BESTBets
Home Sweet Home
The Salvation Army’s inaugural “Home Sweet Home” gingerbread
decorating competition benefit will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. December 3rd at
the Belleview Inn in Belleair. George
Ann Bissett of the Dunedin Fine Art
Center, Margaret Word Burnside of
Tampa Bay Magazine and Bill Brown
of William Dean Chocolates and will
judge the gingerbread houses that the
socially distanced 120 participants
will take home with them at the end
of the event. There will be music
from the Salvation Army Band,
and light refreshments donated by
Clear Sky. For more information, call
(727) 725-9777 ext. 108.
Faces of Philanthropy
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Amber
Forbes
portrays
laundress
Maggie
Stroud in
the cast of
Upstairs/
Downstairs
at the Tampa
Bay Hotel.
Members of La Lucha in front row and
Nate Najar and John Lamb in back row are
among the performers scheduled for the
virtual Suncoast Jazz Festival.
Suncoast Jazz
Festival
The 30th anniversary Suncoast
Jazz Festival will be held virtually on
November 20-22, 2020. These free shows
will stream on Facebook Live, YouTube
and suncoastjazzfestival.com. Performers
include the Dave Bennett Quartet;
Professor Cunningham and his Old
School; Rossano Sportiello; Nicki Parrott
and Eddie Metz; La Lucha featuring
James Suggs; Vivacity featuring Heather
Thorn; the Tarpon Springs Jazz Ensemble;
and Nate Najar and Friends. To become
a sponsor or for more information, visit
suncoastjazzfestival.com. 9
Upstairs/Downstairs at the
Tampa Bay Hotel
The Henry B. Plant Museum in Tampa is offering Upstairs/
Downstairs at the Tampa Bay Hotel with a 30-minute portrayal of
a historical character streamed live each Sunday at 2 p.m. The
performances can be accessed on the museum’s Facebook page
through May 2021. Among the characters being depicted are the
hotel’s builder, a hunting/fishing guide, a telegraph operator,
a head waiter, a Rough Riders colonel, a First Lady, a Spanish-
American War soldier and a laundress. Enjoy these free views
of the early days of the hotel’s visitors, guests and employees.
The Florida Museum of
Photographic Arts in Tampa will
have its fourth annual “Faces of
Philanthropy” dinner and awards
celebration to benefit the museum on
Thursday, November 12th at Oxford
Exchange in Tampa. The socially
distanced gala with a seated dinner,
live entertainment and auction will
celebrate the museum’s members,
donors and those who share the
mission of preserving, exhibiting
and promoting photographic arts in
Tampa Bay. The museum, which was
created in 2001, has been in downtown
Tampa at 400 N. Ashley Drive since
2006. For more information, call
(813) 221-2222 or visit fmopa.org.
Tumblers is a work in the permanent
collection at the Florida Museum of
Photographic Arts in Tampa.
HAROLD EDGERTON/COURTESY MIT MUSEUM
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