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out and about continued
blood pressure, and decreases sympathetic
nerve activity (our fight or
flight response). Research also indicates
being in nature increases brain
alpha waves (relaxed awareness),
improves concentration and problem-solving
ability, improves self-esteem,
and has immune system benefits
that may decrease our risk for
developing disease.
No prior experience needed. Wear
comfortable, loose clothing and bring
water and a portable chair or blanket to
sit upon as we will stop to sit along the
trail. For questions or information, call
941-861-5000 or email sarasota@ifas.
ufl.edu. Red Bug Slough Preserve is at
5200 South Beneva Road, Sarasota.
On the Lawn: Bay Park Yoga is
held every Saturday morning 9-10
a.m. on the lawn outside of the Van
Wezel. Relax, stretch and enjoy a fulfilling
yoga session on the Sarasota’s
scenic bayfront while instructor Erin
Hurter guides you. Participants should
bring their own yoga mat.
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Bayfront Garden Tours Return
to The Ringling. The John and Mable
Ringling Museum of Art is again
offering guided tours of the Bayfront
Gardens. The tours run through
March 28, 2022 and are available
Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays,
beginning at 10:30 a.m.
This walking tour led by volunteer
guides will introduce guests to interesting
botanical specimens on the
66-acre campus while providing a historic
overview of the development of
the estate. The Ringling’s grounds have
been accredited as a Level II Arboretum
through ArbNet. The property
boasts over 2350 trees within the arboretum
representing native, exotic, historical
and culturally significant trees.
The Bayfront Gardens tours last
approximately 90 minutes and cover
about 1 mile in distance. Bring
bottled water, and wear appropriate
closed-toe footwear, sunblock and
hats. There will be a maximum of 10
participants per tour. Tours are subject
to weather conditions.
Tickets will be available 30 days
before each tour. Price: $15 / $10 for
members. More information and tickets
are available at: https://www.ringling.org/events/bayfront-garden-tour.
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Marie Selby
Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is
one of 12 participating gardens across
six countries offering “Seeing the Invisible”
which features works by more
than a dozen international artists
such as Ai Weiwei, Refik Anadol, El
Anatsui, Isaac Julien CBE, Mohammed
Kazem, Sigalit Landau, Sarah Meyohas,
Pamela Rosenkranz, and Timur
Si-Qin—including several artists’ first
work in AR.
Visitors will engage with “Seeing
the Invisible” via an app designed
for the exhibition downloadable to
smartphones and tablets. Forging
new links between botanical gardens
located in diverse biomes around the
globe, the exhibition fosters collaboration
between institutions, artists,
and audiences, highlighting the power
of art to connect people around the
world. “Seeing the Invisible” runs to
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August 31, 2022
at the Historic
Spanish Point
campus.
• Tickets for
the 18th annual
Lights in
Bloom: An Openair
Holiday Light
Show are on sale.
Throughout Selby
Gardens’ Downtown
Sarasota
campus, you’ll
be immersed in
the glow of more
than two million
lights, all in a
safe outdoor Gardens-wide
experience.
Activities
will include face
painting, balloon artistry, and photo
opportunities.
Advance ticket purchase strongly encouraged.
Information: www.selby.org.
ensembleNewSRQ
ensembleNewSRQ (enSRQ), the
innovative chamber music ensemble,
is celebrating its sixth season with a
return to live performances. Violinist
Samantha Bennett and percussionist
George Nickson, the group’s founders
and co-artistic directors, have chosen
a dynamic selection of innovative, bold
works by contemporary composers.
Next up: A co-commission with
Atlanta’s ensemble vim and enSRQ,
New Renaissance Artist Elizabeth A.
Baker’s evening-length work “VOID”
combines the power of visual projection,
electronic processing and acoustic
performance in an unforgettable
experience. Baker is celebrated for her
“terrifying dynamic range,” cleanliness
of sound, and unique sensitivity
and ability to sculpt her performance
for the acoustics of a space.
Takes place on January 31, 8 p.m.,
at First Congregational Church, 1031
S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota. More information
and tickets at www.ensrq.org.
