3rd Thursdays 6pm to 10pm Grand Central at Kennedy Enjoy some gourmet food truck fun paired with independent short flicks and live music! Pour House and City Dog Cantina provide micro brews and tasty cocktails. 10-15 gourmet food trucks will offer everything from burgers to vegetarian bites. 3rd Thursdays
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Shows at 7:30pm and 10pm Tampa Theatre Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor (and not, despite persistent rumors, a former Navy Seal). He spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and allow ourselves to be loved. He used puppets and play to fearlessly explore the most complicated and controversial issues of the day like race, disability, equality and violent tragedy. He spoke directly to children, and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him by the millions. This film explores the question of whether or not we have lived up to Fred’s ideal. Are we all good neighbors? Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Dancing at Lughnasa Begins 8pm Straz Center for the Performing Arts This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. Dancing at Lughnasa
Latin Nights Begins 9pm Straz Center for the Performing Arts An evening of food and dancing. Meet new friends, experience Latin-inspired tapas and drink specials and dance to the thrilling rhythms of a live salsa band and DJ. Latin Nights
Summer Specialty Tour Begins 1pm Henry B. Plant Museum Join the Henry B. Plant Museum for four exciting new tours this summer. This series includes in-depth examinations of untold stories from early Tampa and the Tampa Bay Hotel. Look at the Museum in a different light as you learn more about Rough Riders or Theodore Roosevelt, discover how the Tampa Bay Hotel fits into the larger story of Tampa, or bring your little ones for a special tour developed just for children. Summer Specialty Tour
Fourth Friday 4pm to 10pm Downtown Tampa and Ybor City When the sun goes down, the streets of Tampa and Ybor will light up with music, laughter, art, friends and FREE fun. This evening of special offerings and programs by cultural venues, restaurants, and more takes place on the fourth Friday of every month! Fourth Friday
International Photography Competition Opening 5pm to 7pm Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Photographers from all over the world submitted more than 700 entries across various categories. A panel of local curators and artists judged the submissions and selected the top three images from each of the seven categories. One additional image was voted People’s Choice by participating photographers and their peers, bringing the total number of images in the exhibition to 22. This awards ceremony will honor the winners and celebrate the spectacular entries. International Photography Competition Opening
Grown Up Night Begins 5:30pm Glazer Children’s Museum Grown Ups will take over the Museum to climb, jump, and build in the exhibits! Play like a kid again with parachutes, slinkies, and hula hoops. There will be free snacks and beer until they’re gone and cash bar will be available! Grown Up Night
Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train Begins 7pm Amalie Arena Multi-platinum and award-winning artists Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train will co-headline this momentous show in Downtown Tampa! This marks the first time legendary duo Daryl Hall & John Oates will tour together with fellow award-winning hitmakers, Train. Fans can expect full sets from both Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train, followed by a showstopping joint set. Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Shows at 7pm and 9:30pm Tampa Theatre Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor (and not, despite persistent rumors, a former Navy Seal). He spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and allow ourselves to be loved. He used puppets and play to fearlessly explore the most complicated and controversial issues of the day like race, disability, equality and violent tragedy. He spoke directly to children, and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him by the millions. This film explores the question of whether or not we have lived up to Fred’s ideal. Are we all good neighbors? Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Bobby Bones Red Hoodie Comedy Tour Begins 8pm Straz Center for the Performing Arts Radio DJ. Stand-up comedian. Best-selling author. Chart-topping recording artist. TV personality. Philanthropist. Bobby Bones has built his career on the ability to multi-task. Now Bobby hits the stage in Downtown Tampa with his brand-new stand-up act. New jokes, new show, same warped mind! Bobby Bones Red Hoodie Comedy Tour
Art Spot 11am to 2pm Tampa Museum of Art Let your imagination run free as the Museum’s art facilitators introduce exhibition-specific methods of art making filled with fun and creativity for you and yours. Art Spot
