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November - time to finally enjoy a break in the weather and all the events available - from classes to concerts, shows and music and a whole lot more! Get to know ensembleNewSRQ, Sarasota Contemporary Dance and New Topics New College. Check out all the GOOD news - yes, you read that right - that came in after Hurricane Ian that all show how good people can be. Plus, find out about how you can be a “Secret Santa” this holiday season. Plus we have our returning columns: Dining In (recipes), our calendars, health news and lots more.
November - time to finally enjoy a break in the weather and all the events available - from classes to concerts, shows and music and a whole lot more! Get to know ensembleNewSRQ, Sarasota Contemporary Dance and New Topics New College. Check out all the GOOD news - yes, you read that right - that came in after Hurricane Ian that all show how good people can be. Plus, find out about how you can be a “Secret Santa” this holiday season. Plus we have our returning columns: Dining In (recipes), our calendars, health news and lots more.
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<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Season Preview, Part 1<br />
Abbey Tyrna<br />
Executive Director, Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
Also in this issue:<br />
■ Arts Highlights, news<br />
and more<br />
■ Help others this<br />
holiday season<br />
■ How your community<br />
gave back
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contents<br />
Editor and Publisher<br />
Louise M. Bruderle<br />
Email: westcoastwoman@comcast.net<br />
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Carol Darling<br />
Contributing Photographer<br />
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Art Director/Graphic Designer<br />
Kimberly Carmell<br />
Assistant to the Publisher<br />
Mimi Gato<br />
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Here are our columns:<br />
n Out & About: includes<br />
fundraisers, concerts, art exhibits,<br />
lectures, dance, poetry, shows &<br />
performances, theatre, film,<br />
seasonal events and more.<br />
Season is here!<br />
Nothing can stop our wonderful and resilient arts organization from putting on another<br />
great season or performances, shows, exhibits, lectures and more.<br />
good news dept.<br />
Just wait until you see all the uplifting examples<br />
of generosity in our community in response to<br />
Hurricane Ian. We have a lot to be thankful for.<br />
p27<br />
season highlights<br />
We’ve got a sampling of events we think you’ll<br />
find interesting or unique from MOD Weekend,<br />
Ring Sarasota, the Hermitage, the Van Wezel,<br />
ArtCenter Sarasota, and lots more.<br />
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west coast<br />
WOMAN<br />
departments<br />
4 editor’s letter<br />
7 Out & About: listings for things to do<br />
9 healthier you: the Great Smokeout is<br />
this month<br />
11 helping others:<br />
how you can be a secret Santa<br />
13 healthier you: The Renewal Point<br />
14 happening this month:<br />
Selby Gardens’ Orchid Show<br />
16 west coast woman:<br />
Abbey Tyrna Executive Director,<br />
Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
18 season preview: Season Highlights<br />
21 season preview: Sarasota<br />
Contemporary Dance’s Season<br />
23 season preview:<br />
ensembleNewSRQ’s schedule<br />
24 season preview: New College<br />
of Florida’s New Topics<br />
25 What is Craniosacral Therapy?<br />
Also…<br />
west coast woman<br />
Abbey Tyrna<br />
Suncoast Waterkeeper has a new Executive<br />
Director who bring extensive experience and<br />
education in the environmental sciences to<br />
this nonprofit that monitors our waterways.<br />
p16<br />
27 good news department<br />
30 nonprofit profile: Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
33 news you can use:<br />
Experience the Bay Runner<br />
34 dining in: Tips for Eating Better During<br />
the Holidays<br />
■ on the cover: West Coast Woman Abbey Tyrna, Suncoast Waterkeeper’s new Executive Director photographed at Sarasota bay.<br />
■ Photo by Louise Bruderle<br />
<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 3
just some<br />
thoughts<br />
Louise Bruderle<br />
Editor and Publisher<br />
West Coast Woman Abbey Tyrna<br />
Abbey Tyrna<br />
Photo by Louise Bruderle<br />
The topic is water - as in pollution - but last<br />
month’s near category 5 hurricane adds more<br />
to the discussion. Hurricane Ian brought a<br />
water surge of 10 feet or more in some places<br />
and heavy rains meant municipal facilities<br />
were overwhelmed to the point of sewage<br />
backflow, leaking septic tanks and dirty or<br />
contaminated water moving everywhere. The<br />
full extent of the environmental damage from<br />
Ian is unknown, but will unfold in the weeks<br />
ahead after the grueling task of rebuilding<br />
continues and reclaiming some form of reality<br />
returns.<br />
This month’s WCW profile began with an<br />
interview on Sarasota Bay. It was a perfect backdrop to begin a profile of<br />
Abbey Tyrna, the new Executive Director of Suncoast Waterkeeper. The<br />
Bay looked beautiful - pristine and sparkling - with fish jumping and<br />
birds flying.<br />
As we got into our talk and I found out more about Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
and what Abbey brings to the organization as its first executive<br />
director, I realized how fragile our relationship with water is and how, at<br />
the same, time, so vital. We need water to live, but it does so much more:<br />
provide us with food and industry, a place to enjoy swimming, boating<br />
and more.<br />
But I’d have to conclude that we’re simply not paying attention to<br />
water’s importance and not doing enough to secure its quality and<br />
availability. And that’s where Suncoast Waterkeeper comes in. They say<br />
