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RSVP | CALENDAR DECEMBER 2019 COMMUNITY EVENTS SPONSORED BY SRQ MEDIA
CAREGIVERS’ COMFORT SOCIALIZING LUNCH DECEMBER 2 Julie Cook Downing, president of Caregivers’ Comfort Creations, LLC, and Doctors Hospital Caregiver Support Group facilitator, hosts a monthly lunch at The Rosemary restaurant in Sarasota. This event provides caregivers some time to relax, enjoy themselves and eat a delicious meal with others sharing similar situations. The lunch takes place from 12:15pm–1:45pm. Caregiverscomfort.com
BEINGWE: WOMEN BALANCING BUSINESS & LIFE: CREATING WHAT’S POSSIBLE AGAINST ALL ODDS DECEMBER 3 Women are natural-born leaders. Yet, many feel overwhelmed by a empting to juggle life’s demands and have it all—home, family and career. How to balance work and home life? The Women’s Resource Center will explore these issues with BeingWE (Being Women Empowered), a guided conversation series for women by women, created by Keren Lifrak, an area-based entrepreneur and real estate professional. The series launches with three sessions: The Superwoman Badge on October 29, Women Balancing Business & Life: Creating What’s Possible Against All Odds on December 3 and Follow Your Bliss: How Our Brains Are Uniquely Wired to Take Action on January 23. Each session is 4:30pm– 7:30pm and all genders are welcome to participate. BeingWe.net
SARASOTA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL LECTURE: RICHARD SKOLNIK DECEMBER 3 Join the SWAC for the next program in its 2019–20 lecture series, “Global Health: Why You Really Must Care,” featuring Richard Skolnik, former director for health in the South Asia region of the World Bank and executive director of Harvard’s USsupported AIDS treatment program for Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania. He will discuss some of the key challenges in global health, the threats they pose for the US and the world, and how they might be addressed. Each SWAC lecture is followed by a members-only reception with the speaker in a historic building on Sarasota Bay. The lecture is free, but reservations are suggested. Sarasotawac.org
SARASOTA CONTEMPORARY DANCE: REVEREND BARRY & THE FUNK DECEMBER 5–8 As part of SCD Artistic Director Leymis Bolaños Wilmo ’s passion to collaborate with local musicians, SCD will join forces with Reverend Barry & The Funk, an eight-piece funk band featuring a three-piece horn section, and one of the fastest-rising “buzzworthy” acts in the state of Florida. Fueled by their recent No. 1 global position on ReverbNation’s funk charts a er the release of their debut album SxyGdLuv, and the success of their recent breakout single “LoveShine,” the band is now headlining festivals and larger venues around the state. This is the first time that SCD will be partnering with a funk band, and we couldn’t be more thrilled that they are already a Sarasota favorite. This production will feature original choreography by Artistic Director Leymis Bolaños Wilmo in collaboration with the SCD dancers. This unique evening is sure to be unlike any other and is not to be missed! Sarasotacontemporarydance.org
ART OF PERFORMANCE: LAGARTIJAS TIRADAS AL SOL: TIJUANA DECEMBER 6–7 This Mexico-city based theater ensemble has created a suite of works that explore ideas of democracy in the 21st century and blends them with narrative collages from Mexican history. The solo work Tijuana is the staged result of a real anthropological theater experiment undertaken by Lagartijas ensemble member Gabino Rodríguez, in which he abandoned his life in Mexico City to work on an assembly line in a Tijuana factory on the US border. Passing under a false identity for six months, he earned the legal minimum wage to explore how the current-day Mexican working class survives. Ringling.org
SB2: PHILANTHROPIC AGENDA AND THE ANNUAL GOOD HERO AWARDS DECEMBER 9 The SRQ Philanthropic Agenda and Good Hero Awards luncheon and panel discussion will explore the dynamic and ever-changing world of nonprofits. What’s trending, who’s innovating, why are donor-advised funds growing so rapidly and what exactly are donors looking for? The
luncheon will culminate with the SRQ Gives Good program, at which we will feature the Annual Good Hero Philanthropic Awards honoring individuals who have meaningfully impacted our community for good in the past year and for-profit companies who have been incredible philanthropic partners to the community, featuring Keynote Speaker Mark Brewer, President and CEO of the Central Florida Foundation. Featured panelists include President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Sarasota Roxie Jerde, the President and CEO of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation Mark Pritche , Senior Vice President of Collaboration and Impact at the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation John Annis, philanthropic catalyst and former executive director of the Dart Family Foundation Ariane Dart and Executive Director of the Selby Foundation Carol Butera. Tickets are $55 per person. SRQMAG.COM/sb2
IGNITE EDUCATION BRUNCH AND BUBBLES DECEMBER 11 Join the Education Foundation of Sarasota County to recognize and honor Sarasota County Teachers at a brunch at The Westin Sarasota from 10:30am–12pm featuring the Teacher of the Year program and Sarasota County Schools Alumni of Distinction. Edfoundation.org/ignite
PINC 2019 DECEMBER 12 PINC is People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity. It’s a one-day, conference-style experience delivered by a cascade of international speakers from every imaginable discipline, skill and talent you can think of. Speakers range from Iditarod champions, the founder of vertical farming, a famous felt artist and a lawyer whose territory is outer space, all the way to Nobel Prize winners, perfume virtuosos, a master acoustician and the doctor who performed the first hand transplant. Whether a speaker or a guest, the PINC experience a racts creative thinkers, entrepreneurs, specialists, designers, artists, scientists and anyone looking to stimulate their mind, heart and soul. It’s an opportunity to participate in an eclectic mix of the fundamental pieces that create the human experience. If you want to be inspired, you want to be at PINC. Pincexperience.com
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