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DECEMBER 2022 

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Editor and Publisher 

Louise M. Bruderle 

Email: westcoastwoman@comcast.net 

Contributing Writer 

Carol Darling 

Contributing Photographer 

Evelyn England 

Art Director/Graphic Designer 

Kimberly Carmell 

Assistant to the Publisher 

Mimi Gato 

season highlights 

We’ve got even more events we think 

you’ll find interesting or unique from Artist 

Series, La Musica, Key Chorale, Venice 

Theatre, ArtCenter Manatee, Sarasota 

Opera and lots more. 

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season preview 

Here’s a look at Choral Artists of 

Sarasota’s 2022-2023 Season - 

their 44th entitled “United in Song” 

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Here are our columns: 

n Out & About: includes 

fundraisers, concerts, art exhibits, 

lectures, dance, poetry, shows & 

performances, theatre, film, 

seasonal events and more. 

n You’re News: job announcements, 

appointments and promotions, 

board news, business news and 

real estate news. 

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season preview 

The Perlman Music Program 

Suncoast Presents “An Evening 

with Violinist Randall Goosby” with 

pianist Zhu Wang on Dec. 8. 

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also in this issue 

Just what is pickleball and why is 

it so popular? Fun, friendly and a 

decent workout 

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WOMAN 

departments 

4 editor’s letter 

7 Out & About: listings for things to do 

9 healthier you: how to quit tobacco 

11 happening this month: Kolo: The 

Dance Show from Ukraine 

13 healthier you: Sunshine from Darkness 

14 feature: the pickleball craze — 

what’s it all about? 

16 west coast woman: Terry Ryan 

18 season preview: Season Highlights 

21 season preview: Perlman Suncoast 

23 season preview: Choral Artists 

24 season preview: ArtCenter Sarasota 

25 What is Craniosacral Therapy? 

26 season preview: Major exhibits to see 

30 dining in: Just don’t tell them it’s vegan 

■ on the cover: West Coast Woman Terry Ryan. 

■ Photo by Evelyn England 

DECEMBER 2022 WEST COAST WOMAN 3

just some 

thoughts 

Louise Bruderle 

Editor and Publisher 

West Coast Woman Terry Ryan 

Terry Ryan 

Photo by Evelyn England 

I’ll say up front, I’m a tennis person - been 

playing since high school and always felt it 

was “my” game - meaning it fit me well athletically 

and was enjoyable. But I was curious 

and all those articles about the sport made 

me say, hey, let’s check it out. It is also near 

impossible to find a tennis buddy and a court, 

most of them have been repurposed as, you 

guessed it, pickleball courts. 

So with all this in mind, I went to CoreSRQ 

(the former YMCA) where I’ve had a membership 

since I first arrived in Sarasota back 

in the eighties. They have a really nice, large 

and bright auditorium-like room where all 

the exercise classes are and where pickleball takes place. 

Right away I felt tremendous positive energy and saw some matches 

going on - men and women. But I immediately have to add, they were 

serious about their game, but smiling and congratulating each other 

between points. 

The pickleball leader of the group is Terry Ryan and she’s our WCW 

this month. Terry does it all - organize locations and schedules, coach, 

compete and keep everyone’e spirits running high and enjoying the 

game of pickleball - the fastest growing sport in U.S. 

Venice Theatre Update 

Venice Theatre isn't letting Hurricane Ian stop them from getting back 

on the stage. While their main theater was completely destroyed, they 

are constructing a temporary stage at their education building. And 

they’re putting on The Christmas Carol in December! 

“There were about 15 minutes that day looking at the building the 

day after the 

storm where we 

were all kind of 

numb, and then 

within just a 

few minutes, we 

started making 

plans and saying 

here’s what’s 

next. Here’s 

what we can 

do," said Murray 

Chase, the Producing 

Executive 

Director at 

Venice Theatre. 

“A tremendous amount of work has gone into figuring out a way to 

present as many shows from our original 2022-23 season as possible. 

Losing our main 432-seat theatre will not stop us from sharing these 

great stories with our community. We are excited that we can still present 

Up On the Roof, The Cemetery Club, Gypsy, Arabian Nights, Xanadu, 

The Silver Foxes, and Pinky's Players and we’ve changed a couple of 

titles,” says Chase. 

Coming up, A Christmas Carol runs December 2-19. While their mainstage 

Jervey Theatre is undergoing major repairs, the show will be performed 

on the temporary stage in the Raymond Center directly behind 

their main building. Tickets: https://venicetheatre.org/tickets/. 

December Season Preview 

We need the arts now more than ever - a hurricane, a near hurricane, a 

difficult economy and acrimony in many places in our lives - all can be 

soothed through the arts whether it’s a musical at the Van Wezel, a play 

at one of the many theaters in our area or viewing art at a museum. And 

there’s no shortage of events, venues or artforms to choose from - choral 

music, classical music, drama, musicals, comedy, classical ballet or contemporary 

dance, classes of all types as well as informative lectures - and 

so much more. 

And somehow we managed to squeeze in tons of events in over 10 pages 

in this issue - from calendars to features. Enjoy! 

Comings and Goings 

Our WCW from a few months ago, the amazing Luz 

Corcuera has announced she will be stepping down as 

the executive director of UnidosNow at the end of 2022. 

Luz wants to devote her full attention to her family. 

Kelly Kirschner, UnidosNow’s co-founder and current 

board chair, describes Corcuera as a transformational 

leader. “Luz has ushered in an era of remarkable growth 

for the organization,” he says. “It’s rare to find a leader 

with vision, integrity and the ability to inspire others. 

Leaders who combine all of these qualities, as Luz does, 

are unicorns. Luz poured her talent, love, and passion 

into UnidosNow and made a significant impact on the 

region. It is with good reason, as a result, that Luz has 

Luz Corcuera 

been recognized nationally for her work. She will be deeply missed by all 

of us, particularly by the families and students our organization serves.” 

During her seven-year tenure at UnidosNow Luz strengthened and 

expanded UnidosNow’s educational programs designed to put predominantly 

low-income, first-generation Latinx students on a path to 

a post-secondary education. Corcuera’ s transformation of these programs 

has empowered more than 3,000 high school graduates to build 

a post-secondary path, securing over $14 million in scholarships and 

grants, the great bulk of dollars coming from outside the southwest Florida 

region to support these local students. 

Additionally, Corcuera expanded the reach of the organization, 

launching new intergenerational programs including the Future Leaders 

Academy for Girls (FLAG) for elementary students, Future Leaders Academy 

for Middle Schoolers (FLAM), and the Parenting Leadership program. 

During the pandemic, Luz led the organization in establishing key partnerships 

to provide emergency assistance, health education/vaccine and 

treatment access to hundreds of Hispanic families in the region. 

“It has been an honor and a privilege to have joined the UnidosNow 

family,” says Luz. “I'm deeply grateful for a visionary board, a talented and 

passionate team, amazing community partners, and generous friends and 

donors who believe in our mission and life-transforming work. I have no 

doubt that UnidosNow will continue its success and impact in our region.” 

The board has selected Cintia Elenstar as the new executive director to 

start in January 2023. For more information, visit UnidosNow.org for more 

information. We wish you well, Luz, and thank you for all that you have 

done for our community. 

Also on the move is Susie Bowie. The William G. and Marie Selby Foundation’s 

Board of Directors has announced that Susie, 

currently Executive Director of the Manatee Community 

Foundation, will become its next CEO effective 

March 1, 2023. As previously announced, Carol Butera, 

the Foundation’s current CEO, will retire in April 2023. 

Board Chair and lead in the search effort, Barbara 

Zdravecky, noted “Susie’s demonstrated leadership in 

the local Foundation arena compliments the values 

of our founders, Bill and Marie Selby. The attributes 

of humility, collaboration, stewardship, innovation 

and social responsibility match well with her style and 

accomplishments.” 

Butera added that she has worked closely and collaboratively 

with Bowie for many years. She added “Bowie’s deep experi- 

Susie Bowie 

ence in working with our region’s nonprofits and developing grants and 

scholarship programs will be a huge asset for our Foundation.” 

“I have been privileged to spend the past 17 years in philanthropy 

at community foundations, immersed in the work of supporting donor 

aspirations, building strong nonprofits, and bringing people together to 

contribute their lived experiences to address the challenges of our time. 

For me, leading this work has been a function of recognizing the strength 

and leadership of others, understanding the gifts every community member 

brings to their rightful seat at the table, ” says Susie 

Bowie has served as Executive Director of the Manatee Community 

Foundation (MCF) since April 2016 where she has led all aspects of MCF 

under the direction of a board of directors. 

Photo by Karen Arango 

Louise Bruderle | Editor and Publisher | 

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out &about 

Holiday Events 

The Sarasota Ballet School in 

partnership with The Venice Symphony 

will present a new version of 

The Nutcracker December 9-10 at the 

Venice Performing Arts Center, One 

Indian Ave., Venice. 

The production will be performed 

by all sections of The Sarasota Ballet’s 

education programs; The Sarasota 

Ballet Studio Company, students 

from The Sarasota Ballet School, the 

Margaret Barbieri Conservatory, and 

Dance – The Next Generation. The 

ballet will be accompanied by the 

Venice Symphony orchestra playing 

Tchaikovsky’s score and led by Conductor 

Joseph Caulkins. 

The production will feature sets 

and costumes created by internationally 

renowned ballet designer Peter 

Farmer. Tickets are available at the 

VPAC Box Office and at veniceperformingartscenter.com. 

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Ring Sarasota is making music 

throughout the Gulf Coast. As the 

area’s premier handbell ensemble, 

these musicians offer a unique combination 

of entertainment, education, 

and community engagement. 

In December, they’ll be performing 

at Historic Spanish Point in 

Osprey. Enjoy holiday favorites, carriage 

rides, tasty treats, and much 

more throughout the weekend. Ring 

Sarasota will perform on December 

3 at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. and December 

4 at 1:30 p.m. 

On December 17 at 6 p.m. they’ll 

perform at Lights in Bloom: An 

Open-air Holiday Light Show at Selby 

Gardens in Sarasota. Lights in Bloom 

features more than two million lights 

illuminating the gardens and walkways. 

They’ll also be children’s arts 

and crafts, activities, and entertainment. 

Info: www.ringsarasota.org/. 

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Manatee Village Historical Park 

will host “An Old Florida Christmas.” 

Experience an old-fashioned 

Florida holiday celebration with vendors 

selling handmade goods, food, 

and offering free make and take seasonal 

crafts. The buildings of Manatee 

Village Historical Park will be 

dressed with splendid Victorian and 

Florida pioneer inspired décor. While 

on the museum grounds, explore 

landmarks like the “Old Cabbage 

Head” locomotive, Junior Junction 

playground, museum exhibits, and 

the Whistle Stop Gift Shop. 

The festival is on December 10, 

from 11 am to 4 pm at Manatee Village 

Historical Park, 1404 Manatee Avenue 

East, (State Road 64), Bradenton. Free. 

For information call (941) 749-7165 

or visit www.manateevillage.org. 

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Special Events 

This year’s Sunshine From Darkness 

Inspiring Hope Dinner, themed 

“Shining a Light on Mental Illness,” 

will be held on Friday, January 13, 

2023 at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota. 

Grammy and Tony Award-winning 

actress – and the original star 

of “Dreamgirls” – Jennifer Holliday 

will be the keynote speaker and will 

perform at the event. The gala will 

also feature dancing to the music of 

Quintessence, and a performance by 

the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe 

Young Artists Ensemble. During the 

festivities, the Lee and Bob Peterson 

Legacy Award will be presented to 

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Joan and Bob Geyer of the Academy 

at Glengary. 

Proceeds will benefit Harvest House 

and Teen Court of Sarasota, and the 

mental health research funded by the 

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. 

For more information, contact 

Marlene Hauck (941-504-6717 or marlene@sunshinefromdarkness.org) 

or 

visit sunshinefromdarkness.org. 

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LuLus Lifelines invites you to join 

in a raw and honest group discussion 

about the challenges a woman faces in 

these times regarding relationships of 

all kinds. LuLusLifelines.com encourages 

women to share their voice on all 

the topics important to navigate this 

life with grace and healing. 

Join in for a short and sweet evening 

book reading, “LuLus Life A Testimony 

To Divine Intervention” and share 

your opinions. Champagne, sparkling 

water and munchies will be offered. 

Held on December 6, 4:30-6 p.m. 

at Osteostrong, 1702 Ringling Blvd., 

December 15, 5:30-7 p.m. at Mindful 

Medicinals, 5483 Fruitville Rd. 

and Fem City group at Art Ovation on 

December 17 at noon. RSVP to LuLu 

at 941-914-6594. 

Artist Series 

Concerts of 

Sarasota 

Next up is in their Lunch & Listen 

Series: Vision Duo: Ariel Horowitz, 

violin and Britton-René Collins, 

marimba, on December 15 at the 

Sarasota Yacht Club this. Concert is at 

11 a.m. followed by lunch at 12:15 p.m. 

Double Feature: Blake Pouliot and 

Simone Porter, violins, with Hsin-I 

Huang, piano is on December 6 at 

the Sarasota Opera House. This program 

features two young artists. Blake 

Pouliot and Simone Porter who have 

electrified audiences worldwide with 

their virtuosity and musicality. Sparks 

will fly when they come together for an 

evening of duo magic, including works 

by Strauss, Beethoven, and Chausson. 

The 442s: Adam Maness, multi-instrumentalist/composer; 

Shawn 

Weil, violin; Michael Casimir, viola; 

Bjorn Ranheim, cello; Bob DeBoo, 

bass, will perform on December 13 at 

the Historic Asolo Theater. 

