2014 fall centerpieces

n Growing Talent and ConfidenceSummer around here means lots of activity. Summer Camps for kids, summer classes for adults, and our summer performance schedule. All are popular. Some are downright noisy, in a joy-ful way! They all sound much better with our new sound system from our successful "Sounds Right" fund-raiser, see page 7.

How do you define yourself? This Centerpieces features three sto-ries about talent growing into confidence through the arts. Two young gentlemen you'll recognize from their involvement in the theatre program, Andrew Aman and Sebastian Hagelstein, are sharing their talents. Both are well on their way to being recog-nized by much larger audiences. They are featured on pages 4-6. The last story is about a six-year-old youngster. That would be the Center itself. By refining our mission statement, we better de-fine our goals and shape our future. Read more on page 3.

We have many pictures throughout this issue that show the Sum-mer Camp fun. If you ever wanted a glimpse inside the pottery studio, check out pages 8-9.

Summer is (almost) over, but if you want to linger in that heat a bit longer we have a crossword puzzle for you. And we remind you that shows at the Carrollwood Cultural Center are in our air conditioned theatre! There's a lot to look forward to this Fall, a taste of which is listed on page 11.

Enjoy!

Banner Image: Front and Back cover artwork done by summer camp students

CARROLLWOOD CULTURAL CENTER • Fall 2014 • Vol. 7 No. 3

ENTERPIECES

Visit CARROLLWOODCENTER.ORG for upcoming events and activities.

The mission of the Carrollwood Cultural Center is to create culture through community and create community through culture.

Note from the Director

nWhat is a Mission?Mission statements for non-profits are often ponderous things, suitable mainly for an internal audience and to im-press funders. In non-profits they are used to focus the orga-nization. When a new program comes along, the first ques-tion that should be asked is “Does it fit with our mission?”

During one of our strategic planning workshops, I chal-lenged the Board of Directors to recite the Center’s mission statement. I even offered a bribe: $50 to the person who could say it from memory. I still have the $50 in my pocket. This isn’t surprising; it is actually more of a norm for non-profits. Mission statements are often something that is written once and never looked at again.

Today, an effective mission statement is more important than ever. The economy has proven that we need to have a laser focus on what we are doing to sustain ourselves long-term. The best statements express the authentic purpose of an organization and serve as a building block for everything it does. A good statement focuses our energy and clarifies our purpose. It motivates Board, staff, volunteers and do-nors. It is a beacon that will attract new people and more resources to our cause.

So we set out to create a new mission statement for the Carrollwood Cultural Center. This sounds easy, but it was challenging. There is no one way to write a mission state-ment. We looked at examples to broaden our thinking and help us determine what makes a good one.

Ultimately, our mission statement is a way of summing up the Center to the outside world. What makes us memorable and unique? What’s the one thing we want to be known for?

More importantly, what’s the message that already resonates with our donors and true fans? What do people think of now when they tell us why they are drawn to the Center?

Here is what we came up with: The mission of the Carrollwood Cultural Center is to create culture through community and create community through culture.

This is the heart of what we do here, through our programs, classes and events. We are a virtual neighborhood that cre-ates and celebrates culture together.

But the vital thing to remember is that we are a work in prog-ress. The Center’s mission will constantly be realized in new ways. At the end of the day, what matters most is taking ac-tion. So come. Attend programs. Support us. You’re part of our mission; help us to grow ever better at accomplishing it.

Paul Berg

nCenterpiecesOfficial Newsletter of the Carrollwood Cultural CenterFall 2014 • Vol. 7, Issue 3

Centerpieces reports quarterly on activities, people and issues associated with the Carrollwood Cultural Center. Letters to the editor and reader submissions are welcome. Please email the editor at [email protected] or mail to Centerpieces, Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL 33618. Include your name, address, phone number and the date. Centerpieces may edit your submission or with-hold publication.

Centerpieces is produced by volunteers of the Carrollwood Cultural Center. New contributors are welcome.

