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out and about continued
with her “sumptuous coloratura and
otherworldly pianissimi” (Herald
Tribune).
On March 27: With his orchestral
playing praised as “a rock-solid
foundation” and his solo playing
described as being “remarkable for
both its solid power and its delicacy,”
Aaron Tindall is the principal tubist
of the Sarasota Orchestra and is a frequent
soloist, guest artist/clinician,
and orchestral tubist throughout the
United States, Europe, and Asia.
Visit SillSarasota.org or call 941-
365-6404.
Art Classes
Registration continues for Art
Center Sarasota’s 2023 adult education
season, which runs through
April and features more than 100
classes, workshops, and open studio
sessions.
Classes are offered Monday through
Saturday and cover a diversity of topics,
including painting, photography,
sculpture, mixed-media, drawing,
and pastel and taught by more than
25 art instructors.
To register and for more information,
visit www.artsarasota.org or call 941-
365-2032.
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Local History
Manatee Village Historical Park
has Living Off the Land: Florida’s
Pioneering Efforts to Make a Living.
The exhibit explores the various ways
settlers in the mid-1800s through the
early 1900s took advantage of readily
available natural resources of the
land and sea.
As Manatee County developed
during the Pioneering Period (1830-
1918), a number of commercial activities
grew out of the environmental
realities people moving into the area
built upon. One of the earliest brought
fishermen who set up seasonal camps
along our shores. These fishermen
set up semi-permanent Fishing Ranchos
where they caught and prepared
schools of mullet and other fish for
Cuban markets.
In the 1840s, when the first waves
of American expansion into the area
started, sugar production became a
major economic engine. At its peak,
there were over a dozen sugarcane
plantations established within the
Manatee River area. By the mid-1800s
and early 1900s, Florida’s population
was growing along with its economic
prosperity. With the development of
steamship lines, connected to the first
railroads, local businesses began to
send products to ports and destinations
around the nation and throughout
the world.
Living Off the Land: Florida’s
Pioneering Efforts to Make a Living
will be available on-site at Manatee
Village Historical Park through
November, 2024.
Manatee Village Historical Park is
located at 1404 Manatee Avenue East
(SR64) in Bradenton, Florida. For more
information, call 941-749-7165, or
visit www.manateevillage.org.
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Art Around
the State
At The Dali: the shape of dreams
through April 30. The Shape of
Dreams explores 500 years of
dream-inspired paintings from the
16th to 20th century, demonstrating
how artists throughout time have
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depicted a profound
yet universal phenomenon
of human
experience — the
dream. The exhibition
will examine
how Western artists
have depicted
dreams for very
different audiences
throughout time,
exploring the continuity
and disconnections
between
the past and present.
The exhibition
features a selection
of art on loan from
American institutions,
including the
National Gallery of
Art, Detroit Institute
of Arts, The New
Orleans Museum of
Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Hirshhorn
Museum & Sculpture Garden,
Chicago Art Institute and Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Several works
from The Dalí’s permanent collection
are placed in dialog with these works.
The exhibition includes some reproductions
to ensure visitors can experience
the essential images to our curated
story of dreams.
Drawing on the irony that dreams
are an intense visual sensation most
often taking place when the eyes are
closed, the exhibition inspires questions
about the very nature of reality
and encourages viewers to examine
dreams through different lenses —
psychological, religious and metaphysical.
Works by Frida Kahlo, Paul
Delvaux, Pat Steir, Philip Guston, Max
Beckmann, Lodovico Carracci and
Odilon Redon, many of which are
monumental canvases, address manners
of representation and consider
how the waking world influences the
dream. The exhibition seeks to understand
how these artistic expressions
shape the imagination.
Information: thedali.org.
The Museum of Fine Arts has
True Nature Rodin And The Age Of
Impressionism through March 26.
True Nature presents works by one of
the most celebrated sculptors of all
time, side by side with paintings by
his contemporaries.