it succinctly: “We have a fundamental right to clean water,” and they<br />
make it their mission to monitor conditions in waterways and “hold<br />
accountable those who pollute or don’t follow laws designed to keep<br />
waterways clean and safe.” I’m sure they have been out monitoring waterways<br />
in the two-county area since Ian hit back in September.<br />
Abbey’s nonprofit seeks solutions. She is a knowledgeable scientist<br />
who grew up in southwest Florida and brings many skills to the<br />
organization. We as individuals do not need to be scientists, or have to<br />
take water samples or file lawsuits or monitor water constantly. They do<br />
that. But, we as citizens also have a role to play. As Abbey pointed out,<br />
why have lush lawns, coated in fertilizer (and pesticides)? Why water a<br />
lawn every day? Or how about, why have a lawn anyway? A lot to ponder<br />
going forward, but I think you’ll find it’s good someone is monitoring<br />
our water quality.<br />
Post Ian<br />
We’re hoping that you’ve recovered from the wrath of Hurricane Ian.<br />
While this hurricane couldn’t quite decide where to land and kept<br />
everyone uneasy and concerned from St. Petersburg to Naples (and everywhere<br />
in between),<br />
Sarasota<br />
and Bradenton<br />
for the most part<br />
were spared, but<br />
parts of southern<br />
Sarasota<br />
County including<br />
Venice,<br />
Englewood and<br />
North Port, took<br />
a hit. Even worse<br />
was damage<br />
done to Fort Myers, Cape Coral and their beautiful barrier islands.<br />
My fellow Floridians, you just survived a hurricane that was a whisker<br />
shy of a Category 5. Who would have ever thought we would experience<br />
that here. We’ll need our resilience and a lot more to rebuild where<br />
necessary and get back on track. I know those of us less affected will<br />
rebound, I just hope our friends and neighbors to the south can say the<br />
same thing soon.<br />
WCW was slightly delayed, but considering our printer is in Fort Myers<br />
and the plant’s general manager and her staff all lost power, they did a<br />
fantastic job getting caught up even while they had to go home to houses<br />
damaged and without power, some without water and all without internet.<br />
Thank you Renee, and your dedicated team at Breeze Printing!<br />
Bring on Season! Season Preview,<br />
part one, is here<br />
This being our arts issue, we’re saddened<br />
that Venice Theatre took such a massive<br />
hit from Ian, but we’ve been told “Venice<br />
Theatre is delighted to announce that its<br />
original musical version of A Christmas<br />
Carol will go on, despite major damage<br />
to the theatre’s main performance space.<br />
The 21st annual Christmas Carol will be<br />
performed in The Raymond Center from<br />
Dec. 2-19…Tickets will go on sale at www.<br />
venicetheatre.org.”<br />
November is part one of our<br />
arts coverage and it’s packed.<br />
Schedules look to be close to<br />
pre-pandemic levels and as they<br />
say, all systems are go.<br />
As for the upcoming season,<br />
in March, TOWN HALL has José<br />
Andrés: chef, restaurateur, and<br />
humanitarian. Andrés is known<br />
for being an internationally-recognized<br />
culinary innovator and<br />
owner of an award-winning<br />
group of nearly three dozen<br />
restaurants located throughout<br />
the U.S. and beyond. But he also believes we can use nourishing meals<br />
to empower people and rebuild communities through his World Central<br />
Kitchen which provided meals after Hurricane Ian hit Fort Myers.<br />
Also in this issue, we’re turning the spotlight on some arts organizations<br />
that are newer and perhaps less well known, but just as captivating<br />
as our usual creative stalwarts in theatre, opera, ballet and orchestral and<br />
vocal music. Enjoy, and please support the arts.<br />
Time to go Atomic Nov. 26-27<br />
Congrats to Adrien Lucas for her grit and determination as she marks<br />
season 15 of her Atomic Holiday Bazaar. The indy craft show has moved<br />
to the Sarasota County Fair fairgrounds. Her “Atomic misfit makers” will<br />
be found inside at Robarts Arena along with other makers located at the<br />
street fair outside of the arena on the fairgrounds property.<br />
Dates and hours for Atomic are: Saturday, November 26, 12pm - 7pm<br />
and Sunday, November 27, 11am - 6pm. Food trucks at the street fair include<br />
Mouthole BBQ and Big Blue Grilled Cheese and the Robarts indoor<br />
arena cantina will be open. More info at www.atomicholidaybazaar.com.<br />
And a Sweet Story about Caring…<br />
This came in from Venice Theatre…Delaney Lockwood is a 13-year-old<br />
eighth grader who has performed in several shows at Venice Theatre,<br />
including A Christmas<br />
Carol. When she learned of<br />
the severe damage to the<br />
theater, she was determined<br />
to squeeze something<br />
positive from the situation.<br />
She set up a lemonade stand<br />
with all proceeds to help in<br />
the restoration of the theater<br />
she loves. Expecting to<br />
raise perhaps $100, she was<br />
amazed when, in a mere<br />
three hours, she sold $700<br />
worth of lemonade—all for Venice Theatre.<br />
So in Delaney’s honor, consider a donation to Venice Theatre to<br />
help them rebuild. Send a check to Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W.,<br />
Venice, FL 34285.<br />
Louise Bruderle | Editor and Publisher |<br />
westcoastwoman@comcast.net<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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DOUBLE FEATURE: BLAKE POULIOT<br />
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It’s double the star power in this program featuring two<br />
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out &about<br />
Please note: this is information<br />
we received prior to Hurricane Ian.<br />