Carrollwood Cultural Center Staff• Paul Berg, Executive Director• Helen Michaelson, Education Director• Richard Haerther, Artistic Director• Rob Curry III, Facility Director• Todd Dunkle, Development & Marketing Director• Adrienne Hutelmyer, Marketing & Community Relations Director• Gilda Butler, Pottery Manager• Lee Maciaszek, Facility Coordinator• Errik Darriba, Facility Coordinator• Ruth Levy, Volunteer Coordinator• Joan Lewis, Administrative Assistant• Diane Leeper, Administrative Assistant• Gainor Roberts and Nancy Kirkpatrick, Art Curators

Friends of Carrollwood Cultural Center Board of Directors• Nancy Stearns, President ([email protected])• Evelyn Bless, Vice President ([email protected])• Alan Preston, Treasurer ([email protected])• Bill DeMare ([email protected])• Jennifer Fritch ([email protected])• Rex Henderson ([email protected])• Sandra Harrington ([email protected])• Craig Nowicke ([email protected])

Thank you to all of the volunteers who contribute to the suc-cess of the Center. We couldn't do it without you!

nCenter MissionThe mission of the Carrollwood Cultural Center is to create culture through community and create community through culture.

Centerpieces Team• Editor: Evelyn Bless• Proofreader: Nancy Manning• Photographer: Bob Kerns• Graphic Designer: Diane Leeper

• Writers: Paul Berg, Janet Buc-knor, Todd Dunkle, Adrienne Hutelmyer, Diane Leeper, Pat Keeley, Judy Schiavo

nMembershipAt the Center, being a member is more than a way of showing support and staying involved; it’s joining a family. Thank you to all of our members, including our Circles of Giving donors and corporate members listed below. As of July 7, 2014

AMBASSADOR’S CIRCLEMs. Lori Ledbetter

CHAMPION’S CIRCLEMs. Lauretta Chrys, Ms. Jennifer Fritch, Ms. Imogene McMahon, Ms. Irene Rubenstein

PATRON’S CIRCLEMs. Evelyn Bless, Mr. & Mrs. William DeMare, Anonymous, Ms. Theresa Granda, Mr. Rexford Henderson, Mr. & Mrs. Allen Levy, Mr. & Mrs. Ron Manning,Dr. & Mrs. Marty Port, Mr. & Mrs. Alan Preston, Dr. Mary Ann Ratliff, Mr. Michael L. Seigel & Dr. Sharon Dabrow, Ms. Nancy Stearns, Ms. Martha Sutton & Ms. Kathy Sutton, Mr. & Mrs. David Watson, Mr. & Mrs. Irving Weiner, Mr. Dick and Mrs. Katherine Woltmann, Women Authors Book Club

PLATINUM CORPORATE MEMBERSCarlton Fields - Attorneys at Law, DAD - Donovan Audio Design, GMX Solutions, Tampa Realty Now Team (Craig & Linda Nowicke)

GOLD CORPORATE MEMBERSBay Cities Bank, Carrollwood Massage Therapy, Feather Princesses, Orange Theory Fitness, Saady & Saxe, PA, Tampa Bay Thinkers Meet-Up Group, Tampa Writers Alliance

SILVER CORPORATE MEMBERSCABA (Carrollwood Area Business Association), Empress Tea Room, MedExpress Urgent Care

BRONZE CORPORATE MEMBERSAutosafety Driving School, Inc., Guaranteed Installations, Inc., Hall Engineering Group, Jackson Insurance & Financial Services, Jane Hollister Counseling, Lane Family Chiroprac-tic, Ministerio Internacional La Roca, Inc., Peter Stilton Studios, Pinwheel "The Art of Wellness Lifestyle"

nHelp our family grow!For every person you send us who becomes a member of the Center, we will send you a $25 gift certificate to the Center!

nVisit us!4537 Lowell RoadTampa, FL 33618(813) [email protected]

The Carrollwood Cultural Center is a partnership between Hillsborough Coun-ty and the Friends of Carrollwood Cul-tural Center. The Friends of Carrollwood Cultural Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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It’s been a blast taking on a leadership role and getting to know these kids and all the talent they possess. - Andrew Aman

n The Total Package: Andrew AmanThe first thing you notice is that captivating smile. As he makes his entry onto the stage, you can see his boundless energy — whether danc-ing, singing or playing a character. Andrew Aman has it all: he is the “Total Package.”

