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BEYOND THE STAGE With New Stages, The Ringling proves performance art doesn’t have to be confined to a stage.

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Top: Wise Fool New Mexico uses levity and whimsy to explore topics that are considered taboo.

Above: U.K.-based Motionhouse uses installation, as well as dance and aerial movement to convey the notion of human captivity.

At one point or another, all students ask themselves the same question: When are we ever going to use this?

Luckily for Sonja Shea, this was a question she didn’t have to ponder. Last year, while earning advanced certification in performance-art curation at Wesleyan University, she was tasked with the equivalent of a thesis project: Curate a contemporary performance art program.

For her classmates, the project was purely scholastic in nature — an assigned, hypothetical billing.

Shea, however, was already working in the field as project coordinator at The Ringling. Her thesis, if well received by her peers and professors, would actually be implemented at the museum, Ringling’s Curator of Performance Dwight Currie told her.

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On Feb. 16, The Ringling kicks off New Stages, its annual series of live performances in a variety of genres, designed to promote contemporary performance art at the museum, which is traditionally devoted to visual art.

This year’s program, subtitled “New Sincerity,” is the culmination of the last two years of her work, which began in the classroom. Now, in her first year heading up the series, which was originated by Currie, Shea will see her program brought to life.

“It’s really exciting,” she says.

“I’ve always loved performance.

I think Dwight saw that, and he helped me cultivate that interest.

I feel really lucky.”

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Sonja Shea will head up New Stages for the first time this year. The program celebrates sincerity in contemporary performance art.

Often, with the right perspective, a perceived challenge can actually become an advantage. When planning this year’s program, one obstacle immediately presented itself.

With the construction of the forthcoming Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion underway, the adjacent Historic Asolo Theater — usually home to the series’ performances — was out of the question.

Shea says she saw a chance to create something completely different — to bring the performance off the stage and into the museum’s already beautiful campus.

Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure has spent the last year creating an individualized dreamlike performance tour at The Ringling.

“Chick Austin, the museum’s first director, was big on that idea,” she says. “He saw the whole campus as a site for performance.

So it started as a challenge, but it really became a huge part of the programming. At the center of all three performances is this idea of site and how performance transforms it. It wasn’t, ‘Let’s put this group in the rose garden because it’s pretty;’ site is an important part of what these artists consider when they’re creating.”

The series features three performances. The first, “SEESAW,”

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The other two performances include the New York City-based Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure, which will create a user-specific tour of performance throughout The Ringling campus, featuring at least 50 local performers, and Motionhouse, from the U.K., whose four dancers will

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“Being a curator is about helping artists achieve their vision, but it’s also about bringing your audience things that are going to intrigue them and make them think — it’s inspiring.”

BY MOTIONHOUSE Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, “The Panther,” four dancers perform in a large cage, blending dance and aerial work to explore how humans, like animals, can be plunged into captivity.

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blend dance and aerial work outdoors at the Bolger Campiello to explore the idea of human captivity.

In addition to the idea of site, Shea says another important component of the series is audience engagement — also central to each performance.

“All three performances see the audience as more than just a crowd of people in the dark,” she says. “They want to interact.

It’s about breaking that barrier of just sitting and watching — you’re actually engaging.”

All of this points to this year’s larger theme: New Sincerity.

Referring to a movement in art, music, literature and poetry, New Sincerity pushes back against the irony and cynicism prevalent in postmodernism. Instead, it earnestly celebrates nostalgia, joy and romanticism.

Put simply, the art is sincere. In this way, Shea sees it as a gift.

“I feel like the gift-giver,” says Shea. “I found this amazing, intriguing, beautiful performance that spoke to me, and I want that for you, too. Being a curator is about helping artists convey their vision, but it’s also about bringing your audience things that are going to intrigue them and make them think — it’s inspiring.”

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The French Connection Music festival celebrates the revolutionary legacy of French composers.

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Artistic evolution is rarely slow and steady — and it’s never in a straight line. Cultural growth is punctuated by sudden explosions. A happy (or unhappy) few creators supply the spark. Usually, just a handful of artists, musicians, writers and performers in the right place and the right time. Recent cultural warriors include the pyrotechnic punks of New York City in the late 1970s; the tie-dyed creators of 1960s San Francisco; and the artists and writers enjoying the “moveable feast” of 1920s Paris. Turn the clock back a few decades in that city …

You’ll wind up in what author and scholar Roger Shattuck called “The Banquet Years,” at the dawn of the 20th century. In Paris, it was time of artistic revolution.

