5 things to do with kids in Tampa Bay this week: May 10-16
Families can play and get free greens to take home from the Collard Green Festival, local musicians perform on lawns for the Porchfest, and a prime cat show returns.
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Collard greens will be available for free to festival visitors at the Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival at the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg on May 15. [ MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times ]
Updated May 10
1. Collard Green Festival: If you are trying to get your kids to eat more greens this could be the ticket to turning them on to a healthy dish. This yearâs festival will be a hybrid in-person and virtual festival for families to experience urban agriculture, culinary demonstrations, fitness and entertainment. There will be a collard green giveaway, youth farming exhibits, Publix Aprons classes and virtual appearances by celebrity food author Toni Tipton-Martin and chef Edouardo Jordan. Free. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur
Pine View director Christopher Mink “taught me pro bono for six years out of the goodness of his heart, so I owe any skills that I have to public education entirely,” Mingus said in a recent Zoom chat.
There’s a lot more to the young student and musician than one instrument or one cabaret performance might indicate. He picked up the cello – or the baby bass, as he calls it – when he showed up at State College of Florida and discovered there were nine double basses but only two cellos. He brings his cello with him to some services and programs at the Siesta Key Chapel, where he serves as interim music director.
Through perseverance and hard work, Noah Nunez, a 16-year-old Wilmington Early College High School student, was recently accepted to the Interlochen School of Music, which only admits 2,500 students annually.
Noah became interesting in playing the piano at age 10, when he saw videos of people playing difficult and skill-intensive pieces. He then knew that he wanted to become a pianist so he could play such pieces himself.
Noah decided to attend the Interlochen summer program for piano because he’d heard from his teacher, Susan Honey, that it was a great place for learning and improving at piano.
Honey began playing the piano at the age of 9. By 11, the neighborhood children started to ask for piano lessons. And by the age of 12, Honey had played with The Florida Orchestra, attended the Interlochen School of Music and worked with professors at USF and UCF.
Florida Orchestra joins forces with YMCA for free summer arts camp
Open houses in May will let families learn about the camp and catch a performance by the Florida Orchestra string ensemble.
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A free summer arts camp will be held June 14 through July 9 at the Childs Park YMCA in St. Petersburg. Children will lessons in the violin, piano and visual art. [ MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times ]
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The Florida Orchestra and the YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg are joining forces to offer a free music and arts summer camp to reach kids who might not have the opportunity to learn to play instruments.
ONLINE: Ansel Norris & Greg Zelek
Apr 27, 2021 7:30 PM
courtesy Madison Symphony Orchestra
Greg Zelek (left) and Ansel Norris close the MSO Concert Organ Series with a duo performance.
Trumpet and organ make a magical pairing in this closing of the Madison Symphony Orchestra s virtual season that makes good use of the big Klais concert organ in Overture Hall. Madison native and 2009 Bolz Young Artist Competition finalist Ansel Norris is the featured guest on trumpet. Greg Zelek has been the MSO s principal organist since 2017. Free;
register here for the livestream (available to watch through May 31).
press release:
To close out this unconventional and exciting virtual season, it gives me great joy to bring back Madison native and 2009 Bolz Young Artist Competition finalist Ansel Norris for a concert with me of trumpet and organ. Concerti of Bach and Haydn will bookend this program filled with music that is both written and arranged for this electrifying pairing of instrumen