Andrew has appeared in a variety of musicals. He was Tommy Djilas in The Music Man, Prince Chulalongkorn in The King and I, Vlad Vladikov and Horton in Suessical the Musical. In addition,

he played Charles Condomine during a reading of Blythe Spir-it, acted the part of a bully for a bullying awareness project video that was seen in schools around the country, and danced and performed as a guest at the Ball in a ballet version of Cin-derella at Blake High School for the Performing Arts.

“I wake up in the morning and think about what is the next theatrical excursion I am going on today," says Andrew. “I just can’t seem to get the performing arts out of my head. From the time I wake up and go to Blake until the time I pass out in bed after a few long, excruciating hours of dance at Sell’s Broadway Dance Company, I am just surrounded by theatre.”

According to Andrew, it all started “in the blink of an eye,” in North Carolina when he was six years old. His mother dis-covered that a community theatre was producing The Wizard of Oz and wanted her three children to have parts. She thought it would be a good experience for them, and she was looking for an outlet for Andrew’s non-stop energy. (Yes, he had that same exuberance as a six-year old. Or maybe we should ob-serve that he continues to bring the joy of a six-year-old to his performances today!)

Andrew and his brother Nicholas became members of the Lollipop Guild, and their sister Melanie played a jitterbug. Nicholas moved on to football and violin. Melanie moved on to gymnastics and viola. But for Andrew, theatre “stuck like glue.”

No matter what challenges and deadlines he was facing, Andrew knew all he had to do was go to the theatre and he could leave all his worries at the door. He looked for more ways to learn about theatre and to perform. When the family

moved from North Carolina to Tampa, Andrew entered Curtain Call Perform-ing Arts Theater, participating for four years. Then he discovered Broadway Kids – now known as Broadway Bound – a talented group of young people who enjoyed performing as much as he did.

At age ten Andrew loved to sing and act; but he was not very interested in dance. When his mother explained this to the Center’s late Artistic Director, Mary Ann Scialdo, she responded (in her own in-imitable way), “but he must dance, he must be a ‘triple threat’!”

The rest, as we say, is history. “With her encouragement, I began classes right away.” Andrew went on to dance in Broadway Bound and eventually performed in a competitive dance team.

Andrew would be the first to tell you of his good fortune in meeting Ms. Scialdo. “Mary Ann was so caring and wanted the best for me. She saw something in me that even I didn’t see. She had hope in me, and that was more than I could ever ask for. I was like her little candle; she did whatever she could to make sure I didn’t blow out because she thought one day this candle would become a star."

“I love Miss Mary Ann ‘to the moon and back,’” Andrew adds, a sentiment often repeated by many who worked with her.

During The Music Man he met many people who became dear to him, including Teil Rey Guilford and Betty Rey, who initi-ated his dance career. “I love Miss Teil and Mrs. Rey; they re-ally care and wanted the best for me.”

Andrew also has taken voice lessons with Craig Hartfield. Talented, experienced teachers who give of themselves and transfer their love of the craft make all the difference in the instruction Andrew receives.

Andrew’s dancing ability, as Ms. Scialdo predicted, has been a great asset. Being a male dancer who can act and sing has helped Andrew secure roles such as Paul in A Chorus Line and Barnaby in Hello Dolly. Andrew most recently has performed in the Blake High School production of The Wedding Singer, the Musical, as groomsman/dance captain and a Billy Idol imper-sonator.

This summer, he took his dancing experience to a new level. Andrew served as choreographer with Broadway Bound on the Center’s production of A Day in the Life of ...ME!

“Being in a show is one thing, but teaching fellow performers and helping them grow is absolutely magical! It’s been a blast taking on a leadership role and getting to know these kids and all the talent they possess. I know I love working with these kids because I leave so enlightened and I really feel I did something wonderful with the past four hours of my day. They learn more about themselves and stretch their talents to new distances.

“I couldn’t ask for a better way to start my day.” He adds, “I have learned more about myself through teaching students than I have ever thought I would. Patience is key.”

Andrew will be a senior at Blake in the fall and has already been contacted by several college musical theatre programs. After graduating in May 2015, Andrew will attend a Fine Arts or Conservatory program to complete the next level of his ed-ucation. He wants to continue learning his craft and growing as a performer, and is looking for that first break into profes-sional theatre.

Andrew plans to dance as long as he can and work in theatre always, with dreams of performing for Disney and, eventu-ally, on Broadway. His family supports him in his efforts and encourages him to follow his dream and make it happen.

