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out and about continued Summer Camps Sarasota Youth Opera invites young people between the ages of 8 and 18 to explore the world of opera through its annual Summer Camp. The camp runs on weekdays from June 12 to June 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a one or two-week session available for children aged 8 to 10. The camp takes place at the Sarasota Opera House. Tuition fees vary according to age and session with tuition assistance available. The program is designed for all skill levels with no audition required. Registration deadline is May 15. The camp will take place at the Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple, Sarasota. For information, visit sarasotaopera.org or call 941-328-1329. ▼ At The Van Wezel A sampling of upcoming shows: • GORDON LIGHTFOOT: THE LEG- END IN CONCERT AT THE VAN WEZEL HAS BEEN CANCELED. • Tom Jones: Ages & Stages Tour will take place on May 13. Pre-show dining is available through Mattison’s at the Van Wezel which is located inside the theatre. Reservations can be made on Van- Wezel.org or through the box office. ▼ 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. ▼ 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 information, visit www.selby.org. At Bookstore1 Sarasota PoetryMic introduces you to a varied group of talented poets that live in and around Sarasota. • May 7, 2-3 p.m—PoetryMic with Jack Massa and Lois Betterton: Readings of Original Poems by Local Poets. Jack Massa has a BA from New College of Florida and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an author of speculative fiction and poetry, his interests include ancient civilizations, magic and mysticism, quantum physics, space science, and artificial intelligence. Lois Betterton grew up in Yonkers, New York and now reside in Sarasota’s Historic Rosemary District. She began reading and writing poetry as a young child and has embraced the written word all her life. She founded The Word Show poetry group in 2012 in Sarasota that showcases local, free range, organic Poetry at Blvd Cafe in the Rosemary District. In the loft at Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. This is a free event, but registration is required. RSVP here: www.sarasotabooks.com ▼ Book clubs: These meet in person in the loft at Bookstore1 at The Mark, 117 South Pineapple Ave. • May 9 at 11 a.m.—May’s pick is A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and ▼ On May 19, Hermitage Sunsets@Selby Gardens presents “Cello on Point” with Karen Patterson, Hermitage Alumna and cellist. Registration: HermitageArtistRetreat.org. Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. A fee of $16 is required for participation. This includes a copy of A Rage in Harlem to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. • May 10 at 2p.m.—The Poetry Book Club’s May selection is American Melancholy, a new collection of poetry from Joyce Carol Oates, an American literary legend, her first in 25 years.A fee of $18 is required for participation. This includes a copy of American Melancholy to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. • May 17 at 11 a.m.—The Short and Satisfying Book Club led by Georgia Court will explore A Woman’s Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis, a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence. A fee of $20 is required for participation. This includes a copy of A Woman’s Battles and Transformations to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. • May 23 at 11 a.m.— The Banned Book Club’s May’s pick is The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the daring story of a woman’s search for personal freedom that was so controversial in 1899 that it ended its author’s career. A fee of $10 is required for participation. This includes a copy of The Awakening to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. Registration for all book clubs: www. sarasotabooks.com/bookclubs, or call 941-365-7900. Walking Tours This one is at The Ringling’s Arboretum on May 29. This walking tour led by volunteer guides will introduce you to interesting botanical specimens on the estate while providing a historic overview of the development of the estate. The Ringling Arboretum has been accredited at Level II through ArbNet and there are over 2350 trees within the arboretum representing native, exotic, historical, and culturally significant trees. ▼ Garden Tours are available Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays and take place entirely outdoors. It is 90 minutes in length and covers approximately 1 mile. Bring bottled water, and wear appropriate footwear, preferably closed-toe, sunblock, and hats. There will be a maximum of 10 participants per tour. Tours are subject to weather conditions. Tickets will be available 30 days prior to each tour. Go to www.ringling.org/events. Art Around the State The Boca Raton Museum of Art has Whitfield Lovell: Passages is in South Florida at the Boca through May 21. The tour continues across six states throughout the American South and the Midwest. This is the largest exhibition ever presented of Lovell’s work that focuses on lost African American history, and raises universal questions about America’s collective heritage. Lovell’s interest in spirituality, healing, and ritual, together with his use of reclaimed and found objects, aromas, music, and sound, has long informed his practice which investigates the circularity of life. bocamuseum.org/ ▼ • Tampa Museum of Art has Identity