Previous Programs & Events (2006)
An Overview of Past Performances, Exhibits & Event

2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008

 



Pattern Connections

01/14/06 - 01/23/06

Pattern Connections

Through the use of both traditional and contemporary mediums, this installation explores the connections and common threads across cultures. Play is the device in which the artists explore these connections, using materials and patterns specific to each culture. Textiles, paper, video, sound and photographs are the chosen tools.

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The St. Petersburg Chamber Music Festival

02/01/06



Quantum Winds and Friends present an evening of American Music. Included in the program are two world premieres; one by TFO Principal Bassist, Dee Moses, featuring dancer- choreographer, Elsa Valbuena, and a new Sextet by TFO Principal Bassoonist, Mark Sforzini.

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An evening of erotic poetry, words & music

02/11/06

Heart

An evening of love, lust and dirty talk as we prepare
for Valentines Day.

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EMIT:
Oba Oba Bossa Nova!


02/15/06

Brisa Do Brasil Quartet

Brisa Do Brasil Quartet

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Fanatic Voyage of
New York Artists


01/28/06 - 02/18/06

Fanatic Voyage

Paintings and sounds by artists from the Lower East Side of New York known as the Fanatic Voyage Collective

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Ironweed Film Club - Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

02/17/06

Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

The Studio@620's Ironweed Film Club will host its first film called Wetback. Ironweed features socially-conscious, independent, documentary films every month.

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Tunde Odunlade:
Nigerian Artist and Musician


02/26/06

Tunde Odunlade

An evening of drumming, art, conversation and food.

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620 Round Table on Social Justice / 2005 -2006 Series

09/28/05 - 03/16/06

Social Justice

A forum for Tampa Bay community leaders to discuss social justice issues affecting our community

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Poetry Reading:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko


03/14/06

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Acclaimed Russian poet, filmmaker and political activist.

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Reception Benefit for Chernoh Alpha M. Bah

03/21/06

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Former child soldier and award-winning journalist.

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John Hope Franklin
and Ray Arsenault


03/28/06

John Hope Franklin and Ray Arsenault

An extraordinary talk and book signing by two outstanding authors.

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Three Plays in Rep

03/24/06 - 04/02/06

Master Harold And The Boys

"Master Harold"...
And The Boys

The Education
of Ezra Pound

Direct From Death Row,
The Scottsboro Boys

Three plays in rotating repetition will be presented along with discussion sessions.


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Ironweed Films:
Seoul Train & North Korea: A Day in the Life


03/30/06

Seoul Train

Films with two different perspectives of North Korea.

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EMIT
Gustavo Matamoros
& Charles Recher


04/04/06

EMIT: Gustavo Matamoros & Charles Recher

A stunning evening of sound and vision.


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Renée Stout:
From Four until Midnight— The Music and the Necessary Noise


04/07/06 - 04/28/06

Renée Stout

Art layered with meaning and informed by deep understanding.

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Musicians Out of the Box

04/12/06

MOB: Musicians Out of the Box

Progressive String Quartet Performs Contemporary Music of Ireland


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Ironweed Film:
Salt of the Earth


04/19/06

Salt of the Earth

One of the most important films in American history, a compelling drama that focuses on Latino civil rights, women’s issues, and labor relations.

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3 for the Soul

04/20/06

EMIT: Gustavo Matamoros & Charles Recher

A collaborative evening of art, dance, theatre, music and poetry.

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Say What?
A Spoken Word Event


04/14/06 - 04/28/06

Say What? A Spoken Word Event

A gathering of poets, visual artists, dancers, and musicians devoted to the celebration of the word.

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artHEALS 2006 : An Evening of Healing

05/04/2006
artHEALS 2006


A special fundraising auction featuring the artistic expressions of survivors of sexual violence.

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SunScreen Film & Video Festival

05/06/06 - 05/07/06

Sun Screen Film Festival

Shorts, animation, feature length and documentary film from across the county.