Judy Schiavo

For more information about Andrew’s choreography with Broadway Bound’s Summer Musical, see page 10.

n Then & Now

Andrew Aman

and Sebastian Hagelstein

“I love theatre because it is an outlet for all my creativity and energy that I keep balled up inside of me.”

- Andrew Aman

Andrew Aman and Sebastian Hagelstein performed in sev-eral productions at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.

Andrew Aman


nSounds Right…Now!Raising money for upgrades and improvements to a busted sound system seemed like quite a challenge. As a “campaign” it was going to lack the “warm and fuzzy” factor of other worthy causes when competing for an ever-shrinking pool of philanthropic dollars. Or so it seemed. Never underestimate the Center’s supporters and their ability to see the important through the lackluster details!

When the sound board at the Center gave up the ghost just before an internationally-known recording artist, Mela-nie, took the stage last year, a chain of events started that is truly inspiring.

Immediately, Joey Donovan of Donovan Audio Designs stepped in. Within minutes, he loaned the Center a sound board, allowing the show to go on. After the show, we thoroughly examined the old sound board and other current sound requirements. We need-ed nearly $12,000 to replace the board and upgrade our sound.

Then Craig and Linda Nowicke and the Tampa Realty Now Team stepped forward. They pledged the first $4,500 to get a campaign started. Donovan Audio Designs then pledged $3,200 of in-kind support.

About this time, the Arts Council of Hillsborough County an-nounced a brand-new partnership with Power2Give, an on-line fundraising tool for Arts & Cultural non-profits. We de-cided to give it a try. We launched “Sounds Right: An Audio Improvement Movement” with some trepidation. We weren’t sure if donors would find their way to the new website and trust it enough to donate. Again, never underestimate the Center’s supporters! The online campaign managed to raise $2,227 — and more importantly, awareness of the need. On-line donations ranged from $5 to $250 with many of them be-ing matched 50 cents for each $1 by either the Gobioff Founda-tion or an anonymous donor.

More donations began coming in directly to the Center. Al-together over 40 donations were received, nearly all of them coming from within the Center’s membership. A very gener-ous gift of $2,500 was given by Ms. Irene Rubenstein in May, and very soon after the project was completely funded.

Why is this story a big deal? There are a few reasons, actually. First of all, it serves to re-mind us that despite the beautiful building, the Center is still a fairly small, non-profit organization dependent on the fi-nancial support of those who believe in our cause. Second, it suggests that if we are able to gather support for a brick and mortar project like this, we’ll surely have the support of the

community for the more emo-tionally appealing projects that share the arts! Community pro-grams like the Community Cho-rus, Carrollwood Winds Concert Band, New Horizons Band, MAS Community Theatre — all of these touch lives and cost money to run. Tuition Assistance, which enables adults and youth to participate in classes and camps regardless of their financial situation, is one of the most important programs the Center offers. It has benefited hundreds of people over the past six years, and it costs money.

But perhaps the most important reason for sharing this story of successful fundraising is to reach out to the rest of our membership and community with an invitation to join us — be part of the group that is able to see the important through the lackluster details!

There are other fundraising efforts going on now, or in de-velopment. Our next step for getting the theatre in shape is to upgrade the lighting system. (Craig and Linda Nowicke and the Tampa Realty Now Team have already donated another $4,500 for this project!). The Community Chorus is in need of risers. A Landscaping Fund has been started. Tuition Assis-tance always needs additional donations, etc. So, while we are indeed thankful for every penny donated to keep the Center operating and providing for this community, we’d like to in-vite everyone to join the cause and experience the surprising joy of giving.

Todd Dunkle

For more information about making financial contributions, please visit www.carrollwoodcenter.org or call Todd Dunkle, Development Director, at (813) 922-8167. For more informa-tion about Power2Give, visit www.power2give.org/Tam-paBay.

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” - Plato

Above: Itzy Friedman and SebastianRight: Paul Berg and Seba stian

nWhatever Happened to Oliver? Sebastian HagelsteinIt's hard to believe that it's been five years since the debut of the Center's first musi-cal production, Oliver! Excitement was in the air when Mary Ann Scialdo brought together a group of talented children and adults, including Broadway Bound, the Carrollwood Cultural Center Commu-nity Chorus and their talented instruc-tors for what was the beginning of a very popular annual event at the Center.

