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M AGA ZINE

A New Season of Arts & Culture Featuring Asolo Rep, Sarasota Ballet, Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Opera & more!

2014 ringling internatiOnal arts Festival

Opening night CelebratiOn Featuring bolero SaraSoTa

*Opening night tickets: $125, $120, $115 Raise a champagne toast to the opening Night performance of your choice (Pedrito martinez, Tangram or Duo amal) before gathering in The Ringling Courtyard for bolero Sarasota, a choreographic event created by larry Keigwin.

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Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine, soft drinks, and cash bar as the celebration climaxes with our annual fireworks display.

The PedriTo MarTinez GrouP

FeaTurinG ariacne Trujillo Rumba virtuosi from Latin America

“an incomparable performer.”

– The New York Times

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The ringling international arts Festival returns october 15-18 to launch the arts and cultural season in sarasota and manatee counties. more than one hundred performers from across the u.s., Central and south america, the middle East, and Europe will gather together in four theaters within walking distance proximity for a full roster of dance, jazz, comic puppetry, world music, a touch of circus, and even an intergalactic space adventure.

sCaN aND PlaN wiTh Park the car and enjoy the entire day. affordably priced performances, on-site restaurants, youR mobilE DEviCE! jazz sunsets, lively conversations, and The Ringling’s world-renowned museums and gardens are all part of the 2014 festival experience.

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A cantankerous puppet is having an existential crisis “... astonishing... total brilliance …”

– Chicago Sun-Times (Not intended for children)

Vijay iyer Trio

Powerful cutting-edge new music

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“Presto! here is the great new jazz piano trio.”

– The New York Times

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the ringling estate

Tangram

From Berlin, Cirque and ballet in an extraordinary pas de deux “...both beautiful and breathtaking.”

– ThreeWeeks/Edinburgh

Museum of art Wander through 31 galleries filled with treasures: old masters, contemporary art and exhibitions from around the world.

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duo aMal

The preeminent Palestinian and Israeli pianists of their generation “When the music ends, if you’re not deeply moved… you might want to check your pulse.”

– NPR

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An electrifying brand of contemporary choreography

ca’ d’zan the ringlings’ dazzling 56-room palace on sarasota bay has been described as “the last of the gilded age mansions.” circus Museum ladies and gentlemen step right up and discover the rich history, fun and fanfare of the american circus.

Bayfront Gardens stroll the 66 acres of bayfront gardens and it’s soon evident that not all of the beauty is confined to the galleries.

“… astonishing feats of dancing … a parcel of pure explosive energy.”

– The New York Times this performance is funded, in part, by a grant from south arts in partnership with the national endowment for the arts and the Florida Division of Cultural affairs. photo by Matt Murphy

the venues below are yours to explore Free oF charGe during the Festival when you purchase any stage production ticket.

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The InTergalacTIc nemeSIS book one: TargeT earTh liVe-acTion GraPhic noVel

A mash-up of radio drama and graphic storytelling “Something you must experience if you’re a fan of awesome!”

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Plus jazz Sunsets, Gatehouse Gatherings and more!

Appropriate for ages 7 and up

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22 BIRDIES FOR THE BRAVE Honoring the Brave & Supporting Local Families

36 FASHION Artist’s Statement Produced by John Revisky

54 RINGLING INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL An Eclectic Feast with Something for Everyone

By Sue Engelhart

62 FLYING HIGH The Circus Arts Conservatory

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

66 ENTERTAINMENT BOOM

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75 A WINNING IMAGE Bettina Sego’s Artwork Graces Guide’s Cover

76 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT Sarasota’s Hannah E. Gregory Illustrates Cultural Scene

77 2014/2015 ARTS & CULTURE GUIDE A comprehensive guide to the upcoming season

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68 SCENES FROM AN INTERVIEW

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Lera Auerbach – Composer, Pianist & Poet

By Gus Mollasis

94 EDUCATION MATTERS University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

97 SCENE LOCALLY News Shaping Our Community

98 BEHIND THE SCENE Sarasota’s Society Maven Gives the Latest Scoop

By Debbi Benedict

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The Ringling International Arts Festival starts us off with an eclectic feast that has something for everyone. From sci-fi to whimsical to imaginative and sexy, you won’t want to miss it. Dr. Charles Krauthammer and Dr. Ben Bernanke are among the notables educating and inspiring at this season’s Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall.

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“Some Enchanted Evening” delight in the Rogers and Hammerstein classic, South Pacific, at our beloved Asolo Rep. Watch a temptress diva’s jealousy and a comfort-loving hobbit when Sarasota Opera presents Tosca and Sarasota Youth Opera presents The Hobbit. If groundbreaking calls you, then Sarasota Ballet answers the call with Ashton’s La Fille mal Gardee, an entirely new version of a ballet that premiered two weeks before the 1789 French Revolution. If you love Billy Joel music, Sarasota Orchestra makes it pop and lets you escape this holiday season with lots of favorite classics.

This issue of SCENE is one for you to keep on hand all season long. Browse the museum, visual arts, and festivals and fairs sections of the 2014/2015 arts guide and mark your calendars with your favorites. In addition to the arts guide in this issue, SCENE also publishes the arts guide for the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County in a handy, easy reference format, which will be distributed throughout the community in early October. The publishing of this arts guide would not be possible without the support of its sponsors: Ringling College of Art + Design; Canandaigua National Bank and Trust

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Honoring the Brave & Supporting Local Families Sarasota is one of 20 select cities around the nation honored to host a Birdies for the Brave® Golf tournament. Supported

provide that is a really wonderful thing, and I feel honored to be among these heroes.”

by the PGA TOUR, Birdies for the Brave is a national outreach

Another tournament supporter and this year’s guest speaker,

initiative dedicated to honoring and showing appreciation to

retired Maj. Steven McLeary, Executive Director for the Special

the courageous members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their

Operations Warrior Foundation, also says these charities provide

families. The program has raised more than $11 million dollars

an important support system. “The Birdies for the Brave program

nationally for nine non-profit home front groups. Locally, TPC

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Warrior Foundation as his charity in January 2004,” McLeary

9th Annual Birdies for the Brave® to be held Monday, Nov. 10,

said. “America’s military has been actively engaged in combat

to raise $45,000 directly benefiting local military families.

longer than any time in our history. Many of the service members

“Birdies for the Brave events are becoming even more im-

have been deployed over a dozen times with a cumulative seven

portant financially to the charities that support the military as

or eight years of combat. This has taken a toll on the service

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members, their spouses, parents, children, and siblings.”

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who also served in Vietnam. “These fundraisers allow the char-

Birdies for the Brave supports eight other non-profit military

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homefront groups that are supported by PGA TOUR players,

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to educational scholarships, counseling and career services.

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riors, and Feherty’s Troops First Foundation.

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CALENDAR

September Calendar For a complete listing of community events please visit scenesarasota.com

Artwork by Bettina Sego.

2nd Annual Yappy Hour September 6 TPC Prestancia clubhouse. Judy Landers, ‘80s sex symbol and screen siren, and her two beautiful daughters, Kristy and Lindsey, will host their 2nd annual “Yappy Hour” fundraiser benefitting Satchel’s Last Resort Animal Shelter & Sanctuary. yappyhour2014.com

The Ringling: Beth Lipman – Precarious Possessions Through September 7 Ulla. R and Arthur F. Searing Wing. Precarious Possessions is an installation of life-sized Victorian furniture recreated in glass sculpture. Each of the three works, Crib, Cradle, and Sideboard with Blue China represents a particular moment in our lifespan and reminds us of our ties to the objects which define us through societal conventions. 941.358.3180 | ringling.org

The Ringling: Curiosity Exhibition Through September 8 Tibbals Learning Center. Ethnological congresses, menageries and side shows were among the attractions associated with the tented traveling circuses from their earliest days. While such curiosities did not rate as much advertising paper as the center ring stars, an astounding group of lithographs illustrate the importance of such secondary attractions to the advertising of American traveling shows. 941.358.3180 | ringling.org

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USF presents “Dr. Jane Goodall: Sowing the Seeds of Hope”

Joel Swallo, president of the Mayors Feed the Hungry Program.

Tickets: $50 | 941-360-8660 | secondchancelastopportunity.org

September 9, 5:30 p.m. pre-event party (premium ticket pa. Special lecture appearance by renowned naturalist Jane

SCF Presents “Art of the Wedding Costume: Ritual and Romance”

Goodall, Ph.D., DBE and U.N. Messenger of Peace. She will

September 19, 6 p.m. opening reception. Fine Art Gallery. Ex-

discuss her experience in nature and her enthusiasm for bot-

hibition on display September 19 – December 3 features a ret-

any—looking at the world as an adventurer, scientist and

rospective look at wedding costumes through the decades. “Art

devotee of sustainable foods and gardening—and sets forth

of the Wedding Costume” will include a display of men’s and

simple goals to protect the plants around us. Tickets available

women’s traditional, nontraditional and cultural wedding attire

through Ticketmaster. usf.edu

from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. 941.752.5000 | scf.edu

Sarasota Opera House A Taste of Downtown Wine & Food Festival

Boys & Girls Clubs Day For Kids

September 13 1 to 4:00 p.m. Sarasota Opera House. Guests will

join Boys & Girls Clubs in making a difference for kids in our

dine on food from local eateries and lounges. The afternoon will

community. 941.366.3911 | boysandgirlsclubs.com

holders), 7 p.m. lecture and Q&A. USF Sun Dome – Tam-

September 20. A national initiative that invites the public to

include door prizes. Tickets: $45 per person in advance, $55 on the day of the event. 941. 328.1300 | sarasotaopera.org/taste

Selby Gallery Exhibitions Through September 20 Ringling College of Art + Design Selby

SCLO ‘Share The Light’ Luncheon

Galleries I and II. Two exhibitions offer a distinctive perspective

September 18 11:30 a.m. Michael’s On East. Second Chance-Last

on the punk music scene through the lens of photographer Bob-

Opportunity will hold its annual “Share The Light’ Luncheon hon-

by Grossman and Target Video’s co-founder Jill Hoffman-Kowal.

oring Nate Jacobs, the core Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, and

941.359.7563 or 941.351.5100 |ringling.edu/selbygallery

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Friday Fest at the Van Wezel

art in the Museum of Art and Circus Museum or catch a ro-

September 26, 5 p.m. Van Wezel. For the fourth and final

mantic sunset on Sarasota Bay at Ca’ d’Zan. Enjoy music and

Friday Fest it’s Adrian Ray and his blue collar, in-your-face,

insights into the collection through gallery discussions. Tickets:

country music band, which bridges today’s Country Music

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with Classic Rock, a little bit of Southern Rock, and a whole

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lot of Soul. vanwezel.org

Key To The Cure Smithsonian Museum Day at The Ringling

October 14 Saks Fifth Avenue, Mall at University Town Cen-

September 27 The Ringling. Free admission with ticket

ter, 5:30 – 9 p.m. Kickoff party with proceeds to benefit Sara-

printed from website. 941.359.5700 | smithsonianmag.com/

sota Memorial Healthcare Foundation. Shopping event is Oct.

museumday

16-19 with 2 percent of sales to benefit Women’s Cancer Programs at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System. Tickets: $100

The Ringling: Thomas Chimes Exhibition

and $150 | 941.917.1246 | smhf.org

Through Oct. 26 The Ringling Works by Thomas Chimes will be presented from the permanent collection and feature an

Ringling International Arts Festival

impressive 17-foot wide mural, preparatory sketches of the mu-

October 15 – 18 Opening night performance and Courtyard

ral that show the artist’s working process, and a selection of

Celebration is Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. The Festival includes more

portraits. 941.359.5700 | ringling.org

than one hundred international performers in a full roster of dance, jazz, comic puppetry, world music, a touch of circus,

The Ringling: Art After 5

and even intergalactic space adventure. Performances at 2, 5,

Through November 20 every Thursday 5:00 p.m. Explore the

and 8 p.m. 941.360.7399 | ringling.org

La Musica

Bruno Giuranna Artistic Director

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An elegant evening to open the season for La Musica; cocktails, recital and dinner. Recital featuring Derek Han, piano, and Federico Agostini, violin.

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An intimate and casual performance at the Mildred Sainer Pavilion at New College of Florida, interspersed with brief discussions. “Come as you are” after work to relax and enjoy beautiful sonatas.

Concert Series at the

Opera House

Festival highlight– performances at the historic Sarasota Opera House featuring your favorite classical and modern composers.

april 9

april 12

april 15

at Michael’s On East Ballroom

“...If you’ve never been to La Musica’s Interactive Dinner, you should.

It is a blast. Guests and La Musica musicians play “musical chefs” in a fun and action-packed evening.”

friday, april 10, 6:00pm

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Heroic Brass - Surviving The First Brass of Sarasota September 14 The First Brass of Sarasota and organist Neil Page will present Heroic Brass - Surviving at St. Boniface Episcopal Church, 4 p.m. The show will reflect on the events that took place on 9/11 and will honor first responders and those who lost their lives. The performance will showcase three of this region’s young virtuosos Carlann Evans, Sara Peeples-McNatt and Federico Valencia. Two weeks later on September 28, The First Brass will team up with organist Ann Stephenson-Moe presenting Heroic Brass - Thriving at Church of the Redeemer, 5:15 p.m. This concert captures the resilience of the American spirit to overcome adversity.

Why it Matters: The First Brass is a group of local professional brass and percussion musicians. They have been playing together for almost 10 years. The First Brass includes trumpets, trombones, French horns, tubas, percussion and keyboard. These performances offer an interesting way to honor the events of Sept. 11 and the resilient American spirit that sustains this country.

16th Annual Arts Celebration The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County October 20 The Arts and Cultural Alliance will present its 16th Annual Arts Celebration on October 20. This fantastic celebration of all things arts in Sarasota County will be held at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall beginning at 7 p.m. There will be special performances by The Sarasota Ballet, Sarasota Orchestra and Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe.

Why it Matters: Sarasota is widely regarded as the arts capital of Florida. This celebration brings the entire community together to honor the people and organizations that have been instrumental in earning this reputation. The awards ceremony is hosted by the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County and is free and open to the public.

28th Lemon Bay Playhouse Season Lemon Bay Playhouse Sept. 3 – June 28 Lemon Bay Playhouse is a non-profit community theater located in Englewood.

The theater has completed a very successful season, which included shows such as Sinners by Norm Foster, The Good Doctor by Neil Simon, and The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog, to name a few. There is an outstanding variety of events lined up for the 28th season with seven live plays, four Showcase Productions, Readers Theater presentations, acting classes, a Shakespeare workshop, and a

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Why it matters: These productions and events help Lemon Bay Playhouse enrich Englewood and surrounding communities, at an affordable price, through theatrical productions, volunteer opportunities, education and training in the performing arts. It also provides a venue for other cultural activities.

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from time to time it is important to get a fresh perspective. Clarke

cal advertising has really gone to the dogs. In fact, that is exact-

gave that to us. They were able to take our knowledge about our

ly how Titus Herman of Southeastern Guide Dogs and Patricia

business and provide a whole new set of ideas and approaches

Courtois of Clarke Advertising and Public Relations hope south-

to help us achieve our marketing goals. We couldn’t be happier.”

west Florida residents will react, as they get set to launch an ambitious new public service announcement campaign for the

That the new campaign features a distinctively local flavor is no

Palmetto-based service dog provider that was recently named a

coincidence. As one of only 10 internationally-accredited guide

2014 Non-Profit of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

dog schools in the United States, and with more than 2,800 dogs placed into service in 48 states, Southeastern Guide Dogs’

Starring eight adorable canine superheroes, including eight-

reach is national in scope. Yet, the Sarasota market remains

week-old brothers Jackie and Gibson, the multi-pronged cam-

critical to its success.

paign is designed to showcase the transformative role guide dogs play in the lives of visually impaired adults and children,

Each year, hundreds of local residents serve the agency as vol-

as well as injured military veterans and others with special

unteers, both at its 35-acre main campus in Palmetto as well

needs. It features television, print, and outdoor advertising, plus

as its new outreach center in downtown Sarasota. Thousands

an original music track written and performed by The Getbye, a

more act as donors, providing the financial support needed for

local indie folk rock band. Video production and photography

Southeastern Guide Dogs to provide its services free of charge

were provided by Sarasota-based Plota Productions.

to the visually-impaired.