We have tried to update as much<br />
as possible, but there may be some<br />
changes to schedules as email has<br />
been greatly limited. Please be sure<br />
to check with the organization presenting<br />
prior to attending.<br />
Special Events<br />
This year’s Sunshine From Darkness<br />
Inspiring Hope Dinner, themed<br />
“Shining a Light on Mental Illness,”<br />
will be held on Friday, January 13,<br />
2023 at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.<br />
Grammy and Tony Award-winning<br />
actress – and the original star<br />
of “Dreamgirls” – Jennifer Holliday<br />
will be the keynote speaker and will<br />
perform at the event. The gala will<br />
also feature dancing to the music of<br />
Quintessence, and a performance by<br />
the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe<br />
Young Artists Ensemble. During the<br />
festivities, the Lee and Bob Peterson<br />
Legacy Award will be presented to<br />
Joan and Bob Geyer of the Academy<br />
at Glengary.<br />
Proceeds will benefit Harvest House<br />
and Teen Court of Sarasota, and the<br />
mental health research funded by the<br />
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.<br />
For more information, contact<br />
Marlene Hauck (941-504-6717 or marlene@sunshinefromdarkness.org)<br />
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Violins and hope will be presented<br />
by The Perlman Music Program<br />
Suncoast and The Jewish Federation<br />
of Sarasota-Manatee on November<br />
16, at Michael’s On East. PMP alumni<br />
violinist Niv Ashkenazi, and pianist<br />
Matthew Graybil will perform<br />
along with a presentation by author<br />
and photographer, Daniel Levin, followed<br />
by a dessert reception. Tickets:<br />
www.perlmanmusicprogramsuncoast.org.<br />
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St. Armands Circle Park has<br />
its Fall Art Festival and Sidewalk<br />
Sale November 12-13. The Circle will<br />
come alive with gallery-style booths<br />
filled with every medium of fine art.<br />
Free. On December 2, 6-9 p.m., St.<br />
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Concerts of<br />
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to the Sarasota Yacht Club this season.<br />
This series spotlights gifted young<br />
artists in concert at 11 a.m. followed<br />
by lunch at 12:15 p.m. Next up is<br />
Vision Duo - Ariel Horowitz, violin<br />
and Britton-René Collins, marimba<br />
on December 15.<br />
The Lighter Fare Series offers classic<br />
jazz and musical theater favorites<br />
outdoors at Marie Selby Botanical<br />
Gardens downtown and indoors at<br />
Plantation Golf & Country Club in<br />
Venice. Next up: Bass to Bass: John<br />
Miller and Michael Ross on November<br />
9. They’ll offer jazz standards plus<br />
a little rhythm and blues.<br />
Sarasota’s elegant 18th century<br />
theater serves as the backdrop for<br />
the Tuesdays at the Historic Asolo<br />
Theater series. SYBARITE5, a<br />
genre-crossing quintet with Sarasota<br />
roots, performs November 15.<br />
The trademark Soirée Series returns<br />
to the music room of the oneof-a-kind<br />
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residence with award-winning tenor<br />
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Choral Artists<br />
The Choral Artists of Sarasota<br />
present: Peace on Earth. The holidays<br />
will ring with traditional holiday carols<br />
resounding with themes of peace<br />
that are interspersed with “In Terra<br />
Pax,” a work of childlike serenity that<br />
is both intimate and universal by<br />
British composer Gerald Finzi. Guest<br />
artists: Danielle Talamantes, soprano,<br />
and Kerry Wilkerson, baritone. Held<br />
December 11, 7 p.m., at Church of<br />
the Redeemer, 222 S. Palm Avenue,<br />
Sarasota.<br />
To purchase tickets, visit www.<br />
ChoralArtistsSarasota.org or call<br />
941-387-4900.<br />
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The Sarasota<br />
Orchestra<br />
Masterworks: November 4-6,<br />
Symphonie Fantastique with David<br />
Alan Miller, conductor and Joyce<br />
Yang, piano. Featuring Quinn Mason<br />
– A Joyous Trilogy and Grieg – Piano<br />
Concerto and Berlioz – Symphonie<br />
fantastique.<br />
• Masterworks: Luminous Colors is<br />
on December 2-4 at the Van Wezel<br />
with Lina González-Granados, conductor,<br />
Bomsori Kim, violin. Performing<br />
Nina Shekhar – Lumina;<br />
Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1 and<br />
Dvořák – Symphony No. 7.<br />
• Chamber Soirées: Orion Weiss<br />
and Friends is on November 13,<br />
at Holley Hall with Orion Weiss,<br />
piano. Featuring Bach – Trio Sonata<br />
from The Musical Offering and<br />
Franck – Piano Quintet in F Minor.<br />
• Great Escapes: Seasonal Gifts is on<br />
December 7-11 in Holley Hall with<br />
Steven Jarvi, conductor<br />
For information, visit www.Sarasota<br />
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Fun Raisers<br />
All Faiths Food Bank has Bowls<br />
of Hope again after two years off.<br />
In previous years, more than 1,500<br />
guests have attended one of the<br />
community’s largest and most popular<br />
family-friendly events, where 40<br />
of our community’s restaurants and<br />
caterers serve soups, bread, desserts,<br />
and more.<br />
Guests select handcrafted bowls<br />
to keep, all donated by local potters,<br />
artists and students, while enjoying<br />
a modest meal as a reminder of<br />
the empty bowls they help to fill.<br />
This year’s event will feature a new,<br />
expanded layout for guests to enjoy.<br />
Takes place on November 13 at 11<br />
a.m. at Ed Smith Stadium (2700 12th<br />
St., Sarasota). Tickets, contact Becky<br />
Wright: bwright@allfaithsfoodbank.<br />
org or 941-549-8131.<br />
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Galleries<br />
In November, Art Uptown Gallery<br />
