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Happy New Year! And welcome 2023! Our January offers some help with a few great resolutions. Features include Lifelong Learning, getting outdoors, getting better sleep and eating healthier - all done in a fun, enjoyable way, Our WCW this month is Stacey Corley, President of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation. Also in this issue: More Good News, Calendars, You're News, Travel News, Women in Power, Sarasota Concert Association and ACE. Enjoy!
Happy New Year! And welcome 2023! Our January offers some help with a few great resolutions. Features include Lifelong Learning, getting outdoors, getting better sleep and eating healthier - all done in a fun, enjoyable way, Our WCW this month is Stacey Corley, President of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation. Also in this issue: More Good News, Calendars, You're News, Travel News, Women in Power, Sarasota Concert Association and ACE. Enjoy!
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<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Stacey<br />
CORLEY<br />
PRESIDENT,<br />
Sarasota Memorial<br />
Healthcare Foundation<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
■ Lifelong Learning Issue<br />
■ Health: Benefits of Napping<br />
■ Dining In:<br />
Immune System Recipes<br />
■ Travel: Trends and Offers<br />
■ Feature: Kayaking The Bay
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<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
contents<br />
Editor and Publisher<br />
Louise M. Bruderle<br />
Email: westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
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Contributing Photographer<br />
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Assistant to the Publisher<br />
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YEARS<br />
Happy New Year!<br />
Learn to kayak<br />
It’s hard to imagine pulling off US 41 in downtown<br />
Sarasota then finding yourself in a kayak amidst<br />
mangroves, gliding out to Sarasota Bay. It really<br />
does happen when you embark from The Bay’s<br />
kayak launch near the Sarasota Orchestra’s offices.<br />
p13<br />
Learn something new - explore our<br />
Lifelong Learning issue<br />
We have our Lifelong Learning issue this month<br />
and it’s once again chockablock full of great<br />
offerings from stimulating lectures to art classes<br />
to mastering the iPhone. Check it out on<br />
p18<br />
Resolve to get more sleep<br />
And you thought naps were for babies or your<br />
grandparents…actually they can be restorative<br />
provided you know how to do it. It’s about dozing off,<br />
right? Not quite, as you’ll read in this month’s feature.<br />
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west coast<br />
WOMAN<br />
Eat healthier<br />
It’s a NewYear and a great time to reboot<br />
your health. Here are immune-boosting<br />
recipes to get you off to a good start.<br />
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departments<br />
4 editor’s letter<br />
7 Out & About: listings for things to do<br />
live and/or online<br />
9 healthier you: a New Year’s resolution<br />
to quit tobacco<br />
11 focus on the arts: Sarasota Concert<br />
Association<br />
13 feature: Kayaking the Mangrove Bayou<br />
at The Bay<br />
14 good news dept.<br />
16 west coast woman: Stacey Corley<br />
18 lifelong learning issue<br />
21 lifelong learning issue: ACE in Sarasota<br />
23 travel news<br />
24 healthier you: Get more and better<br />
sleep in <strong>2023</strong><br />
26 happening this month: Women in<br />
Power luncheon<br />
28 you’re news<br />
30 dining in: immune-boosting recipes<br />
31 What is Craniosacral Therapy?<br />
■ on the cover: West Coast Woman Stacey Corley.<br />
■ Image: Evelyn England. Photographed at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.<br />
<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 3
just some<br />
thoughts<br />
Louise Bruderle<br />
Editor and Publisher<br />
West Coast Woman Stacey Corley<br />
Stacey Corley<br />
Photo by Evelyn England<br />
SMH marked its 97th anniversary on Nov. 2,<br />
2022. Which means its lofty centenary is in<br />
2025. If you’ve lived here awhile, most likely<br />
you’ve been there in one way or another. I was<br />
there to visit friends in the hospital and had<br />
one stint in the ER for a broken arm.<br />
Thinking back on that ER visit, they have<br />
changed, expanded and modernized that<br />
space so much I doubt if I could retrace my<br />
footsteps there. As media, I’ve been to SMH<br />
for many ribbon-cuttings, openings, tours<br />
and demonstrations during the past three<br />
decades. I even remember getting a chance<br />
to watch (from behind a glass wall) the thennew<br />
angioplasty procedure.<br />
We indeed have a generous community that seems determined to<br />
make sure that SMH has all the best services and treatments and retains<br />
and recruits talented physicians and staff. But there’s an entity that<br />
makes sure of that and it’s the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation.<br />
They have a new CEO and her name is Stacey Corley, a name familiar<br />
to many in the thriving philanthropy community here. Since 1976,<br />
their grants ($18 million in their last fiscal year alone), funded by many<br />
donors, have assisted SMH in “raising the bar for healthcare in our community,”<br />
according to their website. The Foundation focuses on patient<br />
care, technology, facilities, clinical education, and medical research,<br />
what they call their “pillars.”<br />
Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation raised more than $1 million<br />
in pledges and gifts in its first year. This past year they raised $46<br />
million. Read what Stacey will be doing to keep that great tradition of<br />
philanthropy continuing in the years ahead in this issue.<br />
water. The Bay project has transformed the area and completed Phase 1 of<br />
their major project to transform the bayfront - a tremendous asset we have<br />
as citizens, not as condo or mansion owners. Up to now, we’ve only experienced<br />
it as a parking lot around the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium, the<br />
Van Wezel, the Sarasota Orchestra and Art Center Sarasota. This parcel of<br />
53-acres of city-owned land along Sarasota Bay will be developed in stages<br />
and even more outdoor activities will be added in the future.<br />
Already you can walk, take in a yoga class, but did you know you can<br />
kayak there, too? I was delightfully surprised and enjoyed the early<br />
Saturday morning experience that had me paddling through tranquil<br />
waters past dense mangroves before entering on to Sarasota Bay. I highly<br />
recommend this experience and an antidote to stress plus a way to see<br />
your hometown from the water.<br />
Resolve to get more sleep<br />
And you thought naps were for babies or your grandparents…actually<br />
they can be restorative provided you know how to do it. It’s about dozing<br />
off, right? Not quite, as you’ll read in this month’s feature. For example, it<br />
should only be 20-30 minutes. Longer can be counter productive. Instead<br />
of thinking of it as a sign of getting older, think of it as a restorative practice.<br />
That sure sounds better. Pleasant napping!<br />
Coming up: <strong>2023</strong> Annual Climate<br />
Conference Feb. 9<br />
Tickets for the Climate Adaptation Center’s <strong>2023</strong> Annual Climate Conference<br />
on the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus<br />
are on sale.<br />
Resolve to Learn something new<br />
We have our Lifelong Learning issue this month and it’s once again<br />
chockablock full of great offerings from stimulating lectures to art classes<br />
to mastering the iPhone.<br />
I’ll be lecturing at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel, located<br />
at 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key (tbi-lbk.org/education-center). Get<br />
me talking about art and art museums and I get all excited and I’m so<br />
glad I’ll get to share that with like-minded people.<br />
Join me on Tuesday, March 14,<br />
for “Best Art Exhibits Nationally,<br />
Statewide and Locally” (#LS10)<br />
Zoom is also available (#ZALS10).<br />
Description: Love to visit art museums?<br />
Want to know which exhibits<br />
are coming up that are “can’t miss?”<br />
This visual presentation offers a<br />
quick overview of upcoming exhibits<br />
across the U.S., and also in places<br />
like Miami and Orlando. Closer<br />
to home, we’ll look at exhibits in<br />
Naples, Tampa, Ft. Myers, and Sarasota.<br />
It’s a fun class where I have saved you the time of scouring museum<br />
sites all over the country to cherry pick the best and most unique. So, if<br />
you love going to museums you’ll enjoy this class.<br />
One of the pleasures of having done this before is that so many of the<br />
attendees have traveled to these exhibits already plus can recommend<br />
other exhibits. Questions? Email me at westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
or contact the Education Center At Temple Beth Israel at 941-383-8222.<br />
Resolve to Get out on the water<br />
It’s hard to imagine pulling off US 41 in downtown Sarasota - perhaps after<br />
challenging (heavy) traffic spent<br />
sharing the road with tourists -<br />
then finding yourself in a kayak<br />
amidst mangroves, gliding out<br />
to Sarasota Bay. Not a fantasy - it<br />
really does happen when you embark<br />
from The Bay’s kayak launch<br />
that sits hidden from view near the<br />
Sarasota Orchestra’s offices.<br />
What that area was before was<br />
a space with no visual appeal and<br />
more than a little contaminated<br />
The conference, which takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Thursday,<br />
Feb. 9 in the Selby Auditorium, will focus on topics especially relevant<br />
to living in Florida: The threats posed by rising global temperatures, rising<br />
seas and extreme weather events; and how climate action can stimulate<br />
the climate economy.<br />
The conference will feature presentations and discussion by Climate<br />
Adaptation Center (CAC) scientists, academic experts, business leaders<br />
and government officials.<br />
“Conference attendees will learn about the threat we face and the pathways<br />
to action in an engaging inclusive day designed to move our area<br />
forward with adaptation and mitigation strategies to protect the Florida<br />
way of life,” said Bob Bunting, CEO of the CAC.<br />
The morning session is “The Triple Threat of Water in a Warming Climate.”<br />
The three threats are directly related to rising global temperatures<br />
and rising sea levels; bigger storm surges on top of rising sea levels; and a<br />
rising number of extreme precipitation and flooding events.<br />
The afternoon session is “The Emergence of the Climate Economy.”<br />
It will feature speakers and panelists who will provide an understanding<br />
of how climate action can drive sound economic and growth objectives<br />
for the Suncoast. Discussion will include how academia can stimulate<br />
the climate economy through entrepreneurship and innovation; how<br />
governments can stimulate the climate economy; how the private sector<br />
can stimulate the climate economy; and the role philanthropy plays in<br />
stimulating the climate economy.<br />
The Climate Adaptation Center, Inc. (CAC), founded in 2019, is an independent,<br />
non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Sarasota. Its<br />
mission is to bridge the gap between the latest scientific research and the<br />
public’s understanding of the changing climate and how it impacts where<br />
the public lives.<br />
To purchase tickets and for other information, visit www.theclimateadaptationcenter.org.<br />
Louise Bruderle | Editor and Publisher |<br />
westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
We welcome your thoughts and comments on this column and on other columns and features in this issue.<br />
You can reach us at westcoastwoman@comcast.net. We’re on the web at www.WestCoastWoman.com.<br />
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Special Events<br />
This year’s Sunshine From Darkness<br />
Inspiring Hope Dinner, themed<br />
“Shining a Light on Mental Illness,”<br />
will be held on January 13 at the<br />
Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.<br />
Grammy and Tony Award-winning<br />
actress – and the original star of<br />
“Dreamgirls” – Jennifer Holliday will<br />
be the keynote speaker and will perform<br />
at the event. The gala will also<br />
feature dancing to the music of Quintessence,<br />
and a performance by the<br />
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Young<br />
Artists Ensemble. During the festivities,<br />
the Lee and Bob Peterson Legacy<br />
Award will be presented to Joan and<br />
Bob Geyer of the Academy at Glengary.<br />
Proceeds will benefit Harvest House<br />
and Teen Court of Sarasota, and the<br />
mental health research funded by the<br />
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Venice Symphony<br />
Night at the Museum is on January<br />
6-7. The Venice Symphony will<br />
transport you to your favorite museum<br />
with music from Indiana Jones and the<br />
Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mummy,<br />
Night at the Museum and The Da Vinci<br />
Code. Concertmaster Marcus Ratzenboeck<br />
dazzles with his violin solo on<br />
Camille Saint Saens’ Danse Macabre.<br />
Then music and art meet in fashion in<br />
Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an<br />
Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice<br />
Ravel and performed by The Venice<br />
Symphony at full strength.<br />
Next up is Cinematic Romance<br />
on February 3 and 4. Fall in love all<br />
over again with music from Casablanca,<br />
Romeo and Juliet and Gone With<br />
the Wind. Superstar violinist Sandy<br />
Cameron will perform Danny Elfman’s<br />
Edward Scissorhands Suite,<br />
The Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso<br />
and the Tango from Scent of a<br />
Woman. Finally, you will be treated<br />
to the Symphony’s premiere of Leonard<br />
Bernstein’s sweeping Symphonic<br />
Dances from the enduring classic<br />
West Side Story.<br />
www.thevenicesymphony.org<br />
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Sarasota Ballet<br />
Program 4 rings in the new year<br />
with The Sarasota Ballet back at the<br />
FSU Center for a mix of the historic<br />
and the novel. Running January<br />
27-30, the program begins with a<br />
world premiere by choreographer and<br />
dancer Arcadian Broad.<br />
Broad has gained national recognition<br />
not only as a performer, but also as<br />
a choreographer and composer—creating<br />
ballets for Orlando Ballet, Cincinnati<br />
Ballet, and DanceWorks Chicago.<br />
Next, American director and choreographer<br />
Jessica Lang, having garnered<br />
acclaim through her more than two<br />
decades’ work with American Ballet<br />
Theatre, stages her latest ballet for its<br />
inaugural Sarasota performance.<br />
Choreography is by the dancers<br />
of The Sarasota Ballet with sets and<br />
projections by Roxane Revon and<br />
costumes by designer Jillian Lewis.<br />
This world premiere marks the first<br />
collaboration between Lang and The<br />
Sarasota Ballet.<br />
The program closes with a Sir Frederick<br />
Ashton classic, Façade. Combining<br />
Ashton’s tongue-in-cheek choreography<br />
with Sir William Walton’s<br />
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knowing take on the popular songs<br />
and dances of the 1920’s, Façade is a<br />
rich and delightful affair.<br />
Tickets: www.SarasotaBallet.org or<br />
call 941-359-0099.<br />
Artist Series<br />
Concerts of<br />
Sarasota<br />
Next up is in their Lunch & Listen<br />
Series at the Sarasota Yacht Club<br />
that spotlights gifted young artists in<br />
concert at 11 a.m. followed by lunch<br />
at 12:15 p.m. Young Concert Artists’<br />
classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang,<br />
praised for her captivating stage presence,<br />
plays February 9. Wang is the<br />
only accordionist to ever win a place<br />
on the roster of Young Concert Artists<br />
in its 61-year history. She has debuted<br />
at both Carnegie Hall and Kennedy<br />
Center and was named Musical America’s<br />
New Artist of the Month in 2018.<br />
Their Lighter Fare Series offers<br />
classic jazz and musical theater favorites<br />
outdoors at Marie Selby Botanical<br />
Gardens downtown campus and<br />
indoors at Plantation Golf & Country<br />
Club in Venice. Metropolitan Opera<br />
soprano Danielle Talamantes and her<br />
husband Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone,<br />
perform classics from the Great<br />
American Songbook and musical theater<br />
on January 18.<br />
Their Tuesdays at the Historic Asolo<br />
Theater series has Grammy-nominated<br />
Dover Quartet – one of the most<br />
in-demand chamber ensembles in the<br />
world. The Dover Quartet with Joel<br />
Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Milena<br />
Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden<br />
Shaw, cello, perform on January 10 at<br />
the Historic Asolo Theater. Their performance<br />
includes works by Beethoven<br />
and Mendelssohn.<br />
Danielle Talamantes, soprano, and<br />
Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone with<br />
Joseph Holt, piano, perform on January<br />
18, followed by dinner at Plantation<br />
Golf and Country Club in Venice.<br />
Steven Moeckel, violin, and Joanna<br />
Goldstein, piano perform on January<br />
29 and 30 at the Fischer/Weisenborne<br />
Residence. Celebrated violinist Steven<br />
Moeckel is concertmaster of the Santa<br />
Fe Opera. Moeckel first appeared as<br />
a concerto soloist at the age of eight.<br />
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At The Hermitage: “Violin and Voice” features Hermitage Fellows Lady Jess (shown) and Terry Guest who will perform on<br />
January 12 on the Hermitage Beach. Violinist, arts leader, and advocate Lady Jess combines talents with award-winning<br />
playwright Terry Guest.<br />
Since then, he has continued to perform<br />
throughout the United States,<br />
Europe, and Asia as a concerto soloist,<br />
concertmaster, and recitalist. This<br />
program features the works of women<br />
composers. Refreshments served following<br />
each performance.<br />
For information, visit ArtistSeries<br />
Concerts.org or call 941-306-1202.<br />
Choral Artists<br />
The Choral Artists of Sarasota<br />
has The Children’s March: A moving<br />
and dramatic oratorio by Philadelphia<br />
composer Andrew Bleckner,<br />
which takes you on a journey to an<br />
historical event during the Civil<br />
Rights Era of the 1960s. Incorporating<br />
traditional African-American<br />
styles and spirituals, the work shows<br />
the incivility of segregation through<br />
the innocence and optimistic spirit<br />
of children. Guest artist: J. Warren<br />
Mitchell, tenor and Choral Artists<br />
soloists Maiya Stevenson, soprano;<br />
Amy Jo Connours, alto; Krista Laskowski,<br />
mezzo-soprano; Baron Garriott,<br />
tenor; John Whittlesey, baritone<br />
and Jesse Martin, baritone. Narrated<br />
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault.<br />
Held on March 5, 7 p.m., at<br />
Church of the Palms, 3224 Bee Ridge<br />
Road, Sarasota. For tickets, visit<br />
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The Sarasota<br />
Orchestra<br />
Masterworks:<br />
• January 5, 6, 7, 8: Mahler: View of<br />
Heaven – Peter Oundjian, conductor.<br />
James Ehnes, violin with Laquita<br />
Mitchell, soprano performing Sibelius<br />
– Violin Concerto; Mahler – Symphony<br />
No. 4.<br />
• A Romantic Affair – February 2, 3,<br />
4, 5 with Peter Oundjian, conductor.<br />
Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano performing<br />
Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 4;<br />
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No.<br />
2 and Brahms – Symphony No. 1<br />
• The Pops series: Pops performances<br />
will take place at the Van Wezel. Next<br />
up is the Music of Billy Joel and Elton<br />
John – January 20 and 21 with Stuart<br />
Chafetz, conductor and Michael<br />
Cavanaugh, vocals/piano.<br />
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• Great Escapes: The Great Escapes<br />
series is one of Sarasota Orchestra’s<br />
most popular, offering a mix of light<br />
classics and popular favorites in<br />
themed programs. In this series, conductors<br />
share stories and commentary<br />
throughout each performance.<br />
Great Escapes performances will take<br />
place at Holley Hall.<br />
• A Little Night Music – January<br />
11-15 with Christopher Confessore,<br />
conductor<br />
The Chamber Soirées:<br />