“We wanted to find an angle that was completely breakthrough

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and different,” says Courtois, Clarke’s President, whose creative

general, it is this generosity of the local community that Her-

team spent months working closely with Herman and his staff

man and Courtois say the new marketing campaign celebrates.

to capture Southeastern Guide Dogs’ vision and bring it to life

“We hope that when people from Sarasota see these ads, they

for the Sarasota market. “Everyone understands how these in-

will feel an immense sense of pride in knowing that a wonderful

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organization like Southeastern Guide Dogs is right in their own

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For fifty-six consecutive seasons, Sarasota Opera has been presenting world class grand opera on the Florida gulf coast and this year promises to be one of the grandest seasons in the company’s history.

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he start of Sarasota Opera’s 2014–15 Fall and Winter Season is on the horizon. Highlights include the return of two of Sarasota Opera’s most popular productions, never before seen masterpieces, and favorite artists.

Under the guidance of Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi and Executive Director Richard Russell, Sarasota Opera is renowned throughout the world for the high quality of its performances and innovative education programs. Maestro DeRenzi’s unique artistic vision, expressed in the Verdi Cycle, has consistently garnered Sarasota Opera international attention as a place to experience rarely performed operatic works.

Begun in 1989 and concluding in 2016, the Verdi Cycle will make Sarasota Opera unique among other companies worldwide for having performed all of Verdi’s music—operatic and incidental.

“WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A 2014–15 SEASON EMBODYING ALL THE ELEMENTS FOR WHICH WE HAVE BECOME WORLD RENOWNED— FAMILIAR OPERAS ALONG WITH WORKS YOU WON’T SEE ANYWHERE ELSE, IN THE HIGHEST QUALITY PRODUCTIONS” —Richard Russell, Executive Director, Sarasota Opera

The fall season, which runs from October 31st through November 16th, will open with a revival of Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo followed by the Sarasota Youth Opera’s production of Dean Burry’s The Hobbit based on the famed book by J.R.R. Tolkien.

For new opera goers, the less-thantwo-hour Pagliacci will be followed by a new addition to the fall season: following each performance the audience and artists will be invited to mingle at an after-party in the Opera House courtyard.

The Sarasota Opera Winter Festival, running from February 7th through March 29th, will open with Puccini’s powerful melodrama Tosca featuring two of Sarasota Opera’s favorite artists. Kara Shay Thomson will reprise her role as the volatile opera singer,

and Rafael Dávila will portray her lover Mario Cavaradossi. Also featured in the Winter Festival will be Mozart’s delightful comedy The Marriage of Figaro, Rimsky-Korsakov’s rarely-seen masterpiece The Golden Cockerel, and finally Verdi’s epic Don Carlos in its original Paris version as part of the Verdi Cycle.

In an effort to make opera accessible to all, ticket prices start at just $19. All performances feature realtime English translations on a screen above the stage, and select dates also feature pre-performance lectures.

Opera is the ultimate art form, combining music, theater, sets, costumes, and even dance. It has the power to express the full range of human emotions and experience.

Compelling stories, great music and dazzling productions make a performance at Sarasota Opera an experience that will not be forgotten.

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Cast of The Intergalactic Nemesis, Book One: Target Earth

2014 Ringling International Arts Festival An Eclectic Feast with Something for Everyone

By Sue Engelhart

Energizing. Intense. Accessible. Vibrant. Those are the words being used to describe the eclectic lineup of performances that will compose this year’s Ringling International Arts festival October 15-18. RIAF’s organizers are unambiguous about their desire to attract newcomers to the festival while simultaneously providing satisfying, and somewhat challenging, fare for its loyal cadre of attendees.

“This is a new direction for the festival, opening doors to a whole range of people we hadn’t reached before,” says Dwight Currie, Associate Director of Performance Programs at The Ringling.

“I like to use the metaphor of a feast. We’ve tried to have something for everyone. In the spirit of the potluck, there is something for all tastes. It’s new work and forward-looking work, but it’s very acces-

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Cristiana Casadio & Stefan Sing in Tangram

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sible in its form and content. The festival is a joyous, fun encounter with new artists and artists from around the world.”

The goal of greater community engagement is nowhere more apparent than on opening night with the participation of more than 50 area residents in Boléro Sarasota, a large-scale event choreographed

by Artistic Director Larry Keigwin, whose Keigwin & Company contemporary dancers also are performing throughout the festival. Inspired by Ravel’s evocative Boléro, which fittingly was originally written as a ballet, the performance will cap opening night events in the museum’s courtyard. “Boléro Sarasota will make a lasting impression,” Currie says. “It incorporates a cross-section of the community and creates a work that speaks to the character of our city, what brings us together and drives us.

The fireworks will be timed to go off at the climactic moment.” Can anyone say goosebumps? And that’s just opening night.

RIAF continues for three days with its line-up of 30 performances of seven productions with artists from the U.S., Central and South America, the Middle East, Europe and Great Britain. The performances encompass contemporary dance, jazz, comic puppetry, world music, nouveau cirque, and unexpectedly, a novel (graphic, that is) sci-fi fantasy cum old-time radio show adventure, The Intergalactic Nemesis, Book One: Target Earth.

Intergalactic Nemesis is arguably RIAF’s largest departure from its traditional fare. It is a fusion of old-timey radio-style actors portraying dozens of characters on stage with the requisite music and sound effect generation mashed up with 1,250 “blow your mind” comic book images. “Intergalactic Nemesis is the first time the festival has offered something for all ages,” Currie said. “Whether you’re eight or 88, the performance is so winning, so compelling, and so much fun. It’s sheer joy watching 400 people laugh together at the absurdity.”

The intriguing Tangram represents another unlikely combination of art forms: ballet, circus arts, and physical theatre. Created and performed by the husband-and-wife team of Italian ballerina Cristiana Casadio and German circus artist Stefan Sing, this production melding ballet and juggling has been called complex, sexy, and irreverently imaginative. “The piece I think falls in the category of edgy is Tangram,” says Currie. “It’s probably the most intriguing pas de deux performed this year. You would think there is no way these forms would go together, and there is a narrative line. This is the one for me that’s who would have thought it?”

Young and brilliantly talented composer-pianist Vijay Iyer brings his jazz ensemble, the Vijay Iyer Trio, to this year’s festival. Iyer is no stranger to Sarasota having won The Hermitage’s Greenfield Prize scenesarasota.com

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Duo Amal: Bishara Haroni & Yaron Kohlberg

in 2012 for his rhythmically intricate and interactive new music. “They are breaking ground in new music,” says Currie. “You’d swear that his piano has more than 88 keys.”

In yet another whimsical foray for this festival, “The Table” from Blind Summit Theatre in Great Britain, features Japanese-style Bunraku puppetry with three black-clad puppeteers manipulating the head, hands, and feet of 2-foot-tall Moses. Moses is cantankerous and irreverent, but also self aware, with the full range of his emotions reflected in the faces of those who are — not literally — pulling his strings. “This is a very textured performance,” Currie said. “Anytime you engage in puppetry, there is a moment of totally believing this creature made of muslin in a cardboard box really is alive.”

Rounding out the festival’s lineup, and underlining its international scope, are two musical performances, and audiences should prepare to be stirred, maybe even shaken. The Pedrito Martinez Group, described as a quartet of Rumba virtuosi from Cuba, Venezuela, and Peru, deliver an energizing performance of genre-busting musical innovations. Duo Amal features Palestinian Bishara Haroni and Israeli Yaron Kohlberg, preeminent pianists in their respective homelands. With a repertoire ranging from baroque to modern, the coming together of these talented young men to create something so beautiful is particularly poignant in light of current Middle Eastern events.

To help festival-goers partake in as much of the feast as possible, Currie said the schedule has been arranged to encourage lingering. Performances are at 2, 5 and 8 p.m. with free jazz concerts, museum tours, conversation gatherings, and food available in between. All four venues are within walking distance of The Ringling campus.

“People can enjoy the 2 p.m. performance, grab a bite and a glass of wine before a 5 p.m. production, have dinner by the bay, wrap up a great day with another performance at 8, and leave wanting more,” Currie says. “What I like about what people remember of these events is that it all kind of blurs together. That is because of the intensity and density of the experience. It takes on a dream-like quality — just like when you wake up and remember you had a really good dream.”

Opening night tickets, which include food and beverage, range from $90 to $125 and may be purchased through the festival box office in the Visitors Pavilion on The Ringling campus. Tickets for stage productions range from $20 to $35, and package discounts are available. They may be purchased in person at the box office, by calling 941.360.7399, and online at ringling.org.

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KEY TO THE CURE Saks Fifth Avenue Grand Opening Party Tuesday, October 14 5:30 to 9:00 Join us for the iconic event, Key To The Cure Celebrate the Grand Opening of Saks Fifth Avenue at The Mall at University Town Center.

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Anu Tali, Music Director

Come as you are.

Leave different.

For more than 65 years, the Sarasota Orchestra has been entertaining music lovers from around the region, and visitors from around the world. The 80-member Orchestra performs more than 100 classical, pops and family concerts each year, and thrives as the oldest continuing orchestra in the state of Florida. With four exhilarating series, the Orchestra offers patrons a diverse mix of concerts from September through May. The Sarasota Orchestra is also the parent program of the

Sarasota Music Festival held each June. For more information visit our website or call the box office at: 941-953-3434.

Masterworks Series Be there as Anu Tali conducts her first full season as Music Director of the Sarasota Orchestra. The Orchestra presents its hallmark series of seven powerful concerts featuring guest conductors and guest artists from around the globe.

Each concert features one or more of the most important works of the classical repertoire.

Pops Series This season, the Orchestra presents three vibrant Pops concerts featuring the most memorable music from Oscar-winning films, a Billy Joel tribute featuring Grammy and Tony nominated Michael Cavanaugh and guest vocalists straight off Broadway stages.

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Songs of Wars I’ve Seen Special Event Thursday, November 20, 7:00 pm Friday, November 21, 7:00 pm Holley Hall photo by Heiner Goebbles

Conductor: Anu Tali

“Songs of Wars I Have Seen” is a theatrical concert conducted by Anu Tali and featuring female musicians of the Sarasota Orchestra both performing and narrating. The concert experience is an indictment of violence and extremism.

A touching performance of baroque music is combined with readings from Gertrude Stein’s recounting of wartime diaries from the homefront.

“Literature, theatre and music turn ‘Songs’ into a breathtaking performance that is at the same time beautiful and realistic.” —Anu Tali

Great Escapes Series These audience favorites mix popular music with light classical works. Great Escapes concert themes include: spooky favorites, beloved holiday music, a global tour of tunes, songs to fall in love by, favorites from the 50s, and a trip to Britain circa WWI.

Chamber Soiree Series Chamber music lovers will especially enjoy this concert series, featuring solos by our principal musicians. Our resident ensembles of Orchestra musicians fill out these programs held in the intimacy of Holley Hall.

For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.SarastoaOrchestra.org or call the Box Office at (941) 953-3434.

The Box Office is located at 709 N. Tamiami Trail, in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center. scenesarasota.com

Nov 5, 2014 Harbourside Dining Room Guest Artist: Alexander Toradze, piano Jan 8, 2015 The Field Club Guest Artist: Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet Mar 26, 2015 Sunset Terrace at Lido Beach Resort Guest Artist: Benjamin Schmid, violin All evenings begin at 6:00 pm. $150 per person, per dinner RSVP to Mary Hoffman (941) 487-2737 or mhoffman@SarasotaOrchestra.org September 2014

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S E A S O N 2014 - 2015 Witness One of the Most Exciting Ballet Companies in America and become a part of something truly special

“Few, though, can have appreciated the extraordinary level both of Mr. Webb’s ambition and his company’s level of achievement.”

– Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times

“Webb and his ex-ballerina wife Margaret Barbieri have, in a few years, given this small American company the world’s most extensive active Ashton repertoire” Gerald Dowler, The Financial Times (London)

Victoria Hulland & Edward Gonzalez ‘Before Night Falls’

Photography by Frank Atura & Gene Schiavone

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Production is accompanied by Live Music

THE SECRET GARDEN FSU Center for the Performing Arts

24 - 26 October, 2014

A world premiere by the award winning Will Tuckett

BALANCHINE, TUCKETT & BRUCE Sarasota Opera House

21 - 22 November, 2014

George Balanchine’s Rubies, Will Tuckett’s Lux Aeterna & Christopher Bruce’s Sergeant Early’s Dream

LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE The Wayward Daughter Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

19 - 20 December, 2014

Sir Frederick Ashton’s timeless family classic, a masterpiece of choreography and entertainment

Kate Honea ‘La Fille mal Gardée’

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM FSU Center for the Performing Arts

30 January - 1 February, 2015

The critically acclaimed company’s only visit to Florida this Season, bringing bold new artistic expression to Sarasota

BALANCHINE, ASHTON & NUREYEV Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

27 - 28 February, 2015

George Balanchine’s Apollo, Sir Frederick Ashton’s Jazz Calendar & Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda Act III Logan Learned ‘Company B’

WRIGHT, GRAZIANO & TAYLOR FSU Center for the Performing Arts

27 - 30 March, 2015

Sir Peter Wright’s Summertide, a World Premiere by Ricardo Graziano & Paul Taylor’s Company B

THE BALLETS RUSSES a tribute to Nijinsky Sarasota Opera House

1 - 2 May, 2015

Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’après-midi d’un Faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) & Michel Fokine’s Petrushka Danielle Brown ‘Les Sylphides’

Single Tickets starting at $35 & Full Season Subscriptions starting at just $185

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Flying High

at The Circus Arts Conservatory

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

When John Ringling brought his winter circus here in 1927, Sarasota quickly emerged as a leading center for circus arts. The circus life and culture became a major economic and social force in our community. Indeed, the undeniably rich history and culture of the circus has set Sarasota apart and earned it the title of

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The Circus Arts Conservatory, a 501(c)3 non-profit performing arts educational organization that was founded in 1997, celebrates this great tradition of the circus — one of the oldest forms of family entertainment. “For centuries,” says Jennifer Mitchell, the organization’s Managing Director, “the circus has been a showcase of performance artistry where athleticism, human strength, and comedy are combined to create one of the most unique art forms in history.”And she notes that there is no entity that adds to this legacy or better exemplifies the living, breathing circus in the community other than The Circus Arts Conservatory, which has three different outreach programs.

Humor Therapy Program – The Humor Therapy Program uses the talents of clowns, musicians, and entertainers to create meaningful therapeutic interactions with people in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and adult care centers. Sure, it’s a lot about bringing some laughter into the lives of those who could use it, but it’s also about bedside visitations, memory stimulation, and physical activities. In short, it’s a way for the circus arts to help enhance peoples’ quality of life. And a human service program like this one rewards everyone — the humor therapists themselves, the medical staff and the people they visit. The humor and fun works both ways.

Education Program – Would you rather learn about Newton’s laws of gravity via passages in a textbook or through juggling? This circus arts curriculum which integrates science and language arts engages students of all learning levels and styles. It also puts a premium on creative solutions to overcome challenges. And for students who don’t respond as well to traditional school curriculum? This kinesthetic, interdisciplinary approach can work wonders for getting kids excited about learning.

Sailor Circus Academy – Now in its 66th season, “The

college-bound. Plus last year, the Sailor Circus professionally

Greatest ‘Little’ Show on Earth,” is America’s longest-running

debuted Duo Romanesc’s hand-balancing act in the Summer

youth circus, and boasts more than 10,000+ graduates. The

Spectacular. This year’s Summer Spectacular featured 16-year-

program finds a unique way to impact area youth and encour-

old Sailor Circus student Bailey Sloan’s debut as ringmistress.

ages them to develop character and life management skills —

Not a bad start for some talented young performers.

through learning and training in the circus arts, such as clown-

Something not everyone realizes is that The Circus Arts Con-

ing, juggling, high-wire walking, aerial skills, riding a unicycle,

servatory offers circus art classes for adults and children at any

and more. Each year, their two performances draw thousands

experience level. Take a single class or an entire sequence of

of viewers, adding up to more than 1 million audience mem-

them, depending on your own level of interest. For kids ages 6 to

bers in its history.

