News from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

A GREAT GIRLS NIGHT OUT!
The Drunken City by Adam Bock at the Gorilla Theatre starting January 14 through February 7, 2010.

On the bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy after a chance encounter with a handsome stranger. The Drunken City is a wildly theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps. www.gorillatheatre.com

"A playful and hopeful comedy. Like the best episodes of 'Sex and the City,' a little heartache always goes well with hilarity. The cast is appealing, adorable, and top-shelf. There's only one response to something as pleasing as The Drunken City — another round!" —Daily News

COMING IN JANUARY: "YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME" at FMOPA
Want to share your photographic work with the community? Want to view other photographer's projects and meet the artists? "Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame" is the perfect forum! If you want to be a presenter, you will be asked to email your contact to 15Minutes@fmopa.org and we will assign a date for your presentation. PLEASE, RESERVATIONS WILL BE TAKEN ONLY AFTER THE JANUARY NEWSLETTER IS PUBLISHED. www.fmopa.org

You will have 15 minutes to present your work and respond to audience questions. You must bring a digital media presentation on a jump drive or dvd for pc for showing during your talk. When the first six slots are full for the January event, you will be placed on the following month's schedule or subsequent schedules. You must be a museum member to sign-up. Your work can use any form of photographic medium. Please watch for more details in the January Newsletter. We look forward to giving you your 15 minutes of fame!

TAMPA'S 2nd ANNUAL CHALK WALK - GET INVOLVED BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
Deadline 2/11/2010. Call to Artists and Vendors. Tampa’s Second Annual Chalk Walk, Hyde Park Village, FL, May 7-9, 2010. Organized by the TBBCA (Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts). The Chalk Walk is a public art display of chalk drawings that cover the sidewalks in Tampa’s Hyde Park Village, which includes a plein air element allowing artists to capture what they see during the event.

This year, artists have the opportunity to compete for $2,600 in prize money. Seeking participant artists, vendors, business bands or sponsors. Please contact Christina Cook at Christina.cook@tbbca.org. Proceeds from the event help further the mission of the TBBCA, supporting and advocating for artistic and cultural endeavors in the greater Tampa Bay area. The application can be found online at www.tbbca.org.

VSAarts PLAYWRIGHT DISCOVERY
Deadline 4/15/2010. Call for Scripts from for VSAarts PLAYWRIGHT DISCOVERY from Students Grades 6-12. 2010. Give voice to a story with a theme of diability using the art of dialogue. Winning playwright receives $2,000 and a trip to Wash., DC where their play will be professionally produced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Guidelines, application and teacher resources are available at www.vsarts.org/playwrightdiscovery

SANDRA LYNNE LOCHER
Tampa musician Sandra Lynne Locher sings Love and the Moon – An Eclection of Tunes as part of the American Stage “After Hours” Cabaret Series on January 8 and 9, 2010. Lynne will be assisted by accompanist Phil McReynolds. Celebrate Paris and the moon with Lynne Locher’s cabaret style ode to love, featuring music ranging from the classical “Clair de Lune” by Faure all the way to "Harvest Moon" (yes, the one by Neil Young), with lots of standards, Broadway songs and other oddities in between.