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out and about continued
that have changed the world.
There is no charge for this
event. There is an optional fee
of $7 to help defray costs. Reservations
required for Zoom link.
• March 7 at 2 p.m. Zoom.
PoetryMic is a series that
presents an array of varied and
talented poets. This month’s
poets are Linda Albert, Mike
Kozubek, Robin Rapaport and
Linda Goodman Robiner.
There is no charge for this
event. There is an optional fee of
$7 to help defray costs. Reservations
required for Zoom link.
Upcoming Virtual Book
Clubs at Bookstore1 Sarasota
for March
All book clubs presented via
Zoom; registration required.
• March 9 at 11 a.m. The Mysteries
to Die For Zoom Book Club led
by Elsie Souza. This month we are
discussing The Searcher by Tana
French. A fee of $34 is required for
participation. This includes a copy
of The Searcher to be picked up at
Bookstore1 and the book club meeting.
Ticket purchase required for
Zoom link.
• March 10 at 2 p.m. The Poetry
Zoom Book Club led by Doug
Knowlton. This month they’re discussing
Postcolonial Love Poem by
Natalie Diaz. A fee of $22 is required
for participation. This includes a
copy of Postcolonial Love Poem to
be picked up at Bookstore1 and the
book club meeting. Ticket purchase
required for Zoom link.
• March 22 at 6 p.m. The Movie Lovers
Zoom Book Club led by Roxanne
Baker. This month we are discussing
A Bright Ray of Darkness: A
Novel by Ethan Hawke. A fee of $35
is required for participation. This includes
a copy of A Bright Ray of Darkness
to be picked up at Bookstore1
and the book club meeting.
The first novel in nearly 20 years
from the acclaimed actor/writer/
director is a book about art and love,
fame and heartbreak—a blistering
story of a young man making his
Broadway debut in Henry IV just
as his marriage implodes. Ethan
Hawke is a four-time Academy Award
nominee, twice for writing and twice
for acting. Ticket purchase required
for Zoom link.
More event info and registration
at https://www.sarasotabooks.com/
events or 941-365-7900.
At the Libraries
Sarasota County has reinstated
Sunday hours at two library
locations – Selby Public Library in
Sarasota, and Frances T. Bourne Jacaranda
Public Library in Venice. This
marks the first time the county has
offered Sunday library hours since
2012, when the county reduced hours
as a cost-saving measure. The reinstatement
is a pilot program aimed
at increasing access to residents and
students from low socioeconomic
backgrounds.
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• The Genealogical Society of
Sarasota will continue to host its programs
in an online environment until
they can safely return to the Geldbart
Auditorium. Participants can expect
expert information on a variety of
genealogy subjects. Visit https://gssfl.
com/index.php to find links to the
webinars. Next: March 13, Maureen
Sarasota Concert Association has Academy of St Martin in the Fields on March 25 at 7 p.m.
Taylor: Google Images & Beyond -
Learn Basic Search Techniques.
• Enjoy a lecture “Films of Sarasota
County through the Century” on-
March 10, 11 am - noon. Join film enthusiast
Gus Mollasis on a journey of
the movies filmed in Sarasota County
throughout the past century. This virtual
program will be hosted in Zoom.
Once you register you’ll be sent a
confirmation email with information
about using Zoom. 24 hours before the
start of you program you will receive
the Meeting ID and Password. https://
scgovlibrary.librarymarket.com/index.php/events/films-sarasota-county-through-century.
Art Exhibits
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling
College has Between the Sky and the
Water. Runs to May 2, 2021.
Between the Sky and the Water is a
mid-career retrospective of Janaina
Tschäpe (b. Munich, Germany 1973).
Tschäpe’s wide-ranging oeuvre is
visually connected by a lexicon of
forms that array across a variety of
media—painting, drawing, installation,
sculpture, photography, video,
and performance.