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Celebrate an Old Florida Christmas at Manatee Village Historical Park on Dec. 11 

Combining three members of the St. 

Louis Symphony Orchestra and two of 

the St. Louis region’s finest jazz musicians, 

The 442s are an acoustic quintet 

named for the modern standard tuning 

of 442 Hz. This ensemble blends virtuosic 

musicianship, group singing, and 

improvisation, and breaks down barriers 

between jazz, classical, folk, and pop 

music. They present a program of holiday 

favorites and original compositions. 

Dover Quartet: Joel Link, violin; 

Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van 

de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello, 

perform on January 10, 2023, at the 

Historic Asolo Theater. Named one of 

the greatest string quartets of the last 

100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the 

Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet 

has quickly become one of the most 

in-demand chamber ensembles in the 

world. Their performance includes 

works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. 

For more information, visit 

ArtistSeriesConcerts.org or call 941- 

306-1202. 

Meetings 

The Manatee Genealogical Society 

will host a hybrid meeting and 

program on December 6, 10 am to 

noon. The program speaker is Peggy 

Jude who will present “All About Your 

Name.” This program is a broad look 

at surnames. Topics covered include: 

the history of surnames, ways to learn 

more about yours, and those who 

share your name. Get tips on places 

to research your name, DNA options, 

and groups you can join. 

Jude has been conducting genealogical 

research for her family and 

clients for over 40 years and specializes 

and teaches in five areas of 

genealogical interest: DNA, Preserving 

Family History and Heirlooms, 

Genealogical Methods and 

Records, Genealogical Technology 

and Swedish Genealogy. 

Members of the public are welcome 

to attend. Meetings are held at 

the Manatee Central Library, Main 

Auditorium, located at 1301 Barcarrota 

Blvd West, Bradenton. Guests 

attending via Zoom must register at 

least one day in advance by emailing: 

info@mgsfl.org. For more information, 

visit mgsfl.org. 

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Choral Artists 

The Choral Artists of Sarasota 

present: Peace on Earth. The holidays 

will ring with traditional holiday 

carols resounding with themes 

of peace that are interspersed with 

“In Terra Pax,” a work of childlike 

serenity that is both intimate and 

universal by British composer Gerald 

Finzi. Guest artists: Danielle Talamantes, 

soprano, and Kerry Wilkerson, 

baritone. Held December 11, 7 

p.m., at Church of the Redeemer, 222 

S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota. 

To purchase tickets, visit www. 

ChoralArtistsSarasota.org or call 

941-387-4900. 

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The Sarasota 

Orchestra 

Masterworks: Luminous Colors 

is on December 2-4 at the Van Wezel 

with Lina González-Granados, conductor, 

Bomsori Kim, violin. Performing 

Nina Shekhar – Lumina; Bruch 

– Violin Concerto No. 1 and Dvo˘rák – 

Symphony No. 7. 

• January 5, 6, 7, 8: Mahler: View 

of Heaven – James Ehnes, violin 

| Laquita Mitchell, soprano performing 

Sibelius – Violin Concerto; 

Mahler – Symphony No. 4. 

• Great Escapes: December 7-11 

Great Escapes: Seasonal Gifts is 

on in Holley Hall with Steven Jarvi, 

conductor 

• The Discoveries: Discoveries 

performances will take place at the 

Sarasota Opera House. 

• December 21: The French Influencers 

–Sarah Ioannides, conductor. 

They’re performing Farrenc – Overture 

No. 1, Liszt – “Pastoral Music at 

the Manger” from Christus and Bizet 

– Symphony in C Major. 

For information, visit www.SarasotaOrchestra.org. 

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At The Hermitage 

On December 9 on the Hermitage 

Great Lawn: “Angélica Negron: 

Playing a Plant.” Hermitage Greenfield 

Prize Winner Angélica Negrón is 

inspired by nature and the music all 

around her. 

Her wide-ranging performance and 

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compositional practice extends beyond 

the traditional repertoire to include 

unconventional instruments such as 

plants and found objects, often layering 

in vocals and other electronics. 

On December 15 on the Hermitage 

Beach: ”Notes: On Writing and Music” 

with Hermitage Fellows Chigozie 

Obioma and Levy Lorenzo. These 

two artists both bring an international 

perspective and the program 

spans literature and music. Nigerian-born 

Chigozie Obioma, whose two 

novels The Fisherman and An Orchestra 

of Minorities were both shortlisted 

for the Booker Prize in Fiction, reads 

selections of his work and discusses 

his creative process. He is joined by 

Filipino-American musician, instrument 

designer, and returning Hermitage 

Fellow Levy Lorenzo. 

Hermitage Artist Retreat, 6630 

Manasota Key Road, Englewood. Register 

at: HermitageArtistRetreat.org 

Venice Symphony 

A Holiday Season Spectacular 

runs December 16-17. The concert 

includes classic carols, music 

from the films such as A Nightmare 

Before Christmas and How the 

Grinch Stole Christmas and timeless 

works from The Nutcracker 

Suite and Babes in Toyland. They’re 

joined by Sarasota’s Key Chorale for a 

traditional sing-a-long. 

• Night at the Museum is on January 

6-7, 2023. The Venice Symphony will 

transport you to your favorite museum 

with music from Indiana Jones and the 

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mummy, 

Night at the Museum and The Da Vinci 

Code. Concertmaster Marcus Ratzenboeck 

dazzles with his violin solo on 

Camille Saint Saens’ Danse Macabre. 

Then music and art meet in fashion in 

Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an 

Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice 

Ravel and performed by The Venice 

Symphony at full strength. 

Tickets: www.thevenicesymphony.org/ 

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Galleries 

Art Uptown Gallery will exhibit 

“Joan Libby Hawk’s Ceramics/On 

& Off the Wall.” Hawk exploits clay’s 

shape-shifting nature and technical 

versatility to reveal inventive 

contemporary forms with plenty of 

attitude. Whether viewed on a pedestal 

or wall, the artmaker treats each 

piece as a distinct named individual, 

melding her palette of studio-mixed 

personal glazes to vessels and sculpture. 

Runs through December 30. 

Art Uptown Gallery: 1367 Main Street 

gallery. Info: www.artuptown.com. 

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Ringling College Galleries presents 

Lost Summer; a collection 

of landscape paintings created by 

Ringling College Alumna, Lee Mayer 

(Commercial Art 72’). For thousands 

of years, the human race has been 

hooked by landscape art whatever 

the medium, although it only become 

a recognized genre of art in the late 

15th century. As nineteenth century 

Swiss essayist, Henri Frederic Amiel, 

wrote, “Landscape is a state of mind”. 

In this collection of small and midscale 

paintings, Mayer explores the 

light, nature, harmony, and color of 

the natural beauty of Canadian summers. 

Runs to March 17, 2023. 

Ringling College of Art + Design, 

Patricia Thompson Gallery is located 

on the first floor of the Keating Center, 

2700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. 

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out and about continued 

Art Center Sarasota has three solo 

exhibitions: 

“Alexandra Hammond” revolves 

around the artist’s “Quantum Blue” 

series of acrylic paintings. According 

to the artist, they invite the viewer to 

enter “a zone of pure possibility—a 

field of active emptiness from which 

all forms arise out of formlessness.” 

Runs December 8-January 21. 

They also have “Jason Hackenwerth” 

which reveals the painter’s latest 

body of work — abstract paintings, 

bursting with dynamic scenarios. 

According to the artist, they’re his 

way of working through his emotions 

under the constant bombardment of 

media and life drama. 

There’s also a juried show: “Black 

& White” which showcases monochromatic 

works created in a range 

of artistic mediums. Elana Rubinfeld, 

the founder of the New Art Agency 

and former director at Yossi Milo Gallery 

in NYC, will jury this exhibition. 

Opening reception for all exhibits: 

December 8, 6-8 p.m. Art Center 

Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. 

www.artsarasota.org. 

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Sarasota Orchestra’s Harmony 

Gallery has Jim Stewart. His exhibition 

is titled: Minor Passages. 

Stewart’s drawings and paintings are 

influenced by his career as a graphic 

designer. Fine arts and photographic 

experiences also inspire him to find a 

balance of impact and legibility with 

these abstractions: possibilities for 

describing nature. Stewart’s drawings 

are created using waterproof, lightfast 

India Inks. Runs to December 12. 

Claire Desjardins Exhibition, 

Living in Color, runs December 

16-January 23. Desjardins is an 

award-winning abstract painter based 

in Quebec and Sarasota. She exhibits 

her paintings in galleries across North 

America and her work can be found in 

both private and corporate collections 

worldwide. Desjardins’ paintings, 

though abstract, take their visual cues 

from forms, colors, textures and patterns 

in nature. Beyond the canvas, 

Claire’s art transforms commercial 

and residential interiors, urban exteriors, 

housewares, furniture, package 

design and women’s apparel. Her work 

has appeared in major motion pictures 

and popular television shows. 

The Harmony Gallery is at Beatrice 

Friedman Symphony Center at 709 

North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Exhibitions 

are free and open to the public. 

For information visit www.sarasota 

orchestra.org. 

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ArtCenter Manatee has the 11th 

annual exhibit of the International 

Society of Scratchboard Artists 

(ISSA) in their galleries. The “drawings 

in reverse” will be on display 

through December 30 with an opening 

reception on December 1, 5-7 p.m. 

In 2021, artists from the USA, China, 

Canada and Australia were represented. 

ArtCenter Manatee, 209 9th Street 

West, Bradenton. 

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Elling Eide Center 

November 10 at 11am (free to 

attend in person or online via ZOOM) 

they have “The Meaning(s) of Birds 

on Spirit Jars (Hunping): The Religious 

Imagination of Second to 

Fourth Century Southeastern 

China” This lecture will discuss the 

more than 200 heavily decorated 

jars with five mouths that have been 

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excavated from 

tombs in Southeastern 

China. 

One of their 

most notable 

features is 

that they are 

adorned with 

figurines of 

many birds. Although 

several 

analysts believe 

the birds represent 

the souls 

of the departed 

flying to the 

heavens, that 

does not explain 

why there 

are so many. 

This lecture 

will discuss 

these Spirit Jars 

and explain 

the presence 

of these birds 

in terms of the local legend that sparrows 

stole rice from Heaven and introduced 

its cultivation to humans. Birds 

thereby were seen as grain and fertility 

gods and thus emblems of good fortune 

for both the dead and the living. 

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com . 

Elling Eide Center, 8000 South Tamiami 

Trail, Sarasota. 

Perlman Music 

A evening with Randall Goosby is 

on December 8 at The Sarasota Opera 

House. It’s a rare special performance 

by internationally acclaimed violinist 

and PMP Alum, Randall Goosby and 

pianist Zhu Wang. 

The PMP Winter Residency returns 

once again in December. They are 

looking forward to seeing everyone in 

the tent at USF Sarasota-Manatee to 

watch and hear the new and returning 

“Littles” as they train with the esteemed 

faculty led by Itzhak Perlman. 

The PMP Winter Residency runs 

December 28-January 7 and offers 

unparalleled musical training for 

gifted students ages 12-18 who play 

the violin, viola, cello and bass. PMP’s 

world-class faculty, led by Itzhak Perlman, 

oversees a curriculum of solo, 

chamber music, and orchestral repertoire 

at the highest level. The public is 

invited to watch these orchestra and 

chorus rehearsals and works-in-progress 

recitals in a performance tent on 

the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus. 

• Tent Rehearsals, Works in Progress, 

and Recitals: December 29-January 

7 on the USF Sarasota-Manatee 

campus. Non-reserved seats are free to 

the public; reserved and VIP seats are 

also available. The Winter Residency’s 

daily schedule will be available at www. 

PerlmanSuncoast.org in November. 

• Celebration Concert: January 5 

at the Sarasota Opera House. Tickets: 

call Sarasota Opera House’s box office 

at 941-328-1300 or at www.sarasotaopera.org. 

• Celebration Gala is on January 5 

in the tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee 

campus. The evening includes 

dinner and entertainment with PMP 

students, faculty and the Perlmans. 

Tickets are $250 and are available at 

www.PerlmanSuncoast.org. 

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The Chamber 

Orchestra of 

Sarasota 

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The Chamber Orchestra of 

Sarasota has launched its sixth 

season featuring Baroque, Classical, 

Romantic, contemporary and 

popular music performed by a string 

orchestra under the direction of 

Music Director Robert Vodnoy. 

The season opens on December 1 

at 7:30 pm with Happy Holidays, featuring 

Corelli’s “Christmas Concerto”, 

Vaughan Williams’ “Five Variants of 

Dives and Lazarus”, Grieg’s “Holberg 

Suite”, Holcombe’s “Christmas Wishes,” 

and more. Soloists are Giuseppina 

Ciarla, harpist, and Scott Kluksdahl, 

cellist. The concert will be performed 

at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota, 

the orchestra’s first performance 

in this venue. 

The Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota 

will join forces with the Venice High 

School Orchestra, Christopher Riley, 

conductor, to present a free concert titled 

Making Music Together on January 

13, 2023 at the Venice Performing 

Arts Center. 

For information and to order tickets, 

visit chamberorchestrasarasota. 

org/ or call 219-928-8665. 

At The Ringling 

Running through February 12, 

2023, is Highlights from the Stanton 

B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Collection 

of Photography—a selection 

of works donated to The Ringling in 

2019, includes over 1000 photographic 

objects and images, representing 

some of the most important photo-based 

artists of the nineteenth and 

twentieth centuries. 