• January 22: Scottish Songs with<br />
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano.<br />
Brahms – Two Songs for Voice, Viola<br />
and Piano. Schubert - Auf Dem<br />
Strom and Beethoven – Selected<br />
Songs from Schottische Lieder.<br />
For information, visit www.Sarasota<br />
Orchestra.org.<br />
Sarasota Orchestra’s Free Parks<br />
Concerts continues. Taking place in a<br />
variety of venues in Sarasota and Manatee<br />
counties, the series showcases<br />
musicians of the Orchestra in a chamber<br />
music setting. While all performances<br />
are family-friendly, the season<br />
includes two playground appearances<br />
geared toward the youngest of listeners<br />
Capacity at the outdoor venues is limited.<br />
Admission is free at all locations,<br />
but it’s recommended you register to<br />
reserve a space. Registration links can<br />
be found at SarasotaOrchestra.org.<br />
• Next up: Waterside Place Pavilion –<br />
Pop-Up Performance with Sarasota<br />
Brass Quintet on January 22 at 10<br />
a.m. and 11:15 a.m.<br />
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At The Hermitage<br />
On January 6, “Distinction and<br />
Unity” featuring Hermitage Fellows<br />
DaMaris B. Hill, Molly Joyce, and<br />
Kenneth Tam. Held on the Hermitage<br />
Beach. Join three Hermitage Fellows<br />
spanning literature, music, and visual<br />
art, each working through different<br />
styles and life experiences.<br />
• “Violin and Voice” featuring Hermitage<br />
Fellows Lady Jess and Terry Guest<br />
perform on January 12 on the Hermitage<br />
Beach. Violinist, arts leader,<br />
and advocate Lady Jess combines talents<br />
with award-winning playwright<br />
Terry Guest. This duo will share<br />
words and music inspired by their experiences<br />
living and making work in<br />
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the U.S. and around the world.<br />
• “Man V. Nature: The Art of the Story<br />
Collection” featuring Hermitage<br />
Fellow Diane Cook is on January 20<br />
at Bookstore1 (Downtown Sarasota).<br />
Award-winning author Diane<br />
Cook’s debut work Man V. Nature<br />
is a collection of stories “told with<br />
perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality”<br />
(goodreads). Hear the creator<br />
of this work read selections from the<br />
text and discuss the intricacies of<br />
weaving a story collection around a<br />
theme. The bookstore is at 117 S Pineapple<br />
Ave, Sarasota.<br />
• Hermitage’s “Artists and Thinkers”<br />
online series begins with “Kareem<br />
Fahmy’s Distinct Society” on<br />
January 23. Fahmy’s play tells the<br />
story of a sleepy library that straddles<br />
the U.S.-Canada border as it<br />
becomes an unlikely crucible for five<br />
people all grappling with the “Muslim<br />
ban” in various ways. Dive into<br />
the literary, historical, and cultural<br />
considerations that influenced the<br />
writer as well as the characters and<br />
what examining their actions reveals<br />
about us.<br />
• The “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby<br />
Gardens” series continues on January<br />
26 with 2022 Hermitage Major<br />
Theater Award Winner Shariffa Ali.<br />
This theatermaker from South Africa<br />
is joined by singer, collaborator, and<br />
Ali’s friend Vuyo Sotashe to share<br />
insights into the plan for her new<br />
commission. The work is centered<br />
on small-town South Africa where a<br />
middle school choir, their principal,<br />
and their parents conspire to disguise<br />
the town’s most beloved singer<br />
as a girl in order to have him sing as<br />
a female soloist in a national competition.<br />
Learn about the origin for this<br />
commission in its early stages, hear<br />
text and songs that could influence<br />
the story, and get to know the theater-makers<br />
creating the work.<br />
Hermitage Artist Retreat, 6630<br />
Manasota Key Road, Englewood. Register<br />
at: HermitageArtistRetreat.org .<br />
Sarasota Opera<br />
The <strong>2023</strong> Winter Opera Festival<br />
will open on February 18 with Giacomo<br />
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. A<br />
young geisha known affectionately<br />
as Madama Butterfly is swept off her<br />
feet by an American Naval officer. Left<br />
with a promise that he would return<br />
one day, Butterfly waits faithfully for<br />
three years, but is met with heartbreak<br />
in one of opera’s most enduring tragedies.<br />
Ten performances: February<br />
18, 21, 23, 26(m), and March 1, 4(m),<br />
10, 15, 21(m), and 24. Madama Butterfly<br />
was last seen in 2017.<br />
For information & tickets, visit SarasotaOpera.org,<br />
call (941) 328-1300.<br />
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Art Galleries<br />
Art Uptown Gallery has Liz Trostli’s<br />
artwork through January 31.<br />
In “Femmes Fatales‚” digital artist<br />
Elisabeth Trostli aims to show how<br />
female artistic subjects can be sensual<br />
and strong at the same time.<br />
This is Trostli’s first solo exhibit at the<br />
gallery, where she has been showing<br />
pieces for three years.<br />
Art Uptown Gallery: 1367 Main Street<br />
gallery. Info: www.artuptown.com.<br />
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Ringling College Galleries<br />
presents Lost Summer; a collection<br />
of landscape paintings created<br />
by Ringling College Alumna, Lee<br />
Mayer (Commercial Art 72’). In this<br />
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out and about continued<br />
collection of small and mid-scale<br />
paintings, Mayer explores the light,<br />
nature, harmony, and color of the<br />
natural beauty of Canadian summers.<br />
Runs to March 17, <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
Ringling College of Art + Design,<br />
Patricia Thompson Gallery is located<br />
on the first floor of the Keating Center,<br />
2700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.<br />
Art Center Sarasota has three solo<br />
exhibitions:<br />
• “Alexandra Hammond” revolves<br />
around the artist’s “Quantum Blue”<br />
series of acrylic paintings. According<br />
to the artist, they invite the viewer to<br />
enter “a zone of pure possibility—a<br />
field of active emptiness from which<br />
all forms arise out of formlessness.”<br />
Runs through January 21.<br />
• They also have “Jason Hackenwerth”<br />
which reveals the painter’s<br />
latest body of work — abstract paintings,<br />
bursting with dynamic scenarios.<br />
According to the artist, they’re his<br />
way of working through his emotions<br />
under the constant bombardment of<br />
media and life drama.<br />
• There’s also a juried show: “Black<br />
& White” which showcases monochromatic<br />
works created in a range<br />
of artistic mediums. Elana Rubinfeld,<br />
the founder of the New Art Agency<br />
and former director at Yossi Milo Gallery<br />
in NYC, will jury this exhibition.<br />
Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota. www.artsarasota.org.<br />
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Sarasota Orchestra’s Harmony<br />
Gallery has Claire Desjardins. Her<br />
exhibition, Living in Color, runs<br />
through January 23. Desjardins is<br />
an award-winning abstract painter<br />
based in Quebec and Sarasota. She<br />
exhibits her paintings in galleries<br />
across North America and her work<br />
can be found in both private and corporate<br />
collections worldwide. Desjardins’<br />
paintings, though abstract, take<br />
their visual cues from forms, colors,<br />
textures and patterns in nature.<br />
The Harmony Gallery is at Beatrice<br />
Friedman Symphony Center at 709<br />
North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Exhibitions<br />
are free and open to the public.<br />
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Island Gallery West has a member<br />
artists exhibit through January 31.<br />
The gallery has been invited to exhibit<br />
at the Lakewood Ranch ComCenter<br />
Professional Building, 9040 Town<br />
Center Pkwy. Fourteen artists are<br />
showing a variety of works in the<br />
lobby on the first floor of the ComCenter,<br />
which houses lawyers, realtors<br />
and other local businesses.<br />
A selection of twenty of members’<br />
paintings also are on display through<br />
January at the Key Royale Club on<br />
Anna Maria Island at 700 Key Royale<br />
Drive, Holmes Beach.<br />
Visit islandgallerywest.artspan.<br />
com or call 941-778-6648. Island Gallery<br />
West is located at 5368 Gulf Drive,<br />
Holmes Beach.<br />
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Sarasota Concert<br />
Association<br />
The <strong>2023</strong> Great Performers Series<br />
opens with the renowned Emerson<br />
String Quartet January 30 at Riverview<br />
Performing Arts Center, performing<br />
in Sarasota as part of their<br />
farewell concert tour and presenting<br />
musical highlights of their 47-year history.<br />
They will perform Beethoven’s<br />
Quartet, Op. 59 No. 2, as well as other<br />
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works by Haydn and Mendelssohn.<br />
Pianist Awadagin Pratt brings his<br />
artistry to the Riverview Performing<br />
Arts Center on February 15 with a<br />
varied program of works, from Philip<br />
Glass to Rachmaninoff and Liszt. Acclaimed<br />
for his musical insight and<br />
intensely involved performances,<br />
Awadagin Pratt performs a varied<br />
program of works, from Philip Glass to<br />
Rachmaninoff and Liszt.<br />
In his final season as Music Director,<br />
Riccardo Muti brings the internationally-acclaimed<br />
Chicago Symphony<br />
Orchestra to Sarasota for one night<br />
only March 1 at Van Wezel. The program<br />
includes Beethoven’s Symphony<br />
No. 8 and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an<br />
Exhibition.<br />
The Sarasota Concert Association<br />
will also present the National Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra of Ukraine in<br />
a performance on January 18 at the<br />
Venice Performing Arts Center led by<br />
conductor Theodore Kuchar in a program<br />
which includes Brahms’ Violin<br />
Concerto featuring violinist Vladyslava<br />
Luchenko, and Dvořák’s Symphony<br />
No. 9, From the New World.<br />
To purchase tickets, visit www.<br />
SCAsarasota.org.<br />
Perlman Music<br />
The PMP Winter Residency runs<br />
through January 7 and offers unparalleled<br />
musical training for gifted students<br />
ages 12-18 who play the violin,<br />
viola, cello and bass. PMP’s worldclass<br />
faculty, led by Itzhak Perlman,<br />
oversees a curriculum of solo, chamber<br />
music, and orchestral repertoire at<br />
the highest level. The public is invited<br />
to watch these orchestra and chorus<br />
rehearsals and works-in-progress<br />
recitals in a performance tent on the<br />
USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.<br />
• Tent Rehearsals, Works in Progress,<br />
and Recitals: through January<br />
7 on the USF Sarasota-Manatee<br />
campus. Non-reserved seats are free<br />
to the public; reserved and VIP seats<br />
are also available. The Winter Residency’s<br />
daily schedule is available at<br />
www.PerlmanSuncoast.org.<br />
• Celebration Concert: January 5 at<br />
the Sarasota Opera House. Tickets:<br />
call Sarasota Opera House’s box office<br />
at 941-328-1300 or at www.sarasotaopera.org.<br />
• Celebration Gala is on January 5 in<br />
the tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee<br />
campus. The evening includes<br />
dinner and entertainment with PMP<br />
students, faculty and the Perlmans.<br />
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The Sarasota Concert Association present the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine on Jan. 18 at the Venice<br />
Performing Arts Center led by conductor Theodore Kuchar in a program which includes Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and<br />
Dvořák’s New World Symphony.<br />
Tickets are $250 and are available at<br />
www.PerlmanSuncoast.org.<br />
The Chamber<br />
Orchestra of<br />
Sarasota<br />
The Chamber Orchestra of<br />
Sarasota join forces with the<br />
Venice High School Orchestra,<br />
Christopher Riley, conductor, to<br />
present a free concert titled Making<br />
Music Together on January 13 at the<br />
Venice Performing Arts Center. For<br />
information and to order tickets, visit<br />
chamberorchestrasarasota.org/ or<br />
call 219-928-8665.<br />
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At The Ringling<br />
Running through February 12,<br />
<strong>2023</strong>, is Highlights from the Stanton<br />
B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Collection<br />
of Photography—a selection<br />
of works donated to The Ringling in<br />
2019, includes over 1000 photographic<br />
objects and images, representing<br />
some of the most important photo-based<br />
artists of the nineteenth and<br />
twentieth centuries.<br />
The Kaplan Collection includes<br />
works by Berenice Abbott, Manuel<br />
Álvarez Bravo, Eugène Atget, Ruth<br />
Bernhard, Margaret Bourke-White,<br />
Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lewis<br />
W. Hine, André Kertész, Robert<br />
Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, and<br />
James Van Der Zee to name but a few.<br />
The John and Mable Ringling<br />
Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd.,<br />
Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org.<br />
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Theatre<br />
Sarasota Players has Proof running<br />
January 12-22. Proof tells the<br />
story of Catherine, a troubled young<br />
woman, who has spent years caring<br />
for her brilliant but unstable father,<br />
a famous mathematician. Now, following<br />
his death and on the eve of her<br />
25th birthday, she must deal with her<br />
own volatile emotions; the arrival of<br />
her estranged sister, Claire; and the<br />
attentions of Hal, a former student of<br />
her father’s. Over the long weekend<br />
that follows, a burgeoning romance<br />
and the discovery of a mysterious<br />
notebook draw Catherine into the<br />
most difficult problem of all: How<br />
much of her father’s madness—or<br />
genius—will she inherit?<br />
Held at Studio 1130, The Crossings at<br />
Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.<br />
Visit www.theplayers.org.<br />
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe<br />
has “Flyin’ West” by Pearl Cleage. In<br />
the 1890s, the lives of a small group of<br />
African-American women change after<br />
they leave the oppressive South and<br />
settle in the all-black town of Nicodemus,<br />
Kansas. Their hopes, dreams and<br />
determination to survive in a harsh<br />
region are tested as they build new<br />
lives for themselves and their families.<br />
With flashes of humor amid serious<br />
themes, “Flyin’ West” sheds new<br />
light on a chapter of American history<br />
that’s seldom told, as it explores questions<br />
and conflicts that still resonate<br />
today. Chuck Smith, who serves as<br />
resident director at WBTT and at the<br />
Goodman Theatre in Chicago, will<br />
return to Sarasota to direct this show.<br />
Runs January 4-February 12.<br />
Call the Box Office at 941-366-1505<br />
or visit westcoastblacktheatre.org.<br />
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Asolo Rep has Ken Ludwig’s<br />
The Three Musketeers runs Jan.<br />
11-March 26. Ken Ludwig’s adaptation<br />
of the novel by Alexandre Dumas<br />
tells the tale of a daring young man<br />
who finds himself in the company<br />
of the world’s greatest swordsmen,<br />
as well as some of the world’s most<br />
dangerous men and women. Directed<br />
by Peter Amster, who most recently<br />
directed Asolo Rep’s Murder on the<br />
Orient Express in 2020.<br />
• Silent Sky runs Jan. 19-March 5.<br />
Silent Sky is the true story of Henrietta<br />
Leavitt, one of the pioneering<br />
women astronomers working at Harvard<br />
Observatory in the early 1900s.<br />
This extraordinary woman took<br />
on the astronomy establishment<br />
in order to discover the mysteries<br />
embedded in the sky. Henrietta transcended<br />
the odds while navigating<br />
love, family and the universe, going<br />
on to make a world-altering advancement<br />
to the field of astronomy that<br />
changed our view of the cosmos.<br />
Tickets: asolorep.org.<br />
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Asolo Conservatory has Stick<br />
Fly (Jan. 3-22), a comedy-drama by<br />
playwright Lydia Diamond. Race,<br />
class and cultural expectations come<br />
into play as an affluent Black American<br />
family reunites at their Martha’s<br />
Vineyard home. FSU/Asolo Conservatory<br />
graduate Marcus Denard Johnson<br />
returns to direct.<br />
This winner of the Black Theatre<br />
Alliance Award for Best Play chronicles<br />
a weekend in the life of an affluent<br />
African American family. Tensions<br />
ride high as the Levay brothers<br />
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bring their respective fiancées home<br />
to meet the parents. Family secrets,<br />
childhood demons and romantic<br />
entanglements are revealed, leading<br />
to collisions over race, class and privilege.<br />
Gender roles and generational<br />
dynamics further ignite this explosive<br />
tragic comedy.<br />
Tickets: asolorep.org.<br />
FST’s Mainstage Series has What<br />
the Constitution Means to Me by<br />
Heidi Schreck runs through February<br />
26 in FST’s Keating Theatre.<br />
• The FST cabaret series has The ‘70s:<br />
More Than a Decade by Rebecca<br />
Hopkins, Richard Hopkins and<br />
Sarah Durham. Musical arrangements<br />
by Jim Prosser. Runs through<br />
February 12 in FST’s Court Cabaret<br />
An original Florida Studio Theatre<br />
musical revue<br />
• A Place in the Sun: A Tribute to Stevie<br />
Wonder by Jason Cannon, Richard<br />
Hopkins, and Sarah Durham.<br />
Runs through March 26 in FST’s<br />
Goldstein Cabaret<br />
• NetworkAdapted for the stage by<br />
Lee Hall Based on the film by Paddy<br />
Chayefsky runs January 25 - March<br />
19, <strong>2023</strong> in FST’s Gompertz Theatre<br />
Visit www.floridastudiotheatre.org/<br />
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ensembleNewSRQ<br />
Crumb: January 16, 7:30 p.m.<br />
“Black Angels,” the epic lament for<br />
the troubled years of the Vietnam era<br />
climaxes a tribute to George Crumb<br />
(1929-2022), the Pulitzer Prize-winning<br />
composer whose works are<br />
among the most frequently performed<br />
compositions in today’s musical world.<br />
Soprano and enSRQ favorite,<br />
Lucy Fitz Gibbon returns to sing<br />
Crumb’s evocative “Madrigals,” and<br />
the “Demeter Prelude” by Crumb’s<br />
protégé, Margaret Brouwer. It will be<br />
performed at First Congregational<br />
Church, 1031 S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota.<br />
Live streaming will also be available.<br />
• Vespers For A New Dark Age:<br />
February 6. The voices of the Dallas-based<br />
Verdigris Ensemble rise in<br />
collaboration with ensembleNEWS-<br />
RQ to present the choral works of two<br />
internationally acclaimed composers:<br />
“The Branch Will Not Break” by<br />
Christopher Cerrone—as inspired<br />
by the poetry of James Arlington<br />
Wright; and “Vespers for a New Dark<br />
Age” by Missy Mazzoli—set to the<br />
poetry of Matthew Zapruder. Held at<br />
First Congregational Church, 1031 S.<br />
Euclid Ave., Sarasota. Live streaming<br />
will also be available.<br />
For tickets, visit www.ensrq.org.<br />
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At The Van Wezel<br />
A sampling of upcoming shows:<br />
• Legally Blonde is on January<br />
4-5. Based on the beloved movie,<br />
award-winning Legally Blonde - The<br />
Musical takes you from the sorority<br />
house to the halls of justice as Elle<br />
Woods tackles stereotypes, sexism,<br />
snobbery and scandal in pursuit<br />
of her dreams, and proves that you<br />
can be both legally blonde AND the<br />
smartest person in the room.<br />
• Riverdance 25th Anniversary Tour<br />
is on January 10-12. Twenty-five<br />
years on, composer Bill Whelan has<br />
rerecorded his soundtrack while<br />
producer Moya Doherty and director<br />
John McColgan have completely<br />
reimagined the ground-breaking<br />
show with innovative lighting, projection,<br />
stage and costume designs.<br />
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KERRY WILKERSON, bass-baritone<br />
January 18 • 5:30 pm performance followed<br />
by dinner • Plantation Golf & Country Club<br />
Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Talamantes is joined by<br />
her husband, Kerry Wilkerson, in a program devoted to classics<br />
from the Great American Songbook and musical theater. From<br />
Gershwin to Ellington to Bernstein and Sondheim, the couple<br />
