West Coast Woman October 2020

out and about continued
At Tampa Museum of Art:
• Everyday Women. On view
through January 9, 2022. In celebration
of the 100th anniversary
of women’s suffrage, the Tampa
Museum of Art presents a series of
exhibitions focused on the achievements
of women in the arts and explores
the story of women in the
ancient world through the depictions
of goddesses, heroines, mythological
characters, and everyday
women in the Museum’s collection
of classical antiquities.
The Tampa Museum of Art continues
to celebrate its 100th anniversary
in 2020. To celebrate while
social distancing, the Museum
will host one big virtual evening of
giving on November 7, 2020, Centennial
Celebration: Cheers for
100 Years.
Supporters of the Centennial Celebration:
Cheers for 100 Years virtual
evening of giving will enjoy a fun
night of virtual entertainment, with
live performances, stories, interviews,
and reflections on a century of
accomplishments.
Likewise, the funds raised will
also support special outreach programs
that provide art therapy interventions
and meaningful modes
of self-expression to vulnerable
segments of the population. These
groups include children and teens in
foster care, children in domestic violence
shelters, children of migrant
communities, adults living with
dementia, HIV/AIDs, Substance Use
Disorder, and many more.
Call 813-274-8130 or visit Tampa
Museum.org. The Museum’s address
is 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza. Tampa.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, St.
Petersburg has contemporary
artist Derrick Adams. Adams has
observed that in art and in reality,
images of Black people at play, being
joyful, and simply enjoying life are
not the norm. To fill this void, Adams
created a painting series titled
Floaters between 2016–2019, where
Black men, women and children
lounged in or rested on novelty floaties
in the pool.
In the exhibition, Derrick
Adams: Buoyant, 12 of these
mixed-media works come together
in a dynamic, vibrant presentation
at the Museum of Fine Arts, St.
Petersburg, through November 29,
2020. In the gallery, the large-scale
paintings are complemented by
beach chairs and giant pool floats,
along with one of the inspirations
for the idea of the show: a 1967
Ebony magazine article and photo
spread on Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.’s vacation in Jamaica.
The MFA is located at 255 Beach
Drive NE is St. Petersburg. The
Museum houses the largest encyclopedic
art collection in Florida.
The collection includes works of art
from ancient times to the present
day and from around the world, including
ancient Greek and Roman,
Egyptian, Asian, African, pre-Columbian,
Native American, European,
American, and contemporary
art. The photography collection is
one of the largest and finest in the
Southeast. For more information,
visit mfastpete.org.
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Changes
and
Updates
In concern for
the health and
safety of patrons,
musicians, staff
and guest artists
and other factors
related to
COVID-19, The
Venice Symphony
Board of Trustees
has made the
difficult decision
to postpone the
November 2020
to April 2021
concert season
to 2021-22.
Songs From
the Stage and
Screen with Linda
Eder and Patriotic Pops at CoolToday
Park are scheduled to take place in
May 2021.
Meanwhile, Music Director/Conductor
Troy Quinn has announced
a “reimagined season” of virtual
concerts including “The Venice Symphony
at Home for the Holidays.”
This series will premiere in November
2020 and will be offered at no
charge to all, with enhanced virtual
experiences provided to Symphony
subscribers
The Venice Symphony will also
continue to present its free online
Meet the Musicians and Behind the
Baton video series. Those series and
the summer-long Education Spotlight
series are available on The Venice
Symphony’s YouTube channels
and at the thevenicesymphony.org.
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Sarasota Orchestra has announced
the postponement of its
previously scheduled concerts for
September 2020 through May 2021.
Best efforts will be made to reschedule
guest conductors, featured artists
and programs in upcoming seasons
for all previously scheduled performances
and subscription series.
Artistic Advisor Jeffrey Kahane is
planning a series of 12 to 14 smaller
ensemble concerts in Holley Hall at
the Orchestra’s Symphony Center,
which are anticipated to begin in
November. Kahane’s programs will
offer a variation of styles for a broad
range of musical tastes.
Concerts will employ socially distanced
musicians on the stage with
ensembles ranging from two to 15
players. Enhanced safety protocols
for small audiences will include
socially distanced seating, required
masks, hand sanitizing stations,
deep cleaning of the facility between
performances, and a newly installed
Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization air
handling system.
Information is available at www.
SarasotaOrchestra.org.
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Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College re-opens October 1. The Museum Campus is
open to all, including the new Bistro, the Shop, and the Grounds. On exhibit: Worker
by Barbara Banks. Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College Museum Campus, 1001
South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Image: Lorenzo Gatlin, Worker.
RCLA Town Hall Lecture Series:
Ringling College Library Association
has November 2020 dates for
rescheduled Town Hall lectures by
Lisa Genova and Annie Leibovitz.
Original dates for the two remaining
lectures were suspended by the Van
Wezel due to Coronavirus public
gathering precautions. Subscriber
tickets for both lectures will be
honored for both Town Hall events.
These two dates will complete their
40th Anniversary season.
Now scheduled for Monday,
November 9, renowned neuroscientist,
Lisa Genova, will focus on
neurological disorders, including
Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic
brain injury, autism, Huntington’s
disease, and ALS. Genova graduated
valedictorian from Bates College
with a degree in biopsychology and
holds a PhD in neuroscience from
Harvard University. She is the New
York Times bestselling author of
“Still Alice,” “Left Neglected,” “Love
Anthony,” and several other books.
Through fiction, she is dedicated
to describing the journeys of those
affected by neurological diseases,
thereby educating, demystifying,
and inspiring support for care and
scientific research.