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Krapp's Last Tape

05/13/06 - 05/21/06

Krapp's Last Tape - Image

A play written by Samuel Beckett and newly realized for the stage and directed by T. Scott Wooten


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Ironweed Film:
Street Fight


05/26/06

Street Fight

The gloves come off in Marshall Curry's Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling the 2002 mayoral race in Newark, New Jersey.

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Carol Dameron:
Wake Up Different in The Terrible Mirror of The Sky


05/12/06 - 06/10/06



An exhibition of new works by Carol Dameron

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Vincent R. Gardner
in Concert


06/04/06

Vincent R. Gardner

Presented by the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association.


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@620 on 6/20 at 6:20

06/20/06

The Studio@620

The Annual Celebration and Fundraiser for The Studio@620


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Ironweed Film:
The Education
of Shelby Knox


06/23/06

The Education of Shelby Knox

Shelby Knox is a Lubbock, Texas high school student, a good Baptist girl—and the most outspoken advocate of sex education in town.

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Babs Reingold:
Labyrinth: Current Millennium


06/16/06 - 07/15/06

Labyrinth: Current Millennium

An installation by Babs Reingold.


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Ironweed Film Club:
Private


07/13/06

Private

A Palestinian family living between an Arab village
and an Israeli settlement finds their house beseiged by the Israeli army.


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Manifesto

07/21/2006 - 07/22/2006

Manifesto

A workshop performance, with music and reading, of an Irish love story by Dylan Glatthorn


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A Midsummer Night's Erotic Dream

07/28/06

A Midsummer Night's Erotic Dream

A summer evening of heat, love, lust, music and dirty talk.


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Dare Not Walk Alone

07/29/06

Dare Not Walk Alone

Documentary Film Bridging the Gap Between the Civil Rights Generation and the Hip-Hop Generation


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The Florida Highwaymen: Even Further Down the Road

07/19/06 - 08/12/06

The Florida Highwaymen

A Florida Highwaymen Painting


An exhibition of paintings featuring Florida's wetlands.

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Ironweed Film:
Shakespeare Behind Bars


08/12/06

Shakespeare Behind Bars

An all-male Shakespeare company working behind bars at Kentucky’s Luther Luckett Correctional Complex.


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The Wild Party

08/18/06 - 08/20/06

The Wild Party


Andrew Lippas's steamy tale of manipulation, jealousy, and jazz-age decadence (at The Palladium Theater).


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Brasil Arts Festival

08/20/06

Brasil Arts Festival


EMIT and BrasilArts present Brazilian art, music and theater.


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Maria Saraceno:
Willful Encounters
(at a bus stop)


08/18/06 - 08/26/06

Willful Encounters

Video and photographs crossing societal barriers.

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Installation No. 1

09/01/06 - 09/08/06


Light show

Exhibition of combustion, explosion and flame by the Dainty Art Collective


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Rights Have No Borders

09/20/06

Rights Have No Borders

Excerpts from the award-winning play, The Day I Opened My Eyes, highlighting international family planning issues.

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Ironweed Films:

09/22/06

Live From Shiva's
Dance Floor


Live From Shivas  Dance Floor

A roving philosophical exploration of New York City told by the city's most
famous "cruiser," Timothy "Speed" Levitch.

Genesis


Genesis

A mystical, beautiful look at the life cycles on Planet Earth

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Linda Newcomb:
Hurricane Wind /
Mambo Moon
(Keeping Our Home Alive)


09/15/06 - 09/30/06

Keeping Our Home Alive - Photo

Words, Objects, and Images of New Orleans after Katrina by Linda Newcomb.

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Ceramic Bell Installation

09/16/06 - 09/30/06

Ceramic Bells

A unique installation of tuned ceramic bells hung in tonal and spacial groupings.

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Midtown:
Through Our Eyes


10/06/06 - 10/15/06

two   little girls

Photo exhibit and magazine show of the Midtown community —the challenges, dreams and richness of the neighborhood— through the eyes of the students.

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"In Dreams Awake" Film Reception and Painting Exhibit of Bill Petrie works

10/12/06



Tobacco farmer, artist, political activist, prolific painter, and passionate gay man living in the rural bluegrass of Grant County, Kentucky.