That sometimes seemed like several revolutions per minute.

The Lumière brothers launched the first cinematic voyage to the moon. The symbolist poets frac-

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tured rhyme and reason. The Impressionists and their successors changed the rules of visual art — then threw the rulebook away.

This intoxicating time of reinvention crossed many artistic fields. The world of music was no exception. Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Debussy, Ravel, Dupré and other French composers turned that world upside down. Arguably, the musical revolution they started never stopped.

The 2017 Festival of French Music celebrates this living legacy from Feb. 12 to March 13. Coordinated by Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, the collaborative festival comprises a range of performances, exhibits, lectures and feasts across Sarasota and Manatee counties. French culture and cuisine won’t be short-changed.

But French music is at the heart.

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Virtuoso cellist Edgar Moreau will perform with Artist Series Concerts Feb. 12.

Compositions by Ravel, Debussy, Polenc and others will provide the festival’s soundtrack.

Old-fashioned? Joseph Holt, Artist Series Concert’s director of artistic programs, doesn’t think so. As he sees it, their music is as revolutionary as ever. What set these composers on a revolutionary path?

“Their influences were simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan,” Holt says. “That seems contradictory — and perhaps it was. But they somehow fused these influences together to create something new.”

Holt explains that France’s avant-garde composers felt over-

shadowed by other national traditions — from the warring factions of Germanic music, to Italy’s operatic giants. They responded by carving out a uniquely French musical expression: less analytical, more personal and impressionistic. Simultaneously, they absorbed musical influences from around the world — Asian music, especially.

“A fad called ‘Orientalism’ was sweeping through Europe during this time,” Holt explains. “It showed up in everything from ‘The Mikado’ to ‘Madama Butterfly.’ French composers absorbed it and took it in their own direction.”

Parisian composers had anoth-

er heavy influence — other Parisian artists, working in a range of disciplines. “The artists of Paris didn’t work in isolation,” Holt says. “The photographer Man Ray might bounce ideas off the poet Mallarme or the composer Polenc. Stravinsky and Diaghilev collaborated on some amazing projects. It was an amazing time of collaboration and cross-fertilization.”

As Shattuck observed, Parisian artists ate, drank, talked and hung out together in the Banquet Years. As a new century rolled on, their banquet continued in many different forms. Artists from the rest of the planet got a seat at the

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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Artist Series: Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne perform works

by Poulenc, Beethoven and Brahms at 3 p.m. Feb. 12, at Faith Lutheran Church, 7750 Beneva Road.

Artist Series: Soprano Jenny Kim-Godfrey, flautist Betsy Traba and pianist Joseph Holt perform Poulenc, Mouquet, Mozart and Saint-Saëns, in a lunchtime concert at 12:15 p.m. Feb. 12, at Michael’s On East, 1212 E. Avenue S. Artist Series: Baritone John Brancy, pianist Peter Dugan, flautist Betsy Traba and cellist Christopher Schnell perform works by Ravel, Schumann, Debussy and others at 3 p.m.

Feb. 19, at Faith Lutheran Church, 7750 Beneva Road.

Sarasota Opera: Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” from March 4 to 12, at Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave.

Series became the catalyst for a collaborative festival of French music and culture.”

John Fischer, managing director of Artist Series Concerts, describes this group effort as a small miracle. “We all worked together,” he says. “Twelve different organizations, both public and private, set their agendas aside and made something happen. That doesn’t happen every day.”

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According to Holt, the festival shares the same collaborative spirit.

He hatched the idea about a year ago. Holt had been program-

done? Sarasota Opera gave all due respect to Italy’s operatic legacy.

The area’s classical concerts were typically heavy with German and American compositions. But the work of French composers was often neglected.

Holt instantly turned his musical focus to France. Conversations with his colleagues revealed that many had done the same thing.

Call it serendipity, synergy or plain good luck. But joining forces seemed like a natural idea.

“I sat down with folks from Sarasota Opera, Selby Gardens, Sarasota Music Archive and a few other groups,” Holt says. “I was happy to discover that Michael’s on East was devoting the month of February to French cuisine.

Tying it all together just made sense.”

Twelve area organizations will participate in the new festival.

Artist Series Concerts and Gloria Musicae are showcasing France’s game-changing composers in a series of concerts; Sarasota Opera is staging a soaring production of Polenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” Illuminating lectures include John Goodman’s investigation of “Dialogues of the Carmelites” at Sarasota Music Archive; SILL’s lively musical conversations with June LeBell and Joseph Holt; a mental stroll through Paris’ bygone street fairs with author Charlotte Perret; and a ticket to Marc Chagall’s flights of imagination at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. All that, gastronomic journeys at Michael’s On East and the Sarasota Garden Club.

