West Coast Woman October 2020

out and about continued
being constructed including new
pavilions, restrooms, kayak storage
tubes, benches and trailside shade
structures. These habitat and amenity
improvements are expected to be
completed and re-open this winter.
The Canopy Zone is open to the
public the same hours as Robinson
Preserve, sunrise to sunset seven
days a week. Parking can be found
near the NEST which can be reached
from the preserve’s South Entrance at
the end of 9th Avenue Northwest. For
more information, visit www.mymanatee.org
or call (941) 748-4501.
Manatee Village Historical Park
is open to the public by appointment
only. In an abundance of caution,
days and hours will be limited, each
time slot is limited to 25 visitors, and
some areas will be closed.
Visitors are encouraged to make
appointments online prior to arrival.
Staff members will be wearing
masks when visitors are present.
Guests are asked to respect historical
buildings and artifacts by not
touching, moving, climbing on, or
otherwise tampering with historical
structures and artifacts. Hand
sanitizing before entry is strongly
encouraged. When scheduling an
appointment, every individual must
be signed up regardless of age.
Appointments are made by visiting
www.manateevillage.org. Links
are provided for making an appointment
to visit. You can also call
to schedule your appointment:
(941) 749-7165.
There is no fee to schedule an appointment.
Appointment times are
strict. Visitors who are early must
wait inside their cars until their start
time. Staff members will be taking
temperatures of visitors using a forehead
scanner and following CDC
guidelines to determine entry. Face
masks are encouraged due to the
small size of our buildings and limited
amount of space. Visitors may
have a self-led tour. Walking tour
brochures will be available.
Visitors are welcome to use a digital
tour by downloading the Florida
Stories App at http://uqr.to/FloridaStories
or visiting The Clio at https://
theclio.com/on a cell phone or other
device using mobile data.
Visitors are encouraged to respect
social distancing and remain 6ft
apart from staff and other visiting
parties. Restrooms will be available.
Water fountains are only to be used
to refill containers.
The Wiggins General Store, Gift
Shop, Junior Junction playground,
and the 1850 Manatee Burying
Ground cemetery are closed. There
will not be air conditioning available,
visitors must be prepared for the
weather and natural elements. There
will be places to sit including our
benches and picnic tables. Visitors
must begin leaving by their end time.
This allows staff members time to
clean and prepare for the next group.
Manatee Village Historical Park is
located at 1404 Manatee Avenue East
(State Road 64) Bradenton. For more
information call 941-749-7165 or visit:
www.manateevillage.org.
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Farmer’s Markets
The Sarasota Farmers Market
is open on Saturdays with normal
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hours of 7 am-1 pm,
rain or
shine.
You’ll notice
that vendors
are spread
out 10-15 feet apart
from one another to
make more room to
socially distance
yourself as you
shop. In order
to achieve this,
you’ll notice
that they’ve
spread the vendors
onto State
and First Streets,
as well as on to
Lemon. Be sure
to also support
those vendors that
are on State and First
Streets during your trip
to the market. Signage
and arrows on the ground will direct
the foot traffic flow. Masks are mandatory.
The city of Sarasota has partnered
with The Market to give away
free masks while supplies last.
Venice Farmers Market has
summer hours: Saturdays 8am to
noon, April through September.
Winter hours: Saturdays 8am to 1pm,
October through March. The Venice
Farmers Market is located at Venice
City Hall, 401 W. Venice Avenue.
Face coverings will be required
for those visiting the Market. If customers
do not have a face covering,
cloth masks will be provided for
them by the Market, while supplies
last. All staff and vendors wear
masks and gloves and sanitizing
stations are available. Their plan
complies with all federal, state and
local guidelines for food and personal
safety.
Vendors are offering produce,
baked goods, wild-caught seafood,
Florida-grown mushrooms,
boutique cheeses, locally roasted
coffee, kettle corn, hand crafted
soap, essential oils, nursery plants
and fresh cut flowers. In addition,
local artists will be at the market
offering award-winning photography,
unique clay art and jewelry,
hand-designed clothing for children
and adults, and much more.