Rodin (1840-1917) created dramatic
works that are instantly recognizable,
and pervade our collective
cultural consciousness. This exhibition
includes nearly 40 of his masterpieces,
ranging from intimately
scaled marble statues to monumental
bronzes. It offers a remarkably comprehensive
look at Rodin, placing him
within the context of the profound
artistic, cultural, and social changes
occurring at the end of the nineteenth
century in France. True Nature also
explores Rodin’s desire for academic
recognition, even as he remained at
the forefront of the avant-garde alongside
the Impressionists.
Featuring examples of the artist’s
most eminent works, such as Saint John
the Baptist Preaching (1878), and Jean
d’Aire (1886), this exhibition looks
beyond Rodin’s popular persona as the
tormented Romantic genius, revealing
his extraordinary powers of observation
and ability to capture emotion and
movement. True Nature also includes
major paintings such as Claude Monet’s
Nympheas (circa 1897-1898), Paul
Cézanne’s Still Life with Cherries
and Peaches (1885-1887), and Edgar
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Degas’s The Bellelli Sisters (1865-1866).
Consummate photographs, drawings,
and sculptures by other masters of the
period also join the exhibition.https://
mfastpete.org/exh/rodin-and-the-impressionists/
The MFA is at 255 Beach Dr., NE, St.
Petersburg. Visit mfastpete.org.
Selby Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
has Seeing the Invisible at its Historic
Spanish Point campus. The most
ambitious and expansive show to date
of contemporary artworks created
with augmented-reality (AR) technology,
the exhibition launched last
year at 12 botanical gardens around
the world. Selby Gardens is one of
four inaugural sites that will continue
to host the show for a second year,
through September 2023. Six new
garden and museum sites will join the
global exhibition in October.
Seeing the Invisible features works
by more than a dozen internationally
acclaimed artists, including Ai Weiwei
of China, El Anatsui of Ghana, Isaac
Julien CBE RA of the United Kingdom,
and Sarah Meyohas of the United
States. At Selby Gardens’ Historic
Spanish Point campus, the show’s 13
AR works are installed in carefully curated
locations throughout the 30-acre
preserve. Visitors engage with the art
through an app that can be downloaded
to a smartphone or tablet.
Seeing the Invisible is the first exhibition
of its kind to be developed
as a collaboration among botanical
gardens around the world. The same
commissioned artworks are placed in
outdoor settings at the participating
institutions, creating parallels and
contrasts between them. The AR nature
of the exhibition has allowed for
the creation of expansive, immersive
works that engage with existing features
of the natural landscape, going
beyond the limitations of what is possible
with physical artworks.
For more information visit www.
selby.org.
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The Venice
Farmers Market
Runs October – March: Saturdays
from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and April
– September: Saturdays from 8 a.m.
to Noon
Fresh Florida-grown produce, delicious
baked items, wild-caught seafood,
artisan handmade food items,
homemade pickles, kettle corn, local
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honey, gourmet prepared
food to eat,
and don’t miss our
wide array of green
space vendors offering
tropical plants,
potted herbs, citrus
trees and fresh-cut
flowers, creative
art and crafts, live
music and much
much more.
The Venice Farmers
Market at City
Hall, 401 W. Venice
Avenue, is one
of four non-profit
community markets
under the Friends
of Sarasota County
Parks donates proceeds
after operating
costs back to the
local community.
www.thevenicefarmersmarket.org/.
Circus Sarasota’s
25th anniversary
show continues
with an international
cast of world-class
circus
artists
through
March 5.
CircusArts.org
At Bookstore1
Sarasota
PoetryLife brings the world’s best
poets come to Sarasota to engage with
the community through open discussion
and readings. This year PoetryLife’s
featured events will be held at
Florida Studio Theatre.
Afternoon Conversation & Coffee
with award-winning poets is on
March 13 at 3 pm in FST’s Court Cabaret
featuring Martín Espada and Patricia
Jabbeh Wesley. The theme is “Celebrating
Heritage” and the discussion
will focus on the richness brought to
poetry by poets from different ethnic
backgrounds.