15, though, this summer circus camp is one of the coolest camps

Ever wonder where the next generation of circus artists

around. In it, kids learn circus skills and then get to showcase

comes from? The Sailor Circus Academy is proud that of their

their own efforts in a costumed performance on the last day of

9 graduating seniors this year, three are going professional (two

a one- or two-week session. It’s no surprise that the camps are

are currently working with Nik Wallenda), and the rest are all

popular enough to draw attendees from around the globe.

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For those who’d like to be a part of The Circus Arts Conservatory in a different way, as a non-profit, they always have need of volunteers. There are opportunities year-round, from helping out at performances, assisting with office duties, or working behind the scenes in one of the many special events. The Circus Arts Conservatory is committed to raising the necessary funds to do its first renovation in 40 years to make air conditioning improvements and install new safety floors in the students’ rehearsal and performance space.

Courtney Wyatt, a Sailor Circus alumna who stayed on to work as the Circus Arts Manager, explains, “The things that students take away from any of our hands-on training programs (Sailor Circus academy, summer camp, or individual classes) is developing confidence in who they are. Circus life is enriched with bold, colorful fusions that stem from the participants’ natural sense of personal aware-

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“The circus arts continues to evolve and develop over time,” says Mitchell.

“With so many circus disciplines under the big top to be dazzled by, there is something for every member of the family to enjoy and engage in. It remains

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ENTERTAINMENT BOOM

By Susan Wilcox

Clockwise from top left: Feld Entertainment headquarters Cast of Disney Junior Live On Tour!

Pirate and Princess Adventure Cast of Marvel Universe Live!

The circus has come to Manatee County. So have monster trucks, ice skaters and the Marvel Universe. These new residents moved in when Feld Entertainment consolidated its headquarters and production facilities in the old Siemens building located on U.S. Highway 301 in Ellenton.

The live entertainment company includes brands such as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Monster Jam, Disney on Ice, and Marvel Universe Live. Feld has almost completed its move from several locations around the country, taking two years rather than the five that had originally been planned. It now has more than 300 employees in the area, with half moving from out of state and the other half coming from the area. Casey Rodgers, worldwide Vice-President of Finance and Strategic Planning for Feld Entertainment, said the average wage is double that of the Manatee County average of approximately $35,000 annually.

The undertaking started to take shape during the Great Recession of 2010 and 2011 when Feld began looking at the idea of building a new facility in Florida. It already had some production facilities in the area and began discussions about keeping those jobs and adding

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hundreds of new ones with Sharon Hillstrom, President and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic

Elsa & Anna from Disney On Ice presents Frozen

Development Corporation, and Karen Stewart and Cheri Coryea of Manatee County’s economic development offices.

The EDC and Manatee County were able to assemble the largest economic incentive package in its history, offering $3.8 million dollars in tax credits, grants and other incentives to entice Feld to relocate here. Rodgers explained that the county offered the package because more than 95 percent of the revenue Feld brings into the area comes from out of Florida. “It is all brand-new, fresh money. We are not just redistributing money,” Rodgers said. “Over the next 20 years, we anticipate that we will bring a $3 billion economic increase to Manatee County.”

The economic impact is not the only thing that is enormous. The facility itself is a 600,000-square-foot building on 43 acres. It includes production facilities and rehearsal spaces as well as administrative office space. The building contains 30 monster trucks and has room for 50 more, which will be built in the on-site shop. The circus animals are housed in their own compound when they are not traveling with the shows. Sending those circus shows on the road is a massive undertaking. As it has done throughout its long history, the circus travels by trains that are more than a mile long, with 60 units in each train. The rail journey starts from the tracks at Port Manatee.

Feld is already settling into its new home. Its newest show, Marvel Universe Live, had its world premiere at the St. Pete Times Forum earlier this year. In addition, “we have joined the Chamber of Commerce and the EDC. We have also supported some of the programming at USF SarasotaManatee and have hired some of its graduates. We will be doing more as we finish consolidating,” said Rodgers. “We have big plans. We will definitely grow and will need another building the size of the one we have now.” scenesarasota.com

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Scenes from an Interview:

Lera Auerbach Composer, Pianist & Poet

by Gus Mollasis

To say that Lera Auerbach is a renaissance artist is like saying Leonardo da Vinci could multitask a little bit. Most impressive is the totality of her immense body of work, which started at age four and continues today as she edges into her early forties. A noted composer, as well as concert pianist, her compositions have been performed by symphony orchestras and accomplished musical artists alike, in opera houses from San Francisco to Hamburg, and in halls named Carnegie and Wigmore. She was the youngest composer on the roster of the prestigious international music publishing company Hans Sikorski, home to famed composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich, when she signed with them in 2003 at age 29. Russian by birth, but American by choice (circumstances), she is a free-spirited whirlwind of energy who lights up any room she enters with the brilliance and genius of her many talents. A painter, poet, sculptor, writer, concert pianist, and composer of world class symphonies and operas, Lera Auerbach has seemingly solved her “Artistic Solomonic Choice” in the only way she ever really could, by creating more art in a multitude of media, with any musical instrument, brush or pen that she can get her hands on. While traveling and sharing her many gifts with the world, along the way she fell in love with both Manasota Key’s Hermitage Artist Retreat where she lived and worked on her life’s musical passions, and a little place called Warm Mineral Springs in southern Sarasota County. On a trip there one foggy morning, as she dipped in the pool known for its healing powers, she heard voices in the distance singing a Ukrainian folk song. Suddenly, reminded of her Russian homeland thousands of miles away from this new discovery of palms and mineral springs, as she moved toward the sound, Lera was already composing something in her body and soul. Once again the stars had lined up for her to create. It seems like they always do. What is crystal clear, wherever you meet this renowned artist, whether at the footlights on a stage of a world famous venue or simply at the edge of the water as the morning fog rolls in over a sleepy Florida town, she reaches for the heavens with grace, balance, humility, and a down to earth nature that is inspiring.

Recently I sat down with Lera Auerbach, and we talked about some of her many loves, her love of family, music, art, nature, and for a little slice of heaven on earth that she found on the Gulf Coast of Florida, as we took a look at some scenes from an interview of her life.

Where were you born?

Some of the happiest moments I remember are when our

My hometown is Chelyabinsk, Russia, in the south Ural

family would gather, and my parents would read aloud

Mountains, the beginning of Siberia. Its claim to fame is as

what was exciting to them at the time including the great

the most polluted city in the world – a glow-in-the-dark kind

novels. Those were beautiful and peaceful times.

of place. Also, most recently you may recall the meteor that appeared from nowhere and exploded over the Chelyabinsk Oblast last year.

Did that give you your love for literature?

I come from two lines of tradition. On my mother’s side, everyone had something to do with music for generations,

Compose one of your happiest memories as a child.

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organic part of my life. We had thousands of books. In a way

(to take a flight to the U.S.) because it was unthinkable to

I am blessed by both sides – a blessing or a curse? (Smiles.)

send me alone. I had a very protected and sheltered childhood. My feeling was that this was the kind of chance that

Have you always loved music?

fate, or life, or God, gives you. It was a chance that, if not

Yes, as long as I remember myself. I started writing down

taken, I would regret later on. I called my parents and asked

music when I was four. When my mother taught me how

them what they thought of me staying in the U.S. At the time,

to read words, she also taught me to read music. I always

you must remember it was quite unthinkable for me to come

wanted to write everything down. Letters and notes were

back here. They were incredible. They said, “Whether you

the same for me. I still have notebooks of little songs that I

decide to come back or you decide to stay, it’s the right de-

wrote as a child.

cision, but it has to be your decision because it will forever change your life.” I think that was much braver of my parents

When did you know you had a gift?

than it was of me as they knew the potential repercussions.

I didn’t realize it for a very long time because it was such an

So I escaped the group in a Hollywood manner, leaving the

organic part of my life. It was as natural for me as is talking

hotel when no one was looking and slipping the key under

with you right now. Growing up in a family where music and

the door. (Laughs.) That day became my personal indepen-

literature were such a big part of our existence, I assumed

dence day – the fourth of July in 1991.

that was how life is for everyone.

Finish the sentence: The most important thing I have inherDo you remember the first piece of music you wrote?

ited from my Russian birth is…

I don’t really know which one was the first one, but the first

I don’t know if this relates to my Russian heritage or the type

one I wrote down was a song about death. (Smiles.) It had to

of childhood I had, but it is believing in your vision and fol-

with autumn. I remember the words in Russian: “As leaves

lowing it through regardless of your surroundings. Believing

fall, birds are flying. As man comes to the forest, man shoots,

in your inner quest and going for it.

the birds fall and the leaves are flying.” It was a very sad song as you can imagine.

The most important thing I learned from my education at Julliard was…

When did you know that you had to come to America?

That ultimately your education is in your hands. You are the

I realized it after I arrived in America. At 17, I was invited to

one responsible for it regardless of which school you attend

perform concerts in the U.S. New York was supposed to be

or what influences surround you. All education is self-edu-

a stop only for three days on the way back to Russia. There I

cation. It’s your job to learn, and you can learn from every-

made a spontaneous decision to stay. There was something

one who comes your way.

in the air. You have to remember that this was back in 1991,

My way often required going more against the current. Part of

six months before the Soviet Union fell apart. My home-

education is to learn what not to do. Sometimes it is even good

town, Chelyabinsk, was a closed city. No foreigners were

to listen to a concert that you don’t enjoy because you can

allowed to enter it. International travel for someone from

learn everything that went wrong. Growing never stops. The

Chelyabinsk was almost unthinkable. In fact, I didn’t have an

moment you graduate is actually when you really start learning.

exit visa until two hours before my flight to the U.S. The idea of traveling to America was similar to me as traveling to the

Is an artist born or made?

moon. It was a different world. When I arrived in New York,

There are both types, born-artists and made-artists, but it’s

I had an intuition or maybe something stronger than an intu-

not black and white. The more talent you have, the more

ition, a calling. I realized that in order for me to mature as an

work from you it demands. The more gifted you are, the

artist and a person, I needed the international atmosphere

more responsibility you have. You need to become an in-

of New York. I needed to be exposed to this air of freedom.

strument for your gift and character plays a big part in

Everybody talks about freedom, but when you come from a

achieving success.

totally different environment, you truly feel what it means. I had a ticket to go back to the Soviet Union. Call it a coinci-

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What makes the Gulf Coast of Florida so desirable to you?

dence or a sign, but the ticket for me to go back was on the

It was a surprise for me to discover it since I don’t like sun.

fourth of July. (Smiles and laughs.) As I was underage, I was

One of the reasons I came here was Warm Mineral Springs,

assigned to a group that had nothing to do with music, but a

which is a magical place. There are certain places in the

lot to do with the KGB. The decision was quite dramatic – do

world that have sacred energy, and as we know this was a

I escape and not show up for this flight back to Russia? At

very sacred place for the Native Americans. The water has

the time I spoke no English and did not know a single person

the same consistency as our tears, and you can swim with

in America. No relatives. My entire capital was $300. It was

your eyes open. We came for two weeks, and then we ex-

the first time I had left my family to go anywhere. My father

tended our stay. The other reason is the wonderful Hermit-

traveled with me on the train from Chelyabinsk to Moscow

age Artist Retreat in Englewood, where I was working on my

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opera Godol during my first visit there and where last year I

for almost two decades. From time to time, I would show it

completed one of my largest paintings Two Muses.

to various directors, and the moment they saw it was an a cappella opera they would just roll their eyes or would say

Tell me about your encounter at Warm Mineral Springs and

that there is no such thing possible as an a cappella opera.

how it inspired you to write something special for your not-

One day, two years ago, the Berlin Kammeroper heard about

ed opera Gogol.

it – not from me – and decided to stage it. Since then, oth-

I love it here because of the nature. It’s so wild. We, humans,

er companies have created different productions, last year it

almost feel as intruders. Quite often in the morning there is

made its way to the Lincoln Center Festival with staging by

a wonderful mist, and it’s hard to see through it. One early

Director John La Bouchardiere and American Opera Projects.

morning I arrived at the springs, and there was mist over the

They presented it in a specially designed setting with the idea

water, you couldn’t see the other shore. As I swam, I heard

of removing all barriers between the performers and the audi-

singing, a simple and sad song. As I listened, I understood

ence, so that everything that happens in the opera happens to

it was a song in Ukrainian. A group of maybe 8 or 10 ba-

the audience. Each audience member is blindfolded and led

bushkas were singing this very beautiful and sad song about

into the theatre ritualistically. It became a sort of artistic-psy-

time passing. “Everything passes in life. Before you have a

chological experiment. At one level, closing your eyes may

chance to blink an eye, your life has passed.” It was surreal.

be the most effective way to connect with sound. By letting

I heard these voices, and started to swim towards them. As

go of the sense of sight, all other senses are activated and en-

I came closer, I was thinking of Gogol, a Russian writer of

gaged. The audience is sightless, lost, and can’t communicate.

Ukrainian origins, and I thought: this may be a song he might

The strength of Maeterlinck’s play is that it’s so modern, even

have heard. The song was just perfect for my opera. It fitted

though it was written 100 years ago. It mirrors today. With all

in a scene where Death and Poshlust (two sisters) sing to

the technology of communication and social media, we are

Gogol about the passing nature of things and time. I swam

perhaps lonelier than ever, and we have great difficulties truly

to the shore of the springs and proceeded to write down the

communicating and understanding each other.

melody. I waited for the group of elderly ladies to come out of the water, and I told them about my opera. I asked them

Describe the word pictures you see in your head when you

to share with me the exact words of the song in Ukrainian.

hear your stunning Chimera Symphony.

They told me that it was a very old folk-like religious song. I

The power of music is that as we change, we relate to it in

included it in my opera Gogol, which premiered in Vienna

a different way. The music stays the same but reflects our

in 2011. To this day, I still don’t the name or exact origin of

own changes.

this song, and that’s part of the mystery.

What was it like to compose your interpretation of Hans Is it fate that places you in the mist with these women singing this perfect song?

Christian Anderson’s classic The Little Mermaid?

His fairy tales are powerful, timeless and deal with universal

I don’t believe in coincidences. I think that life gives us cer-

subjects. They are not for children. His themes of self-iden-

tain signals all the time, and we connect with this higher

tity, loss, and not-belonging are at the core of human expe-

force. Let the force be with you. (Laughs) Whatever this en-

rience and, thus, free and open to very personal interpre-

ergy is or whatever you may wish to call it, I feel that’s what

tations. In this ballet, we see the relationship between the

intuition is. In a way, it is what connects us with this force.

creator and his creation. Hans-Christian Andersen becomes

The problem is that sometimes we tend to over-analyze. We

a principal character parallel to his Little Mermaid. The au-

live in our heads and brains, and that gets in the way. It takes

thor wants to protect his heroine. He knows that the deci-

courage to follow your gut and open up. We live in a time of

sions that she will make will cause her pain and tragedy,

skepticism, which is based on fear. There is a skeptic within

but she must be given free will and make her own choices.

each of us, and we are only as old as this skeptic within. I

Ultimately, the creator cannot protect his creation or stop

think that’s what age means. And the skeptic tends to grow

her from hurting herself, but he is always next to her, empa-

if we feed him.

thizing and sharing her pain.

Tell me about your opera “The Blind” performed at Lincoln

Regarding the stage, are you most content in a space such

Center for the Performing Arts –where the entire audience

as Lincoln Center or the Copenhagen Opera House or at

was blindfolded. Where did the idea come from, your moti-

home sitting at your piano?

vation, and what did you learn from it?

I am home in all those places. As far as performing, the big-

It’s a strange work, perhaps one of the strangest I’ve done.

ger the stage, the easier it is. Great halls carry you, as they

I wrote this musical setting of Maeterlinck’s play almost 20

possess a special energy and atmosphere. It’s exciting. It’s

years ago, and many years before anyone wanted to hear any-

wonderful and joyful. On the other hand, small private sa-

thing I had to say. It was the first composition for which I

lon performances are most difficult for me, but also can be

used the English language. The opera remained unperformed

rewarding in other ways.