During the construction of the new
Fire Station 1 and expansion of Venice
City Hall, the Farmers Market has
relocated out of the parking lot but is
still operating at City Hall. The Market
will set up on W. Venice Avenue
between Harbor Drive and Avenue
des Parques, located between City
Hall and the Hecksher Park tennis
courts.For information, go to www.
thevenicefarmersmarket.org.
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The Newtown Farmer’s Market is
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every
Friday and Saturday. The market is
located at Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Park, at the corner of Cocoanut
Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. Way. Vendors and shoppers are
expected to follow Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention safety
guidelines and wear a mask.
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Bradenton Farmer’s Market
reopens in October. Enjoy fresh
produce, local art, music, demos by
local chefs, and family activities.
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WBTT’s Soul in the Garden. The event is on Friday, November 13, 6-9 p.m.
at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (800 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota).
Parking is free on weekends, and
dogs on leashes are welcome. Held
every Saturday through May, from
9am – 2pm, on Old Main Street in
downtown Bradenton, 400 12th St.
W. Bradenton. Old Main Street is a
tree-lined retail district of cafes and
restaurants running three blocks
north from Manatee Avenue to the
Manatee River, where it meets the
Bradenton Riverwalk.
The Riverwalk is a 1.5-mile park
that features day docks, an amphitheater,
performance areas and
pavilion, a skateboard park, an
interactive splash pad, and much
more. There are over 35 vendors
who offer locally-grown fruits, vegetables,
plants, organic products,
fresh seafood, prepared foods, as
well as the work of local artists and
craftspeople.
Every third Saturday, Mainly
Art hosts dozens of local artists and
craftspeople displaying and selling
their creations. Art, crafts, live music,
and food are available from 9am
to 2pm on Fourth Avenue West, perpendicular
to the Bradenton Farmers’
Market on Main Street.
At The Van Wezel
The Van Wezel has digital
presentations in 2020. A virtual
celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan
favorites: I Have a Song to Sing, O! in
October. This December, Jim Brickman
and the Moscow Ballet’s Great
Russian Nutcracker light up the
holiday season with virtual performances
that are perfect for the whole
family. Tickets for the Great Russian
Nutcracker and I Have a Song to
Sing, O! are on sale now.
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Get tickets for these future shows
at the Van Wezel:
• Cirque Dreams Holidaze –
December 11, 2020
• Menopause The Musical –
January 12, 2021
• Il Divo – January 15, 2021
• Reza: Edge of Illusion – January
25, 2021
• An Intimate Evening with
David Foster: HITMAN Tour
Featuring Katharine McPhee –
January 31, 2021
• Neil Berg’s 112 Years of Broadway
– February 2, 2021
• Audra McDonald – February 13, 2021
• Jay Leno – February 14, 2021
• A Tribute to Aretha
Franklin:
The Queen of
Soul featuring
Damien Sneed
with special
guest, Karen
Clark Sheard –
February 18,
2021
• STOMP returns
to Sarasota
comes to
the Van Wezel
on Sunday,
March 7, 2021
at 3 p.m. and
7 p.m.
• Itzhak Perlman
in Recital
– March 8, 2021
• PROUD Tina:
The Ultimate
Tribute to
Tina Turner –
March 9, 2021
• America – March
10, 2021
• An Evening with Chris Botti –
March 14, 2021
• Engelbert Humperdinck:
Reflections Tour – March 18, 2021
• South Pacific – March 29-30, 2021
• Kenny G – March 31, 2021
• Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock and
Roll Part IV – April 1, 2021
• Terry Fator: It Starts Tonight –
April 2, 2021
• Mansion of Dreams starring Illusionist
Rick Thomas – April 8, 2021
• Blue Man Group – April 12-13, 2021
• Johnny Mathis 65 Years of
Romance – April 14, 2021
• Sweet Caroline – April 21, 2021
• Riverdance 25th Anniversary
Show – April 23-25, 2021
• Fiddler on the Roof – April 27-29,
2021
• RAIN – A Tribute to the Beatles –
May 9, 2021
• One Night of Queen performed by
Gary Mullen and the Works – May
15, 2021
• Maks & Val LIVE: Motion Pictures
Tour featuring special guests Jenna
Johnson and Peta Murgatroyd –
July 25, 2021
• An Evening with Bruce Hornsby –
November 11, 2021
• Celtic Thunder: Ireland –
November 17, 2021
• Come From Away – November
23-28, 2021
• The Temptations and the Four
Tops – December 2, 2021
• Sarah Brightman – December
14, 2021
Tickets are on sale now at www.
