wcw DEC 2021

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.
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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.
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(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.”
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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.
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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)
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• 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).
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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.
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• 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.
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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:
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• 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
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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.
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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
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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/
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Note:
Be sure to send season schedules
for 2021/2022 to westcoastwoman@
comcast.net
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Coming up in West Coast Woman:
• January: Lifelong Learning
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