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out and about continued
Virtual performance options will
be available.
All operas will also be live
streamed in high definition with
multiple cameras, premium audio,
and subtitles, and will be available for
purchase as a virtual season for $100
or as a single opera for $25.
Sarasota Opera will continue to
use enhanced cleaning procedures,
testing, masking, and ample spacing
to protect artists, crew, musicians,
staff members, and audience. The
historic Sarasota Opera House, which
normally seats 1119, will be limited
to an audience of 275, approximately
20% of its capacity. Details on health
and safety can be found at https://
www.sarasotaopera.org/health-andsafety.
In the evolving environment
of COVID-19, future plans will be
continually evaluated, and other adjustments
may be made to the performance
schedule and protocols if circumstances
require further changes.
For more information on the upcoming
2021 Winter and Spring performances,
visit SarasotaOpera.org,
or contact the Sarasota Opera Box
Office at (941) 328-1300.
At The Van Wezel
The Van Wezel has two additional
virtual offerings for the month
of March. Celebrate Irish culture
with Rhythm of the Dance, streaming
from March 1-31, and Ireland
with Michael on March 14. Both
streams are available for purchase.
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• Ireland with Michael on March
14 at 7 p.m. Virtual meet and greet
options are available. Ireland with
Michael is a Celtic show from the National
Opera House in Wexford, Ireland.
The never-before-seen stream
features the Irish Concert Orchestra,
two choirs, singers and musicians
from all over Ireland, joining renowned
Irish singer Michael Londra
in a celebration of Irish culture,
heritage and music for Saint Patrick’s
season. The show, which was taped in
front of a live audience, also steps out
into the Irish villages and countryside
to meet local traditional singers,
dancers and musicians.
• Rhythm of the Dance. Streaming
on demand from March 1- 31.
Tickets are $20. Brimming with
pulsating rhythms, pure energy and
melodic music, the National Dance
Company of Ireland’s Rhythm of the
Dance show has reached 50 countries
with over seven million fans for
over 20 years. Fans around the world
are enjoying 2,000 years and more
of dance, music, songs and culture
from pre-Celtic times to modern
day sounds, all compacted into a
two-hour concert. It’s full of flailing
feet and fiddles, futuristic dances,
eye-catching lighting and costumes
and sensational sound effects, and
is now hailed as one of the top three
Irish step dance shows in the world.
Tickets: www.VanWezel.org, or call
the box office at 941-263-6799.
The Van Wezel has the following
changes to the 2020-2021 season:
• Audra McDonald’s performance on
February 13, 2021 is being rescheduled
to a future date. Patrons are
encouraged to hold on to their tickets,
and the Hall will announce the
new date once it is available.
• PROUD Tina: The Ultimate Tribute
to Tina Turner on March 9,
2021 has been rescheduled
to January 13, 2022.
• Rick Thomas: Mansion
of Dreams on April 8,
2021 has been rescheduled
to April 11, 2022.
• Johnny : 65 Years of Romance
on April 14, 2021
has been rescheduled to
April 12, 2022.
The Van Wezel’s Box
Office will be following
up with patrons directly
affected by these changes.
Patrons who wish to attend
rescheduled performances
should keep their tickets,
which will be honored for
the future performance
dates. Patrons who will
not be able to attend the
rescheduled performances
have the opportunity to
donate their tickets or receive
a refund.
Future updates can be
obtained from the Van
Wezel’s website and social
media accounts: www.Van-
Wezel.org.
Art Around
the State
- many of
these exhibits
are online/virtual
At Tampa Museum of Art:
Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen
through March 28, 2021.
Living Color brings together 60 paintings
from five private collections, featuring
the works of the core group of
Florida Highwaymen. These celebrated
African American artists depicted
the state’s natural environment and
rich tones through their unique selftaught
painting styles.
Call 813-274-8130 or visit TampaMuseum.org.