These varied articulations of her
core concepts comprise a holistic
cosmology, a gesamtkunstwerk (a
total work of art), a grand evolutionary
opera where each piece plays a
supporting role, subsumed by the
totality of the body. Recurring themes
persist—Kafkaesque metamorphosis
and transformation, a feminist resistance
to the perpetual policing of
the female body, a collapsing of scale
undifferentiating the grand cosmos
from the infinitesimal cellular, an
excavation of the nature of landscape—but
always, most importantly,
is an exploration of painting as a way
of understanding the world.
Travelling from deep sea to land to
space, the terrain is constantly shifting
and yet the same, like a creature
tropically and symbiotically adapting
to whatever environment they find
themselves inhabiting. Atmospherically
sliding between the figurative
and the abstract, the work invites
your eye to travel, free of regard for
chronology, or need of narrative.
Visit www.sarasotaartmuseum.
org. Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling
College Museum Campus, 1001 South
Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
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Embracing Our Differences Exhibit
runs to April 1 in Bayfront Park.
Since 2004, Embracing Our Differences
has used the power of art and prose
to promote diversity. One way it accomplishes
this is through its annual,
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juried international outdoor art exhibition
consisting of 50 billboard-sized
works of art, each accompanied by an
inspirational quote.
The response to the call for artwork
and inspirational quotes brought
15,912 entries from 128 countries and
48 states. Students from 412 schools
around the world submitted artwork
or quotes to the juried exhibit. The
winning quotes are showcased in
the 18th annual exhibit in Sarasota’s
Bayfront Park.
For more information about this
free exhibit or Embracing Our Differences,
call 941-404-5710 or visit www.
embracingourdifferences.org.
Tim Rogerson, Disney artist/
Ringling alumnus and the original
Tinker Bell model Margaret Kerry
have artwork on exhibit (online) to
March 12. Tim’s originals, giclees,
prints, and Margaret’s book are available
for purchase through March 12
at Madeby Gallery. The gallery is temporarily
closed.
Visit www.madebygallery.com to
view all of the student and alumni artwork,
jewelry, and fine crafts available
for purchase. Call 941-822-0442 Monday
through Friday, 9:30 am to 4:30
pm, to make a purchase and arrange
for either shipping or curbside pickup.
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Island Gallery West, 5368 Gulf
Drive, Holmes Beach, has “Water,
Water Everywhere” - paintings by
Candace Bennington. The exhibit
runs March 2-31.
“Water, Water Everywhere,” is a
divine collection of coastal water
oil paintings of local scenery by
the gallery’s March Featured Artist
Candace Bennington. A registered
American Artist with A.S.A. signature
membership, Candace began
her art studies at just 16 years of age
doing plein air watercolors with
John Miller at the quaint Cortez
Fishing Village. Through the years
she has studied under several wellknown
artists; she is now fluent in
watercolor, oils, and pastels.
Island Gallery West is conducting
a Food Drive throughout the month
of March. Bring in canned food items
that will be donated to Manatee
County Food Bank for families affected
by Covid 19.
Info: (941) 778-6648 or visit www.
islandgallerywest.com.
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Gardening
Manatee County’s Agriculture
and Extension Service has a mobile
plant clinic on the first Thursday
of every month. Hours are 9 a.m.
to noon. The clinic is located at St.
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George’s Episcopal Church, 912 63rd
Ave. West, Bradenton.
Master Gardeners will be available
during these times to share their
knowledge on horticulture and assist
community residents with horticulture
questions.
The Florida Master Gardener Program
was created to assist Extension
Agents in providing research based
horticultural education to Florida
residents. In Manatee County, residents
can bring their horticultural
questions to the St. George’s Mobile
Plant Clinic as well as the existing
Plant Diagnostic Clinic where Master
Gardener volunteers will assist in
resolving their questions. The existing
Plant clinic is currently open Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is located at the
Agriculture and Extension Service,
1303 17th Street West, in Palmetto.