“There are many different moving parts,” says Holt. “But they all came together organically, and we were right at the center. Before we knew it, the Artist

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Gloria Musicae: Conducted by Joseph Holt, featuring organist Stephen Hamilton and soprano Jenny Kim-Godfrey, mezzo-soprano Amy Jo Connours, and baritone David Davani, this choral ensemble performs works by Duruflé and Poulenc at 7 p.m. March 5, at First Church, 104 S. Pineapple Ave. Artist Series: Chanteuse Violette and the seven-piece La Vie en Rose Band perform a medley of American classics, French jazz, and the songs of Edith Piaf at 3 p.m. March 19, at Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Way, Venice.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens: “The Color of Dreams” exhibition immerses visitors in Marc Chagall’s nature-inspired artwork Feb. 12 through July 20, at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave.

Holt describes the process as a rare cross-fertilization between established cultural organizations and scrappy contenders. A French connection for local music and art lovers was the result.

“If you’re not planning a trip to France, this festival is the next best thing,” he says. “You won’t even need a passport.”

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easy to think it’s never going to happen to you — but you better hope it does! So it’s about embracing it, rather than being afraid of it.”

To walk the line between making fun of and what Hopkins calls “making fun with,” she, Richard Hopkins and the actors ran through the songs and jokes to vet which worked best, and which could potentially miss their mark.

It’s a process cast member Richie McCall especially enjoyed.

“As an actor, that’s the most exciting part for me,” he says. “I love figuring it all out. The other day, we ran through a song four different ways. It’s enlightening, and also revealing. Some of these topics are starting to hit closer to home. I feel more in touch with aging after this.”

Hopkins says regardless of age, the show has something for everyone.

“I hope people are entertained, and hopefully they can relate and laugh at what we all go through, but it’s about having fun. We’re all in this together. George Burns said you can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.”

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Flash back Oddity Tattoo draws up ’80s and ’90s nostalgia.

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If the number of Hollywood reboots, sequels, prequels and revivals in recent years are any indication, the people who grew up in the 1980s and ’90s are nostalgic for their childhoods.

In 2015, Oddity Tattoo Studio and Gallery hosted a “Star Wars” group art show in anticipation of the film franchise’s first Disneymade revival.

At 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, the tattoo shop will broaden its scope to host another group art show, “Be Kind, Rewind,” dedicated to all things ’80s and ’90s.

Shop manager and artist Will Ralston says the biggest challenge was picking just one subject.

“There’s so much great pop culture from that era,” he says.

“The most fun part is going to be seeing what everyone else came up with. This is the stuff we grew up with, and I think that gets people excited.”

The show will feature works by 25 to 30 artists, some submitting multiple pieces, in a variety of mediums. Some are approaching the topic more literally — drawing or painting a character from the pop culture of the time. Others are attempting to simply recreate an aesthetic.

Artist Amarish Hendon says he drew inspiration from famed American illustrator Patrick Nagel, whose art deco-inspired female illustrations became synonymous with the ’80s.

“There are a few ways to approach this,” he says. “I was hoping to capture the spirit of the era. I think a good example is the show flier — it really sets the tone for the show right off the bat.”

Guests can also expect a host of familiar faces — Slimer, Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, the Addams Family — anything that inspires nostalgia. The opening reception will feature souvenirs, prizes and refreshments to continue the theme.

“It’s hard not to be excited,” says Ralston. “These are the things that inspired us to become artists in the first place.”

Travis Franklin’s Mogwai art from “Gremlins” is part of Oddity Tattoo Studio and Gallery’s group art show paying tribute to ’80s and ’90s pop culture.

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andwiching “Strata,” the Symphony No. 6 of contemporary Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür, between two of the most beloved and well-known works of 19th century Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a stroke of magic on the part of the Sarasota Orchestra and Music Director Anu Tali.

First of all, the Tüür added a freshness and difference that’s necessary in concert halls these days. It also showed us how much can happen musically in just more than a century. And, believe me, it’s a lot. And it gave the Orchestra and Tali a chance to present the symphony in its United States premiere.

Tüür was in attendance at the concert Sunday afternoon at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, and he spoke briefly and eloquently before the music began. He invited us to enter what he called his “sound world,” and to use our differences to interpret his world.