The Kaplan Collection includes 

works by Berenice Abbott, Manuel 

Álvarez Bravo, Eugène Atget, Ruth 

Bernhard, Margaret Bourke-White, 

Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lewis 

W. Hine, André Kertész, Robert 

Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, and 

James Van Der Zee to name but a few. 

The John and Mable Ringling 

Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd., 

Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org. 

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Theatre 

Sarasota Players has Miracle On 

34th Street, A Live Musical Radio 

Play, running through December 

11. Adapted from the 1947 Lux Radio 

BroadcastWhen a department store 

Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, 

his case gets taken all the way to the 

Supreme Court, and a little girl’s belief 

makes the difference in the ‘miracle.’ 

With live Foley effects and a score of 

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holiday carols, 

Miracle on 

34th Street is a 

beloved musical 

radio version 

of the classic 

film that 

will melt even 

the most cynical 

of hearts. 

Held at Studio 

1130, The 

Crossings at 

Siesta Key, 3501 

S. Tamiami 

Trail, Sarasota. 

Visit www.theplayers.org. 

Manatee 

Performing 

Arts Center 

has The Music 

Man, December 

1-18. In 

River City, Illinois, 

the town was promised a marching 

band by a salesman named Harold 

Hill. What they don’t know is that he is 

a con man who has no understanding 

of music. He plans to skip town after 

receiving money to buy the instruments, 

but the plan doesn’t go exactly 

as he expected when he meets the 

town’s librarian, Marian. As he falls in 

love with her, and starts to see things 

differently, is it enough for him to 

change? Watch as in The Music Man we 

learn that Harold either becomes the 

biggest con of the town, or the man 

who brought music to it. 

Information: www.manateeperformingartscenter.com. 

On December 9 on the Hermitage Great Lawn: “Angélica Negron: Playing a 

Plant.” Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner Negrón is inspired by nature and the music 

all around her. 

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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe 

During the holiday season—back by 

popular demand—WBTT presents 

Langston Hughes’ “Black Nativity.” 

This production is a celebration of the 

Nativity story with gospel, blues, spiritual, 

and Christmas music, paired 

with the poetry of Langston Hughes 

and the creativity of WBTT. Children 

and adults alike will be enthralled 

by this high-energy, inspiring show. 

Jacobs will direct. Show runs through 

December 23. 

Call the Box Office at 941-366-1505 

or visit westcoastblacktheatre.org. 

Asolo Rep has Cabaret running 

through December 31. Willkommen 

to Kander and Ebb’s iconic CABARET, 

which transports us to 1939 Berlin and 

the dynamic and pleasure-filled Kit 

Kat Klub. As a dark shadow falls over 

the city and the power of the Third 

Reich begins to mount, the Klub’s 

performers and patrons must decide 

if they’ll wake up to the evil on their 

doorsteps or continue to escape to the 

alluring fantasy world of the cabaret. 

Since its debut in 1967, this classic 

musical has won countless awards, 

including the Tony Awards® for Best 

Musical, Best Score and Best Revival 

of a Musical. Packed with vibrant and 

beloved songs like “Willkommen,” 

“Maybe This Time,” “Money,” “Don’t 

Tell Mama” and “Cabaret.” 

Tickets: asolorep.org. 

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At Venice Theatre: A Christmas 

Carol. Venice Theatre is delighted to 

announce that its original musical 

version of A Christmas Carol will go 

on, despite major damage to the theatre’s 

main performance space. The 

21st annual Christmas Carol will be 

performed in The Raymond Center 

from December 2-19. Tickets: www. 

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venicetheatre.org. 

The Raymond Center is the new 

name for the former Hamilton Building 

which had most recently served as 

the temporary Venice Public Library. 

Situated on the north end of the theatre’s 

three-building campus at 140 

Tampa Ave. W., the building is slated 

to serve as the theatre’s Arts Education 

Center, but for now it will house a 

temporary 128-seat thrust theatre. 

Venice Theatre’s team is putting the 

final touches on a plan to use its other 

spaces on campus for presenting a 

variety of shows. The 90-seat Pinkerton 

Theatre on the west side of the 

main building is expected to be ready 

for use in January 2023. 

Community members are encouraged 

to donate to the theatre’s hurricane 

recovery at www.venicetheatre. 

org/donate. 

FST’s Mainstage Series has Something 

Rotten! Book by Karey Kirkpatrick 

and John O’Farrell; music and 

lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey 

Kirkpatrick. Runs through January 1, 

2023, in FST’s Gompertz Theatre. 

• What the Constitution Means to 

Me by Heidi Schreck runs December 

7 - February 26, 2023, in FST’s Keating 

Theatre. 

• The FST cabaret series has The 

‘70s: More Than a Decade by Rebecca 

Hopkins, Richard Hopkins and Sarah 

Durham. Musical arrangements by 

Jim Prosser. Runs through February 

12, 2023 in FST’s Court Cabaret 

An original Florida Studio Theatre 

musical revue 

• A Place in the Sun: A Tribute to 

Stevie Wonder by Jason Cannon, 

Richard Hopkins, and Sarah Durham. 

Runs through March 26, 2023 

in FST’s Goldstein Cabaret 

Visit www.floridastudiotheatre.org/ 

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At The Van Wezel 

A sampling of upcoming shows: 

• Million Dollar Quartet Christmas 

on December 7 

• The Hip Hop Nutcracker on December 

10 

• Cirque Música: Holiday Wonderland 

on December 17 

• A Christmas Carol on December 18 

• Jim Brickman: A Very Merry Christmas 

on December 22 

• The Nutcracker presented by 

International Ballet of Florida on 

December 23 

Pre-show dining is available 

through Mattison’s at the Van Wezel 

which is located inside the theatre. 

Reservations can be made on Van- 

Wezel.org or through the box office. 

Information: www.VanWezel.org. 

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Concerts / 

Live Music 

WMNF presents “An Evening with 

Keller Williams” on December 9 at 

Skipper’s Smokehouse, 910 Skipper 

Rd, Tampa. Unbeholden to conventionalism, 

Williams seamlessly crosses 

genre boundaries. The end product 

is music that encompasses rock, 

jazz, funk, and bluegrass, and always 

keeps the audience on their feet. 

Williams built his reputation initially 

on his engaging live performances, no 

two of which are ever alike. His stage 

shows are rooted around Williams 

singing his compositions and choice 

cover songs, while accompanying 

himself on acoustic guitar, bass, guitar 

synthesizer, and drum samples; a 

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out and about continued 

technique called live phrase sampling 

or “looping”. The end result often leans 

toward a hybrid of alternative folk and 

groovy electronica, a genre he jokingly 

calls “acoustic dance music” or ADM. 

For information, call the station 

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Lectures 

TOWN HALL’s 42nd season kicks 

off on January 17, 2023 with Maria 

Ressa. Maria is the co-founder, CEO, 

and executive editor of Rappler.com, 

an online news organization in the 

Philippines. 

Maria, one of TIME’S “Person of the 

Year” for 2018 and TIME’s “100 Most 

Influential People” in 2019, has been 

honored around the world for her courageous 

and bold work in fighting disinformation, 

fake news, and attempts 

to silence the free press. 

In 2021, she was awarded the Nobel 

Peace Prize for her work in exposing 

abuses of power and growing authoritarianism 

under the Philippine president. 

She is the first journalist, since 1935, to 

win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts 

to safeguard freedom of expression. 

All lectures will be presented at Van 

Wezel. Morning lectures begin at 10:30 

a.m. and evening talks begin at 7:30 

p.m. Call 941-309-5100 to subscribe: 

www.rclassociation.org 

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Key Chorale 

On December 16 and 17 they have 

“A Holiday Season Spectacular” 

with the Venice Symphony. This 

festive concert includes classic carols, 

music from the films A Nightmare 

Before Christmas and How the Grinch 

Stole Christmas and timeless works 

from The Nutcracker Suite and Babes 

in Toyland. 

Information: keychorale.org. 

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Art Classes 

Registration is now open for 

Art Center Sarasota’s 2022-2023 

adult education season, which runs 

through April and features more 

than 100 classes, workshops, and 

open studio sessions. 

Classes are offered Monday through 

Saturday and cover a rich diversity of 

topics, including painting, photography, 

sculpture, mixed-media, drawing, 

and pastel and taught by more 

than 25 esteemed art instructors. 

Course highlights include “Happy 

Accidents: Beginning Abstract Watercolor 

Florals,” “Freedom in Landscapes,” 

“Party Time Chix,” “Gelli 

Printing,” and a “Mindfulness Workshop 

Series.” To register and for more 

information, visit www.artsarasota. 

org or call 941-365-2032. 

Here’s a sample: January 6, 13, 20, 

27, February 3. Discover the whimsical 

world of papier-mâché with 

mixed-media artist Kathy Carrier as 

she hosts a five-week workshop exploring 

this creative medium with a fanciful 

twist. More than a hen party, the 

class starts with balloons and birthday 

hats and covers the entire process of 

creating a papier-mâché chicken. 

Information: www.artsarasota.org. 

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Art Around 

the State 

At The Baker Museum: Recent 

Acquisitions: 2019 – Present. The 

Baker Museum’s permanent collection 

has grown steadily over the past 

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two decades in both 

breadth and quality 

within the museum’s 

clearly defined scope, 

which encompasses 

American, Latin 

American and European 

art from the 1880s 

to the present day. This 

exhibition presents 

over 50 works that 

have been added to 

the permanent collection 

since 2019. Runs 

through January 8. 

The Baker Museum: 

https://artisnaples. 

org/baker-museum. 

Artis—Naples is at 

5833 Pelican Bay 

Blvd, Naples, FL. 

artisnaples.org 

At The Dali: Paul 

Éluard: Poetry, Politics, 

Love is on display 

through Jan. 8, 2023. 

Paul Éluard: Poetry, 

Politics, Love explores 

the world of one of the 

most celebrated and 

idealistic surrealist poets. Éluard, the 

ex-husband of Dalí’s wife Gala, helped 

found Surrealism, the French art movement 

whose poetry celebrated dreams, 

love and freedom. The exhibition presents 

selections of Éluard’s poetry in 

context with photographs and selected 

books, giving visitors a glimpse into the 

life of the man who became known as 

“the Poet of Freedom.” 

During his lifetime, Éluard published 

more than 70 books dedicated 

to two main themes: the rejection of 

tyranny and the search for happiness. 

The exhibition examines the poet’s 

beginnings, passionate relationships 

and important publications. In 

addition, the exhibition delves into 

Éluard’s connection to the origins of 

Surrealism and André Breton as well 

as his later communications with Pablo 

Picasso. Located on the first floor 

of the Museum, access to this community 

exhibition is free by reserving 

Ground Floor tickets at https://thedali.org/exhibits/current/ 

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The Museum of Fine Arts has 

Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven 

through January 15, 2023. This exhibition 

highlights the visionary work of 

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, who was 

the only surviving child out of seven 

pairs of twins born to his mother. 

Because of this, and the associated 

traditional religious beliefs of the 

Yorùbá people of Nigeria, he held that 

he possessed unique spiritual insight 

and power. His perceptions in turn 

had a profound impact on his artistic 

expression as a printmaker, painter, 

and sculptor. Blending abstracted 

images of the physical world and evocations 

of the spirit world, Prince Twins 

Seven-Seven created a unique, powerful, 

and international style that bridges 

traditional and contemporary arts. 

Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven 

features 14 total pieces, including 10 

works on paper by Prince Twins Seven-Seven 

and four other Yorùbá works 

of art from the MFA’s collection. The 

MFA is at 255 Beach Dr NE, St. Petersburg. 

Visit https://mfastpete.org/ 

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Classical Dance 

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Sunshine From Darkness 

Inspiring Hope Dinner 

will be on January 13, 

2023 at the Ritz- 

Carlton, Sarasota. 

Grammy and Tony 

Award-winning 

actress Jennifer 

Holliday will be 

the keynote 

speaker and 

will perform 

at the event. 

The Sarasota Ballet’s winter season 

begins at the Sarasota Opera 

House December 16-17 with Program 

3. Opening with the return of a 

Sarasota Ballet classic, Ashton’s Les 

Patineurs depicts a Victorian skating 

party that takes place on a frozen 

pond during a winter’s eve. 

Continuing on from his recent critically 

acclaimed World Premiere, A 

Comedy of Errors, Sir David Bintley 

returns to The Sarasota Ballet for the 

long-awaited premiere of The Spider’s 

Feast. Bintley’s original iteration of 

the ballet was created in 1997 for The 

Royal Ballet School’s Golden Jubilee 

celebrations; returning to the ballet 

over 20 years later, and complete with 

extravagant new designs by Dick Bird, 

Bintley aims to re-choreograph this 

entertaining and humorous work for 

The Sarasota Ballet. Set to the music of 

Albert Roussel’s 1913 “ballet-pantomine” 

Le Festin de l’araignée, audiences 

are whimsically transported to a bustling 

garden of wasps, caterpillars, and 

their fellow insectoids, while a menacing 

spider surreptitiously stalks its 

prey. www.sarasotaballet.org 

Selby Library 

On December 14, 6-7:30 p.m.: 

Steve Kramer Presents: Rachmaninoff 

String Quartet 6 p.m. The 

internationally acclaimed ensemble: 

‘Rachmaninoff String Quartet’ was 

established by award winning international 

concert cellist, music pedagogue 

and entertainer, Steve Kramer. 

Kramer is the award-winning recipient 

of the internationally prestigious 

Jacob Gade Foundation’s 36th Grand 

Prize. The prize supports an outstanding 

musician who possesses progressive 

and penetrating musicality and 

pizzazz and who desires to have a lifelong 

career as a major international 

artist and performer. 

