculum. Faulkner will teach a unique method based on the research and work of Francois Delsarte for uncovering the meaning behind movement and gesture as well as the techniques and disciplines of acting, mime, story, writing, and magic to create a world teeming with characters and imagination.

01/31/2015

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Tom "T Bone" Hamilton & the Blues All-Stars
Tom "T Bone" Hamilton & the Blues All-Stars
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Bassist/Leader – Tom “TBone” Hamilton returns to the Firehouse Pub …this time as a bluesman presenting an intimate evening of really good roadhouse blues music from New Orleans to Chicago to Austin to Detroit and back to Florida. “Tbone” just released 3 new blues singles on I-Tunes dedicated to one of his bass playing heroes, Mr. Willie Dixon. Joining “Tbone” are the Blues All-Stars comprised of top State of Florida blues.

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Adult Clay - A.M. Thursdays
Thursday, July 1, 2021 – Sunday, August 1, 2021    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, January 2024 – December 2024.
Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Thursdays
Thursday, July 1, 2021 – Sunday, August 1, 2021    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, July 2021 – Dec 2021.
Adult Clay & Play - Thursday Evening
Thursday, July 1, 2021 – Sunday, August 1, 2021    
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Adults. Book Monthly, July 2021 – Dec 2021.
Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Tuesdays
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 – Friday, August 6, 2021    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Tuesdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, July 2021 – Dec 2021.
Fundamentals of Drawing 101
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 – Tuesday, July 27, 2021    
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Fundamentals of Drawing 101: One of the main focuses will be on training the eye how to see. Increase your skill-set with depth, shading and color choice. You will learn perspective, balance, form, and contrast as it all relates to composition. We will learn how to take a drawing from sketch to finished art. Tuesdays, July 6 – July 27.
Painting with Watercolors
Thursday, July 8, 2021 – Thursday, July 29, 2021    
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Painting with Watercolors. For students at all levels. Explore: color; brush strokes from flat washes to dancing with your brushes; techniques from wet to scrubbing; and more. Includes Materials. July 8- July 29, 2021.
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Saturday, July 17, 2021    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Arthur Schleman, Hunting and Fishing Guide, 1895. The Tampa Bay Hotel hunting and fishing guide is adept at trapping all kinds of game, as well as hunting on horseback to avoid rattlesnakes. Mr. Schleman is a storyteller and a would-be gentleman of means, with definite opinions about everything. Arthur Schleman is played by actor Dan Khoury. FREE.
Comedy Night: Sheena Reagan
Friday, July 23, 2021    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
New Date: 7/23/21 at 7:30 p.m. This will be a Friday Night Event. Comedy Center Stage at the Firehouse brings a night of laughs with Sheena Reagan, who was named Florida’s Funniest Female in 2018, and runner up in 2017. Sheena’s versatile and unique brand of comedy leave audiences of all kinds in a state of non-stop laughter.
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Saturday, July 24, 2021    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Maggie Stroud, Laundress, 1920. A lively and ambitious woman who has a story or two to tell about the famous guests at the Tampa Bay Hotel. As a personal maid, Maggie has seen some of the finer things in life. As for the not-so-fine, she has her dreams and her religion that keep her hopeful. FREE.
James Suggs: Tribute to Blues Alley
Saturday, July 24, 2021    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
James Suggs July 24 Tribute to Blues Alley jazz artists.
Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
Saturday, July 31, 2021    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The Firehouse Center Stage Music brings a night of laughs to enjoy; some music, humor and history with Rev. Billy C. Wirtz! Buckle your seat belts and get ready for some high energy boogie woogie with the Rev. Wirtz combines old-school nightclub shtick with highbrow/lowbrow humor guaranteed to keep you entertained. Saturday, July 31, 2021.
Events on Thursday, July 1, 2021
Events on Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Events on Thursday, July 8, 2021
Painting with Watercolors
8 Jul 21
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, July 17, 2021
Events on Friday, July 23, 2021
Comedy Night: Sheena Reagan
23 Jul 21
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, July 24, 2021
Events on Saturday, July 31, 2021
Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
31 Jul 21
Ruskin