in the Ancient World on view through March, 2025. Today, we recognize various expressions of identity, such as personal, social and national identity. Certain frames of identity are well-defined or fixed, others are based on personal choice or may change over time. Think of economic class and social status, education and profession, culture and nationality. Also, language, lifestyle, musical preference, personal companionship, political allegiance or religion. These frames of identity may invoke a sense of belonging or form exclusive alliances. They may also provoke feelings of marginalization, even policies of segregation. Or, they may create demands for acceptance and equal treatment. This exhibition engages the public to reflect upon the differences and similarities between the ancient world and our contemporary society. Some themes the visitor may encounter include masculinity and femininity, intimacy and ethnicity. In the ancient world such expressions of identity could not always be articulated explicitly because the terminology for voicing thoughts about personal, cultural and national frames of identity often did not exist. That is not to say that Egyptians or Persians, Greeks or Romans did not experience a sense of belonging to a certain group sharing a cultural, linguistic and historical heritage. They recognized biological differences between men and women, and they believed that certain social roles belonged to the different genders. Ancient societies were unambiguously patriarchal and hierarchical, with certain political rights held as privileges of well-defined classes. Others were excluded – such as enslaved persons, peasants, women and/ or resident aliens (even when living in the same country for generations), who had little or no rights. Tampa Museum of Art, Cornelia Corbett Center, 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. tampamuseum.org/ • Best In Showdogs in Art is at The MFA through August 6, 2023. The MFA curators (and resident dog-lovers) have collaborated on an exhibition linking their disparate areas of expertise and media across time and space with a unifying theme—in this case, our beloved canine partners. Humans and canines have been co-evolving for over 30,000 years, developing a rich and complex set of relationships that is revealed through works of art. Working exclusively from our collection, our curators have chosen their favorite works that memorialize this special relationship. From ancient times through contemporary times, dogs have been constant companions. They have assisted by hunting and guiding, supported through their steadfast loyalty, and amused with their energy and antics. This small focus show—drawn entirely from the MFA Collection—highlights the ways dogs have been represented throughout the history of art. Also on display is Shashin Japanese Photographs From the Meiji Era, 1870- 1900. Runs through July 23, 2023. Although photography was invented in 1839 in France, shashin—the Japanese word for photograph— was not fully introduced in Japan until the mid-1860s. Learning the craft from European photographers, Japanese photographers were quick to embrace the ambrotype, albumen, and cartede-visite processes. Most opened studios in the 1870s amid stiff European competition, but by the 1890s, Japanese photographers dominated the market. While many Japanese studios adopted the earlier conventions established by European studios, photographers like Kusakabe Kimbei (1841–1934) incorporated subtle variations in content which underscored the movement toward modernization prevalent in Meiji-era Japan (1868– 1912). Discovering a new approach to present local subjects to a primarily foreign audience, his meticulously hand-painted genre images reflect a dynamic merging of the subject matter and artistic sensibility of Japanese woodblock prints with photographic technology. Ogawa Kazumasa (1860– 1929)—a pioneer in photomechanical color printing—produced lusciously colorful botanical works that emphasized the artistic merits of photography. Ambrotype portraits housed in handmade kiri-wood boxes—a uniquely Japanese presentation— served as personal mementos of loved ones. Later, cartes-de-visite made images of family and notable personalities accessible to everyone. This selection of photographs showcases the skill and innovation of Japanese photographers working in Japan from 1870–1900. Comprised of almost 50 works from the MFA Collection, early Japanese photography served a multitude of functions including mementos for remembrance, collectibles for tourists, and furthered the notion of photography as an art. The MFA is located at 255 Beach Dr NE, St. Petersburg. mfastpete.org 10 WEST COAST WOMAN MAY 2023