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In your essay Sylvia’s Diary, you touch on the subject of death and suicide. Have you found an answer as to why the

The number one task of the artist is to…

Stay honest.

most sensitive people who bring the most joy through their writings sometimes give up on life?

I’ve thought of it a lot. For example, last month as I was com-

I love making music because…

Music makes me.

pleting a new ballet titled Tatiana (based on Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin), I was thinking a lot about Pushkin’s death. I understood that Pushkin used his own duel (in real life) as his means

My poetry is something I do …

To capture, to pin/pen, to preserve time.

of suicide. He took part in 29 duels during his short lifetime!

This type fits in the category of “creative suicides”. Once, after an opera performance, I was asked to speak with high school

With sculpting I find…

Release.

students about what it means to be an artist. One student asked me, “How do you deal with someone who writes a terrible

What is the one thing that you hope everyone takes from

review about you and demolishes the work you spent the last

your creations?

five years creating?” The truth is that artists must be extremely

If people don’t leave changed in some way – their time has

sensitive in order express empathy and feel the pain of others.

been wasted. What’s important is that there is a direct con-

You have to have no skin and be completely open. On the oth-

nection to the individual, which often happens on a subcon-

er hand, in order to remain alive - literally, you need to have a

scious level where the music can move and resonate with

very thick skin and be able take blows that would destroy most

the person through emotions.”

others. You must have this irreconcilable duality. The world will not open its arms to you all the time, and if it does, it means

You have described your music as being fearless. Is that the

you are doing something not worthwhile as an artist. (Laughs.)

most important attribute that any true artist must have?

Also, during the best times, when you are inspired and working

Fear can be the greatest obstacle to your authentic develop-

well, this inspiration gives you such a high, such an incred-

ment. The moment you start worrying about what others may

ible feeling…as if you are an instrument of creation and are

think of your work is the moment that you can’t stay open and

open and are part of everything. It’s very humbling. The work

realize what needs to be done for your next piece. If there are

then just takes over you and feels predestined; you yourself are

fears, you have to be able to face them and overcome them.

almost irrelevant, only a tool to the work. In opposite, when you’re not producing your best and life takes its deadly toll, it’s

Where is the happiest you have ever been on stage?

as if you have fallen into an abyss, a deep valley akin to being

I loved playing Carnegie Hall. I couldn’t wait to be on stage,

in withdrawal. These moments of hopelessness, of incapability

I was so excited. It just felt wonderful. I felt at home. My Car-

with the rest of the world, coupled with extreme sensitivity and

negie Hall debut was in 2002 playing my own composition

empathy, can become the last straw in choosing death.

for violin, piano and orchestra with one of the performers I most admire, Gidon Kremer.

Obviously you are a renaissance artist and have so much creativity swirling in you. Explain how that can be a blessing and curse and its impact on your focus.

Who from the past would you have most wanted to work with?

There would be a long line of artists who I would love to

It is a question I’ve tried to answer my whole life. Since I

have worked with, but right now the two names that popped

was very young, I was always asked, “When are you going

into my head are Leonardo da Vinci and William Blake.

to make up your mind and decide what you want to do and

Who are the great composers you most resemble?

choose between being concert pianist or a composer?” In

I try not to think in those terms. I would say that compos-

our time of skepticism, it is generally believed that one can’t

ers who lived before the romantic era, like Bach or Handel,

have such parallel careers and remain highest level in both

had a much healthier relationship to their art. Bach regarded

fields. My reaction was to start writing poetry and prose.

himself as a craftsman.

Soon enough, I was told that I had to choose between poetry and prose or I would not be taken seriously. (Laughing.) I

You and your husband Rafael DeStella, who is also an artist,

escape this by painting, sculpture, and photography. It’s my

work together. What is the secret that makes this duet work?

curse and blessing, and it’s my path. I will never choose. It’s

You have to ask him. (Laughs.) It’s our friendship. We were

like asking to choose between your children.

friends for many years before he proposed to me. Our friendship has always been the base for our relationship, and

Finish the sentences… I must create because…

that’s very important. The other thing is the importance of solitude. I don’t know if you noticed the different signs out-

I must.

side my studio. One reads, “In Session.” There is another A world without great music would make me feel…

Orphaned.

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What is your perfect day?

Going to the Warm Mineral Springs with Rafael.

to differentiate it from other interpretations of Pushkin’s masterwork. When you spend seven years of your life working on a piece, it holds a special place in your heart. This is a full-

How do you know when to put the brush down, in essence

length ballet, two and a half hours of music. Such work takes

when the composition is complete and one more note more

an enormous presence.

or less may ruin the piece?

I developed a system of circles regarding editing. When I’m

What is the best part of your attitude?

in this spiral mode, I pretend not to be me. For example,

Approaching life and work as if this world had no precon-

when I finish the score of a symphony, I pretend that I am

ceived limitations, believing that everything is possible, al-

the last-stand violinist looking at the part, and all I see is this

ways dreaming big.

one line of music, and that I don’t really want to be there because I would much rather have dinner with my wife. And

What is the worst part of being you?

here is this composer and who does she think she is? So I

Regardless of what I’m doing, it means I’m not doing some-

imagine from his perspective, and I try to visualize how I can

thing else. It means I’m guilty. If I’m practicing, I really should

maximize the clarity of the notation, and prevent whatever

be writing. If I’m writing I really should be composing. If I’m

errors of interpretation this person can make as he reads the

composing, I really should be practicing. It doesn’t matter.

notes. This work cannot be done in rehearsal by the conduc-

I’m always guilty.

tor; this is direct communication between the composer and each member of the orchestra. It’s surprising how you can see the music in a whole different perspective. It’s extremely

You have a difficult time turning it off.

Oh, I can’t turn it off.

time-consuming work. I do it with every single instrument in the orchestra, and I imagine them all playing their parts.

Like the subject matter in your wonderful essay, Another Sep-

The result is that I often change the notation, page turns and

tember, if you knew it was your last day what would you do?

even lay-out of the part to communicate the piece in a much

(Long pause.) I would probably want to spend part of the day

more detailed and clear way. It’s amazing how these small

by myself remembering the past and the best memories from

details make an enormous difference in the quality of per-

life. I would try to resolve relationships that may have ended

formance, and importantly, how a performer feels about the

in a sour way by asking forgiveness. Then I would want to

work. Then I look at the piece from the conductor’s point of

spend the rest of the day with those whom I love, laughing

view. I put myself in the different shoes.

and enjoying nature.

What is the most important characteristic required to be a great composer?

Keep your word.

Where do you think your music comes from?

Just yesterday I was listening to a program from NASA that showed incredible sounds coming from the planets in the solar system. While thinking of these vibrations and complicat-

Are you more of a musical genius or just a Russian-Ameri-

ed theories, I believe that music ultimately comes from our

can girl who works hard at her craft?

heart. It’s the language of our heart and soul. On one hand

I don’t think in those terms. I don’t think a soul has a nation-

it’s a very intellectual pursuit, and on the other it transcends

ality. A person’s first allegiance should be to the planet. We

the intellect and reminds us what it means to be human.

are all citizens of earth.

Music creates emotional connection between us.

What do you hope to accomplish in the next few chapters

Hopefully many years from now, after all the compositions

in your life?

have been composed, how do you want to be remembered?

More writing for sure. I am now working on a book of apho-

By whatever moved people. It doesn’t necessarily have to be

risms, I’m looking forward to completing it soon. It’s my first

music. It could be a poem, an aphorism, an image or what-

book in English, and it will be published this year. It was sup-

ever moved them most.

posed to be a book of essays, but I kept editing them down, and they became shorter and shorter. (Laughs.)

What piece of music would you like played at your memorial?

I don’t know. Probably, Mozart’s Requiem. I haven’t thought of

Recently you premiered your most recent work, the ballet

that, not because I don’t think of death, I think of death a lot.

Tatiana at the Hamburg Ballet, and it will premiere in Russia

During my early years, I spent a lot of time in the cemetery. It’s

in November. What has this experience meant to you and

where my nanny would take me for daily strolls. The concept

how do you feel about the path you chose to represent this

of death has always been present, and not as something dark,

iconic piece?

but as part of life. I think death defines life by making every day

Tatiana is the main character and heart of Pushkin’s novel-in-

and moment irreplaceable. It’s important that we feel death’s

verse Evgeny Onegin. We wanted to call this ballet Tatiana,

presence not in an oppressive way but a beautiful way.

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Artist Bettina Sego’s dramatic artwork was chosen for the cover of the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County’s 2014/2015 Arts & Culture Guide. Sego’s work was selected from many beautiful submissions in a contest for local artists sponsored by the Alliance and SCENE Magazine.

Born in Germany, Sego has lived and studied in Paris, Heidelberg and San Francisco, where she received a Master of Arts degree. Following a career in product design and marketing, Sego moved to Florida in 2000 and concentrated increasingly on experimenting with various art media, focusing mostly on acrylics, mixed media and collage.

Sego started exhibiting in 2005, and since then her work has been shown in many

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juried exhibitions at the Sarasota and Longboat Key Art Centers, The Florida Museum for Women Artists, Raymond James, Met Life, Asolo Rep, The Players Theatre and the Audubon Artists Annual Exhibition in New York. Sego also had two solo shows at the Sarasota Symphony.

Her artwork is represented by 530 Burns Gallery in Sarasota, Artspace in Anna Maria and Nikki Sedacca Gallery in Martha’s Vineyard and can be found in private and corporate collections in the United States, Canada and Germany.

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Artist’s Statement: “I find inspiration in everyday items without any obvious relationship to art. There are interesting color combinations and compositions everywhere. However, my primary inspiration comes from nature, not so much in the traditional sense of landscape, but rather from fragments and nature’s vibrancy and colors.

I like to experiment and work in different techniques, because there is always a new challenge and the outcome is often unpredictable. By using layers of acrylic, ink, and silver leaf combined with collage and epoxy resin, I try to re-create and emphasize the vibrancy and depth of nature.

Thematically, my artwork can be divided into a series about the “Elements”, mostly inspired by water, my “Dream” series, and my new “Rainbow” series. My “Elements” series represents nature as energy, motion, and color, and in my “Dream” series I rely on subconscious imagery, a flow of color and shapes.

Using collage is a more precise technique; the artwork is made from an assemblage of different shapes and colors; it’s like painting with paper. I recycle some of my older paintings and whatever looks interesting to me, and use them to create a new artwork. Thus, collage offers an exciting new perspective to painting.

Due to the various techniques I use, my final images look different in style, but there is a common thread: my artwork is predominantly abstract with a particular use of shapes and colors and a common theme. Beyond that, I like to leave room for the viewer’s imagination.” scenesarasota.com

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Sarasota’s Hannah E. Gregory, an International Baccalaureate graduate from Riverview High School now attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to earn a BFA in Illustration, created this illustration representing the four performing arts pillars of our community – Sarasota Ballet, Asolo Rep, Sarasota Opera, and Sarasota Orchestra. Well done, Hannah!

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PERFORMING ARTS Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota

Special Performances

Sotto Voce

A Broadway Holiday Will & Anthony Nunziata, Singers Gloria Musicae Singers

March 31 – April 26, 2015

It Only Takes A Moment April 28 – May 24, 2015

December 20 – 21, 2014

Summer Musical

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Edvard Grieg Festival

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January 9 – 11, 2015

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Lunch, Look and Listen

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Michael’s On East Ballroom

Training

Trio Voila Thomas Koch, Guitar Jane Hoffman, Flute Laura Jensen Jennings, Viola

The Water Engine

January 22, 2015

Title of Show

Best of The Great American Soundbook Jennifer Sheehan, Cabaret Singer James Followell, Piano

February 17 – March 8, 2015

February 12, 2015

Banyan Theater Company

Samus Haddad, Baritone Lee Dougherty Ross, Piano

Jane B. Cook Theatre

Adrian Anantawan, Violin & Amy Yang, Piano

March 19, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34243

January 31 – February 1, 2015

Soiree Series

Ying Quartet: Ayano Ninomiya, Violin Janet Ying, Violin Phillip Ying, Viola David Ying, Cello

Weisenborne/Fischer residence

March 14 – 15, 2015

Bion Tsang, Cello & Adam Neiman, Piano April 18 – 19, 2015

Adrienne Danrich, Vocalist & Djordje Nesic, Piano

Asolo Repertory Theatre

May 30 – 31, 2015

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December 27 – 30, 2014

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Circus Sarasota Winter Performance

Pop Series

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Klea Blackhurst, Singer

February 6 – 22, 2015

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Sailor Circus Spring Show

November 15 – 16, 2014

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March 27 – April 4, 2015

Performances at the Historic Asolo Theater Classical Recital Series

Morgenstern Trio Catherine Klipfel, Piano Stefan Hempel, Violin Emanuel Wehse, Cello November 1 – 2, 2014

Takaoki Onishi, Baritone & Arlene Shrut, Piano December 6 – 7, 2014

November 4 – 23, 2014

As You Like It December 31, 2014 – January 18, 2015

The Cherry Orchard April 7 – 26, 2015

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Kevin Zhu, Violin Joseph Holt, Piano

The Circus Arts Conservatory

October 5 – 6, 2014

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Robert Fleitz, Piano

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October 19 – 20, 2014

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Jennifer Kim, Classical Guitar

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April 26 – 27, 2015

Sahib Shrine Circus

Thomas Pandolfi, Piano

October 3 – 4, 2014

Sailor Circus Holiday Spectacular

Summer Spectacular

February 28 – March 1, 2015

Mainstage

Brandon Ridenour, Trumpet Mara Bonde, Soprano & Rich Ridenour, Piano

South Pacific The Matchmaker

May 2 – 3, 2015

Diversity: The Voices of Sarasota

January 6 – April 11, 2015

Trumpet Invasion Tracy Olivera, Soprano Bob McDonald, Baritone Steve Cramer, Tenor Joseph Holt, Piano Gloria Musicae Singers

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Good People

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January 14 – February 26, 2015

Sarasota Pride “True Colors”

Both Your Houses

October 18, 2014

January 21 – April 12, 2015

“A Scrumptious Holiday”

Our Betters

December 5 & 7, 2014

March 11 – April 19, 2015

“When You Wish Upon a Star”

May 9 – 10, 2015

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June 16 – August 1 2015

May 2 – 3, 2015 scenesarasota.com

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Evening Concert – The Venturas

February 18, 2015

November 21, 2014

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Evening Concert – Eddie Metz Trio

Venice, FL 34284

March 7, 2015

January 16, 2015

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Cynthia Sayer

35th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival

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March 14 – 15, 2015

March 1 – 7, 2015

Venice Performing Arts Center

Dala

“A Musical Kaleidoscope”

March 20, 2015

November 21 – 22, 2014

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Cantus Carmina Exsultate!

Gloria Musicae

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December 7, 2014

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Shining Night- Adult Choral Festival

Cantus Carmina Burana

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October 18, 2014

February 13 – 14, 2015

In Thanksgiving

The Courts of Heaven and Earth

Cantus Carmina Jubilate!

November 23, 2014

January 24, 2015

April 12, 2015

Old and New

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April 12, 2015

March 21, 2015

Florida Studio Theatre

An American Tapestry

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April 18, 2015

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International Concert Series

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December 8, 2014

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Beijing Guitar Duo - Meng Su & Yameng Wang

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February 14, 2015

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March 21, 2015

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Ladies in Retirement

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October 22 – November 9, 2014

October 23, 2014

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November 14, 2014

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Marcy Downey - “It’s My Party: The Fabulous 50’s and 60’s!”

