This free, diverse cultural celebration, that runs the gamut of live music, dance, storytelling and more, strives to inform participants how art can heal and provide understanding in a skeptical and divisive time. Through a network of community members, the Arts Legacy team builds a series of performances highlighting certain cultures that themselves are foundations to the Tampa Bay area. Join us seven months out of the year online or at our versatile Riverwalk Stage.
“There’s a real vision and commitment on the part of The Straz to create greater opportunities for folks beyond the campus to learn more about us, to celebrate the community and to have the community choose the Straz Center as a point of destination and gathering. We wanted to amplify that commitment and make real ways for the public to have greater access to The Straz. That’s what Arts Legacy was born from.” – Fred Johnson
Arts Legacy community collaborators include: The Parks Institute, Tampa; Tampa Heights Junior Civic Association; National Trust for the Development of African American Men, Tampa and Washington, D. C.; Inkwell Centre, Tampa; National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Shreyas Arts, Tampa; St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society, St. Petersburg; Korean Association of West Central Florida, St. Petersburg; Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, St. Petersburg; Taproot Community Cultural Center, Tampa; The Story Tellers Alliance; and Changing the Game Academy, St. Petersburg.
The Straz Center's 2023 Amplify Project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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