wcw MAY 2021
In this month's issue you'll find our WCW this month is Cheryl Mendelson, CEO of the Van Wezel Foundation. In addition to our arts and events calendars, we have events that you can enjoy IN PERSON as well as online. If you can, be sure to catch the Art Goes Pop exhibit at Selby Gardens. Traveling in your summer plans? Then don't miss the Alice Neel exhibit at the Met Museum in New York City. Check out all the new hotels opening across the state. Last but not least, find delicious recipes vegetarian ingredients.
In this month's issue you'll find our WCW this month is Cheryl Mendelson, CEO of the Van Wezel Foundation. In addition to our arts and events calendars, we have events that you can enjoy IN PERSON as well as online. If you can, be sure to catch the Art Goes Pop exhibit at Selby Gardens. Traveling in your summer plans? Then don't miss the Alice Neel exhibit at the Met Museum in New York City. Check out all the new hotels opening across the state. Last but not least, find delicious recipes vegetarian ingredients.
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Cheryl<br />
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Chief Executive Officer,<br />
Van Wezel Foundation<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
■ Selby Gardens goes “Pop!”<br />
■ Travel News: tips, news and offers<br />
■ Dining In: Food “Impostors”<br />
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Editor and Publisher<br />
Louise M. Bruderle<br />
Email: westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
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Carol Darling<br />
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Here are our columns:<br />
n Out & About: includes fundraisers,<br />
concerts, art exhibits, lectures, dance,<br />
poetry, shows & performances, theatre,<br />
film,<br />
seasonal events and more.<br />
n Datebook: club meetings,<br />
women’s clubs, networking and<br />
consumer-oriented lectures.<br />
n Mind/Body Calendar: health and<br />
wellness events, support groups,<br />
health lectures, seminars and<br />
screenings.<br />
n You’re News: job announcements,<br />
appointments and promotions,<br />
board news, business news and<br />
real estate news.<br />
WCW<br />
33<br />
YEARS<br />
focus on the arts<br />
Heading to New York City<br />
this Summer? Don’t miss this<br />
Alice Neel exhibit at The Met.<br />
The career-spanning survey<br />
of one of the century’s most<br />
radical painters, Alice Neel, is<br />
at The Met to August 1. We<br />
give you a sneak preview on<br />
p22<br />
focus on the arts<br />
Pop Art is on display at Marie<br />
Selby Botanical Gardens with Roy<br />
Lichtenstein’s take on Monet’s<br />
garden. The display runs to June<br />
27. These large-scale, rarely<br />
seen artworks are accompanied<br />
by a complete transformation of<br />
the Downtown Sarasota campus’s<br />
15 acres into Monet’s garden at<br />
Giverny as imagined through the<br />
aesthetic of Lichtenstein.<br />
p20<br />
your health<br />
For so many, 2020-<strong>2021</strong><br />
has posed some of the<br />
greatest challenges of our<br />
lifetime. So it’s a good time<br />
to remind yourself to take<br />
good care of YOU. We’ve<br />
got some tips for getting<br />
back into life while staying<br />
mentally healthy.<br />
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WOMAN<br />
departments<br />
4 editor’s letter<br />
7 Out & About: listing for things<br />
to do live and/or online<br />
11 focus on the arts: Selby Gardens with<br />
Roy Lichtenstein<br />
12 women’s health: Urology Treatment Center<br />
14 dining in: Food “impostors”<br />
on the cover: WCW photo of Cheryl Mendelson by Evelyn England<br />
16 west coast woman:<br />
Cheryl Mendelson<br />
19 you’re news<br />
20 <strong>wcw</strong> foodie: your source for<br />
restaurant news and events<br />
22 focus on the arts: Alice Neel<br />
exhibit at the Met in NYC<br />
24 travel news:<br />
lots of museums have<br />
great exhibits<br />
27 health feature: get to know<br />
Craniosacral Therapy<br />
29 your health: coping with a<br />
return to your pre-covid life<br />
<strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 3
just some<br />
thoughts<br />
Louise Bruderle<br />
Editor and Publisher<br />
West Coast Woman Cheryl Mendelson<br />
Cheryl Mendelson<br />
Photo by Evelyn England<br />
I was so energized during and after my interview<br />
with Cheryl Mendelson, the CEO of the Van<br />
Wezel Foundation. Why? Well, it’s always nice to<br />
meet someone who is excited about the future,<br />
specifically, the future as seen in the preliminary,<br />
yet stunning plans for the $250 million performing<br />
arts center that will arise from the bayfront just<br />
north of the Van Wezel.<br />
Cheryl arrived in Sarasota in 2019 from Chicago.<br />
Like so many, she had to adjust to working in a<br />
pandemic bubble while also working on this vital<br />
community project. As we get back to normal, be sure<br />
to follow what the Sarasota Performing Arts Center<br />
project is doing. Find more info at https://vwfoundation.org/ and read my profile<br />
of Cheryl in this issue to see her role in it. Maybe you’ll be energized, too.<br />
All the Good Deeds<br />
WCW has been publishing the generous actions of individuals, clubs, businesses,<br />
children and others who have chipped in to help our community during the<br />
pandemic that started April, 2020.<br />
Here are some more examples of people giving to help others:<br />
■ All Faiths Food Bank will hold monthly food distributions at the Van Wezel.<br />
In 2020 All Faiths Food Bank distributed 60% more meals than 2019, with a 53%<br />
increase in new clients at food distributions.<br />
To help those who are struggling<br />
to put food on the table, All<br />
Faiths is partnering with The<br />
Bay Sarasota and Van Wezel<br />
on monthly, large-scale food<br />
distributions at VW on the fourth<br />
Saturday of each month through<br />
October. Food – including frozen<br />
meat, fresh fruits and vegetables<br />
– is first-come, first-served and<br />
pre-registration is not required.<br />
A scene from last year’s Thanksgiving food distribution “Van Wezel and The Bay are<br />
at the Van Wezel | Photo by Cliff Roles<br />
honored to partner with All<br />
Faiths Food Bank on an ongoing basis as the need for food continues throughout<br />
our community,” said Mary Bensel, executive director of Van Wezel<br />
Performing Arts Hall. “While many of us are welcoming the prospect of life<br />
returning to normal at some point soon, too many of our friends and neighbors<br />
are still suffering from the economic impacts of the pandemic. We are pleased<br />
to help them get the food they need here on our site.”<br />
To donate to All Faiths Food Bank, go to allfaithsfoodbank.org.<br />
■ The Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Charles & Margery Barancik<br />
Foundation, and a generous donor couple partnered to pay past-due utility bills<br />
for 32 families in Sarasota County. The grant, issued directly to Sarasota County<br />
Public Utilities department through the foundations’ joint COVID-19 Response<br />
Initiative, ensured that the utilities remained on at the 32 households.<br />
“Some families in our community are just one bill away from losing their<br />
home,” said Jon Thaxton, Gulf Coast’s senior vice president for community<br />
investment. “This grant allows for local families to shift focus from the stress of<br />
a past-due bill to keeping their family safe.”<br />
Gulf Coast donors Bob and Lin Williams brought the idea to the foundations<br />
after reading a news story about local families in need. The couple made<br />
a gift through Gulf Coast to cover half of the cost of the overdue bills, and the<br />
foundations matched it.<br />
(From l-r) April Fools Fete co-chairs Marian Moss<br />
and Asa Thomas with WBTT executive director<br />
Julie Leach | Photo by Sorcha Augustine<br />
■ Fans sure do LOVE their Westcoast<br />
Black Theatre Troupe! This year<br />
WBTT moved their annual fundraiser<br />
outdoors to its theatre arts center for<br />
a sold out live audience on April 5. A<br />
stunning $170,000 was raised in support<br />
of WBTT’s education programs,<br />
including: Stage of Discovery, the<br />
summer musical theatre intensive<br />
program for students ages 13-18;<br />
Jazzlinks, WBTT’s high school education<br />
program; Rhythm & Tales, an<br />
elementary education program; and<br />
the Young Artist Program.<br />
■ Karin Gustafson created Karin’s Causes which will have<br />
its 14th Annual Estate Sale on May 13, 14, and 15 at the Women’s<br />
Resource Center in Sarasota.<br />
Since 2014, Karin’s Causes, an estate sale founded by collector<br />
and hobbyist Karin, has raised funds for area nonprofits.<br />
The three-day event features items collected by Karin,<br />
along with donations from friends and donors. The event<br />
features the rare and beautiful, and items of historic and<br />
decorative interest, many with collectible appeal and value.<br />
All funds raised go to the Animal Rescue Coalition, the<br />
New College Foundation’s scholarship fund, and Women’s<br />
Resource Center.<br />
■ From Feb. 22 – March 12,<br />
Lakewood Ranch Women’s Club<br />
(LWRWC) held “Snack-nado” - a<br />
charity drive to help provide healthy<br />
snacks and a variety items for children<br />
being helped by The Children’s<br />
Guardian fund.<br />
On March 16, LWRWC delivered<br />
$5740 in cash and in-kind donations,<br />
including vinyl bags overflowing with<br />
an enormous quantity of kid-friendly<br />
snacks, kids’ towels, blankets, quilts,<br />
pillowcases, games, teddy bears, kids<br />
themed bath items and more, and<br />
a check for $2240 to The Children’s<br />
Guardian Fund (CGF).<br />
CFC provides emergency needs,<br />
tutoring, summer camp and activities,<br />
cribs, beds, school clothes,<br />
and so much more and they partner<br />
with Guardian ad Litem Program.<br />
Pictured L-R: Svetlana Ivashchenko, Children’s<br />
Guardian Fund Executive Director, Trish Newman,<br />
LWRWC Philanthropy Co-Chair, Carol Belmont,<br />
LWRWC Vice President, Janet Dobbs, LWRWC<br />
Recording Secretary, Kristin Poolman, Children’s<br />
Guardian Fund Program Director, and Ann Sledz,<br />
LWRWC Corresponding Secretary.<br />
Guardian ad Litem volunteers, along with professional staff members, work<br />
together to provide advocacy for children with the goal of finding a safe and<br />
permanent home. There are over 1400 children in foster or state care in our<br />
area with only 500 Guardian ad Litem volunteers serving these 1400+ vulnerable<br />
children.<br />
■ Artists Guild Of Anna Maria<br />
Island (AGAMI) held an art<br />
supply donation for kids. AGAMI<br />
member Judy Vazquez organized<br />
the collection of art supplies<br />
for the Blanche Dougherty<br />
School for Arts and Science<br />
in Bradenton. Judy was joined<br />
by Carolann Garafola to bring<br />
supplies to the School on March<br />
4. Supplies included white paper,<br />
illustration board, Strathmore<br />
paper, a printer, crayons, markers<br />
and colored pencils. Additional<br />
equipment will be delivered Vasquez delivering donations to the Blanche Dougherty<br />
(l-r) Jessica Scott-Dunda, Carolann Garafola and Judy<br />
after spring break, including a School of Arts and Science, Bradenton.<br />
new HP photo printer, photo paper, more illustration board and a mat cutter.<br />
Season is Looking a whole<br />
lot better<br />
So make sure that we receive your season schedules as soon as you have<br />
them Send to westcoastwoman@comcast.net.<br />
Louise Bruderle | Editor and Publisher |<br />
westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
Karin Gustafson<br />
We welcome your thoughts and comments on this column and on other columns and features in this issue.<br />
You can reach us at westcoastwoman@comcast.net. We’re on the web at www.WestCoastWoman.com.<br />
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According to Dr. J. Taylor Hays,<br />
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Resources:<br />
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Certain Medical Conditions and Risk<br />
for Severe COVID-19 Illness. October 2020.<br />
Accessed October 09, 2020<br />
2<br />
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.The<br />
Health Consequences of Smoking—50<br />
Years of Progress: A Report of the<br />
Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department<br />
of Health and Human Services, Centers for<br />
Disease Control and Prevention, National<br />
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and<br />
Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and<br />
Health, 2014 [accessed 2020 May 5].<br />
3<br />
U.S. Department of Health and Human<br />
Services. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease:<br />
What It Means to You. Atlanta: U.S.<br />
Department of Health and Human Services,<br />
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,<br />
National Center for Chronic Disease<br />
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office<br />
on Smoking and Health, 2010 [accessed<br />
2020 May 5].<br />
4<br />
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<br />
The Health Consequences of Smoking:<br />
50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon<br />
General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department<br />
of Health and Human Services, Centers for<br />
Disease Control and Prevention, National<br />
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and<br />
Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and<br />
Health, 2014. Printed with corrections, January<br />
2014. Accessed April 3, 2020.<br />
5<br />
Association of E-Cigarette Use With Respiratory<br />
Disease Among Adults: A Longitudinal<br />
Analysis. Bhatta, Dharma N. et al. American<br />
Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 58,<br />
Issue 2, 182 – 190. Accessed April 3, 2020.<br />
6<br />
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
“People at Risk for Serious Illness<br />
from COVID-19.” Centers for Disease Control<br />
and Prevention, 10 Mar. 2020, www.<br />
cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/high-risk-complications.html.<br />
Accessed April 3, 2020.<br />
7<br />
The connection Between Smoking,<br />
COVID-19. (n.d.). Retrieved April 13, <strong>2021</strong>,<br />
from https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/<br />
discussion/the-connection-between-smoking-covid-19/<br />
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out& about<br />
Please be sure<br />
to check websites<br />
for up-to-date<br />
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of the events below.<br />
Things can change!<br />
At The Ringling<br />
On exhibit:<br />
• Kabuki Modern is in the Ting<br />
Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center<br />
for Asian Art. The exhibition presents<br />
recent acquisitions of kabuki<br />
imagery created between 1868 and<br />
the 1950s. Visitors will see works by<br />
Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900), Yamamura<br />
Kōka (Toyonari, 1885–1942),<br />
and Natori Shunsen (1886–1960)<br />
— the foremost print artists of their<br />
time. Also on view is a painting by<br />
Murakami Michiho (1899–1938) that<br />
recently returned to the Museum<br />
following conservation treatment.<br />
Kabuki Modern will run in the Chao<br />
Center until June 27, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
t<br />
• The great American abstract painter<br />
Sam Gilliam is known for his experimentation<br />
with materials and<br />
constant invention. Gilliam first received<br />
critical attention in the 1960s<br />
as a later member of the Washington<br />
Color School. He quickly expanded<br />
beyond the Color School tradition<br />
with his experimentation in the use<br />
of color and materials. This exhibition<br />
brings together nearly 20 unique<br />
works and limited edition prints by<br />
the artist from the early 1970s to 2010<br />
drawn primarily from local collections.<br />
Runs to Aug. 15, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
• The Ringling also has S a i t ō K - i<br />
yoshi’s (1907–1997) whose keen<br />
sense of design, superb technique<br />
and engagement with an appealing<br />
variety of themes made him one of<br />
the best known and most popular<br />
Japanese print artists of the twentieth<br />
century. In the wake of the<br />
Second World War, Saitō emerged<br />
as a seminal figure of the modernist<br />
creative print movement, in which<br />
artists claimed complete authorship<br />
of their work by carving and printing<br />
their own designs. He flourished<br />
as the movement attracted patrons<br />
among members of the occupying<br />
forces and, later, Western travelers<br />
for business and pleasure.<br />
Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening<br />
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1940s and 50s, arguably the most<br />
vibrant period of his career, and<br />
includes several rare, early designs.<br />
Runs to August 15, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
• Frans Hals: Detecting a Decade will<br />
run to May 16, <strong>2021</strong>. The Ringling’s<br />
portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, by<br />
the Dutch Baroque master Frans Hals<br />
(1582/83 - 1666), is one of the museum’s<br />
treasures. Renowned in his<br />
own day for his lively brushwork and<br />
uncanny ability to capture the vitality<br />
of his sitters, Hals continues to be a<br />
favorite among art lovers, collectors<br />
and artists alike. In this exhibition,<br />
organized by the Dallas Museum of<br />
Art, The Ringling’s painting, which<br />
was executed<br />
about 1639, will be<br />
displayed side-byside<br />
with a second<br />
portrait by Hals<br />
of Olycan (private<br />
collection), painted<br />
about 10 years<br />
earlier. Through<br />
close examination<br />
and comparison of<br />
these two portraits<br />
of the same person,<br />
the exhibition<br />
will shed light<br />
on Hals’s revolutionary<br />
painting<br />
technique, and<br />
will explain how<br />
his work evolved<br />
over the decade of<br />
the 1630s.<br />
• Larry Rivers:<br />
Boston Massacre.<br />
In this series of 13<br />
mixed-media prints, Larry Rivers,<br />
one of the pioneers of Pop Art, reimagines<br />
the tragedy of the Boston<br />
Massacre. This event, marking the<br />
beginning of the American Revolution,<br />
occurred March 5, 1770, when<br />
British Army soldiers fired their<br />
muskets into a crowd of civilians<br />
gathered on the streets of Boston,<br />
killing five colonists and galvanizing<br />
American sentiment for independence<br />
from Great Britain. Two<br />
hundred years later, Rivers revisits<br />
this moment in a series that disrupts<br />
traditional depictions of historical<br />
narrative through fragmentary visual<br />
references to the past that intermix<br />
with imagery from the political<br />
unrest of the 1960s. This exhibition<br />
presents the Boston Massacre portfolio<br />
from The Ringling’s permanent<br />
collection. The exhibition will run<br />
until May 16, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
The John and Mable Ringling<br />
Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd.,<br />
Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org.<br />
Special Events<br />
The Palm Avenue First Friday<br />
Walks event in downtown Sarasota<br />
gives art lovers a backdoor peek<br />
without the hustle and bustle of the<br />
crowds but with the cool breeze and<br />
moonlight sky the evening brings.<br />
The event is held the first Friday of<br />
every month, beginning 6 to 9pm.<br />
The next one is on May 7. Tom and<br />
Sandy Doyle will be performing<br />
jazz standards.<br />
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Forty Carrots Family Center has<br />
its 19th annual Educational Community<br />
Speaker Event presented in partnership<br />
with the Community Foundation<br />
of Sarasota County. The virtual<br />
presentation will feature psychotherapist<br />
and New York Times bestselling<br />
author Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D at 7<br />
p.m. on Sept. 22. The event is free and<br />
advance registration is required.<br />
Dr. Bryson will present insights<br />
from the book The Power of Showing<br />
Up: How Parental Presence Shapes<br />
Who Our Kids Become and How Their<br />
Brains Get Wired, which she co-authored<br />
with Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, psychiatrist<br />
and best-selling author. She<br />
will share how parents and role models<br />
can manage their skills with kids<br />
in a digital world; learn to navigate in<br />
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The Ringling also has Saitō Kiyoshi’s (1907–1997) whose keen sense of<br />
design, superb technique and engagement with an appealing variety of themes<br />
made him one of the best known and most popular Japanese print artists of<br />
the twentieth century.<br />
uncertain times; and discover 4 simple<br />
strategies for long term success.<br />
Her presentation will highlight while<br />
parenting isn’t easy, showing up is. Attendees<br />
will receive a complimentary<br />
e-book while supplies last.<br />
To sign up for event notifications,<br />
visit www.fortycarrots.org or call<br />
(941) 365-7716.<br />
Sarasota Orchestra<br />
May 6-9 —Live at Holley Hall. Moments<br />
in Time - Classics. Bach Piano<br />
Concerto No. 1 In D Minor, Shaw Entr’acte<br />
and Grieg Holberg Suite, Op.<br />
40. This program looks lovingly back<br />
in time at past artists whose works<br />
continue to inspire. World-renowned<br />
pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane<br />
is the soloist in Johann Sebastian<br />
Bach’s powerful Piano Concerto No.<br />