Evening reading by award-winning
poets is on March 13 at 7 pm in FST’s
Keating Theatre. Featuring Martín
Espada and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley,
with special guest appearance by
Sarasota’s First Youth Poet Laureate,
Hayley Peace
Each ticket includes a book by each
featured poet (different titles than
those included with the afternoon
event). Tickets are available through
FST’s box office at 941-366-9000.
Their book clubs meet in person in
the loft at Bookstore1 at The Mark, 117
South Pineapple Ave.
Register for all book clubs at www.sarasotabooks.com,
or call 941-365-7900.
Book Club Meetings:
March 14 at 11 a.m. The Mysteries to
Die For Book Club Vintage Edition led
by Elsie Souza. This monthly book club
is dedicated to reading vintage mystery
novels. March’s pick is The Son by
Jo Nesbø, a tale of vengeance set amid
Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.
About The Son: Sonny Lofthus has
been in prison for almost half his life:
serving time for crimes he didn’t commit.
In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted
supply of heroin--and a stream
of fellow prisoners seeking his Buddha-like
absolution. Years earlier Sonny’s
father, a corrupt cop, took his own
life rather than face exposure. When
Sonny discovers a shocking truth
about his father’s suicide, he makes a
brilliant escape and begins hunting
down the people responsible. But he’s
also being hunted--by enemies too
numerous to count.
A fee of $18 is required for participation.
This includes a copy of The Son
to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the
book club meeting.
March 15 at 11 a.m. The Short and
Satisfying Book Club led by Georgia
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Court. The Short and Satisfying Book
Club is for those looking for a shorter
read that is ripe for discussion. March’s
pick is Claire Keegan’s beautiful new
novella, Foster, a heartbreaking story
of childhood, loss, and love.
About Foster: It is a hot summer in
rural Ireland. A child is taken by her
father to live with relatives on a farm,
not knowing when or if she will be
brought home again. In the Kinsellas’
house, she finds an affection and
warmth she has not known and slowly,
in their care, begins to blossom. But
there is something unspoken in this
new household—where everything is
so well tended to—and this summer
must soon come to an end.
Winner of the prestigious Davy
Byrnes Award and published in an
abridged version in the New Yorker,
this internationally bestselling contemporary
classic is now available
for the first time in the US in a full,
standalone edition. A story of astonishing
emotional depth, Foster showcases
Claire Keegan’s great talent and
secures her reputation as one of our
most important storytellers.
A fee of $20 is required for participation.
This includes a copy of Foster
to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the
book club meeting.
March 21 at 11 a.m. The Banned
Book Club led by Bryn Durgin. In this
monthly book club dedicated to reading
and protecting the most important
and threatened books for our generation
March’s pick is I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou’s
debut memoir, a modern American
classic beloved worldwide.
About I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings: Here is a book as joyous and
painful, as mysterious and memorable,
as childhood itself. I Know Why the
Caged Bird Sings captures the longing
of lonely children, the brute insult of
bigotry, and the wonder of words that
can make the world right. Poetic and
powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings will touch hearts and change
minds for as long as people read. Maya
Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern
American classic beloved worldwide.
A fee of $15 is required for participation.
This includes a copy of I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to
be picked up at Bookstore1 and the
book club meeting.
The Florida Waters
Stewardship
Program 2023
The UF/IFAS Extension Services
in Manatee and Sarasota County are
co-hosting an educational program
about water conservation and stewardship
from March 8-April 19.
To make a difference for water in our
community, we must understand the
various ways in which we interact with
water. This program will use expert
presentations, experiential learning,
field experience in watershed science,
and communication skills training to
foster a greater understanding of these
interactions and provide the tools
necessary to become stewards of our
water resources.
During this seven-session course,
stewards will travel to locations
across Sarasota and Manatee County
to learn about emerging water
issues, meet with local experts, and
explore the natural beauty found in
these areas.
Registration link: bit.ly/FWSP23
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