bring their special chemistry and extraordinary voices to the<br />
iconic tunes you know and love.<br />
HANZHI WANG, accordion<br />
February 9 • 11:00 am performance<br />
followed by lunch • Sarasota Yacht Club<br />
Praised for her captivating stage presence, this<br />
groundbreaking young musician is the only accordionist<br />
to win a place on the roster of Young Concert Artists in its<br />
61-year history. In the five years since, she has debuted at<br />
both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center and was named<br />
Musical America’s New Artist of the Month in 2018.<br />
View our complete concert schedule at<br />
ArtistSeriesConcerts.org<br />
Box office: (941) 306-1202<br />
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<br />
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• Aladdin – January 24-29<br />
• Comedy legends Rita Rudner and<br />
Robert Klein team up for a new tour<br />
on February 22.<br />
• Grammy award-winning musician,<br />
composer, and producer David Foster<br />
and singer, television, and Broadway<br />
star, Katharine McPhee are<br />
bringing their viral Instagram show<br />
on the road on February 2.<br />
• Hit country artist Scotty McCreery<br />
brings his newest tour on February 10.<br />
• Gordon Lightfoot appears on<br />
March 21.<br />
Pre-show dining is available<br />
through Mattison’s at the Van Wezel<br />
which is located inside the theatre.<br />
Reservations can be made on Van<br />
Wezel.org or through the box office.<br />
Lectures<br />
TOWN HALL’s 42nd season kicks<br />
off on January 17 with Maria Ressa.<br />
Maria is the co-founder, CEO, and<br />
executive editor of Rappler.com,<br />
an online news organization in the<br />
Philippines.<br />
Maria, one of TIME’S “Person of the<br />
Year” for 2018 and TIME’s “100 Most<br />
Influential People” in 2019, has been<br />
honored around the world for her courageous<br />
and bold work in fighting disinformation,<br />
fake news, and attempts<br />
to silence the free press.<br />
In 2021, she was awarded the Nobel<br />
Peace Prize for her work in exposing<br />
abuses of power and growing authoritarianism<br />
under the Philippine president.<br />
She is the first journalist, since<br />
1935, to win the Nobel Peace Prize for<br />
her efforts to safeguard freedom of<br />
expression.<br />
All lectures will be presented at Van<br />
Wezel. Morning lectures begin at 10:30<br />
a.m. and evening talks begin at 7:30<br />
p.m. Call 941-309-5100 to subscribe:<br />
www.rclassociation.org.<br />
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Sarasota Institute of Lifetime<br />
Learning’s (SILL) “Global Issues”<br />
series returns. This series, which<br />
runs January 10-March 31, features<br />
25 internationally renowned experts<br />
discussing a vast range of domestic<br />
and global issues. The lectures are<br />
presented on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,<br />
and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. at the First<br />
United Methodist Church in Sarasota;<br />
Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. and Fridays at 10<br />
a.m. at the Venice Community Center<br />
in Venice; and Thursdays at 5 p.m. at<br />
the Cornerstone Church in Lakewood<br />
Ranch. Lectures will also be available<br />
for purchase on video.<br />
The <strong>2023</strong> season features the<br />
popular “Music Mondays” series,<br />
which presents performances and<br />
lively conversations with renowned<br />
and emerging performers, January<br />
9-March 27, on Mondays at 10:30<br />
a.m. at Church of the Palms in Sarasota;<br />
and Mondays at 3 p.m. at Venice<br />
Presbyterian Church in Venice.<br />
For more information and to purchase<br />
tickets, visit SillSarasota.org or<br />
call 941-365-6404.<br />
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Key Chorale<br />
They have “Miniature Masterpieces”<br />
on January 21 and 22. Maestro<br />
Caulkins leads an interactive<br />
exploration of these pint-size pieces<br />
that pack a punch. Works by Verdi,<br />
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams,<br />
Hogan, Whitacre and more.<br />
• Cinematic Romance, collaboration<br />
with The Venice Symphony is<br />
on February 3 and 4. Fall in love<br />
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all over again<br />
with music<br />
from Casablanca,<br />
Romeo and<br />
Juliet and Gone<br />
With the Wind.<br />
• A Sea Symphony,<br />
Masterwork<br />
by Vaughan<br />
Williams is on<br />
February 10<br />
and 11. Chorus,<br />
orchestra and<br />
soloists sing of<br />
ships and their<br />
captains, wind<br />
and waves, the<br />
voyage of every<br />
human soul,<br />
and music so<br />
vivid you can<br />
almost taste the<br />
sea spray in the air. Baritone Jamal<br />
Sarikoki and soprano Suzanne Karpov<br />
add their stunning virtuosity to<br />
this epic masterwork.<br />
Information: keychorale.org.<br />
New Music<br />
New College<br />
On January 14 pianist Kathleen<br />
Supové returns to New Music<br />
New College to perform a program<br />
called “NEXT DOOR” in the Mildred<br />
Sainer Pavilion. The program contemplates<br />
the ambiguity and richness of<br />
the term “next door.” As we migrate<br />
through our volatile world, we share<br />
space with other beings; we also open<br />
doors, for them and ourselves, into<br />
the next world to come. It will include<br />
at least one world premiere.<br />
Tickets and details at www.newmusicnewcollege.org.<br />
All performances<br />
are Saturdays at 8 p.m. Each will last<br />
about an hour, with no intermission,<br />
and include a free reception either after<br />
the concert (in the Sainer lobby) or<br />
free food during the concert.<br />
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Art Classes<br />
Registration is now open for Art<br />
Center Sarasota’s <strong>2023</strong> adult education<br />
season, which runs through<br />
April and features more than 100<br />
classes, workshops, and open studio<br />
sessions.<br />
Classes are offered Monday through<br />
Saturday and cover a rich diversity of<br />
topics, including painting, photography,<br />
sculpture, mixed-media, drawing,<br />
and pastel and taught by more<br />
than 25 esteemed art instructors.<br />
Course highlights include “Happy<br />
Accidents: Beginning Abstract Watercolor<br />
Florals,” “Freedom in Landscapes,”<br />
“Party Time Chix,” “Gelli<br />
Printing,” and a “Mindfulness Workshop<br />
Series.” To register and for more<br />
information, visit www.artsarasota.<br />
org or call 941-365-2032.<br />
Here’s a sample: January 6, 13, 20,<br />
27, February 3. Discover the whimsical<br />
world of papier-mâché with<br />
mixed-media artist Kathy Carrier as<br />
she hosts a five-week workshop exploring<br />
this creative medium with a fanciful<br />
twist. More than a hen party, the<br />
class starts with balloons and birthday<br />
hats and covers the entire process of<br />
creating a papier-mâché chicken.<br />
Information: www.artsarasota.org.<br />
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Art Around<br />
the State<br />
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At The Dali: Paul Éluard: Poetry,<br />
The PMP Winter Residency runs through January 7 and offers musical training<br />
for gifted students ages 12-18 who play the violin, viola, cello and bass. The public<br />
is invited to watch these orchestra and chorus rehearsals and works-in-progress<br />
recitals in a performance tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.<br />
Politics, Love is on display through<br />
Jan. 8. Paul Éluard: Poetry, Politics,<br />
Love explores the world of one of the<br />
most celebrated and idealistic surrealist<br />
poets. Éluard, the ex-husband of<br />
Dalí’s wife Gala, helped found Surrealism,<br />
the French art movement<br />
whose poetry celebrated dreams, love<br />
and freedom. The exhibition presents<br />
selections of Éluard’s poetry in context<br />
with photographs and selected books,<br />
giving visitors a glimpse into the life of<br />
the man who became known as “the<br />
Poet of Freedom.”<br />
During his lifetime, Éluard published<br />
more than 70 books dedicated<br />
to two main themes: the rejection of<br />
tyranny and the search for happiness.<br />
The exhibition examines the poet’s<br />
beginnings, passionate relationships<br />
and important publications. In<br />
addition, the exhibition delves into<br />
Éluard’s connection to the origins of<br />
Surrealism and André Breton as well<br />
as his later communications with Pablo<br />
Picasso. Located on the first floor<br />
of the Museum, access to this community<br />
exhibition is free by reserving<br />
Ground Floor tickets at https://thedali.org/exhibits/current/<br />
The Museum of Fine Arts has<br />
Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
through January 15. This exhibition<br />
highlights the visionary work of<br />
Prince Twins Seven-Seven, who was<br />
the only surviving child out of seven<br />
pairs of twins born to his mother.<br />
Because of this, and the associated<br />
traditional religious beliefs of the<br />
Yorùbá people of Nigeria, he held that<br />
he possessed unique spiritual insight<br />
and power. His perceptions in turn<br />
had a profound impact on his artistic<br />
expression as a printmaker, painter,<br />
and sculptor. Blending abstracted<br />
images of the physical world and evocations<br />
of the spirit world, Prince Twins<br />
Seven-Seven created a unique, powerful,<br />
and international style that bridges<br />
traditional and contemporary arts.<br />
Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
features 14 total pieces, including 10<br />
works on paper by Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
and four other Yorùbá works<br />
of art from the MFA’s collection. The<br />
MFA is at 255 Beach Dr NE, St. Petersburg.<br />
Visit mfastpete.org.<br />
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Selby Library<br />
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They have Write Here! Writing and<br />
Resilience Workshop hosted by Dr.<br />
Emily Carr on January 25, 4-6 p.m. in<br />
the Conference Room at Selby Library.<br />
Write Here! is a series of writing<br />
workshops that are open to the public<br />
and designed for writers of all levels<br />
and genres. Workshops offer participants<br />
an opportunity<br />
to explore<br />
a new genre, to<br />
practice a specific<br />
writing skill,<br />
to develop a sustainable<br />
writing<br />
practice, and to<br />
connect with<br />
other writers in<br />
the local area.<br />
Participants<br />
will leave with<br />
tools they can<br />
use in their everyday<br />
lives to<br />
nourish their endeavors,<br />
whether<br />
those endeavors<br />
happen on or<br />
off the page.<br />
Write Here!<br />
meets monthly for two hours on a<br />
drop-in basis; participants are not required<br />
to commit to coming to every<br />
workshop. Dr. Emily Carr is the Assistant<br />
Professor of Creating Writing at<br />
New College of Florida.<br />
Registration required. scgovlibrary.<br />
librarymarket.com/event.<br />
Meetings<br />
January 18, 6-7:30 p.m: Time Sifters<br />
Archaeological Society presents<br />
its monthly lecture program. For<br />
more information visit timesifters.<br />
org. Held in the Jack J. Geldbart Auditorium<br />
at Selby Library.<br />
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The Manatee Genealogical Society<br />
is hosting a Virtual Seminar on January<br />
28, 10 a.m.-4:15 p.m. They will<br />
have four nationally known speakers.<br />
The theme of the seminar is “Finding<br />
Your Elusive Ancestors.” You will be<br />
able to submit your questions to the<br />
speakers for expert guidance, and you<br />
will also have the chance to win prizes<br />
from major genealogical companies.<br />
Program speakers and topics:<br />
• Blaine Bettinger, PH.D., J.D., will<br />
discuss “Evaluating a Genealogical<br />
Conclusion Including DNA<br />
Evidence” – incorporating DNA evidence<br />
with documentary evidence is<br />
not a simple matter.<br />
• Michael D. Lacopo, D.V.M. will present<br />
“She Came From Nowhere….<br />
- Using Social History in Your<br />
Research.” His research skills cover<br />
a broad range, with specialties in<br />
Mennonite, German, Swiss, Mid-Atlantic<br />
American, genetic genealogy,<br />
social history and advanced problem<br />
solving.<br />
• J. Mark Lowe, a Fellow of the Utah<br />
Genealogical Association (FUGA),<br />
author and lecturer, will speak on<br />
“Overcoming Record Loss.” Preparing<br />
a diligent strategy of discovery<br />
and investigation may provide substitutes<br />
or alternate records that lead<br />
to many of the missing answers.<br />
• Cyndi Ingle, creator of CyndisList.<br />
com, will discuss her research methodology<br />
in: “Diligence Online:<br />
Keep Looking Everywhere to Find<br />
Your Elusive Ancestors.” With<br />
the exception of the U.S., U.K., and<br />
Canadian censuses, there is no one<br />
complete database or collection of<br />
everything you need for one place or<br />
one record type. The answer to this<br />
is thorough, detailed, and relentless<br />
searching across multiple repositories<br />
and collections.<br />
Cost: Members $40; Non-members: $50.<br />
Learn more and register at mgsfl.org/.<br />
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Selby Gardens<br />
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens<br />
will host Seeing the Invisible at its<br />
Historic Spanish Point campus. The<br />
most ambitious and expansive show<br />
to date of contemporary artworks<br />
created with augmented-reality (AR)<br />
technology, the exhibition launched<br />
last year at 12 botanical gardens<br />
around the world. Selby Gardens is<br />
one of four inaugural sites that will<br />
continue to host the show for a second<br />
year, through September <strong>2023</strong>. Six<br />
new garden and museum sites will<br />
join the global exhibition in October.<br />
Seeing the Invisible features works<br />
by more than a dozen internationally<br />
acclaimed artists, including Ai Weiwei<br />
of China, El Anatsui of Ghana, Isaac<br />
Julien CBE RA of the United Kingdom,<br />
and Sarah Meyohas of the United<br />
States. At Selby Gardens’ Historic<br />
Spanish Point campus, the show’s 13<br />
AR works are installed in carefully curated<br />
locations throughout the 30-acre<br />
preserve. Visitors engage with the art<br />
through an app that can be downloaded<br />
to a smartphone or tablet.<br />
Seeing the Invisible is the first exhibition<br />
of its kind to be developed<br />
as a collaboration among botanical<br />
gardens around the world. The same<br />
commissioned artworks are placed in<br />
outdoor settings at the participating<br />
institutions, creating parallels and<br />
contrasts between them. The AR nature<br />
of the exhibition has allowed for<br />
the creation of expansive, immersive<br />
works that engage with existing features<br />
of the natural landscape, going<br />
beyond the limitations of what is possible<br />
with physical artworks.<br />
For more information visit www.<br />
selby.org.<br />
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Contemporary<br />
Dance<br />
Sarasota Contemporary Dance<br />
Spring In-Studio Performance Series<br />
continues with Scylla Licombe (poet)<br />
collaboration with SCDE on January<br />
13-14. Francis Schwartz (composer/<br />
musician) is on February 10-11.<br />
Dance Makers is on January 26-<br />
29 at Cook Theatre at the FSU Center<br />
for the Performing Arts. “Dance<br />
Makers” features new, imaginative<br />
dance pieces created by nationally<br />
acclaimed contemporary choreographers.<br />
“Dance Makers” highlights a<br />
range of works from the aesthetics of<br />
jazz dance performed to Miles Davis<br />
and syncopated, athletic Afro-Cuban<br />
movement, to more dramatic solo<br />
and duet works. The featured artists<br />
include Gilliane Hadely (Orlando,<br />
FL), Lisa del Rosario (Austin, TX),<br />
Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez (Miami,<br />
FL), and Tania Vergara Perez (Sarasota,<br />
FL).<br />
For more information, visit www.<br />
sarasotacontemporarydance.org.<br />
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Save The Date<br />
The 25th Annual Thunder By The<br />
Bay Music & Motorcycle Festival has<br />
two two headline acts performing<br />
live on stage at next year’s Festival –<br />
38 Special (February 18) and Colt<br />
Ford (February 19). The iconic threeday<br />
Festival, organized by and benefitting<br />
Suncoast Charities for Children,<br />
is scheduled for February 17-19<br />
at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.<br />
For tickets, vendor information,<br />
sponsorship opportunities, and a<br />
complete listing of all Festival events<br />
visit: THUNDERBYTHEBAY.ORG.<br />
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10 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
focus on the arts<br />
Sarasota Concert Association<br />
Presents the Chicago Symphony<br />
and More World-Renowned Musicians<br />
National Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra of Ukraine<br />
Emerson String Quartet<br />
Awadagin Pratt<br />
Launching its 78th season of<br />
presenting world-renowned<br />
orchestras, chamber ensembles<br />
and soloists, the Sarasota<br />
Concert Association brings a<br />
stunning array of internationally-acclaimed<br />
artists to Sarasota and Venice this season.<br />
The <strong>2023</strong> season opens<br />
on January 18 as the<br />
National Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra of Ukraine<br />
comes to the Venice<br />
Performing Arts Center<br />
for a one-night-only<br />
special engagement.<br />
Based in Lviv, the<br />
orchestra is the national<br />
orchestra of Ukraine.<br />
Under the direction of<br />
Principal Conductor<br />
Theodore Kuchar, the<br />
Orchestra will perform Dvorak’s everpopular<br />
New World Symphony. Awardwinning<br />
Ukrainian violinist Vladyslava<br />
Luchenko will join the Orchestra,<br />
performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto.<br />
The Orchestra’s performance in Venice,<br />
FL is one of the first stops on their 40-city<br />
concert tour of the United States.<br />
The world-renowned<br />
Emerson String<br />
Quartet comes to<br />
Sarasota as part of<br />
their farewell tour on<br />
January 30. Celebrating<br />
their 47th and final<br />
season, the Emerson<br />
Quartet performs string<br />
quartets of Haydn and<br />
Mendelssohn as well<br />
as Beethoven’s String<br />
Quartet in E minor, Op.<br />
59, no. 2 at the Riverview<br />
Performing Arts Center.<br />
Acclaimed for his musical<br />
insight and moving<br />
performances, pianist<br />
Awadagin Pratt performs<br />
piano masterworks<br />
on February 15 at the<br />
Riverview Performing<br />
Arts Center. The program<br />
includes Glassworks by<br />
Philip Glass as well as<br />
Liszt’s Sonata in B minor,<br />
Tchaikovsky’s Intermezzo<br />
from The Nutcracker, and<br />
other works by Chopin<br />
and Rachmaninoff. While in Sarasota,<br />
Awadagin Pratt will also be giving a master<br />
class to students at Booker High School.<br />
In his last season as Music<br />
Director of the Chicago<br />
Symphony Orchestra,<br />
Riccardo Muti conducts<br />
his internationallyacclaimed<br />
orchestra in<br />
Beethoven’s Symphony<br />
No. 8 and Mussorgsky’s<br />
Pictures at an Exhibition.<br />
The program also includes<br />
Beethoven’s Coriolan<br />
Overture and Liadov’s<br />
The Enchanted Lake.<br />
This concert is presented<br />
on March 1 at the Van Wezel Performing<br />
Arts Hall and is a unique opportunity to<br />
witness part of the finale season of their<br />
extraordinary partnership.<br />
The most recorded<br />
chamber orchestra in<br />
the world, the Londonbased<br />
English Chamber<br />
Orchestra comes to<br />
Sarasota for one night<br />
only on March 12 at the<br />
Van Wezel Performing<br />
Arts Hall. Jose Serebrier<br />
conducts the orchestra in<br />
a program which includes<br />
Mozart’s Divertimento<br />
in D major, Haydn’s<br />
Symphony No. 49, La<br />
Passione, and other<br />
works by Purcell and Elgar.<br />
And as a finale to the<br />
season, Music Director<br />
JoAnn Falletta leads the<br />
Grammy Award-winning<br />
Buffalo Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra in Dvořák’s<br />
Symphony No. 7 on<br />
March 27 at the Van<br />
Wezel Performing Arts<br />
Hall. The program also<br />
includes Mendelssohn’s<br />
Violin Concerto featuring<br />
violinist Sandy Cameron,<br />
one of the most strikingly<br />
unique artists of her<br />
generation.<br />
Single tickets are on sale now and<br />
discounts are available for three or more<br />
concerts. Visit www.SCAsarasota.org or<br />
call 941-966-6161.<br />