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At Selby Library
December 9—“Rome: Sculptures
& Architecture of Bernini & Barromini”,
11 am-12:30pm. Photos of squares,
sculptures, and churches designed by
Bernini & Barromini. Presented by Dr.
Roseanne Martorella. Free
Selby Library, 1331 First St.,
Sarasota. (941) 861-1100.
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National Juniors
Left-handed
Championship
First Tee - Sarasota/Manatee
(FTSM) — an organization founded in
2000 with the primary goal of impacting
the lives of young people by providing
educational programs that build
character, instill life-enhancing values
and promote healthy choices through
the game of golf – announces it will
team with the National Association of
Left-handed Golfers to play host to their
inaugural National Juniors Left-handed
Championship, December 27-29.
The National Association of
Left-handed Golfers (NALG) was established
in 1936 with their inaugural
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National Left-handed Championship
held at Norwood Hills Country Club
in St. Louis, Missouri. One hundred
and forty-seven players from 24 states
participated. Quite a feat during the
midst of the Great Depression.
The inaugural National Juniors
Left-handed Championship is at
Palm-Aire Country Club in Sarasota.
The Championship is open to Boys and
Girls, ages 10-18, and will be played in
age divisions. Registration for the Junior
Left-handed Championship can
be found at www.NALG.org.
Art Exhibits
Sarasota Art Museum has David
Budd: Motion Within Stillness running
to March 20, 2022 in the 3rd Floor
Galleries. After painting for only six
years, David Budd (1927-1991, Florida)
dove into the New York art scene in the
1950s immersing himself in Abstract
Expressionism and working alongside
iconic names of the movement, such
as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning,and
Franz Kline. His paintings, like
others of the time, relied on the bodily
relationship between the artist and
canvas—each stroke and mark of the
artist encapsulated in viscous gestures
of paint and spontaneity; although, this
is not to say that Budd painted hastily—
each mark was placed with intention to
animate the canvas’s surface.
Budd’s work is entirely his own,
signature for its short, vibrant rhythms
of paint across the surface. To achieve
this effect, Budd abandoned the paint
brush, thickly applying the medium
directly to the canvas in controlled
motions with a palette knife. Budd continued
to paint in this manner until he
departed for Paris, only to revive it once
back in New York in 1968. Shortly after
his return, Budd painted his most significant
and celebrated works, which
reference his early favor for the palette-knife
approach, but demonstrate a
newly cultivated interest in landscape
and interplay of color and line.
Sarasota Art Museum is located at
1001 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
www.SarasotaArtMuseum.org.
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Island Gallery West has “Good
Things Come in Small Packages,” an
exhibit featuring a variety of holiday
creations from member artists of
Island Gallery West. Runs December
1-31. In addition to the collection of
members’ small works, there will be
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a display of
ornaments,
hand-crafted
by our
artists,
for sale
throughout
the gallery.
There are
two receptions
in the
gallery. The
first will be
on the night
of the Anna
Maria Island
Chamber of
Commerce
Tree Lighting
Ceremony
& Holiday
Walkabout,
on December
3. Local merchants will open their
doors for an opportunity to browse.
The gallery will be open from 5:30-
7:30 pm.
Then join us in the holiday spirit
the following week, when the Holmes
Beach Holiday Art Walk takes place
on Friday evening, December 10. The
gallery will be open from 5:30-7:30
pm. Stop by for light refreshments
and beverages while shopping for
gifts made by your local artists. Location:
5368 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach.
Info: (941) 778-6648. www.islandgallerywest.com.
FST Improv has Treble in Paradise - Every Saturday from December 4-18 in FST’s
Bowne’s Lab and Resolution Rewind - Thursday, December 30 and Friday, December
31 in FST’s Bowne’s Lab. Tickets: FloridaStudioTheatre.org or call (941) 366-9000.
