Events – 15 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.

04/15/2025

10:00 am – 11:30 am
Metal Work and Rivets - April 15
Metal Work and Rivets – April 15
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 15 from 10:00 – 11:30 am.

04/15/2025

10:30 am – 11:15 am
3 Little Pigs Circus
3 Little Pigs Circus
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL

Step into the big top with this interactive The 3 Little Pigs, where the Big Bad Wolf could be the Hero. *FOR GRADES K-5*
Tuesday, April 15 at 10:30 am (40 minutes)

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Poetry Workshops
Saturday, August 8, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:00 am
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.
Painting with Watercolors
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Painting with Watercolors with Instructor: Barry Good, 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. August 12 – September 16, 2020.
Painting Studio
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 – Wednesday, September 16, 2020    
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Painting Studio with Dee Hood, A multi-level class for anyone who would like to explore acrylic painting. Work with representational painting, abstraction and collage while improving skills with color, composition and techniques. August 12 – September 16
Poetry 3-Day Workshop
Thursday, August 13, 2020 – Saturday, August 15, 2020    
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Poetic Process Workshop: In this exploratory, generative three-day workshop, poet John Davis Jr. will take participants through the steps of invention, brainstorming, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing their own poems.
Adult Clay & Play - Tuesdays
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 – Tuesday, September 8, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
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.
Clay & Play Morning
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
9:30 am – 11:30 am
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. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Kids age 7 -11
Clay & Play Afternoon
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Kids age 12 – 17
Adult Clay & Play - Thursdays
Thursday, August 20, 2020 – Thursday, September 10, 2020    
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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.
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino
Friday, August 21, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Comedy — 25 to Life! Mike Rivera & Jeff Gerbino. Come out and meet America’s Most Hilarious Teacher Mike Rivera and also featuring Jeff Gerbino. Both are decades-long headliners!
Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Saturday, August 22, 2020    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Otis Freedman “The Bishop”, Head Waiter, 1905. 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.
Jimmy Griswold Band: Fast Fingers Rocking Blues
Saturday, August 22, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Jimmy Griswold can regularly be found playing guitar at venues of all sizes. Jimmy pays homage to any artist he covers, whether it be the warm tones of T-bone Walker & B.B. King, or the screaming sounds of Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck and Steve Ray Vaughan, all while staying true to his original style.
Virtual Magic Show
Friday, August 28, 2020    
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The Firehouse Cultural Center is bringing performer Nathan Coe Marsh into your home via Zoom for an interactive, real-time performance. Every seat is a front row seat as you experience the impossible in comfort. The show features world class sleight-of-hand, illusions involving your mind, and stunning magic that occurs in the room with you. You read that right, Nathan will cause something amazing to happen on your side of the screen.
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel
Tuesday, September 1, 2020    
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Undressed Victorians: The Tampa Bay Hotel 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 and enjoy the single-character performances that brings two turn-of–the-century Hotel staff members to life.
Events on Saturday, August 8, 2020
Poetry Workshops
8 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Painting with Watercolors
12 Aug 20
Ruskin
Painting Studio
12 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Thursday, August 13, 2020
Poetry 3-Day Workshop
13 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Events on Thursday, August 20, 2020
Clay & Play Morning
20 Aug 20
Ruskin
Clay & Play Afternoon
20 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Friday, August 21, 2020
Events on Saturday, August 22, 2020
Events on Friday, August 28, 2020
Virtual Magic Show
28 Aug 20
Ruskin
Events on Tuesday, September 1, 2020