S R SOT CONCERT<br />
SSOCI TION<br />
Chicago Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Riccardo Muti<br />
English Chamber Orchestra<br />
Buffalo Philharmonic<br />
Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta<br />
<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 11
Senior Friendship Centers Celebrates 50 Years<br />
of Providing Life-Saving Services for Seniors<br />
in Southwest Florida<br />
In Sarasota County, more than 40,000 seniors, or about 23% of the population, live alone. The mission<br />
of Senior Friendship Centers is to build vibrant communities by advancing wellness, connection, and<br />
enrichment throughout the journey of aging. We provide services such as caregiver resources, Adult Day<br />
Care, activity centers for active seniors, dining centers, home delivered meals, volunteer opportunities,<br />
exercise classes, lifelong learning, economic and socialization.<br />
As we celebrate this milestone and look to the next 50 years, our vision for Southwest<br />
Florida is for people to feel supported and included at any age. Each of our<br />
communities will have a well-known hub and network of resources to help older<br />
adults not just survive, but thrive! Seniors will be seen as vital contributors to<br />
community life and have connections that ensure they never need to “go it alone.”<br />
Cheers to 50 Years!<br />
Sarasota<br />
Sarasota Activity Center<br />
1888 Brother Geenen Way, Sarasota | 941-955-2122<br />
Adult Day Care/Caregiver Resources<br />
1820 Brother Geenen Way, Sarasota | 941-556-3268<br />
Venice<br />
Venice Activity Center<br />
2350 Scenic Drive, Venice | 941-584-0075<br />
Adult Day Care/Caregiver Resources<br />
2350 Scenic Drive, Venice | 941-556-3268<br />
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CEO and President<br />
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12 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
feature<br />
Kayaking the<br />
Mangrove Bayou at The Bay<br />
An early morning paddle connects you to the water<br />
Off busy US<br />
41 near the<br />
Municipal<br />
Building and<br />
behind the<br />
blue-roofed<br />
Lundy-era Bay Park Conservancy<br />
offices, there’s a<br />
kayak launch that takes you<br />
amidst thick mangroves<br />
then out to Sarasota Bay.<br />
It’s tucked away from view<br />
due to lush native plants,<br />
but easily accessible after<br />
a short walking from the<br />
parking lot just off 41.<br />
The Bay - that project that’s<br />
in the process of redoing<br />
the waterfront area from<br />
the south where the old<br />
Selby Library was, to the<br />
northernmost part of the<br />
Van Wezel’s parking lot<br />
- has completed Phase 1<br />
and what comes with that,<br />
along with yoga classes, live<br />
music, walking paths and<br />
more, is a chance to kayak.<br />
They offer a free sampler<br />
kayak paddle on Saturday<br />
mornings at 8:30 a.m. complete<br />
with full gear and an<br />
excellent tour leader.<br />
The guide on this trip was<br />
Craig of Ride and Paddle<br />
(rideandpaddle.com).<br />
He’s an expert on mangroves,<br />
birds and the bay’s<br />
ecosystem plus he gives<br />
you an update on the Bay’s<br />
progress.<br />
Sign up on the Bay site (You<br />
have to reserve a spot and<br />
may find as I did it’s booked<br />
solid for a few weeks. Go on<br />
the wait list - I did that too<br />
- and at the last minute, I<br />
got a ticket). Then choose<br />
a single or double kayak.<br />
All ages were in our group<br />
with both men and women.<br />
You’ll be given a concise,<br />
but very informative crash<br />
class in kayaking.<br />
Before The Bay Park was<br />
underway, the bayou had<br />
unfiltered water and needed to be dredged and<br />
cleaned up and a filtration system was added.<br />
Mangroves, as you will learn, do a lot of things and<br />
they’re all good. They hang on to the soil - lessening<br />
erosion due to<br />
things like hurricanes.<br />
They also help<br />
filter water and provide a<br />
habitat for birds as well as<br />
a place for fish to lay eggs<br />
and very small crabs to<br />
make a home.<br />
The goal of the Bay project<br />
is to link the community<br />
to the Sarasota Bay<br />
and provide access to the<br />
waterfront. Another goal<br />
is to reduce what is called<br />
“hardscape” - man-made<br />
features like seawalls -<br />
and, in the Van Wezel’s<br />
case, lots and lots of asphalt<br />
and concrete.<br />
Kayaking is not that difficult<br />
- you quickly learn<br />
how to get your kayak going<br />
where you want it to<br />
go relatively quickly. In our group of a baker’s dozen<br />
paddlers, the challenge was to keep from bopping<br />
into each other. If one moved we all moved which<br />
created endless movement, but we worked out how<br />
to keep a safe distance<br />
from each other and o just<br />
sit and be motionless in<br />
our kayaks.<br />
Craig gave a superb description<br />
of the flora and<br />
fauna and an efficient<br />
explanation of paddling<br />
basics. After you launch<br />
and settle into your kayak,<br />
you follow the leader, so to<br />
speak, and gently sweep<br />
through mangroves before<br />
heading out on to<br />
Sarasota Bay. It was very<br />
peaceful.<br />
Try the sample paddle<br />
and then sign up for another ride. Or, you can bring<br />
your own kayak and launch.<br />
STORY and IMAGES: Louise Bruderle<br />
JUST THE FACTS<br />
Ride & Paddle: Free Guided Tour at The Bay<br />
Location: The Bay’s Kayak Launch, 655 North Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota<br />
When: Every Saturday at 8:30 a.m.<br />
What: A two-hour, free, guided kayak tour through<br />
The Bay Park’s restored mangroves. Kayaks and life<br />
jackets are provided. Due to popular demand for<br />
free guided tours, they’re only accepting registrations<br />
four weeks out in advance, but consider going<br />
on the wait list. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/<br />
ride-and-paddle-at-the-bay<br />
Prefer to explore The Bay your own way? Ride &<br />
Paddle offers kayak and paddle board rentals everyday<br />
at The Bay from 10am-3pm. To make a reservation,<br />
visit rideandpaddle.com/sarasotabaykayaking/<br />
Background: The Bay is a community, city and park<br />
conservancy initiative that will transform 53 acres of<br />
city-owned land into a public park on Sarasota Bay.<br />
Learn more at www.thebaysarasota.org<br />
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good news department<br />
First Church Donates Turkeys<br />
for Veterans in Need<br />
First Church members led by missions chair Peggy Hite – contributed<br />
45 turkeys and side dishes for veterans served by<br />
Goodwill Manasota’s Veterans Services program in November.<br />
“It is always such an amazing day when we are giving the<br />
turkeys out to our veterans – you see the burden of providing<br />
such a big meal taken off their shoulders,” said Todd Hughes,<br />
American Veterans and Their Families program manager.”<br />
Goodwill Manasota Veterans Services team member Randy<br />
Wright (left) and program manager Todd Hughes load turkeys<br />
and sides into cars during Goodwill’s turkey giveaway event<br />
During the turkey distribution, the Veterans Services team<br />
also gave out care packages and hand-written cards from a<br />
local youth group. Goodwill’s American Veterans and Their<br />
Families program works to help eliminate barriers to employment,<br />
provide opportunities for higher-paying positions for<br />
veterans and their families, and connect veterans with needed<br />
social services.<br />
Sarasota Opera Receives<br />
Arts Appreciation Grant<br />
Sarasota Opera received a $60,000 Arts Appreciation Grant<br />
from Gulf Coast Community Foundation which will underwrite<br />
the 2022-23 season and be recognized as a production sponsor<br />
of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. They are also a series sponsor<br />
of the Moonlight & Melodies Dinner Series and are sponsoring<br />
the Curtain Raiser Dinner and Sarasota Opera’s annual<br />
gala in April.<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation<br />
Works to Reduce Recidivism<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation has awarded a $57,994 grant<br />
from its Criminal Justice Reform Initiative to Community Assisted<br />
and Supported Living, Inc. (CASL) for the “Transition Inmates<br />
to Supported Housing Project.”<br />
The Transitions program provides formerly incarcerated individuals<br />
who have a mental health condition with safe, supportive<br />
housing while they continue to overcome barriers upon<br />
release from incarceration. Gulf Coast has awarded a total of<br />
$214,000 to the Transitions program since its inception. The<br />
average recidivism rate for formerly incarcerated individuals is<br />
65%. The recidivism rate of those within the Transitions program<br />
is greatly reduced to 20%.<br />
Referrals for the Transitions program are referred by the<br />
Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Re-entry Navigators. Providing<br />
supports including housing and case management, and basic<br />
needs like food and clothing, assists individuals who were recently<br />
incarcerated to gain employment.<br />
Sarasota Orchestra Receives Grant<br />
Sarasota Orchestra has been awarded a $65,000 grant from<br />
Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation for programming of<br />
the 2022-<strong>2023</strong> season.<br />
The grant provides support for Sarasota Orchestra’s artistic<br />
season, which began in October 2022 and runs through May<br />
<strong>2023</strong>. In addition, Barancik Foundation support will help subsidize<br />
the costs associated with Sarasota Orchestra's education<br />
programs, which include the Youth Orchestra Program, Summer<br />
Music Camp, and Young Artists Competition. This grant will also<br />
enable the continuation of the family-friendly On the Road with<br />
SO: Parks and Partners community concerts and keep them free<br />
for the public.<br />
To learn more, visit www.SarasotaOrchestra.org.<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation<br />
Helps Venice Urban Forest Blossom<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation awarded Venice Area Beautification,<br />
Inc. (VABI), a 30-year-old, volunteer based organization,<br />
with a $100,000 grant to support Phase 3 of the Venice<br />
Urban Forest.<br />
Phase 3 is the final phase of the Urban Forest, along an industrial<br />
corridor, and focuses on installation of additional irrigation<br />
piping to irrigate all the new trees and understory plants. The<br />
grant will cover the cost for native trees to be bought and planted,<br />
including 400 slash pines, 200 red cedars, and 10 longleaf<br />
pines. The Urban Forest is home to over 90 different species of<br />
birds. The grant is especially timely after the Urban Forest suffered<br />
damage from Hurricane Ian, losing approximately 125 trees.<br />
The future of the Urban Forest includes using natural materials<br />
to stabilize a maintenance pathway so the volunteers can<br />
continue to maintain the property. Phase 1 of the Venice Urban<br />
Forest is open to all from dawn to dusk. To learn more about the<br />
Venice Urban Forest, visit VeniceUrbanForest.com.<br />
PGT Innovations Donates<br />
to Breast Cancer Non-Profits<br />
PGT Innovations a manufacturer of windows, doors, and garage<br />
doors, donated over $9,000 across four breast cancer<br />
non-profits.<br />
PGTI team members at the Venice location wearing<br />
the breast cancer awareness t-shirts<br />
Earlier this year, PGT Innovations designed breast cancer<br />
awareness t-shirts for employees to purchase during October<br />
to help raise awareness and money for the non-profits. PGT<br />
Innovations team members across the company’s multiple<br />
manufacturing plant and office locations purchased over 1,100<br />
t-shirts, raising $8,155, which was donated between theBreast<br />
Cancer Research Foundation, theBreast Cancer Alliance, and<br />
theLarry Fitzgerald Foundation.<br />
PGT Innovations also donated $1,500 to theAmerican Cancer<br />
Society in support of the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer<br />
walk event held in Sarasota in October; several PGTI team<br />
members participated in the walk. For information, visitwww.<br />
pgtinnovations.com.<br />
Mote Marine Receives Grant<br />
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s C-STEM Program has received<br />
$10,000 from The Weichel Family Fund of the Manatee<br />
Community Foundation. The grant will be used to fund the delivery<br />
of monthly educational programming in Manatee County<br />
throughout the academic year and supplemental programming<br />
during the summer for around 1,300 Manatee County students.<br />
The C-STEM Program has been providing hands-on STEM educational<br />
experiences to a diverse population of students at<br />
a developmentally critical time in their education. Working in<br />
partnership with alternative schools and afters chool programs<br />
throughout the Sarasota and Manatee counties, the program<br />
helps to fill gaps in local educational programming by leveraging<br />
Mote science and educators to engage participants in highly<br />
interactive learning experiences.<br />
Mote, a leader in marine STEM education for K-12 audiences, is<br />
committed to providing grade-level STEM education experiences<br />
that help to prepare underrepresented and underserved students<br />
who may not have previously seen themselves in science.<br />
All Faiths Food Bank Receives<br />
Canned Goods<br />
The Canned Good Coalition, developed by steel food manufacturers<br />
and canned food companies, donated 80,480 pounds<br />
of canned fruits, vegetables and beans to those affected by<br />
Hurricane Ian. All Faiths Food Bank was the recipient of 51,000<br />
cans of food.<br />
An All Faiths Food Bank team member unloads pallets of<br />
canned foods donated through the Canned Good Coalition<br />
Canned Good Coalition members reached out to Publix Super<br />
Markets and various food banks, such as All Faiths Food Bank<br />
and the Harry Chapin Food Bank of South Florida, to provide<br />
shelf-stable foods at a time when many Floridians were without<br />
food and electricity.<br />
For more about All Faiths, visit allfaithsfoodbank.org.<br />
$<br />
500,000 Gift to USF Funds<br />
Tutoring, Mentorship Program<br />
Ensuring young students can read, so they are free to accomplish<br />
their dreams, is a goal of a literacy program based at the<br />
University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus that<br />
matches USF students with middle schoolers needing support<br />
to boost their reading skills.<br />
The USF students are tutoring and mentoring students at<br />
Sarasota’s most economically disadvantaged middle school,<br />
which is funded by a $500,000 gift from Henson and her husband,<br />
Joe, Sarasota philanthropists.<br />
Beyond helping to improve reading skills, the USF students are<br />
embedding themselves into the children’s lives to provide them<br />
with positive role models and new opportunities for success.<br />
The literacy project, led by College of Education professors<br />
Cheryl Ellerbrock and Lindsay Persohn in partnership with<br />
Booker academic intervention specialists Holly Ard and Grace<br />
Schaeffer, is a passion for the Hensons, funders of numerous<br />
community-based projects, including others addressing school<br />
shortfalls in reading proficiency.<br />
The couple funded the Booker Middle School Literacy Initiative<br />
through the Joe and Mary Kay Henson Foundation, a<br />
Sarasota-based 12-year-old private fund dedicated to helping<br />
children of poverty through early education programs and partnerships<br />
with the school district.<br />
Selby Gardens Receives $60,000<br />
Arts Appreciation Grant<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation has awarded Marie Selby Botanical<br />
Gardens a $60,000 Arts Appreciation Grant. The grant is<br />
funded in part by the Mildred and Garrett Eelman Charitable Fund.<br />
The grant will provide support for two exhibitions in 2022-23<br />
that are part of Selby Gardens’ rotating schedule of shows as<br />
The Living Museum. The funding also enables Selby Gardens to<br />
engage underserved families in the Sarasota region through its<br />
My Garden program.<br />
The Arts Appreciation Grant will help underwrite Selby Gardens’<br />
<strong>2023</strong> Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition, Tiffany: The Pursuit<br />
of Beauty in Nature. The show will highlight the creativity<br />
and innovation of American artist and designer Louis Comfort<br />
Tiffany by exploring his work and its inspiration in nature.<br />
Gulf Coast also continues its sponsorship of another exhibition,<br />
Seeing the Invisible, which is on view at the Historic Spanish<br />
Point campus in Osprey. This contemporary-art exhibition<br />
showcases 13 works by internationally renowned artists that<br />
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Stacey<br />
CORLEY<br />
She’s the<br />
President of<br />
the Sarasota<br />
Memorial Healthcare<br />
Foundation (SMHF),<br />
coming on board this<br />
past September.<br />
Long associated with<br />
Ringling College, she’s<br />
using her skills at<br />
philanthropy to continue<br />
the Foundation’s goal of<br />
helping to fund Sarasota<br />
Memorial Hospital’s<br />
many new projects.<br />
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Sarasota Memorial Hospital<br />
has undergone<br />
tremendous growth and<br />
made many progressive<br />
changes in the past few<br />
decades. The campus most of us are familiar<br />
with sits on US 41 on the same ground where<br />
it started back on Nov. 2, 1925, when the 32-<br />
bed Sarasota Hospital opened on Hawthorne<br />
Street. It now has 839 beds.<br />
So the largest and oldest hospital in our<br />
area will be turning 100 in 2025. The Hospital,<br />
if you read its history, has always been<br />
about growing and expanding - mirroring<br />
the growth as well as expectations of the<br />
community here.<br />
But it has also shown a steady commitment<br />
to advancing - not merely updating - its services<br />
such as openings of their Rehabilitation<br />
Pavilion (2017), a 65-acre medical campus in<br />
Venice (2021), and the 8-story inpatient and<br />
surgical Oncology Tower for The Brian D.<br />
Jellison Cancer Institute (2021).<br />
The latter project is being done in phases<br />
and started with the Radiation Oncology<br />
Center on University Parkway (2020). Coming<br />
up is the Outpatient Cancer Pavilion (where<br />
Cape Surgery Center stands) and later the<br />
Cancer Center at SMH-Venice.<br />
In 2022, SMH broke ground on the Cornell<br />
Family Behavioral Health Pavilion, a $71 million,<br />
95,000-square-foot facility for those with<br />
mental health challenges which will be built<br />
on the SMH-Sarasota Campus at the corner of<br />
Osprey Avenue and Hawthorne Street.<br />
Note: this is an edited down list since there<br />
are so many new buildings, additional services<br />
and new physicians, not to mention the<br />
many awards SMH has won for patient care,<br />
safety, its billing and many other things under<br />
the leadership of president and CEO, David<br />
Verinder, who has been on board since 2014.<br />
A key partner in the hospital’s continuing<br />
push to provide state-of-the-art care and<br />
services is the Sarasota Memorial Healthcare<br />
Foundation (SMHF) which welcomed a new<br />
president this past September.<br />
Her name is Stacey Corley who was long<br />
associated with Ringling College. Why the<br />
move away from the education to healthcare?<br />
Healthcare, she explains, was her first<br />
“professional role” when she worked for Bristol-Myers<br />
Squibb. Stacey explains that she<br />
“loves getting back into healthcare,” adding<br />
as well, “it’s a great time to be here” due to all<br />
the many projects going on and coming up.<br />
The bulk of her career has involved philanthropy<br />
which not everyone quite understands.<br />
“On a plane you say, ‘I’m a fundraiser’<br />
and people say, ‘I hate asking for money,’” she<br />
notes. But Stacey’s extensive experience and<br />
enthusiasm means she not only enjoys it, but<br />
is also really good at it.<br />
The slightest of southern accents comes out<br />
in her speech that harkens back to her Mississippi<br />
roots. She grew up there and earned<br />
a Master of Business Administration (MBA)<br />
and Bachelor of Professional Accountancy<br />
degree from Mississippi State University.<br />
She then worked 10 years for Bristol-Myers<br />
Squibb in various roles including Senior<br />
Hospital Business Manager in Nashville and<br />
later Sarasota—the latter a place she knew<br />