A few days before the series of four concerts (all well attended or sold out), I had the opportunity to speak with the composer, and one of the things he described was the landscape of his home and studio on the coast of Estonia. He described walking

with the forest on one side and the ocean on the other, so my imagination was already primed to hear “Strata” (Layers), as if I were walking with him.

“Strata” is, indeed a world of sounds: forest murmurs, crunching leaves, winds rustling bare, cold tree limbs, waves crashing against the shore, someone being chased through the woods. How does Tüür achieve these sounds? He uses a full orchestral contingent with heavy brass, strings playing ponticello (the bow is right on top of the bridge, making an eerie, whistling sound) and a percussion section that runs the gamut from bongos and chimes to vibraphone and xylophone.

Music is unified, organized sound, and “Strata” certainly is organized. It’s fascinating in that it held my attention and, at times, moved me. It has no program attached; no story. It’s up to us to add our own imaginations. The question is, well written as it is, is its intellect in overdrive washing out what we think of as music? I’ll leave that up to the listeners. For me, it was interesting, but I was so glad to hear my old friend Tchaikovsky.

The program opened with a four-minute gem, the “Melodie” from “Souvenir d’un lieu cher,” written by Tchaikovsky

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Simon Trpčeski played powerfully, passionately and with spontaneity.

during a respite from a particularly trying year in the composer’s life. Originally for violin and piano, Alexander Glazunov arranged it for orchestra and violin, and the soloist at this series was Sarasota Orchestra concertmaster Daniel Jordan. Jordan has a sweet, beautiful sound, and the “Melodie” is a sweet, beautiful piece. It was almost as if they were made for each other.

Following the Tüür and intermission, we settled in for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, the work we all associate with Van Cliburn’s triumph in Moscow

all those many years ago. When the orchestra and its soloist, Simon Trpčeski, began the work, I swear I heard a sigh of recognition and relief pour out of the audience.

Trpčeski is a pianist of power, passion and spontaneity. There are many transitions from orchestra to piano, and there were many times Tali had the ensemble in one tempo and the pianist picked up the speed, and the group had to scramble a bit to change gears.

But no notes were lost, and fortunately, Tali is an excellent accompanist. She and Trpčeski seemed to have a great sense

of each other, so it was exciting to hear them make music together.

The concerto was beautifully sculpted and, except for a rough start in the brass and some intonation problems in the winds, it was a gorgeous performance with a luscious little duet between first cello and first oboe in the second movement and some wonderfully colorful playing from the soloist.

The encore, a waltz by Chopin, dedicated to the Sarasota Orchestra by the pianist, was the perfect ending to a varied and interesting concert.

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ohn Strand’s “The Originalist,” The Asolo Rep’s latest production, explores the life, opinions and dissents of Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court associate justice and originalist. What exactly is an originalist?

As the play opens, Justice Scalia (Edward Gero) helpfully supplies a definition. Liberal legal theorists believe in a living constitution; originalists believe in a dead one. (He prefers the term “enduring.”) In other words, “It means today not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.”

Scalia delivers these fighting words to an auditorium of law school students. One talks back — a bleeding-heart liberal named Cat (Jade Wheeler). It turns out she wants to be one of Scalia’s law clerks. To her surprise, he takes her on.

For the rest of the play, Scalia becomes her mentor and sparring partner. (Intellectual, only.) Cat’s also a handy form of opposition research. “Every once in awhile, I like to have a liberal around,” he says. “It reminds me how right I am.”

Despite Scalia’s vitriolic reputation, the debate is surprisingly civil. It revolves around a handful of hot-button issues, including affirmative action,

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abortion rights, the death penalty, the Second Amendment and same-sex marriage.

Despite her sexual orientation, Cat works on a rough draft of Scalia’s dissent on a case involving the last issue in United States v. Windsor (2013). That court’s decision overturned the Defense of Marriage Act. Cat swallows her pride to advance a position she opposes. But she does get Scalia to soften his language.

Slightly.

The talk is tough but never ugly. Scalia has a few moments of operatic high dudgeon; Cat occasionally shows her claws.

But it’s mostly collegial.

In the play’s fictional universe, Scalia intends to mold Cat in his image. It doesn’t work that way. Opinions remain intact on both sides, though Scalia does manage to pass on a few tips regarding the idiosyncrasies of both the semiautomatic AR-10 assaultstyle rifle and Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.”