Soil testing for pH and soluble salts is
also available for a small fee. Educational
garden tours are available. Various
educational classes in residential
horticulture are offered throughout
the year to the public.
Contact the Manatee County
Agriculture and Extension Service,
(941) 722-4524 to be put on the
mailing list for the Master Gardener
monthly e-newsletter. If you have
an interest in residential horticulture,
consider becoming a Master
Gardener Volunteer. This training
program is offered annually.
Information: Call Alyssa at 941-
722-4524 ext 1822.
Blues and Brunch
Mattison’s Riverwalk Grille has
a monthly live Blues Brunch in partnership
with Realize Bradenton in
2021. Every 4th Sunday of the month,
live blues from local, national, and
even international blues musicians
will be featured at the chef owned
and operated restaurant on the
Bradenton Riverwalk. Enjoy blues
with delicious food on the restaurant’s
outdoor patio.
Brunch is served 11-3 with music
from 11-2. The blues brunch menu
includes chef created menu items
like the Niman Ranch steak and eggs
breakfast bowl, stuffed French toast
with seasonal fruit cream cheese
filling, poached egg and avocado
and duck confit crepe to name a few.
Signature Bloody Marys and bottomless
Mimosas are a great way to
start your Sunday.
Reservations are encouraged, but
not required. Call 941-896-9660 for
reservations. Visit bit.ly/Mattisons-
Brunch to view the menu.
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Sarasota
Concert
Association
Violinist Samantha
Bennett and percussionist
George Nickson will share
their unique artistry on March
11, at 7 p.m. The world-renowned
chamber orchestra,
Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields, concludes the series on
Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m.
Conducting the conversations
with the artists is Charles
Turon, a musician, educator,
and SCA board member.
The series is free, but registration
is required. Each
link will be viewable for seven days.
Before the full scope of the pandemic
was known, SCA’s 2021 Great Performers
Series season featured six
concerts. As a result of the pandemic,
the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra,
The Cleveland Orchestra, and
Bach Collegium Japan concerts were
cancelled in November. Sarasota
Concert Association recently made
the decision to also cancel the remaining
three concerts of the season,
including the Takács Quartet with
pianist Joyce Yang; violinist Benjamin
Beilman with pianist Yekwon Sunwoo;
and pianist Emanuel Ax.
• Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m.—Violinist
Samantha Bennett and percussionist
George Nickson. Samantha
Bennett, principal second violin with
the Sarasota Orchestra, and George
Nickson, principal percussion with
the Dallas Symphony (also co-directors
of ensembleNEWSRQ), present a
program of wide-ranging works that
showcases their versatile approach to
contemporary music.
• March 25, 7 p.m.—Academy of St
Martin in the Fields. This world-renowned
chamber orchestra presents
“Overcoming Distance,” a program
highlighting soloists from within the
orchestra in works by Bach, Messiaen,
and MacMillan, as well as the entire
ensemble performing Bach’s Brandenburg
Concerto No. 4, and Mozart’s
Symphony No. 29.
The series is free, but registration is
required. Each link will be viewable
for seven days. For more information
and to register for the “Musically
Speaking” program, visit www.
SCAsarasota.org/MusicallySpeaking.
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Theatre
FST Florida Studio Theatre (FST)
plans to reopen in the spring of 2021
with two new musical revues. Following
these two Cabarets, FST will
return to full production in June with
a three-show Summer Mainstage
Season and a three-show Cabaret
Season. Upon reopening in late
March, FST will continue to operate
within full compliance with all CDC
guidelines, including social distancing,
temperature checks, and limited
theatre capacities.
Featuring FST Summer Cabaret favorite
Carole J. Bufford, Vintage POP!
begins playing in FST’s Keating Theatre
on March 24. With music made famous
by Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and Creedence Clearwater Revival,
this brand-new musical revue explores
the evolution of popular music from
the ‘20s to the ‘80s. Called “One of Cabaret’s
brightest rising stars” by Time
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