very little about. She also spent time as a “stay<br />
at home” mom, raising two children with her<br />
husband, Michael, a consultant.<br />
His job change brought them to Sarasota<br />
and Stacey began volunteering which led to<br />
her reentry into the workforce as Associate<br />
Director for Development at Florida State<br />
University Foundation/The John and Mable<br />
Ringling Museum of Art.<br />
She then spent ten years at Ringling College<br />
of Art+Design, going from Senior Development<br />
Officer to Vice President for Advancement.<br />
There she led capital campaigns and<br />
worked with the College’s President, Dr. Larry<br />
Thompson, raising the most money ever in<br />
the school’s history (“It was a team effort,” she<br />
hastens to add, decidedly not wanting to take<br />
all the credit).<br />
So Stacey was no stranger to hurricanes<br />
when Ian came alarmingly close to Sarasota<br />
just as she was starting at Sarasota Memorial<br />
Healthcare Foundation. When SMH’s<br />
Venice Hospital called SMHF asking for assistance<br />
it was initially a food-water-basics<br />
type of request.<br />
The Foundation decided “to do something<br />
more impactful” and ended up helping over<br />
1,000 SMH employees—160 who had been<br />
displaced by the hurricane, while others had<br />
serious or moderate damage to their homes.<br />
They were then able to apply for grants and<br />
receive assistance. Nearly $1 million was<br />
raised for the Foundation’s SMH Employee<br />
Hurricane Relief Fund aided by a $250,000<br />
gift from Eliza and Hugh Culverhouse.<br />
“It was a team effort,” she explains and<br />
donors were from the community as well as<br />
fellow hospital employees “who wanted to<br />
donate to help their coworkers. It speaks to<br />
the culture here,” Stacey notes.<br />
In November, SMHF’s Rock the Roof event<br />
(delayed four times due to weather and<br />
Covid) took place also early in Stacey’s tenure.<br />
The event raised funds for women’s and children’s<br />
services, including funds to purchase<br />
NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) beds<br />
that last only 7-10 years and cost $45,000 each,<br />
she explains.<br />
The latest fiscal year for the SMHF shows it<br />
to be its most successful ever with $46 million<br />
raised. It’s been “great to come to a place with<br />
such great successes,” she notes, as Stacey<br />
will now be at the helm for the next fiscal<br />
year. And her calendar is full: the hospital<br />
gala is in January and the Women in Medicine<br />
event is in March. Supporting Stacey and the<br />
Foundation is a staff of 12.<br />
The Foundation is in the unique position<br />
in that it can grant money. Since 1976, grants<br />
from the Healthcare Foundation, funded by<br />
many donors, have assisted SMH in “raising<br />
the bar for healthcare in our community,”<br />
according to their website.<br />
The Foundation’s areas of focus are "patient<br />
care, technology, facilities, clinical education,<br />
and medical research,” according to<br />
their website. Stacey is on the hospital’s President’s<br />
Council which keeps her informed of<br />
SMH’s strategic plans.<br />
Recently, the Healthcare Foundation<br />
awarded over $18 million in grants (which is<br />
also a record) to support facilities, staff education,<br />
technology and patient care at SMH.<br />
For example, a grant of $3.9 million will add<br />
six new inpatient rehabilitation rooms.<br />
“The joy of giving is contagious,” Stacey<br />
believes and adds, “I’m energized by it. I’ve<br />
always had a passion for helping people.”<br />
That energy and passion will go towards<br />
future projects such as SMH’s planned new<br />
hospital in North Port, to be constructed on<br />
a 32-acre site near I-75. Why so much expansion<br />
you may ask? SMH manages more than<br />
one million patient visits a year.<br />
And one of those “visits” was by Stacey herself<br />
who was in SMH for Covid-related dehydration.<br />
During the pandemic, “staff sacrificed<br />
their lives,” she notes. And again, the community<br />
responded with over $2 million raised<br />
“immediately,” she notes, for critical needs<br />
such as PPE, masks, oxygen, rapid testing and<br />
more, before government funding came in.<br />
The generosity of people like the Jellison<br />
and the Cornell families, the SMH staff and<br />
donors in the community all add up to a<br />
community taking pride in itself as reflected<br />
in its community hospital. “It’s significant<br />
work. I am making a difference with this<br />
team and Sarasota Memorial Hospital staff<br />
and donors.”<br />
STORY: Louise Bruderle<br />
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lifelong learning<br />
Here’s a sample of the many learning experiences<br />
available in person and online<br />
Assorted Creative Arts<br />
◆ The Players Sarasota has classes for<br />
adults starting in January. Join them for<br />
Scene Study, , an acting class focused on<br />
analyzing characters and deep dives into<br />
scenes on Monday nights at 5:30pm. Adult<br />
Musical Theatre Dance takes place on<br />
Wednesdays at 4pm and is a great class<br />
for anyone who wants to stay in shape and<br />
learn Broadway-style dance routines.<br />
Do you want to be the next Fred Astaire?<br />
You'll be tapping just like him after taking<br />
Tap with Mike on Tuesdays at 4pm. Learn<br />
more at theplayers.org/studio or call 941-<br />
552-8879.<br />
Classes are held at The Players Studio,<br />
1400 Blvd .of the Arts, Suite 200, Sarasota, in<br />
the Rosemary District on the second floor.<br />
◆ ArtCenter Manatee is the premier visual<br />
arts center in Manatee County. Their goal<br />
is to make art accessible to all, regardless of<br />
age, experience level or background. They<br />
do this through over 300 visual arts classes<br />
for adults, over 40 classes for children ages<br />
4-15, exhibits that change monthly, and a<br />
gift shop of artist-made work.<br />
The ArtCenter has five classrooms, including<br />
complete jewelry and pottery studios,<br />
as well as painting and mixed media<br />
studios. A library contains over 3,000 art<br />
books and other publications.<br />
Classes are offered in painting, watercolor,<br />
pastels, drawing, pottery, clay sculpture,<br />
jewelry, children’s camps and afterschool<br />
programs, Paper Mache, photography<br />
and other special interest subjects.<br />
Day, evening and weekend classes are<br />
available in beginner to advanced levels.<br />
ArtCenter Manatee offers a series of<br />
classes called Nights Out where adults can<br />
come for a few hours on a Friday night and<br />
go home with a piece of art they’ve created.<br />
Class prices begin at $45 and include all<br />
supplies, beer or wine and snacks. A great<br />
way to try a class or just have a creative<br />
night out with friends.<br />
Special workshops coming soon, include:<br />
• February: Color Sense Workshop with<br />
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• March: Creative Combination Watercolor<br />
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Closed Sundays. They are open 12 hours<br />
a day for classes during the week and 8<br />
hours on Saturday.<br />
◆ The Winter Term at The Education<br />
Center at Temple Beth Israel is underway.<br />
Most programs, except for the concerts, are<br />
“hybrid,” which means they’re presented in<br />
person as well as on Zoom.<br />
Almost every subject is available—history,<br />
world politics, and Supreme Court;<br />
music and dance appreciation; jazz nights,<br />
Happy Hour bands, and concerts; yoga, qigong,<br />
painting, bridge, canasta, mah jongg,<br />
and movie discussion classes; Broadway<br />
biographies; Shakespeare; theology; film<br />
festivals including Hollywood Icons, a foreign<br />
film festival and Jewish/Israeli film<br />
festival; a special women’s group; morning<br />
forums and a financial roundtable; nature<br />
walks and birding; writing workshops; literature<br />
and poetry courses; a book club;<br />
meditation; iPad & iPhone and iCamera;<br />
Saturday workshops that include presentations<br />
on Apple Watch, a fun and instructional<br />
drumming circle, and a climate<br />
change discussion.<br />
The Lecture Series, which runs every<br />
Tuesday afternoon from January through<br />
March, covers diverse subjects with distinguished<br />
speakers. The Arts Alliance<br />
Playreaders will present a reading titled<br />
Watercolor class at the Education Center<br />
at Temple Beth Israel taught by awardwinning<br />
artist Renee DiNapoli<br />
“Squabbles” a funny play about family<br />
problems in their Sunday Showcases that<br />
also include two concerts presented by<br />
performers of Artist Series Concerts of<br />
Sarasota, Michelle Giglio, soprano and<br />
Rick Aaron, flutist accompanied, by Lee<br />
Dougherty Ross, co-founder of the series.<br />
Exclusive Engagements include “HAL-<br />
LELUJAH! Leonard Cohen and Friends” a<br />
performance and presentation with Susan<br />
Benjamin, musical biographer and performer,<br />
Jay O’Brien, cantor, and Robert Hanson,<br />
musical director. Included in Exclusive<br />
Engagements is the Westcoast Black Theatre<br />
Troupe which will present a selection of<br />
musical highlights from current and prior<br />
seasons directed by founder Nate Jacobs.<br />
Special Thursdays series in January includes:<br />
“How Not To Be Scammed” with<br />
cybersecurity and computer expert Jimi<br />
Goethe; “The Art of Criticism” with Sarasota’s<br />
arts critics Jay Handelman, Carrie Seidman,<br />
Marty Fugate, and Gayle William; and<br />
“Is America At Risk Form the Left Or the<br />
Right?”—A Bi-Partisan Discussion” presented<br />
by Bob Gary, JD, and Herb Soroca, JD, both<br />
members of “Miracle on the Key,” a Longboat<br />
Key bi-partisan group with Republicans and<br />
Democrats taking action together.<br />
For costs, dates, and descriptions of programs<br />
visit www.tbieducationcenter.org<br />
or call 941-383-8222. The Education Center<br />
at Temple Beth Israel is located at 567 Bay<br />
Isles Road, Longboat Key.<br />
Creative Arts<br />
◆ Sarasota Art Museum has A Conversa-<br />
tion & Book Signing with Jerry Saltz on Jan-<br />
uary 14. Join them for an afternoon with the<br />
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic who lectures<br />
about the contemporary art world, in-<br />
cluding the Museum of Modern Art and the<br />
Jerry Saltz<br />
Whitney, and now at Sarasota Art Museum.<br />
Join artists and authors Maira and Alex<br />
Kalman for a conversation and an insider<br />
look at their exhibition and visual memoir<br />
Sara Berman’s Closet on February 4.<br />
Maira has written and illustrated over 30<br />
adult and children’s books, and is a frequent<br />
contributor to The New York Times<br />
and The New Yorker. She has created textiles<br />
for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade and<br />
sets for Mark Morris along with collaborations<br />
with Nico Muhly, Michael Pollan, Alex<br />
Kalman, David Byrne and Lemony Snicket.<br />
Alex Kalman is a creative director, curator,<br />
and inventor who owns What Studio?,<br />
a New York based gallery devoted to “curiosity,<br />
humanism, humor, optimism, and<br />
originality.” His work has been exhibited at<br />
The Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria<br />
and Albert Museum, among others. He’s<br />
the founder of Mmuseumm, a traveling installation<br />
that displays illuminating objects<br />
from around the world in very small spaces.<br />
They’re having an Open Studios at The<br />
Studios at SAM on January 17, 10 am – 1 pm.<br />
Free. Interested in art classes? Studios @<br />
SAM classes are open to adults at all levels,<br />
from beginner to advanced. Short-term<br />
workshops, and courses, are also available.<br />
Enjoy complimentary refreshments.<br />
Sample a class offering and talk with Studios<br />
@ SAM students and faculty about the<br />
spring program.<br />
Sarasota Art Museum is located at 1001<br />
South Tamiami Tr., Sarasota. Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.<br />
◆ Art Center Sarasota: They have workshops<br />
from nationally and internationally<br />
acclaimed artists who are masters in their<br />
medium.<br />
• Richard Stephens: Watercolor Fresh &<br />
Loose. Jan. 16-18, 10 am-4 pm. Internationally<br />
renowned artist Richard Stephens'<br />
workshops are know for being<br />
informative, challenging and fun.<br />
• Robert Burridge Times Two: Contemporary<br />
Abstract Figure Painting & Collage.<br />
Feb 6-8<br />
The Circus is Back in Town by Robert<br />
Burridge<br />
• Abstract Painting & Collage. Feb 9-11<br />
Popular around the world for his art and<br />
workshops, he will also present a Zoom<br />
Demo on Jan 18.<br />
• Ron Stocke: Creating Magic in Watercolors.<br />
March 20-22. Stocke teaches<br />
internationally and is an award-winning<br />
watercolor artist and published<br />
author. He will present a Zoom Demo on<br />
March 1.<br />
• Jane Slivka: Freedom of Acrylics. April<br />
3-5. Slivka is known for her inspiring<br />
work, layered color technique, and gifted<br />
instruction.<br />
Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota. 941-365-2032 or https://<br />
www.artsarasota.org/<br />
◆ Creative Liberties has classes at their<br />
second location, 927 Lime Avenue, Sarasota.<br />
On Monday, January 9: Painting with Jenny<br />
Berry. Also offered on Wednesday, January<br />
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Susan Goldfarb<br />
PROGRAM DIRECTOR<br />
<strong>2023</strong><br />
LECTURE SERIES ✱ PAINTING<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY ✱ QIGONG<br />
YOGA ✱ MEDITATION ✱ BRIDGE<br />
MAH JONGG ✱ CANASTA<br />
SUPREME COURT ✱ THEOLOGY<br />
WELLNESS ✱ AMERICAN HISTORY<br />
LITERATURE & POETRY<br />
MOVIE & BOOK GROUPS<br />
MUSIC & DANCE APPRECIATION<br />
MORNING FORUMS<br />
WORLD POLITICS<br />
FILM FESTIVALS ✱ JAZZ NIGHTS<br />
WRITING WORKSHOPS<br />
iPHONE & iPAD ✱ NATURE WALKS<br />
BIRDING ✱ PERFORMING ARTS<br />
SATURDAY WORKSHOPS<br />
BROADWAY BIOS ✱ CONCERTS<br />
SPECIAL ONE-TIME EVENTS<br />
& MUCH MORE!<br />
Programs Available In Person and on Zoom<br />
567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL<br />
VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT<br />
www.TBIeducationcenter.org<br />
For a brochure call: (941) 383-8222<br />
<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 19
lifelong learning<br />
lifelong learning continued<br />
11: Painting with Jenny Berry. https://www.<br />
jennyberry.com/book-online.<br />
Beginning January 10 and January 24<br />
(2nd and 4th Tuesday's), through June <strong>2023</strong>:<br />
Acrylic Paint Pouring with Sandy Koolkin.<br />
Email Sandy for more info or to register at<br />
sashascollection001@gmail.com.<br />
Beginning Tuesday, January 17, running<br />
throughout <strong>2023</strong> (Third Tuesdays), are Mini<br />
Workshops: Mosiac or Assemblage with<br />
Traci Kegerreis. Email Traci for more info<br />
or to register. tracikdesigns@yahoo.com<br />
If you’re an artist looking for a space<br />
to teach classes or workshops or you’re a<br />
group or organization that needs a place<br />
to meet, they’ll be opening the Creative<br />
Academy at Creative Liberties. Go to form.<br />
jotform.com<br />
• January 14, Saturday, 10a-3:30p – 2nd<br />
Saturday Open Studio and “New Beginnings<br />
Art Market” - open studios, artisan<br />
vendors; free beer; kid’s art tent, live<br />
music by Joni Adno<br />
• January 19, Thursday, 5-7p – 3rd Thursday<br />
Evening Open Studio – artists at<br />
work; wine & cheese/crackers<br />
• January 28, Saturday, 9am-12pm - Family<br />
Art Day, free, open to all ages, art<br />
making lesson and creative space for<br />
the community. This event will occur<br />
monthly thanks to the support and kindness<br />
of Arts Advocates.<br />
Learn how to<br />
be Happy in Water<br />
◆ Miracle Swimming is offering Adult<br />
Summer Swim Camp, <strong>2023</strong>: Become Calm<br />
in Deep Water. Dedicate your summer to<br />
learning how to be happy in water, shallow<br />
and deep with Miracle Swimming School<br />
for Adults’ core series of water/swimming<br />
courses. They’re fun and they work.<br />
For 50% of the normal price of the series,<br />
Take Essentials 1 and 2—the essentials you<br />
must know that you haven’t learned elsewhere<br />
about being in water that enable you<br />
to swim; Ocean 101—an introduction to salt<br />
water, being at ease in the ocean, breakers,<br />
critters, how to handle rip currents and<br />
waves; Deep Water Play—so you can go to<br />
any part of the pool when you want to (in<br />
case you drop your keys, glasses, phone into<br />
the deep end); and Jump Off the Boat for<br />
those social occasions when you want to be<br />
part of the group and jump off with reckless<br />
abandon. Dates: June 12-August 18. Weeks<br />
of rest between courses. This is not meant<br />
to be an intensive. Go at your own pace.<br />
Visit miracleswimming.com/summercamp<br />
or call 941-921-6420.<br />
Art Lectures<br />
◆ I’ll be lecturing at the Education Center<br />
at Temple Beth Israel, located at 567<br />
Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key (tbi-lbk.org/<br />
education-center) on Tuesday, March 14,<br />
for “Best Art Exhibits Nationally, Statewide<br />
and Locally” (#LS10) Zoom is also<br />
available (#ZALS10).<br />
Love to visit art museums? Want to know<br />
which exhibits are coming up that are “can’t<br />
miss?” This visual presentation offers<br />
a quick overview of upcoming exhibits<br />
across the U.S., and also in places like Miami<br />
and Orlando. Closer to home, we’ll<br />
look at exhibits in Naples, Tampa, Ft. Myers,<br />
and Sarasota.<br />
It’s a fun class where I will save you the<br />
time of scouring museum sites all over the<br />
country to cherry pick the best and most<br />
unique. So, if you love going to museums<br />
you’ll enjoy this class.<br />
Questions? Email me at westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
or contact the<br />
Education Center At Temple Beth Israel at<br />
941-383-8222.<br />
Nature and<br />
The Environment<br />
◆ UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County<br />
has these offerings:<br />
• January 24, 8:30-10:30 a.m. - EcoWalk:<br />
Mangroves. Join UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County for a walk into the<br />
world of mangroves on a tour through<br />
local natural areas. These walks focus on<br />
learning about the ecology of mangrove<br />
ecosystems, identification of mangroves<br />
and other species associated with them,<br />
and wildlife viewing. Meet at Lemon Bay<br />
Park, 570 Bay Park Blvd., Englewood.<br />
• February 6, 9-11 a.m. EcoWalk: Unique<br />
Preserves of Sarasota County - Sleeping<br />
Turtles North. Join a UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County educator and learn<br />
more about Florida ecosystems. Take a<br />
leisurely stroll through some of the most<br />
beautiful and environmentally sensitive<br />
lands that have been preserved in Sarasota<br />
County. Learn more about what makes<br />
these areas so unique and important, the<br />
plants and animals that inhabit them,<br />
how to be watershed wise, and the management<br />
issues faced when trying to preserve<br />
these lands for future generations.<br />
Best for ages 12 and up. Sleeping Turtles<br />
North Preserve, 3462 Border Road, Venice.<br />
• February 13, 1-3 p.m. EcoWalk: For the<br />
Love of Nature - Sleeping Turtles South.<br />
Join a UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota<br />
County educator and learn more about<br />
amazing animals and plants.<br />
Join UF/IFAS Sarasota County Extension<br />
educator, Dr. Katherine Clements<br />
and her husband Tony Clements,<br />
Sarasota County Parks Manager for an<br />
EcoWalk inspired by Valentine’s Day.<br />
Take a leisurely stroll through some of<br />
the most beautiful and environmentally<br />
sensitive lands that have been preserved<br />
in Sarasota County and learn more about<br />
what makes these areas so unique and<br />
important, the plants and animals that<br />
inhabit them, themed around Valentine’s<br />
Day. Appropriate for adults only.<br />
Sleeping Turtles Preserve South, 2800<br />
N. River Road, Venice.<br />
Register at ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com.<br />
For questions, call 941-861-5000.<br />
Personal Enrichment<br />
◆ Manatee Literacy Council is seeking<br />
tutors to participate in their Adult Volunteer<br />
Literacy Tutoring Program. The<br />
program trains volunteers to become oneon-one<br />
tutors for adults in need of basic<br />
literacy skills.<br />
Tutor training is an 18-hour program<br />
that takes place over a two-month span,<br />
and culminates with literacy training certification.<br />