will exhibit “Judy Gilmer — Artist’s<br />
Mixology,” a selection of Gilmer’s<br />
paintings. Usually, the word “mixology”<br />
refers to mixing drinks. Gilmer<br />
has chosen this word to describe<br />
her newest work as they incorporate<br />
a “mix” of paintings that reflect<br />
not only her varied processes, but<br />
varied styles. While known as an<br />
abstract artist, her muses are nature,<br />
people, music, color, and her internal<br />
response to life. It is a dialog<br />
between her muse, the canvas,<br />
and her responses to each mark she<br />
makes. Runs through November 26.<br />
Visit www.artuptown.com.<br />
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Art Center Sarasota has four<br />
exhibits running through November<br />
23. Mary GrandPré’s “Conjuring the<br />
Backstory” showcases the artist’s<br />
compelling abstract, mixed-media<br />
paintings. “Focus: New College Art”<br />
is curated by New College professors<br />
Kim Anderson and Ryan Buyssens<br />
and features artwork from the best<br />
and brightest of New College’s thesis-level<br />
students. Elizabeth Barenis’s<br />
“Palmistry” features the artist’s<br />
latest acrylic paintings.<br />
Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota. www.artsarasota.org.<br />
Sarasota Orchestra’s Harmony<br />
Gallery jas Jim Stewart. His exhibition<br />
is titled: Minor Passages.<br />
Stewart’s drawings and paintings are<br />
influenced by his career as a graphic<br />
designer. Fine arts and photographic<br />
experiences also inspire him to find a<br />
balance of impact and legibility with<br />
these abstractions: possibilities for<br />
describing nature. Stewart’s drawings<br />
are created using waterproof,<br />
lightfast India Inks. Runs November<br />
1-December 12.<br />
The Harmony Gallery is in the atrium<br />
of the Beatrice Friedman Symphony<br />
Center at 709 North Tamiami Trail,<br />
Sarasota. Exhibitions are free and<br />
open to the public. For more information<br />
visit www.sarasotaorchestra.org.<br />
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At The Bishop<br />
Join them in The Planetarium for<br />
a monthly guide to the night skies<br />
and the latest news from the world of<br />
astronomy. Feel like an astronaut as<br />
you experience our upgraded 50-foot<br />
Planetarium system and dome. They’ll<br />
be continuing with presentations<br />
featuring new James Webb Space<br />
Telescope images, when available,<br />
and sharing normal content about<br />
the night sky and other astronomical<br />
developments.<br />
The evening begins at 6:30pm with<br />
beverages and conversation; presentation<br />
begins at 7pm inside The Planetarium.<br />
Preregistration required.<br />
The Bishop Museum of Science<br />
and Nature, 201 10th St. West,<br />
Bradenton. www.BishopScience.org.<br />
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Elling Eide Center<br />
November 10 at 11am - Dr. Keith<br />
Knapp Lecture: “The Meaning(s) of<br />
Birds on Spirit Jars (Hunping): The<br />
Religious Imagination of Second<br />
to Fourth Century Southeastern<br />
China.” Dr. Keith Knapp is an author<br />
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Sarasota<br />
Contemporary<br />
Dance has<br />
SCD +enSRQ<br />
on December 1-4.<br />
Pictured here is<br />
Monessa Salley<br />
of Sarasota<br />
Contemporary<br />
Dance.<br />
Photo: Sorcha Augustine<br />
and professor of Chinese History<br />
at The Citadel. Attend in person or<br />
online via ZOOM.<br />
This lecture will discuss the more<br />
than 200 heavily decorated jars with<br />
five mouths that have been excavated<br />
from tombs in Southeastern China.<br />
One of their most notable features is<br />
that they are adorned with figurines<br />
of many birds. Although several analysts<br />
believe the birds represent the<br />
souls of the departed flying to the<br />
heavens, that does not explain why<br />
there are so many. This lecture will<br />
discuss these Spirit Jars and explain<br />
the presence of these birds in terms<br />
of the local legend that sparrows stole<br />
rice from Heaven and introduced its<br />
cultivation to humans. Birds thereby<br />
were seen as grain and fertility gods<br />
and thus emblems of good fortune for<br />
both the dead and the living.<br />
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com . Elling<br />
Eide Center, 8000 South Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota.<br />
Perlman Music<br />
A evening with Randall Goosby is<br />
on December 8 at The Sarasota Opera<br />
House. It’s a rare special performance<br />
by internationally acclaimed violinist<br />
and PMP Alum, Randall Goosby and<br />
pianist Zhu Wang.<br />
The PMP Winter Residency returns<br />
once again in December. They are<br />
looking forward to seeing everyone in<br />
the tent at USF Sarasota-Manatee to<br />
watch and hear the new and returning<br />
“Littles” as they train with the esteemed<br />
faculty led by Itzhak Perlman.<br />
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At The Ringling<br />
Running through Feb 12, 2023 is<br />
Highlights from the Stanton B. and<br />
Nancy W. Kaplan Collection of Photography—a<br />
selection of works donated<br />
to The Ringling in 2019, includes<br />
over 1000 photographic objects and<br />
images, representing some of the most<br />
important photo-based artists of the<br />
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<br />
The Kaplan Collection includes<br />
works by Berenice Abbott, Manuel<br />
Álvarez Bravo, Eugène Atget, Ruth<br />
Bernhard, Margaret Bourke-White,<br />
Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lewis<br />
W. Hine, André Kertész, Robert<br />
Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, and<br />
James Van Der Zee, to name but a few.<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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Theatre<br />