Among the cast was a yet unknown eight year old, Sebastian Hagelstein, who was experiencing his first performance in a leading role. It all started when his mother's employer, a den-tist who volunteers with the New Tampa Players, suggested that he audition for the New Tampa Players' 2008 production of Oliver! His mother made the suggestion at dinner one night and he agreed to try it. Sebastian was cast as an orphan. Until that time, the family was unaware that he had the talent or interest. Little did they know that this was just the beginning!

Following the production of Oliver! Sebastian began dance training at the Center with Teil Rey Guilford and became a member of Broadway Bound. In 2010, Sebastian won the role of Winthrop Paroo in the Carrollwood Cultural Center production of Meredith Will-son's The Music Man. During the early rehearsals, Mary Ann Scialdo and Vicki Cuccia encouraged Sebastian and his par-ents to go to New York to audition for a professional company. After his first New York audition, Sebastian again played Win-throp Paroo, this time in the 2011 National Tour of The Mu-sic Man with Windwood Productions, under the direction of Paula Sloan. Shortly after completing the four-month tour of the U.S. and Canada, Sebastian began piano and voice lessons with Jennifer Cawley. Sebastian has since participated in a number of musical pro-ductions with the Carrollwood Cultural Center, Freefall The-atre, New Tampa Players and The Show Place Dinner Theater. His roles included Kurt and Friedrich in The Sound of Music, a chorus member in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream-coat, Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Prince Dauntless in GK Once Upon a Mattress, Louis in The King and I, and a singer/dancer in Holiday Review and Broadway Comes to Tampa.

Sebastian's additional theatre credits include Thor in The Nerd, Christopher in The Paper Boy, Ben in Meet Joe Young, Tiny Tim/Turkey Boy/Peter Cratchit in two productions of A Christmas Carol, Scruff in Cinderella – A British Panto and Randy in A Christmas Story, all with the Carrollwood Players.

Sebastian also played the role of Young Ben in the indepen-dent short film Ben Burgess, a Three Studios Production.

Throughout his career, Sebastian has continued to hone his craft with a variety of training, camps and master classes. Along this incredible journey, he has been blessed with the support of a loving, proactive family. His grandparents, (Dr.) Ralph and Charlotte Tennant, have participated in several productions with him. Sebastian’s parents, Georgia and Ed, have provided support by working with props and serving as stagehands, costumers, ushers and back stage parents, as well as spending hours in rehearsals and doing whatever was needed.

Not surprisingly, Sebastian credits Mary Ann Scialdo as his greatest influence. “Mary Ann was my greatest influence, because she taught me a lot about theatre, but Vicki Cuccia and Dennis Duggan are two others who also encouraged me.” Sebastian attended Lee Academy for Gifted Educa-tion for Pre-K through 5th grade and Learning Gate from sixth through eighth grade. This year, he will be entering the International Baccalaureate Pro-

gram at Hillsborough High School. In addition to performing, Sebastian's current activities in-clude soccer, cross-country running, dance, piano, and sing-ing. He also enjoys reading, swimming and playing with his dogs and cats. Like most performers, Sebastian is always ready for the next adventure.

“I would love to do more professional theatre and challenge myself.”

Judy Shiavo

“I didn't know I had an interest either until I was in my first production, Oliver!, and I really enjoyed it.”

- Sebastian Hagelstein

Sebastian Hagelstein


Pat Keeley

immediately after graduation to medical school, where she became a pathologist. When she immigrated to the U.S., she settled in Ohio as a researcher and forensic pathologist in the medical examiner’s office until her retirement. For someone so exacting and analytical, this journey into a creative endeavor has been a very rewarding and satisfying new path.

“Gilda is an extremely good teacher,” Stela says. “She adjusts to all levels and gives confidence to everyone. She always sends people home with something to enjoy from each class.”

I ask the group, “What is more satisfying — creating the work or enjoying it in your home?”

“We have a blast making our vases, pots and sculptures. It’s an end in itself. Then we have the pleasure of giving it as a treasured gift or displaying it in our homes and enjoying it every day. Both are nourishing and sustain our desire to be productive and creative,” they say.

Gilda now asks this question of all her classes. The almost unanimous answer is “the creative process.” Gilda is sur-prised. Not me.

