Community Calendar

SunCoast Blood Centers, the region's local, community non-profit blood bank has an immediate need for blood to service the local hospitals in Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto & Charlotte counties, along with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. As a member of the Blood Emergency Readiness Corp (BERC Network) we recently rushed much needed blood to hospitals in South Texas (scene of the tragic school schooling in Uvalde, TX). We’re expecting to have to make another shipment soon. This has impacted our local reserves which was critically low due to the national blood crisis. There’s an urgent and immediate need for O-Positive and O-Negative blood to service patients in our area. Please call 1-866-97-BLOOD to schedule your blood donation or on our website www.suncoastblood.org. Thank you for Giving Locally and Saving Globally!

Creative Clay's September virtual exhibit, "Inclusivity: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month," features artwork by Member Artists Ali V., Carla L. and Marcus S. The exhibit coincides with National Hispanic Heritage Month.
View this exhibit at www.creativeclay.org and choose the "Gallery" tab. Beginning September 15, this exhibit may be seen in person at Creative Clay's Good Folk Gallery. Creative Clay is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Creative Clay’s Good Folk Gallery and online Virtual Gallery also include the artwork of many of Creative Clay’s member artists.

Creative Clay is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram @creativeclaystpete, LinkedIn and Twitter@creativeclay.

This event is free and open to the public, and is presented by GENERATOR: USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Matthew Mazzotta works at the intersection of art, activism, and urbanism, focusing on the power of the built environment to shape our relationships and experiences. During his presentation, Mazzotta will expand on how his community-specific public projects integrate new forms of civic participation and social engagement into the built environment and reveal how the spaces we travel through and spend our time living within have the potential to become distinct sites for meaningful exchange. His artist’s talk will also provide insight into his process of community listening to engage people from a range of backgrounds in dialogue to create new models of living that contribute to local culture beyond the economic realm.

Mazzotta’s projects have been internationally recognized and his most recent site-specific public art commission, a larger-than-life flamingo, titled HOME (2022), has already established an iconic and memorable presence in the Main Terminal of the Tampa International Airport.

About the Artist - Matthew Mazzotta’s public projects have received international art and architecture awards such as “Architecture Project of the Year” by the Dezeen Awards at the Tate Modern in London, and six of his projects have been recognized by the Americans for the Arts. His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, NPR, The Huffington Post, Discovery Channel, and Science Magazine to name a few, and presented at the Cooper Hewitt-Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC. Mazzotta received his BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Master’s of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology. He is TED Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.

SunCoast Blood Centers, the region's local, community non-profit blood bank has an immediate need for blood to service the local hospitals in Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto & Charlotte counties, along with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. As a member of the Blood Emergency Readiness Corp (BERC Network) we recently rushed much needed blood to hospitals in South Texas (scene of the tragic school schooling in Uvalde, TX). We’re expecting to have to make another shipment soon. This has impacted our local reserves which was critically low due to the national blood crisis. There’s an urgent and immediate need for O-Positive and O-Negative blood to service patients in our area. Please call 1-866-97-BLOOD to schedule your blood donation or on our website www.suncoastblood.org. Thank you for Giving Locally and Saving Globally!

Creative Clay's September virtual exhibit, "Inclusivity: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month," features artwork by Member Artists Ali V., Carla L. and Marcus S. The exhibit coincides with National Hispanic Heritage Month.
View this exhibit at www.creativeclay.org and choose the "Gallery" tab. Beginning September 15, this exhibit may be seen in person at Creative Clay's Good Folk Gallery. Creative Clay is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Creative Clay’s Good Folk Gallery and online Virtual Gallery also include the artwork of many of Creative Clay’s member artists.

Creative Clay is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram @creativeclaystpete, LinkedIn and Twitter@creativeclay.

Join us as we explore the special exhibition Gio Swaby: Fresh Up! First, discover the science, history, and art of fabric production around the world, then learn how this contemporary artist turns fabric and string into “love letters to Black women” as you create your own textile art in the galleries.

Free for members, through Museums for All, or with the cost of admission.

Spots are limited. Advanced registration recommended!

The prolific Amiri Baraka once said, “There is no depth to education without art.” America experienced a racial awakening in 2020 as the Black Lives Matter movement forced the country to examine its complex relationship with race. Although “Dutchman” premiered almost 60 years ago during the height of the Civil Rights movement, this Obie Award winning masterpiece is a timeless play about race and identity in America focused on the political and psychological struggle between African Americans and White Americans… a story that is more timely now than ever before. Set in New York City, this provocative story challenges us to think about the part we all play in America’s problems with race. The New York Times said, “‘Dutchman’ endures because it resists simple allegory,” and The New Yorker said, “[Dutchman] remains as seditious today as it [ever] was.” American Stage is proud to present a contemporary, fresh interpretation of this soul-stirring American classic. TIMES: Wednesdays and Thursdays @ 7pm Friday & Saturday Evenings @ 8pm Saturday and Sun Matinees at 2pm PRICES: Wednesday Preview, June 29, “Pay What You Can” at the door or $30 in advance Thursday Preview, June 30, $32 Wednesday and Thursday Evenings & Saturday Matinees, $47 Sunday Matinees, $53 Friday/Saturday Evenings, $53/57 Opening Night, July 1, $75

FREE EVENT!
Experience the wonders of Aerospace through a full dat of hands-on activities:
• Launch stomp rockets
• Study a solar observation
• Fly foam gliders
• Climb in a Planetarium
• Build a wing rib
• Fly a drone
• Try a scavenger hunt
• Make balsa gliders
• Create a paper airplane
• WIN PRIZES!

COME EARLY AND CAMP! Campground open Friday evening
Use code EDU15OFF for 50% off Camping

FREE EVENT!
Experience the wonders of Aerospace through a full dat of hands-on activities:
• Launch stomp rockets
• Study a solar observation
• Fly foam gliders
• Climb in a Planetarium
• Build a wing rib
• Fly a drone
• Try a scavenger hunt
• Make balsa gliders
• Create a paper airplane
• WIN PRIZES!

COME EARLY AND CAMP! Campground open Friday evening
Use code EDU15OFF for 50% off Camping

SunCoast Blood Centers, the region's local, community non-profit blood bank has an immediate need for blood to service the local hospitals in Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto & Charlotte counties, along with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. As a member of the Blood Emergency Readiness Corp (BERC Network) we recently rushed much needed blood to hospitals in South Texas (scene of the tragic school schooling in Uvalde, TX). We’re expecting to have to make another shipment soon. This has impacted our local reserves which was critically low due to the national blood crisis. There’s an urgent and immediate need for O-Positive and O-Negative blood to service patients in our area. Please call 1-866-97-BLOOD to schedule your blood donation or on our website www.suncoastblood.org. Thank you for Giving Locally and Saving Globally!