Book Your Special Event at Mattison's Forty-One! Forty-One & Catering Inside & Al Fresco Dining mattisons.com 941-921-3400 Newly Renovated Multiple Private Event Spaces Holiday Entertaining A La Carte Menus Susan Goldfarb PROGRAM DIRECTOR <strong>2021</strong>-2022 LECTURE SERIES ✱ PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY ✱ QIGONG YOGA ✱ MEDITATION ✱ BRIDGE MAH JONGG ✱ CANASTA SUPREME COURT ✱ THEOLOGY WELLNESS ✱ AMERICAN HISTORY LITERATURE & POETRY MOVIE & BOOK GROUPS MUSIC & DANCE APPRECIATION MORNING FORUMS WORLD POLITICS FILM FESTIVALS ✱ JAZZ NIGHTS WRITING WORKSHOPS iPHONE & iPAD ✱ NATURE WALKS BIRDING ✱ PERFORMING ARTS SATURDAY WORKSHOPS BROADWAY BIOS ✱ CONCERTS SPECIAL ONE-TIME EVENTS & MUCH MORE! Most Programs Now Available on Zoom 567 Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key, FL VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.TBIeducationcenter.org For a brochure call: (941) 383-8222 12 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>DEC</strong>EMBER <strong>2021</strong>
out and about continued Bradenton Farmer’s Market offers fresh produce, local art, music, demos by local chefs, and family activities. Parking is free on weekends, and dogs on leashes are welcome. Held every Saturday through May, from 9am – 2pm, on Old Main Street in downtown Bradenton, 400 12th St. W. Bradenton. Old Main Street is a tree-lined retail district of cafes and restaurants running three blocks north from Manatee Avenue to the Manatee River, where it meets the Bradenton Riverwalk. t The Phillippi Farmhouse Market is Sarasota’s mid-week farmers market. The Farmhouse Market is open from 9-2 every Wednesday through April at Phillippi Estate Park, just a little south of Sarasota on 41. Over 50 vendors offer produce and plants from local growers and producers, as well as prepared foods, specialty and sustainable items, and Florida agriculturally-related products. Food and produce vendors at the Phillippi Farmhouse Market are required to be growers to support the market’s mission of promoting local agriculture. The market is easily accessible from US 41 and has plenty of free parking and live entertainment. t (The Farmers Market at Lakewood Ranch moving Nov. 7 to the new Waterside Place entertainment hub.) The Farmers Market at Lakewood Ranch currently has about 60 vendors and went this past summer from a seasonal market (November to April) to a year-round event.When the market transfers to Waterside Place, taking up space all along Lakefront Boulevard and Kingfisher Lake, more than 80 vendors will line the street. Onstad said the Farmers Market will stick to a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. time slot on Sundays. Besides the Farmers Market at Lakewood Ranch, the weekly offering of Ranch Nights will be held at Waterside Place starting Nov. 10. Ranch Nights previously was held at the Sarasota Polo Club.Onstad said she has a great pride when it comes to the farmers market.”We are helping 75 to 90 small business owners succeed,” she said. “And look at this place. It is a gorgeous location.” t Sarasota Ballet Program 3 – Giselle is on December 17-18 at the Van Wezel. Production by Sir Peter Wright with original choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli and music by Adolphe Adam. In celebration of the choreographer’s 95th birthday anniversary, Program 3 brings Sir Peter Wright’s production of the classic Giselle to the Van Wezel after the ballet’s sold-out 2019 performances. Performed across the globe by many of the great ballet companies. Wright’s production is considered by many to be one of the most faithful and artistically rich, perfectly bringing to life this tale of young love, unrequited romance, and loss. Info at www.SarasotaBallet.org or call 941-359-0099. t At The Hermitage On December 3, 5 p.m.: “Connections” with Hermitage Fellows Lisa E. Harris and James Anthony Tyler will (Live at the Hermitage Beach / Also via Live-Stream) t • On December 12, 2 p.m.: “Hermitage at The Bay: Muse(ic) and Poetry” with Hermitage Fellows Francine J. Harris, Mae Yway, and Ishion Hutchinson (Live at The Bay Park) • On December 17 5:30 p.m.: “The Edge of Music,” with Hermitage Fellow Luke Stewart (Live at Booker High School). Info at HermitageArtist- Retreat.org Meetings The Venice Area Women’s College Club invites you to a lunch and speaker on December 14, 11:30am at the Plantation Golf & Country Club, 500 Rockley Blvd, Venice. The club supports 2 yearly educational scholarships and donates to the South County Food Pantry. The club meets the second Tuesday of the months Oct-May. New members welcome. Call 941-202- 4034 for more membership information and for lunch reservations ($22). t Lectures The New College Foundation has another season of New Topics, a lecture series showcasing regional and national speakers from a broad range of disciplines exploring topical issues. The series runs through April and will be presented via the Zoom platform for the first two events. Each lecture will be presented at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $10, and free for New College students, faculty, staff and alumni. Registration is required and can be made at ncf.edu/new-topics or by calling the New College events hotline at 941-487-4888. Reservations must be made at least 48 hours in advance to allow for processing and receipt email for Zoom link. t • Tuesday, January 18—A Queer Zionism: Jessie Sampter and the Paradoxes of Jewish Nationalism With Sarah Imhoff. The young, unmarried Jessie Sampter embraced a Judaism her parents had rejected, bought a trousseau, drolly declared herself “married to Palestine,” and moved there in 1918. Jessie Sampter’s own life and body hardly matched typical Zionist ideals: while Zionism celebrated the strong and healthy body, Sampter spoke of herself as “crippled” from polio and plagued by sickness her whole life; while Zionism applauded reproductive (women’s) bodies, Sampter never married or bore children—in fact, she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships we would consider queer. How did a queer, “crippled” woman become a leading voice of American Zionism, and why has history largely overlooked her? Sarah Imhoff, author of “Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism,” is an associate professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and Religious Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington. t Osher Lifelong Learning Institute At The Van Wezel - Renée Fleming is on January 5. Tickets can be purchased at www.VanWezel.org, by calling the box office at 941-263-6799. photo: Andrew Eccles Decca at Ringling College (OLLI at Ringling College) presents its third annual “Listening to Women,” a seven-session series featuring women whose innovations and accomplishments are having an impact and influencing lives locally and globally. The series takes