Once certified, tutors will continue<br />
to receive support services through<br />
this program by being matched with a<br />
“Tutor Mentor.” A certified tutor meets the<br />
adult learner at a location near the learner’s<br />
neighborhood. Their tutoring schedule<br />
is flexible and based upon the availability<br />
of tutors, learners, and tutoring sites.<br />
Training sessions are held monthly and<br />
may be virtual or in-person at the Council<br />
location on Cortez Road in Bradenton.<br />
For information, visit www.manateeliteracy.org<br />
or call (941) 746-8197.<br />
◆ Live in Sarasota? Tutors are needed at<br />
the Literacy Council of Sarasota (LCS).<br />
They offer in person tutor training workshops<br />
every month, for volunteers who<br />
want to help other adults improve their<br />
basic English communication and literacy<br />
skills.<br />
Volunteers receive 18 hours of interactive<br />
ProLiteracy-certified instruction<br />
and support over the course of six weekday<br />
sessions, which includes an initial orientation.<br />
Sessions will focus on teaching<br />
adult learners to read, write, comprehend<br />
and/or speak better in English.<br />
Space is limited; preregister by calling<br />
LCS Program Director, Susan Bergstrom,<br />
at (941) 955-0421 or emailing sbergstrom@sarasotaliteracy.org.<br />
OLLI<br />
◆ Here’s a sample of what OLLI has com-<br />
ing up.<br />
• Having Fun, Wish You Were Here! Illustrated<br />
History of the Postcard in Florida<br />
with Liz Coursen on Feb. 15.<br />
Come take a trip back in time – from<br />
the days when Florida was a backwoods<br />
swamp in the early 1900s through its<br />
transformation into a vacation paradise<br />
in the 1950s. Join Sarasota editor and<br />
veteran postcard collector Liz Coursen<br />
as she illustrates how Florida progressed<br />
from ox carts to Streamliners,<br />
from alligator-infested waterways to<br />
bathing beauties cavorting on the beach,<br />
using museum-quality postcards to tell<br />
the tale.<br />
• The Supreme Court and American History:<br />
Landmark Decisions That Changed<br />
the Nation’s Course with Michael Scheibach<br />
on Feb. 7. The Supreme Court,<br />
through its landmark decisions, has<br />
played a major role in determining the<br />
course of American history, as witnessed<br />
now after the 2022 decisions to overturn<br />
Roe v. Wade granting women the right to<br />
choose to have a legal abortion.<br />
Such decisions as Dred Scott v. Sandford<br />
in 1857, declaring that African<br />
Americans could never be American<br />
citizens and upholding slavery; Plessy<br />
v. Ferguson in 1896 upholding “separate<br />
but equal” and Jim Crow laws; Korematsu<br />
v. United States in 1944 upholding the<br />
exclusion of Japanese Americans from<br />
the West Coast Military Area during<br />
World War II; and the more recent Bush<br />
v. Gore in 2000, which ended the recounting<br />
of votes in the presidential<br />
election, have had a tremendous impact<br />
on American society.<br />
This presentation discusses these and<br />
other consequential and controversial<br />
decisions of the Supreme Court from<br />
the early 1800s to today. Michael Scheibach<br />
is an independent scholar who specializes<br />
in the history of the early Cold<br />
War (1945-1965). He is the author of five<br />
books on the impact of the atomic bomb<br />
on American society in the 1950s.<br />
To view the OLLI course catalog, visit<br />
olliringlingcollege.org/course-catalog/.<br />
Register calling 941-309-5111<br />
20 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
lifelong learning<br />
Presented by<br />
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK<br />
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK<br />
ACE Offers Lifelong<br />
Learning Opportunities<br />
for All<br />
It’s the time of year where many of us<br />
are thinking about ways to improve<br />
ourselves and our well-being. If you’re<br />
looking for a resolution that benefits<br />
your body, mind, and social life, Adult<br />
& Community Enrichment may have the<br />
perfect solution for you.<br />
This Winter term at ACE is shaping<br />
up to be another “knowledge-fest”, with<br />
new courses on the environment, history,<br />
culture, religion/spirituality, personal<br />
development, writing, art, and travel, as<br />
well as Day Trips and other programs ACE<br />
students know and love.<br />
Cozy Up to the Kitchen<br />
Our culinary<br />
staff have been<br />
busy dreaming<br />
up wonderful<br />
new cooking<br />
classes to wow<br />
you –but never<br />
fear, your old favorites are still on the<br />
menu! This winter, you’ll find new courses<br />
such as Custard & Cream Pies, Spring<br />
Desserts, Fun with Phyllo, and Party<br />
Boards, plus the ever-popular Chocolate<br />
Candy 101 (just in time for Valentine’s<br />
Day), Basic Knife Skills, Main Dish Salads,<br />
Plant-Based Asian Cooking, Sushi Party,<br />
and Fish, Fish, Fish. Sign up early—these<br />
courses fill up fast!<br />
Habits of Wellness<br />
Feeling happy, healthy, and calm should<br />
be our natural state of being. Too often,<br />
though, the wrong food, emotional reactions<br />
to events, or tension stored in our<br />
body cause mounting distress, both physical<br />
and mental. One new course this winter<br />
asks, What Is Your Happiness Formula?<br />
—and explore what contributes to and/or<br />
sabotages our happiness. Another guides<br />
us in how to Transform Emotional Eating<br />
and learn about Food Energetics. Join<br />
Self-Acupressure, Qigong, or Meditation<br />
Made Easy for relaxation and rejuvenation.<br />
Keep Moving Rain or Shine<br />
Ready for<br />
some good<br />
exercise in<br />
the Florida<br />
sunshine?<br />
We have such<br />
choices for<br />
you! If Golf is your game, our instructors<br />
will take you from Introductory Golf Clinic<br />
to the Red Zone. There’s also Tennis at<br />
all levels, and even Saltwater Fishing in<br />
North Port! Indoor Pickleball, Dance Fitness,<br />
Ballroom Dancing, and SharQui: The<br />
Belly Dance Workout will keep you moving<br />
rain or shine, and for a slower-paced<br />
workout, try Line Dancing, Yoga, Tai Chi,<br />
or Stretch, Balance and Tone.<br />
Art for Art’s Sake<br />
Learn to make an Abstract Totem on<br />
Wood, paint impressionistic scenes with<br />
Old Florida Charm, try a Fused Glass<br />
Aquarium Tile, Garden Stake, or Butterfly<br />
Suncatcher, among other projects, or<br />
pick up a Palette Knife and use it instead<br />
of a brush. Get your hands dirty and<br />
join Pottery Bootcamp for Beginners or<br />
Shape Up: Wheel<br />
Skills for Striving<br />
Potters. How about<br />
adding some color<br />
to your garden by<br />
creating a beautiful<br />
gazing ball or birdbath<br />
in Mosaics for<br />
Home and Garden?<br />
Try out watercolor<br />
in One Day Watercolor Masterpiece.<br />
Making History<br />
Whether or not history is your passion,<br />
you’ll love diving into these absorbing<br />
courses, because our instructors make<br />
the topics interesting and enlightening.<br />
Choose from courses such as Contemporary<br />
China, The Robber Barons: Business<br />
Tycoons of the Gilded Age, The Colonial<br />
Wars (1689-1766) and the Making of<br />
America, or 1959: The Year that Everything<br />
Changed.<br />
Religious Mysteries<br />
People have been practicing religion ever<br />
since early humans first raised their eyes<br />
to the stars above. This winter, several<br />
courses will explore questions about religion,<br />
including Forgotten Faiths: The Varieties<br />
of Ancient Christianity, Exorcism:<br />
Spiritual Warfare or Primitive Psychotherapy,<br />
The Phenomenon of Religion and Its<br />
Evolution in Human Life, and Pope Pius<br />
XII and the Holocaust. A new course about<br />
Pope Francis examines the impact of his<br />
legacy on the Catholic Church.<br />
Take a Bite Out of It<br />
If writing your autobiography seems<br />
daunting, try a Micro Memoir. If you quail<br />
at the thought of attempting a 500-page<br />
novel, start with Bite-Sized Fiction! Both<br />
courses will be taught this winter by an<br />
award-winning author. You can refine<br />
your writing skills in two online creative-writing<br />
courses, one covering Character<br />
& Point of View; the other addressing<br />
Setting, Plot, & Pacing.<br />
Calling All Readers<br />
Do you have a pile of books on your<br />
nightstand you’re always meaning to read<br />
and feel just a bit guilty that you haven’t?<br />
Here’s your chance to settle down with a<br />
good book or three and have fun doing it!<br />
Grab a friend, join an ACE book club, and<br />
get set for lively discussion with either<br />
Great Books Club: America Through Time<br />
or Book Club: Contemporary Reads—<br />
Something to Think About.<br />
All new and veteran instructors at ACE<br />
will be waiting to inspire you. We hope<br />
you can take advantage of the many learning<br />
opportunities during the upcoming<br />
term, and we thank you for choosing to<br />
spend the winter months with us.<br />
Adult & Community Enrichment<br />
(ACE) at Suncoast<br />
Technical College<br />
4748 Beneva Road,<br />
Sarasota<br />
Phone:<br />
(941) 361-6590<br />
ace-sarasota.com<br />
2022-23 Author Lecture Series<br />
2021-22 Author Lecture Series<br />
Thursday, October 12, January 2021 – May 123, • 2022 7pm<br />
Sarasota 21 Authors High • 20 School Events<br />
2155 Bahia Vista Street • Sarasota<br />
10 “in-person” events (also available on Zoom)<br />
and 10 Zoom-only events<br />
Martin Indyk<br />
Master of the Game<br />
In an attempt to understand the arc of American diplomatic influence<br />
in the Middle East, author Martin Indyk returns to the origins of<br />
American-led peace efforts and to the man who created the Middle<br />
East peace process, Henry Kissinger. Based on newly available<br />
documents from American and Israeli archives, extensive interviews<br />
with Kissinger, and Indyk’s own interactions with some of the main<br />
players, the author takes readers<br />
inside the negotiations.<br />
Martin Indyk is a distinguished<br />
fellow at the Council on Foreign<br />
Relations and a former<br />
U.S. ambassador to Israel, assistant<br />
secretary of state for<br />
Near East Affairs and special<br />
assistant to President Clinton. Previously,<br />
Indyk was executive vice president of the Brookings Institution,<br />
where he had also served as vice president and director of the<br />
Foreign Policy program and the founding director of its Center for<br />
Middle East Policy. He served as President Obama’s special envoy<br />
for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from July 2013 to June 2014.<br />
A spring<br />
exhibition at the<br />
Metropolitan<br />
Museum of Art<br />
will focus on van<br />
Gogh’s fascination<br />
with the flamelike<br />
cypress trees, seen<br />
in “Wheat Field<br />
With Cypresses’’<br />
(1889), during his<br />
years in the South<br />
of France. The<br />
Metropolitan<br />
Museum of Art,<br />
New York<br />
Tickets are $25 in advance<br />
and $30 at the door<br />
For tickets and more information,<br />
visit JFEDSRQ.ORG/books<br />
Love Going to Museums?<br />
Louise Bruderle<br />
Want to know which exhibits<br />
are “can’t miss?”<br />
Join me for a fun and fast-paced lecture at The Education Center<br />
at Temple Beth Israel on Longboat Key<br />
Date: Tuesday, March 14<br />
Lecture: “Best Art Exhibits Nationally, Statewide and Locally”<br />
(#LS10) Zoom is also available (#ZALS10)<br />
Description: Love to visit art museums? Want to know which<br />
exhibits are coming up that are “can’t miss?” This visual<br />
presentation offers a quick overview of upcoming exhibits across the<br />
U.S., and also in places like Miami and Orlando. Closer to home, we’ll<br />
look at exhibits in Naples, Tampa, Ft. Myers, and Sarasota.<br />
Education Center At Temple Beth Israel<br />
567 Bay Isles Rd., Longboat Key • 941-383-8222<br />
www.tbieducationcenter.org<br />
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Sleep In A Glass Igloo<br />
Frozen Into A Glacial Lagoon in Iceland<br />
Available for booking now for dates<br />
from mid-January through March<br />
<strong>2023</strong>, two new glass igloos frozen<br />
into a secluded lagoon will open to guests<br />
for their first winter offering the chance<br />
to sleep next to a glacier in Iceland. Part of<br />
an exclusive, private tour from Northern<br />
Lights specialists Off the Map Travel, the<br />
“igloo boats” are accessible only by boat or<br />
all-terrain vehicles and float during the<br />
summer months and freeze into the ice as<br />
the temperatures fall.<br />
The fully guided five-night/six-day Private<br />
Glacier Lagoon Adventure program<br />
allows guests to overnight on the lagoon by<br />
the Vatnajokull glacier for the first time and<br />
has been designed to optimize experiencing<br />
the Northern Lights. This program is an<br />
exclusive one, designed for the utmost in<br />
luxury and adventure, with a guide at your<br />
disposal at all times for recommendations<br />
and excursions including a private glacier<br />
hike and sightseeing.<br />
From the Fjallsarlon glacial lagoon on<br />
the southern coast of Iceland, the transparent<br />
igloos sit in a position where watching<br />
the stars and Icelandic Northern Lights<br />
becomes the focus of the evening. The<br />
experience takes full advantage of this dark<br />
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setting as there is no light pollution and<br />
the igloos have panoramic glass walls for<br />
uninterrupted views.<br />
Isolated from tourists in an uninhabited<br />
corner of Iceland, the new igloos encourage<br />
connection with nature and the stunning<br />
snow-covered wilderness. The igloos measure<br />
nine square meters and come equipped<br />
with a double bed, bathroom, panoramic<br />
windows, Wi-Fi and hot drinks. The igloos<br />
are warmed by central heating.<br />
The new five-night, six-day Private<br />
Glacier Lagoon Adventure includes a night<br />
in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, followed by<br />
a guided road trip with driver to Myrdalsjokull<br />
with views of the southern coastline.<br />
Guests enjoy a privately guided scenic<br />
tour and dinner at the Fosshotel Glacier<br />
Lagoon before spending a night beneath the<br />
sky in a private glass igloo overlooking the<br />
Vatnajokull glacier.<br />
After the igloo night on the lagoon, guests<br />
will continue along the coast to Hotel Ranga<br />
for the final night of the program. The<br />
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NYC Hotel Week<br />
New York City has launched NYC Hotel<br />
Week which will run from January<br />
3 through February 12, <strong>2023</strong>, offering<br />
23% savings off standard room rates at more<br />
than 140 hotels across all five boroughs, with<br />
additional properties expected to join.<br />
NYC Hotel Week <strong>2023</strong> participating<br />
hotels include Hard Rock Hotel New York;<br />
Lotte New York Palace; The Beekman, A<br />
Thompson Hotel; The Hoxton, Williamsburg;<br />
The Langham, New York, Fifth<br />
Avenue; New York<br />
Marriott Marquis; The<br />
William Vale; Radio<br />
Hotel; The Opera<br />
House Hotel, The<br />
Rockaway Hotel; Hilton<br />
Garden Inn New<br />
York/Staten Island<br />
and more.<br />
The start of NYC Hotel<br />
Week reservations<br />
marks the countdown<br />
to the return of NYC<br />
Winter Outing which<br />
celebrates the City’s<br />
winter season with<br />
offers from NYC & Company’s signature<br />
programs: NYC Restaurant Week, NYC<br />
Broadway Week, NYC Must-See Week, and<br />
for the second year, NYC Hotel Week.<br />
NYC Winter Outing runs January<br />
17-February 12, <strong>2023</strong> and combines deals<br />
across all five boroughs on dining, Broadway<br />
shows, attractions, museums, tours,<br />
performing arts and hotels. Bookings open<br />
on January 10.<br />
Visit nycgo.com/hotelweek.<br />
After Hurricane Ian, Florida Hoteliers<br />
Help Communities Recover<br />
It’s now been more than 2 months since<br />
the Category 4 Hurricane Ian initially<br />
made landfall on Florida’s southwestern<br />
coast, causing devastation and destruction<br />
to the area. Hotel owners and operators<br />
in the area have had to deal with damage<br />
to not only their properties, but also their<br />
communities.<br />
AAHOA members convened in Florida after Hurricane<br />
Ian hit to provide aid to affected hotel owners.<br />
Hoteliers across Florida have used their<br />
resources to crowdsource funds and resources<br />
for displaced residents and staff in<br />
need. The Pink Shell Beach Resort & Marina<br />
on Fort Myers Beach, started a GoFundMe<br />
fundraiser for staff members affected by the<br />
storm and reached its $120,000 goal.<br />
Robert Boykin, owner and operator<br />
of the resort, said some employees “lost<br />
everything” in the storm. “To have to have<br />
the whole island evacuated for search and<br />
rescue, that puts things in perspective. A<br />
property loss is one thing — nowhere near<br />
as devastating as losing your life. It’s going<br />
to fundamentally change the place,” he said.<br />
Mainsail Lodging & Development, a<br />
Tampa-based management and development<br />
company, held a “Raise the Roof for<br />
Hurricane Ian Relief” night at five of its<br />
rooftop bars and raised $12,000 for the Harry<br />
Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida.<br />
Mainsail also hosted a community rally with<br />
the Federal Emergency Management Agency,<br />
where they fed more than 850 people<br />
and handed out supplies such as tarps, said<br />
President and Founder Joe Collier.<br />
Collier said Mainsail’s portfolio had some<br />
disruptions due to guests canceling reservations,<br />
but it avoided any material damage,<br />
even at its downtown Fort Myers property<br />
— the Luminary Hotel & Co. — because it’s<br />
a new structure that’s built higher.<br />
Bharat Patel, national vice chairman<br />
of the Asian American Hotel Owners<br />
Association and a Sarasota, hotel owner,<br />
said he drove down to Fort<br />
Myers with a few other<br />
AAHOA members to deliver<br />
generators, flashlights,<br />
water and food when the<br />
storm hit. The next day, all<br />
AAHOA members available<br />
in Florida convened with<br />
those mostly unaffected<br />
to provide warm food, aid<br />
and advice.<br />
Boykin said he has<br />
endured seven hurricanes,<br />
and Ian caused more destruction<br />
than all of the others combined.<br />
The Pink Shell didn’t suffer any structural<br />
damage, but the ground level flooded, the<br />
roofing was damaged and its marina floated<br />
off the piers. The water surge ranged up<br />
to 18 feet high, he said.<br />
Boykin said as soon as the storm hit, he<br />
contacted the company that built its marina<br />
and ordered another one. While the newly<br />
built marina should be ready to install in<br />
January, the necessary power pedestals<br />
won’t be ready for another six months due to<br />
supply-chain issues.<br />
Boykin said the Pink Shell is going to<br />
bring back each aspect of the resort as it’s<br />
ready, including converting its one food outlet<br />
that survived into a three-meal restaurant.<br />
As for reopening the resort to guests,<br />
he said, “with electricity and water, we can<br />
house people, and that’s our plan.”<br />
Both Collier and Boykin said Fort Myers<br />
Beach, however, still has a lot of work ahead<br />
of it. Boykin said he met with a group from<br />
Texas who came to the island to help with<br />
the restoration work, and they said they’re<br />
planning on staying for the next five years<br />
due to all the damage that needs repairing.<br />
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healthier you<br />
RESOLVED:<br />
Get more and better sleep in <strong>2023</strong><br />
It’s a common problem —can napping help?<br />
Anap is a short period of sleep<br />
that usually occurs during<br />
the day. For many adults,<br />
naps can help to maintain<br />
alertness or overcome<br />
daytime fatigue.<br />
Nap needs and the benefits of<br />
napping vary among individuals,<br />
but naps can deliver a number of<br />
benefits. They can be restorative and<br />
reduce fatigue during the day. After<br />
a night of insufficient sleep, a nap<br />
may counteract daytime drowsiness.<br />
Naps can be particularly beneficial<br />
for shift workers who and have to be<br />
alert at irregular times.<br />
A short daytime snooze may<br />
also boost workplace performance. A<br />
nap can improve cognitive functions<br />
such as memory logical reasoning,<br />
and the ability to complete complex<br />
tasks. Some studies have found<br />
that physical performance can also<br />