The bulk of the play is argumentative, a series of logical punches and counterpunches delivered by Scalia and Cat. Director Molly Smith (who helmed Arena Stage’s original production of “The Original-

ist”) keeps a laser-beam focus on the point-counterpoint dialogue. For this material, it’s the perfect approach.

Gero’s Scalia is a charmer and a showman — a worldclass wit with the intellect to back it up. His opponents see him as a monster — a reputation he pretends to enjoy. But there’s nothing monstrous about him. A fine, multifaceted performance. (Gero, it should be noted, originated the role.)

Wheeler’s Cat is feisty and quick on her feet. She ducks Scalia’s jabs and gets in a few good licks of her own. It’s a tad improbable, even for a gifted

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law clerk. But she’s always fun to watch. Brett Mack briefly appears as Brad, Cat’s bitter fellow law clerk. He chafes at the presence of a liberal mind in the conservative holy of holies. Obnoxious, but that’s the character’s job.

The play’s stripped-down, semiotic sparring comes to life with minimalist sets and costumes by Joseph P. Salasovich and Misha Kachman.

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Inconclusively. As in real life, Scalia’s battle is cut short.

Death silenced him, where the greatest minds of his generation couldn’t.

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Michelle McSwain has a special gift coming her way this spring — one that’s worth celebrating before it even arrives. McSwain is expecting a baby son, Greyson James, with husband Greg McSwain in March, so her friends and family threw an “Ahoy it’s a Boy!” shower at the home of Ella Lewis on Feb. 4. The 20some guests enjoyed a nauticalthemed afternoon with lunch and the opening of several adorable baby presents. McSwain’s Junior League New Member Education Committee Co-Chairwomen Jaclyn Campbell is due in May (with a baby whose sex is being kept a surprise!), so the two took the opportunity to show off their impressive baby bumps.

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Attendees enjoyed rosé, fondue and laughs while seated at the festive dinner table, which was topped with heart-shaped and “XO”-covered plates … A gift for Mother Nature … Jeremy Wright announced during the paddle raise at Palm Ball on Feb. 4 that in lieu of wedding presents for his recent ceremony with husband

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Anna Grace rocks a glittery “1” tee.

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MASTERWORKS: Estonian Voices Anu Tali, Music Director Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Jonathan Spivey, piano Mozart’s Requiem is long venerated as one of the most poignant works for orchestra and choir ever composed.

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The two moms-to-be proudly showed off their baby bellies Feb. 4.

Superbowl Sunday was extra special for Ashley Thomas this year. The avid football fan and workout junkie celebrated her 35th birthday on Feb. 5, at a party planned

by Montana Taplinger. Taplinger was able to combine Thomas’ two favorite things by throwing a “Brunch & Burn Before the Big Game” bash that included a group Pure Barre class and then brunch (featuring bloody marys and mimosas, of course) at Libby’s Café and Bar right after. Guests included Thomas’ best girlfriends, who all donned their favorite NFL team attire for the sweat session. “You’re never too old to celebrate in theme,” Thomas says.

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Fourth Annual ‘A New Beginning’ Fashion Event Monday, Jan. 26, at at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall | Benefiting Selah Freedom

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Co-Chairwomen Donna Koffman and Tammy Karp

Stefania Orofino, Jamie Fernandez, Andrea Matter and Cathy Neubauer

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Co-Chairwomen Kim Cornetet and Donna Mateer with speaker Sam Haskell III, Junior League of Sarasota President Britt Riner and Honorary Chairwoman Debbi Benedict

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Starry Night Dinner 2 Monday, Jan. 30, at La Bellasara Benefiting Asolo Repertory Theatre

Above: The signature cocktail of the evening was the gin-basil smash.

Left: The color scheme was emerald and gold, inspired by the artwork in the penthouse.

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14th Annual Luncheon & Silent Auction Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:00 a.m.

Michael’s On East

Ariana A., Ayden M. and Cesilla P. get to know a baby goat up close and personal.

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Friday, Feb. 3, at The Lee Wetherington Club Benefiting The Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County

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Artist’s Rendering of The Promenade at The Mark Sarasota

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Above: Hannah Paley hugs her dog Pumpkin.

Left: Gus the dog gives his best poker face.

Lucy Walter poses with Donte’s Den Founder Marsha Panuce and dog Beau, who won the overall Top Dog award.

Tony Natale and Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore pose with Natale’s dog Dante, the winner of the best hair competition.

Lilah Davenport and dog Bruce, winners of the best kisser portion of the Top Dog show, pose with Bradenton Police Chief Melanie Bevan, who was one of the judges.

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