Discover Sarasota Tours has their<br />
Murder Mystery and Haunted Sarasota<br />
theatrical shows on their trolley.<br />
• Running every Friday at 8 p.m.:<br />
Haunted Sarasota, Mummies, Murder<br />
& Mayhem. Explore Sarasota’s<br />
spooky side on this interactive tour of<br />
haunted buildings, unsolved crimes,<br />
and ghostly tales with ghost hostess,<br />
Mary Whittaker and several mystery<br />
spirits. $49.99 (includes free beer/<br />
wine). 12 and over.<br />
• Running every Saturday night:<br />
Murder Mystery Trolley: Who Killed<br />
The Circus Queen? Fun interactive<br />
musical where you are part of the<br />
show. Solve the mystery of Dahlia the<br />
queen of the high wire while you drive<br />
to various circus spots made famous<br />
in Circus City USA. $49.99 (includes<br />
free beer/wine). 12 and over.<br />
They’re located at 1826 4th Street.<br />
Book online: DiscoverSarasotaTours.<br />
com or call 941-260-9818.<br />
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out and about continued<br />
Sarasota Players has Rhapsody<br />
for Gold on November 10-13. It’s a<br />
coproduction with Sarasota Jewish<br />
Theatre and SaraSolo Festival and<br />
written by David and Sharon Ohrenstein.<br />
The hit of the <strong>2022</strong> SarSsolo<br />
Festival, this original one-woman<br />
musical tells the story of the rise of<br />
one of the greatest stateswomen of<br />
the 20th Century, Golda Meir.<br />
Also at Sarasota Players, Miracle On<br />
34 TH Street, A Live Musical Radio Play,<br />
running November 29-December 11.<br />
Both are held at Studio 1130 – The<br />
Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota. Visit www.theplayers.org.<br />
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Manatee Performing Arts Center<br />
has Pets! running November<br />
2-20. This musical revue consists of<br />
22 musical scenes dealing with the<br />
very special relationship between<br />
people and their pets. The scenes<br />
range from a dog hungrily eyeing his<br />
owner’s bagel in “There’s a Bagel on<br />
the Piano” to the hilarious, harried<br />
Rumanian dog walker in “I Walk<br />
Ze Dogs” to the lonely Argentinian<br />
iguana pining for his mate in “Night<br />
of the Iguana.”<br />
Information: www.manateeperformingartscenter.com.<br />
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe<br />
Opening the season is “Guys and<br />
Dolls,” the 1950 Tony Award-winner<br />
for Best Musical. A fun, quirky musical<br />
comedy, “Guys and Dolls” debuted<br />
on Broadway in 1950. In New York<br />
City, gambler Nathan Detroit dreams<br />
of setting up a big dice game while<br />
avoiding the authorities – enlisting<br />
fellow gambler Sky Masterson to<br />
help. Meanwhile, Nathan’s girlfriend,<br />
nightclub performer Miss Adelaide,<br />
laments their 14-year engagement,<br />
while Sky ends up chasing the straitlaced<br />
missionary Sarah Brown in a<br />
scheme to raise money for the game.<br />
With “Guys and Dolls” WBTT will<br />
add its own special twist. Runs to<br />
November 20. Call the Box Office at<br />
941-366-1505 or visit westcoastblacktheatre.org.<br />
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Asolo Rep has CABARET running<br />
November 16-December 31.<br />
Willkommen to Kander and Ebb’s<br />
iconic CABARET, which transports<br />
us to 1939 Berlin and the dynamic<br />
and pleasure-filled Kit Kat Klub. As<br />
a dark shadow falls over the city and<br />
the power of the Third Reich begins<br />
to mount, the Klub’s performers and<br />
patrons must decide if they’ll wake up<br />
to the evil on their doorsteps or continue<br />
to escape to the alluring fantasy<br />
world of the cabaret.<br />
Since its debut in 1967, this classic<br />
musical has won countless awards,<br />
including the Tony Awards® for Best<br />
Musical, Best Score and Best Revival<br />
of a Musical. Packed with vibrant and<br />
beloved songs like “Willkommen,”<br />
“Maybe This Time,” “Money,” “Don’t<br />
Tell Mama” and “Cabaret.”<br />
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory has<br />
STICK FLY running November 1-27.<br />
Stick Fly is comedy-drama following<br />
an affluent Black American family<br />
spending a long weekend in their<br />
home on Martha’s Vineyard. But<br />
Mom’s MIA, Dad’s acting weird and<br />
the newcomers to the family – both<br />
brothers brought home dates for the<br />
first time – find themselves wilting<br />
under the weight of familial scrutiny<br />
and long-hidden tensions. Stick Fly is<br />
a play about family, class and cultural<br />
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expectations.<br />
Tickets can be<br />
purchased in person<br />
at Asolo Rep’s<br />
Box Office at 5555<br />
N. Tamiami Trail,<br />
by phone at 800-<br />
36-8388, or at asolorep.org.<br />
Something<br />
Rotten! kicks off<br />
FST’s Mainstage<br />
Series on November<br />
9 in FST’s<br />
Gompertz Theatre.<br />
Set in Elizabethan<br />
England,<br />
this musical comedy<br />
follows Nick<br />
and Nigel Bottom,<br />
two playwriting<br />
brothers who are<br />
stuck in the shadow<br />
of the Renaissance<br />
rock star<br />
known as “The Bard.” Desperate to<br />
write the next big hit for the stage,<br />
they visit a local soothsayer, who<br />
foretells that the future of theatre<br />
involves singing, dancing, and acting—all<br />
at the same time. With this<br />
new insight, the brothers set out to<br />
write the world’s very first musical.<br />
Visit https://www.floridastudiotheatre.org/.<br />
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At The Van Wezel<br />
With ten multi-platinum albums<br />
and 16 Top 30 hits, Foreigner is<br />
hailed as one of the most popular<br />
rock acts in the world with a formidable<br />
musical arsenal that continues<br />
to propel sold-out tours and albums<br />