focus on the arts WOMEN’S WORK Women Play Key Roles in Annual Sarasota Music Festival Sarasota Orchestra has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to having women musicians in leadership positions. From 1971-1997, at a time when female Concertmasters were rare, the Florida West Coast Symphony, (as it was then called), was led by longtime 1st violinist Anita Brooker. In 2013, Estonian conductor Anu Tali assumed the role of Music Director of Sarasota Orchestra, becoming one of only a handful of women at the helm of a full-time American orchestra. Sarasota Music Festival, a program of Sarasota Orchestra, has continued that trend, with women comprising a large percentage of the extraordinary faculty who arrive in Sarasota each June from every corner of the music world. This year the Festival, which runs from June 5-24, boasts 38 gifted faculty artists, of whom 17 are women. Some of them, like Julie Landsman, former Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera, are longtime faculty members, having come to Sarasota to teach and perform for decades. Others, like the extraordinary violist Yura Lee, the Harlem Quartet’s violinist Melissa White, and flute soloist Jasmine Choi, are joining the Festival faculty for the first time in 2023. Together, they bring a depth and breadth of experience that is unrivaled in the classical music world. The beneficiaries of that extraordinary pool of talent are the 60 pre-professional music students who vie for the chance to be among the Festival fellows each summer, studying and performing with their musical idols. The classical music world has changed dramatically over the past decades, and women now comprise more than 50% of most major symphony orchestras. That shift accelerated with the advent of “blind” auditions in the 1970’s, as musicians began competing for positions behind screens so that the committee judging them had no idea of their gender. It didn’t take long before the ranks of women in major orchestras began to swell, as it became clear to everyone that women played every bit as well as their male counterparts did. Hornist Julie Landsman was a rarity in 1985 when she won the position of Principal horn in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the first female brass player in the Met Orchestra’s history. She went on to a 25-year career at the Met and became a teaching legend at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2012 the International Women’s Brass Conference awarded their Pioneer Award to Landsman, recognizing “women who have been pioneers in the top levels of brass performance, breaking down barriers and living their lives effecting change for those who have followed.” She has been inspiring young hornists at the Sarasota Music Festival since 1994. Joining the Festival for the first time in 2023 is internationally renowned violist Yura Lee, who is a true “A-List” celebrity in the viola and violin Julie Landsman Yura Lee Melissa White Jasmine Choi world. She won the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the “Performance Today” awards given by National Public Radio when she was only 12 years old, and has gone on to win top prizes at multiple international competitions performing on both violin and viola. She is in high demand as a soloist and chamber musician, and has performed with major orchestras across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Another newcomer to the Festival faculty in 2023 will be the Harlem String Quartet’s violinist Melissa White. Her performances with the Harlem Quartet have been hailed as “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent” (Cincinnati Enquirer). One of a new generation of classical musicians, she has forged a career performing as soloist with orchestras across the world, but has also branched out to embrace other genres, performing with several pop artists including Pharrell, Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill. The Festival’s announcement that flutist Jasmine Choi would join the faculty this summer stirred tremendous excitement among flutists across the country. Choi is a Festival alumna who was a Fellow in 2003. She went on to win positions as principal flute of the Vienna Symphony and associate principal flute of the Cincinnati Symphony, before turning her attention to solo performing and recording. She is among the next generation of classical artists forging a strong presence on social media where she connects with flutists worldwide. These extraordinary women and the rest of the remarkably talented Festival faculty offer the young pre-professional musicians who attend the Festival a window into not only the most traditional career paths as a soloist, chamber or orchestral musician, but also into the myriad new paths being charted by gifted young 21st century artists. They offer we lucky Sarasotans the opportunity to hear them perform and teach in person, as the Festival presents not only 9 concerts, but also daily masterclasses over the course of the 3-week Festival, all open to the public. The masterclasses provide an extraordinary window into the lives of the fellows as they strive to perfect their craft, and into the careers of the outstanding faculty, as they share the wisdom gained through years of professional performing. For more information, visit sarasotaorchestra. org or call 941-953-3434. Do not miss the opportunity to be moved and amazed by these and other extraordinary women of the Sarasota Music Festival as they bring their gifts and inspirational stories to the next generation of classical musicians. — SOURCE: By: Betsy Hudson Traba PAID ADVERTORIAL The Power of Storytelling Through Music TICKETS ON SALE NOW! JEFFREY KAHANE, MUSIC DIRECTOR Classical musicians from around the world converge on Sarasota for three weeks of breathtaking performances. ARTIST SHOWCASES Thursdays |4:30 pm |Holley Hall JUNE 8, 15, 22 FESTIVAL CONCERTS Fridays | 7:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House JUNE 9, 16, 23 SATURDAY SYMPHONIES Saturdays |7:30 pm Sarasota Opera House JUNE 10, 17, 24 Wenlan Jackson, 2022 SMF Fellow SarasotaMusicFestival.org 941-953-3434 This advertising made possible through the generous support of the THE DAVID AND LINDA GREEN Family Fund of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. 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