VanWezel.org, by calling the box
office at 941-263-6799 or by visiting
the box office Monday through Friday
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Art Around
the State
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The USF Contemporary Art
Museum, part of the USF Institute
for Research in Art in the College of
The Arts, has a new exhibition, The
Neighbors: Slide Shows for America,
featuring photographic slideshows
by artists Widline Cadet, Guy Greenberg,
Curran Hatleberg, Kathya
Maria Landeros, and Zora J Murff,
curated by CAM’s Curator-at-Large
Christian Viveros-Fauné.
Amid a polarizing 2020 election
season and an evolving COVID-19
pandemic, each participating camera
artist has been commissioned to
create a slideshow of underexposed
communities in the United States.
For this show, less is more: the photographic
portfolios installed at the
USF Contemporary Art Museum
are displayed using traditional slide
carousels, to evoke the intimacy of
family and community slide shows
of another age.
The exhibition is available to view
online at cam.usf.edu. USFCAM remains
closed. After USF reopens, reservations
will be required to visit
CAM, and details will be available on
cam.usf.edu at that time.
The exhibit runs to December 7.
Also at USFCAM : LIFE DURING
WARTIME: ART IN THE AGE OF
THE CORONAVIRUS
An Evolving Online Exhibition at
https://lifeduringwartimeexhibition.
org. Runs to December 12, 2020
The virtual exhibition, Life
During Wartime: Art in the Age of
the Coronavirus engages a select
company of international artists to
respond to the overwhelming realities
of the crisis that has gripped the
planet since March 5, the date the
World Health Organization declared
COVID-19 a global pandemic.
The exhibition takes full advantage
of one of the few outlets artists
still have—the Internet—during a
public health emergency recently
exacerbated by the wanton murder
of George Floyd by police officers
in Minneapolis. It aims to mobilize
sentiment, thought and activity
around art and its enduring possibilities:
its role as a conceptual
catalyst, its ability to trigger ideas,
stories, conversations, emotions,
feelings and mental states.
Separately and together, each
artist contribution provides a picture
of a planet in crisis, now further
enraged and victimized by violence,
but also images of hope and optimism
in the face of a global emergency.
The exhibition will continue
to evolve with the addition of new
artists and materials.
Boca Raton Museum of Art:
• Jeff Whyman: Out of Nature runs
October 7-January 3, 2021. Whyman
ceramics are inspired by nature
including the shells he collects. His
vessels, teapots, and plates retain a
semblance of function but are really
sculptures. His spouts are twisted,
his vases sage and tilt, and his plates
are rife with lumpy accretions.
Whyman acknowledges the influence
of the renowned ceramicist
Peter Voulkos who elevated the
medium of clay to fine art, and with
whom he worked for ten years at his
Berkeley, California studio.
Unlike Voulkos who added and
subtracted elements of his pieces
over time, Whyman creates his works
all in one moment while the clay is
still wet. He uses the wheel to throw
his vessels and spontaneously adds
materials as sea glass, Chinese crystals,
mineral oxides, metal nails, and
wood ash to make forms that call to
mind rock formations and what one
might find on the ocean floor.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501
Plaza Real, Boca Raton. Info: 561-
392-2500. Virtual programming
provides access to everyone beyond
gallery walls.
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