ARTS & CULTURE
Feb. 26-March 1
Presented by EMIT
Wednesday Feb. 26 7:30pm
O Som Do Jazz with Jose
Valentino and Rafael Pereira
Palladium Theater Side Door
Thursday Feb. 27 7:30pm
The Conglomerate
Palladium Theater Side Door
Friday Feb. 28 7:30pm
Leon Foster Thomas Quartet
with Tal Cohen
Palladium Theater Side Door
Saturday Feb. 29 7:30pm
Alexis Cole with the Helios
Jazz Orchestra
The Palladium Theater
Sunday March 1 7:30pm
Jason Charos & the Booker
Little Project
Palladium Theater Side Door
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Art of the Stage
Museum of Fine Arts
More than 100 scene,
costume, stage and
program designs
created by noted artists
from the 19th Century
to the present comprise
Art of the Stage: Picasso
to Hockney running
January 25-May 10 at
The Museum of Fine
Arts, St. Petersburg.
The exhibition is culled
from the McNay Art
Museum’s prestigious
Tobin Collection of
Theatre Arts in San
Antonio, Texas, and
includes works by
Henri Mattise, Natalia
Goncharova, Pablo
Picasso, David Hockney,
Robert Indiana, and
Lesley Dill. From the
sumptuous productions of the Ballets Russes, to the riotous
spectacle of avant-garde theatre, to Robert Indiana’s Pop vision
grand history of Western art from the vantage point of the stage.
To bring the art of the stage to life, the MFA is collaborating
with dozens of local and national arts organizations to present
live performances on a theater built inside the exhibition space
as well as performance spaces throughout the museum. Live
classical music, opera, dance, theater and poetry will continue on
select days throughout the run of the exhibition. Lectures with
noted authorities on stage and costume design will also appear
during the run.
At a special opening event January 26 from 12:30 to 4 pm, the
Florida Orchestra will take over the museum, presenting miniperformances
inspired by Art of the Stage.
Artists and organizations performing at the MFA include Detroitbased
Sphinx Virtuosi Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, Sarasota
Ballet, Pinellas County Center for the Arts, opera singer Ashley
Thunder, latin and jazz trio La Lucha, international dancer Helen
Hansen French, playwright and performance artist Andrea Assaf,
pianist and New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist Robert Fleitz,
and New York violinist Giancarlo Latta.
For a complete schedule of events, check out
www.mfastpete.com
The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance (SPAA) is presenting the 7th
Annual MUSE Awards at 7 pm February 28 at the Museum of Fine
those who continue to inspire and guide St. Petersburg to its
standing as an international arts destination. The theme of the
Jazz Festival 2020 St. Petersburg
Five evenings
of great jazz in
St. Petersburg!
For more information visit:
www.StPeteJazzFest.com
The St. Petersburg Jazz Festival is sponsored by
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