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. t • 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, <strong>2021</strong>. 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 t 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, t 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. t 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. t 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. t 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 <strong>2021</strong>. 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. t 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 <strong>2021</strong> 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. t Theatre FST Florida Studio Theatre (FST) plans to reopen in the spring of <strong>2021</strong> 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. 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