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November 15, 2014

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November 23, 2014

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December 7, 2014

Jacobites Pipe and Drum Band

Nate Najar

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Tom & Sandy Doyle “Les Paul and Mary Ford of Today Tribute”

Michael Lasser – lecture

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January 10, 2015

January 22, 2015

330 Pineapple Ave, Ste. 111

Lettice and Lovage

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January 21 – February 15, 2015

January 24, 2015

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Tim Allen - “Banjo and Guitar”

I’ve Got a Little Twist

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February 21, 2015

January 31, 2015

Jazz at Two Series

Don’t Dress for Dinner

Michael Brown

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March 11 – April 5, 2015

Chorus of the Keys

December 20, 2014

December 3 – 21, 2014

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Lorri Hafer Jazz Quartet “Salutes The Great American Songbook”

McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre

Band

1923 Ringling Blvd

America, The Beautiful

Sarasota, FL 34236

October 30, 2014

April 11, 2015

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The Wonder of Christmas

Oh, Mama! No, Papa!

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December 10, 2014

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

April 29 – May 17, 2015

Something to Hide

Musica Sacra Cantorum

January 22, 2015

June 10 – 28, 2015

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Broadway Tonight!

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February 22, 2015

Manatee Players

The Peaceable Kingdom

Water World

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December 8, 2014

March 26, 2015

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Stainer Crucifixion

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February 23, 2015

April 21, 2015

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Fauré Requiem

Morning’s At Seven

April 13, 2015

Chorale

Silver and Gold

Through October 5, 2014

New Music New College New College of Florida

December 13, 2014

October 23 – November 9, 2014

Godspell

Caples Fine Arts Complex

February 21, 2015

October 30 – November 16, 2014

5800 Bayshore Road

Cohan and Company

Almost Manilow

Sarasota, FL 34243

April 18, 2015

November 16, 2014

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Amahl and The Night Visitors

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Symphony

December 4 – 21, 2014

Star Spangled Spectacular

Meet Me in St. Louis

No Holds Barred: Blair McMillen

December 4 – 21, 2014

September 13, 2014

Home For the Holidays

Brigadoon

Darkness and Light: The New College Chorus

December 14, 2014

January 8 – 25, 2015

The Foursome

November 15, 2014

January 25, 2015

January 15 – February 1, 2015

Memoria - Pamela Z

A Little Night Music

Forbidden Broadway: Greatest Hits

January 17, 2015

March 1, 2015

January 17 – 19, 2015

“Inside In C”

Bach To The Future

The Rat Pack Together Again!

March 14, 2015

March 29, 2015

January 21, 2015

Into the Woods

The Sacred and the Profane: Ekmeles

February 12 – March 1, 2015

April 25, 2015

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Agnes of God

Into the Night

November 2, 2014

Love Is In The Air

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February 19 – March 8, 2015

Special Events

Sarasota, FL 34243

It Was a Very Good Year A Tribute to Frank Sinatra

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February 25, 2015

The Sarasota Brass Quintet: Music by New College Student Composers

Jesus Christ Superstar

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March 19 – April 5, 2015

NEWCLOrk: The New College Laptop Orchestra

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

March 14, 2015

April 30 – May 17, 2015

13th Annual Benefit Concert & Fundraiser April 11, 2015

4th Annual OASIS Young Artist Program July 2015

April 9 – 26, 2015

Monty Python’s SPAMALOT

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North Port Performing Arts Association 6400 W. Price Boulevard

Perlman Music Program/ Suncoast

North Port, FL 34291

941.955.4942

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Rachel Lee Priday, Violin David Kaplan, Piano

Balanchine, Tuckett & Bruce

Murray Perahia, piano

Sarasota Opera House

March 25, 2015

December 4, 2014

November 21 – 22, 2014

Sarasota Winter Residency

Sarasota Concert Band

December 18, 2014 – January 3, 2015

Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal Gardee

Art of the Violin

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

Sarasota FL, 34243

February 25, 2015

December 19 – 20, 2014

941.364.2263

Ariel Quartet

The Sarasota Ballet presents Dance Theatre of Harlem

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FSU Center for the Performing Arts

The Players Theatre

Sarasota Folk Club

January 30 – February 1, 2015

5287 Box Turtle Circle

838 N. Tamiami Trail

Balanchine, Ashton & Nureyev

Sarasota, FL 34232

Sarasota, FL 34236

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

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941.365.2494

February 27 – 28, 2015

SaraFolk.org

ThePlayers.org

Wright, Graziano & Taylor

Lend me a Tenor

FSU Center for the Performing Arts

September 10 – 21, 2014

March 27 – 30, 2015

The Addams Family

941.377.9256

October 29 – November 9, 2014

The Ballets Russes, A Tribute to Nijinsky

A Christmas Story

Sarasota Opera House

October 27, 2014

December 3 – 14, 2014

May 1 – 2, 2015

Grant Peeples

April 19, 2015

Cabaret

6858 Sagebrush Circle

Sarasota Sailing Squadron Concert Series Patchouli

November 24, 2014

January 7 – 18, 2015

Sarasota Choral Society

Holiday of Song

Violet

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December 15, 2014

February 11 – 22, 2015

Church of the Palms Presbyterian Church

Mangsen & Gillette

Catch Me if You Can

Handel’s Messiah

January 26, 2015

March 18 – 29, 2015

December 6, 2014

Bill & Kate Isles

Love! Valour!

Compassion!

April 22 – May 3, 2015

February 23, 2015

Sarasota Chorus of the Keys

Sarasota Folk Festival at Oscar Scherer State Park

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March 21 – 22, 2015

Ring Sarasota

65th Annual Show

Curtis & Loretta

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February 21, 2015

April 27, 2015

January 25, 2015

Sarasota Concert Association

Round Robin featuring: Eileen Kozloff, Mindy Simmons, and Carolyn Dunn

February 15, 2015

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

May 18, 2015

March 6, 2015

777 North Tamiami Trail

Michael Reno Harrell

March 13, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34236

June 29, 2015

March 22, 2015

941.955.0040

April 19, 2015

SarasotaConcertAssociation.org

Sarasota Jewish Chorale

Royal Philharmonic Orchesta

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Sarasota Ballet

January 14, 2015

SarasotaJewishChorale.org

5555 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34243

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Sarasota Music Archive

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January 26, 2015

Selby Public Library

SarasotaBallet.org

Dresden Philharmonic

Gelbart Auditorium

Will Tuckett’s The Secret Garden

March 1, 2015

1331 First Street

FSU Center for the Performing Arts

Takacs String Quartet with Joyce Yang, piano

Sarasota, FL 34236

March 17, 2015

SarasotaMusicArchive.org

“A Taste of America” November 10, 2014

October 24 – 26, 2014

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Sarasota Orchestra

Trumpet

PO Box 19613

709 N. Tamiami Trail

January 25, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34276

Sarasota, FL 34236

Oboe

941.925.3602

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February 5, 2015

Karen & Christopher Romig, Flute and Piano

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Cello

October 17, 2014

Masterworks

Violin

Geneviève Beauchamp, Piano

Framed

April 23, 2015

November 21, 2014

November 7 – 9, 2014

Sunnyside Singers, Dorothy Whaley, Piano

American Dream

Special Events

December 5 – 7, 2014

Fanfare 300 – Season Opener Brunch

December 19, 2014

In Love

November 16, 2014

Cheryl Losey, Harp; Betsy Traba, Flute

January 9 – 11, 2015

Songs of Wars | Have Seen

January 16, 2015

Enigma

November 20 - 21, 2014

Singing Tree Duo, Double Bass & Hammered Dulcimer

January 29 –

Thrill of a Lifetime

February 1, 2015

February 7, 2015

February 20, 2015

Fantastique

Sarasota Music Festival

Anne Chandra, Violin; Chung-Yon Hong, Piano

February 20 – 22, 2015

June 1 – 20, 2015

March 20, 2015

March 5 – 8, 2015

Sarasota Pops Orchestra

Scholarship Luncheon, Winners’ Performance

Grande Finale

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March 27 – 29, 2015

941.926.POPS (7677)

March 22, 2015

Six

Riverview High School Auditorium

May 2, 2015 Pops

Holiday Spirit on Broadway

Sarasota Opera

Voices of the Movies

December 15, 2014 (Neel PAC)

61 North Pineapple Avenue

January 16 – 17, 2015

December 21, 2014 (Riverview HS PAC)

Sarasota, FL 34236

The Best of Billy Joel

Broadway Celebrates Love

941.328.1300

March 19 – 20, 2015

February 8, 2015 (Riverview HS PAC)

SarasotaOpera.org

On Broadway

February 9, 2015 (Neel PAC)

April 10 – 11, 2015

The Amazing Technicolor of Broadway March 15, 2015 (Riverview HS PAC)

Fall 2014 Season

March 16, 2015 (Neel PAC)

Pagliacci

Great Escapes

October 31 – November 15, 2014

Twilight Zone

The Hobbit

October 15 – 18, 2014

State College of Florida

November 15 – 16, 2014

Jingle All the Way

5840 26th Street

December 10 – 13, 2014

Bradenton, FL 34207

Winter 2015 Festival Season

Here, There & Everywhere

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Tosca

January 21 – 24, 2015

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February 7 –

Be Mine

March 28, 2015

February 11 – 14, 2015

Music

The Marriage of Figaro

Rock Around the Clock

Neel Performing Arts Center

February 14 – March 27, 2015

March 11 – 14, 2015

Faculty Recital: Aza Torshkoeva, Piano

The Golden Cockerel

Downton Abbey

September 25, 2014

February 21 & March 19, 2015

April 15 – 18, 2015

Fall Festival of Music Concert October 7, 2014

Don Carlos (Paris version) March 6, 2015

Chamber Soiree

“West Side Story”

The Verdi Concert

Flute

October 24 – 26, 2014

March 7 – 24, 2015

September 18, 2014

Artists Choice Concert

Clarinet

SCF Halloween Spooktacular Concert and Trick or Treat

March 22, 2015

October 12, 2014

October 31, 2014

The Intimate Verdi

String Quartet

March 26, 2015

January 25, 2015

Master Class: John Fedchock, Jazz Trombone

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Sundays at Neel: The New Christy Minstrels

Theatre Odyssey

February 15, 2015

TheatreOdyssey.org

Master Class: Klea Blackhurst, Actress/Soprano

Sundays at Neel: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, featuring SCF ensembles and alumni

Student Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival

November 17, 2014

March 1, 2015

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Symphonic Band and Symphony

Sundays at Neel: Colcannon

April 30 – May 3, 2015

Orchestra Concert

March 22, 2015

November 5, 2014

Faculty Recital: Martha Lopez, Soprano November 13, 2014

January 16, 2015

USA Dance

November 20, 2014

Faculty Recital: Felicia Brunelle, Violin, guest artist Dr. Ann Knipschild, Organ

941.799.7224

SCF Howard Studio Theatre

Sara Dance Center 5000 Fruitville Road

November 24, 2014

Additional Studio 84 Productions Presentations

SCF Student Dance Recital

October 3 – 5 & 10 –12, 2014

941.685.7026

November 25, 2014

February 20 – 23 & 27 – 28,

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Holiday Concert: Winter Wonderland!

April 17 – 19 & 24 – 26, 2015

December 2, 2014

Christmas Short Stories

Jazz Bands in Concert

November 28 – 30 & December 1,

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

December 4, 2014

5 – 6, 2014

777 N. Tamiami Trail

Music Student Showcase

Sarasota, FL 34232

Sarasota, FL 34236

January 22, 2015

Off Campus

941.953.3368

Jazz Bands in Concert

SCF Chamber Choir at St. Boniface Church

VanWezel.org

November 9, 2014

October 1, 2014

Eve of Jackie

March 31, 2015

Munchtime Musicals at Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center

Master Class: Pianist Rebecca Penneys

April 8, 2015

Lyle Lovett

April 1, 2015

SCF Chamber Choir with Gloria Musicae

October 17, 2014

April 12, 2015

October 24, 2014

March 26, 2015

Faculty Recital: Fred Gratta, Cello, guest artist Rebecca Penneys, Piano

Faculty Recital: Marc Mannino, Jazz Guitar, guest artists Brazilian Jazz Band

Peter Frampton

October 6, 2014

The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show Bill Maher

April 9, 2015

Suncoast Concert Band

Evening Under the Stars

12308 Lobelia Terrace

Shen Yun Orchestra

April 11, 2015

Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202

October 27, 2014

Faculty Recital: Rex Willis, Classical Guitar

941.907.0935

Capital Steps

SuncoastConcertBand.org

November 1, 2014

April 16, 2015

Susan Boyle

Music Scholarship Auditions

Concert Season at Northminster Presbyterian Church

April 18, 2015

November 9 & 23, December 7 &

Wanda Sykes

Music Theatre Showcase

21, 2014

November 16, 2014

April 20, 2015

January 11, February 8 & 26, March 8 &

Evil Dead: The Musical

Spring Fling Concert

22, April 12 & 27, 2015

November 18, 2014

April 30, 2015

Suncoast Jazz Ambassadors

Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis

December 14, 2014, January 18, 2015,

November 19, 2014

Theatre

February 15, 2015, March 15, 2015, &

Celtic Thunder Symphony

Neel Performing Arts Center

April 19, 2015

November 20, 2014

Sundays at Neel: The Diamonds December 14, 2014

Special Concerts at Church of the Palms

Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2014

Sundays at Neel: Let’s Hang On

January 25 & February 22, 2015

November 28, 2014

January 11, 2015

October 26, 2014

November 5, 2014

Sundays at Neel: Tony Pace

Kenny Rogers with Special Guest Linda Davis

February 8, 2015

November 29, 2014

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Camelot

Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles

The Fox on the Fairway

November 30, 2014

April 23, 2015

March 31 – April 19, 2015

Smokey Joe’s Cafe Featuring The Coasters

Kathy Griffin

The Miracle Worker

April 26, 2015

May 5 – 24, 2015

Moscow Ballet: Great Russian Nutcracker

Venetian Harmony Chorus

Stage II

December 27, 2014

1812 San Trovaso Way

November 13 – 30, 2014

Guys and Dolls

Venice, FL 34285

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

December 30, 2014

941.480.1480

January 8 – 25, 2015

Salute To Vienna New Year’s Concert with The Strauss Symphony of America

VenetianHarmony.com

Road to Nirvana

The Venice Symphony

Next to Normal

January 3, 2015

Church of the Nazarene

April 9 – 26, 2015

Sister Act

1535 E. Venice Ave.

January 4, 2015

Venice, FL 34292

Cabaret

St. Petersburg State Symphony

941.488.1010

The Rocky Horror Show

January 8, 2015

TheVeniceSymphony.org

October 10 – November 1, 2014

Ballroom with a Twist

A Musical Kaleidoscope

January 29, 2015

November 21 – 22, 2014

The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical

Les Ballets Trockadero

Holiday Traditions

December 5 – 21, 2014

February 4, 2015

December 19 – 20, 2014

106 Years of Broadway

The Great White Way

Ring of Fire – The Music of Johnny Cash

February 5, 2015

January 23 – 24, 2015

February 6 – March 1, 2015

Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra

Carmina Burana

February 6, 2015

February 13 – 14, 2015

Generations

The Time Jumpers

Unforgettable - The Chun Sisters, Soloists

A Christmas Carol

February 8, 2015

Peter and the Starcatcher

March 13 – 14, 2015

Children’s Letters to God

February 12, 2015

Threefold - Aleron Trio, Soloists

May 14 – 24, 2015

Dancing with the Pros Live!

April 17 – 18, 2015

February 16, 2015

Amo Venezia - I love Venice

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

May 1 – 2, 2015

December 3, 2014

God of Carnage

March 12 – 29, 2015

February 17, 2015

December 18 – 21, 2014

West Coast Black Theatre Troupe 1646 10th Way

Discover DaVinci and Michelangelo “Side by Side”

Venice Theatre

Sarasota, FL 34236

140 West Tampa Avenue

941.366.1505

February 18, 2015

Venice, FL 34285

wbbtsrq.org

Jekyll & Hyde

941.488.1115

The Eve of Jackie

March 5, 2015

VeniceStage.com

October 6, 2014

Jersey Boys

Little Shop of Horrors

March 11 – 15, 2015

Main Stage

October 15 – November 16, 2014

Anything Goes

Don’t Dress For Dinner

Black Nativity

March 16, 2015

September 30 – October 19, 2014

December 3 – 21, 2014

Itzhak Perlman

The Full Monty

Knock Me A Kiss

March 21, 2015

November 4 – 30, 2014

January 7 – February 8, 2015

Audra McDonald

Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story

Jazz Hot Mamas

March 22, 2015

January 6 – 25, 2015

February 25 – March 29, 2015

Flashdance

Spunk

April 1 – 2, 2015

Disney’s and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins

Memphis

February 17 – March 15, 2015

April 15 – May 17, 2015

April 4, 2015

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February 2 – March 20, 2015

Confluence: France – artists f rom Perpignan, France Collective Paper Aesthetics – Noa Haim MASHterpieces I’ll be the Judge!