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Loren Cass

10/14/06

Loren Cass

A film explores growing up in St. Petersburg amid racial tensions.

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Ironweed Films:

10/13/06

How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff

How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff

How Democrats and Progressives need to look at the world in order to be heard in the era of sound-bytes.

American Blackout

American Blackout

A look at the ways in which the African-American vote has been manipulated and disenfranchised in American elections.

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Orchestra Overview
by Susan Haig


10/04/06
Beethoven! 
So what's with Beethoven?


10/09/06
Nature, nationalism, and heart-on-sleeve composers

10/18/06
Orchestral music today

Susan Haig

A three evening program, by the Associate Conductor of the Florida Orchestra, covering orchestral music, composers, concepts, and terms.

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Exploring My Options by Maureen McDole

10/21/06

Exploring My Options

Poetry Book Release Party

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So Far... the evolution of my own deconstruction

10/20/06 - 10/28/06

So Far...

The art of Roby MacDougall.

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Soul Astrology: Venus in Relationship - Loving and Being Loved

10/27/06

Margaret Koolman

A lecture, by Margaret Koolman, on recognizing the beauty within.

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The God and Goddess Party + Book Release

10/28/06

The Rose by Venus Jones

A Toga Party and Book Release "She Rose" by Venus Jones.

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African People's
Solidarity Day


11/01/06

African People's Solidarity Day

Teach-in and benefit for African-led development
projects and liberation movements. Speakers from South Africa, Congo and the U.S. Video from the diamond
fields of Sierra Leone.

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Veterans Day:
Pro-Peace Films


11/11/06

Winter Soldier

Presented by Veterans for Peace Tampa Bay 119.

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Open Mic Poetry Competition

11/13/06



Spoken word youth competition put on by Mayhem Poets.

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Guatemalan Fotokids Exhibit

11/04/06 - 11/18/06

Guatemalan Fotokids Exhibit

Guatemala as seen through the eyes of it's children.

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Ironweed Films:

11/17/06


Sir! No Sir!

Sir! No Sir!

Night Visions

Night Visions

Two films that reflect the soldier's experience of risk, passion and rage and echoing the old axiom, "war is hell".

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Southernmost Art and Literary Portraits

11/18/06

Southernmost Art and Literary Portraits

Photographer Jimm Roberts offers insight into his work and that of the 50 internationally noted artists and writers he photographed in the south.

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The St. Petersburg Mens Chorus Inaugural Fundraiser-Cocktail Party

12/09/06

The St. Petersburg Mens Chorus

Door Prizes, Raffles and a Silent Auction.

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Emily Page: The Quickening: Pulses, Bodies, Rhythms

12/01/06 - 12/16/06

Epaulet

Thirty new works of oil on canvas and copper as a moving tribute to renowned writer, dancer, and teacher Beatrice Page.

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St. Lucia Celebration

12/13/06

St. Lucia Celebration

A Special Swedish Tradition.

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Ironweed Films:

"Ryan's Well" &
"The Boys of Baraka"

12/15/06

The Boys of Baraka

Two films that document young people’s struggles toward positive change in themselves and for their communities.

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Connie May Fowler: Novelist, Memoirist, and Screenwriter

12/16/06

Connie May Fowler

Chapter II: Writers & Authors Series (in 12 Chapters).

Please bring an unwrapped child's books for the CASA program, "Hope for the  Holidays."

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Illuminations: Stories in Light and Shadow

12/22/06 - 01/06/07

Illuminations: Stories in Light and Shadow

Winter Solstice Celebration, Interactive First Night Event, and ongoing exhibit through the Christmas holidays by the Oiseaux Sisters and friends.

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'Shadow Gardens' an Interactive First Night Event

12/31/06

Illuminations: Stories in Light and Shadow

A varied and ever-changing troupe of shadow creatures created by site visitors of all ages that will dance across the walls, screens and ceiling, mingling with the cut shapes of an artist-made shadow cast.

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