Tampa. City Guide. Arts & Entertainment. An Adventure About the Fun of Museums, Their Future, and Locating Museum Stores

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1 Tampa Arts & Entertainment City Guide December 2008 An Adventure About the Fun of Museums, Their Future, and Locating Museum Stores What is the Definition of Fine Art The Life and Writings of George Bernard Shaw

2 Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare A Body of Water by Lee Blessing Elizabeth and Edward by Aubrey Hampton Teen Acting Classes 4419 N Huber t Avenue enic Toreador, The Hallucinog ) (19 Salvador Dalí I believe that I am the savior of modern art, the only one who can sublimate, integrate, and rationalize, in an imperial manner and with beauty, all the revolutionary experiences of modern times. -- Salvador Dalí and Max Gérard, Dalí, p.208 Dalí museum 1000 Third Street South St. Petersburg, FLorida

3 Sports Tampa Bay Buccaneers One Buccaneer Place (813) Tampa Bay Lightning 401 Channelside Drive (813) Tampa Bay Rays One Tropicana Drive, St. Petersburg, FL (727) Tampa Bay Storm 401 Channelside Drive (813) For the young and the young at heart Tampa s Lowry Park Zoo offers enjoyment for everyone. Contents An Adventure About the Fun of Museums, Their Future, and Locating Museum Stores The Life and Writings of George Bernard Shaw Page 4 Page 2 Area Arts and Entertainment What is the Definition of Fine Art Pages 6-8 Page 4 Theme Parks Adventure Island McKinley Drive (813) Visit more than 2,000 animals in lush habitats and experience our rides, water play areas, shows and restaurants. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay 3000 E Busch Boulevard (813) Open 9:30am to 5pm Daily Dinosaur World 1101 W Sligh Ave 5145 Harvey Tew Road, Plant City, FL (813) Discovery Cove 6000 Discovery Cove Way, Orlando, FL (407) National Golf Drive Tampa, FL SeaWorld Orlando 7007 SeaWorld Drive, Orlando, FL (407) Tampa s Lowry Park Zoo 1101 W Sligh Avenue (813) Do You Dream of Africa? This 45 acre, wildlife sanctuary is home to 140 cats representing 16 species of wild cat. Lions Tigers Geoffroy Cats Jungle Cats Servals Caracals Snow Leopards Bobcats Lynx and more We are not a zoo. Our animals peace and tranquility come first. The only way to visit is on one of our guided tours Easy Street Tampa, FL

4 Jim Campbell: Library 2004 L.E.D. continuous-motion image with attached Plexiglas and photogravure, 26 1/4 x 31 1/2 x 3 Edition: 6 Florida Museum Of Photographic Arts Glazer Children s Museum 7550 N Boulevard (813) Henry B. Plant Museum 401 W Kennedy Boulevard (813) MOSI - Museum of Science & Industry 4801 E Fowler Avenue (813) Salvador Dali Museum rd Street S, St. Petersburg (727) Tampa Bay Automobile Museum 3301 Gateway Centre Bouleard, Pinellas Park, FL (727) Tampa Bay History Center 801 St. Pete Times Forum Drive (813) Tampa Museum of Art 2306 N Howard Avenue (813) University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum 4202 E Fowler Avenue, CAM101 (813) Ybor City State Museum 1818 E 9th Avenue (813) Performing Arts & Concerts American Stage 211 3rd Street S, St. Petersburg, FL (727) Ford Amphitheatre 4802 U.S. Highway 301 N (813) Gorilla Theatre 4419 N Hubert Avenue (813) Skipper s Smokehouse and Oyster Bar 910 Skipper Road (813) St. Pete Times Forum 401 Channelside Drive (813) Stageworks Theatre P.O. Box 3428 (813) Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center 1010 N W.C. MacInnes Place (813) Tampa Improv Comedy Theater & Restaurant 1600 E 8th Avenue, Suite C 112 (813) The Lakeland Center 701 W Lime Street, Lakeland, FL (863) Tuesday through Saturday 10:00am to 5:00pm Downtown Tampa 200 North Tampa Street West Hillsborough Ave N. Howard Avenue