improve. Athletes may experience<br />
improved endurance, reaction times,<br />
and cognitive performance if they<br />
take a daytime nap.<br />
How Sleep Works During<br />
Nap Time<br />
Whether at night or during the day,<br />
sleep unfolds in a series of stages that<br />
make up a sleep cycle.<br />
• Stage 1: Stage 1 is the lightest and<br />
briefest stage of sleep, lasting only<br />
one to seven minutes.<br />
• Stage 2: Stage 2 follows stage 1 and<br />
lasts about 10 to 25 minutes. During<br />
stage 2 sleep, the muscles relax, and<br />
body functions slow. However, sleep<br />
in this stage is still relatively light<br />
• Stage 3: Stage 3 is a deeper, more<br />
restorative stage of sleep, and it can<br />
be difficult to wake up while in this<br />
stage. Stage 3 usually lasts between<br />
20 and 40 minutes.<br />
• Rapid eye movement (REM):<br />
During REM sleep, the body’s muscles<br />
are temporarily paralyzed, and<br />
the eyes move quickly under closed<br />
eyelids. Dreaming tends to take<br />
place during REM sleep.<br />
When sleep periods last several<br />
hours, the body cycles through these<br />
stages several times. During a nap,<br />
though, there is not enough time to<br />
go through multiple sleep cycles.<br />
In fact, during a short nap, a person<br />
may not be asleep long enough to<br />
spend much, if any, time in stage 3<br />
or REM sleep. This can actually make<br />
it easier to wake up refreshed from a<br />
quick nap.<br />
Longer naps, such as those lasting<br />
more than 30 minutes, can cause the<br />
sleeper to enter deep sleep, and deep<br />
sleep may start even sooner in people<br />
who are sleep deprived.<br />
How Long Should a Nap Be?<br />
In general, the best nap length for<br />
adults is about 20 minutes and no longer<br />
than 30 minutes. Sleeping for 20<br />
minutes allows the napper to get a bit<br />
of light sleep to boost alertness without<br />
entering into deep sleep. Waking<br />
up from deep sleep can cause grogginess<br />
and actually worsen sleepiness.<br />
In some cases, a longer nap of<br />
around an hour and a half may also be<br />
beneficial. This length of time allows<br />
the body to cycle through the stages<br />
of sleep and avoids interrupting deep<br />
sleep. This type of longer nap may<br />
be especially helpful for emergency<br />
workers and shift workers who are<br />
trying to avoid fatigue.<br />
When to Take a Nap<br />
Experts typically recommend that<br />
adults take naps eight or more hours<br />
before bedtime. For most people, that<br />
means napping before 3 p.m. Napping<br />
too late in the day may contribute<br />
to nighttime sleep problems.<br />
For some people, naps may feel<br />
natural or even necessary after<br />
lunchtime. This is sometimes known<br />
as the post-lunch dip. While eating<br />
lunch may play a role in afternoon<br />
sleepiness, the post-lunch dip is<br />
linked to circadian rhythm. Circadian<br />
rhythm is the body’s internal clock<br />
that follows a 24-hour cycle. Within<br />
this cycle are two peak periods for<br />
sleepiness. The greatest peak is<br />
during the night, and the second one<br />
falls in the early afternoon.<br />
Where to Take a Nap<br />
A good sleep environment is cool,<br />
quiet, and dark. Having a comfortable<br />
nap setting can help prevent unwanted<br />
interruptions or awakenings.<br />
For people who work from home,<br />
a bedroom is likely a good place for a<br />
short snooze since it is already set up<br />
to promote sleep. Adding blackout<br />
curtains or a white noise machine to<br />
block out distractions may help both<br />
at night and during daytime naps.<br />
In an office setting, accessories<br />
such as earplugs or an eye mask can<br />
reduce disruptions during nap time.<br />
When possible, naps should be taken<br />
in a space where interruptions are<br />
unlikely to occur. Some offices may<br />
even have nap pods or other quiet<br />
areas for relaxation or a short period<br />
of restorative sleep.<br />
Remember to Set an Alarm<br />
Before dozing off during nap time, set<br />
an alarm for the desired nap length,<br />
which should generally be around 20<br />
minutes.When the alarm goes off, do<br />
not hit snooze to keep sleeping since<br />
this can risk entering deeper sleep.<br />
Setting a second alarm to go off shortly<br />
after the first one may help to avoid<br />
napping for too long.<br />
Try to get up as soon as the alarm<br />
sounds and then stretch or walk<br />
around to shake off any post-nap<br />
sleepiness.<br />
Consider Caffeine Naps<br />
People taking a nap to get a boost<br />
of energy may benefit from drinking<br />
caffeine before napping. The<br />
brain and body feel the impact of<br />
caffeine about 30 minutes after it is<br />
consumed, so having caffeine right<br />
before a short nap may increase alertness<br />
after waking up.<br />
How Much Napping<br />
Is Too Much?<br />
In many cases, napping longer than<br />
20 to 30 minutes can result in grogginess<br />
and diminished performance<br />
after waking up. In other words,<br />
napping too long can undermine the<br />
purpose of the nap.<br />
Napping may be too much if it<br />
interferes with sleep at night. Sometimes<br />
a nap of 90 minutes or so can<br />
be refreshing, but it may be problematic<br />
if it happens too late in the day.<br />
Dependency on naps, rather than<br />
consistent nighttime sleep, can contribute<br />
to fragmented sleep or sleep<br />
disorders such as insomnia.<br />
However, naps may not affect<br />
everyone in the same way. Some research<br />
suggests that napping affects<br />
nighttime sleep primarily in older<br />
adults rather than young and middle-aged<br />
adults.<br />
For any individual, it is important<br />
to reflect on daily energy levels and<br />
sleep patterns, including nighttime<br />
sleep and the duration and frequency<br />
of naps. If fatigue or daytime<br />
sleepiness are negatively affecting<br />
work or other obligations on a regular<br />
basis, it may indicate a need to<br />
change sleep habits.<br />
What Is the Best Time of Day to Nap?<br />
For most people, the best time to take<br />
a nap is either just before or during<br />
the post-lunch dip. The post-lunch dip<br />
is the period of decreased alertness<br />
and productivity often experienced<br />
after a midday meal. As a result, a brief<br />
snooze around 12:30 p.m. or around 2<br />
p.m. may reduce afternoon sleepiness.<br />
Getting Started<br />
If you’re in the process of figuring<br />
out the right approach to napping,<br />
consider keeping a nap diary. You can<br />
record your sleepiness or fatigue levels<br />
before and after your nap, as well<br />
as where, when, and how long you<br />
napped. These recordings can help<br />
you track what type of nap is most<br />
effective for you.<br />
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A new season of<br />
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happening this month<br />
THE PMP WINTER RESIDENCY RETURNS!<br />
December 29, 2022 - January 7, <strong>2023</strong><br />
In the tent at USF Sarasota-Manatee<br />
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talent, and our world-renowned faculty, including Toby and Itzhak Perlman.<br />
Celebrating 41 Years of<br />
Women in Power<br />
Thursday, December 29, 2022<br />
4:30 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
7:00 PM: Works-in-Progress Student Recital<br />
Friday, December 30, 2022<br />
5:00 PM: Chorus Rehearsal<br />
7:00 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
Saturday, December 31, 2022<br />
5:00 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
6:30 PM: Chorus Rehearsal<br />
Monday, January 2, <strong>2023</strong><br />
3:30 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
5:00 PM: Chorus Rehearsal<br />
7:00 PM: Works-in-Progress Student Recital<br />
Tuesday, January 3, <strong>2023</strong><br />
5:00 PM: Chorus Rehearsal<br />
7:30 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
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Wednesday, January 4, <strong>2023</strong><br />
11:00 AM: Viola Masterclass with<br />
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3:30 PM: Orchestra Rehearsal<br />
5:00 PM: Chorus Rehearsal<br />
7:00 PM: Works-in-Progress Student Recital<br />
Thursday, January 5, <strong>2023</strong><br />
5:00 PM: Celebration Concert at Sarasota<br />
Opera House<br />
Immediately followed by<br />
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Friday, January 6, <strong>2023</strong><br />
11:00 AM: Cello Masterclass<br />
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7:00 PM: Works-in-Progress Student Recital<br />
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Night at the Museum<br />
January 6-7<br />
Cinematic Romance:<br />
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February 3-4<br />
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On January 18,<br />
at 11:30, at Michael’s<br />
on East,<br />
the National<br />
Council of<br />
Jewish Women, Sarasota-Manatee<br />
Section will<br />
be honoring five remarkable<br />
women at their 41st annual<br />
Women in Power Luncheon.<br />
As President John F. Kennedy<br />
said: “Children are<br />
the world’s most valuable<br />
resource and its best hope<br />
for the future.” In recognition<br />
that this is The Year of the<br />
Child, those honored have<br />
created and partnered with<br />
programs that have changed<br />
the lives of those impoverished,<br />
or facing substance<br />
abuse, mental and physical<br />
health issues, and sub-par<br />
academic performance. Hurricane<br />
Ian has added a new<br />
urgency to our mission.<br />
The following will be honored<br />
for their good work:<br />
s AMANDA HORNE<br />
is the co-founder of Dive<br />
into Reading, a national<br />
award-winning summer reading<br />
program that is a collaboration<br />
among the Anna Maria<br />
Oyster Bars, School District<br />
of Manatee County, Suncoast<br />
Campaign for Grade Level<br />
Reading and Manatee County<br />
Libraries. She and her husband,<br />
John, piloted Dive into<br />
Reading to help improve our<br />
children’s reading levels and<br />
combat the “summer slide.”<br />
She served for many years<br />
on the Board of Directors for<br />
Pace Center for Girls.<br />
s BETH DUDA has<br />
seen outside learning experiences<br />
as key contributors<br />
to a child’s overall education.<br />
Suncoast Remake<br />
Learning Days is a 10-day,<br />
free, learning festival held<br />
each year in Charlotte, DeSoto,<br />
Manatee, and Sarasota<br />
counties. With support from<br />
the Patterson Foundation,<br />
more than 140 events at locations<br />
throughout our region<br />
give hands-on and innovative<br />
experience to youth of all<br />
ages as well as their families,<br />
caregivers, and educators.<br />
s JANET KAHN, CEO of<br />
the Early Learning Coalition<br />
Amanda Horne<br />
Beth Duda<br />
Janet Kahn<br />
Wendy Katz<br />
Jone Williams<br />
of Sarasota County, has handled<br />
critical funding issues,<br />
improved opportunities for<br />
childcare teachers, updated<br />
training programs, and provided<br />
special recognition<br />
when centers reopened following<br />
the pandemic. For the<br />
past 15 years, her Look for<br />
the Stars* childcare quality<br />
rating program for all ELC<br />
centers in the county has provided<br />
needed recognizable<br />
indicators of quality with support<br />
for improvement.<br />
s DR. WENDY KATZ, a<br />
lifelong educator, has touched<br />
the lives of thousands of<br />
children through her passion<br />
for education and her shared<br />
knowledge of best practices.<br />
She has inspired generations<br />
of school administrators,<br />
teachers, and children to meet<br />
their goals. Dr. Katz developed<br />
the Leadership Academy<br />
for the Sarasota County Public<br />
Schools for aspiring administrators.<br />
After retiring,<br />
she became an educational<br />
consultant working with the<br />
Florida Council of Independent<br />
Schools, consulting on<br />
Jewish Day Schools.<br />
s JONE WILLIAMS,<br />
Educational Outreach Director<br />
for the Safe Children Coalition<br />
(SCC), is responsible<br />
for the HIPPY (Home Instruction<br />
for Parents of Preschool<br />
Youngsters) Program for<br />
Sarasota County and oversight<br />
of the direction of the<br />
SCC Achievers Program.<br />
Her parental workshops<br />
share how to protect their<br />
youngsters from potential<br />
roadblocks to succeeding<br />
including substance abuse<br />
and human trafficking approaches.<br />
During this Year of the<br />
Child, the National Council<br />
of Jewish Women, Sarasota-<br />
Manatee Section, looks to<br />
you to make our community<br />
a safer and more positive<br />
environment for our children,<br />
while honoring those who<br />
already do.<br />
For more information, to<br />
purchase tickets and/or to<br />
become a sponsor, contact<br />
Joan Bour at 407-413-0058 or<br />
joanbour5@yahoo.com, or go<br />
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Accolades<br />
■ Resilient Retreat, a Sarasota<br />
non-profit providing free and<br />
confidential support for survivors of<br />
trauma, first responders and helping<br />
professionals, announced the<br />
winners of its local art competition<br />
sponsored by the Halo Arts Project.<br />
The Art committee selected Amy<br />
Towery’s ‘Journey to Healing’ for<br />
first place and Stacy Sternberg’s<br />
‘Journey” for second. Towery will be<br />
dividing her $1,500 prize three ways<br />
with donations to Resilient Retreat,<br />
the Halo Art Project and Meals on<br />
Wheels of Manasota, for which she<br />
serves as Executive Director.<br />
All submissions, including the<br />
two winning pieces, are on display<br />
in the retreat center. In addition to<br />
these local pieces, Resilient Retreat<br />
has received works from Sarasota<br />
non-profit Embracing Our Differences,<br />
which are also on display<br />
throughout the center.<br />
For details on the art competition<br />
submissions, www.resilientretreat.<br />
org/art-competition-winners. For<br />
information on Halo Arts Project,<br />
visit www.haloartsproject.com.<br />
Appointments<br />
■ The board of directors at Meals<br />
On Wheels of Sarasota has announced<br />
that Rhonda Leiberick<br />
has been appointed interim executive<br />
director for the organization.<br />
During the transition, Leiberick<br />
will be collaborating with consultants<br />
from Invest in Incredible, an<br />
initiative of Gulf Coast Community<br />
Foundation which will focus on a<br />
fresh look at organizational policies,<br />
developing strategies for growth<br />
and processes to magnify organizational<br />
impact.<br />
Tom Flanagan<br />
Leiberick worked with Habitat<br />
for Humanity Sarasota for nine<br />
years, starting in a communications<br />
and public relations capacity. Her<br />
responsibilities grew into the position<br />
of program director where she<br />
managed a capital campaign while<br />
expanding the donor base. She has<br />
earned her Accreditation in Public<br />
Relations and has received numerous<br />
communications awards. She is<br />
past president of the local chapter<br />
of the Florida Public Relations<br />
Association.<br />
■ Longtime vice-president Arlene<br />
Skversky was inaugurated as the<br />
Longboat Key<br />
Democratic<br />
Club’s new<br />
president. A<br />
grassroots<br />
organizer,<br />
Arlene has<br />
served as precinct<br />
captain<br />
for Longboat<br />
Arlene Skversky<br />
Key's southern<br />
area Precinct<br />
201 in Sarasota County. In addition,<br />
Arlene was awarded their<br />
Blueglass Award for Distinguished<br />
Leadership,<br />
dedicated<br />
to the club's<br />
former longtime<br />
President<br />
Murray<br />
Blueglass, for<br />
her service<br />
and commitment<br />
to the<br />
goals of the<br />
club. For more<br />
Halo Art Project President Jackie Cutrone (left) and Resilient<br />
Retreat Executive Director Lisa Intagliata (right) present a<br />
$1,500 check to first place winner Amy Towery (center)<br />
information,<br />
visit www.lbkdems.com.<br />
■ The Sarasota Ballet has<br />
announced that Victoria Hulland,<br />
former Principal Dancer, has joined<br />
the Company’s Artistic Department<br />
Victoria Hulland<br />
as Artistic Assistant to the Directors.<br />
Hulland will work alongside<br />
Director Iain Webb and Assistant<br />
Director Margaret Barbieri, with<br />
an emphasis on the staging of the<br />
repertoire and roles she performed<br />
during her<br />
16 years with<br />
The Sarasota<br />
Ballet.<br />
The idea<br />
for Hulland’s<br />
return<br />
occurred as<br />
Barbieri and<br />
Webb worked<br />
with her on<br />
Ashton’s The<br />
Dream pas<br />
de deux for<br />
the Raising<br />
the Barre<br />
Workshop, held by American Ballet<br />
Theatre this year in New York City.<br />
Hulland began her career with<br />
The Sarasota Ballet in 2007 as a<br />
Corps de Ballet Dancer, and in<br />
two years, elevated to the rank of<br />
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota board members pictured L to R:<br />
Diane Weaver, Ralph Hall, John Hermansen, William Gandy,<br />
Rhonda Leiberick, Elizabeth Van Riper, Mark Baldwin,<br />
Principal. She performed a breadth<br />
of ballets spanning the Company’s<br />
repertory and has subsequently<br />
worked with many of the ballet<br />
world’s icons such as Sir Antony<br />
Dowell, Sir David Bintley, and Sir<br />
Peter Wright. Hulland has also<br />
worked directly with prestigious<br />
Repetiteurs including Grant Coyle,<br />
Sandra Jennings, Christopher Carr,<br />
and Sally Bliss.<br />
■ Maggie Nasser has joined RE/<br />
MAX Platinum Realty as a Broker-<br />
Associate in the Lakewood Ranch,<br />
Florida, office.<br />
With 24<br />
years of local<br />
real estate<br />
experience,<br />
Nasser brings<br />
extensive market<br />
knowledge<br />
and expertise,<br />
specializing<br />
in golf course<br />
Maggie Nasser<br />
communities,<br />
new construction<br />
and residential properties<br />
in Sarasota, Bradenton and<br />
Lakewood Ranch. She is a Florida<br />
notary and Graduate of the Realtor<br />
Institute (GRI).<br />
Originally from Fall River,<br />
Massachusetts, Nasser received<br />
her associate’s degree from Bristol<br />
Community College in Fall River<br />
and her bachelor’s degree from the<br />
University of Maine at Presque Isle.<br />
The Lakewood Ranch office is<br />
located at 8215 Natures Way, #109,<br />
Lakewood Ranch. Nasser can be<br />
reached at (941) 780-1006 or Magnasser59@gmail.com.<br />
■ The Arts and Cultural Alliance<br />
of Sarasota County has announced<br />
the appointment of Kelley Lavin as<br />
interim Executive Director following<br />
the retirement<br />
of Jim<br />
Shirley. Shirely<br />
has served<br />
as Executive<br />
Director<br />
of the Arts<br />
Alliance since<br />
November<br />
2009.<br />
Kelley Lavin<br />
Lavin, the<br />
current board<br />
chair of the Alliance, will step down<br />
as president and take the position<br />
of Interim Director as of January<br />
1, <strong>2023</strong>. Julie Leach, Executive<br />
Director of Westcoast Black Theatre<br />
Troupe, has been appointed as the<br />
interim board chair for the Alliance.<br />
A search for a permanent Executive<br />
Director is already underway.<br />
The Alliance board has formed a<br />
committee to begin sourcing support<br />
from local partners to assist in finding<br />
the Alliance’s next great leader.<br />
Visit www.SarasotaArts.org.<br />
Board News<br />
■ The 2022 Impact100 SRQ<br />
Board of Directors elected Pam<br />
Kandziora as its new president.<br />
Pam joined Impact100 SRQ as a<br />
founding member in 2019, beginning<br />
her pathway to leadership by<br />
volunteering in a variety of roles<br />
over the past 4 years. In 2021, she<br />
was elected to the organization’s<br />
Board of Directors as Co-Treasurer<br />
and most recently has been serving<br />
in the position of Vice President,<br />
Organizational Services.<br />
After retiring as a corporate executive<br />
in several<br />
senior leadership<br />
positions,<br />
Pam and her<br />
husband put<br />
down roots<br />
in Sarasota<br />
to prepare<br />
for their next<br />
adventure.<br />
Pam Kandziora<br />
“I knew after<br />
spending so<br />
many years in the uber-competitive<br />
corporate world, I wanted to<br />
re-focus my energy and time by<br />
getting involved with nonprofit<br />
causes and activity,” says Kandziora.<br />
“Impact100 SRQ was the perfect<br />
organization to become part of,<br />
and being a member enabled me to<br />
learn more about the needs in my<br />
wonderful new community, while<br />
allowing me to immediately make a<br />
positive difference.”<br />
As a member of Impact100 SRQ,<br />
Pam embraced the unique model<br />