Since receiving the award in 1998, 

Steve Kramer has collaborated with 

composers from all over the world. He 

has performed contemporary music 

by composers Jennifer Higdon, David 

Finko, Ben Steinberg, Nimrod Borenstein, 

Daniel Dorff, Sidney Grolnic, 

Eleonor Sigal, Andrea Clearfield, 

Cynthia Folio, Eugene Magalif, Victor 

Frost and Ib Nørholm, as well as compositions 

by Scandinavian composers 

and composers who lost their lives in 

World Wars I & II. 

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In addition, he was 

awarded the Talent 

Prize and Gold Medal 

at the national music 

competition, the Berlingske 

Music Competition, 

in Copenhagen, 

Denmark, and garnered 

an Artist Prize 

given by Pope John 

Paul II in Orvieto at the 

Orvieto Musica festival 

in Italy. Numerous 

Danish foundations, 

including the Jacob 

Gade Foundation, 

Augustinus Foundation, 

the Royal Danish 

family and English 

benefactors, generously 

subsidized Steve 

Kramer’s early education. 

Registration 

required. scgovlibrary. 

librarymarket.com/ 

event/steve-kramer. 

Selby 

Gardens 

Marie Selby Botanical 

Gardens will host Seeing the 

Invisible at its Historic Spanish Point 

campus. The most ambitious and 

expansive show to date of contemporary 

artworks created with augmented-reality 

(AR) technology, the exhibition 

launched last year at 12 botanical 

gardens around the world. Selby 

Gardens is one of four inaugural sites 

that will continue to host the show for 

a second year, through September 

2023. Six new garden and museum 

sites will join the global exhibition in 

October. 

Seeing the Invisible features works 

by more than a dozen internationally 

acclaimed artists, including Ai Weiwei 

of China, El Anatsui of Ghana, Isaac 

Julien CBE RA of the United Kingdom, 

and Sarah Meyohas of the United 

States. At Selby Gardens’ Historic 

Spanish Point campus, the show’s 13 

AR works are installed in carefully curated 

locations throughout the 30-acre 

preserve. Visitors engage with the art 

through an app that can be downloaded 

to a smartphone or tablet. 

Seeing the Invisible is the first exhibition 

of its kind to be developed 

as a collaboration among botanical 

gardens around the world. The same 

commissioned artworks are placed in 

outdoor settings at the participating 

institutions, creating parallels and 

contrasts between them. The AR nature 

of the exhibition has allowed for 

the creation of expansive, immersive 

works that engage with existing features 

of the natural landscape, going 

beyond the limitations of what is possible 

with physical artworks. 

For more information visit www. 

selby.org. 

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UF/IFAS Extension 

Sarasota County 

On December 14, 9-10 a.m.: 

EcoWalk: Holiday Meditation in the 

Parks - Red Bug Slough. Join in for 

an exploration of finding peace within 

nature during the holiday season. 

They’ll draw upon many traditions 

and cultures for a non-denominational 

approach to connecting with 

ourselves and nature and get healthier 

along the way. Register at ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com. 

Many traditions use some form of 

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meditation, focus, contemplation, 

reflection, or breath work to quiet the 

mind and center the body and spirit. 

Recent scientific research has shown 

that Shinrin yoku (a form of “forest 

bathing” practiced in Japan) decreases 

levels of cortisol - a stress hormone, 

lowers pulse rate and blood pressure, 

and decreases sympathetic nerve activity 

(our fight or flight response). Research 

also indicates being in nature 

increases brain alpha waves (relaxed 

awareness), improves concentration 

and problem-solving ability, improves 

self-esteem, and has immune system 

benefits that may decrease our risk for 

developing disease. 

No prior experience needed. Recommended 

to wear comfortable, loose 

clothing and bring water and a portable 

chair or blanket to sit upon as 

they’ll stop to sit along the trail 

For questions or information, call 

941-861-5000 or email sarasota@ifas. 

ufl.edu. du. Register: www.eventbrite. 

com/e/ecowalk. 

Contemporary 

Dance 

Sarasota Contemporary Dance is 

prioritizing diversity through collaboration 

with local musicians, reviving 

acclaimed SCD repertory, and presenting 

nationally acclaimed guest choreographers 

by bringing their never-before-seen 

original works to Sarasota. 

All performances will be held at the 

Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center 

for Performing Arts. 

Next up: SCD +enSRQ on December 

1-4. This season, SCD will 

collaborate with Samantha Bennett 

and George Nickson of enSRQ on a 

program exploring rhythms, dance, 

and song from around the world. SCD 

+ enSRQ also features scenic design 

by St. Petersburg-based multidisciplinary 

artist Sharon McCaman. 

For more information, visit www. 

sarasotacontemporarydance.org. 

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Save The Date 

The 25th Annual Thunder By The 

Bay Music & Motorcycle Festival has 

two two headline acts performing 

live on stage at next year’s Festival – 

38 Special (February 18) and Colt 

Ford (February 19. The iconic threeday 

Festival, organized by and benefitting 

Suncoast Charities for Children, 

is scheduled for February 17-19 

at the Sarasota Fairgrounds. 

Continuous live music will be featured 

throughout the weekend, and attendees 

are encouraged to bring lawn 

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celebrating the dance, visual 

and musical heritage of 

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North American premiere at the Van 

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KOLO is the brainchild of award-winning, 

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Ukraine, who now call Los Angeles 

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with over 25 years of experience. Both 

Liliia and Iaroslav are US National Champions, 

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Iaroslav began his dance career at 

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Additionally, many of the day-today 

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and Liliia Bieliei. “The upcoming North 

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since we began to dance in our home 

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produced this performance to showcase 

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visuals that truly have never 

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audiences not only to be immersed in a 

once in a lifetime experience into our rich 

and diverse culture, but also witness the 

Ukrainian pursuit of freedom in the cycle 

of modern history.” 

Executive Producers 

Liliia and Iaroslav Bieliei 

KOLO is a collaboration celebrating 

the arts and culture of Ukraine during 

one of the most crucial and determining 

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The American people have commiserated 

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Helen Neal, and Sarah Miller 

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Fun, friendly 

and a decent workout 

Pickleball is going strong in Sarasota 

Pickleball is 

everywhere 

it seems and 

has become 

very popular 

as a way to get 

some exercise that won’t 

blow out your joints (depending 

on how you 

play, of course). The rules 

are simple and the game 

is easy for beginners to 

learn, but can develop 

into a quick, fast-paced, 

competitive game for experienced 

players. 

The basics: it’s a fun sport 

that combines many elements 

of tennis, badminton 

and ping-pong. 

It’s played both indoors 

or outdoors on a badminton-sized 

court and 

a slightly modified tennis 

net. 

Equipment needed? 

A paddle and a plastic 

ball with holes. It can be 

played as doubles or singles, 

can be enjoyed by all 

ages and skill levels and no, it isn’t that game 

you played on the beach with the round paddles 

and plastic ball. 

Pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge 

Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle, 

Washington. Three dads – Joel Pritchard, Bill 

Bell, and Barney McCallum — whose kids 

were bored with their usual summertime activities 

— are credited for creating game. In 

2022, pickleball was adopted as the official 

state sport of Washington. 

Pickleball has evolved from original handmade 

equipment and simple rules into a 

popular sport throughout the US and Canada. 

The game is growing internationally as 

well, with many European and Asian countries 

adding courts. 

Everyone and their mother seems to be playing 

(wait, isn’t that your mom on the court?). There 

are some 4.8 million pickleball players, or “picklers,” 

in the United States, according to a 2022 report from 

the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. Pickleball 

grew nearly 40 percent between 2019 and 2021, making 

it America’s fastest-growing sport. 

The sport has trended older in the past — half of all 

serious pickleball players (those who play eight or 

more times a year) in 2021 were 55 and older, according 

to USA Pickleball. But the vast majority of casual 

players are under 55, and the fastest-growing segment 

of all pickleball players are under 24. So don’t 

go thinking this is “your parents’ thing.” 

Shown are this month’s WCW, Terry Ryan (center and in front of the net) and some of her many players 

at Sarasota’s CoreSRQ. Do they look like they’re having fun or what? 

IMAGE: Evelyn England 

Growing interest in the sport is attributed to a number 

of factors including a short learning curve, appeal 

to a wide range of ages and fitness levels, and 

low startup costs. There are now thousands of pickleball 

tournaments throughout the US, including 

the US National Championships and the U.S. Open 

Tournament, along with two professional tours and 

one professional league. 

Besides being easier to learn than tennis, pickleball 

is also slower paced and there’s less ground to cover; 

you could almost fit four pickleball courts onto one 

tennis court, and most picklers play doubles. 

Pickleball involves two players (singles), or four players 

(doubles) who hit a perforated hollow polymer 

ball over a 36-inch-high net using solid faced paddles. 

The two sides hit the ball back and forth over 

the net until one side commits a rule infraction. 

The appearance of a pickleball court, and the manner 

of play, resemble tennis, but the court is the size of a 

doubles badminton court, less than a third the size 

of a tennis court. Court lines and rules are specific 

to pickleball and include 

two 7-foot-areas on either 

side of the net known 

as the non-volley zones, 

where the ball cannot be 

hit with the paddle unless 

the ball bounces first. 

All serves are made with 

an underhand stroke, so 

don’t get any ideas about 

serving like Nadal. 

That’s the overview of the 

sport and the local scene 

is hot with lots of opportunities 

to play. Our West 

Coast Woman this month 

runs Sarasota Pickleball, 

LLC. Her name is Terry 

Ryan and she sends out a 

weekly schedule with updates, 

so to know about 

availability, sign up at her 

website https://sarasotapickleball.com/home/. 

Terry now has more than 

1000 subscribers to her 

conversational and informative 

newsletter that offers 

tips on playing as well 

as where to find a place 

to play. You can play beginner, intermediate 

or advanced or just come by and sample it - 

they’re a friendly bunch, happy to offer tips 

and show you the ropes. 

Terry, who is an accomplished player, explains 

why she enjoys pickleball, “The wonderful 

fellow players, the drop-in play, the fun 

of starting your day off with a great sport, the 

ability to meet new people and to make new 

friends, and a fantastic way to get some exercise. 

Plus, I can go anywhere and look up on 

Google PICKLEBALL COURTS NEAR ME and 

pick up a game of pickleball with strangers. 

What other sport can you do that? None that 

I can think of.” Indeed, a visit to Core SRQ on 

Bahia Vista (the former Sarasota Y) shows a 

group of men and women playing hard, but 

also having lots of fun. That’s also Terry’s vision 

- keep it fun. 

A sign of the game’s popularity can be seen in the 

fact that Sarasota County has seven air-conditioned, 

recreational facilities that offer a wide variety of play 

times. For outdoor play, there are currently 54-lined 

pickleball courts available on a first-come, first-serve 

basis year-round. You could never say that about 

tennis courts, past or present. 

Finally, with the holidays upon us, ask Santa for a 

pickleball set and in January, resolve to get in shape 

trying this sport - oh yeah, and you’ll also add more 

fun to your life. 

STORY: Louise Bruderle 

with information from USA Pickleball 

(https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball). 

For more information visit Terry’s site: 

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TERRY 

RYAN She 

and her enthusiastic 

“picklers” are enjoying the 

fastest growing sport in the U.S. 

today: Pickleball. Terry knows 

the game very well and is a USA 

Ambassador of pickleball 

through the USA Pickleball 

Association and is a 

certified PPR instructor. 

Locally, she keeps 

picklers informed, 

organized and always 

having fun. 


My notes 

had her as 

“pickleball 

Terry” for 

the longest time because it was the name 

I always saw on the Sarasota Pickleball 

website (https://sarasotapickleball. 

com/home/). But of course she has a 

last name and it’s on her informative 

and chatty e-blasts that are all about the 

sport known as pickleball. 

Pickleball is the uber popular sport 

with the paddles and wiffle ball that you 

play on a shrunken tennis court and everyone 

says it can be tougher than tennis 

while offering a super workout. 

And, great fun. Don’t forget the fun I’m 

told as I walk on the edges of the pickleball 

playing area inside CoreSRQ on 

Bahia Vista Street in Sarasota. Men and 

women, let’s say over 40, are on the court 

mostly playing mixed doubles and oblivious 

to anything but the game. 

The center of the Sarasota pickleball 

universe is Terry Ryan, CEO and Founder 

of Sarasota Pickleball Organization, LLC. 

She’s the energy behind the organization 

which means keeping members informed 

about court availability and tips 

to improve your game delivered with a 

sprinkle of humor to keep things light. 

Terry knows the game very well and is 

a USA Ambassador of pickleball through 

USAPA (USA Pickleball Association) and 

is a certified PPR instructor. She also give 

clinics and host tournaments. 

There’s debate about how much of a 

workout pickleball is - but then, there are 

always people who question the merits 

of things, it seems. One thing I found 

by chatting with Terry and some of the 

women awaiting their next game, is that 

the social aspect of the sport is amazing. 

One after another told me how much it 

meant to them - the camaraderie, the 

socializing and yeah, that great feeling 

when you smack that ball right down 

the middle or deep in the corner for that 

awesome killer shot. 

There are 4.8 million pickleball players, 

or “picklers,” in the United States, 

according to a 2022 report from the 

Sports & Fitness Industry Association. 

Pickleball, often described as a combination 

of tennis, Ping-Pong and badminton, 

grew nearly 40 percent between 2019 and 

2021, making it America’s fastest-growing 

sport. 