1, which inspired legions of later composers.<br />
Maestro Kahane then takes to<br />
the podium to lead Pulitzer Prize winning<br />
American composer Caroline<br />
Shaw’s Entr’acte for string orchestra.<br />
Composed after hearing a 2011<br />
performance of Haydn’s String Quartet<br />
Op. 77, No. 2, Entr’acte is structured<br />
like an 18th-century minuet,<br />
transformed by a 21st-century composer’s<br />
ears. The program concludes<br />
with Edvard Grieg’s beloved Holberg<br />
Suite. Written as an homage to the<br />
18th-century Norwegian author Ludvig<br />
Holberg, Grieg’s joyful collection<br />
of dance movements provides an uplifting<br />
conclusion to Sarasota Orchestra’s<br />
reimagined season.<br />
• May 13-18—Streaming Event of<br />
Moments in Time - Classics.<br />
• May 6-11— Latin Grooves streaming.<br />
The sultry sounds and spicy<br />
rhythms of Spain and South America<br />
take center stage in this all-Latin<br />
pops program. Seductive Argentinian<br />
tangos, breezy Brazilian<br />
bossa novas and the unmistakable<br />
rhythms of the Habanera all set<br />
the mood for a “deliciosa” evening,<br />
with just the right amount of heat.<br />
Information: www.Sarasota<br />
Orchestra.org or call(941) 953-3434.<br />
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Venice<br />
The Venice Symphony has<br />
announced that Music Director<br />
Troy Quinn and the orchestra will<br />
perform live at the second annual<br />
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Patriotic Pops<br />
Concert, 7:30<br />
p.m. on May 29 at<br />
CoolToday Park,<br />
the spring training<br />
home of the<br />
Atlanta Braves.<br />
The concert will<br />
be followed by a<br />
fireworks display.<br />
The program<br />
will feature popular<br />
American<br />
music, an Armed<br />
Forces Medley, a<br />
tribute to veterans<br />
and more. Sergeant<br />
First Class<br />
Randall Wight, a<br />
member of the<br />
U.S. Army Field<br />
Band since 2005,<br />
returns as guest<br />
vocalist. He has<br />
performed the<br />
National Anthem at Camden Yards<br />
in Baltimore and composed the<br />
theme song for the Army Birthday<br />
Ball in Washington, DC.<br />
Seating will be socially-distanced<br />
and masks will be required when<br />
guests are not seated or eating. For<br />
tickets, call 941-207-8822 or email music@thevenicesymphony.org.<br />
Gates<br />
open at 5:30 pm, rain date is May 30.<br />
Marie Selby<br />
Botanical Gardens<br />
Roy Lichtenstein: Monet’s Garden<br />
Goes Pop! Now through June<br />
27, <strong>2021</strong>. This exhibition showcases<br />
the legendary Pop artist’s screen<br />
prints based on Monet’s world-famous<br />
paintings of waterlilies and<br />
haystacks. Lichtenstein’s rarely seen<br />
Water Lilies and Haystacks provide<br />
an unexpected homage to a staple of<br />
the public imagination — Monet’s<br />
paintings of his garden and home at<br />
Giverny that inspired them.<br />
Selby Gardens, transformed into<br />
Monet’s famed gardens at Giverny<br />
through the Pop Art lens of Roy<br />
Lichtenstein, includes iconic elements<br />
of Monet’s garden such as the green<br />
Japanese bridge, trellises, and benches.<br />
This conjuring of Lichtenstein’s<br />
world also serves as the dynamic<br />
backdrop to the lush plantings and<br />
mixed borders for which Monet’s<br />
paintings were renowned. For more<br />
information, visit www.selby.org.<br />
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Lectures, Classes<br />
and Meetings<br />
Discover Florida archaeology<br />
on May 12, 10:30-12 at Historic<br />
Spanish Point Campus, 337 N.<br />
Tamiami Tr., Osprey.<br />
Join the staff at Historic Spanish<br />
Point campus for this 90-minute<br />
program that will include an introduction<br />
to the Native American heritage<br />
of the region, and observation<br />
of in-process archaeological work.<br />
In Person Program will be conducted<br />
outside only. Drop in programs,<br />
no registration required. Cost: Paid<br />
admission to HSP campus.<br />
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Hermitage Artist Retreat has<br />
“Artists and Writers, Thinking Out<br />
Loud” with Crystal Wilkinson,<br />
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Hari Kunzru, and Lucy Kim on<br />
May 14 at 6pm. Cost: $5. Wilkinson<br />
will discuss and read from her<br />
latest work, Perfect Black, a book of<br />
poems and legends about ancestry,<br />
culture, and the terrain of a black<br />
girl becoming.<br />
Visual and multidisciplinary artist<br />
Kim will discuss her transition<br />
from traditional painting and photography<br />
to her less vison-centric, more<br />
visceral, three-dimensional work.<br />
Novelist Kunzru will introduce and<br />
read from Blue Ruin, his third novel in<br />
a trilogy about music, literature, and<br />
visual art. Listen to the thinking that<br />
went into their work and join them<br />
in a Q&A afterward. https://hermitageartistretreat.org.<br />
Virtual: The Ringling: New Perspectives<br />
on Women & the Historic<br />
Circus: Amelia Osterud is on May<br />
20, 10:30 a.m.<br />
Learn about the experiences,<br />
contributions, and documentation<br />
of women in the circus and allied<br />
arts. This particular edition, with<br />
Amelia Osterud, will take place<br />
virtually on May 20. Cost: $5 for<br />
non-members. Tickets for Virtual<br />
programs are available 30 days prior<br />
to each program.<br />
The John and Mable Ringling<br />
Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd.,<br />
Sarasota. Info: www.ringling.org.<br />
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At Bookstore1<br />
Sarasota<br />
Upcoming Virtual Events at<br />
Bookstore1Sarasota.<br />
All events presented via Zoom, registration<br />
is required. The store is for<br />
browsing with masks and payment by<br />
credit card or Apple Pay. Side-door<br />
pick is also available.<br />
• May 11 at 7 p.m. Join them for a<br />
virtual book launch of Mary Alice<br />
Monroe’s new novel, The Summer<br />
of Lost and Found. Mary Alice will<br />
be in conversation with best-selling<br />
author Elin Hilderbrand, queen of the<br />
summer novel. Monroe’s novel The<br />
Summer of Lost and Found will be<br />
published on May 11. Elin Hilderbrand’s<br />
new novel Golden Girl will be<br />
published on June 1.<br />
With The Summer of Lost and<br />
Found, Monroe surprises readers by<br />
shifting her focus from animals to<br />
the challenges and changes families<br />
and friends face during unprecedented<br />
times of isolation, limited<br />
social interaction, economic strain,<br />
and health concerns brought on by<br />
a pandemic— creating a timely and<br />
compassionate family saga as the<br />
next generation of the Rutledge family<br />
calls the beach house home.<br />
With all of Elin’s trademark beach<br />
scenes, mouth-watering meals, and<br />
picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt<br />
message – the people we lose never<br />
really leave us.<br />
There is no charge for this event.<br />
There is an optional fee of $7 to help<br />
defray the cost to the bookstore.<br />
Reservations required for Zoom link.<br />
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• May 16 at 2 p.m. Zoom PoetryMic<br />
features poet Peter Schmitt joined<br />
by poets Martin Tucker and Frank<br />
Bubba Henson. PoetryMic is a series<br />
that presents an array of varied and<br />
talented poets.<br />
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out and about continued<br />
Schmitt is the author of six collections<br />
of poems and two chapbooks.<br />
He has received The Lavan Award<br />
from The Academy of American Poets;<br />
The “Discovery”/The Nation Prize;<br />
The Julia Peterkin Award; and is a<br />
two-time recipient of grants from The<br />
Florida Arts Council. His work has appeared<br />
in many leading publications,<br />
including The Hopkins Review, The<br />
Hudson Review, The Nation, and The<br />
Paris Review.<br />
Tucker has published six collections<br />
of poetry and six works of<br />
literary criticism. Tucker’s poetry,<br />
fiction, essays and reviews have appeared<br />
in numerous publications,<br />
including The Nation, The New Republic<br />
and the New York Times Book<br />
Review. Tucker was the co-founder<br />
and Editor-in-Chief of Confrontation<br />
Magazine for 42 years.<br />
Henson worked for MTV in the<br />
early ‘80s, co-founded the marketing<br />
company Seismic Communications,<br />
and worked as a creative consultant<br />
for NBC, ABC, SyFy Network, USA<br />
Network, Comedy Central, and ESPN.<br />
There is no charge for this event.<br />
There is an optional fee of $7 to help<br />
defray the cost to the bookstore.<br />
Reservations required for Zoom link.<br />
• Upcoming Book Clubs<br />
All book clubs presented via Zoom;<br />
registration is required.<br />
• May 11 at 11 a.m. The Mysteries to<br />
Die For Zoom Book Club led by Elsie<br />
Souza. This month they’re discussing<br />
Northern Spy by Flynn Berry. A<br />
fee of $33 is required. This includes a<br />
copy of Northern Spy to be picked up at<br />
Bookstore1 and the book club meeting.<br />
The author of Under the Harrow<br />
and A Double Life returns with her<br />
most thrilling novel to date: the story<br />
of two sisters who become entangled<br />
with the IRA. Riveting, atmospheric,<br />
and exquisitely written, Northern<br />
Spy is at once a heart-pounding story<br />
of the contemporary IRA and a moving<br />
portrait of sister- and motherhood,<br />
and of life in a deeply divided society.<br />
• May 12 at 2 p.m. The Poetry Zoom<br />
Book Club led by Doug Knowlton.<br />
This month they’re discussing Indigo<br />
by Ellen Bass. A fee of $24 is<br />
required. This includes a copy of Indigo<br />
to be picked up at Bookstore1<br />
and the book club meeting.<br />
Indigo, the newest collection by<br />
Bass, merges elegy and praise poem<br />
in an exploration of life’s complexities.<br />
Whether her subject is oysters,<br />
high heels, a pork chop, a beloved<br />
dog, or a wife’s return to health,<br />
Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy.<br />
Indigo is a nuanced and<br />
profound exploration of life’s complexities—where<br />
joy and devotion<br />
meet regret and dependence. Ticket<br />
purchase required for Zoom link.<br />
More event info at https://www.<br />
sarasotabooks.com/bookclubs or<br />
941-365-7900.<br />
Art Exhibits<br />
Two exhibits running May 2-28:<br />
• Pen Women Curated Exhibit in the<br />
Kellogg Gallery. National League of<br />
American Pen Women (NLAPW), is<br />
the oldest multi-discipline arts organization<br />
for women in America, founded<br />
in 1897. NLAPW objectives are to<br />
“encourage, recognize and promote”<br />
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creative work<br />
of its members<br />
and to reach out<br />
to the Sarasota<br />
community.<br />
• The other<br />
exhibit is The<br />
Promise of<br />
Spring An<br />
Open, All<br />
Media Juried<br />
Exhibit in the<br />
Searle & Reid<br />
Hodges Galleries.<br />
Spring<br />
is upon us. The<br />
days are getting<br />
longer, the temperatures<br />
are<br />
warming up,<br />
artists’ are venturing<br />
back out<br />
to find their inspiration<br />
from<br />
the blooming<br />
flora after the early spring rains.<br />
Artists are asked, “What inspires you<br />
about the promise of spring?<br />
ArtCenter Manatee, 209 9th St<br />
West, Bradenton. (941) 746-2862.<br />
https://artcentermanatee.org.<br />
The Center for Architecture<br />
Sarasota has the winners of the less<br />
is more Tiny House Competition.<br />
The winning designs are on display at<br />
the Center for Architecture Sarasota<br />
through June 17.<br />
Due to<br />
CFAS’s safety precautions, only 10<br />
people are allowed in the gallery at<br />
one time, masks must be worn, and<br />
the exhibit must be explored according<br />
to directional signage.<br />
Center for Architecture Sarasota,<br />
265 South Orange Avenue, Sarasota.<br />
(941) 350-5430.<br />
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The Light Chasers: Plein Air<br />
Painters of the Sun Coast have their<br />
<strong>2021</strong> Virtual Art Show viewable to<br />
May 16. It’s their 10th Anniversary<br />
Annual Members Show and Featured<br />
Artists Show. Artists from all over the<br />
country will be participating. Prizes<br />
for both shows will be announced<br />
online. Visit http://lightchasersinc.<br />
com/events/<strong>2021</strong>.<br />
For more information, visit the<br />
Light Chasers at: http://lightchasersinc.com/.<br />
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Extension Sarasota<br />
County Classes<br />
and Lectures<br />
The UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota<br />
County office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
Monday through Friday. They’re at<br />
6700 Clark Road (Twin Lakes Park,<br />
Green Building), Sarasota. Call<br />
941-861-9900.<br />
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• May 11—Cooking with Herbs and<br />
Spices (webinar). This class discusses<br />
ways to use herbs and spices, how to<br />
properly store them and use them<br />
safely in garlic-herb oil mixtures.<br />
• May 12—Disaster Preparedness<br />
(webinar) Also available June 1. Being<br />
prepared for a weather disaster can<br />
save your life. What would you do if basic<br />
services were cut off, like electricity<br />
or water, or if you had to suddenly leave<br />
your home? This class will offer tips<br />
Upcoming virtual event at Bookstore1Sarasota: May 11 at 7 p.m. Join them for a<br />
virtual book launch of Mary Alice Monroe’s new novel, The Summer of Lost and Found.<br />
and ways to prepare for unexpected<br />
disasters, such as hurricanes.<br />
Learn how to assemble an emergency<br />
supply kit and other ways to<br />
prepare for emergencies. Instructor:<br />
Dr. Maria Portelos-Rometo, UF/IFAS<br />
Extension Sarasota County family and<br />
consumer sciences agent.<br />
• May 12— Inequity in Sarasota<br />
County: Past and Steps Toward Equity.<br />
Learn about the past and present<br />
issues of inequity in Sarasota County,<br />
programs created to take steps toward<br />
equity, and how you can do your part<br />
to make Sarasota County a more sustainable<br />
community.<br />
• May 12—Recycle Right! (webinar)<br />
This is a new, open-discussion class<br />
focused on the issues faced in with recycling<br />
in Florida. The first offering in<br />
this series focuses on recycling, with<br />
waste reduction, recycling, composting,<br />
and other topics on tap through<br />
the course of <strong>2021</strong>. Through group discussions<br />
and classroom learning, this<br />
class will frame the environmental<br />
issues facing our community, with the<br />
intent to create action steps moving<br />
forward. These discussions also will<br />
help shape future classes, events and<br />
projects offered by UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County.<br />
The goal is to facilitate a discussion<br />
about the state of recycling. Who<br />
should attend? Residents with an<br />
interest in composting and waste reduction,<br />
businesses looking to implement<br />
waste reduction programs and<br />
anyone with a general interest in the<br />
environment.<br />
This is the inaugural class in<br />
Florida, so your input and experiences<br />
are important. INSTRUCTOR:<br />
Randall Penn, UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County Waste Reduction<br />
Agent. Interested in participating<br />
in the UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota<br />
County “Composter Recyclers”<br />
program? Call 941-861-9849 or<br />
email rpenn@ufl.edu.<br />
• May 12—Bay-Friendly Fertilizing<br />
(webinar) Learn about a new tool that<br />
will help you calculate your fertilizer<br />
needs for your turf type. Fertilizer<br />
can be important for maintaining a<br />
healthy lawn, but too much is bad for<br />
the bay. They developed a tool to help<br />
you calculate the amount of fertilizer<br />
you should apply throughout the year.<br />
Learn about the best time to apply fertilizer<br />
outside<br />
of the blackout<br />
period.<br />
• May 13—Invasive<br />
Species<br />
Series: Part<br />
2 of Invasive<br />
Plants Near<br />
You(webinar)<br />
Invasive<br />
(non-native)<br />
plants are rapidly<br />
spreading<br />
in Florida,<br />
competing<br />
with and displacing<br />
our<br />
native flora.<br />
There are so<br />
many Invasive<br />
Plants Near<br />
You to talk<br />
about, so we<br />
have split this<br />
webinar into<br />
2 parts. Join us for either or both, and<br />
the other parts of our series too!<br />
Invasive plants are one of the<br />
leading threats to native biodiversity<br />
around the world. They can negatively<br />
affect property values, agricultural<br />
productivity, public utilities, fisheries,<br />
tourism, outdoor recreation, and ecosystem<br />
function, and are estimated to<br />
cost the United States as much as $120<br />
billion in economic damages and<br />
control measures each year.<br />
• May 13—Shared Spaces: Community<br />
Gardens and Composting (webinar)<br />
Learn best practices for developing<br />
shared edible gardens and composting<br />
in your community. Join UF/<br />
IFAS Extension Sarasota County for<br />
our 60-minute workshop on community<br />
gardening and composting. Many<br />
local neighborhoods, homeowner and<br />
condo associations, and schools want<br />
to implement a garden project, but<br />
aren’t sure of how to get started.<br />
Attendees will learn the basics of<br />
starting a community edible garden<br />
and composting program. They will<br />
discover the benefits of composting,<br />
and how to build a compost system.<br />
Who should attend? Residents with<br />
an interest in community gardeningNeighborhoods<br />
looking to implement<br />
gardening and composting<br />
programsAnyone with a general<br />
interest in the environment, anyone<br />
with an interest in becoming<br />
involved in community composting<br />
and edible gardening projects<br />
This is the inaugural class in<br />
Florida, so your input and experiences<br />
are important. NOTE: There are two<br />
registration options for this workshop:<br />
Workshop PLUS a GEOBIN compost<br />
bin: $25 registration (includes bin<br />
cost), which must be made in advance<br />
of the workshop.Workshop with no<br />
GEOBIN: Cost is free. INSTRUCTORS:<br />
Mindy Hanak, community and school<br />
gardens coordinator, UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota CountyRandall Penn,<br />
waste reduction agent, UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County<br />
• May 15—Rain Barrel Workshop<br />
(webinar) Learn more about the<br />
benefits of rain barrels. If you want to<br />
purchase a rain barrel for pick-up, you<br />
need to do that BEFORE the end of the<br />
webinar as sales will be closed. If you<br />
plan to purchase after the webinar,<br />
contact reportpollution@scgov.net.<br />
During this webinar you will<br />
learn how the use of rain barrels<br />
can conserve water, save money by<br />
reducing the use of potable water in<br />
landscapes (lower utility bills), and<br />
reduce stormwater runoff by storing<br />
and diverting runoff from impervious<br />
surfaces (like roofs). Practical tips on<br />
the construction and installation of<br />
rain barrels will be provided.<br />
Register for this event ONLY at<br />
ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com rather<br />
than any third party websites. Once<br />
you have completed the registration<br />
process, the Eventbrite system will<br />
confirm your enrollment and provide<br />
you the meeting URL/link in both a<br />
“popup” window and a subsequent<br />
email. Save this link.<br />
If you would like to purchase a rain<br />
barrel, click the ‘tickets’ button. Select<br />
your quantity and note the date, time,<br />
and location during which your barrel(s)<br />
will be available for pick-up. You<br />
do not need to attend the webinar in<br />
order to purchase a barrel. The pickup<br />
location will only have the number of<br />
barrels purchased for that specific date,<br />
so it is important that you show up to<br />
the location you select at checkout.<br />
• May 17— Florida-Friendly Landscaping<br />
101 (webinar) This class will<br />
teach you the basics of Florida-Friendly<br />
Landscaping. They’ll show you the<br />
nine principles that can help you have<br />
a successful, beautiful landscape while<br />
protecting natural resources. Instructors<br />
Wilma Holley Florida-Friendly<br />
Landscaping Specialist, Sarasota<br />
County and Dr. Pat Williams County<br />
Extension Director, Wakulla County<br />
• May 18—Wild Sarasota: Owls of<br />
Florida (webinar) Take a virtual walk<br />
on the wild side… of Sarasota, and<br />
learn about our local owl species with<br />
Dr. Katherine Clements, ecology and<br />
natural resources educator.<br />
• May 19—EcoWalk: Meditation in<br />
the Parks at Red Bug Slough. Limited<br />
tickets available and you must be<br />
registered to attend. Explore finding<br />
peace within nature. Register early<br />
through ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com<br />
to reserve your spot.<br />
Many traditions use some form of<br />
meditation, focus, contemplation,<br />
reflection, or breath work to quiet the<br />
mind and center the body and spirit.<br />
Recent scientific research has shown<br />
that Shinrin yoku (a form of “forest<br />
bathing” practiced in Japan) decreases<br />
levels of cortisol- a stress hormone,<br />
lowers pulse rate and blood<br />
pressure, and decreases sympathetic<br />
nerve activity (our fight or flight response).<br />
No prior experience needed.<br />
Wear comfortable, loose clothing and<br />
bring water and a portable chair or<br />