For December, Artists Guild of
Anna Maria Island’s gallery has
AGAMI member crafted Christmas
ornaments. They’re at 5414 Marina
Drive, Holmes Beach. View local
artists on display which includes watercolor,
oil paintings, photographs,
stained glass, acrylic painting, jewelry,
prints, posters, cards depicting
artwork, mosaics, sculpture, and
more. https://www.amiartistsguildgaller
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Art Uptown Gallery has has Donna
Carrion, local jewelry artist, exhibiting
“Transition” through December.
Experience Carrion’s ever-evolving
silver hand-forged and fabricated
art jewelry. A public reception is on
First Friday, Dec. 3 from 6-9 p.m.
Art Uptown is at 1367 Main Street
in Sarasota. Call 941-966-5409 or
visit www.artuptown.com.
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ArtCenter Manatee has local artist
James Griffin, an accomplished
painter who works primarily in oils.
His paintings are noted for their vivid
colors and broad, expressive brushstrokes.
Griffin’s exhibit, The Road to
Home, the Annual Holiday Extravaganza,
and an open show, Small
But Mighty are on display through
December 28.
Location: 209 9th St W, Bradenton.
Info: 941-746-2862 or ArtCenter
Manatee.org.
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Art Center Sarasota’s 2021 exhibition
season continues with four exhibits
running December 9-January
15. “Bassmi Ibrahim: A Meditative
Experience” features paintings invoking
the etheric realm in graceful,
abstract expressions that reveal the
fluid dynamism of life.
The “Untitled Cup Shop” offers up
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a vibrant selection of handcrafted
ceramic cups, mugs, goblets, and
other drinkware created by local
artisans. “George Pappas: Selected
Works” features a selection of
mixed-media, abstract paintings by
the late—and beloved—artist and
educator. “Modes of Abstraction”
is a juried exhibition of abstract
work in all media. The juror is artist,
art educator, graphic designer, and
illustrator Julie Kanapaux. The
opening reception for all four exhibits
is December 9, 6-8 p.m.
Art Center Sarasota, 707 N.
Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. For
information, visit www.artsarasota.
org or call 941-365-2032.
SPAACES has “Compose, Recompose,
Decompose: Forming
Social Constructs,” A Three Person
Exhibit with Kate Hendrickson, Mary
Grandpre and Kathy Wright. Opening
reception: December 3, 6-8 p.m. Runs
December 4-11. By appointment only.
SPAACES is located at 2087 Princeton
St. Sarasota. Info: 941-374-3492.
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The Harmony Gallery features
local artists showcasing their work
in solo exhibitions throughout the
Orchestra’s season. These juried exhibitions
feature artists with mediums
ranging from painting and mixed media
to photography. Twenty-five percent
of all proceeds from the sale of the
artwork benefit Sarasota Orchestra.
The exhibits invite patrons to explore
the collaboration between the visual
and performing arts.
The next artist is Lori Childers and
her exhibition is titled: New Paintings
2020-2021. Lori is interested in
the area between abstract and
representative art. Her work has
some recognizable elements like
a bridge, a figure, a landscape and
some natural perspective, but also
uses abstract elements to create a
moment that takes the viewer into a
new imaginative space. She finds the
landscapes around the state of Florida
endlessly inspiring.
Exhibit dates: December 1-January
31. Public reception: December
5-6:30 p.m. The Harmony Gallery is
located in the atrium of the Beatrice
Friedman Symphony Center at 709
North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
The exhibitions are free and open
to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, as
well as during concerts and other
special events that take place in the
Symphony Center’s Holley Hall.
For more information, visit https://
www.sarasotaorchestra.org/about/
community/harmony-gallery.
Artist Series
Concerts of Sarasota
On Sunday, December 5, 7 p.m.
at the Sarasota Opera House, they’ll
have A Classic Christmas with Frisson:
The word frisson means “a shiver
or thrill” or “a sudden burst of excitement,”
making it an apt name for
this dynamic eight-member ensemble
comprised of the best and brightest
of classical music’s rising stars.
The holiday program features such
classical and classic holiday favorites
as Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, O
Come All Ye Faithful, Tchaikovsky’s
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