of a woman’s giving collective and<br />
learned about multiple nonprofit<br />
organizations, as well as their<br />
incredible efforts and contributions<br />
to Sarasota and Manatee Counties.<br />
She was excited by the organization’s<br />
core concept-- that her singular<br />
annual membership donation<br />
is multiplied exponentially through<br />
other member donations by the<br />
women of Impact100 SRQ.<br />
Jane Gill Watt, Impact100 SRQ<br />
founder and former President since<br />
inception in 2018 shares, “I am confident<br />
that Pam will lead the chapter<br />
to new heights as we continue our<br />
collective giving journey. She is<br />
eager to build on the success that<br />
we have already achieved, and fully<br />
embraces the Impact100 SRQ Giving<br />
Model. Pam is committed to leading<br />
our organization with passion and<br />
purpose, while maintaining our<br />
mission of empowering women to<br />
collectively fund transformational<br />
grants in Sarasota and Manatee<br />
Counties for years to come.”<br />
Impact100 SRQ, a 501(c)(3) not<br />
for profit, is one of more than 60<br />
chapters worldwide and joins its<br />
sister chapters in embracing the local<br />
collective giving model. Formed<br />
in 2018, Impact100 SRQ brings<br />
together a diverse group of women<br />
that annually fund transformational<br />
grants to local nonprofits in both<br />
Sarasota and Manatee Counties.<br />
At least 100 women each give a<br />
$1,000 tax-deductible donation,<br />
and together they collectively award<br />
grants in increments of at least<br />
$100,000 to local nonprofits in five<br />
focus areas: Arts & Culture, Education,<br />
Environment & Recreation,<br />
Family and Health & Wellness.<br />
■ Resilient Retreat recognized<br />
five key individuals who contributed<br />
to the organization’s launch.<br />
During a National Philanthropy<br />
Day celebration back in November<br />
and organized by the Southwest<br />
Florida Chapter of the Association<br />
of Fundraising Professionals, the<br />
following honorees were recognized:<br />
For the past two years,<br />
Stacy Fradkin has volunteered<br />
with Resilient Retreat, providing<br />
compassionate, empowering<br />
services for trauma survivors in the<br />
Southwest Florida community.<br />
As a yoga teacher and sound<br />
meditation facilitator, she has<br />
provided tangible tools for trauma<br />
survivors to cope with stress and<br />
to regulate the nervous system.<br />
Her services have been particularly<br />
valuable during the COVID-19<br />
pandemic and the post-Hurricane<br />
Ian recovery and continue to be<br />
some of the most beloved programs<br />
offered at Resilient Retreat;<br />
With more 15 years of event<br />
planning experience, Samantha<br />
Kingsley has spent countless<br />
hours—many of which as a volunteer<br />
—working on behalf of local<br />
area nonprofits, including Resilient<br />
Retreat, Embracing Our Differences,<br />
The Florida Center and the<br />
Palmetto Youth Center. Samantha<br />
and her team were critical to the<br />
success of Resilient Retreat’s recent<br />
Campus Building Dedication and<br />
Open House and its sold out grand<br />
opening luncheon with keynote<br />
speaker, actress and humanitarian<br />
Ashley Judd.<br />
Debbie and Gino LaMarca are<br />
a dynamic couple that are always<br />
willing to roll up their sleeves to help<br />
Resilient Retreat. Gino serves on the<br />
Board of Directors, ensuring good<br />
governance, financial accountability<br />
and sustainability, and a clear, focused<br />
strategic plan. Debbie serves<br />
on the Events Committee, helping to<br />
build awareness and raise funds to<br />
support the no-cost services provided<br />
by Resilient Retreat. Love IV Lawrence<br />
Foundation provides funding<br />
to reduce stigma and to build awareness<br />
about mental health.<br />
Thanks to the foundation’s<br />
generous support, Resilient Retreat<br />
received funding to provide<br />
trauma-informed equine therapy<br />
and neurofeedback for community<br />
members impacted by trauma. These<br />
programs have helped produce real<br />
change in the community, including<br />
lowering depression and PTSD.<br />
Sherri Mills serves as the Vice<br />
Chair of the Board of Directors and<br />
the Fundraising Chair for Resilient<br />
Retreat. As a real estate agent,<br />
she donates 10 percent of every<br />
house she sells to local non-profit<br />
organizations. She has also created<br />
her own non-profit, Live2Give,<br />
which provides financial support<br />
to trauma non-profits, including<br />
Resilient Retreat.<br />
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It’s a NewYear & a Great Time to Reboot your Health<br />
Here are immune-boosting recipes to get you off to a good start<br />
F Grilled Portabella Gyros w/Yogurt Dill Sauce<br />
Grilled Portabella Gyros w/Yogurt Dill Sauce T<br />
Feed your immune system with meaty, vitamin D-rich portabella mushrooms. Add<br />
in the benefits of Greek yogurt, including protein and probiotics (such as Lactobacillus<br />
acidophilus), along with vitamin C-powered bell peppers and tomatoes and<br />
have a real super-gyro sandwich.<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
4 portabella<br />
mushrooms<br />
2 yellow bell<br />
peppers, sliced<br />
1 tablespoon extravirgin<br />
olive oil<br />
½ teaspoon dried<br />
oregano<br />
¼ teaspoon smoked<br />
paprika<br />
4 pita breads or naan<br />
2 tomatoes, thinly<br />
sliced<br />
½ red onion, thinly<br />
sliced<br />
½ head green lettuce<br />
Crumbled feta cheese, optional<br />
FOR THE YOGURT DILL SAUCE:<br />
1 English cucumber, grated<br />
1 cup whole milk Greek yogurt<br />
½ cup sour cream<br />
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil<br />
Juice from ½ small lemon<br />
2 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 teaspoon salt<br />
1 tablespoon minced fresh dill<br />
Remove the stems from the mushrooms and brush caps with a wet towel. Carefully<br />
scrape out the gills with a spoon. Slice mushroom into ¼-inch pieces and place in a<br />
medium bowl along with the olive oil, oregano and smoked paprika.<br />
Preheat an indoor grill pan over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and peppers and<br />
grill, tossing occasionally, until tender, 5-7 minutes.<br />
To make the Yogurt Dill Sauce, squeeze the grated cucumber in a clean towel to remove<br />
excess liquid. Add to a large bowl with yogurt, sour cream, olive oil, lemon, garlic, salt<br />
and dill. Stir to combine.<br />
To serve, place mushrooms and peppers in the middle of the pita bread. Top with<br />
tomatoes, onion, lettuce, feta (optional), and a big dollop of yogurt sauce.<br />
Prep Time: 10 minutes. Cook Time: 15 minutes. Yield: 4 servings<br />
F Creamy Spinach, Mushroom & Lasagna Soup<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
1 tablespoon extravirgin<br />
olive oil<br />
2 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 medium onion,<br />
small diced<br />
8 ounces crimini<br />
mushrooms, sliced<br />
1 24-ounce jar<br />
marinara sauce<br />
1 15-ounce can diced<br />
tomatoes<br />
2 tablespoons tomato<br />
paste<br />
2 teaspoons balsamic<br />
vinegar<br />
1 teaspoon granulated sugar<br />
1 tablespoon dried basil<br />
½ teaspoon salt<br />
1 teaspoon oregano<br />
½ teaspoon black pepper<br />
1 bay leaf<br />
Heat a large pot over medium heat.<br />
Add olive oil, garlic, onion and mushrooms. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions and<br />
mushrooms have softened, 4-5 minutes.<br />
Add marinara, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, vinegar, sugar, basil, salt, oregano,<br />
pepper, bay leaf and broth. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and<br />
simmer.<br />
Add lasagna noodles and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 15 minutes. Remove<br />
from heat and remove bay leaf.<br />
Stir in the heavy cream and spinach until wilted, 2-3 minutes.<br />
Divide between bowls and top with a dollop of ricotta and a sprinkle of mozzarella.<br />
Prep Time: 10 minutes. Cook Time: 30 minutes. Yield: 4 servings<br />
F Asian BBQ Sesame Salmon with Noodles & Veggies<br />
Creamy Spinach, Mushroom & Lasagna Soup T<br />
All the comforting flavors of lasagna with less work. Lasagna soup is packed with<br />
selenium superstars crimini mushrooms, vitamin C-rich tomatoes and spinach, and<br />
al dente lasagna noodles. Add protein with a dollop of ricotta and a sprinkle of mozzarella<br />
— you’ve got yourself a delicious, nutrient-dense meal.<br />
Asian BBQ Sesame Salmon with Noodles & Veggies T<br />
3 cups vegetable broth<br />
6 lasagna noodles, broken into pieces<br />
½ cup heavy cream<br />
5 ounces fresh baby spinach<br />
1 cup whole milk ricotta<br />
½ cup shredded mozzarella for topping<br />
Both vitamins<br />
D and C are important<br />
for maintaining<br />
a healthy<br />
immune system.<br />
Fatty fish, such<br />
as salmon, and<br />
mushrooms are<br />
excellent sources<br />
of vitamin<br />
D while broccoli<br />
and sugar snap<br />
peas bring the vitamin<br />
C. Super<br />
charge your immune<br />
system and<br />
add some heat to<br />
the dinner table<br />
with this nutrient-packed<br />
meal<br />
that’s ready in just<br />
40 minutes.<br />
Prep Time:<br />
10 minutes.<br />
Cook Time:<br />
30 minutes.<br />
Yield: 4 servings<br />
FOR THE SAUCE:<br />
½ cup soy sauce<br />
2 tablespoons brown sugar<br />
1 tablespoon rice vinegar<br />
2 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, minced<br />
1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce (optional —<br />
for heat)<br />
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil<br />
2 tablespoons your favorite BBQ sauce<br />
2 tablespoons water<br />
2 teaspoon cornstarch<br />
Preheat the oven to 400F.<br />
FOR THE DISH:<br />
1 ½ pounds (4 filets) salmon<br />
12 ounces stir-fry rice noodles (pad<br />
thai noodles)<br />
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil<br />
1 pound white mushrooms, sliced<br />
1 cup sugar snap peas<br />
1 large broccoli head, cut into bite-size<br />
florets<br />
2–3 green onions, thinly sliced<br />
Sesame seeds for garnish<br />
Whisk together sauce ingredients (except water and cornstarch) in a small saucepan. Bring to<br />
a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to a simmer. In a small bowl, whisk together water and<br />
cornstarch. Pour into the pan and cook on low, whisking often, until the sauce thickens, 3-5<br />
minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.<br />
Pour 3 tablespoons of the sauce into a small bowl. Brush the salmon filets with reserved sauce and<br />
place on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, or until salmon is flaky. Discard the small bowl of<br />
sauce if any remains.<br />
Cook the stir-fry noodles according to the package directions. Drain, rinse, and set aside.<br />
Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sesame oil. Add mushrooms, snap peas and<br />
broccoli. Cook, stirring often, until veggies are tender-crisp, 7-8 minutes. Add the noodles and the<br />
remaining sauce from the pan. Toss to combine.<br />
To serve, divide noodles, veggies and salmon between plates. Top with sliced green onions and<br />
sesame seeds.<br />
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issues, death, divorce and other emotional<br />
issues. Our body tries to minimize each trauma<br />
by shortening fascia to isolate the energy<br />
coming into the body from that trauma.<br />
Shortened fascia results in pain, loss of mobility<br />
and range of motion, organs becoming<br />
less efficient and with parts of the brain and<br />
spinal cord becoming stressed.<br />
To keep the brain functioning, the body<br />
transfers some of your functional work play<br />
energy (7:00 AM-10:00 PM) to the brain resulting<br />
in less energy to make it through each<br />
day. As we age, the accumulation of all the<br />
tightened fascia, from every major trauma<br />
in life, begins to restrict every aspect of our<br />
body’s functions resulting in pain, loss of mobility,<br />
mis-functioning organs, loss of energy,<br />
as well as our brain losing some its sharpness.<br />
How Craniosacral<br />
Therapy Works<br />
The Craniosacral Therapist creates a safe<br />
place, with gentle holding techniques, that<br />
engages your body’s ability to self correct,<br />
reorganize and heal itself with the release<br />
of some of that tightened fascia during<br />
each session. As the Craniosacral Therapist<br />
engages your body, you will feel fascia releasing.<br />
As the fascia releases, pain begins to<br />
decrease, range of motion and mobility improve,<br />
organs begin functioning better and<br />
with less stress on the brain feels, it returns<br />
the energy it borrowed at the time of each<br />
trauma resulting in an immediate increase in<br />
your energy levels. Rarely does anyone leave<br />
from my first session not feeling better.<br />
Short Leg Syndrome<br />
Eighty-five percent of my clients have one<br />
of their legs pulled up 1/2 to 1 by shortened<br />
fascia. The tension from short leg syndrome<br />
on the sacrum (5 fused vertebrae at bottom<br />
of the spine) is transferred up the dural tube<br />
that encases the spinal cord into the lower<br />
and upper back, the neck, the cranium and<br />
The physical stress in bodies caused by shortened<br />
fascia (connective tissue) shuts down<br />
energy flows to certain organs. Short leg syndrome<br />
by ½ to 1 in (where one leg is pulled up<br />
by shortened fascia) shuts down energy flow to<br />
the spleen (an important part of your immune<br />
system) and the small and large intestine. With<br />
the release of that shortened fascia, energy returns<br />
to these organs.<br />
the brain. Headaches, migraines, TMJ and<br />
neck problems can originate from the fascial<br />
stress in the sacrum.<br />
Releasing this sacral stress increases energy<br />
in the bladder, sex organs, kidneys and<br />
the chakras as well as releasing major stress<br />
in the upper part of the body.<br />
Cause of Shallow Breathing<br />
A great majority of the clients who come to<br />
me for various problems are also shallow<br />
breathers. Fascial stress in the diaphragm<br />
restricts the depth of breathing by restricting<br />
energy flow to the lungs, the pericardium<br />
and the heart. With the release of fascial diaphragm<br />
restriction, the client immediately<br />
starts breathing deeply and energy is restored<br />
to the pericardium and the heart.<br />
Shoulder blades that are cemented to the<br />
body also restricts how much the rib cage can<br />
open and thereby also restricting depth of<br />
breath. Without proper breathing, your cells<br />
do not get enough oxygen. Everyone, especially<br />
people suffering from bronchitis, asthma<br />
and COPD as well as shallow breathing can<br />
benefit when the fascial stress is released.<br />
Specialized Training<br />
to work with Brain<br />
Dysfunctions<br />
Just as the body physically gets stressed from<br />
physical and emotional trauma, the functioning<br />
of the brain is also affected by fascial stress. For<br />
our brains to remain healthy, we need dynamic<br />
production of craniosacral fluid which performs<br />
the important function of bringing nourishment<br />
to all the cells in the brain and spinal<br />
cord as well as cleansing all the metabolic<br />
wastes given off by those same cells.<br />
Once the craniosacral fluid cleanses these<br />
metabolic wastes, efficient drainage of these<br />
metabolic wastes into the lymph system is<br />
absolutely necessary. Research has shown,<br />
that at night, craniosacral fluid cleanses amyloid<br />
plaques from the brain. If the drainage<br />
is inefficient, then the brain is being bathed<br />
in a toxic slurry. How does 15 or 20 years of<br />
your brain being bathed in a toxic slurry<br />
affect you: senile dementia, Parkinson’s,<br />
Alzheimer’s and other brain dysfunctions?<br />
A Craniosacral Therapist, who has received<br />
training in working with the brain, can reverse<br />
that stress on the brain that eventually can<br />
result in those brain dysfunctions. As we all<br />
know, the proper functioning of the body is<br />
dependent on a healthy functioning brain.<br />
Babies and Children can benefit<br />
■ Our little boy Leo, four years of age, had a<br />
difficult birth and at 7 months was put on antibiotics<br />
for an ear infection and as a result developed<br />
c-diff. His development came to a stop.<br />
At 3 years, with the help of an OT, he started<br />
to walk and talk. In spite of the improvements,<br />
he was unable to answer questions and his<br />
communication skills were very poor. Leo<br />
had very poor muscle tone, a lot of stress in<br />
his body and physical activities such walking,<br />
jumping and climbing were difficult for him.<br />
Beginning with the first session with Terry,<br />
he began showing improvement and with each<br />
following session. Everyone from his teachers<br />
to his grandparents noticed an increase in his<br />
■ “I was in awful pain and the<br />
MRI showed 2 pinched nerves<br />
and stenosis. I scheduled surgery.<br />
My daughter suggested Craniosacral therapy.<br />
After only 2 visits the pain was reduced to<br />
advanced craniosacral about 80% and therapy I canceled the surgery. I went<br />
for a 3rd visit and I am about 90% better.”<br />
■ “Simply Amazing! One visit was all it took for<br />
Terry to relieve 85% of my year long, nagging<br />
(sometimes severe) neck/shoulder tightness/<br />
pain!! My breathing improved tremendously.”<br />
physical strength, as well as improvements in<br />
comprehension, speech and communication<br />
skills. For the first time, he started participating<br />
in class lessons and interacting with his<br />
classmates. Terry has made a huge impact on<br />
getting Leo to a place a little boy should be at<br />
age four. We cannot thank Terry enough.<br />
■ Terry’s treatment helped our 6 week old<br />
baby boy from recent hospitalization into<br />
the first series of healthy bowel movements<br />
when seemingly nothing could help. Our son<br />
was able to latch onto the breast and for the<br />
first time completed his feeding. He was much<br />
calmer after working with Terry.<br />
■ “He was able to relieve tension that I have<br />
been carrying around for 15 years or more.<br />
I left his office table with more energy than I<br />
have had in years.”<br />
■ “I began working with him because I was<br />
dealing with anxieties, depression and lots of<br />
emotional pain inside and out. You don’t realized<br />
how much stress can cause damage to<br />
your body, mind and soul. I can say Terry was<br />
a big help.”<br />
Terrence Grywinski<br />
of Advanced<br />
Craniosacral Therapy,<br />
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049<br />
Testimonials from Clients<br />
SOURCE:<br />
■ Terrence Grywinski of Advanced Craniosacral Therapy,<br />
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049. Terry has specialized in Craniosacral<br />
Therapy since 1994 when he began his training at the Upledger<br />
Institute. Described by his teachers, clients and colleagues<br />
as a “gifted healer”, Terry’s intuitive sense and healing energy<br />
provides immediate and lasting relief from injury, pain, mobility<br />
issues as well as dysfunctions of the body and the brain. Part<br />
of Terry’s ongoing education, he has completed 4 craniosacral<br />
brain and peripheral nervous system classes which enables him<br />
to work at a cellular<br />
level and with brain<br />
dysfunctions.<br />
Call 941-321-8757<br />
for more information,<br />
Google Advanced<br />
Craniosacral<br />
Therapy.<br />
■ “On a recent vacation to Siesta Key, I re-injured<br />
my back. I found Terry online. I can say<br />
with complete joy that was the best decision<br />
I made in the history of my back pain. I have<br />
sought many modalities and visit a CST regularly<br />
and never have I had such a healing in<br />
my entire body.<br />
After 3 sessions, I made a 16-hour drive<br />
home with no pain or discomfort in my entire<br />
body. Unbelievable. My body has a sense of<br />
moving freely and that is completely new. I’m<br />
advanced craniosacral therapy<br />
so grateful to Terry for his knowledge, for his<br />
sensitivity to my needs and his kind generosity<br />
in healing my body. I will see him when I return<br />
next year.”<br />
■ “I am a snowbird who spends 7 months<br />
in Sarasota. I have had back problems for 25<br />
years. Terry’s techniques have led to a great<br />
deal of release and relief in areas that have<br />
been problematic. I have been seeing him over<br />
the years when my body says ”it’s time”. Usually<br />
after a few sessions, I can tell a huge difference.”<br />
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