blanket to sit upon as you will stop<br />
to sit along the trail. Instructor: Dr.<br />
Katherine Clements, UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County ecology and<br />
natural resources educator.<br />
• May 19—The Basics of Solar Energy<br />
for FL Homeowners (webinar). If<br />
you are interested in understanding<br />
residential solar hot water and solar<br />
photovoltaic technologies better,<br />
this workshop is for you. The discussion<br />
will cover the basics of how the<br />
technology works, considerations for<br />
calculating return on investment,<br />
policies affecting solar adoption in<br />
Florida and any incentives that might<br />
be available to help pay for it.<br />
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out and about continued<br />
• May 19—The Issue of Food<br />
Waste(webinar) Join UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County to take a deeper<br />
dive into the issues surrounding food<br />
waste.Register early for this event<br />
at ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com. Instructor:<br />
Randall Penn, UF/IFAS<br />
Extension Sarasota County waste reduction<br />
agent.<br />
• May 19—Reducing Plastics (webinar)<br />
Learn how to reduce plastic pollution<br />
with sound tips on waste reduction,<br />
recycling and reuse techniques,<br />
and more”Reducing Plastics” is a new,<br />
open-discussion class focused on the<br />
issue of plastic pollution. The second<br />
offering in this series focuses on recycling,<br />
with waste reduction, recycling,<br />
composting, and other topics on tap<br />
through the course of <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Through group discussions and<br />
classroom learning, this class will<br />
frame the environmental issues facing<br />
our community, with the intent to<br />
create action steps moving forward.<br />
“Reducing Plastics” takes a deeper<br />
look at the impacts of plastic pollution,<br />
recycling, challenges and obstacles, and<br />
related environmental issues in Florida<br />
and beyond. The goal is to facilitate a<br />
discussion about the state of recycling.<br />
Who should attend? Residents with<br />
an interest in composting and waste<br />
reduction and anyone with a general<br />
interest in the environment. This is<br />
the inaugural class in Florida, so your<br />
input and experiences are important.<br />
INSTRUCTOR: Randall Penn, UF/IFAS<br />
Extension Sarasota County Waste Reduction<br />
Agent<br />
• May 20—Bite Back - Reclaim Your<br />
Yard from Mosquitoes (webinar).<br />
Program will cover general information,<br />
the mosquito life cycle, and what<br />
works and what doesn’t in protecting<br />
yourself from mosquitoes.<br />
Not only do mosquitoes deliver an<br />
annoying bite, but infected mosquitoes<br />
have the potential to transfer diseases<br />
to humans and animals through<br />
their bite. Learn about the life cycle of<br />
mosquitoes found in Florida and what<br />
you can do to reduce mosquito breeding<br />
sites around your home. Reducing<br />
breeding sites is critical to lowering the<br />
number of mosquitoes and protecting<br />
yourself and your family from bites.<br />
• June 1—Disaster Preparedness<br />
(webinar) See May 12.<br />
• June 2—Palm Care Solutions (webinar)<br />
Discover the essentials of proper<br />
palm care.Palms are as much a part<br />
of Florida as sunshine. So why are<br />
they so misunderstood regarding care<br />
and maintenance? Why are we still<br />
performing hurricane pruning when<br />
it shortens the life expectancy? What<br />
is the correct way to care for palms?<br />
Come get simple steps to have healthier<br />
palms that you will be happy with<br />
all year long. Instructor: Dr. Pat Williams,<br />
UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota<br />
County residential horticulture agent.<br />
• June 3— Brown Bag Lunch Series:<br />
Lakes and Ponds Forum (webinar)<br />
Come with your lake and pond<br />
questions and we will give you the<br />
answers and resources needed to<br />
improve the waterbodies in your<br />
community.Do you have questions<br />
about the green stuff growing in your<br />
backyard ponds? Would you like to<br />
see more birds come to your pond? If<br />
so, then this course is for you. Learn<br />
all about your backyard ponds.<br />
• June 8—Green<br />
Cleaning Your<br />
Home (webinar)<br />
Explore inexpensive<br />
common<br />
household<br />
products that<br />
are effective and<br />
safe for our environment<br />
and<br />
your health.<br />
Have you ever<br />
thought about<br />
all the different<br />
cleaning products<br />
you use in<br />
your home? This<br />
class will explore<br />
using inexpensive<br />
common<br />
household<br />
products that<br />
are effective and<br />
safe for our environment<br />
and<br />
your health. Instructors:<br />
Dr. Maria Portelos-Rometo,<br />
Family and Consumer Sciences agent,<br />
UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County,<br />
and Carol Wyatt-Evens, Chemicals in<br />
the Environment agent, UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County.<br />
For questions or further information,<br />
call 941-861-5000 or email sarasota@<br />
ifas.ufl.edu. You must register for al of<br />
these classes online beforehand. Similar<br />
classes or events often are offered<br />
on future dates.<br />
Live Music<br />
The Reserve, located in historically<br />
significant Ringling buildings,<br />
houses a restaurant focusing on<br />
American fare, North & South, plus<br />
The 14th Street Bar, has Open Mic<br />
every Friday night with host Brittany<br />
Loeffler. Starting at 7:30 pm<br />
and running to 9:30 pm. Great, live,<br />
local talent with their guitars, their<br />
poetry, their bongos, and their electronica.<br />
You never know what may<br />
happen on any given night. Sign-ups<br />
start at 7:00 pm/7:15 pm. Dinner &<br />
drinks available and plenty of parking<br />
at the 14th Street lot. https://<br />
www.thereservesrq.com.<br />
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The Bridge Series continues at<br />
Fogartyville. Eager to bridge the void<br />
of excellent jazz performances created<br />
by the pandemic, WSLR+Fogartville<br />
and The Jazz Club of Sarasota have<br />
joined forces to present a series of<br />
concerts featuring some of the best<br />
jazz talent in the area. Next up: May<br />
20 with Synia Carroll and Gumbi Ortiz<br />
and New Groove City. The WSLR+-<br />
Fogartyville Team are at 525 Kumquat<br />
Court Sarasota. Info: (941) 894-6469.<br />
Visit www.wslr.org.<br />
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Theatre<br />
FST Improv is serving up the<br />
laughter every Saturday night. Drawing<br />
inspiration from audience suggestions,<br />
FST Improvisers spin scenes,<br />
games, and songs…completely on the<br />
spot. With all-new rules, FST’s team of<br />
three socially-distanced funny people<br />
are back to bring you an all-new show<br />
with all-new laughs. Be sure to stay<br />
six feet from your neighbor, and we’ll<br />
be sure to deliver the laughs to help us<br />
connect through comedy.<br />
Held in FST’s Keating Theatre.<br />
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The Venice Symphony has announced that Music Director Troy Quinn and the<br />
orchestra will perform live at the second annual Patriotic Pops Concert, 7:30 p.m.<br />
on May 29 at CoolToday Park, the spring training home of the Atlanta Braves. The<br />
concert will be followed by a fireworks display.<br />
Tickets on sale at FloridaStudioTheatre.org<br />
or by calling the Box Office<br />
at (941) 366-9000.<br />
Venice Theatre has the Folk Legacy<br />
Trio on May 7-10. The Folk Legacy<br />
Trio sings the Great American Folksong<br />
Book, the songs of the great Folk Era<br />
from the ‘50s through the mid-‘70s,<br />
including songs from The Weavers,<br />
The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters,<br />
Peter Paul & Mary, The New Christy<br />
Minstrels, The Brothers Four, The Chad<br />
Mitchell Trio, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins,<br />
Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon &<br />
Garfunkel, John Denver, and others. It<br />
is a journey through American Musical<br />
History with their signature dynamic<br />
harmonies enriching some of the most<br />
beloved songs ever written.<br />
The Folk Legacy Trio are George<br />
Grove, formerly with the Kingston<br />
Trio for 41 years, Rick Dougherty,<br />
member of the Limeliters and<br />
Kingston Trio for 25 years and Jerry<br />
Siggins, former lead singer of the<br />
legendary doo-wop group The Diamonds<br />
for 27 years. Tickets: https://<br />
venicetheatre.org/events/.<br />
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Manatee Performing Arts Center<br />
has I Do, I Do to May 9. The story of a<br />
marriage is at the center of I Do! I Do!,<br />
an intimate and nostalgic work by<br />
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (The<br />
Fantasticks). Written as a star vehicle<br />
for theatre legends, Mary Martin and<br />
Robert Preston, the original Broadway<br />
production received seven Tony<br />
Award nominations. Tickets: call (941)<br />
748-5875 or visit www.ManateePerformingArtsCenter.com.<br />
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FST in Conversation. FST invites<br />
you to join them for online conversations<br />
with some of the country’s top<br />
playwrights creating art today. From<br />
issues of heritage and history to complexities<br />
around human technology<br />
to race in American theatre, we’ll unpack<br />
some of the issues behind these<br />
artists’ exciting new plays in development<br />
and why they’re relevant today.<br />
Hear directly from these artists about<br />
their processes and what it takes to get<br />
a play on its feet.<br />
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• May 13, 11 a.m.— Reimagined:<br />
The Making of an Adaptation.<br />
Featuring Playwright Kate Hamill.<br />
Moderated by Catherine Randazzo<br />
Classes<br />
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• June 10, 11<br />
a.m.— Music<br />
Legends. Featuring<br />
Cabaret<br />
Artists Carole<br />
J. Bufford<br />
and Brandon<br />
Wardell<br />
Moderated by<br />
Catherine Randazzo<br />
Forums are<br />
free to attend,<br />
though registration<br />
is required.<br />
FST Forums<br />
will be held<br />
exclusively<br />
online. If you<br />
have any issues<br />
with registering<br />
or accessing the<br />
conversation,<br />
call the FST Box<br />
Office at 941-<br />
366-9000.<br />
Yoga @ Ca’ d’Zan continues. Yoga<br />
Instructor Ashley Stewart will lead<br />
a yoga session on the Ca’ d’Zan Terrace.<br />
Each session will last one hour,<br />
and participants may begin entering<br />
30 minutes prior to the event. Participants<br />
should bring a yoga mat and<br />
water or drink as desired. Tickets are<br />
limited to 50 in order to maintain<br />
proper social distancing.<br />
Dates: May 20 at 6 p.m. and<br />
Thursday, Jun 17 at 6 p.m. Cost:<br />
$15. Tickets available 30 days prior<br />
to each event. Purchase at: https://<br />
www.ringling.org/events/yoga.<br />
Moving Meditation Series also continues<br />
at The Ringling. Claudia Baeza<br />
is a Kripalu trained yoga instructor<br />
who has been sharing her love of yoga<br />
in Sarasota since 2016. Join her for<br />
Yoga + Meditation on the loggias of the<br />
Museum of Art Courtyard for a unique<br />
opportunity to gently move the body<br />
and calm the mind. Bring a yoga mat,<br />
water bottle and a friend– and enjoy<br />
the serenity of the Museum of Art<br />
Courtyard with Claudia.<br />
Dates: May 28 at 10 a.m. and Friday,<br />
June 25 at 10 a.m.<br />
Sign up at https://www.ringling.<br />
org/events/yoga-ringling<br />
Bay Park yoga is available every<br />
Saturday morning 9:30-10:30 a.m. on<br />
the lawn outside of the Van Wezel. Instructor<br />
is Erin Hurter. Relax, stretch<br />
and enjoy a fulfilling yoga session on<br />
the Sarasota’s scenic bayfront while<br />
instructor Erin guides you along the<br />
way. Participants should plan to bring<br />
their own yoga mat. Dates and info:<br />
https://www.vanwezel.org/boxoffice/<br />
bay-park-yoga/<br />
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Farmer’s Markets<br />
The Sarasota Farmers Market is<br />
open on Saturdays with normal hours<br />
of 7 am-1 pm, rain or shine. Vendors<br />
are spread out 10-15 feet apart from<br />
one another to make more room to<br />
socially distance yourself as you shop.<br />
They’ve spread the vendors onto State<br />
and First Streets, as well as on to<br />
Lemon. Be sure to also support those<br />
vendors that are on State and First<br />
Streets during your trip to the market.<br />
Signage and arrows on the ground will<br />
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direct the foot traffic flow. Masks are<br />
mandatory. The city of Sarasota has<br />
partnered with The Market to give<br />
away free masks while supplies last.<br />
Venice Farmers Market summer<br />
hours are Saturdays 8am to noon<br />
through September. The Market has<br />
more than 40 vendors on Saturdays,<br />
many based during the week in Venice,<br />
Englewood and other areas of<br />
Sarasota County.<br />
They sell nuts (A Little Nuts) and<br />
more nuts (Bliss Nutbutters) and<br />
soap. They sell handmade clay and<br />
cement art (Ask Cynthia Harper;<br />
she’ll explain). They sharpen knives,<br />
sell ethnic food, bread and more.<br />
They also sell fine art and wearable<br />
art (clothing, Hats of Madagascar and<br />
sandals.) They even sell handmade<br />
alpaca products.<br />
Also sold: herbs, micro-greens,<br />
hemp oil and essential oils, meat and<br />
prepared foods and a lot more.<br />
Held at Venice City Hall, 401 W.<br />
Venice Avenue, Venice. Call (941) 445-<br />
9209 or visit https://www.thevenicefarmersmarket.org/site/<br />
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Every Thursday from October<br />
through May, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., the local<br />
growers and food artisans gather at<br />
the Englewood Farmer’s Market located<br />
in the heart of historic Dearborn<br />
St. in Englewood.<br />
Shop for local and organic fresh<br />
Florida produce directly from local<br />
farmers, find wild caught Florida<br />
seafood from local fisherman, select<br />
from seven gourmet bakers including<br />
gluten free, taste and sample international<br />
artisan food creations, discover<br />
the amazing selection of flowers,<br />
plants and trees from our green space<br />
vendors, and of course enjoy the music<br />
and ambiance of a true food and<br />
agricultural market experience.<br />
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The Newtown Farmer’s Market is<br />
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every<br />
Friday and Saturday. The market is<br />
located at Dr. Martin Luther King<br />
Jr. Park, at the corner of Cocoanut<br />
Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King<br />
Jr. Way. Vendors and shoppers are<br />
expected to follow Centers for Disease<br />
Control and Prevention safety guidelines<br />
and wear a mask.<br />
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Bradenton Farmer’s Market offers<br />
fresh produce, local art, music, demos<br />
by local chefs, and family activities.<br />
Parking is free on weekends, and dogs<br />
on leashes are welcome. Held every<br />
Saturday through May, from 9am –<br />
2pm, on Old Main Street in downtown<br />
Bradenton, 400 12th St. W. Bradenton.<br />
Old Main Street is a tree-lined retail<br />
district of cafes and restaurants running<br />
three blocks north from Manatee<br />
Avenue to the Manatee River, where it<br />
meets the Bradenton Riverwalk.<br />
The Riverwalk is a 1.5-mile park<br />
that features day docks, an amphitheater,<br />
performance areas and pavilion,<br />
a skateboard park, an interactive<br />
splash pad, and much more. There<br />
are over 35 vendors who offer locally-grown<br />
fruits, vegetables, plants,<br />
organic products, fresh seafood,<br />
prepared foods, as well as the work of<br />
local artists and craftspeople.<br />
Every third Saturday, Mainly<br />
Art hosts dozens of local artists and<br />
craftspeople displaying and selling<br />
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10 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong>
focus on the arts<br />
at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens<br />
Roy Lichtenstein’s take on Monet’s garden on display to June 27<br />
Roy Lichtenstein made his name<br />
by applying his Pop Art interpretation<br />
to cultural icons like Mickey<br />
Mouse and images from American<br />
advertising. Yet, he was also<br />
fascinated by landscapes and the<br />
popular art form of Impressionism.<br />
Starting in the 1960s, he paid homage<br />
to — and radically reimagined —<br />
Monet’s Impressionist works.<br />
ON VIEW<br />
EXCLUSIVELY<br />
at Marie Selby<br />
Botanical Gardens’<br />
Downtown Sarasota<br />
campus to June 27, <strong>2021</strong>, Roy<br />
Lichtenstein: Monet’s Garden Goes<br />
Pop! will showcase the legendary<br />
Pop artist’s take on several staples<br />
of the public imagination: Claude<br />
Monet’s paintings of his garden and<br />
surroundings at Giverny.<br />
The display of these large-scale,<br />
rarely seen artworks will be accompanied<br />
by a complete transformation of<br />
the Downtown Sarasota campus’s 15<br />
acres into Monet’s garden at Giverny<br />
as imagined through the aesthetic<br />
of Lichtenstein. “It’s like stepping<br />
into Lichtenstein’s world – if he had<br />
created a world based on Monet,” says<br />
Jennifer Rominiecki, president and<br />
CEO of Selby Gardens. “Our horticultural<br />
team is taking the principles that<br />
Lichtenstein applied to his artwork<br />
and applying those to our<br />
interpretation of Monet’s<br />
garden at Giverny. This<br />
innovative, immersive<br />
interpretation has never<br />
been done before.”<br />
An avid gardener, Monet<br />
once said, “My garden<br />
is my most beautiful masterpiece.”<br />
Indeed, it is still<br />
renowned in both the art<br />
and horticultural worlds.<br />
But looking at it through<br />
Lichtenstein’s eyes creates<br />
an evocation that’s<br />
a bit off-the-wall, a little<br />
tongue-in-cheek, and a<br />
whole lot of fun.<br />
“We’re basically saying<br />
that if Lichtenstein had<br />
created Monet’s garden,<br />
this might be what he<br />
would have dreamed up,”<br />
says Rominiecki. “By<br />
giving our gardens the<br />
Monet treatment with an<br />
innovative and playful Pop<br />
Art twist, our guests will<br />
be able to explore<br />
Lichtenstein’s interpretation<br />
of Monet<br />
in a variety of ways.”<br />
Familiar components<br />
of Monet’s<br />
garden at Giverny<br />
will appear at Selby Gardens – but<br />
with a new spin. The iconic Japanese<br />
Bridge will span Selby Gardens’<br />
koi pond but look as if Lichtenstein<br />
painted it. A mix of 2D and 3D elements<br />
will playfully reimagine Monet’s<br />
home or his much-painted water<br />
lilies. These surprising intersections<br />
between Impressionism and Pop Art<br />
will engage visitors as they move<br />
through the gardens en route to the<br />
Museum of Botany & the Arts.<br />
Viewers will be able to admire<br />
Lichtenstein’s Water Lilies with<br />
Reflections series, a limited edition<br />
of large-screen prints created in the<br />
latter years of his career that reinterprets<br />
the extreme painterly sensibilities<br />
of Monet’s famous Water Lilies.<br />
Printed on metal, Lichtenstein’s Water<br />
Lilies series uses flat areas of<br />
color, Ben-Day dots, and the reflective<br />
qualities of the material to imply motion<br />
and the movement of light. Earlier<br />
works from Lichtenstein’s Haystack<br />
series and archival photographs<br />
of Lichtenstein at work and at home<br />
will also be on view.<br />
These imaginative works highlight<br />
both Lichtenstein’s Pop Art sensibilities<br />
and his shift later in his career<br />
into subtler explorations of color,<br />
light, and materials. “Using the medium<br />
of screen printing, in which<br />
Lichtenstein displayed his greatest<br />
originality, these works steep us in<br />
the rich theme and variation of serial<br />
imagery,” says Dr. Carol Ockman, curator-at-large<br />
for Selby Gardens and<br />
Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art<br />
History Emerita at Williams College.<br />
“By converting the premier Impressionist’s<br />
work into a vernacular form<br />
like comics through his use of industrial<br />
materials with glossy surfaces,<br />
Lichtenstein playfully eviscerates<br />
Monet’s personal style.”<br />
The exhibition is the latest installment<br />
in Selby Gardens’ immersive<br />
Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition<br />
Series, which explores the connection<br />
of nature and flowers to major artists.<br />
Viewing world-renowned works of<br />
art in a garden setting awakens new<br />
comparisons in viewers’<br />
minds. The most recent<br />
exhibition in the series<br />
was Salvador Dalí: Gardens<br />
of the Mind.<br />
TICKETS:<br />
Admission to Roy Lichtenstein:<br />
Monet’s Garden Goes Pop! is<br />
included with all-access<br />
admission to Selby Gardens’<br />
Downtown Sarasota campus:<br />
$25 adults, $15 children 4-17,<br />
and free for members.<br />
Artworks featured in the<br />
exhibition are on loan from<br />
the Norton Museum of Art<br />
(West Palm Beach), the Pérez<br />
Art Museum (Miami), and the<br />
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation<br />
(New York).<br />
Selby Gardens will present<br />
Lichtenstein- and Monetthemed<br />
lectures, performances,<br />