5312 Holmes Boulevard

Pottery Sale & Chili Cookoff

May 21 – June 26, 2015

Holmes Beach, FL 34217

February 6 – 7, 2015

3rd Annual Florida Flavor

941.778.2099

Art at the Ranch

July 9 – August 4, 2015

IslandArtLeague.org

March 21 – 22, 2015

Winter Fest December 13 – 14, 2014

Fine Craft & Photography / Student Show

Spring Fest

March 24 – April 24, 2015

March 14 – 15, 2015

Jon & Friends / Art Dillard & Friends / Black & White

Character – text in art El Chocó – Steve Cagan and Mary Kelsey Black Box Projects – Scott Bell Untitled

MUSEUMS & VISUAL ARTS Anna Maria Island Art League

Art Center Manatee

Jazzy Ladies Fashion Show January 31, 2015

National Watercolor Society – Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society

August 27 – September 30, 2015

April 28 – May 29, 2015

Artists’ Guild of Anna Maria Island

209 9th Street West

Manatee County Schools

Bradenton, FL 34205

June 2 – 20, 2015

941.746.2862

Fractal Art by Joseph Presley / No Boundaries-Open

5414 Marina Drive

ArtCenterManatee.org

Girls Night Out

June 23 – July 25, 2015

941.778.6694

October 17, November 14,

Kids Art

AMIArtistsGuildGallery.com

December 12, 2014,

July 28 – TBD, 2015

Holmes Beach, FL 34217

March 13, April 8,

Art Center Sarasota

May 8, 2015

707 N. Tamiami Trail

Embracing Our Differences Outdoor Exhibit

Paint the Town / City Scapes-Open / Kids with Cancer

Sarasota, FL 34236

941.404.5710

941.365.2032

EmbracingOurDifferences.org

September 26 – October 31, 2014

ArtSarasota.org

Exhibit in Island Park

Plein Air with Susie Covert

March 29 – May 31, 2015

Women’s Contemporary Artists / Matters of the Art-Open

Heated Exchange - encaustic art Paintings from Larry Forgard Black Box Projects Applied Practice

November 4 – December 5, 2014

October 23 – November 29, 2014

Women’s Contemporary Artists with Eleanor Merritt Holiday Pottery Sale

Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society Aqueous Media Exhibit Art Center Instructors Show Parallel Universes

Englewood Art Center

December 5 – 6, 2014

December 11, 2014 – January 16, 2015

Englewood, FL 34224

Sumi-e/MacNeils/ 12” X 12”

American Vernacular – Richard Mueller Line and Space – David Zalben ASALH Black Muse 2015 Fresh

941.474.5548

January 16, February 13,

October 11, 2014

November 15, 2014

December 9, 2014 – January 2, 2015

Artful Holidays December 11 – 13, 2014

Florida Artists Group Member Show January 6 – 30, 2015

January 29 – March 6, 2015

Exhibit in Bradenton Riverwalk March 29 – May 31, 2015

A Division of Ringling College of Art and Design 350 South McCall Road

Ringling.edu/eac Events

Bites & Bytes: Brown Bag Lunch and Fun October 17, November 21,

ArtBlast-Workshops & Paint Arounds

Pan-American – Venezuelan artists Oceania – Ceramics of Susan Banks At the Heart of It

January 17, 2015

March 19 – April 24, 2015

March 20, 2015

Used but Useful Sale

North Sarasota County Schools Exhibition

Celebration of Florida Landscape Series Hermitage Artist Retreat

January 23 – 24, 2015

April 27 – May 10, 2015 scenesarasota.com

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November 6, 2014

Pop-Up Plein Air Series: Dearborn Street Farmers Market

Ringling College of Art Design Students

Fat Boy Exhibition Through December 31, 2014

April 14 – 29, 2015

Ladies of the Ring

November 6, 2014 – March 26, 2015

Reception: April 18, 2015

Through February 2, 2015

Fall Open House, Art Talk

Mangrove Gallery

Through February 28, 2015

November 15, 2014

Mayra Ocasio Cuadrado

Ringling Underground

November 11 – December 19, 2014

October 2, November 6, 2014, February

Exhibitions

Reception: November 15, 2014

5, March 5, April 2, 2015

Warren Loranger Gallery Anything Goes

Tapestry Artists

The Literati Book Club

March 10 – April 1, 2015

October 3, November 7,

September 6 – October 3, 2014

Reception: March 14, 2015

December 5, 2014

Seeing the Unseen

Reception: September 13, 2014

January 2, 2015

Abstract Multi-Media

Members Gallery

October 4 –

Maggie Pratt

Ringling International Arts Festival

November 7, 2014

September 9 – October 3, 2014

October 15 – 18, 2014

Reception: October 11, 2014

Reception: September 13, 2014

Behind Closed Doors

Festival of Watercolor

Norma Hilton

October 24, 2014 – January 11, 2015

November 11 – December 19, 2014

November 11 – December 19, 2014

De Vos Banners

Reception: November 15, 2014

Reception: November 15, 2014

November 7, 2014 – March 29, 2015

Celebration of Florida Landscape: Photography

Fine Arts Society of Sarasota

Inside the Vault: An Education, The Personal Library of John Ringling

January 6 – 30, 2015

941.330.0680

November 15, 2014

Reception: January 10, 2015

FineArtsSarasota.com

Celebration of Florida Landscape exhibition

Guided Art & Backstage Tours

Ringling by the Bay: Koko Ray and the Keepers

(2LD media, no photography)

First Tuesday of each month,

Holiday Nights at Ca’ d’Zan

January 31 – March 6, 2015

October – May

November 20, December 4, 11

Reception: February 7, 2015

Celebrate the Arts Luncheon

& 18, 2014

Textile & Fiber Art

December 9, 2014

Holiday Splendor

March 7 – April 8, 2015

Annual Creators & Collectors Tour

December 4, 2014

Reception: March 14, 2015

March 13 – 14, 2015

Ringling by the Bay – Yesterdayze

Students & Studios

November 20, 2014

December 18, 2014

Reception: April 18, 2015

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Expressive Bodies: Works from the Ringling Permanent Collection

19th Annual PEO Youth Exhibition

5401 Bay Shore Road

December 19, 2014 – March 22, 2015

April 24 – May 7, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34243

Ringling by the Bay: Vertigo

Reception: May 2, 2015

941.359.5700

February 19, 2015

April 7 – 22, 2015

Ringling.org

Ringling by the Bay: The Venturas

Ken Mitchell Gallery

Art After 5

March 16, 2015

Joni Younkins-Herzog

Every Thursday evening throughout

Ringling by the Bay: soulRcoaster

October 7 – November 5, 2014

the year

March 19, 2015

Reception: October 11, 2014

Sunsets in Joseph’s Coat

Tom Cocotos

Thursday & Friday evenings

November 15 – December 17, 2014 Reception: November 15, 2014

Thomas Chimes from the Permanent Collection

Michele Redwine

Through October 26, 2014

College of Art and Design

January 7 – 28, 2015

6860 Longboat Drive South

Reception: January 10, 2015

Bandits, Beauties and Beggars: The Etchings of Salvator Rosa

Danae Falliers

Through December 7, 2014

941.383.2345

February 3 – March 4, 2015

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

Ringling.edu/lbkca

Reception: February 7, 2014

Through December 7, 2014

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Longboat Key Center for the Arts Division of Ringling

Longboat Key, FL 34228

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Events

Lionel Sanchez, Landscape Watercolor

Natural Environments: Louis Cabot Photography

February 5 – 6, 2015

Palm Avenue Arts Alliance

Jack Nolan, Travel Sketching

PalmAvenue.org

Through December 18, 2014

February 10, 2015

An Evening of Classics

“Longboat Key Luminaries” – Ageless Creativity

Kris Parins, Light Fantastic Watercolor

October 3, 2014

March 11 – 13, 2015

A Prelude to Season

October 10 – November 20, 2014

November 7, 2014

Mind Matters: Creativity & Courage Retreat

Sculpture & Jewelry

Don Roberts, Silver Jewelry Workshop

38th Annual Holiday Walk

November 13, 2014

January 15, 2015

December 5, 2014

Florida Watercolor Society Exhibition

Wendy Thurlow, Stone Setting

December 4 – 19, 2015

February 4, 2015

Susanna Spann Reflections Exhibition

Wendy Thurlow, Tube Setting

Sarasota Season of Sculpture

January 13 – May 14, 2015

February 18, 2015

1662 Floyd Street

Habatat Glass Gallery Exhibition

Greg Marra, Figure Sculpting

Sarasota, FL 34239

January 16 – February 26, 2015

February 25 – 26, 2015

941.928.4445

Tom Carabasi Latin Jazz Combo Concert

Don Roberts, Silver Jewelry Workshop

sarasotaseasonofsculpture.org

January 24, 2015

Wendy Thurlow, Ring Making

“My Glass Odyssey” Film

by John Waterman

March 4, 2015

Don Roberts, Silver Jewelry Workshop

Sarasota Architectural Foundation

February 4, 2015

March 12, 2015

941.364.2199

Bill Buchman Blues Combo Concert

Wendy Thurlow, Hollow Form Earrings

sarasotaarchitecturalfoundation.org

February 12, 2015

April 1, 2015

February 26, 2015

Annual Community Juried Exhibition

Manasota Weavers Guild

Selby Gallery Ringling College of Art and Design

ManasotaWeaversGuild.com

2700 North Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234

Florida Artist Group, Exhibition

Fabulous Arts Boutique “FAB”

April 10 – May 14, 2015

February 11 – 14, 2015

Ringling.edu/SelbyGallery

fabsarasota.com

Annual Faculty Exhibition

March 7 – April 1, 2015

Soul/Motown Review Directed

by Scott Blum March 14, 2015

Master Class Painting

David Leffel, Still Life & Figure Painting in Oil

Marietta Museum of Art & Whimsy

941.359.7563

September 26 – October 24, 2014

2121 North Tamiami Trail

Galleries I & II: Evan Roth / Intellectual Property Donor

February 16 – 19, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34234

October 31 –

Douglas David, Seascape Plein Air Painting

941.364.3399

December 10, 2014

whimsymuseum.org

5950 Sam Shapos Way

Gallery I: A Legacy Inscribed: The Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts Gallery II: The Great American Graphic Novel

Watercolor

North Port, FL 34287

January 12 –

Jack Nolan, Landscape Watercolor Made Easy

941.423.6460

February 18, 2015

NorthPortArtCenter.com

Objects to Be Contemplated

January 15, 2015

Reflections

February 27 –

Susanna Spann, Painting Reflective Surfaces

September 6 – November 8, 2014

April 4, 2015

Pottery Show

January 21 – 22, 2015

September 20 – October 25, 2014

Ringling College Senior Thesis Exhibitions

Abstract Art Show

April 10 – May 7, 2015

March 4 – 6, 2015

Bill Buchman, Creative Breakout March 18 – 20, 2015

North Port Art Center

November 8, 2013 – January 3, 2014 scenesarasota.com

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Annual Community Exhibitions

Gayle Fulton Ross: “Hell – Purgatory – Paradise”

Sarasota Chalk Festival Artists

May 15 – June 5, 2015

January 16 – March 25, 2015

Pop Art/Pop Culture

Student Art Exhibition

November 28 – December 12, 2014

April 10 – 22, 2015

Portrait & Figure

Siesta Key Crystal Classic siestakeycrystalclassic.com

The Crystal Classic November 14 – 18, 2014

November 11 – 21, 2014

December 19, 2014 – January 16, 2015

Surface Design Guild Sarasota

Jewelry Show & Sale January 10 – 11, 2015

SarasotaSurfaceDesign.com

Wildlife Show Featuring Animals

The Southern Atelier

Exhibitions and workshops offered year

January 23 – February 13, 2015

7226 21st Street East

round.

Fine Arts Show

Sarasota, FL 34243

February 21 – 22, 2015

Tapestry Artists of Sarasota

Painting Exhibit: Karen Hitt

TheSouthernAtelier.org Exhibitions & workshops offered

8069 Stirling Falls Circle

Members Only All Media Spring Show

year round.

Sarasota, FL 34243

March 27 – April 17, 2015

941.359.1765

Abstract

americantapestryalliance.org

April 24 – May 8, 2015

201 10th Street West

Towles Court Art District

South County Public School Show

Bradenton, FL 34205

1938 Adams Lane

May 13 – May 22, 2015

941.746.4131

Sarasota, FL 34236

Summerfest

southfloridamuseum.org

941.587.9851

July 5 – August 7, 2015

See History, Science & Education section

TowlesCourt.com

for listings.

Art Walks

941.753.7755

South Florida Museum and Bishop Planetarium

Third Friday of every month

February 27 – March 20, 2015

Women Contemporary Artists

State College of Florida Fine Art Gallery

Venice Art Center

WomenContemporaryArtists.com

5840 26th St. West

390 Nokomis Avenue

Juried Fall Exhibit

Bradenton, Florida 34207

Venice, FL 34285

November 6 – December 4, 2014

941.752.5225

941.485.7136

Spring Exhibit: Selby Gardens

scf.edu/ArtGallery

VeniceArtCenter.com

May 2015

“Art of the Wedding Costume: Ritual and Romance”

Fall Members Show

941.358.9159

October 10 – November 6, 2014

September 19 – December 3, 2014

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HISTORY, SCIENCE & EDUCATION

The Hermitage Artist Retreat

Longboat Key Education Center

6660 Manasota Key Road

5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Ste 212

Englewood, FL 34223

Longboat Key, FL 34228

941.475.2098

941.383.8811

4748 Beneva Road

HermitageArtistRetreat.org

LBKEducationCenter.org

Sarasota, FL 34233

See Arts Communities & Organizations

941.361.6590

for complete event listings.

Adult and Community Enrichment Center

ACE-Sarasota.com

Alliance Francaise de Sarasota

Historical Society of Sarasota County 1260 12th Street

Manasota Weavers Guild ManasotaWeaversGuild.com See Museums & Visual Arts section for complete listings.

200 S. Washington Boulevard, Ste 2

Sarasota, FL 34236

Sarasota, FL 34236

941.364.9076

941.955.0700

HSOSC.com

Manatee Village Historical Park

AFSarasota.org

Historic Trolley Tours

1404 Manatee Ave. East

October 25, November 15,

Bradenton, FL 34208

Big Cat Habitat

December 6, 2014, January 3 & 24,

941.749.7165

7101 Palmer Blvd.

February 14, March 7 & 28,

manateeclerk.com/historical/

Sarasota, FL 34240

April 18, 2015

manateevillage.aspx

941.371.6377

Conversations at The Crocker

Spirit Voices from Old Manatee

BigCatHabitat.org

October 2014 – April 2015

October 2 – 5, 9 – 12, & 16 – 19, 2014

Historical LeBarge Cruise November 2, 2014

Steven G. Noll: The Spanish Legacy of Florida

Brown Bag Book Lunches

October 14, 2014

16405 Myakka Road

December 17, 2014, January 21,

A 1914 Florida Cracker Christmas

Sarasota, FL 34240

February 18, & March 18, 2015

December 14, 2014

941.322.1000

High Tea and Paintings Off Easel

CrowleyFL.org

January 11, 2015

Bob Stone: Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition

Full Moon Hikes

Private Tour of Ca’d’Zan

February 3, 2015

October 2014 – May 2015

January 20, 2015

Heritage Days Open House

Crowley Museum & Nature Center

Crawleyween

March 28, 2015

October 30 – November 2, 2014

Historic Burns Square

Community Service Volunteer Day

Pineapple Avenue between Ringling

October 17 – 19, 2014

Avenue and Mound Street

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Thanksgiving Campout

BurnsSquare.com

811 South Palm Avenue

November 26 – 30, 2014

Sarasota, FL 34236

Holiday Escape Campout

Historic Spanish Point

941.366.5731

December 19 – 21, 2014

337 North Tamiami Trail

Selby.org

Valentine’s Day Campout

Osprey, FL 34229

Sunsets at Selby

February 13 – 14, 2015

941.966.5214

September 10 & 24;

HistoricSpanishPoint.org

October 8 & 22, 2014

Holly Days Mangrove Lights

Fall Music Series

GuitarSarasota.org

November 28, 2014 – January 1, 2015

October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2014

Classes and events offered year round.

