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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.
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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
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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
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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
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• March 22 Lecture
by 2024
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.
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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.
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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
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Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Opera’s Winter Opera
Festival runs from through March 24.
• 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 9-24. 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)
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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, 2024, 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/
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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