family programs, special tours,<br />
school curricula, and additional<br />
programs that complement<br />
the exhibition.<br />
Visit www.selby.org.<br />
<strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 11
women’s health<br />
Women’s Wellness<br />
Is a 12 Month Commitment<br />
The new year serves as a<br />
reminder to women to make<br />
their health a priority and<br />
build positive health habits<br />
for life. As women we should<br />
be thinking about our health 365 days<br />
a year. Intimate issues such as urinary<br />
incontinence, sexual dysfunction and<br />
pelvic pain can be hard to discuss.<br />
I want to remind you that no issue is<br />
too little or too big to talk about when<br />
it is bothersome to you. As women, we<br />
often compare ourselves to a friend, a<br />
neighbor or a family member and forget<br />
that we are all unique, we all individuals<br />
and it’s personal. Your health is a lifelong<br />
journey. It’s not always easy to take<br />
steps to discuss intimate health issues.<br />
Every woman needs to focus on her<br />
own approach. Every woman needs a<br />
purpose and to find her own motivation.<br />
If you, like many other women,<br />
have difficulty with urinary incontinence,<br />
sexual dysfunction and/or pelvic<br />
pain or if you want to learn more, see<br />
me, Casie Wodzien, Nurse Practitioner,<br />
at the Urology Treatment Center.<br />
I specialize in the treatment of women’s<br />
urological health issues and would<br />
be happy to help you at our Sarasota<br />
or Lakewood Ranch office. When you<br />
think about pink, remember you are<br />
unique and your health matters every<br />
single day of the year. Your urological<br />
issues are not too little or too big to discuss.<br />
Women’s wellness and awareness<br />
always work together.<br />
Many people are surprised to learn<br />
that urology covers a wide range of<br />
conditions for both men and women. In<br />
addition to treating the male reproductive<br />
system, urologists treat diseases and<br />
conditions in the kidneys, bladder, and<br />
urinary tract – all of which affect both<br />
genders in all stages of life.<br />
Women may experience urological<br />
health issues that are unique to their<br />
anatomy. While numerous urological<br />
conditions can affect women of all<br />
ages for a variety of reasons, childbirth,<br />
menopause or a hysterectomy can alter<br />
the body in ways that could lead to conditions<br />
including pelvic floor weakness,<br />
overactive bladder or inflammation of<br />
the bladder wall (interstitial cystitis).<br />
Fortunately, most conditions are highly<br />
treatable, especially when caught early.<br />
• Urinary Tract Infections/Bladder<br />
Infections – Most women will<br />
develop a urinary tract infection (UTI)<br />
at some point in their lives. The infection<br />
develops when bacteria enter the<br />
urinary tract. Women with a UTI may<br />
have pain or burning when they urinate.<br />
They may also feel a sudden urge<br />
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to go to the bathroom, but<br />
then have trouble urinating.<br />
UTIs can be serious,<br />
but they also can be treated<br />
with antibiotics.<br />
• Overactive Bladder<br />
(OAB) – OAB is a condition<br />
recognized by symptoms<br />
including urinary urgency,<br />
frequent urination, waking<br />
up at least twice a night<br />
to urinate or urge incontinence<br />
(leakage of urine).<br />
Treatments range from<br />
medication or nerve stimulation to Botox<br />
injections or surgery. At least 30 million<br />
Americans suffer from overactive bladder.<br />
• Urinary Leakage/Incontinence –<br />
Millions of women experience involuntary<br />
loss of urine, called urinary incontinence.<br />
The condition affects all ages and<br />
women of every social and economic<br />
level, though urinary incontinence<br />
occurs more often in older women than<br />
in young women. The condition can<br />
be driven by stress or by a weakness in<br />
bladder or pelvic floor muscles and can<br />
be treated with a variety of approaches,<br />
depending on severity.<br />
• Pelvic Floor Weakness/Vaginal<br />
Prolapse/”Dropped Bladder” – Pelvic<br />
floor prolapse occurs when the upper<br />
portion of the vagina loses its normal<br />
shape and sags or drops down into the<br />
vaginal canal or even outside of the vaginal<br />
opening. There are several types of<br />
pelvic floor prolapse including bladder,<br />
rectum, small bowel and uterus. It’s wise<br />
not to let the condition go on too long,<br />
as most worsening pelvic floor prolapses<br />
can only be fully corrected with surgery.<br />
• Pelvic Pain/Interstitial Cystitis –<br />
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a long-term<br />
inflammation of the bladder wall, also<br />
called painful bladder syndrome. Its<br />
symptoms are very similar to a urinary<br />
tract infection, such as urinary urgency<br />
and/or pelvic pain, but lack an identifiable<br />
cause such as bacterial infection.<br />
In the past, IC was believed to be a<br />
relatively uncommon problem, but now<br />
it is thought to affect up to 12 percent<br />
of women.<br />
Though women can be reluctant to<br />
talk about these sensitive issues, it is<br />
important to share details with and<br />
seek treatment from<br />
a certified urologist.<br />
Not doing so not only<br />
diminishes your quality<br />
of life, but can put<br />
you at serious risk.<br />
SOURCE:<br />
Casie Wodzien,<br />
MS, APRN,<br />
ANP-BC, Urology<br />
Treatment Center.<br />
Casie Wodzien,<br />
MSN, APRN, ANP-BC<br />
Urology Treatment Center<br />
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out and about continued<br />
their creations. Art, crafts, live music,<br />
and food are available from 9am to<br />
2pm on Fourth Avenue West, perpendicular<br />
to the Bradenton Farmers’<br />
Market on Main Street.<br />
At The Van Wezel<br />
May 14— Pink Floyd’s Dark Side<br />
of the Moon. Classic Albums Live<br />
returns for a limited-capacity performance<br />
on the main stage. The group<br />
will bring Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of<br />
the Moon to life on stage – note for<br />
note, cut for cut.<br />
• May 8—Bay Music Live: Yesterdayze<br />
brings the high-energy music<br />
of the ’60s to the Van Wezel’s lawn and<br />
terrace for an outdoor, socially-distanced<br />
performance.<br />
The event starts at 6 pm with music<br />
at 6:30 pm. Lawn spaces and tables will<br />
be pre-arranged for social distancing,<br />
and guests can enjoy fresh air and a<br />
stroll on the Mangrove Bayou Walkway.<br />
Lawn spaces on the grass accommodating<br />
up to four guests are $70.<br />
Guests reserving lawn spaces are encouraged<br />
to bring seating or blankets<br />
for their respective spaces if they do<br />
not want to sit directly on the grass.<br />
Spaces will be pre-arranged and<br />
marked by Van Wezel staff. Table seating<br />
for up to 4 guests is available for<br />
$100 per table.<br />
“Burgers on the Bay” crafted by<br />
Mattison’s (hamburgers, cheeseburgers,<br />
chicken-burgers and veggie-burgers)<br />
will be available for<br />
purchase at the event.<br />
Performing together for over 15<br />
years, Yesterdayze delivers a non-stop<br />
blast-from-the-past with hits from The<br />
Beatles, The Monkees, The Animals,<br />
The Temptations, The Supremes, CCR,<br />
The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, The<br />
Rolling Stones and more.<br />
• May 9—RAIN: A Tribute to the<br />
Beatles delivers a note-for-note experience<br />
that brings all the greatest<br />
Beatles hits to life. Don’t miss the<br />
mind-blowing theatrical event that<br />
takes you back in time<br />
For updates, go to www.VanWezel.org.<br />
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At Mote Marine<br />
Wild Kratts: Ocean Adventure<br />
– an interactive exhibit based on the<br />
top-rated PBS Kids TV series “Wild<br />
Kratts” – is at Mote Marine Laboratory<br />
& Aquarium. The exhibit focuses<br />
on building STEM-based skills for<br />
children and families as they explore<br />
marine animal habitats and the creatures<br />
within them.<br />
The exhibit runs through June 6.<br />
This special exhibit is free for Mote<br />
Members and included in general admission,<br />
and will be located in Mote’s<br />
WAVE Center. Additional details are<br />
available at mote.org/wild.<br />
Wild Kratts: Ocean Adventure<br />
transports visitors to the Wild Kratts<br />
world, immersing them in whole body<br />
explorations of ocean habitats. Using<br />
Wild Kratts technology and the powers<br />
of science and teamwork, children<br />
and their families will join the Wild<br />
Kratts team to solve problems, help<br />
marine animals, discover incredible<br />
creature powers, and go on a mission<br />
to foil the villains’ nefarious plans.<br />
Mote Aquarium is located at 1600<br />
Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota. Visit<br />
https://mote.org/aquarium/exhibits.<br />
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Art<br />
Around<br />
the State<br />
- many<br />
of these<br />
exhibits<br />
are online/<br />
virtual<br />
Virtual Exhibit:<br />
Boca Raton Historical<br />
Society & Museum.<br />
“Life’s a Beach”<br />
examines the history<br />
of Boca Raton from<br />
the perspective of its<br />
most beautiful asset,<br />
the beachfront.<br />
Learn about the<br />
first people to call<br />
Boca Raton home,<br />
the pre-Columbian<br />
Indians, who lived<br />
primarily in coastal<br />
areas here. See the<br />
beachfront that<br />
greeted our pioneers<br />
through many historic photographs.<br />
Find out about the importance of<br />
Boca’s beach during World War II.<br />
Enjoy these images and artifacts<br />
gleaned from the collections of the<br />
BRHS&M. Through August 4, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Visit www.bocahistory.org/lifes-abeach.<br />
Boca Raton Historical Society<br />
& Museum, 71 North Federal Highway,<br />
Boca Raton.<br />
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The Baker Museum in Naples has<br />
these exhibitions:<br />
• Blurring Boundaries: The Women<br />
of American Abstract Artists,<br />
1936-Present and Making a Mark:<br />
American Women Artists expand art<br />
historical narratives by celebrating<br />
the work of women artists from the<br />
early 20th century to the present.<br />
Blurring Boundaries: The Women<br />
of American Abstract Artists,<br />
1936-Present, runs to July 25. More<br />
than eighty years after its founding,<br />
American Abstract Artists (AAA)<br />
continues to nurture and support a<br />
vibrant community of artists with diverse<br />
identities and wide-ranging approaches<br />
to abstraction. In celebration<br />
of this tradition, Blurring Boundaries:<br />
The Women of American Abstract Artists,<br />
1936 – Present traces the extraordinary<br />
contributions of the female<br />
artists within AAA, from the founders<br />
to today’s practicing members.<br />
The exhibition is a celebration of this<br />
intergenerational group of artists, highlighting<br />
the ways in which the women<br />
of AAA have shifted and shaped the<br />
frontiers of American abstraction.<br />
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• Subject Matters Selections from<br />
the Permanent Collection. Drawn<br />
from The Baker Museum’s permanent<br />
collection, this exhibition addresses<br />
subject matters commonly found in<br />
visual arts, while exploring a wide<br />
array of formal characteristics and<br />
styles in modern and contemporary<br />
art. It also demonstrates differing<br />
artistic approaches taken by different<br />
individuals, reflecting their personal<br />
experiences and concerns, as well<br />
as the time and places in which they<br />
lived and have lived.<br />
Crystal Wilkinson<br />
Lucy Kim<br />
Subject Matters is organized into<br />
nine sections: the Human Figure,<br />
Plants and Animals, Landscapes,<br />
(Sub)Urban Life, Still-Life, the Home,<br />
Artist and Studio, Narratives, and<br />
Nonfigurative Abstraction. Runs to<br />
July 25, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
• Magritte: Reflections of Another<br />
World - paintings from the Van Parys<br />
Family. Magritte: Reflections of Another<br />
World comprises six paintings<br />
— five oils and one gouache — by<br />
Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-<br />
1967). Renowned for his witty Surrealist<br />
paintings of everyday objects<br />
in strange surroundings, Magritte<br />
preferred that his artworks remain<br />
mysterious and open to interpretation.<br />
These works are from the collection<br />
of Jean Van Parys, a collector of<br />
avant-garde art and a close friend of<br />
Magritte, and they are on a five-year<br />
loan to Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum<br />
from Van Parys’ daughter. The<br />
paintings have never previously been<br />
shown in North America, and none<br />
have exhibited publicly in over 48<br />
years. Runs to July 25, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Hari Kunzru<br />
Hermitage Artist Retreat has “Artists and Writers, Thinking Out Loud”<br />
with Crystal Wilkinson, Hari Kunzru, and Lucy Kim on May 14 at 6pm.<br />
• Florida Contemporary—This invitational<br />
exhibition features the work<br />
of three distinguished women artists<br />
worthy of national attention: Elisabeth<br />
Condon, Lilian Garcia-Roig and Carrie<br />
Sieh. The exhibition contextualizes<br />
their interpretations of artistic traditions<br />
using various materials and techniques<br />
within general contemporary<br />
artistic trends, and it also highlights<br />
their individual artistic concerns and<br />
merits. Runs to July 25, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
• Dawn’s Forest—The Sculpture of<br />
Louise Nevelson. With the long-term<br />
reinstallation of Dawn’s Forest in<br />
Hayes Hall, we highlight one of the<br />
most iconic works in The Baker Museum’s<br />
permanent collection. Displayed<br />
in the Drackett Gallery, along with<br />
two of her small works that the museum<br />
owns, are additional works by<br />
Nevelson, on loan from Robert T. and<br />
Terry Edwards, as well as Barbara and<br />
Ron Balser. Runs to July 25, <strong>2021</strong><br />
• Making a MarkAmerican Women<br />
Artists highlights the significant legacy<br />
and continuous contributions of<br />
women artists in the<br />
development of modern<br />
and contemporary<br />
art in America.<br />
The majority of the<br />
works on view, created<br />
between the 1920s<br />
and 1990s, are drawn<br />
from the museum’s<br />
permanent collection,<br />
and they are<br />
augmented by works<br />
on loan from Naples<br />
collectors. Conceived<br />
by Artis—Naples, The<br />
Baker Museum as a<br />
companion exhibition<br />
for the Blurring<br />
Boundaries exhibition,<br />
many of the<br />
selected works are<br />
either on view for<br />
the first time or have<br />
not been exhibited<br />
for nearly a decade.<br />
Runs to July 25, <strong>2021</strong><br />
• Marcus Jansen,<br />
Two Decades of<br />
Relevance. For Marcus<br />
Jansen (b. 1968),<br />
an internationally<br />
exhibited artist based in Fort Myers<br />
and New York, painting is an act of<br />
intense engagement with the world.<br />
His art offers critical commentary on<br />
global sociological, political and economic<br />
issues and visceral responses<br />
to the world events that have shaped<br />
his life. Visitors are invited to discover<br />
Jansen’s creative output, which<br />
has garnered numerous national and<br />
international accolades, in this first<br />
solo museum exhibition in Southwest<br />
Florida. Runs to July 25, <strong>2021</strong><br />
The Baker Museum, 5833 Pelican<br />
Bay Blvd, Naples. Info: 239-597-1900<br />
or visit artisnaples.org.<br />
On view now at the Boca Raton<br />
Museum of Art: Some of the world’s<br />
leading contemporary artists are<br />
invited to breathe new life into centuries-old<br />
glassmaking in Venice—<br />
maestros of glassblowing from the<br />
legendary Berengo Studio residency<br />
help artists manifest their visions.<br />
Among the 34 artists: Ai Weiwei,<br />
Fred Wilson, Joyce J. Scott, Jimmie<br />
Durham, Ugo Rondinone, Fiona<br />
Banner, Vik Muniz, Monica<br />
Bonvicini,Jake & Dinos Chapman,<br />
Laure Prouvost,Renate Bertlmann,<br />
Thomas Schütte, Loris Gréaud, and<br />
Erwin Wurm.<br />
The exhibition runs through<br />
September 5, <strong>2021</strong> and the Museum<br />
will feature online initiatives for<br />
virtual viewing.<br />
• Also on view: An Irresistible Urge<br />
to Create: The Monroe Family Collection<br />
of Florida Outsider Art. Runs<br />
to September 05. Collecting Outsider<br />
art was not intentional for Gary Monroe.<br />
“Things just came my way,” he<br />
says. “The artists were all interesting.<br />
I became curious about the work,<br />
which was all so invigorating because<br />
of the makers’ freedom of expression<br />
and, of course, the visual resolve they<br />
found to express themselves. These<br />
works questioned assumptions of<br />
what art is or what art can be. While<br />
they provoked, they delighted. Further,<br />
the artists possessed little, if any,<br />
concern with public acclaim, museum<br />
exhibitions, or their creations’<br />
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sales. Needless to say, they did not<br />
have artists’ reps or résumés.”<br />
One thing led to another, and<br />
Monroe accumulated nearly 1,000<br />
pieces of art. Eighty-six works from<br />
the Monroe Family Collection have<br />
been selected for this exhibition, accompanied<br />
by an exhibition catalog.<br />
The publication includes an introduction<br />
by Gary Monroe, a discussion<br />
by Senior Curator Kathy Goncharov<br />
about the changing vocabulary of selftaught<br />
and folk artists, an in-depth<br />
essay by Tampa Museum of Art Curator<br />
Joanna Robotham, and a specially-commissioned<br />
poem by Campbell<br />
McGrath about artists’ urge to create.<br />
Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501<br />
Plaza Real, Boca Raton. https://bocamuseum.org/.<br />
Van Gogh Alive runs through<br />
June 13, <strong>2021</strong> at the Dali Museum in<br />
St. Petersburg. Experience Vincent<br />
van Gogh’s works in an immersive art<br />
installation that opens a new window<br />
into the celebrated painter’s artistic<br />
genius. From his famous “Starry<br />
Night” to his radiant “Sunflowers,”<br />
Van Gogh’s vibrant work invites viewers<br />
to revel in color, light and sound.<br />
Visitors will feel the sensation of walking<br />
right into Van Gogh’s paintings.<br />
The exhibition features more than<br />
3,000 Van Gogh images at enormous<br />
scale, viewed through high-definition<br />
projectors and synchronized to a powerful<br />
classical score. Cinema-quality<br />
surround-sound amplifies the emotion<br />
generated by the works themselves.<br />
In addition to the iconic works<br />
featured, visitors can examine Van<br />
Gogh’s inspiration via photographs<br />
and video displayed alongside them.<br />
The Dalí is the first North American<br />
venue to host this version of Van Gogh<br />
Alive. Tickets: https://thedali.org/visit/buy-tickets/<br />
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Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.): The<br />
Krome Drawings are on display at<br />
Norton Museum of Art (West Palm<br />
Beach)The exhibit showcases a moving<br />
selection of nearly 30 ink portraits<br />
created by Venezuelan, South Florida-based<br />
artist Jose Alvarez during<br />
his time in Miami’s Krome immigration<br />
detention center in 2011.<br />
The artist, who was arrested for<br />
passport fraud after his Visa expired,<br />
completed a series of portraits of<br />
fellow detainees while fighting for<br />
his freedom. The subjects’ personal<br />
histories will be presented alongside<br />
their portraits. At the time of Alvarez’s<br />
detention in 2011, his large-scale,<br />
site-specific installation, Vibrating<br />
Strands, of Energy was on view at the<br />
Norton as part of Altered States (April<br />
2 – July 17, 2011), a major group exhibition.<br />
Now through May 9. https://<br />
www.norton.org/<br />
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dining in<br />
Try These Food “Impostors”<br />
Clever substitutions make many meat-based items more vegan-friendly<br />
Crispy Cauliflower Tacos<br />
Chickpeas are the “flour” that holds these tacos together.<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
1 Tbsp. cumin<br />
1 Tbsp. chili powder<br />
1 Tbsp. dried oregano<br />
2 tsp. kosher salt<br />
6 Tbsp. olive oil, divided<br />
2 (15 oz.) cans chickpeas, drained<br />
1 head cauliflower, cut into small florets<br />
1 zucchini, cut into 1/4" cubes<br />
8 corn tortillas, 6"<br />
2 cups red cabbage, shredded, divided<br />
1 avocado, diced<br />
DIRECTIONS:<br />
Preheat oven to 400 degrees<br />
Mix together cumin, chili powder, oregano,<br />
salt and 4 Tbsp. olive oil.<br />
Toss chickpeas in half the oil spice mixture and toss cauliflower with the other half of<br />
oil spice mixture.<br />
Roast each on separate baking sheets until crispy (about 30 minutes).<br />
While chickpeas and cauliflower are in oven, heat remaining 2 Tbsp. olive oil in pan<br />
and Sauté zucchini until tender.<br />
Warm tortillas in the oven for 5 minutes at 400 degrees F.<br />
Assemble tacos: 1 tortilla, ¼ cup shredded cabbage, ¼ cup chickpeas, ¼ cup cauliflower,<br />
and 1 Tbps. avocado.<br />
Makes 4 servings (2 tacos). Per serving: 660 calories, 32 g total fat (4.5 g saturated<br />
fat, 0 g trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 76 g carbohydrates, 19 g protein, 17 g<br />
dietary fiber, 1140 mg sodium, 7 g sugar, 0 g added sugar.<br />
