Kurt Piazza

Exhibit: Kurt Piazza: Composite (System) Configuration
When: August 1 - August 24
8:00am - 8:00pm, Monday-Thursday
Where: Hillsborough Community College - Dale Mabry Campus (Library - 3rd Floor), 4001 W. Tampa Bay Blvd. Tampa, FL 33614 (across from Raymond James Stadium). Call 813-831-8858

Kurt Piazza is a multi-media artist working primarily in video, installation and performance. His video work deals with space, architecture and sound as reactionary elements of the visual narrative and explores the notion that physical space has a history and architecture can serve as a metaphor for the fusion of time and space.

Mixing emotive imagery and compelling sound, his aim is to contextualize the electronic media format into a cerebral component of architectural space.

Piazza is a graduate of the University of South Florida, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Media. He is an alumnus of Hillsborough Community College.

Piazza has exhibited work both regionally and nationally, including Art Basel, Miami Beach, as well as the Conley Gallery at the University of California-Fresno. He recently had his first solo exhibition, "The Future Belongs to Ghosts", at the HCC-Ybor School of Visual and Performing Arts Gallery.

To learn more about Kurt Piazza, please visit his website KurtPiazza.com.

Taste of Sandwiche Cubano Food Fest

When: 11:00am - 4:00pm, Saturday August 18, 2012
Where: Hillsborough Community College-Ybor Campus, 2204 N. 15th Street Tampa, FL 33605
(moved from Cuban Club)
Ticket: free admission, $ for food

Food fest featuring traditional Tampa cuisine, including an attempt to create the world's longest Cuban Sandwich, besting Miami's 30-foot long record set in December 2011, winners of the Cuban Sandwich Festival held in Ybor in May, and Cuban sandwiches from numerous local restaurants; plus roast pork, deviled crabs, empanadas, flan.

Rooster Promenade and BBQ!

When: 6:00pm Sunday August 19, 2012
Where: Big Al's Finger Licking Good BBQ, 1609 18th Street, Gaspar's Grotto, 1805 E. 7th Avenue, Dirty Shame, 1929 E. 7th Avenue, all in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida
Ticket: Free admission; $ for food

Lots of BBQ and drinks, live music, and a costumed Rooster Promenade parade open to everybody: children, dogs, pirates, hipsters, and, of course, fowl of all feathers.