The Museum’s address is 120
W. Gasparilla Plaza. Tampa.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, St.
Petersburg has Color Riot! How Color
Changed Navajo Textiles. Runs
through March 14, 2021.
This exhibition celebrates the individualism
and flair for experimentation
in Navajo textiles from the
last quarter of the 19th century. Featuring
over 80 dazzling works, these
textiles reflect ideas and events the
Navajo people experienced between
1863 and 1868, the hard years of
their imprisonment in the Bosque
Redondo, and their subsequent return
to a reservation.
During this time, weavers absorbed
stylistic features of Hispanic
textiles and began to work with new
materials such as aniline dyes and
mass-produced Germantown yarns.
Commercial products at trading posts
sparked additional design ideas for
weavers. This touched off their unique
experiments with color and design.
No longer weaving for their traditional
trade partners, and working at a
time when outside market influences
were at a low point, the Navajo were
free to experiment with form and
color. In addition, as commercial woven
garments and cloth became more
common, creating blankets and rugs
offered weavers a chance to sell to
traders for newly expanding markets.
The MFA is located at 255 Beach
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Asolo Rep has Camelot, March 17-April 1. This fresh production
features new orchestrations by Tony-nominee Steve
Orich, who will also serve as music director.
Drive NE is St. Petersburg. For more
information, visit mfastpete.org.
The Society of the Four Arts
has Charles and Jackson Pollock
running through March 28, 2021.
Charles Pollock was the eldest of five
boys (his youngest brother was Jackson.
Charles moved to New York in
1926 to study under Regionalist painter
Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students
League and in 1930 persuaded
18-year-old Jackson to join him.
Each was strongly influenced by
Benton and both were admirers of the
Mexican muralists, but while Charles
adopted Benton’s American scene
painting, Jackson was more interested
in the symbolic and mythical
content of the Mexicans.
In addition to approximately 70
paintings and works on paper by ‘Pollock
the Elder’, the exhibition presents
a small, even intimate selection
of works revealing a Jackson Pollock
little known to the general public:
paintings, drawings including one of
only two surviving notebooks of the
1950s, his sole surviving sculpture,
virtually his entire production of
prints, and a pair of low four-legged,
paint-spattered stools immortalized
in photographs by Hans Namuth and
Arnold Newman of Pollock at work in
his Long Island barn-studio.
The exhibition is at The Esther
B. O’Keeffe Gallery: North, Main
and South Galleries. The Society of
the Four Arts, 100 Four Arts Plaza,
Palm Beach.
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Virtual Exhibit: Boca Raton Historical
Society & Museum. “Life’s a
Beach” examines the history of Boca
Raton from the perspective of its
most beautiful asset, the beachfront.
Learn about the first people to call
Boca Raton home, the pre-Columbian
Indians, who lived primarily
in coastal areas here. See the
beachfront that greeted our pioneers
through many historic photographs.
Find out about the importance of
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Boca’s beach during World
War II. Enjoy these images
and artifacts gleaned
from the collections of the
BRHS&M. Through August
4, 2021.
www.bocahistory.org/
lifes-a-beach. Boca Raton
Historical Society & Museum,
71 North Federal
Highway, Boca Raton.
“Collecting Stories”
Exhibit runs through April
3, 2021 at the Morikami
Museum and Japanese
Gardens. The Morikami
Museum’s exhibition
“Collecting Stories”
highlights more than 100
works drawn from the
Morikami’s permanent
collection and featured in
five vignettes, or mini-exhibitions.
Enjoy early 20th century
kimono in Dressing the
Modern Girl. In Celebrating
Sake, explore the
many different varieties of
utensils used for making
and serving sake. Visitors
can learn about the vast
array of face masks used
in Japan, from medieval
samurai armor to sci-fi
anime characters, in
Masquerade. Observe the profound
emotions associated with the moon
while gazing at A View of the Moon
featuring both traditional woodblock
prints and contemporary artworks.
Consider the culturally intertwined
beliefs of Shint shrines and Buddhist
altars in Sacred Spaces.