Sweet Potato Chili with Peanuts<br />
This vegetarian one-pot meal has earthy sweet potatoes and carrots that form the<br />
base. Tomatoes, peppers and onion add even more flavor and nutrition and it’s<br />
ready in just 30 minutes.<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
2 Tbsp. canola oil<br />
1 medium onion, chopped<br />
2 medium carrots, peeled and thinly<br />
sliced<br />
1 medium green bell pepper, seeded<br />
and chopped<br />
1 medium red bell pepper, seeded<br />
and chopped<br />
3 garlic cloves, minced<br />
2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled<br />
and cut into bite-sized chunks<br />
(about 4 cups)<br />
1 ½ cups unsalted roasted peanuts<br />
1 can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes<br />
in juice<br />
1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste<br />
DIRECTIONS:<br />
In a large, heavy pot, heat the canola oil over medium heat.<br />
Add the onion, carrots, and bell peppers and sauté, stirring occasionally, for about 8<br />
minutes, until vegetables are golden.<br />
Add the garlic and sauté stirring constantly for 30 seconds, until fragrant.<br />
Stir in the sweet potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes and juice, tomato paste, chiles and their<br />
liquid, chili powder, cumin and sugar.<br />
Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low immediately and simmer gently, stirring<br />
occasionally, for 15 to 25 minutes until the sweet potatoes are just tender.<br />
Halfway through the cooking process, adjust the seasonings, adding more chili powder<br />
and cumin, if desired.<br />
Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.<br />
2 cans (4 ounces each) diced mild green<br />
chiles with liquid<br />
4 to 6 Tbsp. chili powder, to taste<br />
1 Tbsp. ground cumin, to taste<br />
1 Tbsp. sugar<br />
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste<br />
Per Serving: 385 calories, 15 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 55 g carbohydrate, 11 g<br />
protein, 8 g dietary fiber, 409 mg sodium. Makes 10 servings. Prep Time: 15 minutes.<br />
Cook time: 30 minutes.<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
No-Cook Zucchini “Noodle” Salad<br />
Thinly sliced summer squash fills in as a flavorful no-cook pasta salad at your<br />
next cookout or picnic. Enjoy with grilled sausages, on a grilled chicken sandwich<br />
or over a bed of mixed greens.<br />
INGREDIENTS:<br />
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil<br />
DIRECTIONS:<br />
Chickpea Crepes<br />
What’s the secret behind these thin pancakes?<br />
They contain flour made from chickpeas<br />
called besan (also known as garbanzo<br />
bean or gram flour). Besan is made from<br />
beans so it’s packed with fiber and protein.<br />
CREPES<br />
1 cup chickpea flour<br />
2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil<br />
1 tsp. finely chopped fresh rosemary<br />
1/4 tsp. salt<br />
1 cup water<br />
2 tsp. soft buttery spread, if using skillet<br />
FILLING<br />
2 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil<br />
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion<br />
1/3 cup finely chopped red bell pepper<br />
6 oz. cremini mushrooms, thinly sliced<br />
(about 2 cups)<br />
DIRECTIONS:<br />
In medium bowl, whisk chickpea flour, oil, rosemary and salt with 1 cup water until<br />
mixture is smooth. Let batter sit 20-30 minutes to thicken. Before cooking, stir to<br />
loosen any clumps.<br />
For crepes, set non-stick pan over medium-high heat until drops of water flicked into<br />
pan ball up and bounce. With one hand, hold pan up at 45-degree angle. Pour ¼ cup<br />
batter near top of pan, rotating pan as you pour so batter flows into 6-7-inch round<br />
crepe. Cook until crepe is golden on bottom, 1-2 minutes. Using large spatula, flip<br />
and cook until crepe is lightly golden on bottom, about 30 seconds. Transfer crepe to<br />
large plate. Cover each crepe with wax paper.<br />
If not filling crepes immediately, cool to room temperature and cover plate with plastic<br />
wrap. Hold crepes at room temperature for up to 8 hours, refrigerate for up to 24 hours.<br />
For filling, in medium skillet heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook,<br />
stirring for 2 minutes. Add red peppers and cook, stirring, until onions are translucent,<br />
5 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture looks wet,<br />
5-6 minutes. Add spinach, stirring to wilt leaves. Cook, stirring often, until most of<br />
moisture has evaporated and filling is tender, 8 minutes.<br />
If crepes have been made ahead, wrap them in foil and warm at 250 degree F for 20<br />
minutes. To assemble crepes, in small bowl, mix pesto with 2 tbsp. warm water. Stir<br />
pesto into filling. Arrange a crepe on a plate. Spoon ⅙ filling over bottom half of each<br />
crepe, then gently fold crepe in half over filling. Repeat with remaining crepes and filling.<br />
If desired, garnish plate with some mesclun leaves and strawberries. Serve immediately.<br />
Makes 6 servings (1, 6" crepe per serving). Per serving: 170 calories, 10 g total<br />
fat (1.5 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 13 g carbohydrates, 5 g<br />
protein, 3 g dietary fiber, 630 mg sodium, 3 g sugar, 0 g added sugar.<br />
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar<br />
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh<br />
marjoram or oregano<br />
3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt<br />
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper<br />
2 pounds zucchini and/or yellow<br />
summer squash<br />
1 (4.0-ounce) jar pimientos, drained<br />
In a large bowl, whisk together oil, vinegar, marjoram, salt and pepper until blended.<br />
Using a vegetable peeler or mandolin, cut squash lengthwise into long, thin “noodles”.<br />
Rotate squash as you peel and discard seedy core.<br />
Add squash to dressing in the bowl along with pimientos and toss to combine.<br />
Serve immediately or let marinate up to 15 minutes.<br />
1 box (5oz.) baby spinach<br />
2 Tbsp. prepared pesto<br />
Salt and freshly ground black pepper,<br />
to taste<br />
Makes 8 servings. Time: 30 minutes. Per serving: about 1/2 cup, 80 calories (60<br />
from fat), 7g total fat, 1g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 230mg sodium, 4g carbohydrates<br />
(1g dietary fiber, 3g sugar), 2g protein.<br />
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<strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 15
Cheryl Mendelson<br />
Cheryl Mendelson is<br />
the CEO of the Van<br />
Wezel Foundation<br />
and she’s using creativity<br />
as well as her considerable<br />
background in strategic<br />
planning and fundraising<br />
to bring to fruition<br />
probably this area’s most<br />
ambitious project ever:<br />
the Sarasota Performing<br />
Arts Center or SPAC which<br />
will be built on the<br />
bayfront around the<br />
Van Wezel.<br />
16 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong>
eativity…it’s not just<br />
what gives life to great<br />
works of art be it visual,<br />
books, dance, music,<br />
poetry or theatre.<br />
Creativity also fuels<br />
ideas behind projects<br />
that seek to be bold and not fit into the ordinary.<br />
Cheryl Mendelson is the CEO of the Van<br />
Wezel Foundation and she’s using creativity<br />
as well as her considerable background in<br />
strategic planning and fundraising to bring to<br />
fruition probably this area’s most ambitious<br />
project ever: the Sarasota Performing Arts<br />
Center or SPAC.<br />
Their website describes SPAC as “… a public-private<br />
partnership with the City of Sarasota<br />
and in collaboration with the Bay Park Conservancy<br />
and the Van Wezel Performing Arts<br />
Hall.” The Van Wezel Foundation, which Cheryl<br />
runs, is leading the way with SPAC.<br />
Though in its early stages, when completed,<br />
Sarasota’s bayfront will have a state of the art<br />
performance hall that’s bigger, more flexible,<br />
and more energy efficient. Being much larger,<br />
it will be capable of drawing those big shows<br />
that routinely pass Sarasota by. SPAC will be a<br />
part of the 53-acre parcel owned by the City of<br />
Sarasota that has been the Van Wezel parking<br />
lot and not much else. A preliminary drawing<br />
(though not a final) shows a modern design<br />
with a performance hall, that, in addition to its<br />
bigger size, bigger stage, better acoustics and<br />
the like, will also have an additional, smaller,<br />
flexible performance space.<br />
The dynamic plan to move forward with<br />
SPAC was approved in 2018. The “civic asset”<br />
as it’s called, will have more than just a place to<br />
see shows. It will also be a park that meanders<br />
around the hall on land and over the bay. And<br />
it will be built with the future in mind for when<br />
sea levels inevitably rise and will thus sit atop<br />
“stilts” due to its close proximity to the water.<br />
Expect a 230,000 square foot venue with<br />
2250 seats plus another 400 seats at the second<br />
performance space. Plus, there’s a 10,000<br />
square foot education and lifelong learning<br />
center while outside has multiple places for<br />
performances. It will cost in the range of $250<br />
to $275 million.<br />
Many of us are emerging from our Covid-induced<br />
cocoon. Arts organizations and arts<br />
leaders are no different. Cheryl worked at the<br />
VW, but moved when the virus took hold and<br />
works at space offered by SPAC board member<br />
Mark Famiglio at his pink building in downtown<br />
Sarasota.<br />
Cheryl left the chilly shores of Chicago in<br />
2019 for sub-tropical Sarasota. Weather extremes<br />
aside, there is the daunting challenge of<br />
envisioning and bringing SPAC to fruition. This<br />
is the critical stage if you have Cheryl’s job —<br />
raising money, gaining support and seeing the<br />
project through its early stages to completion.<br />
For having lived here just three years, she’s<br />
been a quick study of the area’s zeitgeist. “People<br />
chose Sarasota,” she observes, and thus<br />
“they want to make it the best.” She’s noted<br />
there are 300 some nonprofits in Sarasota<br />
County alone, which speaks to “People committing<br />
to serve.” Her board reflects that as well<br />
and many are well-traveled and from diverse<br />
backgrounds. They bring “global perspectives<br />
and expectations,” she notes and her board is<br />
also “rich with knowledge.”<br />
Prior to Sarasota, Cheryl was Executive Vice<br />
President and Chief Operating Officer at the<br />
Harris Theater in Chicago’s Millennium Park.<br />
“Chicago is a big city, but in many ways a small<br />
city with pragmatic midwesterners,” she notes<br />
which, with the exception of size, sounds similar<br />
to Sarasota. Millennium Park, she adds,<br />
became a “cultural gateway with public art, an<br />
arts center, outside concerts,” not just a performance<br />
center and that experience has shaped<br />
her vision for SPAC.<br />
Over her career Cheryl has worked in education<br />
(VP of Institutional Advancement and<br />
Chief Marketing Officer for Erikson Institute<br />
where she completed a $58 million Impact and<br />
Influence campaign), health (13 years at the<br />
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab where she led campaigns<br />
raising $150 million to establish clinical<br />
and research programs), and most recently,<br />
EVP and COO at the Harris Theater in Chicago’s<br />
Millennium Park. There she planned the strategic<br />
vision for the Theater and was the chief architect<br />
for the $38 million Imagine Campaign,<br />
which achieved 60% of goal in the first year.<br />
Why this job? “The project drew me,” she<br />
explains and adds, “there aren’t that many opportunities<br />
to build a legacy project.” In fact,<br />
there are few projects in the nation of this size<br />
and scope in the pipeline. Personally, the arts<br />
mean a lot to her - her parents loved the arts and<br />
they were for her family “an important part of<br />
our lives. I’ve always been a patron of the arts.<br />
It’s the power of the arts to inspire.” She’s seen<br />
it in her life and especially with her son Harris<br />
who has a disability. For him, the arts have been<br />
“a great equalizer, a place to express himself<br />
without judgment.” Her other son, Bennett, is<br />
in e-commerce and like his mother, is a creative<br />
thinker and his exposure to the arts at an early<br />
age fed his “entrepreneurial spirit,” she explains.<br />
Covid has kept her from what professional<br />
fundraisers do best: meet potential donors,<br />
give speeches, go to events, etc., in what she<br />
calls a “high touch” business. Like so many, she<br />
went online to stay in touch with donors. The<br />
Foundation “pivoted” and brought all its programs<br />
online and served over 40,000 students<br />
across five counties.<br />
So, what question is she asked first about the<br />
new SPAC? We both simultaneously laughed<br />
as we both had the same correct answer: that<br />
darn center aisle. Yes, she reassures everyone,<br />
there will be a center aisle and thus an end to<br />
climbing over endless sets of knees to get to or<br />
from your seat.<br />
But back to being serious, what she hears<br />
most is how can I help? Which is reassuring due<br />
to the many moving parts - the design, the center’s<br />
use, the grounds, traffic, the cost, etc., that<br />
can, in a vocal community like Sarasota, draw<br />
critics. What exists now is a concept. That illustration<br />
on the WCW cover is a wish list of sorts.<br />
It’a an illustration that contains all the punch<br />
list/must-have factors worked in. What SPAC<br />
and its surrounding area will ultimately look<br />
like is months away and subject to change. “It’s<br />
a concept,” she explains referring to the rendering<br />
and adds, “vision is never a straight line.”<br />
And then there’s the Van Wezel (which she<br />
does not run - that’s Mary Bensel’s job). What<br />
will happen to the purple people seater that<br />
we all find as a Sarasota icon? “The city is putting<br />
together a blue-ribbon committee and is<br />
doing an engineering study,” she explains and<br />
that will look in depth at the 50-plus year old<br />
structure. It can’t be elevated to protect it from<br />
rising sea levels and, due to the fact it sits along<br />
Sarasota Bay, it’s exposed to salt water and tropical<br />
storms. But it will be very much in use until<br />
the other hall is completed and ready for use<br />
which could take six years. SPAC’s RFP (request<br />
for proposal) is scheduled for this fall and that<br />
itself will take six to nine months.<br />
For now, the site is quiet. The Bay Park<br />
Conservancy, another not-for-profit organization<br />
in partnership with SPAC and the city,<br />
completed a half-mile, 10-foot sidewalk walkway<br />
back in April that wraps around the Bay<br />
Park’s coastal area.<br />
Though she works very hard and has a laser<br />
focus on SPAC, Cheryl finds time to tool around<br />
town with her husband, Kevin Jackson, in their<br />
convertible or takes to the water on their boat.<br />
They both love the arts and “feel blessed to be in<br />
this gorgeous environment.”<br />
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you’re news<br />
Cynthia Heinrich<br />
Accolades<br />
■ Communications Operator<br />
II Cynthia Heinrich has been<br />
promoted to Emergency Operations<br />
Supervisor<br />
with<br />
the Sarasota<br />
County<br />
Sheriff’s<br />
Department.<br />
Heinrich was<br />
hired in 2000<br />
as a Communications<br />
Operator III.<br />
Later that year, she earned her<br />
certification in Emergency Medical<br />
Dispatch. In 2005, Heinrich<br />
earned her certification in Emergency<br />
Fire Dispatch, and in 2006,<br />
was promoted to Operator II.<br />
Heinrich has advanced<br />
training in conflict resolution,<br />
customer service, stress management,<br />
management and leadership,<br />
911 operator skills, and<br />
more. Heinrich has more than a<br />
dozen compliment letters in her<br />
file highlighting her professionalism<br />
and dedication to duty.<br />
■ Broker-Associate Carey Beychok<br />
of RE/MAX Alliance Group<br />
has earned the Five Star Real<br />
Estate Agent<br />
Award recognizing<br />
excellence<br />
in client<br />
satisfaction.<br />
Based on an<br />
independent<br />
survey of<br />
recent home<br />
Carey Beychok<br />
buyers, the<br />
award was<br />
presented to approximately 2 percent<br />
of real estate agents in the<br />
Sarasota market.<br />
Beychok’s entire career has<br />
been in the real estate industry,<br />
first as a new home sales representative<br />
for several of the area's<br />
largest builders, and now as a<br />
Broker-Associate with RE/MAX<br />
Alliance Group after running<br />
her own brokerage firm for many<br />
years. Her family has been building<br />
and developing real estate<br />
locally since 1946, which gives<br />
her deep understanding of both<br />
the new and resale markets.<br />
Beychok is a Certified Luxury<br />
Home Marketing Specialist<br />
(CLHMS) and holds the Certified<br />
New Home Specialist (CNHS)<br />
and Residential Construction<br />
Certified (RCC) designations.<br />
She is based in the Sarasota<br />
office at 2000 Webber Street,<br />
Sarasota.<br />
Also at RE/MAX Alliance,<br />
Realtor Lisa Bender has joined<br />
them as a Sales Associate. A<br />
resident of downtown Sarasota as<br />
well as Newport, Rhode Island,<br />
she is also a licensed Realtor<br />
with Lila Delman Real Estate in<br />
Newport and William Raveis Real<br />
Estate in Connecticut.<br />
Bender has been a real estate<br />
professional since 2009, specializing<br />
in second homes, resort<br />
properties and individuals moving<br />
to Southwest Florida from the<br />
Northeast. She holds the Resort<br />
and Second Property Specialist<br />
(RSPS), Certified International<br />
Property Specialist (CIPS),<br />
Certified GREEN Realtor, ePRO<br />
and Short Sales and Resource<br />
Specialist (SFR) designations.<br />
Nonprofit<br />
News<br />
■ After 13 years of leadership,<br />
Step Up Suncoast’s President<br />
& CEO Barbara Patten will be<br />
stepping away on August 31, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
The Board has<br />
begun a regional<br />
search and<br />
looks to have a<br />
new President &<br />
CEO in place by<br />
the end of June.<br />
Patten was<br />
hired as Step Up<br />
Barbara Patten<br />
Suncoast’s President<br />
& CEO in<br />
August of 2008. She spent the bulk<br />
of her career in the not-for-profit<br />
sector, previously at the Economic<br />
Opportunity Council of Indian<br />
River County. Patten served on<br />
several boards throughout the<br />
community, including the Florida<br />
Community Action Network,<br />
Manatee Educational Television,<br />
and Manatee Community Federal<br />
Credit Union.<br />
In 2008, the agency was going<br />
through a time of transition<br />
regarding program outcomes and<br />
board governance. Patten created<br />
a positive culture where employees<br />
feel valued, respected, and<br />
fairly compensated, which has<br />
led to nearly 40% of the organization’s<br />
staff staying at least five<br />
years. She doubled the number<br />
of families served within the<br />
Rise and Shine Early Learning<br />
Head Start & Early Head Start<br />
programs and designed and implemented<br />
the Family Self-Sufficiency<br />
program, the cornerstone<br />
to creating long term economic<br />
stability for families.<br />
Patten is most proud of the rebrand<br />
and successful relaunch of<br />
Step Up Suncoast in 2018. It was an<br />
ambitious goal meant to encompass<br />
servicing the entire region<br />
verses focusing on one county.<br />
Incorporated in 1968, Step Up<br />
Suncoast provides services to<br />
over 12,000 individuals annually<br />
across five counties. With a budget<br />
of just over $18 million, they<br />
assist low-income families with<br />
both crisis services and various<br />
programs centered around early<br />
childhood development.<br />
Appointments<br />
■ Jewish Family and Children’s<br />
Service (JFCS) of the Suncoast<br />
has appointed Christa Mannarino<br />
as their new Chief Development<br />
Officer. In this role, she will<br />
raise funds to<br />
address the<br />
unmet needs of<br />
our community,<br />
deepen the<br />
organization’s<br />
commitment<br />
to its current<br />
supporters, and<br />
expand JFCS’s<br />
Christa Mannarino base of support<br />
for programs it provides to youth,<br />
families, seniors and veterans.<br />
Christa brings 25 years of experience<br />
to JFCS through her work<br />
in higher education, non-profit<br />
organizations and consulting.<br />
As a former non-profit executive<br />
director who successfully led a<br />
visual arts organization for 10<br />
years, she understands the power<br />
of innovative solutions and what<br />
it takes to create a strong sense<br />
of community. Most recently,<br />
she served in senior development<br />
roles with the University<br />
of Tennessee at Chattanooga<br />
and as the Executive Director of<br />
Development for Cleveland State<br />
Community College.<br />
■ The University of South<br />
Florida is welcoming Jennifer<br />
VanDeWoestyne as the new<br />
assistant director of academic advising<br />
on the Sarasota-Manatee<br />
campus. VanDeWoestyne comes<br />
to USF from Queens University<br />
of Charlotte, in Charlotte, N.C.,<br />
where she served as director of<br />
academic advising.<br />
Her responsibilities include<br />
overseeing the campus’s academic<br />
advising team, serving as the<br />
campus’s academic advocate,<br />
chairing the campus Persistence<br />
Committee, leading retention<br />
and persistence efforts, and<br />
representing the team on advising-related<br />
