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36 arts and entertainment events happening in Tampa Bay this spring

Tampa Bay's art scene in bloom.

By Ray Roa on Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 1:06 am

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Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, which happens at Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa, Florida on on March 5-6, 2022.

Happening now

Contemporary Craft at its Finest (Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg)
Explore the Vaults: Black Portraits (MFA St. Pete, St. Petersburg)
Lilian Garcia-Roig: Hyphenated Nature (Gallery114 @ HCC, Ybor City Campus)
Leepa-Rattner Museum: Masterworks from the Collection (Leepa-Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs)
Our Walls: Real and Imagined / Spiral Full Circle (Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg)
Tampa Fresh Foods (Asher Residences at Water Street, Tampa)
Heightened Senses (Labyrinth Studios, Tampa)
Myriad Loops by Francesco Lo Castro (Fairgrounds, St. Petersburg)
Bloom on Franklin block party (Franklin Street, Tampa)
Equality Florida mural unveiling (Shuffle, Tampa)
Artphl Evening (Palm Harbor Library, Palm Harbor)

UK artist Lucy Sparrow’s ‘Tampa Fresh Foods’ felt grocery store is now open in Water Street: It's free to attend through Feb. 20.

Jan. 29-Feb. 27

I Love to Eat (freeFall Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Jan. 29-May 22

Picasso and the Allure of the South (Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg)

Jan. 30

Romeo & Juliet (Jobsite Theater at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa)

Feb. 2-27

School Girls; Or, The African American Mean Girls Play (American Stage, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 3

The Language of Light (Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa)

Feb. 3-20

Real Women Have Curves (Powerstories Theatre, Tampa)

Feb. 4-8

St. Pete Opera: Semele (Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 4-20

The Diary of Anne Frank (Stageworks Theatre, Tampa)
King Lear (Tampa Repertory Theatre at University of South Florida, Tampa)

Tampa Theater's 'Black Love' film series kicks off next weekend: It runs through February.

Starts Feb. 5

Classic Movie Series: Black Love (Tampa Theater, Tampa)

Feb. 5

Indie Flea St. Pete (Outside Black Radish vegan grocer, St. Petersburg)

Feb. 10-27

Mayday: Captain Lerro and the Skyway Bridge (Off-Central Players, St. Petersburg)

Opens Feb. 11

Cuban Pathways (Tampa Bay History Center, Tampa)

Feb. 12

Humane Society of Tampa Bay’s Bark in the Park (Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Tampa)

Feb. 18

The Grapest Showman singalong (Tampa Theater, Tampa)

Feb. 18-20

Gulfport ReadOut Festival (Online)

Feb. 19-20

Art and Seafood on the Waterfront (Waterfront Park, Safety Harbor)

Muralist Zulu Painter among honorees for St. Pete Arts Alliance's Muse Awards: The party celebrating six of The 'Burg's best happens on March 4.

March 4

St. Pete Arts Alliance Muse awards (Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg)

March 4-20

Sweet Charity (Eight O'Clock Theatre at Central Park Performing Arts Center, Largo)

March 4-6

Trashy Treasures (Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin)

March 5-6

Gasparilla Festival of the Arts (Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, Tampa)

March 19

People vs. Brush: The Art Work of Pedroh (Pinellas Park Cove, Pinellas Park)

May 13

Karst Grounds: Quatro Sunistra (Tempus Projects, Tampa)

May 20

Bill Burr (MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa)

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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