And what about Gilda? What’s the scoop on her?

Gilda is apparently a glaze-a-holic. She brings me a box of the latest glazed pieces. Each piece is glazed and fired three times. Some of the new glazes are so multicolored they look like robin’s eggs, mottled with little brown spots and color fading from blue to green. My favor-ite is a yellow with orange tinges and brown spatter spots. This is all done with just one jar of glaze.

All glazes are safe for food storage and serving. If you want to create a piece that can go in the oven, however, the entire piece must be lab-tested after glazing to make sure there is no leaching of product into a food.

This makes me remember a pottery pie pan that I use for pe-can and apple pies. I love that piece. (Love the pies, too.) No-body’s gotten sick yet, so I guess the potter already approved it for baking.

By the time you read this, I will have retired after working 46 years and attaining a certain age. I’ll be writing and painting, but these activities are isolating by themselves. I sing in the Center’s Community Chorus. But maybe I’ll also try some pot-tery classes. I’d love to challenge myself with a three-dimen-sional concept, and I’ll need some folks to hang out with once a week that can get to know my heart and soul when it comes to how I feel about design, texture and color.

Art is one of the most personal and intimate of relationships we have with ourselves, others and the world. It’s good to know there’s a safe and nurturing place where you can experi-ence hands-on creativity and friendship. And have something to show for it afterwards!

n Clay and CompanyRev. Marti Mattner is intensively shap-ing a slab of brown semi-wet clay into a cross she plans to fire. She will insert glass, which will give the piece an al-most cloisonné appearance. She is one of four women working in clay this af-ternoon.

Debbie Hofer is sculpting a reclining lady of leisure, an impressionistic-art deco style figure. It is a brown blob now, with an indentation in the abdominal area.

“Don’t worry,” Debbie assures me. “I’ll put a dress on her.”

Gilda Butler, the instructor and clay ge-nius of the Center, passes over several patterns that can be pressed into clay to give a garment-like texture to the “dress” that will come later. Gilda does not insist or make choices for Debbie. Instead she offers options, leaving Debbie free to create her unique vision of her reclining gal.

I seem to have entered a space of creativity and social bonding. I sit at the end of one table, just watching. Watching and soak-ing it all in. The intimate chemistry among the artists and their process permeates the air.

Little by little, the women and Gilda begin opening up about this mysterious craft that I love to look at and use in my home, but am darned if I know how to create: it’s three-dimensional, perhaps functional, decidedly beautiful, and exactingly com-plex and simple at the same time.

I am, of course, talking about the process of hand molding in the pottery class offered by the Center.

Gilda, our maestro, graduated with her B.A. in Pottery from USF. Her vases and other sculptures are magnificent and im-pressive. Her students’ works are wondrous. I always get a bad case of the “I wants” as I pass through the area where works are displayed for sale, at the entrance to the Center’s theatre. So, apparently, did Janis Ian, who bought several piec-es of pottery and custom ordered 10 sets of miniature pencils from Kim Saavedra. Mary-Ann Calvo has already sold five of her series of “Gladys and the Pips”, vases with arms and hands in various poses. It surely is the magic of Gilda’s style and expertise that creates this environment where creativity and contentment flourish.

Gilda is cool and laid back in her approach to teaching, lead-ing rather than demanding. It’s a warm and fuzzy atmosphere in which a craft that can be very frustrating and difficult is perfected without fear of reproach or rejection — even when the piece blows up during firing.

“Whenever I open the kiln, it’s either Christmas or Hallow-een,” says Gilda. “Either we have perfectly fired pieces with exquisite glazes, or something may have cracked or broken.” It all comes with the territory. Gilda is intensely proud of her students’ works and empowers her charges to celebrate their personality and creativity even when little things go wrong.

“Debbie does tongue-in-cheek things,” Gilda comments. Bringing me her little camera, she shows me a toucan with real feathers and a Rasta Lady whose hair is made out of glass beads. Both are charming.

“Once you get to know these crafters, you can tell whose work you are looking at by the personalities of the pieces,” Gilda says. “People either come in here and try it for a few sessions and decide it’s not for them, or they fall in love and stay with me for years.