sales. Their newest tour, Foreigner,<br />
the Greatest Hits, comes to the Van<br />
Wezel on November 17.<br />
Responsible for some of rock ‘n’ roll’s<br />
most enduring anthems including<br />
“Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Waiting<br />
For A Girl Like You,” “Feels Like the<br />
First Time,” and the worldwide #1 hit,<br />
“I Want To Know What Love Is.”<br />
Pre-show dining is available<br />
through Mattison’s at the Van Wezel<br />
which is located inside the theatre.<br />
Reservations can be made on Van-<br />
Wezel.org or through the box office.<br />
Information: www.VanWezel.org.<br />
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Concerts /<br />
Live Music<br />
WMNF Presents:An Evening<br />
with Keller Williams on December<br />
9 at Skipper’s Smokehouse, 910<br />
Skipper Rd, Tampa. Williams<br />
released his first album, FREEK, in<br />
1994, and has since created music<br />
that sounds like nothing else.<br />
Un-beholden to conventionalism,<br />
Williams seamlessly crosses genre<br />
boundaries. The end product is<br />
music that encompasses rock, jazz,<br />
funk, and bluegrass, and always<br />
keeps the audience on their feet.<br />
Williams built his reputation initially<br />
on his engaging live performances,<br />
no two of which are ever<br />
alike. His stage shows are rooted<br />
around Williams singing his compositions<br />
and choice cover songs, while<br />
accompanying himself on acoustic<br />
guitar, bass, guitar synthesizer, and<br />
drum samples; a technique called<br />
live phrase sampling or “looping”.<br />
The end result often leans toward a<br />
hybrid of alternative folk and groovy<br />
electronica, a genre he jokingly calls<br />
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Art Center Sarasota has Elizabeth Barenis’s “Palmistry,” featuring the artist’s latest acrylic paintings.<br />
“acoustic dance music” or ADM.<br />
For information, call the station<br />
at 813-238-8001 or visit www.wmnf.<br />
org/wmnf.<br />
The Hermitage<br />
Award-winning musical theater<br />
composer will perform at the<br />
Hermitage’s <strong>2022</strong> Artful Lobster:<br />
An Outdoor Celebration on<br />
November 12, 11:30am-2pm.<br />
Gwon is a Kleban Award and<br />
Richard Rodgers Award-winning<br />
composer whose work has garnered<br />
multiple NY Times Critic’s Picks and<br />
been performed by such luminaries<br />
as Audra McDonald and Brian d’Arcy<br />
James. Reggie Harris has been a<br />
leading voice in the International Folk<br />
Music Scene for over 40 years and<br />
won the 2021 Spirit of Folk Award.<br />
This event on the Hermitage’s Manasota<br />
Key campus raises valuable<br />
funds for the Hermitage’s artist residency<br />
program. Information: https://<br />
hermitageartistretreat.org/.<br />
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Key Chorale<br />
Perfect Pitch, their annual<br />
luncheon supporting education<br />
and community outreach, is on<br />
November 7, at 11:30 a.m. and will<br />
celebrate Daniel Jordan, the <strong>2022</strong><br />
Perfect Pitch honoree.<br />
They also have a concert, Mystics<br />
and Kings, featuring The Sarasota<br />
Ballet Studio Company and Trainees<br />
on November 27. It’s an evocative<br />
exploration of the mystical influences<br />
from the Jewish Kabbalah, to the mysterious<br />
sounds of southern India and<br />
the streets of Harlem.<br />
Information: keychorale.org.<br />
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Registration is now open for<br />
Art Center Sarasota’s <strong>2022</strong>-2023<br />
adult education season, which runs<br />
through April and features more<br />
than 100 classes, workshops, and<br />
open studio sessions.<br />
Classes are offered Monday through<br />
Saturday and cover a rich diversity of<br />
topics, including painting, photography,<br />
sculpture, mixed-media, drawing,<br />
and pastel and taught by more<br />
than 25 esteemed art instructors.<br />
Course highlights include “Happy<br />
Accidents: Beginning Abstract Watercolor<br />
Florals,” “Freedom in Landscapes,”<br />
“Party Time Chix,” “Gelli<br />
Printing,” and a “Mindfulness Workshop<br />
Series.” To register and for more<br />
information, visit www.artsarasota.<br />
org or call 941-365-2032.<br />
Here’s a sample: Medium: Sculpture/Mixed<br />
Media; Classes: January<br />
6, 13, 20, 27, February 3. Discover the<br />
whimsical world of papier-mâché with<br />
mixed-media artist Kathy Carrier as<br />
she hosts a five-week workshop exploring<br />
this creative medium with a fanciful<br />
twist. More than a hen party, the<br />
class starts with balloons and birthday<br />
hats and covers the entire process of<br />
creating a papier-mâché chicken.<br />
Information: www.artsarasota.org.<br />
Farmer’s Markets<br />
The Sarasota Farmers Market is<br />
open on Saturdays, 7 am-1 pm, rain<br />
or shine. www.sarasotafarmersmarket.org/<br />
(941) 225-9256<br />
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Venice Farmers Market has more<br />
than 40 vendors on Saturdays, many<br />
based during the week in Venice,<br />
Englewood and other areas of Sarasota<br />
County. Held at Venice City Hall,<br />
401 W. Venice Avenue, Venice. Call<br />
(941) 445-9209 or visit https://www.<br />
thevenicefarmersmarket.org/site/<br />
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The Newtown Farmer’s Market is<br />
open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday<br />
and Saturday. The market is located<br />
at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park,<br />
at the corner of Cocoanut Avenue and<br />
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.<br />
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The Farmers Market at Lakewood<br />
Ranch is now at Waterside Place.<br />
Their Farmers Market currently has<br />
about 60 vendors and went this past<br />
