Normally held in July, many were thinking the Cuban Sandwich show (thoroughly written up here last year) was gone. It's coming in August! Below is their press release, as received from David Audet.
[Photograph on left is by Luis/Art Taco. Prop mistress Rosey Williams]
The
Cuban Sandwich Show: All Art. All Tampa. August 1-31
The annual Cuban
Sandwich Show returns
with a month long series of art and
cultural
events whose sole subject is the city of Tampa. No mayo, thank you!
This annual
celebration of all things Tampa is organized by the Artists and
Writers
Group, Inc. Events featuring visual arts, literature, theater, music, and
cuisine are scheduled throughout August. New events this year include a
symposium discussing the history of Tampa cuisine, a food festival, and the
First Annual Chicken Parade and Rooster Promenade in Ybor City.
David Audet,
a founder and current artistic director of the Artists and Writers Group, was
one of the artists in the first Cuban Sandwich Show in 1991, which was created
by Gordon and Denise Myhre of Seminole Heights. David recently served with the
Tampa City Council’s Cultural Assets Committee as chair of the ”Sub-committee
to Identify the Historic Ingredients of the Cuban Sandwich”, which was
proclaimed by Tampa City Council in April as the "official sandwich of
Tampa." This has lead to interesting arguments with Miami about
sandwiches.
This month
long show displays, for better or worse, the sense of whimsy, history, serious
humor and other idiosyncrasies of Tampa’s creative citizens, ranging from
professional visual and culinary artists to storytellers, historians, writers
and other joyful fabricators of the truth. The mantra given to the participants is to play, be playful,
while honoring the truths about our little city by the bay.