“I can see their progress year-to-year. The nice thing about this craft is the students can take the clay home and work with it at their own pace. All class fees cover glazes and firings.” The studio is open four days a week, and as long as Gilda is present, students are welcome to work as much as they like. There’s a small fee for studio time.

I’m in awe as to how a monolithic cube of brown, damp, clay can become a plate, a cross or a family of penguins. The penguins will be part of bookends destined for Stela Miron’s son and his family. As a brilliant young scholar in Romania when it was behind the Iron Curtain, Stela was tested and sent

What is more satisfying — creating the work or enjoying it in your home?

From left to right: Gilda Butler with some of her creations; student work on shelves; Stela Miron on the wheel.Below: Glaze chips show off an impressive choice of color and textures

n Find your CenterGilda teaches several classes a week in handbuilding and wheel throwing. This summer she added a special raku workshop for her pottery students.


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ACROSS1. Easy; 4. Endless; 6. Caliente; 10. Hurricanes; 13. Diet; 14. Grill; 17. Love letters; 18. Lightning

DOWN:2. Sandals; 3. Air Conditioner; 5. Sunscreen; 7. Ete; 8. Tropical; 9. Vacation; 10. Hotdog; 11. Itsybitsy; 12. Short shorts; 15. Verano; 16. Beach

Whoa doggies!!! This is the first July I’ve spent in Tampa in 17 years. I usually spend the sum-mer a mile up from sea level in North Carolina, where we set fires in the fireplace, turn on the blowers and wear sweats and sleeping sox. This year, I'm hanging around and it's too HOT to go outside. So, I made a puzzle. Enjoy! by Pat Keeley

ACROSS1. Livin’ is this to Porgy in the

summertime.4. If you are surfing, your sum-

mer is...6. If you’re Spanish, summer is

this.10. Eyes that we all hope not to

see...13. Something we do before

class reunions and getting a new bathing suit.

14. Fill up the tank and fire up this.

17. Pat Boone wrote these in the sand.

18. If you see this, duck inside.

DOWN2. Proper shoe wear for the

summer.3. Better have this serviced!

5. If you don’t put this on, you will get a sunburn.

7. If you are in France, this is your summer

8. We’re havin’ a _____ heat wave.

9. What we take in the summer.10. All-American food for base-

ball games11. How big was the yellow pol-

ka dot bikini?12. Women, girls and kids wear

them in the summer15. Summer in Spain16. Can’t have summer without

taking the kids here.

It’s summertime, summertime, sum sum summertime…

nComing this Fall:The Andrews Brothers October 10 – 19 • 8pm Friday/Saturday, 2pm SundayA USO show is threatened with cancellation when a certain famous trio of singing sisters fails to appear, and it’s up to three earnest and determined stagehands to go on with the show!

Art Makers & Cocktail ShakersThird Thursday of each month• 6:30-8:30pmTake a blank canvas and a palette of acrylic paints and you can make beautiful art. But what happens when you shake it up with a cocktail or two?

What happens when the yellow brick road to the Emerald City has so many obstacles that it looks like Dorothy and Toto might never make it back to Kan-sas? You toss out the script and write your own musical, of course!

At least that is what the students of the Carrollwood Cultural Center’s youth musical theatre troupe, Broadway Bound, decided to do in late June when a series of unforeseen circumstances got in the way of their production of

The Wizard of Oz – Young Performers Edition. The troupe, along with show director Annie Cerillo, music as-sistant Judy Romera and choreographer Andrew Aman, decided to add writing to their long list of talents which already included acting, singing and dancing.

The new show, titled A Day in the Life of…ME!, followed the students of Broadway Bound as they finished up the school year and went on individual adventures during the summer break. The show included musical numbers from pop culture including Alice Cooper’s "School’s Out for Summer," Queen’s "Another One Bites the Dust," and more.

“I am thrilled that the students wrote and performed their own material,” said Paul Berg, executive director of the Carrollwood Cultural Center. “As a student of theatre, there is nothing more exhilarating than showcasing your own work on stage. I am really happy and excited for these young students.”

Adrienne Hutelmyer

nBroadway Bound Summer Musical


Imaginations ran free during our arts-filled summer camp program at the Carrollwood Cultural Center. Through singing, dancing, draw-ing, painting, and more, campers unleashed their originality in a celebration of untamed creativ-ity.

This summer, the artsWENT WILD!

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