Announcing The 26 th Annual SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL April 5 th –14 th 20<strong>24</strong> sarasotafilmfestival.com 6 WEST COAST WOMAN MARCH 20<strong>24</strong>
out &about Art Crawl Trolley Tour Discover Sarasota Tours has an Art Crawl Trolley Tour showcasing Sarasota’s galleries, studios, and public art. This city-wide tour explores six different downtown Sarasota neighborhoods on the 2nd Friday night from 5-9 p.m. through April. The tour is led by local guide and watercolor artist Jerome Chesley. Visitors start at the Trolley Cottage Gift Shop located in Gillespie Park. Guests can also visit the Artful Giraffe Gallery at this hub location. Then they will board the trolley or van to explore Historic Burns Court, Towles Court Art Center, Limelight District, Main Street, Palm Avenue and the Rosemary District. During the 30-minute rotating tour they will see Sarasota’s collection of public art. At each hub stop, guests can hop off to explore galleries and studios or hop back on to go to the next stop. Participating galleries include: Chasen Galleries at the Mark, 530 Burns Court, Define Gallery, Palmer Gallery, Artful Giraffe, Creative Liberties, Bazaar on Apricot and Lime/ Hamlet’s Eatery, Helmuth Stone, Towles Court Art Center, Mara Studio Gallery, Sarasota Trading Company, Alex Art International, Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota Fine Art, Meg Krakowiak Studio and NorthStar Jewelry and Gallery. The Art Crawl will be offered on March 8, and April 12. The $10 ticket includes transport to each of the tour’s six gallery locations, free parking at The Trolley Cottage Gift Shop, and complimentary beer, wine, or water before boarding. For tickets and information, visit at DiscoverSarasota Tours.com or call 941-260-9818. ▼ Special Events Cat Depot’s 20th Anniversary Celebration takes place on March 7 at the Hyatt Regency Sarasota. The evening will include entertainment, hand-crafted cocktails, dinner, dancing, and a silent auction. What began with 262 cats from an overcrowded shutdown shelter has become the Cat Depot you know today. They have touched the lives of nearly 20,000 cats through adoption and others through our public Cat Care Clinic, community programs and more. Tickets and info: catdepot.org ▼ The Ringling offers Bayfront Gardens Tour through April 29. This small group guided walking tour introduces you to interesting botanical specimens, while providing a historic overview of the development of the estate. The Ringling has over 2,350 trees representing native, exotic, historical, and culturally significant trees. ThThe tour is 90 minutes long and takes place entirely outdoors. Participants are encouraged to bring bottled water, and wear appropriate footwear, and sun protection. The tour is subject to weather conditions and ticket includes access to the Bayfront Gardens for the rest of the day. www. ringling.org/visit/tours ▼ Architecture Sarasota’s speaker series has these events coming up: • March 20 Moderns That Matter: Sarasota 100 Announcement and Exhibition Opening 5:30pm, McCulloch Pavilion, 265 S. Orange Avenue ▼ • March 22 Lecture by 20<strong>24</strong> Hiss Award Winner, Lord Norman Foster 6 pm, Art Ovation Hotel, 1255 North Palm Avenue • March 23 Yoga at the Umbrella House 10am, 1300 Westway Drive, Lido Shores, Lido Key • March 23 Hiss Award Dinner 6pm, Revere Quality House, 100 Ogden Street, Siesta Key • March 26 Modernism 102, Session 6: New(er) Materials (2000s-Today) 5:30-6:30pm, McCulloch Pavilion, 265 S. Orange Avenue For information and to purchase tickets, visit www.architecture sarasota.org Perlman Music Program Suncoast Perlman Suncoast has violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova who will present “HERS” on March 3. As the Carr-Petrova Duo, they will perform pieces from their new album, which celebrates female composers from the 1100’s to the present day. “HERS vibrantly celebrates the vision, strength, resilience, and incredible accomplishments of eight fearless women – from the 12th-century’s Hildegard Von Bingen to today’s Beyoncé,” says Berger. The Ariel Quartet returns to Sarasota on April 4 in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. This quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than 20 years—and is a favorite among regional audiences. The concert will be at the Ora on the Federation’s new campus. For more information about The Perlman Music Program Suncoast, visit www.PMPSuncoast.org. ▼ Key Chorale On March 22 and 23 they have Cirque des Voix with The Circus Arts Conservatory. This marks the 13th year of “Cirque des Voix”. Experience a brand-new show combining dramatic, heart stopping circus acts with music by the 110+ voices of Key Chorale and the mastery of the Cirque Orchestra. It’s a fusion of the circus and musical arts in a performance unlike any other. “Light & Gold” is on April 7 and showcases Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen who are two of the most popular and performed choral composers of our time. Join the Key Chorale Chamber Singers, Principal Keyboardist Glenn Priest, and the musicians of Modern Marimba as they present some of their most hauntingly beautiful works full of memorable, spine-tingling harmonies. Hear the Florida premiere of Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Lauridsen’s masterpiece inspired by light, Lux Aeterna. For more information, visit www. keychorale.org. ▼ Perlman Suncoast has The Ariel Quartet on April 4 in partnership with The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. Information: visit www.PMPSuncoast.org. Town Hall Town Hall continues with best-selling author Nir Eyal will share insights from the field of behavioral design on March 11. Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003. He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Ballet legend Misty Copeland closes out Town Hall on April 15. Copeland joined American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company in September 2000, joined ABT as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001, and in August 2007 became the company’s second African American female soloist and the first in two decades. In 2015, Misty was promoted to principal dancer, making her the first African American woman to ever be promoted to the position in the company’s 75-year history. Visit www.rclassociation.org ▼ Sarasota Opera Sarasota Opera’s Winter Opera Festival runs from through March <strong>24</strong>. • Carmen by Georges Bizet runs through March 22. The seductive and enigmatic heroine of Bizet’s opera has enticed Corporal Don José who upends his life to be with her. When her interest turns to the charismatic bullfighter Escamillo, José’s enraged jealousy leads to catastrophe. • Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti runs through March 23. Deceit leads to murder and madness, in Donizetti’s masterpiece, based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor. To save his family’s fortunes, Enrico Ashton has promised his sister Lucia’s hand to a Scottish nobleman, instead of the man she loves, Edgardo, a member of a rival family. • Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi runs March 9-<strong>24</strong>. One of Verdi’s lesser performed but passionately romantic dramas, Luisa Miller returns to Sarasota Opera after 25 years. Luisa, the daughter of an old soldier, is in love with Carlo, who is really, Rodolfo, the son of the ruthless Count Walter. The count’s opposition to the couple’s love leads to tragedy, in an opera filled with memorable arias and thrilling ensembles. • Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) ▼ by Joseph Haydn runs March 15-23. Haydn is one of classical music’s most famous composers, but his substantial body of opera is virtually unknown. In this comedy, the peasant Filippo hopes his daughter Sandrina will marry the rich farmer Nencio. She is in love, however, with a poor peasant, whose sister is in love with Nencio. Through a series of comic complications (including a parade of disguises), all is happily resolved, accompanied by Haydn’s inventive score and brilliant singing. This will be a Sarasota Opera premiere and the first fully-staged professional production in the U.S. in over 50 years. For tickets, visit SarasotaOpera.org or call the box office at (941) 328-1300. Selby Gardens Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will present Yayoi Kusama: A Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe which examines the work of major artists through the lens of their connection to nature. The exhibition runs through June 30, 20<strong>24</strong>, at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus. It explores the impactful mentoring relationship that developed between artists Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe based on their personal correspondence at a critical point in Kusama’s artistic development. This show also explores the ways in which the work of both artists is rooted in nature, befitting an art and horticultural experience set in a botanical garden.” In the mid-1950s, Yayoi Kusama was a young artist living in Japan, where her future was very uncertain. Seeking advice from a more established female artist, Kusama wrote to Georgia O’Keeffe, whose work she greatly admired but whom she had never met. To Kusama’s surprise, O’Keeffe responded, thus establishing a correspondence that gave the young Japanese artist the courage to move to America and pursue her career in New York City, which was then the center of the art world. Kusama’s decision, with O’Keeffe’s encouragement, forever changed the course of modern art history. Tickets: https:// selby.org/ ▼ ensembleNEWSRQ Next up: You Are Free: March 25, 7:30 p.m. Raven Chacon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Voiceless Mass” anchors this program of powerful works for mixed instrumentation. The concert also presents the world premiere and enSRQ commission of a work by Kyle Rivera, which was written for enSRQ artists. Rivera is an up-and-coming composer, who is currently a student at Yale School of Music. The program also incudes ▼ works by Ania Vu, Shawn Okpebholo and Sarah Kirkland Snider. First Congregational Church, 1031 S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota. https://ensrq.org/ Venice Symphony Venice Symphony presents Arabian Nights. This program includes Maurice Jarre’s sweeping overture from Lawrence of Arabia, Ernest Gold’s majestic and moving theme from Exodus, Modest Mussorgsky’s Dance of the Persian Maidens and the orchestral showpiece, Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling Scheherazade. Dates: March 15 and 16. Tickets: www.thevenicesymphony.org ▼ The Circus Arts Conservatory Each year, Circus Sarasota features top global circus artists performing in a one-ring traditional circus setting. With chills, thrills, and laughs aplenty, this is a show that’s not to be missed and awe inspiring for every age. Runs through March 10 at Ulla Searing Big Top at Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota. Visit circusarts.org or call the Box Office at 941-355-9805. ▼ Sarasota Orchestra The Masterworks Series performances take place at the Van Wezel l and Neel Performing Arts Center. • March 14-17: Rhapsody in Blue @ 100 Peter Oundjian, conductor | Michelle Cann, piano Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie Price – Piano Concerto in One Movement Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 The Chamber Soirées performances take place at Holley Hall. • March 21: Classics for Wind and Brass Nielsen – Wind Quartet Ewald – Brass Quintet No. 3 Tickets: www.SarasotaOrchestra.org ▼ Artist Series Concerts Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota presents: Lunch and Listen with Duo Chinoiserie—Jing Xia, Chinese guzheng and Bin Hu, classical guitar on March 7 with an 11 am performance followed by luncheon at the Sarasota Yacht Club, 1100 John Ringling Boulevard, Sarasota. Surround yourself with the sounds of this unique project initiated by Chinese guzheng performer Jing Xia and classical guitarist Bin Hu. Their blending of ancient Chinese zither and classical guitar has been described as “sonic alchemy.” Next Generation Curtis on Tour has String Sextet with Benjamin Beilman, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Oliver Herbert, cello; Curtis Institute of Music students on March 12, 7:30 pm at SCF Neel Performing Arts Center, 5840 26th Street W., Bradenton. The Curtis Institute of Music has long been the most exclusive conservatory in the U.S. and the gold standard for classical music education. Curtis on Tour brings together three Curtis alumni with three current Curtis students in a powerful program of ▼ continued on page 8 MARCH 20<strong>24</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 7
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