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The Warehouse Arts District Association (WADA) held a ceremonial groundbreaking at their ArtsXchange Campus on Wednesday, March 10. The new Frances McSwain Pruitt & J. Crayton Pruitt Arts Education Center will host the Aresty School for Young Artists. See FaceBook Live Event - Art Center Groundbreaking
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The SPCA’s 30th annual Pet Walk is Saturday, April 17th. Register online, form a team with your co-workers or encourage friends and family to join you! Join them Saturday, April 17th to celebrate! Up to 500 walkers (subject to change) can celebrate their fundraising efforts at a safe, outdoor event that follows all city COVID-19 8
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Speakers included St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, Downtown Partnership Vice Chair Barclay Harless and Natalie Judge of the J. Crayton Pruitt Foundation. Construction of the Center, where many of the new educational programs will be held, is expected to be complete by early Fall 2021. guidelines. Located in North Straub Park, walkers and their pets will enjoy vendor booths, a costume contest and a selfdirected, socially-distanced 1.8 mile walk along the waterfront. Saturday, April 17 at 8:30am– noon, North Straub Park, 400 Bayshore Drive Northeast, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA Pet Walk Support 727-586-3591 PetWalk@spcatampabay.org Walkers will be asked to wear a mask while at the event and social distance 6 feet apart. If you are feeling symptoms before the event, please be considerate of others and join virtually. Walkers who prefer to stay home will also be able to celebrate on the 17th, as the entire event will be
Midtown Neighborhood children stand to benefit from this unique program for students grade 2 through 8. WADA is searching for an Arts Education Consultant to help with the planning and implementation. Programs will be designed to inspire and motivate artistic creativity. Older children will be able to hone their skills and develop simulcast that morning on the SPCA’s social channels, @SPCATampaBay. St. Petersburg’s City Theatre, 4025 31st St. S, St. Pete 727-866-1973 is celebrating 96 years of community theater, by presenting Neil Simon’s Barefoot in The Park, April 23-May 2 Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm. Adults are $23, Students $15, Kids $10. Plus $2/group at www.spcitytheatre.com until 4pm day of the show. St. Pete College was one of two local institutions to receive the Perkins grant, part of the Florida Department of Education and Entrepreneurial
portfolios. This will help give them an entree into specialized high school arts programs such as Gibbs High School, which houses the Pinellas County Center for the Arts. The Aresty School for Young Artists could serve as an important feeder to the Gibbs program, helping children develop the skills needed to gain admission. Education and Training program. The “Entrepreneurship Essentials” course will be online, self-paced and open to the public. It began March 15 and can be completed in as few as eight weeks. It was developed in part with the New York-based Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. In addition to its newest initiatives, SPC offers an entrepreneurship certificate, along with its Career and Entrepreneurship Center at its Seminole campus. HCC has spent more than five years creating the college credit entrepreneurship academic program, which offers a number of degrees and certificates in entrepreneurship.