committees, councils<br />
and in meetings.<br />
Business<br />
News Dept.<br />
■ Siesta Key has Studio Yooga, a<br />
Yoga Studio that opened on April<br />
3 at 5212 ½ Ocean Blvd. on Siesta<br />
Key. They offer a variety of yoga<br />
classes every day including hot<br />
Yoga, Power Vinyasa, Restorative<br />
Yoga, Gentle Yoga, Vinyasa Flow,<br />
and more.<br />
In addition, they offer yoga<br />
classes on the beach Monday<br />
through Saturday, and special<br />
events each week Info: 941-248-<br />
3890. Hours: Mon - Fri, 9am<br />
- 7pm; Saturday, 11am - 630pm<br />
Sunday, 1030am - 1p.m.<br />
■ After four years at the Market<br />
at UTC, husband and wife team<br />
Matt and Chelsea Sluizer have<br />
moved their Bows and Arrows<br />
boutique across University Blvd<br />
to the District at UTC. Located on<br />
the southeast corner of University<br />
Town Center, the boutique now<br />
neighbors Jeni's Ice Cream, Shake<br />
Shack, and Bento. The new location<br />
is full of new arrivals, with<br />
new styles arriving weekly. Bows<br />
and Arrows offers a wide array<br />
of unique dresses and rompers,<br />
in prints and patterns, everyday<br />
basics, affordable and quality<br />
athleisure and workout apparel.<br />
Specializing in affordable<br />
women's fashion from popular<br />
boutique brands, it's the perfect<br />
place for those drawn to an<br />
effortless Southern style for the<br />
everyday Florida lifestyle. Hours:<br />
Bows and Arrows is open 7 days a<br />
week, Monday through Saturday<br />
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays<br />
12-5:00 p.m. Location: 190 N<br />
Cattlemen Rd Unit 4A, Sarasota.<br />
Info: 941-210-7158 or www.<br />
bowsandarrowsco.com.<br />
Board News<br />
■ Children First, Inc., the<br />
exclusive provider of Head Start<br />
and Early Head Start services<br />
in Sarasota County, welcomes<br />
Andrea Johnson to its Board of<br />
Directors.<br />
Johnson is a Vice President, IT<br />
Architect for JPMorgan Chase. She<br />
has held several key leadership<br />
positions for the multinational<br />
banking company in a career<br />
spanning more than two decades.<br />
Her volunteer experience<br />
includes local, national, and<br />
international organizations such<br />
as the YMCA of Delaware, the<br />
Hillsborough Circuit Guardian<br />
ad Litem Program, the National<br />
Black MBA Association, and<br />
Bankers Without Borders.<br />
As part of the inaugural Board-<br />
Lead group in the Tampa Bay<br />
region, Children First was invited<br />
to join a select cohort of nonprofit<br />
and corporate partners working<br />
together to elevate leadership in<br />
the social good sector.<br />
Operating in 19 states and<br />
internationally in London,<br />
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leadership in the social good<br />
sector by partnering with top<br />
companies, professional services<br />
firms, and foundations to recruit,<br />
place, train and support talented<br />
professionals for high-impact<br />
board service.To learn more, visit<br />
childrenfirst.net.<br />
■ Arts Advocates has announced<br />
the members of its<br />
<strong>2021</strong>-2022 advisory board.<br />
Established in 2019, the advisory<br />
board’s current objectives are to<br />
analyze the challenges confronting<br />
non-profit organizations,<br />
share observations about the<br />
impact of the pandemic on the<br />
arts and speculate about how<br />
the new normal may take shape,<br />
identify opportunities for collaboration,<br />
and develop creative<br />
ways to interact.<br />
<strong>2021</strong>-2022 advisory board<br />
members are Todd Engelhardt,<br />
Cumberland Advisors; Marjorie<br />
Floyd, Strategic Marketing Resources;<br />
Pat Golemme, Sarasota<br />
Ballet board vice president;<br />
Katherine Martucci, Selby<br />
Gardens board member and<br />
Children First president; Cheryl<br />
Mendelson, Van Wezel Foundation<br />
CEO; Mark Ormond, art<br />
historian and<br />
curator; Andy<br />
Sandberg, Hermitage<br />
Artist<br />
Retreat CEO;<br />
Ariel Serrano,<br />
Sarasota School<br />
of Cuban Ballet<br />
director; Jim<br />
Shirley, Arts<br />
Cheryl Mendelson and Cultural<br />
Alliance of Sarasota County director;<br />
Waddy Thompson, author<br />
and La Musica board member;<br />
Miriam Wallace, New College<br />
Division of Humanities chair; Dr.<br />
Christopher Wilson, Ringling<br />
College architecture and design<br />
historian; and Frank Martucci,<br />
investment advisor for the Hintzpeter<br />
bequest.<br />
Arts Advocates was founded<br />
as the Fine Arts Society of<br />
Sarasota in 1969 with the mission<br />
of supporting and stimulating<br />
the arts in Sarasota County.<br />
The organization has awarded<br />
over $1 million in scholarships<br />
to local students, and nearly<br />
$150,000 in grants to local arts<br />
organizations, schools, and<br />
children’s programs. All monies<br />
awarded are generated through<br />
Arts Advocates activities.<br />
For more information about<br />
Arts Advocates, visit ArtsAdvocates.org.<br />
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Restaurant<br />
News and<br />
Specials<br />
• Oak & Stone restaurants throughout<br />
west central Florida, known for having<br />
a self-pour craft beer wall and tavern<br />
style food, has launched its first and only<br />
house beer, Oak & Stone Snowbird Pilsner,<br />
available year-round at all locations.<br />
The new house beer was brewed in<br />
partnership with Big Storm Brewing Co.<br />
Snowbird Pilsner is balanced and a bright<br />
golden example of a German-style pilsner.<br />
An extended maturation time lends<br />
to a smooth and bready malt character<br />
complimented by crisp German noble<br />
hops. The result is a very approachable<br />
medium-light gold beer. The ABV is 4.8%.<br />
“We’re thrilled to announce Snowbird<br />
Pilsner, our first house beer. We’re very<br />
pleased with the hops profile and drinkability.<br />
Cheers to Big Storm for nailing our<br />
flavor,” notes Brett Decklever, co-owner<br />
of Oak & Stone.<br />
The new Snowbird Pilsner is available<br />
at all five Oak & Stone locations throughout<br />
west central Florida in downtown St.<br />
Petersburg, Bradenton, Sarasota and<br />
Naples. Snowbird Pilsner can be enjoyed<br />
in the restaurants or through Oak &<br />
Stone’s Growler program.<br />
“This Pilsner was created for Oak &<br />
Stone with a small twist. The twist is the<br />
use of Perle hops instead of the traditional<br />
Saaz hops. Perle hops bring increased<br />
floral and spicy notes without an increase<br />
in bitterness. The Big Storm Brewing team<br />
created an amazing flavor and we’re excited<br />
to share it with our guests,” notes Sean<br />
Barber, Oak & Stone Craft Beer Specialist.<br />
Craft Beer Growlers To-Go are available<br />
at all locations, filled with local craft<br />
beers (with the exception of the downtown<br />
St. Petersburg location, which is not<br />
offering growlers To-Go).<br />
■ Go to www.oakandstone.com for a<br />
listing of store locations.<br />
• More restaurants are coming to<br />
University Parkway in Lakewood Ranch<br />
including Owens Fish Camp, Olivia’s<br />
of Tampa and a third restaurant TBA.<br />
Owens Fish Camp hopes to be open for<br />
20 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
business later this year or early in 2022.<br />
Center Point at Lakewood Ranch is just<br />
east of the University Parkway/Lakewood<br />
Ranch Boulevard intersection. Olivia’s is<br />
a modern Italian restaurant that offers the<br />
traditional trattoria dishes designed by<br />
Chef Chris Ponte.<br />
• Chef Gino Calleja, executive chef and<br />
proprietor of Reyna’s Taqueria, an authentic<br />
taste of Mexico, announces their<br />
Cinco de Mayo Special, on Wednesday,<br />
May 5 from 11am to 8pm. The Taco<br />
Fiesta Feast special includes one dozen<br />
tacos, freshly made guacamole, housemade<br />
salsa<br />
and chips,<br />
and five<br />
Churros.<br />
(Tacos:<br />
choose up<br />
to two fillings<br />
- Chicken<br />
Tinga,<br />
Carnitas,<br />
Pastor, Cilantro-Garlic<br />
Chicken)<br />
$52 plus<br />
tax. Chef<br />
Calleja has<br />
also created<br />
the Cinco de Mayo Shrimp Fajita<br />
with rice, beans, freshly made tortillas,<br />
guacamole, pico, and crema for $15.99<br />
plus tax.<br />
Oak & Stone’s New Snowbird Pilsner<br />
Reynas Taqueria is located at The<br />
Commons Shopping Center, 935 North<br />
Beneva Road, Suite 701, Sarasota. Info:<br />
941-260-8343.<br />
Other popular menu items include:<br />
Barbaocoa Sopes: Sopes are a unique<br />
Mexican item, a cousin of the tortilla, but<br />
are fried corn dough, hand-crafted into<br />
thick patties with raised edges, spread<br />
with refried black beans, filled with Guajillo<br />
Marinated Pork Shoulder, topped with<br />
lettuce, queso fresco, crema, avocado,<br />
and topped with salsa. House-made<br />
Sangria” is refreshing and fruity, and is<br />
a Calleja family recipe.<br />
■ Visit www.reynastaquera.com.<br />
Events<br />
• Michael’s Wine Cellar has its Wine<br />
Cellar Social Club on May 13. It’s a<br />
Michael’s Wine Cellar has its Wine Cellar Social Club<br />
combination of a traditional wine-tasting<br />
and a contemporary social event. It’s a<br />
place for wine-lovers to come together to<br />
enjoy fine wines with great company.<br />
The $35 cover (plus tax & gratuity)<br />
includes six unique wines paired with a<br />
tapas-style appetizer plate. Tables will be<br />
separated by at least six feet. Guests may<br />
reserve a table for groups of 2-10 people.<br />
Reyna’s Taqueria House-made Sangria<br />
and their unique Barbaocoa Sope<br />
■ The Wine Cellar Social Club is also<br />
taking place on May 27. Reservations:<br />
https://bestfood.instagift.<br />
com/wine-cellar-social-club.<br />
• Chart House<br />
has menu items<br />
offering a spring<br />
change. For<br />
a limited time<br />
enjoy Moroccan<br />
Mahi (Seared<br />
with Herbed<br />
Yogurt and Fire<br />
Roasted Vegetable<br />
Couscous),<br />
Maple and<br />
Ginger Glazed King Salmon (Cucumber<br />
Daikon and Green Onion Relish in Soy<br />
Broth with Jasmine Rice), Peach Bourbon<br />
Glazed Scallops and Shrimp (Skillet Fried<br />
Corn With Bacon and Asparagus Grape<br />
Tomatoes with Roasted Red Peppers).<br />
■ Chart House is located at 201 Gulf of<br />
Mexico Dr., Longboat Key. Reservations:<br />
(941) 383-5593.<br />
Publix Aprons Cooking School demonstration-style<br />
cooking class has a couple of delicious events<br />
• Publix Aprons Cooking School has<br />
these events:<br />
• Food Heaven: Indulgent Ingredients<br />
and Wines is on May 14 at 6:30 p.m.<br />
Menu: Crab and Fennel Bisque with<br />
Lemony Crème Fraiche; Lobster Rolls<br />
with Heirloom Tomatoes, Bacon and<br />
Tarragon Aioli; Dijon and Herb Crusted<br />
Beef Tenderloin with Roasted Shallot<br />
Jus and Baby Potatoes; Bittersweet<br />
Chocolate Tart with Pretzel Crust and<br />
Mandarin Orange Whipped Cream<br />
This is a demonstration-style cooking<br />
class. Sit back, relax, and let the chefs<br />
do the cooking. Enjoy all of the menu<br />
items and ask questions as they walk you<br />
through each recipe.<br />
• VIP Food and Wine Experience:<br />
Monterey Wine Country is on May 21 at<br />
6 p.m. Enjoy a selection of chef-inspired<br />
bites paired with Monterey wines. Savor<br />
an hour of aperitifs. VIP food and wine<br />
reception small bites menu is $$25<br />
• Caramelized Onion & Gruyere<br />
Tartlets with Candied Pancetta<br />
• Shrimp Bruschetta with Lemon Kale<br />
Pesto & Shaved Asiago<br />
• Mediterranean Chicken Pops with<br />
White Balsamic Syrup<br />
• Seared Duck with Apple Slaw &<br />
Peppercorn Aioli.<br />
■ Publix Aprons Cooking School at<br />
University Walk, 2875 University Parkway,<br />
Sarasota. https://aprons-cooking-school-sarasota-florida.eventbritestudio.com/<br />
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foodie events continued<br />
Events cont.<br />
• Widely recognized as one of America’s<br />
favorite gourmet gatherings on the beach,<br />
the Food Network & Cooking Channel<br />
South Beach Wine & Food Festival<br />
returns with new protocols dedicated to<br />
delivering a safe and comfortable event<br />
experience this Spring, May 20-23.<br />
The Food Network & Cooking Channel<br />
South Beach Wine & Food Festival returns<br />
The Festival will look and feel different<br />
this year, but the goal is unchanged – to<br />
cultivate the future leaders of the hospitality<br />
industry at the Chaplin School of Hospitality<br />
& Tourism Management at Florida<br />
International University (FIU) and to aid<br />
the South Florida hospitality industry<br />
during the regrowth phase by giving participating<br />
chefs, bartenders and restaurateurs<br />
a platform to promote their businesses.<br />
The 20th annual Festival will kickoff<br />
May 20 with Carbone Fine Food<br />
presents Italian Bites on the Beach<br />
hosted by Giada De Laurentiis. Later<br />
that evening fans can celebrate 20 years<br />
in style at Fontainebleau Miami Beach<br />
with the SOBEWFF 20th Anniversary<br />
Celebration hosted by Martha Stewart<br />
featuring a surprise musical performance<br />
and bites by Popeyes including<br />
the fan-favorite famous chicken sandwich<br />
(yes, that chicken sandwich).<br />
The Festival’s signature fan-favorite<br />
open-air tasting tents nestled on the<br />
sands of Miami Beach will feature for the<br />
first time ever, multiple daily sessions<br />
to accommodate capacity restrictions,<br />
thorough sanitization and more. The<br />
iconic events will showcase the nation’s<br />
most talented chefs and lifestyle personalities<br />
including:<br />
• The 15th annual Heineken Burger<br />
Bash hosted by Bobby Flay (May 21)<br />
• The return of the fan-favorite Moët<br />
& Chandon Champagne BubbleQ<br />
hosted by Guy Fieri (May 22)<br />
• Goya Foods’ Grand Tasting Village featuring<br />
Grand Tasting Tents & Publix<br />
Culinary Demonstrations (May 22<br />
and May 23)<br />
The Tribute Dinner will take place al<br />
fresco at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel<br />
on May 22 and will honor the outstanding<br />
accomplishments of the culinary<br />
community’s Giada De Laurentiis and<br />
former CEO of Bacardi USA Eduardo M.<br />
Sardiña and will be hosted by Masters of<br />
Ceremonies and Miami royalty, Gloria &<br />
Emilio Estefan.<br />
■ The complete line-up of events for the<br />
20th annual Festival is available online<br />
at sobewff.org.<br />
• Savor Sarasota returns June 1-14.<br />
Bevardi’s Salute Restaurant is offering<br />
a three-course Savor Sarasota menu<br />
from June 1-14. Bevardi’s Salute’s Prix<br />
Fixe three-course dinner includes a glass<br />
of house wine for $32. Appetizer choices:<br />
Bruschetta Pomodoro, Bruschetta<br />
Caponata,<br />
Trio Olive,<br />
Caprese,<br />
Calamari<br />
Fritti, Insalata<br />
Mista,<br />
Insalata<br />
di Cesare.<br />
Main Event<br />
Choices:<br />
Pappardelle<br />
Al Funghi<br />
Porcini, Agnolott,<br />
Lasagna<br />
Salute!,<br />
Pollo Parmigiana, Vitello Marsala, Gulf<br />
Grouper Parmesan, Salmone. Dessert<br />
Choices: Tiramisu, Cannoli, or Sorbetti.<br />
■ Bevardi’s Salute offers the largest<br />
outdoor garden terrace in downtown<br />
Sarasota. Space is limited so reservations<br />
are highly recommended and can<br />
be made by calling 941-365-1020 or<br />
online at salutesarasota.com.<br />
• Kentucky is scheduled to host two<br />
signature bourbon experiences this<br />
fall with the return of the Kentucky<br />
Bourbon Festival to Bardstown and the<br />
Bourbon Classic in Louisville.<br />
The Kentucky Bourbon Festival,<br />
September 16-19, returns with an<br />
all-new format for its 30th celebration<br />
featuring expanded opportunities for<br />
bourbon enthusiasts to engage with the<br />
most sought-after brands and immersive<br />
educational experiences.<br />
The festival draws bourbon lovers to<br />
Bardstown, Kentucky, each year to celebrate<br />
the storied history of distilling America’s<br />
native spirit during National Bourbon<br />
Heritage Month. In addition, the Bourbon<br />
Classic will be back for its ninth annual<br />
celebration of the best of the best in<br />
Bourbon, culinary and cocktails November<br />
3-6, <strong>2021</strong>. Bourbon Classic Friday<br />
and Saturday events will take place at a<br />
new venue — Louisville Slugger Field.<br />
• Kentucky Bourbon Festival details:<br />
Although VIP packages are sold out,<br />
general admission tickets will include still<br />
access to a number of events including<br />
exclusive conversations with industry<br />
all-stars and unique cocktail classes, the<br />
annual World Championship Bourbon<br />
Barrel Relay Race, and – new this year<br />
— direct sampling opportunities from<br />
dozens of beloved bourbon brands.<br />
General admission tickets are $10 per<br />
day or $20 for the weekend. Tickets are<br />
available at www.kybourbonfestival.com.<br />
• Highlights of the Bourbon Classic include:<br />
tastings of over 80 Bourbons, 24+<br />
unique Bourbon cocktails and perfectly<br />
The Kentucky Bourbon Festival<br />
and the Bourbon Classic in<br />
Kentucky this fall!<br />
paired small plates and dishes prepared<br />
by local chefs. The TASTE event will<br />
provide opportunities for the public to<br />
sample top Bourbon brands and food<br />
pairings from featured restaurants.<br />
Top Shelf, Weekend VIP, and TASTE<br />
VIP tickets are sold out. Standard<br />
weekend packages, as well as Cocktail<br />
and Culinary Challenge VIP and standard<br />
tickets, and TASTE standard tickets<br />
are available to purchase now at www.<br />
bourbonclassic.com.<br />
■ For information on planning an itinerary<br />
around these events or any Bourbon-filled<br />
adventure, travelers can get<br />
attraction, lodging and dining assistance<br />
at www.bourboncountry.com.<br />
Food Shopping<br />
• Sarasota has another Aldi (last month<br />
we reported on the new one on Tamiami<br />
Trail in Sarasota where Lucky used to be)<br />
coming to Lakewood Ranch.<br />
Aldi, is the German grocery chain that’s<br />
expanding its footprint throughout the<br />
country. The company plans to open<br />
a new store in the southeast corner of<br />
University Parkway and Lorraine Road.<br />
The new Aldi will be in the same parcel as<br />
an upcoming Starbucks, and across the<br />
street from the Publix- anchored University<br />
Corner plaza, where other tenants<br />
include Domino’s Pizza, Libby’s Neighborhood<br />
Brasserie and U-Yee Sushi & Grill.<br />
Aldi plans to be the nation’s third-largest<br />
grocery retailer, in terms of store<br />
count, by the end of 2022 and plans to<br />
open about 100 new stores this year<br />
alone, with a focus on California, Arizona,<br />
Florida and the northeast.<br />
Aldi renovated its Bradenton store at<br />
Aldi coming soon to Lakewood Ranch<br />
4705 Cortez Road W., opened a new<br />
store at 5715 14th St. W. in Bradenton<br />
and opened a new Sarasota County store<br />
in Nokomis.<br />
The company also took over two<br />
Lucky’s Market leases when Lucky’s fell<br />
into bankruptcy and has since opened<br />
a store in the former Lucky’s spot at<br />
Westfield Siesta Key in Sarasota. Another<br />
store, in Venice’s Jacaranda Plaza,<br />
opened April 1.<br />
By comparison Publix has 817 stores in<br />
Florida, according to the Publix website.<br />
Aldi currently has fewer than 200. Aldi is<br />
known for its “simple and streamlined” approach<br />
to retailing, offering its store brand<br />
products at prices it says are as much<br />
as 50% lower than those of traditional<br />
grocery stores. Its no-frills approach to<br />
grocery shopping includes a bring-yourown<br />
bags policy and shopping carts that<br />
require a quarter deposit to unlock.<br />
But the company hasn’t shied away<br />
from convenience, either – last year, Aldi<br />
announced that curbside pickup would<br />
be available at 600 stores worldwide. Aldi<br />
is also available through the Instacart<br />
app, a grocery delivery service.<br />
The company currently has four stores<br />
in Manatee County – including one in<br />
Palmetto – and three in Sarasota County:<br />
Sarasota, Nokomis and North Port.<br />
May<br />
Food Holidays<br />
Eat What You Want<br />
Day!<br />
• National Barbeque Month<br />
• National Strawberry Month<br />
• National Sweet Vidalia Onion Month<br />
• National Pecan Month<br />
• National Shrimp Day - May 10<br />
May<br />
II<br />
• Eat What You Want Day - May 11<br />
• National Vegetarian Awareness<br />
Week - May 11-17<br />
• National Chocolate Chip Day -<br />
May 15<br />
• National Hamburger Day - May 28<br />
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focus on the arts<br />
Heading to New York City this Summer?<br />
Don’t miss this Alice Neel exhibit at The Met<br />
The career-spanning survey of one of the<br />
century’s most radical painters, Alice Neel,<br />
is at The Met to August 1<br />
Alice Neel: People Come First is the first museum<br />
retrospective in New York of American artist<br />
Alice Neel (1900-1984) in 20 years. This ambitious,<br />
career-spanning survey at The Met<br />
positions Neel as one of the century’s most<br />
radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding<br />
commitment to humanist principles inspired<br />
her life as well as her art, as demonstrated in the survey’s<br />
approximately 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors.<br />
Alice Neel: People Come First will be on view through<br />
August 1, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Alice Neel was an outstanding<br />
painter whose iconic ‘pictures of people,’<br />
as she called her portraits, radiate<br />
her fierce personal belief in humanity’s<br />
inherent dignity and her steadfast<br />
