Firehouse Cultural Center

Events – 16 Oct 18

09/08/2018  – 05/18/2019

9:30 am – 11:00 am
Children’s Art Studio – FREE!
Children’s Art Studio – FREE!
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Grades 4 – 6. Fun & creative art activities. Each week a different activity. Walk-ins welcome. Reservations recommended. Space is limited.
10/16/2018

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Musical Discovery Lecture Series
Musical Discovery Lecture Series
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Music lovers of all levels, explore the fascinating inner workings of the musical world. Music from cultures around the world to popular 20th Century music genres will be presented. Monthly on Tuesdays, Oct. – May.
10/16/2018

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Tuesdays, Oct. 16 – Nov. 20
Special Expressive Art Classes
Special Expressive Art Classes
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Do you or a loved one have a disability? Art classes taught by artists trained to work with adaptive materials and alternative solutions. Activities are designed to promote personal development, group participation and camaraderie along with fostering creative expression for people of all abilities enabling all participants to have a great experience. In partnership with Arts4All Florida (VSA Florida).

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Wheel-Throwing
Wheel-Throwing
Monday, January 27, 2020 – Thursday, April 2, 2020    
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing. Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
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Hand-Building Pottery
Hand-Building Pottery
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 – Tuesday, March 31, 2020    
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Leave the stress behind. An exciting, fun and relaxing class. Learn all about clay; the possibilities are endless with hand building and figure sculpting. Explore surface decoration, texture, stamping and printing design. Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
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Hand-Building Kids 8+
Hand-Building Kids 8+
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 – Tuesday, March 31, 2020    
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Fire up your creativity and join the fun! Explore the exciting world of clay through a wide range of projects with hand building and glazing techniques. Students learn in a supportive setting with individual instruction and inspiration. Materials & firings are included in tuition.
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Relief Printmaking: Multiple Impressions
Relief Printmaking: Multiple Impressions
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 – Wednesday, February 19, 2020    
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
A printmaking class for beginning to advanced students. Learn how to create relief prints by carving linoleum blocks. After learning the basics, explore the individual and collaborative possibilities of using multiple carved printing blocks multiple times on the same piece of paper.
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Open Pottery Studio
Open Pottery Studio
Thursday, January 30, 2020 – Thursday, April 2, 2020    
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
This open studio is for students at the intermediate and advanced levels! Join us if you want to explore your own personal style. Focus on your throwing techniques and varying forms. A great studio to expand your knowledge with your peers. Materials & firings included.
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TBone Hamilton and the Blues All Stars featuring Bryan Lee & Greg Poulos
TBone Hamilton and the Blues All Stars featuring Bryan Lee & Greg Poulos
Saturday, February 1, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
TBone Hamilton and the Blues All-Stars are comprised of some of the best blues musicians. Bassist/Leader – Tom “TBone” Hamilton (TBone Hamilton Band, The Swinging Johnsons, Rock Bottom & the Cutaways) returns to the Firehouse Cultural Center with his Blues All Stars: Bryan Lee & Greg Poulos This show will be one special event – Not to be missed!
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Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Sunday, February 2, 2020    
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Pauline Smith, Telegraph Operator, 1913. Tampa Bay Hotel, Henry Plant’s grandest luxury railroad resort hotel, opened in 1891 at the height of America’s Gilded Age. More than 300 employees were needed for the opulent hotel to run smoothly. Step back in time & enjoy the single-character performances that brings two turn-of–the-century Hotel staff members to life. FREE.
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Literary Non-Fiction 1.0
Literary Non-Fiction 1.0
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 – Tuesday, March 10, 2020    
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Firehouse Cultural Center
Power in Truth Storytelling 1.0. For beginning writers and those who love to write. We all have our stories, ones that are funny, sad, inspirational, tragic… and true. Write yours!
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Friday, February 7, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Poetry Workshops
Poetry Workshops
Saturday, February 8, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Firehouse Cultural Center
Six -1.5-hour Poetry Workshops in 2020. Feb.; Apr.; June; Aug.; Oct.; & Dec. How to write the Love Poem, Seasonal Poem, Reflective Poem, Back-To-School Poem, Imagery-Rich Poem and the Holiday ‘Gift’ Poem.