Terry kind of fell in to the game. “I was 

at the [then] YMCA and out of the corner 

of my eye were a group of seniors playing 

a game with paddles and a whiffle ball, 

and they all had smiles on their faces. I 

went over to check it out and was handed 

a paddle and started to play. Haven’t 

stopped since. That was around four 

years ago. I caught the fever, the pickleball 

fever. It took me awhile to figure out 

all the rules…I was just thrilled that I was 

able to get up to hit the ball over the net. 

But, I persisted.” 

That persistence paid off and now 

games are played at dozens of locations 

in Sarasota County and she knows every 

one of them. Terry is from Lake George, 

New York, and for a time, she worked in 

New York City. “My previous career of 

working for an investment group located 

on 57th Ave. in Manhattan is what honed 

my marketing and teaching skills,” she 

says. And she is a good teacher — patient 

and knowledgeable, a bit tough (she says) 

but no yelling. 

Terry took over from a volunteer who 

was the de facto leader at the time. “She 

wanted to give it up and I stepped in. I 

was going to sophisticate the system with 

signup forms and blogs so I needed a domain 

name. SarasotaPickleball.com was 

available. Since then, there have been 

other Sarasota somethings showing up, 

but I am the original. Officially Sarasota 

Pickleball Organization LLC.” 

Taking in the job, she found there 

were lots of places to play, “but it was a 

bit confusing- where and what level” so 

she organized things. She once called for 

information on a place and was told to 

“Call Terry, “ she says with a laugh. 

Terry gives clinics and competes in 

tournaments. She has her own Youtube 

channel, Instagram page, blog and 

TikTok account that are informative, but 

again, fun. People started to ask where to 

get paddles so she became a dealer. 

As for the sport of pickleball, people 

tend to stick with it. While 50 percent of 

people quit exercising six months after 

starting, research shows that picklers 

keep coming back to the court again and 

again, in good part because the game is 

so social. 

Her picklers socialize with each other. 

“We have lunch together, celebrate 

birthdays,” she explains. And her newsletter 

has readers who have never even 

been to Sarasota. 

Terry’s days managing property in 

New York City gave her the right skillset 

for managing a growing organization 

and keeping her picklers happy. “They 

expected nothing but the best efforts. I 

bring that to my loyal subscribers and 

students.” It all entails managing all 

these locations with different environments, 

some have nets, some don’t, some 

are indoors and some outdoors which 

means watching the weather. 

“Besides keeping my subscribers informed 

and coaching, I am busy promoting 

pickleball in Sarasota and helping 

it grow and grow. My ultimate goal is to 

make Sarasota a pickleball destination 

by seeing through a complex like Pickleplex 

in Punta Gorda or Pictona in Holly 

Hill, all built with private funds.” 

“And right now, Sarasota County is an 

excellent place to play pickleball indoors 

or outside. We have many locations and 

players at all skill levels. Whether you 

are a beginner looking to learn, or an 

advanced player who wants a competitive 

game, Sarasota can offer all of the 

above.” Sounds like fun. (https://sarasotapickleball.com/home) 

STORY: Louise Bruderle 

IMAGES: Evelyn England 

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artistic direction at the highest levels. 

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music by five Jewish 

composers in celebration 

of the 75th Anniversary 

of the founding of the 

State of Israel. Levenberg’s 

“Hasidic Scene” 

features concertmaster 

Christina Adams. 

Aslanyan’s “Trumpet 

Concertino” features 

trumpeter Robert Smith. 

Levenberg and Aslanyan are living Israeli 

composers. The program opens with Mendelssohn’s 

youthful String Sinfonia No. 10. 

Gershwin’s “Lullaby” rounds out the 

program. Bloch’s “Concerto Grosso for 

String Orchestra and Piano Obbligato” 

with Ann Stephenson-Moe concludes the 

concert and the season. 

La Musica has a new 

Artistic Director, 

Wu Han 

Beach’s Society of the Four Arts. she is 

the founder and artistic director of ArtistLed, 

classical music’s first artist-directed, 

internet-based recording label, which 

has released her performances of the 

staples of the cello-piano duo repertoire 

with cellist and husband, David Finckel. 

During this past season, Han designed 

and produced more than 200 digital 

media projects, including concerts and 

innovative educational programs, which 

have sustained the art or chamber music 

in dozens of communities across the 

United States. 

La Musica’s 37th Festival program, now 

with two additional concerts starts in 

February and March.Visit www.lamusicafestival.org/ 

Concertmaster 

Christina 

Adams 

The Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota 

features Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 

contemporary and popular music performed 

by a professional string orchestra 

under the direction of Music Director 

Robert Vodnoy. 

Tickets: chamberorchestrasarasota. 

org/ or call 219-928-8665. 

Sarasota’s own 

Broadway star 

Maria Wirries 

Artist Series’ Lighter Fare 

Series offers classic jazz and 

musical theater favorites outdoors 

at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 

Downtown Campus and indoors 

at Plantation Golf & Country Club 

in Venice. 

Sarasota’s own Broadway 

star Maria Wirries (Dear Evan 

Hansen) presents a homecoming 

concert on February 23. 

For more information, visit 

ArtistSeriesConcerts.org or call 

(941) 306-1202. 

A place of sound and movement 

experimentation 

For one evening, The Palladium is 

transformed into a place of sound and 

movement experimentation designed 

by new renaissance artist The Honourable 

Elizabeth A. Baker and 

interdisciplinary artist Jinghong 

Zhang, alongside local Tampa Bay and 

Sarasota artists John C. O’Leary, 

III, Tihda Vongkoth, Melanie Lavender, 

and Kristopher James - all 

blending poetry and music. 

Incorporating one-of-a-kind musical 

instruments such as the “Heaven and 

Earth” designed and played by Jinghong 

Zhang as well as “Black Moon 

Lilith” a double-sided non-resonant 

amplified zither designed by John C. L. 

Jansen and played by The Honourable 

Elizabeth A. Baker. Elizabeth pairs 

her unique instrument with a veritable 

spaceship incorporating multiple 

computers and semi-modular analog 

synths. Jinghong pairs his instrument 

with movement and interactive technologies. 

The power of language with collaborative 

influence as a thread in the sonic 

world takes stage with original poetry by 

Melanie Lavender and Kristopher James, 

alongside music by Yamaha Artist John 

Maria 

Wirries 

The Honourable 

Elizabeth A. Baker 

C. O. Leary, III (piano/synth) of La Lucha 

and Tihda Vongkoth (percussion) of Modern 

Marimba. 

Held at the Palladium Theater in 

downtown St. Petersburg on January 25 

in Hough Hall. Tickets: mypalladium.org/ 

events/ 

Famed Conductor Muti’s Final Season 

Music Director, 

Riccardo Muti 

The Chicago Symphony 

Orchestra with Riccardo 

Muti will perform 

on March 1, 7:30 pm at 

the Van Wezel. In his 

final season as Music 

Director, Riccardo Muti 

leads the internationally-acclaimed 

Chicago 

Symphony in Beethoven’s 

Symphony No. 8 and 

Prokofiev’s Pictures at an 

Exhibition. Visit https:// 

scasarasota.org/greatperformers/ 

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Ever Onward Season 27 

Susan Goldfarb 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR 

2022-2023 

LECTURE SERIES ✱ PAINTING 

PHOTOGRAPHY ✱ QIGONG 

YOGA ✱ MEDITATION ✱ BRIDGE 

MAH JONGG ✱ CANASTA 

SUPREME COURT ✱ THEOLOGY 

WELLNESS ✱ AMERICAN HISTORY 

LITERATURE & POETRY 

MOVIE & BOOK GROUPS 

MUSIC & DANCE APPRECIATION 

DOUBLE FEATURE 

BLAKE POULIOT and SIMONE PORTER, violins 

December 6, 7:30 pm • Sarasota Opera House 

Marking its Southeastern premiere, Pouliot will perform Derrick Skye’s 

“god of the gaps,” an Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum commission 

which premiered in Boston on November 6, 2022. Pouliot and Porter, 

joined by Hsin-I Huang on piano, will perform works by Strauss, 

Beethoven, Chausson, Bach, and more! 

THE 442s 

December 13, 7:30 pm 

Historic Asolo Theater 

A holiday concert 

for the whole family! 

A genre-defying acoustic quintet, this unique ensemble blends virtuosic 

musicianship, group singing and inventive improvisation, all while 

breaking down barriers between jazz, classical, folk, and pop music. 

These St. Louis-based musicians will present a program of holiday 

favorites and original compositions. 

This project is supported in part by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County; Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, 

the Florida Council of Arts and Culture and the State of Florida (Section 286.25 Florida Statutes); The Exchange; Gulf Coast Community Foundation; 

National Endowment for the Arts; the Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues; and the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. 

MORNING FORUMS 

WORLD POLITICS 

FILM FESTIVALS ✱ JAZZ NIGHTS 

WRITING WORKSHOPS 

iPHONE & iPAD ✱ NATURE WALKS 

BIRDING ✱ PERFORMING ARTS 

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS 

BROADWAY BIOS ✱ CONCERTS 

SPECIAL ONE-TIME EVENTS 

& MUCH MORE! 

Programs Available In Person and on Zoom 

567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL 

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT 

www.TBIeducationcenter.org 

For a brochure call: (941) 383-8222 


season highlights continued 

Nepal — 

NB Gurung 

— Portrait of 

an Old Man 

A Play about a Remarkable Woman 

ArtCenter Manatee’s Aqueous Exhibit 

In February/March ArtCenter Manatee 

will have the International Society of 

Watercolor Artists Florida USA and 

the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society 

Annual Aqueous Exhibit. Two 

Venice Theatre Update 

December 

2-19 

don’t miss watercolor exhibits. On 

display February 28-March 21. Opening 

reception Thursday, March 2, 5-7 p.m. 

For information, visit ArtCenter 

Manatee.org. 

“A tremendous amount of work has gone 

into figuring out a way to present as 

many shows from our original 2022-23 

season as possible. Losing our main 

432-seat theatre will not stop us from 

sharing these great stories with our 

community. We are excited that we can 

still present Up On the Roof, The Cemetery 

Club, Gypsy, Arabian Nights, Xanadu, 

The Silver Foxes, and Pinky’s 

Players…we’ve changed a couple of 

titles,” says Murray Chase, Producing 

Executive Director. 

“We suffered significant damage from 

Hurricane Ian. Together, sooner rather 

than later, and stronger than ever, “we 

will find a way.” The Venice Theatre 

board will match all gifts to the theatre 

– up to $500,000 – through Dec. 31, 2022,” 

he adds. 

Their box office is working to exchange 

and reschedule tickets for all 

subscribers and single ticket holders. 

Coming up, A Christmas Carol runs 

December 2-19. While their mainstage 

Jervey Theatre is undergoing major repairs, 

the show will be performed on the 

temporary stage in the Raymond Center 

directly behind their main building. 

• Here are their upcoming concerts: 

• Up On the Roof, The Songs of Carole 

King and James Taylor: Jan. 10 

– 29, Raymond Center 

• The Cemetery Club: Jan. 20 – Feb. 12, 

Pinkerton Theatre 

• Gypsy, A Musical Fable: Feb. 17 – 

March 19, Raymond Center 

• Arabian Nights: Feb. 24 – March 5, 


• Xanadu: March 24 – April 16, Pinkerton 

Theatre 

• The Silver Foxes: March 28 – April 2, 

Raymond Center 

• Graceland: April 21 – May 7, Raymond 

Center 

• Teen Improv: April 30, Raymond 

Center 

• The Complete Works of William 

Shakespeare (abridged): May 5 – 21, 


• Adult Improv: May 14, Raymond 

Center 

• Pinky’s Players: 

May 19 – 21, 

Raymond Center 

• Kinky 

Boots has 

been moved 

to the 2023-24 

Season and will 

be performed 

Jan. 12 - Feb. 11, 

2024 

Tickets: https:// 

venicetheatre. 

org/tickets/ 

SILENT SKY is the true story of Henrietta 

Leavitt, one of the pioneering 

women astronomers working at Harvard 

Observatory in the early 1900s who took 

on the astronomy establishment in order 

to discover the mysteries embedded in 

the sky. 

Henrietta transcended the odds while 

navigating love, family, and the universe, 

A Sarasota Opera Debut 

Sarasota Opera 

has Thérèse by 

Jules Massenet. It’s 

the story of a love 

triangle during the 

French Revolution. 

In this rarely heard 

work, Thérèse is torn 

between love for her 

former lover and her 

affection and duty 

towards her husband. 

Moments of lyrical 

beauty are punctuated 

by the drama of 

the “Reign of Terror” 

in this opera, which will be receiving its 

U.S. professional premiere. Thérèse will 

be sung by Lisa Chavez. 

going on to make a world-altering advancement 

to the field of astronomy that 

forever changed our view of the cosmos. 

Written by Lauren Gunderson, this 

drama is directed by Seema Sueko, who 

recently brought this work to life at Washington 

D.C.’s Ford’s Theatre. Runs January 

19 to March 5. Tickets: https://www. 

asolorep.org/events/detail/silent-sky. 

A Sea Symphony by Vaughan Williams 

Chorus, orchestra and soloists sing of 

ships and their captains, wind and waves, 

the voyage of every human soul, and 

music so vivid you can almost taste the 

sea spray in the air. Vaughan Williams’ 

setting of Walt Whitman’s sea texts elicit 

thrilling viscerality in its climactic vision 

of the individual soul sailing forth ‘for the 

Five performances: March 17, 19, 21, 23, 

and 25, 2023. It’s a Sarasota Opera debut. 