social conscience,” said Max Hollein,<br />
Marina Kellen French Director of The<br />
Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br />
“This important exhibition places<br />
Neel’s life and art within the context<br />
of the 20th century, considering them<br />
both in relation to the major events and upheavals of the<br />
time. Throughout her long career, Neel remained true to<br />
her own vision—despite many obstacles—and today her<br />
imagery resonates with our own challenging cultural and<br />
political circumstances in striking ways.<br />
Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of Modern<br />
and Contemporary Art, added: “Neel’s portraits are deeply<br />
human: her empathy for the people in her community<br />
resulted in paintings of such unflinching<br />
intensity it is as if past and present—their time and<br />
ours— are brought together in a single moment.<br />
Now, when personal histories are crucial to establishing<br />
self-identity, Neel’s world tells the stories<br />
of human beings from all walks of life in the city<br />
she called home. Together they vividly capture the<br />
unique character of New York City.<br />
The exhibition spans the entirety of the artist’s<br />
“For me, people come first.<br />
I have tried to assert the<br />
dignity and eternal importance<br />
of the human being.”<br />
—Alice Neel, 1950<br />
Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian, 1978. Oil on canvas<br />
career, from her professional launch in Cuba in<br />
the 1920s and her work as part of the W.P.A. in the 1930s,<br />
through her resolute commitment to centering the figure in<br />
her painting at a time when abstraction was ascendant, in<br />
the 1940s and 1950s; her resurgence in the 1960s and 1970s;<br />
and the emergence of her “late style” in the 1980s.<br />
In keeping with the artist’s commitment to painting<br />
Linda Nochlin and Daisy, 1973. Oil on canvas<br />
Andy Warhol, 1970. Oil and acrylic on linen<br />
“pictures of people,” which she considered to be historical<br />
records of the time in which they were made, the exhibition<br />
will feature dozens of Neel’s most striking portraits,<br />
celebrated today for their unyielding psychological acumen.<br />
The survey also sheds light on her accomplishments<br />
in other genres, specifically still lifes, landscapes,<br />
and cityscapes. The inclusion of relevant<br />
ephemera and personal effects—such as<br />
photographs and leftist periodicals to which<br />
she contributed drawings—illuminates her<br />
relationships, personality, and political convictions<br />
as well as her eventual entree into<br />
American popular culture. Neel was a longtime<br />
resident of New York, and the city served<br />
as her most faithful subject. Indeed, the sum<br />
total of her work testifies to the drama of its<br />
streets, the quotidian beauty of its buildings,<br />
and, most importantly, the diversity, resilience,<br />
and passion of its residents.<br />
Following its presentation at The Met, the<br />
exhibition will travel to Guggenheim Bilbao<br />
(September 17, <strong>2021</strong>–January 23, 2022) and<br />
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco<br />
(March 12, 2022–July 10, 2022.)<br />
The exhibition will be featured on the<br />
Museum’s website, as well as on Facebook,<br />
Instagram, and Twitter using the hashtag<br />
#MetAliceNeel. The webpage includes a<br />
primer—a dynamic online feature—which explores<br />
how, for nearly 60 years, New York City<br />
and its people, activism, chaos, and beauty<br />
fed into Neel’s radical, timeless paintings.<br />
The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue,<br />
New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/<br />
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travel news<br />
And Another New Hotel in Florida<br />
The 208-room Hilton Aventura in<br />
Miami is open and features beautifully<br />
appointed guest rooms and suites, elevated<br />
pool with plush cabanas, Hilton<br />
Executive Lounge, multiple dining<br />
options with fresh, seasonal cuisine,<br />
ballroom and premiere social and conference<br />
spaces.<br />
The hotel is just five minutes from<br />
Aventura Mall and Gulfstream Park<br />
Racing & Casino and south Florida<br />
beaches are less than five miles away.<br />
It’s also convenient to both Miami<br />
and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood<br />
International Airports which are 40<br />
minutes away.<br />
Amenities include free WiFi,<br />
non-smoking rooms, on-site restaurant,<br />
outdoor pool, fitness center, pet-friendly<br />
rooms and digital keys.<br />
Dine indoors or in the sunshine<br />
with Spanish-inspired dishes from Gala<br />
restaurant which is open all day. Skyline<br />
views pair nicely with a handcrafted<br />
cocktail from Muse Lounge. Room<br />
service and poolside cabana service are<br />
available as well.<br />
The Hilton Aventura Miami is<br />
located in the heart of Aventura near<br />
the Aventura Mall. Visit https://www.<br />
hilton.com/en/hotels/fllavhh-hiltonaventura-miami/.<br />
Hilton Aventura<br />
San Francisco Museum of Modern<br />
Art (SFMOMA) is the exclusive U.S. venue<br />
for Nam June Paik, the major retrospective<br />
of Paik’s radical and experimental<br />
art organized with Tate Modern, London.<br />
Bringing together over 200 works that<br />
span a five-decade career, this immersive<br />
Nam June Paik at SFMOMA<br />
exhibition offers an in-depth understanding<br />
of the artist’s trailblazing practice and<br />
his vision of a multidisciplinary, interconnected<br />
future.<br />
SFMOMA will also host Diego Rivera’s<br />
monumental mural The Marriage of the<br />
Artistic Expression of the North and of<br />
the South on the Continent—more commonly<br />
known as Pan American Unity—in<br />
the museum’s free Roberts Family Gallery<br />
beginning in Summer <strong>2021</strong>. An accompanying<br />
exhibition, Diego Rivera’s America,<br />
which offers the most in-depth examination<br />
of the artist’s work in more than 20<br />
years, will now open at SFMOMA in 2022.<br />
San Francisco Museum of Modern<br />
Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco.<br />
Visit sfmoma.org/.<br />
Van Gogh Live continues at the Dali<br />
Museum in St. Petersburg to June 13.<br />
Experience Vincent Van Gogh’s works in<br />
an immersive art installation that opens a<br />
Van Gogh at the Dali<br />
Back to the Museums<br />
new window into the celebrated painter’s<br />
artistic genius. Visitors will feel the sensation<br />
of walking right into Van Gogh’s<br />
paintings.<br />
The exhibition features more than<br />
3,000 Van Gogh images at enormous<br />
scale, viewed through high-definition<br />
projectors and synchronized<br />
to a powerful classical<br />
score. Cinema-quality<br />
surround-sound amplifies<br />
the emotion generated<br />
by the works themselves.<br />
In addition to the iconic<br />
works featured, visitors can<br />
examine Van Gogh’s inspiration<br />
via photographs and<br />
video displayed alongside<br />
them. The installation is<br />
powered by SENSORY4, a<br />
unique system developed<br />
by Grande Experiences of<br />
Melbourne, Australia.<br />
The Dalí is the first North<br />
American venue to host this version<br />
of Van Gogh Alive. Salvador Dalí Museum,<br />
One Dali Blvd. St. Petersburg https://<br />
thedali.org/exhibit/van-gogh-alive/<br />
The Metropolitan Museum of Art<br />
has an exhibit Alice Neel: People Come<br />
First. It’s the first museum retrospective<br />
in New York of American artist Alice Neel<br />
(1900-1984) in 20 years. This career-spanning<br />
survey at The Met positions Neel as<br />
one of the century’s most radical painters,<br />
a champion of social justice whose longstanding<br />
commitment to humanist principles<br />
inspired her life as well as her art, as<br />
demonstrated<br />
in the survey’s<br />
approximately<br />
100 paintings,<br />
drawings, and<br />
watercolors.<br />
Alice Neel:<br />
People Come<br />
Alice Neel at The Met<br />
Bisa Butler’s Portrait Quilts at the Art Institute of Chicago<br />
First is on view through August 1, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
The Met is at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd<br />
Street, New York. Metmuseum.org.<br />
The Morgan Library has David Hockney:<br />
Drawing from Life. David Hockney<br />
(b. 1937) is one of the most internationally<br />
respected and<br />
renowned artists<br />
alive today. This<br />
exhibition will<br />
be the first to focus<br />
on his portraits<br />
on paper<br />
and one of very<br />
few exhibitions<br />
to investigate<br />
his drawing<br />
practice. Featuring<br />
about 100<br />
David Hockney at The Morgan Library<br />
drawings, the exhibition<br />
will trace a trajectory<br />
from Hockney’s early<br />
works as a student, to<br />
his Ingres-like portraits<br />
of the 1970s, and his return<br />
to the sketchbooks<br />
in the early 2000s.<br />
Hurry, it’s on view to<br />
May 30. The exhibition<br />
will be unique in exploring<br />
Hockney’s practice<br />
on paper through a<br />
small group of sitters he<br />
has depicted repeatedly<br />
over the years: his muse and confidante,<br />
the designer Celia Birtwell; his mother;<br />
his friend and former curator Gregory<br />
Evans; master printer Maurice Payne; and<br />
the artist himself. Each of these individuals<br />
have been important to Hockney. His<br />
familiarity with his sitters enables him<br />
to explore a range of<br />
mediums and styles,<br />
from pencil and crayon,<br />
to photographic<br />
collage and the iPad.<br />
In re-visiting these<br />
people over decades,<br />
Hockney gives us a<br />
unique insight into<br />
how his practice has<br />
evolved over time.<br />
At the Art Institute<br />
of Chicago:<br />
Bisa Butler’s portrait<br />
quilts vividly capture<br />
personal and historical<br />
narratives of Black<br />
life. She strategically<br />
uses textiles—a traditionally<br />
marginalized<br />
medium—to interrogate<br />
the historical marginalization of<br />
her subjects while using scale and subtle<br />
detail to convey her subjects’ complex<br />
individuality. Together, Butler’s quilts<br />
present an expansive view of history<br />
through their engagement with themes<br />
such as family, community, migration,<br />
the promise of youth, and artistic and<br />
intellectual legacies.<br />
Bisa Butler: Portraits is the first solo<br />
museum exhibition of the artist’s work<br />
and will include over 20 portraits.<br />
Runs through September 6. https://<br />
www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9324/bisabutler-portraits.<br />
more travel news on page 26<br />
24 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong>
health feature<br />
Terrence Grywinski and Advanced Craniosacral Therapy has reopened for a limited number of sessions per week.<br />
Craniosacral Therapy Can Be Life Changing<br />
CST treats the whole body physically, physiologically, mentally, emotionally and energetically<br />
Clients come to me because they are in physical<br />
pain such as neck, back, pain and TMJ as well as<br />
for chronic headaches and migraines.<br />
● Both myself and all clients will be provided with Face Masks.<br />
● Appointments will allow the client to come directly into my<br />
office from their cars avoiding time in the waiting room.<br />
● Hand disinfectant will be provided.<br />
● An excellent air filtration system has been installed in the<br />
Pain and stress caused by<br />
shortened Fascia<br />
Fascia (strong connective tissue) encases<br />
all our muscles, organs, brain and spinal<br />
cord. Whenever fascia shortens any place<br />
in the body, the entire network of fascia<br />
creates an increased tension affecting the<br />
functioning of our physical body as well as<br />
our organs, our brain and spinal cord.<br />
Our body is the history of every major<br />
trauma we have experienced physically<br />
and emotionally beginning with birth<br />
issues, falls, head trauma, car accidents,<br />
childhood abuse issues, death, divorce<br />
and other emotional issues. Our body tries<br />
to minimize each trauma by shortening<br />
fascia to isolate the energy coming into the<br />
body from that trauma. Shortened fascia<br />
results in pain, loss of mobility and range<br />
of motion, organs becoming less efficient<br />
and with parts of the brain and spinal cord<br />
becoming stressed.<br />
To keep the brain functioning, the body<br />
transfers some of your functional work play<br />
energy (7:00 AM-10:00 PM) to the brain<br />
resulting in less energy to make it through<br />
each day. As we age, the accumulation of<br />
all the tightened fascia, from every major<br />
trauma in life, begins to restrict every<br />
aspect of our body’s functions resulting<br />
in pain, loss of mobility, mis-functioning<br />
organs, loss of energy, as well as our brain<br />
losing some its sharpness.<br />
How Craniosacral<br />
Therapy Works<br />
The Craniosacral Therapist creates a safe<br />
place, with gentle holding techniques, that<br />
engages your body’s ability to self correct,<br />
reorganize and heal itself with the release<br />
of some of that tightened fascia during<br />
each session. As the Craniosacral Therapist<br />
engages your body, you will feel fascia releasing.<br />
As the fascia releases, pain begins to<br />
decrease, range of motion and mobility improve,<br />
organs begin functioning better and<br />
with less stress on the brain feels, it returns<br />
the energy it borrowed at the time of each<br />
trauma resulting in an immediate increase in<br />
your energy levels. Rarely does anyone leave<br />
from my first session not feeling better.<br />
Short Leg Syndrome<br />
Eighty-five percent of my clients have one<br />
of their legs pulled up 1/2 to 1 by shortened<br />
fascia. The tension from short leg syndrome<br />
on the sacrum (5 fused vertebrae<br />
at bottom of the spine) is transferred up<br />
Testimonials from Clients<br />
■ “On a recent vacation to Siesta Key, I<br />
re-injured my back. I found Terry online. I<br />
can say with complete joy that was the best<br />
decision I made in the history of my back<br />
pain. I have sought many modalities and<br />
visit a CST regularly and never have I had<br />
such a healing in my entire body.<br />
After 3 sessions, I made a 16-hour drive<br />
home with no pain or discomfort in my<br />
entire body. Unbelievable. My body has<br />
a sense of moving freely and that is completely<br />
new. I’m so grateful to Terry for his<br />
knowledge, for his sensitivity to my needs<br />
and his kind generosity in healing my body.<br />
I will see him when I return next year.”<br />
—Caroline M.<br />
■ “I am a snowbird who spends 7 months<br />
in Sarasota. I have had back problems for<br />
25 years. Terry’s techniques have led to a<br />
great deal of release and relief in areas that<br />
have been problematic. I have been seeing<br />
him over the years when my body says ”it’s<br />
time”. Usually after a few sessions, I can tell<br />
a huge difference.” —Lana S.<br />
■ “I was introduced to Terry and Craniosacral<br />
Therapy by a Neuromuscular<br />
massage therapist who thought I needed<br />
higher level of care. I found Terry to be<br />
IN CONSIDERATION OF COVID-19<br />
kind, empathetic and he genuinely seemed<br />
to take an interest in my challenges. I have<br />
a mild Chiari malformation (part of the<br />
brain protrudes and puts pressure on the<br />
spinal cord) I had been experiencing vertigo,<br />
extreme pain in my neck combined<br />
with a limited range of motion (I could not<br />
turn my neck right or left) I tried both traditional<br />
and holistic modalities including<br />
chiropractic and acupuncture with limited<br />
success. So I did not have lofty expectations<br />
(unrealistic) going into my first session, but<br />
was pleasantly surprised in the immediate<br />
difference I experienced in my entire body.<br />
There was less pain in my back and<br />
shoulders, but also in my diaphragm and<br />
rib cage area. I was able to breathe more<br />
deeply, felt more limber and overall more<br />
relaxed. With additional sessions, Terry<br />
was able to relieve the burning sensation<br />
in my shoulders that would radiate into<br />
my lower neck and down my arms which<br />
had been plaguing me for a long time and<br />
causing numbness in my extremities. I have<br />
been impressed by his intuitive nature and<br />
his ability to listen to my body and focus in<br />
on specific issues and pain points. The therapist<br />
who referred me to him was right…he<br />
is a gifted healer.” —Nicole M.<br />
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treatment room that destroys bacteria and viruses.<br />
● All surfaces will be disinfected between treatments.<br />
● All clients will be questioned about self isolation and having<br />
followed safety precautions such wearing a face mask in public<br />
as well as being free of any symptoms.<br />
The physical stress in bodies caused by<br />
shortened fascia (connective tissue) shuts<br />
down energy flows to certain organs. Short<br />
leg syndrome by ½ to 1 in (where one leg is<br />
pulled up by shortened fascia) shuts down<br />
energy flow to the spleen (an important part of<br />
your immune system) and the small and large<br />
intestine. With the release of that shortened<br />
fascia, energy returns to these organs.<br />
the dural tube that encases the spinal cord<br />
into the lower and upper back, the neck,<br />
the cranium and the brain. Headaches, migraines,<br />
TMJ and neck problems can originate<br />
from the fascial stress in the sacrum.<br />
Releasing this sacral stress increases<br />
energy in the bladder, sex organs, kidneys<br />
and the chakras as well as releasing major<br />
stress in the upper part of the body.<br />
Cause of Shallow Breathing<br />
A great majority of the clients who come to<br />
me for various problems are also shallow<br />
breathers. Fascial stress in the diaphragm restricts<br />
the depth of breathing by restricting<br />
energy flow to the lungs, the pericardium<br />
■ Chronic Pain: Sciatic, Back,<br />
Neck and TMJ<br />
advanced craniosacral therapy<br />
■ Migraines, Foggy Brain and<br />
Lack of Concentration<br />
■ Sight and Eye Problems<br />
■ Asthma, Bronchitis, COPD<br />
Terrence Grywinski<br />
of Advanced<br />
Craniosacral Therapy,<br />
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049<br />
SOURCE:<br />
■ Terrence Grywinski of Advanced Craniosacral Therapy,<br />
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049. Terry has specialized in Craniosacral<br />
Therapy since 1994 when he began his training at the Upledger<br />
Institute. Described by his teachers, clients and colleagues<br />
as a “gifted healer”, Terry’s intuitive sense and healing energy<br />
provides immediate and lasting relief from injury, pain, mobility<br />
issues as well as dysfunctions of the body and the brain. Part<br />
of Terry’s ongoing education, he has completed 4 craniosacral<br />
brain and peripheral nervous system classes which<br />
enables him to work at<br />
a cellular level and with<br />
brain dysfunctions.<br />
Call 941-321-8757<br />
for more information,<br />
Google Craniosacral<br />
Therapy Sarasota.<br />
and the heart. With the release of fascial<br />
diaphragm restriction, the client immediately<br />
starts breathing deeply and energy is<br />
restored to the pericardium and the heart.<br />
Shoulder blades that are cemented to<br />
the body also restricts how much the rib<br />
cage can open and thereby also restricting<br />
depth of breath. Without proper breathing,<br />
your cells do not get enough oxygen.<br />
Everyone, especially people suffering from<br />
bronchitis, asthma and COPD as well as<br />
shallow breathing can benefit when the<br />
fascial stress is released.<br />
Specialized Training<br />
to work with Brain<br />
Dysfunctions<br />
Just as the body physically gets stressed<br />
from physical and emotional trauma, the<br />
functioning of the brain is also affected<br />
by fascial stress. For our brains to remain<br />
healthy, we need dynamic production<br />
of craniosacral fluid which performs the<br />
important function of bringing nourishment<br />
to all the cells in the brain and spinal<br />
cord as well as cleansing all the metabolic<br />
wastes given off by those same cells.<br />
Once the craniosacral fluid cleanses these<br />
metabolic wastes, efficient drainage of these<br />
metabolic wastes into the lymph system is<br />
absolutely necessary. Research has shown,<br />
that at night, craniosacral fluid cleanses amyloid<br />
plaques from the brain. If the drainage<br />
is inefficient, then the brain is being bathed<br />
in a toxic slurry. How does 15 or 20 years<br />
of your brain being bathed in a toxic slurry<br />
affect you: senile dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s<br />
and other brain dysfunctions?<br />
A Craniosacral Therapist, who has<br />
received training in working with the<br />
brain, can reverse that stress on the brain<br />
that eventually can result in those brain<br />
dysfunctions. As we all know, the proper<br />
functioning of the body is dependent on a<br />
healthy functioning brain.<br />
What conditions does<br />
CranioSacral Therapy address?<br />
Immediate Relief Beginning with the First Session:<br />
■ Shallow Breathing<br />
■ Digestive and Constipation Issues<br />
■ Leaky Gut and Autoimmune Problems<br />
■ Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Depression<br />
■ Concussions, Brain and Spinal Cord Health<br />
■ Mobility and Energy Issues for Seniors<br />
advanced craniosacral therapy<br />
<strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 25
travel news<br />
travel news continued<br />
Hotels News and Promotions<br />
