Carrollwood Cultural Center

Hatha Flow Yoga
2023-10-11 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
Learn yoga posture and ways to gain strength, flexibility, and relieve stress.
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Tech Rehearsal: Colors
2023-10-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Main Theatre, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618, FL

Hand Building
2023-10-11 18:00 - 20:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Students will be introduced to the hand building of pinch, coil, and slab and basic design techniques to create functional and non-functional clay objects.
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Adult Jazz/Tap Combo
2023-10-11 17:00 - 18:15 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This class will focus on jazz’s rhythm and coordination as well as tap basics’ steps and sounds.
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Creative Dance
2023-10-11 16:00 - 16:45 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This class serves as a perfect introduction to dance, movement, and choreography for young children.
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Wheel Throwing
2023-10-11 13:00 - 15:30, 2023-10-10 18:00 - 20:30, 2023-10-10 13:00 - 15:30, 2023-10-09 18:00 - 20:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Students will learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel.
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Mudslinger Studio Pass
2023-10-11 10:00 - 12:30, 2023-10-10 10:00 - 12:30 | Ceramics / Pottery Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Mudslingers Clay Open Studio Pass grants unlimited access during Open Studio Hours during a current six-week session.
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"Fahrelissa's Chaos" by Dineen Roeller
2023-10-11, 2023-10-10 | Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618
October’s Artist Corner artist is Dineen Roeller, winner of the 2023 EMERGing Artist exhibit at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.
Follow Dineen at decohavenartistry

"Wisdom in Aging" Art Exhibit
2023-10-11 | Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618
Main Theatre Gallery: Wisdom in Aging presented by the Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center
This exhibition celebrates the inherent wisdom people acquire as they grow older and the beauty of their knowledge as exhibited through the laugh lines and creases on their faces, the gentleness of their glances, or the sparkle in their eyes. Wisdom in Aging focuses on capturing precious moments and golden nuggets of inspiration and gentle guidance, offering honor, grace, and gratitude to these wise souls through art.
Wisdom in Aging Winning Pieces

Take an audio tour of Wisdom in Aging. Audio description by Mackley Fogarty.

CCC2008 · October 23 AD Wisdom In Aging
Additional exhibits currently on display:
Atrium Gallery: It Takes a Village by Jeanette Bradley

Lobby Gallery: Seasons by Sue Beach

Corridor Gallery: Intuitive Series: Slingin’ Ink by Bill Olson
Artist Corner: Fahrelissa’s Chaos by Dineen Roeller

Rehearsal: Carrollwood Winds
2023-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Studio, 13345 Casey Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
The Carrollwood Winds is a concert band comprised of local community members who are committed to performance. The band performs a wide range of literature at the high school and college level. Members of the band are not beginners or novices, rather members of the community with band experience who are looking for a venue to continue their craft. The Carrollwood Winds performs at the Carrollwood Cultural Center four to five times throughout the year and is branching out to other community and educational venues as well.

Adult Ballet (Intermediate)
2023-10-10 18:45 - 20:15, 2023-10-09 18:45 - 20:15 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This intermediate class meets three times a week to focus on ballet techniques for the intermediate dancer.
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Avista ARC Committee Meeting
2023-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Carrollwood Village Room, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL 33618, FL
Carrollwood Village HOA Committee Meeting

American Sign Language
2023-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
A two-hour ASL introductory course that meets twice a week for 6 weeks.
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EveryBody Can Dance
2023-10-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Join a class where everyone dances to their own beat, shakes it, and laughs while learning and building a routine each week!
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Kids Hip Hop!
2023-10-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
A high-energy hip-hop dance class for ages 7-9.
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Plein Air Painting
2023-10-10 16:00 - 18:45 | Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road Tampa, Fl 33618
Learn to capture the beauty of life!
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Rehearsal: Carrollwood Community Chorus
2023-10-09 19:00 - 21:00
The Carrollwood Cultural Center’s Community Chorus is open to anyone, regardless of experience, as long as you have a song in your heart. From the camp fire to the Red Carpet, members from all walks of life come together to share their gift and love of song. The chorus performs regularly at the Center, local events and has even been known to “pop up” in crowds around the holidays. The group meets weekly to rehearse; however, this group of friendly folk are known to keep in touch outside of rehearsals, too! Now that’s something to sing about!
For more information, please contact Mary Jo Hahn at maryjo@carrollwoodcenter.org.