Tickets: SarasotaOpera.org. 

deep waters only, where mariner has not 

yet dared to go.’ 

This large-scale symphony was one of 

the first to incorporate choir throughout 

the work and is considered one of the 

mightiest first symphonies ever composed. 

Baritone Jamal Sarikoki and soprano 

Suzanne Karpov add their stunning 

virtuosity 

English 

composer, 

Vaughan 

Williams 

Thérèse 

will be 

sung by 

Lisa Chavez 

to this epic 

masterwork. 

Held 

February 

10-11 at 

Church of 

the Palms 

on Bee 

Ridge Road 

in Sarasota. 

Tickets: 

https://keychorale.org/ 

concerts/ 



Suncoast Presents 

An Evening with Violinist Randall 

Goosby with Pianist Zhu Wang Dec. 8 

“ 

For me, personally, music 

has been a way to inspire 

others,” says 26-year-old violinist 

and Perlman Music Program 

alum, Randall Goosby. 

Regional audiences 

will have the rare 

opportunity to 

see this highly acclaimed 

performer, 

accompanied by 

pianist Zhu Wang, 

as part of The Perlman 

Music Program 

Suncoast’s 

“An Evening with 

Randall Goosby,” 

Thursday, December 

8, 7:30 p.m., 

at the Sarasota Opera 

House. 

The concert’s 

program features 

Deux Morceaux 

pour Violin et Piano 

by Lili Boulanger; 

Randall Goosby 

Maurice Ravel’s 

Violin Sonata No. 2; 

Suite for Violin and Piano 

by William Grant Still; and 

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata 

No. 9. The program is 

subject to change. 

Randall Goosby joined 


(PMP) at the age of 

15. Before this, he made 

his debut with the Jacksonville 

Symphony at age 

Zhu Wang 

nine, and at 13 became the youngest recipient 

ever to win the Sphinx Concerto 

Competition. 

Goosby has since performed with the 

New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, 

and New World Symphony. He is 

acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity 

of his musicianship alongside his determination 

to make music more inclusive 

and accessible, and to bring the music of 

under-represented composers to light. 

Goosby’s 2021 critically acclaimed 

debut album, “Roots,” explores the evolution 

of African American music—from 

the spiritual through to present-day 

composition—paying homage to the 

pioneering artists that paved the way for 

him and other artists of color. Goosby 

earned both undergraduate and graduate 

degrees at The Juilliard School, and recently 

received an Artist Diploma there, 

studying under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine 

Cho. Visit RandallGoosby.com. 

Praised by The New York Times as 

“a superb pianist,” Zhu Wang’s engaging 

performances exhibit a remarkable 

depth of lyricism and poise. His 2021 

Carnegie Hall debut recital was named 

“Best of 2021” by Anthony Tommasini in 

The New York Times. 

As the Winner of 2020 Young Concert 

Artists International Audition, he was 

awarded the Stern Young Artist Development 

Award and continues to show 

his artistry as a charismatic soloist and 

an exceptional chamber musician. Wang 

holds a Bachelor of Music degree from 

The Juilliard School and is 

pursuing his Artist Diploma 

at Curtis Institute of Music. 

Visit ZhuWangPiano.com. 

“We are thrilled to welcome 

Randall back to Sarasota,” 

says Lisa Berger, executive 

director of Perlman Suncoast. 

“Many of us remember this 

extraordinary young man 

during his years attending 

the PMP Winter Residency. 

Seeing him now as an accomplished 

and recognized artist 

is a testament to The Perlman 

Music Program and a joyful 

reunion for local audiences.” 

• Perlman Suncoast’s 

2022-2023 Season 

at a Glance • 

• PMP Winter Residency: 

December 28-January 

7 The PMP Winter Residency 

offers unparalleled musical 

training for gifted students 

ages 12-18 who play the violin, 

viola, cello and bass. 

PMP’s world-class faculty, led 

by Itzhak Perlman, oversees a 

curriculum of solo, chamber 

music, and orchestral repertoire 

at the highest level. 

The public is invited to watch 

these orchestra and chorus rehearsals 

and works-in-progress recitals in a 

performance tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee 

campus. 

• Tent Rehearsals, Works in 

Progress, and Recitals: 

December 29-January 7 on the USF 

Sarasota-Manatee campus. Non-reserved 

seats are free to the public; reserved and 

VIP seats are also available. The Winter 

Residency’s daily schedule will be available 

at www.PerlmanSuncoast.org in 

November. 

• Celebration Concert: 

January 5 at the Sarasota Opera House. 

Tickets are $40 to $80 and will be available 

for purchase starting October 20 

by calling Sarasota Opera House’s box 

office at 941-328-1300 or at www.sarasotaopera.org. 

• Celebration Gala: 

January 5 in the tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee 

campus. The evening 

includes dinner and entertainment with 

PMP students, faculty and the Perlmans. 

Tickets are $250 per person and will be 

available for purchase starting October 

20 at www.PerlmanSuncoast.org. 

• For tickets, visit https://tickets. 

sarasotaopera.org/6059/6060. 


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Choral Artists of Sarasota’s 2022-2023 Season 

The ensemble’s 44th season is entitled “United in Song” 

Artistic 

Director 

Joseph 

Holt 

Choral Artists of Sarasota’s 

44th season, entitled 

“United in Song,” 

continues with four concerts 

in December, March, 

April, and July. A season highlight 

includes the Florida premiere of “The 

Children’s March,” a moving oratorio by 

composer Andrew Bleckner that takes 

audiences on a journey to an historical 

event during the Civil Rights Era of the 

1960s, with Charlayne Hunter-Gault as 

narrator. 

Other performances include “Say a 

Little Prayer,” featuring spiritual songs 

from different cultures and faiths; 

“Peace on Earth,” a holiday concert 

with traditional holiday carols that are 

interspersed with “In Terra Pax,” a work 

of childlike serenity by British composer 

Gerald Finzi; and an April concert 

featuring Bach’s pastoral setting of the 

Twenty-third Psalm paired with Mozart’s 

Requiem, a poignant contemplation of 

eternity. The group’s July 4th concert, 

“American Fanfare,” will be performed 

at the Sarasota Opera House with the 

Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble. 

Artistic Director Joseph Holt says, 

“These performances speak to our common 

humanity as people of faith, people 

yearning for peace in a discordant 

world, people seeking justice, people 

finding consolation in music, and people 

enjoying the freedoms afforded us by 

our American principles. Five performances 

that bring us together through 

song, a symphony of vocal sound that 

expresses our inner thoughts and emotions. 

‘United in Song’ takes us on a journey 

of renewal, with hope for a brighter 

future for all.” 

Holt will also illuminate the creative 

process, presenting “Meet the Music” 

prior to each concert throughout the 

season. Each will focus on the upcoming 

concert with a special guest joining the 

conversation and performance. “Meet 

the Music” programs are held at Art to 

Charlayne Hunter-Gault 

Walk On at 16 South Palm Avenue in 

downtown Sarasota, 5:30-7 p.m., with a 

wine and hors d’oeuvre reception. 

Planned dates are December 1, February 

23, April 13 and June 22. Guest 

artists for the performance season include 

sopranos Adelaide Boedecker and 

Danielle Talamantes; Laurel Semerdjian, 

alto; tenors John Kaneklides and J. Warren 

Mitchell; and baritones Kerry Wilkerson 

and William Socolof. 

For more information and to purchase 

tickets, visit www.ChoralArtists 

Sarasota.org or call 941-387-4900. 

The Choral Artists of Sarasota’s 

2022-2023 season schedule: 

• Peace on Earth: The holidays will 

ring with traditional holiday carols 

resounding with themes of peace that 

are interspersed with “In Terra Pax,” a 

work of childlike serenity that is both 

intimate and universal by British composer 

Gerald Finzi. Guest artists: Danielle 

Talamantes, soprano, and Kerry 

Wilkerson, baritone. Sunday, December 

11, 7 p.m., at Church of the Redeemer, 

222 S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota. 

• The Children’s March: A moving 

and dramatic oratorio by Philadelphia 

Adelaide Boedecker 

composer Andrew Bleckner, which 

takes us on a journey to an historical 

event during the Civil Rights Era of 

the 1960s. Incorporating traditional 

African-American styles and spirituals, 

the work shows the incivility of 

segregation through the innocence 

and optimistic spirit of children. 

Guest artist: J. Warren Mitchell, 

tenor and Choral Artists soloists 

Maiya Stevenson, soprano; Amy Jo 

Connours, alto; Krista Laskowski, 

mezzo-soprano; Baron Garriott, tenor; 

John Whittlesey, baritone and Jesse 

Martin, baritone. Narrated by Charlayne 

Hunter-Gault. Sunday, March 5, 

7 p.m., at Church of the Palms, 3224 

Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota. 

• Bach Du Hirte Israel, höre 

(Shepherd of Israel, hear us) 

Cantata, BWV 104 and Mozart 

Requiem, K.626: Passages of life 

expressed through the beauty of majestic 

choral music: Bach’s pastoral 

setting of the Twenty-third Psalm 

paired with Mozart’s Requiem, a poignant 

and dramatic contemplation of 

eternity. Guest artists: Adelaide Boedecker, 

soprano; Laurel Semerdjian, 

alto; John Kaneklides, tenor; William 

Socolof, bass. Sunday, April 16, 7 

p.m., at Church of the Redeemer, 222 

S. Palm Avenue, Sarasota. 

• American Fanfare: Celebrate 

America with choral fireworks, rousing 

marches and patriotic fervor. Old 

Glory and Uncle Sam are feted in this 

annual performance featuring the 

Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble and 

Choral Artists of Sarasota. Musical 

fireworks abound in this annual salute 

to America. July 4, 4:30 p.m., at 

Sarasota Opera House, 61 North Palm 

Avenue, Sarasota. 

The Choral Artists of Sarasota comprises 

32 regional professional singers. 

Eight young singers, ages 16 to 22, are 

also invited to join the group each year, 

as part of the organization’s educational 

outreach. One of these singers will be 

awarded the new Ann Stephenson Moe 

Apprentice Scholarship, a funding program 

to support either private lessons or 

vocal training at an institution of higher 

learning. “Ensuring the future of choral 

music means investing in the next generation 

of music lovers,” says Susan Burke, 

executive director of Choral Artists of 

Sarasota. “That means engaging young 

people on their own terms.” 

The group celebrates the rich, artistic 

expressiveness of choral music through 

innovative repertoire, performances and 

educational outreach under the artistic 

direction of Dr. Joseph Holt. Their repertoire 

spans four centuries, and includes 

symphonic choral works, intimate madrigals, 

folk songs, close-harmony jazz, 

and Broadway show music. 

The ensemble also specializes in premiere 

performances of lesser-known 

choral works—particularly music by living 

American composers. Choral Artists 

of Sarasota has performed premieres 

by René Clausen, Dick Hyman, Robert 

Levin, Gwyneth Walker and James 

Grant. For more information, visit www. 

ChoralArtistsSarasota.org. 


Art Center Sarasota’s New Exhibitions: 

Their season continues with four exhibits running Dec. 8-Jan. 21 

Alexandra 

Hammond’s 

exhibit “Atmospheric 

River” 

centers around the artist’s 

“Quantum Blue” oil 

paintings. According to 

Hammond, they invite the 

viewer to enter a zone of 

pure possibility — a field 

of active emptiness from 

which all forms arise out 

of formlessness. In her 

paintings, a vibrant sky is 

the common background 

to a select group of objects 

that become 

frames for witnessing 

the ground of 

being itself. 

Hammond’s exhibit 

“Atmospheric 

River” centers 

around the artist’s 

“Quantum Blue” oil 

paintings. According 

to Hammond, 

they invite the 

viewer to enter a 

zone of pure possibility 

— a field of 

active emptiness 

from which all 

Alexandra Hammond The Fraying Edge by Alexandra Hammond 

forms arise out of 

formlessness. In 

her paintings, a 

Fools Bargain by Jason Hackenwerth 

The Aristocrat by Jason Hackenwerth 

vibrant sky is the common background 

to a select group of objects that become 

frames for witnessing the ground of being 

itself. 

Hammond’s work investigates symbolic 

possibility. As opposed to uncovering 

the root meaning of symbols, she invites 

us to experience how symbols shift, 

play and influence us on an individual 

and collective basis. With 18 paintings 

on display, “Atmospheric River” is set to 

provoke introspection and reflections on 

the nature of consciousness. Hammond’s 

projects have been shown nationally and 

internationally. 

According to the artist, these flights 

of imagination are his way of working 

through the constant bombardment of 

media and life drama. Hackenwerth’s 

work has been exhibited in galleries and 

museums around the world. His work 

has been mentioned in a number of magazines, 

including Creative Review UK, 

American Craft, Design Journal, Art In 

America, Sculpture Magazine, The New 

York Times, Creative Review, and London 

Metro. Hackenwerth lives and works 

in St Petersburg. 

“Black & White” showcases this 

beauty in an all-media, juried exhibit. The 

juror, Elana Rubinfeld, is a certified art 

including the Orlando Museum of 

Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Sundance 

Institute, Lever House and SOCO 

Gallery. 

The opening reception for 

all four exhibits is Thursday, 

December 8, 6-8 p.m. They also 

have Artist Talks! With Alexandra 

Hammond on Wednesday, 

December 7, 5:30 - 7 p.m. and 

with Jason Hackenwerth on 

Thursday, December 15, 

5:30 – 7 p.m. 

Jason Hackenwerth is a multidisciplinary 

artist who responds to social, 

political and personal issues with spontaneous 

creativity. “Empire” reveals the 

artist’s most recent body of work — abstract 

paintings, bursting with dynamic 

scenarios and enigmatic messages. 