On November 23, renowned
photographer Annie Leibovitz will
give a talk on her long career in journalism
and the arts. A former chief
photographer for Rolling Stone, her
pictures have appeared regularly
on magazine covers since the 1970s.
As an astute documentarian of the
social landscape, she developed a
large body of work at Vanity Fair,
and later at Vogue, including portraits
of actors, directors, writers,
musicians, athletes, and political
and business figures, as well as fashion
photographs.
The Lisa Genova and Annie Leibovitz
lectures will be presented at Van
Wezel. Morning lectures begin at
10:30 a.m. and evening talks begin at
7:30 p.m. Subscribers unable to attend
are encouraged to donate their
tickets to Ringling College Library
Association. Call 941-309-5100.
New College’s Clambake has
been the school’s major scholarship
fundraiser—and one of Sarasota’s
most popular philanthropic events—
for more than four decades. Due to
concerns with COVID-19, organizers
decided to push it past its usual November
timeline.
New College of Florida will celebrate
the 42nd anniversary of its
annual Scholarship Clambake, hosted
by the New College Foundation,
on March 4, 2021, at 6 p.m. The event
will take place on the New College
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bayfront beside
College Hall,
5800 Bay Shore
Road in Sarasota.
All ticket
proceeds benefit
student scholarships.
New College
Foundation
board members
Beverly Bartner
and Renee
Hamad are this
year’s co-chairs.
Tickets start at
$250 and sponsorships
are
available.
For more information,
call
941-487-4800.
The University
of South
Florida has
announced a new date for one of the
region’s premiere events — the 27th
annual Brunch on the Bay at the
Sarasota-Manatee campus now on
Jan. 24, 2021. Attendees will enjoy
great cuisine, fellowship with friends
and have the opportunity to invest in
the future of the community by supporting
student scholarships. Elizabeth
Moore will serve as chairperson
of the 2021 event.
To reserve a table sponsorship
or purchase tickets to Brunch, visit
the 2021 USF Sarasota-Manatee
Brunch on the Bay sponsorship
page. Out of consideration for the
safety of the community, new social
distancing measures are being diligently
considered as plans continue
for Brunch on the Bay. Visit https://
www.sarasotamanatee.usf.edu/giving/brunch-on-the-bay/.
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Sarasota Opera has changes to
Fall Season:
• Due to the uncertainty of being
able to gather safely in a theater
in November, Sarasota Opera is
cancelling the scheduled mainstage
production of Mozart’s Don
Giovanni and the Sarasota Youth
Opera production of The Hobbit. The
“Night in Italy” concert, scheduled
for November 7, and the Concert at
Noon scheduled for November 13
are also cancelled.
Sarasota Opera’s fall season will
consist of concerts utilizing resident
artists. A concert with singers
and piano on stage at the Sarasota
Opera House will be live-streamed
on the internet on November 13,
2020. If conditions allow for an
in-person audience, an announcement
will be made at a later date.
The “OperaMobile” will return in
November with Resident Artists
performing throughout Sarasota.
If conditions allow, the Company
will also be scheduling concerts at
outdoor venues in Sarasota, TBA. In
addition, Sarasota Opera hopes to
begin a modified HD at the Opera
House and Classic Movies at the
Opera House series in September or
October, depending on then-current
health conditions.
No changes have been made to
the Winter Opera Festival which
is scheduled to run from Feb. 6
through March 21. Single tickets
for the Winter Opera Festival are
on sale now. More info at https://
SarasotaOpera.org.
The Board of Directors of the
Anna Maria Island Concert
Chorus & Orchestra (AMICCO) has
decided to postpone Symphony on
the Sand until 2021. In its eighth
season, Symphony on the Sand has
traditionally occurred on Anna Maria
Island’s Coquina Beach on the
second Saturday each November.
Recognized as one of the region’s
premier musical events, it has been
well-attended by over 4,000 people
annually. For more information
contact info@amicco.org.
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Due to COVID-19 Ear Research
Foundation postponed its March
29, 2020, Hear & Now and All That
Jazz events. The dinner and concert
will now take place on December
5 at the Sarasota Opera House and,
as planned, will feature music
legends Dick Hyman and David
Amram. Hyman and Amram, performing
together for the first time,
will share each of their six decades
creating a wide variety of music and
working alongside a long list of renowned
artists.
The evening will include a
pre-show dinner, concert, and
afterparty in the courtyard
featuring Dr. Herbert Silverstein’s
jazz group, The Ear-iginals. For
more information visit www.
EarRF.org or contact Melissa Voigt,
Executive Director at mvoigt@
EarRF.org or 941-365-0367.
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Local non-profit organization,
Realize Bradenton, is planning to
proceed in December with their
outdoor Blues music event, the
Bradenton Blues Festival, but they
are changing their venue due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The outdoor music event is expected
to take place on December 4, and
5, but it will not be held its normal
location on the Riverwalk. The event
will now take place at LECOM Park,
the spring training home for the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
Organizers of the event say the
main reason for changing the venue
is because the park has a seating
capacity of 7,500 and for an event
that is expected to have over 1,100
people in attendance they believe
that continuing to practice social
distancing in an outdoor environment
is achievable.
Friday Blues Appetizer evening
event will be limited to 500 attendees
and tickets are required. At the Saturday
Bradenton Blues Festival event
600 tickets are available. mTo purchase
tickets, visit: mhttps://www.
bradentonbluesfestival.org/
A week before the festival, ticket
buyers will receive an email regarding
festival parking, will call, seating
assignments, and the health and
safety procedures all attendees are
expected to follow. Any questions,
email blues@RealizeBradenton.com.
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