Uptown Tampa Events & Things to Do

Florida Game Con is a FREE family friendly event that includes both casual and competitive gaming. Cosplay, Anime, Tabletop Gaming, Vendors, Artists and more!

The Rutenberg Chamber Music Series presents the Baumer String Quartet with pianist and USF Resident Artist Dr. Eunmi Ko. The Baumer SQ brings together four accomplished artists who each tour nationally and internationally.

This concert will feature Igor Stravinsky’s exciting Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with Professor Ko solo, Huapango by Moncayo, Bjork’s Overture to Dancer in the Dark, Daugherty’s Bells for Stokowski, and Into the Silent Land by Steve Danyew

USF Jazz Ensemble II, directed by James Suggs, is a 17 piece big band made up of young talented jazz musicians in the USF Jazz Studies program. This group will perform an exciting repertoire of Jazz music, ranging from early Jazz styles to contemporary.

Starting at CAM, participants will join USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice Sarah Howard and CAM Events Coordinator Ashley Jablonski on a free walking tour of selected works in the USF Public Art Collection on the Tampa campus.

The University of South Florida Symphony Orchestra and conductor William Wiedrich offer a program of stunning and memorable orchestral works – new and old!

In Arms Reach is an undergraduate art exhibition featuring various mediums exploring romantic adversity, intimacy, identity and isolation.

David Humphrey will give a lecture about his 20+ years painting-based practice. This is a free event so bring a friend or two! The lecture will be held in FAH-101

The cellist Bonnie Hampton is one of the sovereign artists alive. She appears in residence at USF as a VIOLIN SHOP TAMPA String Master Artist.

Irish pianist John O’Conor gives a masterclass to the talented students of the School of Music Piano Studios.

The cellist Bonnie Hampton is one of the sovereign artists alive. She appears in residence at USF as a VIOLIN SHOP TAMPA String Master Artist.

Recognized as “the world’s premier Beethoven interpreter”, Irish pianist John O’Conor celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth with a concert featuring the composer’s last three piano sonatas – op. 109, 110, and 111.

The USF Jazz Ensemble I and the USF Jazztet will perform a concert as part of the 2020 USF Jazz Alumni Weekend celebrations.

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their founding, Chuck Owen & his Jazz Surge, whose 6 recordings have received 7 Grammy nominations.

The Rutenberg Chamber Music Series presents internationally acclaimed violinist Igor Pikayzen and pianist Steven Mayer in an afternoon of violin/piano duo favorites.

Polar Plunge is an annual fundraising drive for those brrrr-ave enough to take the challenge! Participants ‒ or “plungers” ‒ raise funds to get wild and plunge into chilly water at five different locations across Florida.

Robert McCarter is a practicing architect, professor of architecture, and author. He is the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is an artist in the field of photographic practice and criticism, layering the past and present and the interrelationship of history, power, race and violence. This is a free event so bring a freind or two!

USF-Performing Arts Medicine Conference presents a concert of music and dance by artists from USF School of Music, School of Dance,

This event will be held in the C. W. Bill Young Hall (CWY 109).

FloodZone presents Miami-based artist Anastasia Samoylova’s ongoing photographic series reflecting the impacts of sea level rise in South Florida, and highlighting the friction between natural and constructed landscapes.

Sponge Exchange expands artist Hope Ginsburg’s work with ecology and knowledge transfer in two new collaboratively-produced video and sculpture installations.

Language Classes for youth, K-12 and adults. it's after-school Saturday classes of Arabic, English, Spanish, and Mandarin.