Events – 8 Apr 25

03/17/2025  – 04/21/2025

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Paint it Your Way: Watercolor Or Acrylic
Paint it Your Way: Watercolor Or Acrylic
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Paint it Your Way: Watercolor Or Acrylic. Your Choice! Share the love of painting while enriching your skill set, no matter the medium. Instructor: Helen Solomon. Mondays, Mar .17 – April 21, 2025, Six (6) week class. Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm.

03/25/2025  – 04/29/2025

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Adult Clay - A.M. Tuesdays
Adult Clay – A.M. Tuesdays
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. Tuesdays: 9:30am – Noon. Adults. Book Monthly, Mar 2025 – Dec 2025.

04/01/2025  – 05/02/2025

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Open Pottery Studio - A.M. Tuesdays
Open Pottery Studio – A.M. Tuesdays
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Welcome to our Open Pottery Studio – a supervised, creative space where potters of all skill levels can explore, practice, and perfect their craft. This monitored environment ensures safety and support while offering access to professional-grade tools, wheels, and kilns. Whether you are hand-building, throwing, or glazing, our staff is available during all open studio hours to assist, answer questions, and maintain a safe, respectful studio atmosphere. Must have class experience to attend. Tuesdays: 9:30am – Noon. Adults. March 2025 – December 2025.

04/03/2025  – 05/04/2025

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Open Pottery Studio - A.M. Thursdays
Open Pottery Studio – A.M. Thursdays
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Welcome to our Open Pottery Studio – a supervised, creative space where potters of all skill levels can explore, practice, and perfect their craft. This monitored environment ensures safety and support while offering access to professional-grade tools, wheels, and kilns. Whether you are hand-building, throwing, or glazing, our staff is available during all open studio hours to assist, answer questions, and maintain a safe, respectful studio atmosphere. Must have class experience to attend. Thursdays: 9:30am – Noon. Adults. Book March 2025 – December 2025.

04/08/2025

10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Baby Birds: Acrylic Painting Workshop
Baby Birds: Acrylic Painting Workshop
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Using a 6 inch by 12 inch painting surface, using acrylics, these baby birds will be making their debut, created by you! You’ll be mentored step by step through all the techniques needed to bring these chubby babies to life. This is your opportunity, for beginners and those with more advanced painting skills. Instructor is Debbie Goode. Tuesday April 8th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 30 minute lunch break.

04/08/2025

10:00 am – 11:30 am
Metal Work and Rivets - April 8
Metal Work and Rivets – April 8
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Metal Work and Rivets Workshop: Flowers, Keychains, Pins or Pendants. Use pre shaped metal that you texture, rivet and shape for your design of endless possibilities. No more than 6 per class, $20 per student. Tuesday, April 8 from 10:00 – 11:30 am.

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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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