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Shows at 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm, and 9:30pm Tampa Theatre Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor (and not, despite persistent rumors, a former Navy Seal). He spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and allow ourselves to be loved. He used puppets and play to fearlessly explore the most complicated and controversial issues of the day like race, disability, equality and violent tragedy. He spoke directly to children, and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him by the millions. This film explores the question of whether or not we have lived up to Fred’s ideal. Are we all good neighbors? Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
The Got Jokes? Improv Experience Begins 7pm Stageworks Theatre This signature improv show brings together a diverse roster of all-stars to create an interactive experience that leaves the audience wanting to join the action. Got Jokes? is a family of national comedians, a growing business, a supporter of creative arts in the community, and the brainchild of founder Daniel Jefferson. The Got Jokes? Improv Experience
Tampa Bay Bridal Show Begins Noon Amalie Arena Something old, something new, so many details…what to do? Make it easy on yourself! Come to the Tampa Bay Bridal Show and spend the afternoon with the area’s bridal experts! Look for great fashions, tips and wedding advice plus door prizes, giveaways, and more. Tampa Bay Bridal Show
Tea for Tots Begins 2pm Oxford Exchange Join Oxford Exchange for a read along of a popular children’s book. Tea and light food options will be available for parents and little ones. Tea for Tots
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Begins 3pm Tampa Theatre Jem and Scout learn how their community values the words and lives of black and white people differently as they watch their father, Atticus, defend Tom Robinson against a charge of sexual assault. Immediately after the film, retired Tampa Bay Times film critic Steve Persall will lead a short discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird and an audience Q&A. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Dancing at Lughnasa Begins 4pm Straz Center for the Performing Arts This extraordinary play is the story of five unmarried sisters eking out their lives in a small village in Ireland in 1936. We meet them at the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of the harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. Their spare existence is interrupted by brief, colorful bursts of music from the radio, their only link to the romance and hope of the world at large. Dancing at Lughnasa
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Shows at 6:30pm and 9:15pm Tampa Theatre Fred Rogers led a singular life. He was a puppeteer. A minister. A musician. An educator. A father, a husband, and a neighbor (and not, despite persistent rumors, a former Navy Seal). He spent 50 years on children’s television beseeching us to love and allow ourselves to be loved. He used puppets and play to fearlessly explore the most complicated and controversial issues of the day like race, disability, equality and violent tragedy. He spoke directly to children, and they responded by forging a lifelong bond with him by the millions. This film explores the question of whether or not we have lived up to Fred’s ideal. Are we all good neighbors? Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
Yoga in the Park Begins 6pm Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park In operation since 2010 and brought to you by Tampa Downtown Partnership, Yoga in the Park is a free riverside yoga session led by an instructor from Yoga Downtown Tampa. Yoga in the Park
Amalie Arena Daryl Hall & John Oates and Train – June 22 HOT 101.5 Summer Jam 2018 – June 29 Sam Smith – July 13 The Smashing Pumpkins – July 25 WWE Smackdown Live – July 31 Panic! At the Disco – August 1 Kevin Hart – August 4 Journey & Def Leppard – August 18 Monster Jam – August 25 Paul Simon – September 7 Scorpions – September 14 15th Anniversary Freestyle Explosion Concert – September 15 Game of Thrones – September 21 Joyce Meyer Ministries 2018 Women’s Conference – October 25 to 27 Elton John – November 28 Fleetwood Mac – February 18, 2019 P!nk – March 3, 2019 Shawn Mendes – July 27, 2019
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Anonymous Women: Camouflage and Calamity – Through June 30 Minor League and Best Friends – Through June 30 Photoshop for Beginners – Through June 25 International Photography Competition 2018 – Through July 23 Beyond the Lense – July 1 to September 30 Tampa Photo Laureates – July 1 to September 30 Framing Places: The Fundamentals of Travel Photography – July 10 Composition Principles: From Basics to Advanced – July 12 Visual Story Telling through Fine Art Photography – July 29
Glazer Children’s Museum Make it Monday – Weekly Toddler Tuesday – Weekly Worldly Wednesday – Weekly Tinker and Tech Thursday – Weekly Fun Fridays – Weekly Summer of STEAM – Through July 31 New! Book Nook – Through August 12 Dino Zone – Through August 12 Grown Up Night – June 22 LEGO Engineer Squad – June 23 Hackathon Jr. – June 30 Children’s Board of Hillsborough Free Tuesday – July 3 Mindfulness with Evolve: Family Yoga – July 14 Back to Cool – August 1 to 31 Sportstember – September 1 to 30 Check the Museum’s website for a full list of weekday programming.