“Fool’s Bargain” shows the censored 

smear of a message in a bright field of 

yellow. Below it, the word “Faust” in 

graffiti-like cursive — a nod to the tragic 

the Dr. Faustus who sold his soul in a 

fool’s bargain with Mephistopheles. 

appraiser with the Appraisers Association 

of America and is the founder of New 

Art Agency, an art advisory and appraisal 

firm based in Sarasota. Since 2003 she 

has worked as an artist, publicist, gallery 

director, curator, researcher, artist liaison 

and, primarily, an art advisor. 

She has more than 20 years of experience 

working at galleries and institutions, 

including the Museum of Modern Art, 

Yossi Milo Gallery and P.S.1 Contemporary 

Art Center and has curated numerous 

exhibitions at various institutions, 

by Claire McCauley 

Still Dreaming by Alexandra Hammond 

Thieves And Liars by Jason Hackenwerth 

Also at ArtCenter Sarasota and just 

in time for any art lover’s holiday gift list, 

the Holiday Shop offers original works 

of art by locally based artists for purchase. 

Everything is priced at $200 and 

under, including small paintings and 

prints, functional and decorative ceramic 

art and hand-crafted jewelry 

by seven artists—Nika Zusin, 

Claire McCauley, Alissa Silvers, 

Ry McCullough, Jen Kroeger, 

Brenden Deasy, and 

Jason Hackenwerth. 

by 

Nika 

Zusin 

Art Center Sarasota 

is located at 

707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. 

For information, visit 

www.artsarasota.org 

or call 941-365-2032 


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To keep the brain functioning, the body 

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energy (7:00 AM-10:00 PM) to the brain resulting 

in less energy to make it through each 

day. As we age, the accumulation of all the 

tightened fascia, from every major trauma 

in life, begins to restrict every aspect of our 

body’s functions resulting in pain, loss of mobility, 

mis-functioning organs, loss of energy, 

as well as our brain losing some its sharpness. 

How Craniosacral 

Therapy Works 

The Craniosacral Therapist creates a safe 

place, with gentle holding techniques, that 

engages your body’s ability to self correct, 

reorganize and heal itself with the release 

of some of that tightened fascia during 

each session. As the Craniosacral Therapist 

engages your body, you will feel fascia releasing. 

As the fascia releases, pain begins to 

decrease, range of motion and mobility improve, 

organs begin functioning better and 

with less stress on the brain feels, it returns 

the energy it borrowed at the time of each 

trauma resulting in an immediate increase in 

your energy levels. Rarely does anyone leave 

from my first session not feeling better. 

Short Leg Syndrome 

Eighty-five percent of my clients have one 

of their legs pulled up 1/2 to 1 by shortened 

fascia. The tension from short leg syndrome 

on the sacrum (5 fused vertebrae at bottom 

of the spine) is transferred up the dural tube 

that encases the spinal cord into the lower 

and upper back, the neck, the cranium and 

The physical stress in bodies caused by shortened 

fascia (connective tissue) shuts down 

energy flows to certain organs. Short leg syndrome 

by ½ to 1 in (where one leg is pulled up 

by shortened fascia) shuts down energy flow to 

the spleen (an important part of your immune 

system) and the small and large intestine. With 

the release of that shortened fascia, energy returns 

to these organs. 

the brain. Headaches, migraines, TMJ and 

neck problems can originate from the fascial 

stress in the sacrum. 

Releasing this sacral stress increases energy 

in the bladder, sex organs, kidneys and 

the chakras as well as releasing major stress 

in the upper part of the body. 

Cause of Shallow Breathing 

A great majority of the clients who come to 

me for various problems are also shallow 

breathers. Fascial stress in the diaphragm 

restricts the depth of breathing by restricting 

energy flow to the lungs, the pericardium 

and the heart. With the release of fascial diaphragm 

restriction, the client immediately 

starts breathing deeply and energy is restored 

to the pericardium and the heart. 

Shoulder blades that are cemented to the 

body also restricts how much the rib cage can 

open and thereby also restricting depth of 

breath. Without proper breathing, your cells 

do not get enough oxygen. Everyone, especially 

people suffering from bronchitis, asthma 

and COPD as well as shallow breathing can 

benefit when the fascial stress is released. 

Specialized Training 

to work with Brain 

Dysfunctions 

Just as the body physically gets stressed from 

physical and emotional trauma, the functioning 

of the brain is also affected by fascial stress. For 

our brains to remain healthy, we need dynamic 

production of craniosacral fluid which performs 

the important function of bringing nourishment 

to all the cells in the brain and spinal 

cord as well as cleansing all the metabolic 

wastes given off by those same cells. 

Once the craniosacral fluid cleanses these 

metabolic wastes, efficient drainage of these 

metabolic wastes into the lymph system is 

absolutely necessary. Research has shown, 

that at night, craniosacral fluid cleanses amyloid 

plaques from the brain. If the drainage 

is inefficient, then the brain is being bathed 

in a toxic slurry. How does 15 or 20 years of 

your brain being bathed in a toxic slurry 

affect you: senile dementia, Parkinson’s, 

Alzheimer’s and other brain dysfunctions? 

A Craniosacral Therapist, who has received 

training in working with the brain, can reverse 

that stress on the brain that eventually can 

result in those brain dysfunctions. As we all 

know, the proper functioning of the body is 

dependent on a healthy functioning brain. 

Babies and Children can benefit 

■ Our little boy Leo, four years of age, had a 

difficult birth and at 7 months was put on antibiotics 

for an ear infection and as a result developed 

c-diff. His development came to a stop. 

At 3 years, with the help of an OT, he started 

to walk and talk. In spite of the improvements, 

he was unable to answer questions and his 

communication skills were very poor. Leo 

had very poor muscle tone, a lot of stress in 

his body and physical activities such walking, 

jumping and climbing were difficult for him. 

Beginning with the first session with Terry, 

he began showing improvement and with each 

following session. Everyone from his teachers 

to his grandparents noticed an increase in his 

■ “I was in awful pain and the 

MRI showed 2 pinched nerves 

and stenosis. I scheduled surgery. 

My daughter suggested Craniosacral therapy. 

After only 2 visits the pain was reduced to 

advanced craniosacral about 80% and therapy I canceled the surgery. I went 

for a 3rd visit and I am about 90% better.” 

■ “Simply Amazing! One visit was all it took for 

Terry to relieve 85% of my year long, nagging 

(sometimes severe) neck/shoulder tightness/ 

pain!! My breathing improved tremendously.” 

physical strength, as well as improvements in 

comprehension, speech and communication 

skills. For the first time, he started participating 

in class lessons and interacting with his 

classmates. Terry has made a huge impact on 

getting Leo to a place a little boy should be at 

age four. We cannot thank Terry enough. 

■ Terry’s treatment helped our 6 week old 

baby boy from recent hospitalization into 

the first series of healthy bowel movements 

when seemingly nothing could help. Our son 

was able to latch onto the breast and for the 

first time completed his feeding. He was much 

calmer after working with Terry. 

■ “He was able to relieve tension that I have 

been carrying around for 15 years or more. 

I left his office table with more energy than I 

have had in years.” 

■ “I began working with him because I was 

dealing with anxieties, depression and lots of 

emotional pain inside and out. You don’t realized 

how much stress can cause damage to 

your body, mind and soul. I can say Terry was 

a big help.” 

Terrence Grywinski 

of Advanced 

Craniosacral Therapy, 

B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049 

Testimonials from Clients 

SOURCE: 

■ Terrence Grywinski of Advanced Craniosacral Therapy, 

B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049. Terry has specialized in Craniosacral 

Therapy since 1994 when he began his training at the Upledger 

Institute. Described by his teachers, clients and colleagues 

as a “gifted healer”, Terry’s intuitive sense and healing energy 

provides immediate and lasting relief from injury, pain, mobility 

issues as well as dysfunctions of the body and the brain. Part 

of Terry’s ongoing education, he has completed 4 craniosacral 

brain and peripheral nervous system classes which enables him 

to work at a cellular 

level and with brain 

dysfunctions. 

Call 941-321-8757 

for more information, 

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■ “On a recent vacation to Siesta Key, I re-injured 

my back. I found Terry online. I can say 

with complete joy that was the best decision 

I made in the history of my back pain. I have 

sought many modalities and visit a CST regularly 

and never have I had such a healing in 

my entire body. 

After 3 sessions, I made a 16-hour drive 

home with no pain or discomfort in my entire 

body. Unbelievable. My body has a sense of 

moving freely and that is completely new. I’m 

advanced craniosacral therapy 

so grateful to Terry for his knowledge, for his 

sensitivity to my needs and his kind generosity 

in healing my body. I will see him when I return 

next year.” 

■ “I am a snowbird who spends 7 months 

in Sarasota. I have had back problems for 25 

years. Terry’s techniques have led to a great 

deal of release and relief in areas that have 

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the years when my body says ”it’s time”. Usually 

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Some Major Art Exhibits to Experience 

The New Season includes Matisse, Modigliani, Cubism, Ruscha, Hopper and more 

• The Philadelphia 

Museum of Art 

does Matisse 

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, in 

collaboration with the Musée de 

l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée 

Matisse Nice, will present the first exhibition 

ever dedicated to the pivotal 

decade of the 1930s in the art of Henri 

Matisse (1869–1954). 

Opening first in Philadelphia, the only 

U.S. venue, the exhibition Matisse in 

the 1930s has more than 100 works, 

ranging from both renowned and rarely 

seen paintings and sculptures, to drawings 

and prints, to illustrated books. It 

also features documentary photographs 

and films. 

Because this transformative decade in 

Matisse’s career has never been treated 

in a standalone exhibition before, visitors 

have a rare opportunity to immerse 

themselves in the very process through 

which Matisse generated a new creative 

approach and outlook in the later part 

of his career, while also witnessing the 

dramatically revitalized production that 

followed from his eventful visit to Philadelphia 

in 1930. 

Between works on view at the Philadelphia 

Museum of Art and complementary 

holdings down the street at 

the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia is 

an exciting city in which to experience 

Matisse’s art. 

Matisse spent most of his life in Nice, 

and Mediterranean splendor permeates 

his work. He came back from the U.S. to 

France with a broadened vision of the 

world that had long-lasting effects, as 

the ’30s were rejuvenating for this pioneer 

of modernity. The Musée Matisse 

in Nice, whose collection is rich in art 

linked to this period of creation, has collaborated 

with the Philadelphia Museum 

of Art and the Musée de l’Orangerie to 

demonstrate the renewal in the artist’s 

work during this period. 

The Dance (1931–33), Matisse’s decoration 

for the Barnes Foundation, is 

closely linked to the artist’s return to a 

modernist style in the 1930s. In 1930, 

Matisse had achieved significant international 

renown, and yet he found himself 

in a deep creative slump. 

A dozen years before, he had switched 

his base of operations from Paris to 

Nice. There he had focused 

on the theme of 

female models in elaborately 

decorated studio 

setups bathed in the crystalline 

light of the Mediterranean. 

Some critics 

wondered whether Matisse, 

who had been such 

a radical force in modern 

painting, had lost his experimental 

edge. By the 

later 1920s, Matisse himself 

had developed second 

thoughts, and for a 

couple years he produced 

nearly no new paintings. 

The turning point came in 

the fall of 1930, when the 

artist visited the Barnes 

Foundation in the suburbs 

of Philadelphia, and 

received the commission 

for a three-part mural, 

The Dance. Matisse 

used this commission to 

turn his work around. 

Afterward, he returned to easel painting 

with new procedures and a new 

approach. He started using photography 

systematically to document the cumulative 

process of building his motifs and to 

test his own reactions as he went along. 

He also began using pre-colored cut papers 

to plan his compositions; this procedure 

led him away from the illusion of 

modeling and deep space and toward a 

style of flat tones and bold shapes that 

gave his compositions of the 1930s a 

new impact. 

Matisse in the 1930s has an array of 

works from public and private collections 

in the U.S. and Europe. It explores 

the changes in style that followed as Matisse 

discovered different ways of working 

across the mediums of easel and decorative 

painting, sculpture, printmaking, 

drawing, and the illustrated book. The 

exhibition will demonstrate that what he 

achieved during the 1930s represented a 

total revitalization of his artistic vision. 

In 1941, Matisse underwent a risky 

operation for abdominal cancer; after 

this brush with death, he spoke of embarking 

on a second artistic life. At first, 

he painted little, but instead focused 

on a major effort in drawing: a corpus 

of 158 drawings of models in the studio 

and fruit and floral still lifes known 

as Themes and Variations. 

ITINERARY 

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, through 

January 29, 2023 

• Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, February 

27, 2023–May 29, 2023 

• Musée Matisse Nice, June 23, 2023– 

September 24, 2023 

The Philadelphia Museum of Art: 

philamuseum.org 

• The Barnes 

Foundation Presents 

Modigliani Up Close 

The first exhibition to spotlight 

conservation research exploring 

Modigliani’s working methods and 

materials runs to January 29, 2023 at 

the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia 

(a short distance from the Philadelphia 

Art Museum). 

The Barnes Foundation has Modigliani 

Up Close, that offers new insights 

into his working methods and materials 

that’s on view through January 29, 2023. 

Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) 

is among the most celebrated artists 

of the 20th century. While 

many exhibitions have 

endeavored to reunite his 

paintings, sculptures, and 

drawings, Modigliani Up 

Close offers an opportunity 

to examine their production 

and explore how Modigliani 

constructed and composed 

his signature works. 