Annual Luncheon

Colors of the Tropics Display

February 18, 2015

October 17 – November 7, 2014

Fishing Tournament

12th Annual Watercolor Collection Exhibit

Guitar Sarasota

April 24 – 25, 2015

November 7, 2014 – January 18, 2015

Preserving Eden Exhibit November 9, 2014 – February 25, 2015 scenesarasota.com

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Wine, Dine and Pine

Powel Crosley Estate

December 4, 2014

One Seagate Drive

Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning (SILL)

Lights in Bloom

Sarasota, FL 34243

PO Box 3649

December 19 – 23 & 26 – 29, 2014

941.722.3244

Sarasota, FL 34230

Plant and Garden Festival

powelcrosleyestate.com

941.365.6404

February 21 – 22, 2015

SILLSarasota.org

March 6 – April 17, 2015

Ringling College of Art and Design

Pura Vida Display

2700 North Tamiami Trail

March 28 – April 11, 2015

Sarasota, FL 34234

Sarasota Jungle Gardens

Spring Music Series

941.351.5100

3701 Bay Shore Road

April 5 – 26 & May 3 & 10, 2015

Ringling.edu

Sarasota, FL 34234

Mother’s Day Brunch

See Englewood Art Center, Longboat Key

941.355.5305

May 10, 2015

Center for the Arts and Selby Gallery

SarasotaJungleGardens.com

Tropical Fourth of July

listings in Museums & Visual Arts.

Schedule of events available online.

Ringling Town Hall Lecture Series

SOULSPEAK/SOULMOVES

Benefiting Ringling College

Workshop & event info available online.

Rainforest Masks 2015

Sarasota & Venice Global Lecture & Music Series Schedule available online.

July 4, 2015

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

Soulspeak.org

1600 Ken Thompson Pkwy

Library Association

Sarasota, FL 34236

941.925.1343

941.388.4441

RCLassociation.org

Mote.org

Dr. Charles Krauthammer

Mote’s Night of Fish, Fun & Fright

January 13, 2015

South Florida Museum, Bishop Planetarium & Parker Manatee Aquarium

October 17, 2014

John M. Huntsman, Jr.

201 10th Street West

February 2, 2015

Bradenton, FL 34205

Dan Buettner

941.746.4131

February 23, 2015

southfloridamuseum.org

Ayaan Hirsi Ali interviewed by Katty Kay

Film Fridays

“Reclaiming the America Dream,” with Hedrick Smith

March 4, 2015

Family Night at the Museum

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

First Saturday every month

October 30, 2014

March 23, 2015

think + drink (science)

“Composing for Broadway, Film and TV,” with David Krane

Dr. Ben S. Bernanke

Second Wednesday every month

March 31, 2015

Stelliferous Live!

New Topics New College Speaker Series Benefiting New College Foundation ncf.edu/new-topics-new-college

November 18, 2014

Every Friday Night

Last Wednesday every month

“Traumatic Brain Injury Research,” with Dr. Fiona Crawford

Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, Inc.

Tapestry Artists of Sarasota

December 4, 2014

941.953.8727

941.359.1765

“The State of Hate and Extremism,” with Heidi Beirich

HistoricSarasota.org

americantapestryalliance.org

February 19, 2015

Sarasota Architectural Foundation

“The Canary in the Coal Mine: Florida and Global Climate Change March 5, 2015

See Museum & Visual Arts for schedule.

941.364.2199 SarasotaArchitecturalFoundation.org Tours & lectures scheduled year round.

“Burning Questions,” with John Lentini March 19, 2015

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS OCTOBER 2014 Florida Balloon Festival Premier Sports Campus at LWR FloridaBalloonFestival.com October 3 – 5, 2014

20th Annual Downtown Sarasota Art & Craft Festival 5 Points Park & Central Ave artfestival.com October 4 – 5, 2014

Ringling International Arts Festival The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Ringling.org October 15 – 18, 2014

Mote’s Night of Fish, Fun & Fright Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium 1600 Ken Thompson Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34236 941.388.4441 Mote.org October 17, 2014

8th Annual Hungarian Festival Sarasota Fairgrounds SarasotaFair.com October 18 – 19, 2014

6th Annual Sarasota Pumpkin Festival Sarasota Payne Park sarasotapumpkinfestival.com October 24 – 26, 2014

Dragon Boat Festival 2014 Nathan Benderson Park WorldClassRowing.com October 25 – 26, 2014

Lakewood Ranch’s Boo Fest Main St. Lakewood Ranch LakewoodRanch.com/Mainstreet October 25, 2014

St. Armands Boat Show St. Armands Circle, Sarasota starmandscircleassoc.com October 26 2014

Fright Night: Halloween on St. Armands

starmandscircleassoc.com October 31, 2014

DECEMBER 2014

NOVEMBER 2014

5th Annual Sarasota Craft Show

27th Annual Downtown Venice Art Fest

Robarts Arena sarasotacraftshow.com December 5 - 7, 2014

941.484.6722 West Venice Avenue Downtown Venice venicemainstreet.com November 1 – 2, 2014

26th Annual St. Armands Art Festival St. Armands Circle, Sarasota artfestival.com November 8 – 9, 2014

ArtsHop 941.778.2099 culturalconnections.info November 8 – 10, 2014

Sarasota Medieval Fair Sarasota Fairgrounds sarasotamedievalfair.com November 8 – 9, 15 – 16, 22 – 23, 2014

Sarasota Chalk Festival ChalkFestival.com West Miami Ave., Venice November 10 – 17, 2014

Siesta Key Crystal Classic 948 Beach Rd siestakeycrystalclassic.com November 14 – 18, 2014

Venice Brews & Blues Festival jazzbluesflorida.com November 15, 2014

Anna Maria Island Arts & Crafts Festival artfestival.com November 22 – 23, 2014

Harvest Festival Mixon Fruit Farms mixon.com November 22 – 23, 2014

Siesta Key Village Annual Holiday Lighting siestakeyvillage.org November 29, 2014

36th Annual Holiday Night of Lights St. Armands Circle starmandscircleassoc.com December 5, 2014

Bradenton Blues Festival Realize Bradenton bradentonbluesfestival.org December 6, 2014

Olde Englewood Village Winter Fine Arts Festival West Dearborn Street oldeenglewood.com December 6 – 7, 2014

6th Annual Downtown Sarasota Holiday Arts & Craft Show Phillippi Estate Park sunsetboulevardpromotions.com December 13 – 14, 2014

27th Annual Winterfest of Fine Arts and Fine Crafts Anna Maria Island Art League IslandArtLeague.org December 13 – 14, 2014

Holidays Around the Ranch Main St. Lakewood Ranch LakewoodRanch.com/Mainstreet December 13, 2014

JANUARY 2015 9th Annual Coquina Beach Winterfest Arts & Craft Show 2650 Gulf Drive sunsetboulevardpromotions.com January 3 – 4, 2015

19th Annual Anna Maria Islandfest Arts & Craft Show 5801 Marina Drive sunsetboulevardpromotions.com January 17 – 18, 2015

St. Armands Circle, Sarasota scenesarasota.com

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Venice Nokomis Rotary Arts Festival

Selby.org February 21 – 22, 2015

Venice Airport Grounds VeniceNokomisRotary.org January 17 – 18, 2015

LWR Winterfest Music Festival

7th Annual Forks and Corks

Lakewood Ranch’s Premier Sports Campus lwrwinterfest.com February 28, 2015

freshoriginals.com/forksandcorks January 23 – 26, 2015

MARCH 2015

12th Annual St. Armands Circle Art Festival

34th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival

artfestival.com January 24 – 25, 2015

JazzClubSarasota.com March 1 – 7, 2015

17th Annual Downtown Sarasota Art in the Park

14th Annual Downtown Venice Art Classic

Main St. & Gulf Ave. sunsetboulevardpromotions.com January 24 – 25, 2015

West Venice Ave., Downtown Venice artfestival.com March 7 – 8, 2015

8th Annual Downtown Venice Craft Festival

Sarasota County Agricultural Fair

Main Street, Downtown Venice artfestival.com January 25 – 26, 2015

Sarasota Fairgrounds sarasotafair.com March 13 – 22, 2015

Grand Ovation at Lakewood Ranch

13th Annual Downtown Sarasota Art & Craft Festival

Main Street at Lakewood Ranch LakewoodRanch.com/Mainstreet January 31, 2015

Main Street, Lemon Ave to Five Points Park artfestival.com March 14 – 15, 2015

FEBRUARY 2015

26th Annual Springfest

21st Annual Winterfest at the Mansion Arts & Craft Show Phillippi Estate Park, Sarasota sunsetboulevardpromotions.com January 31 – February 1, 2015

Sarasota Masters Art Festival boulderbrook.net Palm Avenue, Historic Downtown Sarasota January 31 – February 1, 2015

21st Annual Siesta Key Craft Fair Ocean Blvd. & Beach Road artfestival.com February 7 – 8, 2015

27th Annual Downtown Sarasota Festival of the Arts Main Street, Sarasota artfestival.com February 14 – 15, 2015

Selby Plant & Garden Festival Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

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The Rotary Club of Englewood’s Fine Arts Festival Dearborn Street, Englewood englewoodrotary.org March 28 – 29, 2015

APRIL 2015 La Musica International Chamber Music Festival LaMusicaFestival.org April 6, 9, 12, 13, & 15, 2015

Sarasota Film Festival SarasotaFilmFestival.com April 10 – 19, 2015

Venice Shark Tooth’s Festival Venice Airport festival grounds sharkstoothfest.com April 10 – 12, 2015

37th Annual Siesta Fiesta artfestival.com Ocean Boulevard in Siesta Key Village April 11 – 12, 2015

De Soto Heritage Festival desotohq.com April 2015 (TBD dates)

MAY 2015

Fine Arts & Crafts Anna Maria Island Art League IslandArtLeague.org March 14 – 15, 2015

Inspire Sarasota

Art at the Ranch

Harvey Milk Festival

Main Street at Lakewood Ranch artcentermanatee.org March 21 – 22, 2015

Sarasota Folk Festival Sarasota Folk Club Oscar Scherer State Park sarafolk.org March 21 – 22, 2015

Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival Centennial Park, Downtown Venice venicebookfair.com March 28, 2015

Arts & Cultural Alliance sarasotaarts.org May 2, 2015

harveymilkfestival.com May 14 – 16, 2015

SUMMER 2015 Savor Sarasota Restaurant Week Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau SarasotaFL.org/savor June 1 – 14, 2015

Sarasota Music Festival sarasotaorchestra.org June 1 – 20, 2015

Sarasota Improv Festival floridastudiotheatre.org Florida Studio Theatre July 2015 scenesarasota.com

ARTS COMMUNITIES & ORGANIZATIONS Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County

Realize Bradenton 941.907.9243

941.681.0708

LakewoodRanch.com/Mainstreet

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Music on Main

Bradenton Blues Festival

Free concerts the first Friday of each

December 6, 2014

1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Ste 300

month.

Sarasota, FL 34236

Team Tony Ride

The Rosemary District

941.365.5118

October 5, 2014

East of US 41, North of Fruitville Road,

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Boo Fest

centered on Central Ave.

16th Annual Awards Ceremony

October 25, 2014

Founded in 1886, this historic district offers

October 20, 2014

Boo Run

dining, art, shopping, and more.

Principal’s Luncheon

October 25, 2014

November 12, 2014

Dragon Boat Festival

Sarasota Film Society

Inspire Sarasota

October 25 – 26, 2014

941.364.8662

May 2, 2015

Cyclefest

FilmSociety.org

November 2, 2014

Burns Court Cinemas

Empty Bowls

506 Burns Court

November 7, 2014

Sarasota, FL 34236

5414 Marina Drive

Chanukah Celebration

Lakewood Ranch Cinemas

Holmes Beach, FL 34217

December 17, 2014

10715 Rodeo Drive #8

941.778.6694

Tour de Cure

Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202

AMIArtistsGuildGallery.com

April 12, 2015

Cine-World Film Festival

Artists’ Guild of Anna Maria Island

See Museums & Visual Arts for complete event listings.

Hermitage Artist Retreat

Events at Lakewood Ranch 6220 University Parkway Lakewood Ranch, FL 34240

November 7 – 16, 2014

Annual Academy Awards February 22, 2015

6660 Manasota Key Road

941.907.6000

Englewood, FL 34223

LakewoodRanch.com/Events

Towles Court Art District

941.475.2098

Tour of Homes

1938 Adams Lane

HermitageArtistRetreat.org

October 3 – November 23, 2014

Sarasota, FL 34236

Beach Reading - Florida Association of Teaching Artists

Florida Balloon Festival

TowlesCourt.com

October 3 – 5, 2014

Third Friday Art Walks

October 10, 2014

Harvest Moon Classic

6 – 10 pm monthly

Calling All Plein Air Painters!

October 9 – 12, 2014

November 6, 2014

Uncorked at Lakewood Ranch

Venice Main Street

Patriot Plaza Artists

November 8, 2014

941.484.6722

Present Ringling Museum

Sculpture Tour &Talk November 13, 2014

Manatee County Cultural Alliance

venicemainstreet.com See Festivals & Fairs section.

Creative Conversations with Patriot Plaza Artists

926 12th Street West

Village of the Arts

Bradenton, FL 34205

Bradenton, FL

November 14, 2014

941.746.2223

941.747.8056

Artful Lobster

ManateeArts.org

VillageoftheArts.com

November 15, 2014

Hermitage Tours & Sunset Beach Reading December 12, 2014

Historic Burns Square Pineapple Ave. between Ringling Ave. & Mound St.

Main Street at Lakewood Ranch

The National League of American Pen Women, Sarasota Branch 941.342.8542 NLAPW-Sarasota.com

Palm Avenue Arts Alliance

Art Walks First Friday & Saturday every Month Schedule of workshops and events available online.

Visit Sarasota County 701 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34236

PalmAvenue.org

941.955.0991

First Friday Gallery Walks

VisitSarasota.org

8100 Lakewood Ranch Blvd.

See Museums & Visual Arts

Savor Sarasota Restaurant Week

Bradenton, FL 34202

for complete event listings.

June 1 – 14, 2015

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EDUCATION

Education Matters

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

“Arts, in short, have the greatest impact of any subject on standardized test scores. – James Catterall, UCLA Professor, Director at Centers for Research on Creativity

The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee is doing groundbreaking work in the preparation of teachers and school leaders in the state of Florida. The College of Education faculty has embraced arts integration as a way to develop the critical and creative thinking of the next generation of educators and the students they will serve. To better equip future educators to meet the rigors of 21st century learning and new Florida State Standards, and to ensure the success of all students, faculty members partner with an international network of colleagues, arts organizations, teaching artists, and P-12 school and district partners.

In the classroom, in the community, and in the schools, professors and students are finding new ways to engage all students through arts-integrated education.

The efforts of the college are guided and supported by the Center for Partnerships in Arts-Integrated Teaching (PAInT), a research center approved by the Florida State University System Board of Governors in 2012. The center coordinates the development of curriculum for educator preparation and P-12 classrooms, provides professional development for university and district teachers, supports and disseminates research through a network of scholars, and publishes an international book series. The center also engages in grant development to support the outreach efforts of the faculty. The goal of the center is to develop a replicable model for partnerships

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College of Education faculty and masters in teaching candidates together to tutor local at-risk students to prevent summer reading loss.