FL Drama Kids
2023-10-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
Kids drama classes

Bridge Club
2023-10-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Community Room, 4537 Lowell Road
Bridge ClubThe Bridge Club is open to anyone that knows how to play bridge and wants to spend their Monday afternoons with a great group of people. Whether you have been playing a couple of years, or many years, you will have a great time with this fun group. Newcomers are welcome.
For more information, please contact Lana Hopkins at thecrazylady@live.com.

Village Presbyterian Group
2023-10-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Carrollwood Village Room, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL 33618, FL

Gentle Hatha Yoga
2023-10-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
This class will teach you basic yoga in a gentle way.
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Chair Yoga
2023-10-09 10:00 - 10:45 | Dance Studio, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States
Chair Yoga is a form of yoga practiced on a chair or standing using a chair for support.
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Celebration Of Life
2023-10-08 14:00 - 16:00 | The Studio, 13345 Casey Road, Tampa, FL, 33618, United States

Return of the Concertmaster
2023-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Theatre, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa FL 33618, FL
Former Florida Orchestra Concertmaster and audience favorite violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, returns to the Carrollwood Cultural Center with pianist Franz Mantini with an eclectic program featuring music ranging from Mozart to William Grant Still.
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin

Amy Schwartz Moretti (above) is the Director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, Caroline Paul King Chair in Strings, and professor of violin in the Mercer University Townsend School of Music. She developed and curates the Fabian Concert Series on campus featuring internationally distinguished artists in chamber music concerts and master classes.
In addition to her performances as an orchestral soloist and concertmaster, she is an award-winning chamber music artist, appearing in concert series and at music festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia, and she is a member of the internationally acclaimed Ehnes Quartet.
Past positions include concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and The Florida Orchestra. She has served as guest concertmaster for the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Houston, and Pittsburgh; the New York Pops and Hawaii Pops; and the festival orchestras of Brevard, Colorado, and Grand Teton. Throughout her career, she has been an advocate of chamber music and instrumental in the development of intensive workshops for young musicians in Oregon, Florida, and Georgia. Her dedication to collaboration and performance complements her directorship and inspires her teaching and coaching of the Center’s gifted young musicians.
She is recognized as a deeply expressive artist and known for her musical career of broad versatility. Recent performances include the premiere of award-winning composer Christopher Alan Schmitz’s Violin Concerto and concerts as far away as Korea and Hawaii and as close as Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina. Recent festival appearances include Bridgehampton, ChamberFest Cleveland, La Jolla, Meadowmount, Manchester, Vancouver, and Seattle. Recent projects include performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven String Quartets to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth and the performance in Seoul, Korea, of the rarely heard Ludwig Spohr “Concerto for String Quartet, Op.131 in a minor” with the KBS Symphony Orchestra directed by Li Xinciao.
Franz Mantini
Franz Mantini, piano
Franz Mantini has maintained an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the Tampa Bay area and beyond for nearly thirty years. Mr. Mantini studied with renowned artist Jacques Abram at the University of South Florida where he appeared numerous times in solo recitals and as soloist with the USF Symphony Orchestra as winner of the annual Concerto Competition.
His local credits include a combined thirty solo and chamber performances at what is now the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. He has collaborated with many current and former principal members of the Florida Orchestra as well as members of the Houston Symphony and Formosa String Quartet and has appeared in concerts with the Lafayette String Quartet and as a concerto soloist with various community orchestras.
Mr. Mantini has been a regular at the Carrollwood Cultural Center since its inception, where he created the Strings in the Spring series, which has featured both local and international artists annually for over a decade. Guests have included former and current Florida Orchestra Concertmasters Amy Schwartz Moretti and Jeffrey Multer, TFO Principal Cellist James Connors, Internationally acclaimed violist Che Yen Chen and many more.
In addition to his musical endeavors, Mr. Mantini earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering Management from the University of South Florida and has applied his training at various companies in the area. He resides in Tampa with his wife Julie and sons Gabriel and Gianni.

Admission: $15 member / $20 general admission
Group tickets for parties of 10+ (Promo Code: Group): $16

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