Indulge in Tampa/Tampa Bay area culture by way of an event series named after its edible claim to fame.
The Cuban Sandwich Show, up and running through Aug. 8, is an annual hodgepodge of arts and cultural events around Tampa that occur over the course of a month — it’s a little whimsical and has a whole lotta talent. Expect “amateur historians, poets and other joyful fabricators of the truth” at events centering on film, visual arts, music, culinary arts, poetry, and other miscellany. It's basically for curious individuals who seeks to understand Tampa with a focus on its varied personalities, historical and idiosyncratic charms.
This year's highlight, hands down, is the Les Is More film series dedicated to late-great Tampa-based documentarian Les Blank (pictured), who will be honored with screenings at Grownman Brand Studios in Seminole Heights.
Event coordinator and founder of the Tampa Artists and Writers Group, David Audet, touts the series as a truly unique event for cinephiles in the Bay area. He goes on to say that it's "a chance to immerse yourself in non-corporate, human-scale films. In the audience you will be rubbing shoulders with some of the top creatives on either side of the Bay."
Said Luis Gottardi of Art Taco: "This is an event I can endorse without reservation."
Audet also released this statement about Blank:
This article appears in Jul 11-17, 2013.