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Florida Pyrotechnic Arts Guild
Welcome to the official Florida Pyrotechnic Art’s Guild, Inc. (FPAG) website. We are a group of fireworks enthusiasts and professionals that practice and promote safety in fireworks, as well as safely building and displaying fireworks.
Florida Pyrotechnic Arts Guild was founded in 1992 with the purpose being to promote and encourage safe, legal and artful pyrotechnic operation in Florida through training, demonstration and exchange of information.
We meet monthly, typically on the 3rd Saturday, at various locations around the state to do just that: share information, demonstrate techniques and best practices, and to hang out with other pyrotechnic-minded people. Two special meetings per year, one in the spring, and another in the fall, are family friendly festivals. Here you’ll find seminars offering just about anything within the pyro-realm including everything from display operator safety certification and basic show set up, to building rockets and multi-break shells. Of course there are always plenty of fireworks, both consumer and display class, to be seen at these two festivals. Our class C vendors are some of the best, and always have incredible pricing for members.


Where it all began...
Waaaay back in the late 1900’s; sounds so distant; a Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI) member wondered if he could get together all of the members that live in Florida form a "regional" club full of fireworks fun. Based on a paper copy of a membership list from PGI, he began pulling together like minded Floridians to form a fireworks club. As it turned out, Florida had some amazing pyrotechnic talent to pull from. Soon after forming, in August of 1992 at the annual PGI Festival, FPAG got into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Pyrotechnically driven wheel ever created. Not bad for a group only a year in existence.
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Notable FPAG Accomplishments
With all of the generous talent here in Florida, our members get to enjoy hand-built shows. It’s even more fun if you join in and help. Not to worry if you’re green, there’s plenty to do, and no shortage of people to show you how to do it safely and properly. Just a few of the shows FPAG has built include:

1992 - We built the world's largest Catherine Wheel. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records!
1994 and 1996 – Large shows for the PGI conventions.
2002 – FPAG's ten year anniversary show – two years in the making - was spectacular!
2004 – First Maltese Segment. Nothing like it had been done in before in the US. Members built Maltese style shells for a year to get these big colorful beauties into the sky for everyone to see.
2008 – Fulcanelli Shell Segment. Members built classic Italian shells based on the Fulcanelli Articles from Pyrotechnica volumes IX and XI.
2009 – Maltese Show – The culmination of many years of testing and effort, and almost three years of building, this show was one of our greatest accomplishments. A work of art and now a thing of pyro legend.
2012 – PGI Battle of the Bands – Our show was picked over all the other regional clubs
2017 – FPAG's 25th year anniversary show – days of pyrotechnics from all over the world
Special-Olympics FPAG In The Community
Early on, the club began providing the Opening Ceremony show for the Special Olympics Summer Games in Kissimmee which later moved to Tampa. FPAG was called back annually to do this event until the mid 00’s when Disney began hosting it (and providing the opening show).
By then we were also doing an annual show for the kids at Camp Boggy Creek. Every July we head out to put on a show for seriously ill children. This is an introduction for many of our newest members to the world of commercial display set-up, but more importantly, the kids love it. Those kids have a pretty hard time of it, and we're all grateful to have the opportunity to make their summer that much better.