place on Thursdays at 1 p.m., January 20-March 3, 2022, at the Ringling College Museum Campus, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Registration for the seven-session series is $81 for OLLI Gold Members; $90 for general admission. Masks are required and audiences will be limited to 80 people. For more information and to register, call 941-309-5111, or visit www. OLLIatRinglingCollege.org. Listening to Women is made possible, in part, with support from West Coast Woman. Art Around the State - many of these exhibits are online/virtual At The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg: t • Explore the Vaults: Black Portraits through February 27, 2022. Black Portraits spans two very different approaches to the portrait tradition: contemporary works on paper, and historical vernacular photographs. Taken together, this exhibition presents varied approaches to visualizing Black identity and experiences. • Pieced and Patterned American Quilts runs through January 23, 2022. This exhibition features more than thirty extraordinary quilts whose design, materials, and craft reflect the complexity and richness of American life from the brash first decades of the republic through the trauma of the Great Depression. Pieced and Patterned is drawn from private collections. It includes superb examples of this quintessentially American art form, ranging from early appliqued t textiles to boldly graphic bedcoverings of the early modern era. More info at https://mfastpete.org/ The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg has The Woman Who Broke Boundaries: Photographer Lee Miller, an exhibition surveying the remarkable work and fascinating life of Lee Miller on view through Jan. 2, 2022. The exhibition surveys the work of photographer Lee Miller, concentrating on Miller’s portraits of important writers and artists, the majority associated with the Surrealist movement in Paris, and with whom she had sustained personal relationships. Also featured is a small selection of striking self-portraits, images captured during the liberation of Paris and Germany at the end of the Second World War, and photos representative of technical advancements in the medium she chose to express herself and capture the times. t Tampa Museum of Art has Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s on view through January 16, 2022. Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora—a vast geographic expanse that encompasses diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Comprising nearly 80 works by artists from countries including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the exhibition is drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, UAE. Inspired by Arabia calligraphy, geometry and mathematics, Islamic decorative patterns, and spiritual practices, they expanded abstraction’s vocabulary—thus complicating its genealogies or origin and altering how we view non-objective art. The paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints on view reflect the wide range of nonfigurative art practices that flourished in the Arab world over the course of four decades Tampa Museum of Art, Cornelia Corbett Center, 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa. https://tampamuseum.org/upcoming-exhibitions/ At Boca Raton Museum: Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru. This will be the inaugural stop of its global tour in South Florida this fall. This combination of rarely seen, world-class museum artifacts alongside technological breakthroughs in virtual reality is unparalleled (watch the video announcing tickets on sale). The early access online ticket portal is now open to the public at BocaMuseum.org/Golden. Audiences will discover an all-new, immersive museum experience that will transport visitors to the jewel of the Southern Hemisphere’s cradle of t civilization, the Incan city of Machu Picchu ‒ voted one of the new seven wonders of the world. The exhibition will encompass the entire museum, including all galleries on both floors. The experience will also feature the first-ever virtual reality expedition of Machu Picchu, recorded in 2020 during the unprecedented closure of the site during the pandemic. It was the first time in recent history this majestic City in the Sky was completely empty, filmed using state of the art drone-VR technology. Many of these 192 priceless artifacts are from royal tombs, including spectacular objects that belonged to noble Andean lords, and have neverbeen-seen before out of Peru. Guided throughout the exhibition by Ai Apaec, a mythical Andean hero, visitors will gain a window into transformation through the forces of nature that result in his death and subsequent rebirth. In this exotic land nothing is fixed and beings can change from one form to another. Throughout this dramatically staged expedition, the sounds of roaring jaguars, screaming macaws, and torrential rainfall surround visitors as they unravel the mysteries of Andean cosmology and marvel at the sophistication of Andean artists. Visitors will behold the marvels of engineering that sheltered a truly spiritual civilization and the ornate riches they once cherished. Rivaled only by Ancient Egypt in longevity and by the Roman Empire in engineering, Andean societies On view now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art through March 6, 2022. https://bocamuseum.org/ On display at Norton Museum of Art: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection on view through February 6, 2022. Featuring over 150 works, including paintings and works on paper collected by Jacques and Natasha Gelman alongside photographs and period clothing, the exhibition includes the largest group of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera ever on view at the Norton. Presenting these artists’ creative pursuits in a broader context, the exhibition also includes work by Manuel and Lola Álvarez Bravo, Miguel Covarrubias, Gunther Gerzso, María Izquierdo, Carlos Mérida, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Juan Soriano, and Rufino Tamayo. The Gelmans’ close relationship with this community is underscored by the number of portraits of them made by their artist friends in the exhibition. Photographs related to Kahlo, Rivera, and their enduring legacy by a global roster of artists including Lucienne Bloch, Imogen Cunningham, Juan Guzmán, Graciela Iturbide, Nickolas Muray, Edward Weston, and Guillermo Kahlo—Frida’s father—help round out our understanding of these iconic painters. More info at https://www.norton.org/ t Note: Be sure to send season schedules for <strong>2021</strong>/2022 to westcoastwoman@ comcast.net t Coming up in West Coast Woman: • January: Lifelong Learning <strong>DEC</strong>EMBER <strong>2021</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 13
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