Henry B. Plant Museum First Fridays – First Friday of the Month Blue Star Museums – Through September 2 Imperial Designs – Through December 31
Jobsite Theater Dancing at Lughnasa – Through July 8
The John F. Germany Public Library Tai Chi with Bonnie Birdsall – Tuesdays Walk-In Tech Help – Wednesdays Toddler Time – Wednesdays Crafternoon – Thursdays Baby Sign – Thursdays Magic and Mayhem Present “8” – June 21 Community Drum Circle – June 21 Sewing: Plush Unicorn Head – June 23 Summer STEAM Club: Box Guitar – June 26 Introduction to YouTube – June 26 ABCs and 123s of Yoga – June 27 Lost World Reptiles – June 28 Introduction to Braille: Six Magic Dots – June 28 Recording Studio Open House – June 28
Patel Conservatory Hello, Dolly! – July 12 to 22 Summer Jazz Intensive – July 20 End-of-Summer Music Blowout – August 1 Showstoppers: Broadway Intensive – August 3 to 5 Summer Evening of Dance – August 10
Stageworks Theatre The Speak! Tank: Spoken Word Sundays – First Sunday of every month Christ Fellowship – Wednesdays Ugly Lies the Bone – August 9 to 19
Straz Center for the Performing Arts Latin Nights – June 21 Bobby Bones Red Hoodie Comedy Tour – June 22 Menopause The Musical – June 27 to July 1 Bring It! Live – July 1 Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella – July 5 to 8 Latin Nights – July 12 mad Theatre of Tampa presents It Shoulda Been You – July 12 to 29 Opera Tampa League’s Wonderful Wednesday – July 18 Next Generation Ballet’s Summer Intensive Showcase – July 20 Gilbert & Sullivan Trial by Jury – July 21 and 22 The FUN Show with Cat & Nat – July 22
Tampa Bay History Center Old Glory – Through July 2018 Touchton Map Library Insiders Tour – July 18 Flag Exhibit Tour – July 20
Tampa Museum of Art The Classical World: Selections from the Permanent Collection – Ongoing The Classical World in Focus: Animals in Ancient Art – Ongoing Monday Meditation at the Museum – Mondays Art on the House – Fridays Art Spot – Saturdays Having a Ball – Through July 22 Inspired by Nature – Through July 22 Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell And Jesús Rafael Soto – Through September 30 From Muse and Myth to Figure and Gesture – Through August 19 CITY: Fashion+Art+Culture – September 22 Pavilion XXXIII – November 3
Tampa Theatre Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Through June 27 To Kill A Mockingbird – June 24 Gone With The Wind – July 1 Dr. Strangelove – July 8 The Les Brown Experience – July 11 Kings Coast Roast of King Gothalion – July 12 The Perfect Storm – July 13 A Fish Called Wanda – July 15 BeerFest 2018: Hop Gun – July 21 Safety Last – July 22 Sing-Along Mary Poppins – July 28 Rope – August 5 The Manchurian Candidate – August 12 Blazing Saddles – August 19 The Wizard of Oz – August 26 Casablanca – September 2 SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque – September 28 Iron & Wine – November 15
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