Featuring new scholarship 

that builds on research that 

began in 2017 with the major 

Modigliani retrospective at 

Tate Modern, this single-venue 

exhibition is the culmination 

of years of research by 

conservators and curators 

across Europe and the Americas. 

Modigliani Up Close furthers 

understanding of 

Modigliani’s approach to his 

art, refines a chronology of 

his paintings and sculptures, 

and helps to establish the 

locations and circumstances 

of where he worked. 

Featuring nearly 50 works 

from major collections, and 

organized into thematic sections, 

the exhibition presents 

paintings and sculptures alongside new 

findings that have resulted from the 

technical research of collaborating conservators, 

conservation scientists, and 

curators. Using analytical techniques, 

including X-radiography, infrared reflectography, 

and X-ray fluorescence 

spectroscopy (XRF), conservators and 

conservation scientists reveal previously 

unknown aspects of Modigliani’s work. 

Visitors will feel closer to Modigliani as 

an artist, seeing his work through the 

eyes of the experts, catching glimpses 

of the artist’s hand hidden beneath the 

surfaces of his work. 

This exhibition holds a special significance 

at the Barnes, as Dr. Albert C. 

Barnes was one of Modigliani’s earliest 

collectors in the U.S. and helped shape the 

artist’s critical reception in this country. In 

addition to works on paper, there are 12 

paintings and one carved stone sculpture 

by Modigliani in the Barnes collection. 

With 12 paintings each, the Barnes and 

the National Gallery of Art in Washington, 

DC, have the largest collections of 

Modigliani paintings in the world. 

Visitors can use Barnes Focus, a 

mobile guide that works on any smartphone 

with a web browser. This is the 

first occasion Barnes Focus can be 

used to explore loaned works in an 

exhibition. Visitors simply open the 

guide by navigating to barnesfoc.us 

on a mobile browser and focus on a 

work of art; the guide recognizes the 

work and delivers information about 

it. Barnes Focus also leverages the 

Google Translate API, so you can automatically 

translate the guide into a 

variety of languages. 

The Barnes Foundation: 

barnesfoundation.org. 



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at 7pm 21 Authors at Temple • 20 Events Emanu-El 

10 “in-person” events (also available on Zoom) 

Steve and 10 Katz Zoom-only events 

Blood, Sweat, and 

My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 

Steve Katz was a founding member of the legendary Blues 

Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He played the Monterey 

Pop Festival and Woodstock. His blues-folk-rock memoir 

is an honest and personal account of 

a life at the edge of the spotlight – a 

privileged vantage point that earned him a bit more objectivity 

and earnest outrage than many of his colleagues, who were too 

far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set during the 

Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the ’60s most celebrated 

venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international 

tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a 

rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to 

sit at the cool kids’ table and score the hot chicks. 

In addition to his presentation, Steve will perform a mini-concert! 

Tickets are $25 in advance 

and $30 at the door 

Temple Emanu-El is located at 151 McIntosh Road, Sarasota 

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major art exhibits continued 

• Cubism and the 

Trompe l’Oeil at 

The Metropolitan 

Museum of Art 

At The Metropolitan Museum of 

Art, Cubism and the Trompe 

l’Oeil Tradition are presented in 

an entirely new understanding of Cubism 

by connecting it to the strategies, motifs, 

and playful provocation of trompe l’oeil 

(“deceive the eye”) illusionism. 

This transhistorical, international loan 

exhibition brings together more than 100 

objects, the majority being by the three 

Cubists who addressed the practice of 

trompe l’oeil in the years 1909-1915: 

Georges Braque, Juan Gris, and Pablo 

Picasso. Their paintings and collages 

(and, in the case of Picasso, sculptures) 

are paired with works by European and 

American artists from the 17th through 

the 19th century—from Samuel van 

Hoogstraten and Cornelius Norbertus 

Gijsbrechts, to Louis Léopold Boilly and 

William Harnett. 

Though these trompe l’oeil painters 

were often disparaged for merely copying 

nature, they filled their pictures with 

ingenious tricks and allusions, elevating 

the seemingly humble genre of still life. 

As the exhibit reveals, the Cubists both 

parodied and paid homage to classic 

trompe l’oeil devices, while inventing 

new ways of confounding the eye and the 

mind. Despite vast differences in overall 

appearance, both art forms interrogated 

the nature of representation, raising philosophical 

questions about the real and 

the fake, and the ephemeral and the enduring, 

that resonate powerfully today. 

Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition 

unfolds across ten thematic rooms, 

charting the dialogue between Cubism 

and the past and the three-way competition 

between Braque, Gris, and Picasso. 

The exhibition includes an ensemble of 

collages and papiers collés (paper collage) 

by Braque, Gris, and Picasso, most 

of them rarely seen. Picasso’s Still Life 

with Chair Caning (1912)—the first Cubist 

collage—is displayed in the United 

States for the first time in 30 years. 

Information: www.metmuseum.org/. 

• Edward Hopper 

at The Whitney 

Edward Hopper’s New York runs 

through Mar 5, 2023 at The Whitney. 

The city of New York was 

Edward Hopper’s home for nearly six decades 

(1908–67), a period that spans his 

entire mature career and coincides with 

a historic time of urban development. 

Edward Hopper’s New York is the 

first exhibition of its kind to focus on 

the artist’s rich and sustained 

relationship with the city that 

served as the subject, setting, 

and inspiration for so many of 

his most celebrated pictures. 

The survey takes a comprehensive 

look at Hopper’s life 

and work through his depictions 

of the city—from his early impressions 

in sketches, prints, 

and illustrations, to his late 

paintings, in which New York 

served as a backdrop for his 

evocative distillations of urban 

experience. 

Drawing from the Whitney’s 

extensive holdings by the artist 

and amplified by key loans, the 

exhibition brings together many 

of Hopper’s iconic city pictures 

such as Automat (1927), Early 

Sunday Morning (1930), Room 

in New York (1932), New York 

Movie (1939), and Morning 

Sun (1952), as well as several 

lesser-known yet critically important 

examples including the 

artist’s watercolors of downtown New 

York and his painting November, Washington 

Square (1932/1958). 

The presentation also includes a variety 

of materials from the Museum’s 

recently acquired Sanborn Hopper 

Archive—printed ephemera, correspondence, 

photographs, and journals 

that together offer new insights into 

Hopper’s life. whitney.org/exhibitions/edward-hopper-new-york. 

• Looking Ahead… 

MoMA has Ed 

Ruscha/Now Then 

The Museum of Modern Art has 

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, the 

most comprehensive presentation 

of the artist’s work, and his first 

solo exhibition at the Museum, September 

23, 2023 through January 6, 2024. 

This is great timing for a fall 2023 visit in 

New York so you can plan ahead. 

Spanning 65 years of Ed Ruscha’s 

career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary 

approach, the exhibition 

features over 250 works, produced 

from 1958 to the present, in various 

mediums—including painting, drawing, 

prints, film, photography, artist’s books, 

and installation—displayed according to 

a loose chronology. 

Alongside the artist’s most acclaimed 

works, the exhibition highlights lesser-known 

aspects of his practice, offering 

new perspectives on one of the most 

influential figures in postwar American 

art and stressing Ruscha’s role as a keen 

observer of a rapidly changing world. 

Raised in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha 

(American, born 1937) moved 

to Los Angeles in 1956 to 

study commercial art at the 

Chouinard Art Institute (now 

CalArts). Beginning with these 

formative years, the exhibition 

includes rarely seen paintings 

and works on paper made 

during, or in reference to, his 

extensive travels throughout 

the United States and Europe, 

revealing the artist’s keen 

attention to everyday sights— 

including vernacular architecture, 

consumer items, and 

public signage. 

The exhibition also reunites 

a number of breakthrough 

paintings, which Ruscha made 

shortly after graduating from 

Chouinard, in order to demonstrate 

his foundational and enduring 

interest in language for its plastic and 

sonic qualities. For instance, OOF (1962, 

reworked 1963), a painting in MoMA’s 

collection, depicts a one-syllable word 

with a bold shape and guttural sound 

that not only recalls the dynamic exclamations 

found in comic strips, but also 

highlights Ruscha’s acute understanding 

of design and typography. https://www. 

moma.org/artists/5086. 

Cross-media installations throughout 

the retrospective offer insight into Ruscha’s 

working methods. Viewers have 

the opportunity to trace the migration 

of subjects across mediums—following, 

for example, an image of a Standard 

gasoline station from its small blackand-white 

reproduction in his self-published 

artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline 

Stations (1963) to the 

monumental, brightly 

rendered oil paintings 

made shortly 

after, which remain 

as some of Ruscha’s 

most recognizable 

works. 

These displays 

will also highlight 

the artist’s continual 

experimentation with 

unconventional materials 

and techniques, 

including drawings 

made with gunpowder, 

airbrushed paintings 

of enigmatic 

silhouettes, and vintage 

drum skins emblazoned 

with double 

negatives. https:// 

www.moma.org/. 


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1 cup barley flour* 

1 cup brown rice flour* 

1 tablespoon baking powder 

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1/4 teaspoon salt 

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 

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1 tablespoon flax meal* 

1 tablespoon arrowroot 

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1 banana 

1/2 cup sweet potato puree*** 

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1/2 cup maple syrup 

2 tablespoon molasses 

3 tablespoons brown sugar 

1 cup candied ginger, chopped 

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Melt coconut oil in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté until 

softened, about 4-5 minutes. Add in garlic, ginger, turmeric powder, curry, and harissa/ 

curry paste, then cook for 1 minute, until fragrant. 

Add in the cauliflower and broth, and bring to a simmer. 

*Found at health food stores or the health 

section of some grocery stores. 

**Premade pumpkin pie mix is sold in stores 

***Use up leftover cooked sweet potatoes 

or pumpkins. If starting from scratch, 

try this sweet potato puree or pumpkin 

puree method. 

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This soup is made creamy thanks to coconut milk and cauliflower and it takes just 

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Sea salt and pepper, to taste 

2 Tbsp. fresh chopped cilantro 

1 red chili, sliced to garnish 

Cover with a lid and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 15-20 minutes, or until 

cauliflower is tender. 

Stir in coconut milk, then remove from heat. Using a hand blender, process until it 

reaches a thick creamy consistency. Season with salt and pepper to your taste. 

Ladle soup into bowls, sprinkle chili, fresh chopped cilantro and garnish with lime slices. 

Best served hot. 

Ambitious, but worth the effort. 

FOR THE PASTRY: 

One and a third 

cups pastry flour 

1/2 tsp fine sea 

salt 

5.6 ounces vegan 

butter 

1/3 cup plus 1 

tbsp cold water 

PASTRY 

INSTRUCTIONS: 

Place flour in a 

medium bowl and 

add salt and mix 

well to combine. 

Break the butter 

into chunks and 

add to the flour 

and rub it into the 

flour. Don’t rub the 

butter in too much. 

You want to see 

chunks of butter 

as this is will make 

your pastry flaky. 

Add the water little 

by little and mix 

until you have a dough. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. 

Form the dough into a rectangle and roll it out until it is 3 times its original length. 

Fold the top third of the dough onto the middle of the dough and the bottom third 

on top of that. 

Give the dough a quarter turn and roll it out again until it is 3 times its original length. 

Again fold the top third to the middle and the bottom third on top of that. Wrap in plastic 

wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Repeat another 2 times and pastry is ready to use. 

INGREDIENTS: 

4 large portobello mushrooms stalks 

trimmed and cleaned 

3 large onions peeled and chopped 

3 tbs olive oil 

10.5 ounces baby spinach 

4 sprigs of thyme leaves picked 

1 vegan puff pastry 

INSTRUCTIONS 

1 tbs dijon mustard 

salt and pepper to taste 

VEGAN EGG WASH: 

1 tbs chickpea water 

1 tbs almond or cashew milk 

1 tsp neutral flavored oil 

1/2 tsp maple syrup or brown rice syrup 

Place a large frying pan over a low to medium-low heat. Add the 1 /2 tbs of olive oil 

followed by onion and reduce heat to low. Season with salt and pepper and cook, 

stirring occasionally 15-20 minutes, until the onions are golden brown. 

Remove onions from the pan and return the pan to the heat. Add baby spinach and 

cook until wilted. Remove baby spinach from the pan and leave to cool. 

Increase heat to medium/high and return pan to the heat. Add remaining olive oil and 

place mushrooms, top side down. Cook until lightly golden (about 5 minutes) before 

turning over and cooking for 5 minutes more or until golden. 

Remove from heat, and drain on paper towel top side up as they will release a lot of 

liquid as they cool. Transfer onions, spinach and mushrooms to the refrigerator and 

cool completely. 

Preheat oven to 390. Place a sheet of baking paper on the baking tray and then place 

puff pastry sheet on top. Spread half the caramelized onions over the middle third of 

the pastry, making sure to leave an extra ¾ inch, border at the edge of the pastry. Top 

with half of the baby spinach. Spread Dijon mustard over the mushrooms and season 

well with salt and pepper. Place mushrooms on top of the spinach. Top mushrooms 

with thyme and the remaining baby spinach and onions. 

Carefully roll pastry over the top of mushroom mixture until you have a log. Press down 

to seal the edges. Roll over the log so that the seam is facing the bottom. 

To make the vegan egg wash whisk all of ingredients together in a bowl. Lightly coat 

with the vegan egg wash. Place the pastry in the freezer for 10 minutes before repeating 

with another layer of vegan egg wash and freezing the pastry for a further 10 minutes. 

Place pastry back on the baking sheet and tray and place in the oven for 30 to 35 

minutes, or until golden and flakey. 


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