summer from a seasonal market to a<br />
year-round event.When the market<br />
transfers to Waterside Place, taking<br />
up space all along Lakefront Boulevard<br />
and Kingfisher Lake, more than<br />
80 vendors will line the street. The<br />
Farmers Market will stick to a 10 a.m.<br />
to 2 p.m. time slot on Sundays.<br />
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Art Around<br />
the State<br />
At The Baker Museum: Recent<br />
Acquisitions: 2019 – Present. The<br />
Baker Museum’s permanent collection<br />
has grown steadily over the past<br />
two decades in both breadth and<br />
quality within the museum’s clearly<br />
defined scope, which encompasses<br />
American, Latin American and European<br />
art from the 1880s to the present<br />
day. This exhibition presents over 50<br />
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works that have been added to the<br />
permanent collection since 2019.<br />
Runs through January 8.<br />
The Baker Museum: https://<br />
artisnaples.org/baker-museum.<br />
Artis—Naples is at 5833 Pelican Bay<br />
Blvd, Naples, FL. artisnaples.org<br />
At The Dali: Paul Éluard: Poetry,<br />
Politics, Love is on display through<br />
Jan. 8, 2023. Paul Éluard: Poetry, Politics,<br />
Love explores the world of one<br />
of the most celebrated and idealistic<br />
surrealist poets. Éluard, the ex-husband<br />
of Dalí’s wife Gala, helped found<br />
Surrealism, the French art movement<br />
whose poetry celebrated dreams, love<br />
and freedom. The exhibition presents<br />
selections of Éluard’s poetry in<br />
context with photographs and selected<br />
books, giving visitors a glimpse<br />
into the life of the man who became<br />
known as “the Poet of Freedom.”<br />
During his lifetime, Éluard published<br />
more than 70 books dedicated<br />
to two main themes: the rejection of<br />
tyranny and the search for happiness.<br />
The exhibition examines the poet’s<br />
beginnings, passionate relationships<br />
and important publications. In<br />
addition, the exhibition delves into<br />
Éluard’s connection to the origins of<br />
Surrealism and André Breton as well<br />
as his later communications with Pablo<br />
Picasso. Located on the first floor<br />
of the Museum, access to this community<br />
exhibition is free by reserving<br />
Ground Floor tickets at https://thedali.org/exhibits/current/<br />
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The Museum of Fine Arts has<br />
Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
through January 15, 2023. This<br />
exhibition highlights the visionary<br />
work of Prince Twins Seven-Seven,<br />
who was the only surviving child out<br />
of seven pairs of twins born to his<br />
mother.<br />
Because of this, and the associated<br />
traditional religious beliefs of the<br />
Yorùbá people of Nigeria, he held that<br />
he possessed unique spiritual insight<br />
and power. His perceptions in turn<br />
had a profound impact on his artistic<br />
expression as a printmaker, painter,<br />
and sculptor. Blending abstracted<br />
images of the physical world and evocations<br />
of the spirit world, Prince Twins<br />
Seven-Seven created a unique, powerful,<br />
and international style that bridges<br />
traditional and contemporary arts.<br />
Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
features 14 total pieces, including 10<br />
works on paper by Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />
and four other Yorùbá works<br />
of art from the MFA’s collection. The<br />
MFA is at 255 Beach Dr NE, St. Petersburg.<br />
Visit https://mfastpete.org/<br />
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Florida CraftArt<br />
Festival<br />
The 25th edition of the Florida<br />
CraftArt Festival runs November 19<br />
and 20. The Florida CraftArt Festival,<br />
held the weekend before Thanksgiving<br />
in downtown St. Petersburg, attracts<br />
tens of thousands of art lovers and<br />
collectors.<br />
The two-day outdoor festival<br />
showcases a juried exhibition of fine<br />
craft and offers an opportunity for<br />
visitors to interact with and buy directly<br />
from the artists.<br />
Visit floridacraftart.org. Florida<br />
CraftArt Festival <strong>2022</strong> will be located<br />
just outside Florida CraftArt Gallery, at<br />
the crossroads of Central Avenue and<br />
5th Street in Downtown St. Petersburg.<br />
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8 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
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n November 17th of<br />
this year Gulfcoast<br />
South Area Health Education<br />
Center (GSA-<br />
HEC) will celebrate<br />
the Great American Smokeout ®<br />
(GASO), a national holiday hosted<br />
by the American Cancer Society<br />
that provides an opportunity for<br />
people who smoke to commit to<br />
healthy, smoke-free lives: not just<br />
for a day, but year-round.<br />
The Great American Smokeout ®<br />
also provides an opportunity for individuals,<br />
community groups, businesses,<br />
healthcare providers, and others to encourage<br />
people to plan to quit on the<br />
GASO date or initiate a smoking cessation<br />
plan on the day of the event. This<br />
event not only challenges people<br />
to stop smoking, but it also educates<br />
people about the many free<br />
tools they can use to help them<br />
quit and stay quit. 1<br />
Despite what some may say, it is never<br />
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out and about continued<br />
Classical Dance<br />
The Sarasota Ballet’s Program<br />
2 sees three ballets—including two<br />
Company Premieres—by two of the<br />
choreographic leaders of 20th century<br />
British ballet, Sir Frederick Ashton<br />
and Sir Kenneth MacMillan.<br />
Running November 18-19 at the<br />
Sarasota Opera House, Program<br />
2 opens with the Company Premiere<br />
