Events – 14 Jan 23

01/05/2023  – 02/05/2023

9:30 am – 11:30 am
Adult Clay - A.M. Thursdays
Adult Clay – A.M. Thursdays
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

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.

01/09/2023  – 02/13/2023

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Painting with Watercolors
Painting with Watercolors
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

You will explore color, dive into a variety of brush strokes from flat washes to dancing with your brushes; techniques from wet to scrubbing; and more. This class is for all levels, heighten your skills or find your hidden talent. Mondays, Jan. 9 thru Feb. 13, 2023.

01/10/2023  – 02/14/2023

9:30 am – 11:30 am
Acrylic Experience
Acrylic Experience
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Explore acrylic media and techniques more in-depth study of acrylics, aesthetics, and medium. Students will talk about their work and the work of others in the classroom critiques at the start each class. This class is for all levels, heighten your skills or find your hidden talent. Tuesdays, Jan. 10 thru Feb. 14, 2023.

01/14/2023  – 01/21/2023

10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Fill Your Heart with Glass, a Glass Fusing Workshop
Fill Your Heart with Glass, a Glass Fusing Workshop

Create 9 Unique Glass Hearts! Experience the Art of Glass Fusing. Fill your heart with glass, with this 2-class workshop, you create unique hearts using molds, nippers, hammers, and cutters. Just in time to give your heart away for Valentines. All Materials Supplied. Saturday, Jan. 14 and Saturday, Jan 21 from 10:00 am – noon.

01/14/2023

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Memphis Rub Band
Memphis Rub Band
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

POSTPONED! Due to a medical emergency, we need to postpone this event. We are rescheduling, no date as of yet. Please call the Firehouse 813-645-7651 for any questions.
The Memphis Rub Band is a 4-piece band from Florida’s Suncoast area. They perform a blend of blues and rock with a bit of R&B and funk mixed in. Come out and see The Memphis Rub Band, a dynamic group, Saturday, Jan 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm.

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7:30 PM – Roy Book Binder
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7:30 PM – Ken Waldman
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Magic Cabaret: LeLand Faulkner & Nathan C. Marsh
Friday, February 5, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Join us for an evening of infectious laughter, stunning impossibilities, and the most fun you’ve had with a blowtorch, samurai sword , paper, duct tape and an iPad
06 Feb
Saturday, February 6, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Singer-Songwriter-Storyteller-Bluesman. Roy Book Binder has been rambling around the world for the past 45 years. In the early ’70’s he left Greenwich Village and spent the next 15 years criss-crossing the US and appearing at festivals throughout Canada and Europe.
Valerie Gillespie "French, Language of Love & Romance"
Saturday, February 13, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The Valerie Gillespie Ensemble is dedicated to the preservation of live jazz. Valerie’s group performs a mix of instrumental and vocal jazz, and they stay very busy doing live performances as well as recording. This concert will be the perfect date night for your valentine, focusing on French love songs and Jazz from the heart!
19 Feb
Friday, February 19, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
America’s Most Hilarious Teacher Mike Rivera returns. Sloan is guaranteed to have your sides hurting from laughter. Don’t miss this one!
The Tom Hamilton Quartet
Saturday, February 20, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Tom Hamilton is a straight ahead jazz band, well known in the Tampa Bay area as one of leading jazz/blues bassists. As a studio musician, he recently recorded on bluesman Roy Book Binder’s new album, “The Good Book,” which reached #3 in the Americana charts.
27 Feb
Saturday, February 27, 2016    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Alaska’s fiddling poet. Ken has 9 cd’s of old time Appalachian-style string band music. A former college professor, writer and storyteller; as a performer he’s played from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Berkeley’s Freight and Salvage.
05 Mar
Saturday, March 5, 2016    
5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Gala Chair & Hosts, County Commissioner Sandra L. Murman, and Greg & Donna Rothfeldt, invite you to our annual Gala! Enjoy live entertainment, silent & live auctions, open bar and dinner, while supporting the Firehouse.
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The Tom Hamilton Quartet
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