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[ January 10, 2009 to February 2, 2009. ] Lights on Tampa is a critically acclaimed and award winning program whose mission is to bring free access to artistic excellence. Its emphasis is on new media technologies and education. Lights On Tampa is informed by successful international models including BEAP (Biennial Electronic Art in Perth), and Lights of Turin.

From an international call to artists, [...]

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Lights On Tampa is a public/private partnership that bridges Tampa’s commitment to the arts, technology, and education and offers free access to artistic excellence. It is a cultural and aesthetic event designed to engage, entertain, and educate Tampa’s visitors and diverse community. Lights On Tampa is a biennial program that brings major contemporary artists to [...]

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Chattanooga sculptor John Henry is known worldwide for his large-scale public works of art.
His works grace numerous important museum, corporate, public and private collections as well as the collections of many American cities and states. His works are also prominently exhibited in the public collections of various European and Asian municipalities.
He’s currently working on his [...]

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From the Tampa Bay Business Journal:
The Tampa Museum of Art will be renamed the Cornelia Corbett Center upon its opening in fall 2009.
Corbett was board chair at the museum from 2004 to 2007 and remains a trustee. The board awarded her in 2007 with the Jeanne Rozier Winter Distinguished Award for [...]

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The Tampa Museum of Art recently hired Todd Smith away from the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC.  In the latest issue of that city’s “alternative weekly,” writer John Stoehr laments the loss of Todd Smith to Tampa’s Museum of Art:
Tampa is thinking big. Charleston isn’t. Smith was thinking big. His board wasn’t. So [...]

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[ October 3, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Tru Loved
October 3, 2008
Tampa Theatre
Price: $9
About Friends of the Festival, Inc. and Clip!

In 1988 Tampa’s GLBT film festival was originally named the Pride Film Festival, then later in the 1990’s became known as the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (TIGLFF). When Friends of the Festival, Inc. was formed as a legal 501(c)3 non-profit [...]

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[ October 5, 2008; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] James and the Giant Peach
October 5, 2008
Ferguson Hall
Price: Regularly priced tickets start at $8.50.
ABOUT THE SHOW

When a mysterious man gives him the gift of a life-changing, magical peach, James embarks on an exciting adventure (with larger-than-life insects!) inside the biggest peach the world has ever seen!

This presentation of the Roald Dahl classic is unique [...]

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[ October 4, 2008; 7:00 pm to 8:35 pm. ] Joel McHale
October 4, 2008
Ferguson Hall
Price: Regularly priced tickets start at $31.50.
ABOUT THE SHOW

Actor, comedian and current host of The Soup, the satirical weekly television show on E! Television network, Joel McHale brings his comedic talent and off-kilter subject material to TBPAC. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

Chris Hardwick will be the opening act for the show.

Ferguson [...]

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[ October 2, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] The Clip Film Festival presents Ruby Blue
Tampa Theatre
Price: $9

Bob Hoskins stars in this comic-drama as a grumpy old man, bereft of his wife and stuck at home with just his poor attitude, a bottle of booze, and some beloved homing pigeons. The next-door Mum drops her angel of a daughter for him to unwillingly babysit, [...]

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[ October 3, 2008; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Lewis Black
October 3, 2008
Carol Morsani Hall
Price: Regularly priced tickets start at $45.
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
ABOUT THE SHOW

George Carlin, Larry King and Jules Feiffer loved Lewis Black. They love him because his insights and love/hate relationship with America are brilliantly expressed in his appearances worldwide. Lewis’ live performances provide a cathartic release of anger and disillusionment [...]

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