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NEW. Hotel Indigo Miami Brickell<br />
draws upon the beauty of contrasts<br />
in Miami in the city’s Brickell district.<br />
Situated south of the Miami River on<br />
SW 11th Street in Mary Brickell Village –<br />
part of the city’s financial district which<br />
has seen significant investment and<br />
development in recent years – the hotel<br />
tells stories of its neighborhood, where<br />
Tripadvisor has released the findings<br />
of a new research report based on the<br />
platform’s insight into shifting traveler<br />
trends, revealing how consumers are<br />
planning to travel in <strong>2021</strong> and what<br />
impact the ongoing pandemic has had<br />
on their trip planning habits.<br />
The report, which analyzed first party<br />
search data as well as traveler sentiment<br />
across six major markets (the United<br />
States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy,<br />
Japan and Singapore), identified consumers’<br />
increasing confidence that they<br />
will travel abroad in <strong>2021</strong>, particularly in<br />
the second half of the year.<br />
In fact, globally, the majority of hotel<br />
clicks on Tripadvisor are already shifting<br />
to international destinations for May<br />
<strong>2021</strong> trips onwards (as opposed to domestic<br />
destinations, which dominated 2020).<br />
26 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>MAY</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
a symphony of Latin, Spanish, Native<br />
American and American folk influences<br />
are embraced and celebrated daily.<br />
The choice location and prominent exterior<br />
reveal interiors designed by architect<br />
and fashion designer Angel Sanchez<br />
of Sanchez + Coleman Studio.<br />
The Brutalist style of the interior architecture<br />
features poured concrete and<br />
rigid geometric lines and is contrasted by<br />
the vibrant rich blue and bright yellow<br />
palette and mosaic theme which runs<br />
through all the spaces. 140 guest rooms<br />
showcase local artwork and circular rugs<br />
inspired by the ancient Miami Circle<br />
archaeological site unearthed close to the<br />
hotel. The site was key in telling the story<br />
of Miami Brickell’s earliest inhabitants<br />
– the indigenous Tequesta people, who<br />
lived in the area for over 2,000 years.<br />
Lobby photography depicts trailblazers<br />
Mary Brickell and Julia Tuttle (famed<br />
for helping to bring the railroad to<br />
Miami in the 1890s, resulting in the incorporation<br />
and eventual development<br />
and growth of the city) overlaid with a<br />
modern photograph of Brickell, gesturing<br />
to the old and new.<br />
Mosaico Kitchen and Bar hosts a<br />
unique restaurant offering in Miami, with<br />
pan-Latin Miami flavors influenced by the<br />
many Latinx communities across the city.<br />
Executive Chef Manuel Sulbaran hails<br />
from Merida, Venezuela and brings with<br />
him more than 20 years of international<br />
and local experience.<br />
The hotel is situated adjacent to the<br />
Miami Metromover - a free service that<br />
links downtown and Brickell area - and<br />
a short walk to Miami Metro rail and<br />
the Miami Cruise Port. It also lies within<br />
walking distance to some of Miami’s<br />
greatest restaurants, bars, nightlife and<br />
superb shopping and close to many of<br />
the cultural and art museums, attractions,<br />
Port of Miami, American Airlines<br />
Arena. https://www.ihg.com/hotelindigo.<br />
The five trends highlighted in<br />
the report are:<br />
Travelers are planning<br />
1 to travel abroad in the<br />
second half of the year, but<br />
won’t wait to make plans<br />
Nearly half (47%) of travelers<br />
surveyed globally say they are<br />
planning to travel internationally<br />
in <strong>2021</strong>, including 45% of<br />
U.S. travelers.<br />
One in ten (11%) global<br />
respondents have already booked an<br />
international trip for <strong>2021</strong>, including<br />
14% of respondents in the U.S. The most<br />
eager to venture abroad are German and<br />
UK travelers - in the first week of January,<br />
85% of hotel clickers on Tripadvisor in<br />
either country were planning international<br />
breaks for later this year.<br />
Vaccinations will be a game- changer<br />
for traveler confidence. The<br />
2<br />
widespread roll-out of vaccines won’t just<br />
impact travelers’ confidence to travel,<br />
it will have a major influence on where<br />
leisure travelers are prepared to go too.<br />
Globally, more than three quarters (77%)<br />
of travelers surveyed say they will be more<br />
likely to travel internationally if they receive<br />
the vaccine, rising to 86% for travel<br />
domestically. In the U.S., those numbers<br />
change to 69% and 80% respectively.<br />
■ Noble House Hotels & Resorts<br />
has announced their new trademarked<br />
term – Tropical Distancing – to connote<br />
safe, social distancing practices at their<br />
warm weather destination hotels and<br />
resorts. The beachside properties offering<br />
Tropical Distancing packages and<br />
amenities include San Diego Mission Bay<br />
Resort, Kona Kai Resort & Spa, LaPlaya<br />
Beach & Golf, Ocean Key Resort &<br />
Spa, Pelican Grand Beach Resort, The<br />
Portofino Hotel & Marina, Solé Miami,<br />
L’Auberge Del Mar and the recently<br />
restored crown jewel of the collection,<br />
Little Palm Island Resort & Spa, the<br />
only private island resort in the U.S.<br />
Noble House has also created several<br />
new retail items with the Tropical Distancing<br />
tagline to embrace the lifestyle<br />
including sun hats, tote bags, towels, and<br />
apparel that are available for purchase at<br />
the beachfront resorts.<br />
Tropical Distancing is easy for guests<br />
to do when staying at Noble House’s<br />
beachside properties with their newly<br />
implemented safe, outdoor programming<br />
and packages. Kona Kai Resort &<br />
Spa and LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort both<br />
maintain private beaches, a rarity to own<br />
and operate in their regions, allowing<br />
staff to safely monitor guest capacity<br />
while appropriately distancing lounge<br />
chairs and cabanas.<br />
San Diego Mission Bay Resort recently<br />
completed a $32 million renovation<br />
of its expansive 18-acre, campus-like<br />
property, providing guests ample room<br />
to explore the resort’s 4,000-square-foot<br />
outdoor pool area, spa and fitness center<br />
More than a quarter (26%) of respondents<br />
globally say that they would only<br />
travel to destinations that required visitors<br />
to be vaccinated before travel, with<br />
Australian (32%) and U.S. (30%) travelers<br />
the most likely to expect destinations to<br />
adopt this safety measure.<br />
Domestic vacations remain high on<br />
3 travelers’ wish list for <strong>2021</strong>. While<br />
international tourism looks to be getting<br />
a boost this year following a shutdown for<br />
much of 2020, domestic travel isn’t necessarily<br />
going to take a back seat in <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
In the first week of January, nearly<br />
70% of hotel clickers on Tripadvisor were<br />
booking future domestic trips, while<br />
further out, May through August are still<br />
proving the most popular months for<br />
domestic vacations.<br />
Globally, three quarters (74%) of travelers<br />
surveyed plan to take at least one overnight<br />
domestic leisure trip in <strong>2021</strong> -- and<br />
an enthusiastic 80% in the U.S. In the<br />
U.S, just over a third of respondents (34%)<br />
are planning at least three domestic trips<br />
this year, compared to 31% of Australians<br />
surveyed and 24% of British travelers.<br />
The joy of vacation planning will<br />
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spend more time researching <strong>2021</strong> trips<br />
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with recreation brand REI, offering customized<br />
activity tours as well as rentals<br />
for standup paddleboards, single and<br />
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Ocean Key Resort & Spa also elevated<br />
its outdoor adventure program with its<br />
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■ Solé Miami debuted a ‘Shelter in Paradise’<br />
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64% of travelers in the U.S. will spend<br />
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and 70% will spend more<br />
time finding things to do.<br />
Consumers can’t wait to dine out<br />
5 again, but their taste for takeout<br />
will still endure. As in-person dining<br />
was restricted in many countries<br />
throughout 2020, the success of takeout<br />
and delivery services soared, as consumers<br />
sought to satisfy their appetite. But<br />
encouragingly for the hospitality industry,<br />
in-person dining’s rebound in <strong>2021</strong><br />
doesn’t mean a decline in takeout and<br />
delivery demand.<br />
Nearly half (47%) of respondents globally<br />
say they plan to dine in-person at<br />
restaurants more often in <strong>2021</strong> than they<br />
did in 2020 and a quarter of respondents<br />
(27%) say they plan to order more takeout<br />
meals this year. In the U.S., 54% of<br />
respondents plan to dine in-person at<br />
restaurants more often this year, and<br />
38% plan to order more takeout.<br />
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Psychologists and counselors offer tips to improve optimism,<br />
emotional balance and overall well-being<br />
For so many, 2020 has<br />
posed some of the<br />
greatest challenges of<br />
our lifetime. The challenges,<br />
sadly, continue<br />
in <strong>2021</strong> so it’s a good time to<br />
remind yourself to take good care<br />
of YOU. The faculty at Palo Alto<br />
University, which is dedicated<br />
to psychology and counseling,<br />
curated this list of 21 meaningful<br />
ways to make <strong>2021</strong> a more<br />
balanced year for you and other<br />
people in your life.<br />
■ Practice self-compassion.<br />
Many people are good at showing<br />
compassion to others, especially<br />
during the pandemic, but not<br />
as good at being compassionate to<br />
themselves. Self-compassion gives<br />
us space to breathe and take the<br />
time to take care of ourselves in a<br />
healing and kind way.<br />
■ Take care of your basic<br />
needs. When we are tired,<br />
hungry, and/or sedentary,<br />
our mood can dip. Prioritize<br />
sleep by going to bed earlier<br />
and getting 7-9 hours of sleep a<br />
night; Eat consistent balanced<br />
meals and walk outdoors for 20<br />
minutes three times a week.<br />
■ Be present. If you find yourself<br />
reliving the past or worrying<br />
about the future, try to bring<br />
yourself back to the present moment<br />
using your senses. Notice<br />
five things that you see, four<br />
things that you feel, three things<br />
that you hear, two things that<br />
you smell, and one thing that<br />
you taste - and then proceed<br />
with your day.<br />
■ Watch your breathing. So<br />
often we think of self-care as activities<br />
we do after work or home<br />
responsibilities to compensate for<br />
daily stressors. Self-care means<br />
doing activities throughout your<br />
day, during work and home responsibilities,<br />
in order to achieve<br />
calm and emotional balance.<br />
The simple act of watching our<br />
breath throughout the day and<br />
noting how we feel can alert us<br />
to times and opportunities for<br />
taking care of ourselves.<br />
■ Pick a few simple, easy<br />
goals. This is something that<br />
helps when the drudge of<br />
Zoom calls, being isolated at<br />
home and missing family and<br />
close friends gets you down. If<br />
you’re feeling stuck at home,<br />
accomplish a few activities you<br />
wouldn’t normally have time<br />
for like reorganizing<br />
a closet,<br />
purging old<br />
emails, or planning<br />
a new exercise<br />
regimen.<br />
■ Take an<br />
early morning<br />
walk. Spend<br />
each day on an<br />
early morning<br />
walk listening to<br />
Podcasts, your<br />
favorite music<br />
or learning a<br />
new language.<br />
■ Maintain a<br />
daily plan that<br />
puts you first.<br />
Take the time to<br />
put yourself and<br />
your own needs<br />
first. Are you<br />
adding some fun<br />
to your life? Are<br />
you staying connected<br />
to those<br />
who are important<br />
to you? By<br />
creating a space<br />
for yourself, it<br />
will make it easier<br />
to continue to<br />
support others.<br />
■ Write a<br />
letter. Write<br />
to someone<br />
who has been<br />
meaningful in<br />
your life and<br />
tell them why<br />
you’re thankful<br />
for their contribution<br />
and/<br />
or call them up<br />
and read the<br />
letter. A study<br />
showed that<br />
people who did<br />
this felt a significant increase in<br />
happiness, meaning, optimism,<br />
and life satisfaction for up to 3<br />
months after reading the letter.<br />
■ Write a poem a day. Create<br />
your own 30-day poetry challenge.<br />
It helps to focus your mind<br />
on one moment, idea, breath,<br />
sensation. It creates a rhythm beyond<br />
the daily news sound bites<br />
and taps us into the rhythms of<br />
the seasons and our souls. Encourage<br />
someone you know to do<br />
it as well. Schedule a time to read<br />
your collection to one another.<br />
■ Read your way through<br />
your stack of magazines.<br />
Indulge yourself in that stack of<br />
magazines that has been piling up<br />
on your coffee table. This activity<br />
helps break the boredom, creates<br />
a sense of accomplishment and<br />
helps you to decide whether or<br />
not to continue your cancel a<br />
magazine subscription.<br />
■ Take an on-line yoga<br />
class. Yoga increases body<br />
awareness, relieves stress, reduces<br />
muscle tension, strain, and inflammation,<br />
sharpens attention<br />
and concentration, and calms<br />
and centers the nervous system.<br />
■ Be gentle with yourself. If<br />
something feels stressful, consider<br />
its purpose. Is<br />
it necessary or<br />
simply expected?<br />
If you didn’t do<br />
it, what would<br />
be the worst<br />
outcome? At the<br />
end of each day,<br />
ask yourself what<br />
felt productive,<br />
what felt meaningful,<br />
and what<br />
contributed to<br />
your mental<br />
health. Focus<br />
on what went<br />
well, no matter<br />
how small, and<br />
build on those<br />
successes!<br />
■ Reflect and<br />
think about<br />
“What I’m<br />
Leaving in<br />
2020”. Write a<br />
letter to yourself<br />
listing all of the<br />
accomplishments,<br />
lessons,<br />
and things you<br />
are most grateful<br />
for in 2020. This<br />
is a wonderful<br />
way to give<br />
yourself perspective<br />
and make<br />
the year feel<br />
complete. It’s<br />
also a good time<br />
to begin charting<br />
how you<br />
may or may not<br />
do things differently<br />
in <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
■ Think of<br />
well-being<br />
as a journey<br />
rather than a<br />
destination.<br />
This simple shift in concept allows<br />
for grace and patience if we<br />
find ourselves distracted or having<br />
fallen off the path along the<br />
way. Well-being as a journey recognizes<br />
improvements come gradually<br />
and if we maintain a sense<br />
of purpose and direction, in time,<br />
we will reach our desired goal.<br />
■ Well-being is not a<br />
“one size fits all” experience.<br />
There can be some variance in<br />
what it looks and feels like from<br />
one person to the next. Where<br />
one lives may impact the frequency<br />
in which one can engage in<br />
outdoor activities. Genetics can<br />
predispose some to physical and<br />
emotional conditions and culture<br />
can shape the ways in which<br />
well-being is defined and practiced.<br />
With this in mind, consider<br />
what well-being looks like for you<br />
and engage in those things that<br />
support your own personal experience<br />
of the concept.<br />
■ Give yourself permission<br />
to take a tech-break. For<br />
many, 2020 has increased our<br />
reliance upon social media and<br />
technology. Consider how this<br />
surge of dependency impacts<br />
your sense of well-being. Are you<br />
constantly scanning for missed<br />
texts, tweets and emails throughout<br />
the day? Are you spending<br />
more time on Zoom and Facebook<br />
than you are with the<br />
people who actually share your<br />
living space? Evaluate how much<br />
time is spent using technology<br />
and how this time can be shifted<br />
to enhancing your well-being.<br />
■ Clean one space or thing.<br />
This is a win-win. Whether you<br />
clean out your refrigerator, scrub<br />
the tub, or wash the inside of<br />
your car windshield, the reward<br />
of a sparkling clean space is always<br />
uplifting.<br />
■ Eat Healthy. Healthy eating<br />
means having a healthy attitude<br />
toward food. Try new foods, enjoy<br />
meals with friends, and plan ahead<br />
so you can be sure to include lots<br />
of fresh fruits and vegetables.<br />
■ Learn a new skill. Learning<br />
a new skill can boost self-confidence<br />
and raise self-esteem. If<br />
your time is limited, there are<br />
many ways to bring learning into<br />
your life. Try learning a new recipe,<br />
use a YouTube tutorial to take<br />
on a DIY project. There are plenty<br />
of mobile apps that can help<br />
you learn anything from astronomy<br />
and chess to video editing<br />
and computer coding.<br />
■ Recall Positive Life<br />
Events. Spend time thinking<br />
about some of your best memories.<br />
Whether it’s a vacation, an<br />
award you received, or a special<br />
time spent with a friend, recalling<br />
the happiest times in your<br />
life can bring more positivity to<br />
your mindset.<br />
■ Practice Forgiveness. Letting<br />
go of past hurt and anger<br />
is key to good psychological<br />
well-being. Forgiveness is about<br />
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holding you back and moving<br />
into a greater state of well-being.<br />
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Area children invited to ‘step right up’ for<br />
CIRCUS SUMMER CAMP<br />
Children ages 6-15 will learn various circus disciplines while having the time of their lives<br />
through CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY youth program<br />
Coach Andres Leon Miller high-fives camper Peyton Nutting.<br />
Coach Jake Peterman helps Nate Gutierrez find his balance on the rola bola.<br />
Photo by Cliff Roles<br />
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,<br />
BOYS AND GIRLS – especially<br />
boys and girls ages 6-15 – get<br />
ready for the greatest,<br />
most unique summer camp experience<br />
on Earth! Returning to the<br />
recently renovated and air-conditioned<br />
Sailor Circus Arena this<br />
summer is the Circus Arts Conservatory’s<br />
popular Circus Summer<br />
Camp, where children will learn<br />
various circus arts disciplines and<br />
life skills while having the time of<br />
their lives. Camp is available in oneand<br />
two-week sessions; camp runs<br />
from June 14 through August 6.<br />
Circus promotes teamwork,<br />
builds muscles, improves coordination,<br />
increases concentration<br />
skills, and infuses campers with<br />
confidence and self-esteem; plus, it’s<br />
an awful lot of fun. Skills will be introduced<br />
and taught including, but<br />
not limited to: juggling, tightrope,<br />
trapeze, hula hoops, aerials, clowning<br />
and more. Children are encouraged<br />
to explore a variety of skills as<br />
well as to choose a target skill they<br />
feel most passionate about.<br />
At the end of each session, students<br />
will present a performance<br />
showcasing all they’ve learned.<br />
Parents and immediate family are<br />
invited to attend and enjoy the show.<br />
Due to the pandemic, the CAC<br />
has instituted intensive health and<br />
safety protocols, with social distancing,<br />
masks required, temperature<br />
checks before entering the facility,<br />
and more. Overall camp size has<br />
been scaled down and group acts<br />
may not be included. There will be<br />
frequent hand-washing breaks and<br />
all communal spaces and equipment<br />
will be sanitized daily.<br />
“With the construction in 2019<br />
and the pandemic last summer, we<br />
are excited for this triumphant return<br />
of our summer camp program<br />
to the Sailor Circus Arena!” said<br />
CAC Executive Vice President/COO<br />
and longtime circus parent Jennifer<br />
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Between our circus activities<br />
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Children should bring their<br />
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provided twice a day (although<br />
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The Circus Summer Camp<br />
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and after-care available until<br />
6 p.m. for $75/week (drop-in rate<br />
$30/day, subject to availability).<br />
Sessions sell out quickly: to<br />
register or for more information, call<br />
941-355-9335, email info@circusarts.<br />
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programs/circus-summer-camp-2.<br />
ABOUT<br />
The Circus Arts Conservatory,<br />
located in Sarasota, is home to worldclass<br />
performances, excellence<br />
in training the circus arts, and<br />
community-based outreach programs.<br />
The organization was born from<br />
decades of circus history and today<br />
serves as a legacy to those that have<br />
set the standards for international<br />
circus artistry and education. The<br />
Circus Arts Conservatory is a 501(c)<br />
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