Celebrate Tampa's Awesomeness June 27

Awesome Tampa Bay will celebrate Awesome Day in the World with a celebration Thursday, June 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. 

In addition to free admission to the museum, visitors are invited to toss Frisbees and balls around Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park and participate in a photo op for the Awesome Tampa Bay Facebook/Instagram album.

Feel free to bring blankets and picnic baskets for an awesome old-fashioned community party.

A cash bar will be available inside the museum.

Awesome Tampa Bay, a chapter of the Awesome Foundation, provides quarterly grants of $1,000 to people or organizations that want to do things that are, well, awesome. 

Recipients have included:

• organizers of the first Gasparilla Music Festival March 8

• Daniel Markovich of Etchd Unlimited who proposed an art sticker vending machine with prints, sticker art and photography from local artists

• Ybor City architect Sean Verdecia who submitted his idea for AbleNook, a collaspsible dwelling to use in natural disasters

• Ken Coward who proposed the Bomb the Medians project -- bombing the city's medians with flowers

• Sylvia Albritton, a volunteer who works with incarcerated youth, who proposed publishing a bound anthology of her students' creative writing and poetry

• And The Birdhouse Buying Club, a project designed to make it easier for residents in the low-income neighborhood of Sulphur Springs to get fresh, affordable, locally grown produce.

The next application for the quarterly grants is Aug. 1. To apply, visit the Awesome Tampa Bay website.