5 Casinos & Racing Emerald Greens Golf Resort & Country Club Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Clubhouse Drive (813) N Orient Road (813) Heritage Isles Golf & Country Club Tampa Bay Downs Plantation Bay Drive (813) Race Track Road (813) Rocky Point Golf Course Tampa Greyhound Track 4151 Dana Shores Drive (813) N Nebraska Avenue (813) Rogers Park Golf Course Comedy Club 7911 N Willie Black Drive (813) Tampa Improv Comedy Theater & Restaurant 1600 E 8th Avenue, Suite C 112 (813) Tampa Palms Golf & Country Club Game Room & Activity Center Westchase Golf Club 5811 Tampa Palms Boulevard (813) Westchase Golf Drive (813) GameWorks 1600 E 8th Avenue, Suite A147 (813) Movie Theatre Tampa Theatre Q-Zar Laser Tag Events 711 N Franklin Street (813) N Dale Mabry Highway (813) Museums Splitsville 615 Channelside Drive (813) American Victory Mariners Memorial & Museum Ship Golf Courses 705 Channelside Drive, Berth 271 (813) Ace Golf/Pebble Creek Golf Club The Arts Center Regents Park Drive (813) Babe Zaharias Golf Course 719 Central Avenue, St. Petersburg, FL (727) Forest Hills Drive (813) Florida Holocaust Museum An Adventure About the Fun of Museums, Their Future, and Locating Museum Stores By Dana D Williams Museums are about exceptional objects and although many people believe that a personal Web site can offer as much as a museum, the reality is that they can t. Despite these feelings people were apprehensive to sit tight on their skills, non-action could result in the loss of the digital revolution initiative; Library and information people had already lost the initiative on search engines to the business world. Museums are also closely related to processes of urban regeneration and cultural revival in contemporary cities. Museums are at different stages of dealing with existing content and planning for future action. Like many other producers, owners and users of digital content, museums have a relatively brief history understanding the trappings of building and caring for large collections of heterogeneous digital content or temporary groupings of content, some of which may be built very purposely for example, to fill lacunae in digital content collections and others of which may compound organically in less filtered and less structured fits and starts. Museums are places for sharing, where scientists share the results of their work with the community. Museums are also nurturing places, home for many scientists. They are special places for us to learn about special objects and materials. When you come into that space, you learn about things in a short period of time. Museum replicas are in a unique position to lead by example and proactively address challenges in a nonthreatening, educational, and public way - through the topics they choose for exhibits, and, more importantly, through the way we do business. 55 5th Street S, St. Petersburg, FL (727) Bloomingdale Golfers Club 4113 Great Golfers Place (813) Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Inc. The Claw at USF 200 N Tampa Street (813) N 46th Street (813) Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC 6 3 Museums can bridge the gap between science and history. For example, much of what we understand about the past has been discovered or confirmed using scientific analysis. Museums can profit from this expertise as well as avoid the pitfalls of the oftensuperficial localization strategies that corporations use for their global products. Museums do not offer commercial merchandise, but cultural experiences. Museums can support thinking - extended engagement with the subject matter of an exhibit by providing additional learning opportunities, whether that takes the form of classes, workshops, or website resources. Finally, museums can provide opportunities for visitors to think by having them record their reactions and thoughts on talk-back boards, videos, or exhibit-related list servers. For a stunning Museumbased website filled with handcrafted and painted art replicas varying from Ancient Egyptian Art and Ancient Greek Art, to Mayan Culture and European Artists, that will make family and friends jealous of your history gifts and home decoration explore this adventurous treasure site on Museum Replicas. Article Source: com/?expert=dana_d_williams

6 What is the Definition of Fine Art By Nick Schofield The concept of fine art is commonly misunderstood. Many people think that fine art refers to the quality of the art in question, however this is not actually the case. What the fine in fine art actually refers to is that of the discipline s purity. This is why many of the performing arts such as ballet and theater are known as the fine arts. On the other hand, it does not necessarily refer only to that of performing arts as any art form albeit sculpting, painting and many more all can be considered fine art as long as the purity of the art itself is the best that it can possibly be. when he said that imitation is the finest thing in human nature. The second is that of our ability to be in harmony albeit with regards to rhythm or to nature itself. So in effect, fine arts are those whose purity is as close as possible to being in rhythm to imitation of human nature. Keep in mind though, that this definition only actually refers to the performing arts so when it comes to visual arts such as painting and sculpting to name a few, the concept of the art s purity can vary from one art to another as well as from a subclass of a particular art to another subclass of that same art form. Article Source: Now with that said, the concept of what purity of a discipline is will be questioned. It was Aristotle who said it best The Life and Writings of George Bernard Shaw By Russell Shortt George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, he hated school and upon leaving education he took up a job as clerk in an estate office for several years, but he found that he was equally as A day s work is a day s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day s sustenance, a night s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. George Bernard Shaw unhappy. In 1876, he moved to London, his mother provided him with a pound a week while he frequented public libraries and the British Museum where he studied earnestly and began writing. Influenced by his reading, he became a dedicated Socialist and a member of the Fabian Society. He met wealthy heiress Charlotte-Payne-Townshend in these political circles and married her in His plays began to be performed in the 1890s but it was not until a production of John Bull s Other Island (1904) that Shaw gained wide popularity in England. By the 1910s, Shaw was a well established playwright - Fanny s First Play (1911) and Pygmalion (1912) had long runs in front of large London audiences. Shaw s views changed dramatically during World War One which he had bitterly opposed losing many fans and indeed friends in the process. 4 His first work after the war was Heartbreak House (1919) revealing a new Shaw, still witty but obviously with a dwindling faith in humanity. His Saint Joan (1923) was an international hit after which he failed to achieve the same commercial or critical success. He is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938). In his old age he was a household name both in Britain and Ireland, he died in 1950 at the age of ninety-four. Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring Ireland, the leading specialists in customized, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self drive tours of Ireland. Article source: Russell Shortt, exploringireland.net Article Source: com/?expert=russell_shortt 100 water 100 fun % % Adventure Island Malcolm McKinley Drive Tampa, FL