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Saturday, February 8, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Sunday, February 9, 2020    
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Music Lecture Series 2019-2020
Music Lecture Series 2019-2020
Tuesday, February 11, 2020    
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
On February 11, 2020, The Symphony Orchestra: Its Roots, Ruin, and Return. Monthly, Jan. – May, 2020.
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Friday, February 14, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Saturday, February 15, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Sunday, February 16, 2020    
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play. A Family “Marvel” Comic Play. Presented by MacBeth & Cheese in Partnership with the Firehouse Cultural Center. Performances from February 7 – 16, 2020.
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Remix Studio Workshop: Alma Thomas
Remix Studio Workshop: Alma Thomas
Tuesday, February 18, 2020    
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Learn about how painter Alma Thomas builds up a painting, and create a unique abstract painting in the same style using the same process. Workshop guided step-by-step by artist and TMA Studio Programs Coordinator Anthony Record. Workshop inspired by the Alma Thomas work New Galaxy, currently on view in the exhibition The Making of a Museum: 100 Years 100 Works.
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Project Trio
Project Trio
Thursday, February 20, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
PROJECT Trio is a passionate, high energy chamber music ensemble comprised of three virtuosic composer/performers from Brooklyn, NY. Blending their classical training with an eclectic taste in musical styles, PROJECT Trio has made an impact on audiences of all ages.
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Comedy Night: G. David Howard & Quinton Greene
Comedy Night: G. David Howard & Quinton Greene
Friday, February 21, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Headliner G. David Howard returns to the Firehouse! Also featuring Quinton Greene!
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Alexis Cole
Alexis Cole
Saturday, February 22, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Alexis Cole, a respected world-traveled Jazz Vocalist from New York, will perform a special engagement at the Firehouse Pub.
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Leaping Into Folk Music: Charlie Morris + Opossum Hollow
Leaping Into Folk Music: Charlie Morris + Opossum Hollow
Saturday, February 29, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Firehouse Cultural Center
Charlie Morris has a brand new group, “OPOSSUM HOLLOW” and a brand new sound! This will be a CD release party for his new (not yet released) CD entitled “FOLKIE”. The group is all acoustic and performs all originals. The group consists of guitars, bass, mandolin, dobro, banjo, and fiddle
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Events on Monday, January 27, 2020
Wheel-Throwing
Wheel-Throwing
27 Jan 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Hand-Building Pottery
Hand-Building Pottery
28 Jan 20
Ruskin
Hand-Building Kids 8+
Hand-Building Kids 8+
28 Jan 20
Ruskin
Events on Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Relief Printmaking: Multiple Impressions
Relief Printmaking: Multiple Impressions
29 Jan 20
Ruskin
Events on Thursday, January 30, 2020
Open Pottery Studio
Open Pottery Studio
30 Jan 20
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, February 1, 2020
TBone Hamilton and the Blues All Stars featuring Bryan Lee & Greg Poulos
TBone Hamilton and the Blues All Stars featuring Bryan Lee & Greg Poulos
1 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Sunday, February 2, 2020
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
2 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Literary Non-Fiction 1.0
Literary Non-Fiction 1.0
4 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Friday, February 7, 2020
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
7 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, February 8, 2020
Poetry Workshops
Poetry Workshops
8 Feb 20
Ruskin
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
8 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Sunday, February 9, 2020
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
9 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Music Lecture Series 2019-2020
Music Lecture Series 2019-2020
11 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Friday, February 14, 2020
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
14 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, February 15, 2020
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
15 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Sunday, February 16, 2020
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
Pub Theater: Hammered, A Thor & Loki Play
16 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Remix Studio Workshop: Alma Thomas
Remix Studio Workshop: Alma Thomas
18 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Thursday, February 20, 2020
Project Trio
Project Trio
20 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Friday, February 21, 2020
Comedy Night: G. David Howard & Quinton Greene
Comedy Night: G. David Howard & Quinton Greene
21 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, February 22, 2020
Alexis Cole
Alexis Cole
22 Feb 20
Ruskin
Events on Saturday, February 29, 2020
Leaping Into Folk Music: Charlie Morris + Opossum Hollow
Leaping Into Folk Music: Charlie Morris + Opossum Hollow
29 Feb 20
Ruskin