At Sunspot Fresh Bar customers can grab a wrap or a salad to go or hang out surrounded by eye-popping or provocative artwork in the bar's rotating art gallery. Local artist Derek Donnelly is curator and founder of Saint Paint Arts, an artist cooperative. His work, as well as art for other local artists are featured at the eatery..
Entrepreneur Dona Crowley will showcase St. Petersburg's creative side in her fourth annual St. Pete Arts and Fashion Week, Sept. 15-20. A series of events kickoff Sept. 15 with an exclusive Opening Night Party and continue through the week with art shows at different downtown locations. The week ends with a fashion runway show at One Progress Plaza.
Film lovers accustomed to visiting Tampa each Fall to revel in the community’s cultural diversity during the annual Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival are in for special treats during this year’s Silver Anniversary celebration. For nine days in October, Tampa Theatre and freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg will create buzz around a lineup of more than 60 films from around the world.
The nonprofit CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse) is seeking donations of art to fill the rooms and halls of a new emergency shelter that will open in 2015 north of downtown St. Petersburg. The new shelter will double the capacity of CASA's current 30-bed facility and the art will provide a warm inviting atmosphere for hundreds of individuals who seek to escape domestic violence.
Using cloud software and Skype to communicate with its digital media team members living around the world, Tampa-based Theory Animation carves out its own niche in Florida's growing and highly competitive film industry.
St. Petersburg's residential building boom is garnering a lot of attention as developers re-invent downtown's skyline. Nonprofit Saint Petersburg Preservation plans to single out projects in 2014 that restored historical buildings and houses or created innovative new uses for older structures. Nominations for 2014 preservation awards are being accepted through Sept. 15 with awards handed out Oct. 24.
Cities are reinventing themselves in creative new ways. Can small-scale projects have big impact? Join the Urban Innovation Exchange this Sept. 24-26 in Detroit to explore creative projects driving neighborhood transformation and trade ideas for the future.
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