Project EAGLE – Through a grant from the Manatee Community Foundation and in partnership with the Manatee County Schools, USFSM faculty, student teaching interns, classroom teacher mentors, and teaching artists work as a professional learning community to develop arts-integrated curriculum and pilot it in instructional settings beginning with pre-kindergarten students.

“The commitment of the college and the support of its community partners is at the heart of an innovative and powerful model for transforming educator preparation in ways that will benefit the students in Florida’s schools,” says Dr. Brianne Reck, Executive Director of The Center for PAInT. “What is happening at USFSM is unique in that it is the only College of Education in which every faculty member across every program and curriculum area is committed to harnessing the power of the arts to transform the preparation of teachers and school leaders. By helping them understand the role of the arts in developing critical and imaginative literacies, we prepare them to transform the learning experiences of every child in every classroom in every school.”

It’s clear that The Center for PAInT has become a conduit between all who recognize the vital role that the arts play in both learning and teaching, as well as what might be lost if the arts weren’t a part of the lives of students. This commitment is unique — it is the only school in the country to have such a program in a College of Education. Perhaps as more success stories emerge from The Center for PAInT, the more other schools and universities will embrace the arts more meaningfully in their own education programs.

For more information on USFSM or The Center for PAInT, please visit usfsm.edu or call (941) 359-4200.

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LOCALLY

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OUR COMMUNITY PLANS FOR SARASOTA DESIGN DISTRICT UNVEILED Design and home furnishings industry professionals headquartered on Central Avenue and adjacent streets in Sarasota have formed an association to brand and promote the area as the Sarasota Design District. Situated within the boundaries of the city’s historic Rosemary District, association members include architects, interior designers, home builders, cabinet makers and showrooms devoted to flooring, home entertainment, furniture and decorative accessories. Michael Bush, president of the Rosemary District and owner of Home Resource, is spearheading the program as head of the new Sarasota Design District Association. sarasotadesigndistrict.com

BLAKE PARTNERS WITH INFORMED DNA FOR GENETIC COUNSELING AND RISK ASSESSMENT Blake Medical Center is partnering with InformedDNA, the largest independent provider of genetic counseling services. InformedDNA provides genetic counseling and risk assessment to patients seeking information about inherited cancer risk. blakemedicalcenter.com, informeddna.com

USF SARASOTA-MANATEE RECEIVES RESEARCH FUNDING The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee has been awarded a $289,336 sub-award through Clark University as part of a $1.45 million grant funded by the John Templeton Foundation to study how universities around the world can help students find a strong sense of purpose. The research will survey hundreds of students in six countries to learn how college can be made meaningful and relevant to them in a way that also helps students make a positive difference in their communities.

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SMHF GRANTS $220,500 TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation’s board of trustees recently approved four grants totaling $220,500.

Grant recipients include The Breast Health Center at Sarasota Memorial, Sally and Sam Shapiro Babies and Children’s Medical Center at the Glasser-Schoenbaum Human Services Center, Florence A. Rothman Institute, and Good Samaritan Pharmacy & Health Services. smhf.org

DOCTORS HOSPITAL APPOINTS STEVE YOUNG AS NEW COO Doctors Hospital of Sarasota has appointed Steve Young to be its new Chief Operating Officer. In his position as COO, he will oversee all of the day-to-day operations at the hospital. Young comes to Doctors Hospital from Osceola Regional Medical Center where he was the Associate Chief Operating Officer since 2012. doctorsofsarasota.com

AMERICAN RED CROSS RECEIVES $100,000 GRANT FROM MOSAIC The American Red Cross received a $100,000 grant from the Mosaic Company to support the Red Cross “Prepare Florida” campaign. “Prepare Florida” is a statewide campaign that will mobilize communities to be better prepared in the face of disaster. redcross.org, mosaicco.com

STEPHEN KING TO SPEAK AT LIBRARY FUNDRAISER Author and seasonal Sarasota resident Stephen King will speak at “An Evening with Stephen King” Jan. 29 at the Manatee Performing Arts Center. The event is hosted by the Manatee Library Foundation to benefit the Manatee County Public Library System by modernizing the way local patrons use library resources. manateelibraryfoundation.org September 2014

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SOCIAL

Behind the Scene

Society Maven Debbi Benedict Gives the Latest Scoop For the third September installment of my Winning at Sarasota Society series, I’d like to discuss in hushed, reverent tones (or is it irreverent?), what it actually costs to be a part of the crème de le crème in the land of sand and sequins. Just to be all inclusive, I thought I would give you two versions – the “haute” version, grande dame-style, and the “emerging” version for all our socialites-in-training.

As you see, I am addressing this particular column to the femmes, as women rule the social scene in Sarasota. Men only need to throw on their business suit or the same tux, over, and over, and over.

Luckily in this town, you don’t even need a man to succeed in society. You will see scads of women – single and married – attending events on their own or with girlfriends. And we all know that women dress to impress other women, as you rarely meet a man, unless he is gay, who can recognize a Gucci from a Chanel, so why spend the money unless people actually know you have dropped a boatload on that darling little dress. Believe me the women in this town know the difference.

Let’s start at the beginning and the naked truth about personal maintenance. I am not going to even go into the cost of all the little nips and tucks, which women are starting earlier and earlier. Most women who move here from climes farther north, get a little something done before they get here so they look perfectly natural to all their new competition. Pity the poor ladies who arrive here and realize that young in Sarasota means being in your 60s. By that, I mean 60 that looks like 40. So off they go to get, at the bare minimum, a few shots of Botox at $600 a syringe, just to eliminate those annoying and telltale little frown lines. Of course, you can just have your hairdresser cut a few bangs to hide them for around $75 and hope that a strong wind doesn’t blow them off your face and expose your covert operation while you are sitting on the patio at the Field Club. A good can of strong old-fashioned Aqua Net hairspray will help you avoid that little embarrassment. If you are not at the point yet, just stay out of the sun and use a good anti-wrinkle cream from CVS at $25.

We won’t even talk about the monthly facials and weekly manicures. Those costs can range from a few dollars for our brave do-it-yourselfers, poor deprived things, to many, many hundreds for a season’s worth of micro-planning and gel nail polish applications.

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If you go into Saks Fifth Avenue a couple of hours before a major event, you will see the cosmetic counters crowded with customers having their make-up done for the big night. It won’t cost them much that night, though they have probably already spent hundreds there previously. If you don’t want to associate with the cosmetic counter peasants, you can employ a make-up artist to come directly to your home and artistically paint your face in the privacy of your boudoir for $200 a trip.

Most chi-chi salons have someone on staff who can train you to do your own for $75, that way it is a one-shot deal and free ever after by doing it yourself.

With a bit of lock-jaw drone, many women will tell you they don’t shop in provincial Sarasota for their seasonal wardrobe splurges.

Let me share their secret with you – yes, they often go to cities like Palm Beach, Atlanta, and New York, but they aren’t shopping in the fashionable big-name boutiques, they are shopping in elite re-sale shops! Even the richest of women have to save a few pennies now and then. They do frequent Saks’ Fifth Avenue Club here at home, too, because they have to be able to throw into the cocktail conversation with their friends that “Gloria is

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trying to hunt down the latest ‘it’ bag for me” or “Miqui is holding two Oscar de la Renta gowns for me to choose from, but I might just get them both!” Two full-price designer evening gowns and two Armani or St. John suits for day will run you $20,000 unless you can take advantage of a sale. For our emerging socialites, shopping at a few of our sweet boutiques downtown or on the Circle,

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like Dream Weaver and The Met, where you can snag different designer labels from super expensive to more affordable choices.

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Most of the grande dames do not have jewelry costs. They already have inherited grandmother’s pearl necklace or diamond earrings or an entire safe of precious jewels.

At the very least, their husbands have showered them with jewels for various milestone

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forgiveness presents to help the wife get over her husband’s little indiscretion. A few others have been able to buy their baubles for themselves either with trust accounts from their dearly departed or with funds they have earned on their own, though in reality, that really doesn’t happen much here. For all others, there’s always CZs and shhh, they even sell them in Saks. You can scenesarasota.com

buy a few simulated sparklers for $300 to $500. Some women even show them off and tell you outright they are fakes. They think they are being whimsical. They are not. Of course, you can only tell people the truth if you have the actual funds to buy real jewels, otherwise it’s just plain sad.

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night as a matter of fact. You definitely want your name listed as a sponsor or at the very least, a patron. Usually a patron ticket starts at double the price of a regular ticket and sponsorships at $3,000 to $5,000 at the beginning levels. You do want to have prime seating at the event, don’t you? After all, who can see you in all your designer-shod, golden-highlight brilliance if you are stuck in the corner in social Siberia? You can count on spending at least $25,000 a season to be the well-seated queen bee. Oh, are you the chair or the honoree? Then your ticket costs just skyrocketed. Plan on spending at the

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artist surgeon.”

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lowest price for a ticket. Now members of this particular group, led by a quite demanding grande dame, whose champagne blond head has now passed on to her great reward, felt they needed to be at a prime table, so all the other guests could bask in their reflected, and finely calibrated, big-money glow. My decorations chair, Beth Cannata, actually kindly swapped her table with them just so we would not have to endure their continuing wrath. My favorite photo from that evening is Beth, Tracy Seider, and I all gathered together with very serious faces discussing the situation like we are at a United Nations summit. As a side note, the ball

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was held in a tent, and all the female guests at that imperious table brought individual rugs to lie beneath their feet, so their silken shoes would not touch the grass below. Now that is definitely a grande dame move.

Many events have program books where you can place an ad. Chairs, committee members, and friends of the honoree are all expected to place an ad for “a little extra” to up the event coffers. Sometimes you can get away with a small ad for $250 or if you want to go for the back cover, that will probably fall in the range of $2,500.

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Mon Chéri. If you were a guest, there is the obligatory thank you on your best stationery accompanied by a beautiful floral bouquet, especially if you attended a gala to the tune of $100 to $200. If you are a chair or honoree, it is more elaborate. Thank you notes to everyone–committee members, staff, sponsors, vendors. The list goes on and on. This time the floral arrangements go to the staff and small, but meaningful gifts go to anyone who went above and beyond to make the event a success. These are usually distributed at the wrap up luncheon, yet another cost. There is really no lesser cost for this part. Either you do it right or you don’t. End of story and end of your social

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standing if you fail to thank properly.

What does all this social superiority add up to? The grande dame can spend more than $100,000 a year to stay at the top, while our emerging socialite-in-training can get by with under $10,000. I never said this

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Until next time…TaTa! Debbi Benedict is SCENE’s society maven and Special Issues Director. Contact Debbi at 941-483-4460 or debbibenedict@verizon.net scenesarasota.com

HEALTH MATTERS

Fat Is Not a “Four Letter Word”

By Alissa M. Shulman M.D., F.A.C.S. Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Really…fat is a good thing! Lately, we’ve all heard about nutritionally “good fat” (fish oil, nuts, avocado etc.). Well, there is “good fat” in the body.

Let’s start with the fat, as a plastic surgeon, I want to preserve. Fat that fills out the wrinkles (usually in the face) and fat that gives women a feminine shape (hips, buttocks, breasts). When a patient presents to me with the “silly idea” of wanting to remove all their “excess fat”, I start from the top and break it down to areas that are aesthetically

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beneficial and ones that “really aren’t helping”.

This brings me to the “stubborn fat” I can, and want, to remove. These are the fatty

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to their “college weight” as their goal. Unrealistic! Youth is not necessarily thin; children look young partly due to their “well fatted” and elastic skin. I’ve had this fact reinforced every time I gaze upon my own beautiful little girls. It is much better, and “prettier” to keep the good fat, and let me remove (liposuction) the unwanted, stubborn fat.

Then, there is the fat that we don’t want, but can’t get to surgically (at least not according to my “doctor books”). This is your “visceral fat” that insulates your internal organs. Truly, only diet and exercise will take care of this fat – swimming, walking, biking…and more time intensive, not “short burst” cross training. This tends to be a more “masculine” place to carry weight, but both sexes are affected.

Now, fat is not something that I only “take away” (liposuction). Adding fat can also be used to shape and contour. This is where “fat grafting” has become my favorite “tool” to improve one’s appearance.

In the breast, fat grafting can be used to modestly increase the size (usually less than one cup size). This is a great option for someone who has a more “pear shaped” body (small on the top and a full “bottom”). It also does well when combined with a breast lift (mastopexy), as the fat is placed just under the skin, and doesn’t push against the force of the lift the way an implant would. This is also a great option when all one really wants is a little upper pole fullness (think “push-up bra”), because the fat generally stays where it is placed (just under the skin). An implant usually “falls” to the bottom of the breast with gravity.

Another popular area for fat grafting is the buttocks (i.e. “Brazilian Butt Lift”). This is for the patient with a fuller mid-section and flatter bottom. By reducing the areas just above the buttocks (lower flank and upper hip) and adding to the “butt proper”, a more feminine shape can result.

It is important to work with a plastic surgeon (board certified, of course) with extensive experience in fat grafting. In the past 10 years, the science has finally caught up with the art of fat grafting. The surgeon must carefully treat (filter or spin down) and inject the fat carefully, using sterile technique, and with special attention to the surrounding blood supply (it is tissue graft that needs the same things as any other tissue graft). On average, only 60 to 70 percent of the injected fat “takes” (survives), but I have been very fortunate (probably due to my technique) in that usually my take is about 80 to 90 percent. I should also add, as all of one’s friends and family will offer to “donate fat”, that you can only use your own fat (or that of an identical twin).

So, as with everything….fat has to be in the right place at the right time.

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The Advancements of Robotic Surgery

By Bob Meade, CEO of Doctors Hospital of Sarasota At Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, we strive to provide our patients with the highest standard of care including state-of-the art technology. The advanced robotic surgical options that are now available to the community allow many patients to experience surgery with minimal scarring, less pain and faster recovery.

Many people suffer from back pain; however, when is the appropriate time to seek medical attention? Patients who are experiencing frequent reoccurrences of back pain

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causing an inability to participate in daily activities or a decrease in their quality of life are often advised to engage in physical therapy. The intended goal of physical therapy is to increase function and decrease the level of pain. If after a month to six weeks of physical therapy patients do not experience an improvement, the recommendation will often be made to seek care from a specialist. With a focus on improving quality of life, the specialist will discuss the appropriate treatment plan for the patient’s condition. If conservative treatments haven’t reduced pain and it continues to affect daily life, spinal surgery may be considered.

With the addition of the Mazor Robotics Renaissance™ technology, which recently earned FDA approval, our spine surgeons are now able to provide a minimally invasive surgical option to treat patients suffering from debilitating back pain or limited range of motion caused by spinal deformities and degenerative conditions. This keeps us at the cutting edge of what is available to our surgeons, so they are able to offer a wider range of options for their patients.

“The advantages are that the patient has outpatient surgery, a short stay in the hospital, less pain, less need for narcotic pain medications, fast return to activities, and less risk of the need for blood transfusions and less risk of infection” explains fellowship trained spine specialist, Dr. Thomas Sweeney.

Symptoms that can be especially concerning for patients with back pain include numbness, tingling, weakness, loss of bladder or bowel function, and balance and coordination issues. These symptoms should be addressed quickly by a physician.

In addition to spine robotic surgery, we also offer the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical Robot, a system that assists surgeons in performing a wide variety of minimally invasive surgical procedures. Our highly-trained surgeons utilize the da Vinci® Si™ Surgical Robot for specialty procedures including urology, gynecology, general surgery and oncology.

These robotic surgeries are performed through small incisions, which replace the large incisions needed for conventional open surgeries; therefore potentially enabling patients to recover more quickly and with fewer adverse side effects. This particular robotic system has several unique features which provide clinical benefits and efficiency in the operating room, as well.

While not all patients are candidates for robotic surgery, it is important that you speak with your surgeon to discuss all surgical options that are available. We offer many educational opportunities for the community to learn more about their areas of interest, including our robotics program. Our patients find these lectures an excellent opportunity to collect valuable information regarding the best course of action for their particular needs, in addition to asking questions of the teaching physician.

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