Morikami Museum and Japanese
Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road,
Delray Beach.
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Soul on Art: Ghosts of Africa
runs to March 10, 2021 at the Lighthouse
ArtCenter Gallery and School
of Art. Soul on Art: Ghosts of Africa
features work by significant brown
and black artists, including Leonardo
Drew, Adam Pendleton, William
Kwamenah-Poh, Kara Walker, and
Purvis Young. These accomplished
painters, sculptors, and multimedia
artists have created work held in
prestigious collections including, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The exhibition presents thought-provoking
and evocative artworks inspired
by the artists’ personal experiences
and cultural heritage. A mustsee
for anyone compelled to explore
the effects of the African diaspora on
some of today’s most successful contemporary
artists.
Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery and
School of Art, 373 Tequesta Drive,
Tequesta, Florida. https://www.lighthousearts.org/soul-on-art.html.
Van Gogh Alive runs through
April 11, 2021 at the Dali Museum
in St. Petersburg. Experience
Vincent van Gogh’s works in an immersive
art installation that opens
a new window into the celebrated
painter’s artistic genius. From his
famous “Starry Night” to his radiant
“Sunflowers,” Van Gogh’s vibrant
work invites viewers to revel in color,
light and sound. Visitors will feel the
sensation of walking right into Van
Gogh’s paintings.
The exhibition features more than
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3,000 Van Gogh images at enormous
scale, viewed through high-definition
projectors and synchronized
to a powerful classical score. Cinema-quality
surround-sound amplifies
the emotion generated by the
works themselves. In addition to the
iconic works featured, visitors can
examine Van Gogh’s inspiration via
photographs and video displayed
alongside them.
The Dalí is the first North American
venue to host this version of Van Gogh
Alive. Tickets: https://thedali.org/
visit/buy-tickets/.
Sarasota
Institute of
Lifetime Learning
SILL has 2021 “Global Issues”
series to March 30 and 2021 “Music
Mondays” series to March 22. Both
series will be offered free and presented
virtually.
The Global Issues series features
experts exploring topical issues. The
Music Mondays series, after suffering
the loss of its beloved host Edward
Alley, will be led by Joseph Holt.
This year’s series will be offered
free of charge on a virtual platform,
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30
a.m. Guests will be able to interact
with the speakers after each lecture.
Registration is required at www.
sillsarasota.org.
Highlights of SILL’s 2021 season
includes: author and diplomat Amb.
Dennis Ross, who will explore the
current state of the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict; former chief of naval
operations Admiral Gary Roughhead,
who will discuss the evolving role of
the U.S. military as an agent for the
promotion of democracy; author and
historian Jeremy Suri, who will address
presidential leadership in crisis;
Susan Spaulding, former undersecretary
for Cybersecurity and Critical
Infrastructure at the Department of
Homeland Security, who will discuss
the U.S. under electronic siege; and
Amb. Robert Ford, who will discuss
Syria and the Kurds. Such popular
SILL speakers as Martin Walker, Baroness
Margaret Jay, Dr. Moshen Milani,
and Dr. Bob Barylski will return
to illuminate their areas of expertise.
SILL’s popular Music Mondays
series entitled “Musical Conversations
with Great Performers”
features informal performances and
lively conversations with renowned
and emerging performers, composers
and conductors. The 2021 season
will be offered virtually on Mondays
at 10:30 a.m.
To learn more, visit www.sillsarasota.org
or call 941-365-6404.
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Coming Up and
Not to be Missed
Stock up on your favorite snacks
and prepare to get cozy on your
couch this March for the Through
Women’s Eyes International Film
Festival virtual March 5-8. Over
360 films have been submitted.
Tickets will go on sale in the new
year; stay tuned for updates in our
January newsletter! If you have
questions about Through Women’s
Eyes or would like to learn how you
can get involved, contact: TWE Director
Debbie Vale: debbievaletwe@
gmail.com.
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