of MacMillan’s Danses Concertantes<br />
and pays tribute to the<br />
30th Anniversary of the great choreographer’s<br />
passing. The ballet is<br />
representative of several MacMillan<br />
firsts: the choreographer’s first ballet<br />
created on the Sadler’s Wells Theatre<br />
Ballet; his first, of an eventual seven,<br />
set to a score by Igor Stravinsky; and<br />
his first collaboration with Nicholas<br />
Georgiadis, who would go on to design<br />
a wide variety of sets and costumes<br />
for later MacMillan ballets.<br />
Next follows the Company Premiere<br />
of Ashton’s Dante Sonata.<br />
A chilling reflection of the grim<br />
futility of war, Dante Sonata was choreographed<br />
in 1940 during the early<br />
stages of the Second World War; set to,<br />
and heavily inspired by, Franz Liszt’s<br />
piano piece of the same name—itself<br />
composed on Liszt’s reactions to Dante<br />
Alighieri’s Inferno—the ballet is a<br />
jarringly bleak example of Ashton’s<br />
choreographic range.<br />
Program 2 comes to a close with<br />
the return of Ashton’s exquisite Rhapsody.<br />
Created on the renowned star<br />
Mikhail Baryshnikov during his guest<br />
tenure with The Royal Ballet, Rhapsody<br />
combines Ashton’s penchant for<br />
musicality and exquisite details in the<br />
upper body, as well as fast and meticulous<br />
footwork, with the spectacular<br />
bravura that encapsulated Baryshnikov’s<br />
artistry. Information: https://<br />
www.sarasotaballet.org/.<br />
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Nutcracker tickets now on at<br />
The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School<br />
for The Nutcracker on December<br />
3 at the Sarasota Opera House. Be<br />
transported to Clara’s enchanted<br />
dream world in The Nutcracker by the<br />
Sarasota Cuban Ballet School. The<br />
holiday favorite features the beloved<br />
classic choreography and the beauty<br />
of Tchaikovsky’s score, with scenery<br />
and costumes conceived exclusively<br />
for the school by legendary theater<br />
designer Steve .<br />
Tickets: tickets.sarasotaopera.org.<br />
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Special Events<br />
Atomic Holiday Bazaar returns<br />
for season 15 after a two year hiatus<br />
due to the Covid pandemic. Atomic<br />
has moved to the Sarasota County<br />
Fair located at 3000 Ringling Boulevard.<br />
Atomic Misfit makers will be<br />
found inside at Robarts Arena along<br />
with other makers located at the<br />
street fair outside of the arena on the<br />
fairgrounds property.<br />
Atomic’s new dates and hours are:<br />
Saturday, November 26, 12pm-7pm<br />
and Sunday, November 27, 11am -<br />
6pm. Admission is $6 for adults, kids<br />
12 and under get in free. Food trucks<br />
at the street fair include Mouthole<br />
BBQ and Big Blue Grilled Cheese<br />
and Robarts indoor arena cantina<br />
will be open for hungry shoppers.<br />
Atomic is family friendly to PG-Rated<br />
adult content.<br />
The Bradentucky Bombers roller<br />
derby team will continue to work<br />
as Atomic’s greeters handing out<br />
an Atomic swag bag to the first 100<br />
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adult’ish people<br />
who enter the arena<br />
at the start of the<br />
Saturday and Sunday<br />
shows. Bags are<br />
filled with vendor<br />
swag, some gifted<br />
vendor merch<br />
and coupons that<br />
may be used at the<br />
Atomic show.<br />
Atomic features a<br />
wide range of items<br />
for all: screen printed<br />
t-shirts, faux<br />
taxidermy, upcycled<br />
everything ranging<br />
from home decor,<br />
clothing, jewelry,<br />
(for example, think<br />
of “upcycled” as<br />
copper pipe that<br />
has been refitted<br />
into a desk lamp),<br />
vintage clothing,<br />
kitsch, lowbrow<br />
to elegant fine<br />
art, holiday cards,<br />
jams, jellies and the<br />
best canned pickle<br />
selections ever,<br />
one of a kind baby<br />
clothing, humorous<br />
chatchkes, ornaments,<br />
knits, catnip toys, doggie stuff,<br />
felted art, plants, plushies (unusual<br />
and humorous creatures), pop culture-graphic<br />
art posters, dark sentiments,<br />
body products, candles, beachy<br />
vibe stuff, ethnic Latin textiles, rock<br />
n roll edgy clothing, sweet little creations<br />
that make you sigh, get the picture?<br />
Atomic has something for all!<br />
For information about Atomic Holiday<br />
Bazaar contact Adrien Lucas at<br />
941-539-9044 or email at atomicholidaybazaar@gmail.com.tomic.<br />
Information:<br />
https://atomicholidaybazaar.com/<br />
Wine Women & Shoes is back<br />
November 17-19. Wine, Women features<br />
an over-the-top signature luncheon<br />
at the Ritz-Carlton including<br />
fabulous wines, stunning stilettos,<br />
shopping, and a not-to-be-missed<br />
fashion show. Visit https://www.<br />
winewomenandshoes.com/event/<br />
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In conjunction with their new<br />
exhibition, MOD Weekend <strong>2022</strong>,<br />
November 10-13, is devoted to the<br />
subject of tropical modernism. The<br />
Sarasota School of Architecture practitioners,<br />
led by visionary Phillip<br />
Hiss, embodied the critical regional<br />
modern ethos that we have come to<br />
know as “tropical modernism”.<br />
MOD Weekend will explore examples<br />
from Sarasota and around the<br />
globe through a variety of tours, talks<br />
and events. Tickets: There are three<br />
MOD Passes available: VIP, Ultimate<br />
and Essential. Tickets: https://architecturesarasota.org/mod-<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
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Rotary’s 20th annual Suncoast<br />
Food & Wine Fest is on November<br />
12, 1-4 p.m. at Premier Sports<br />
Campus, 5895 Post Blvd., Lakewood<br />
Ranch. The event offers an afternoon<br />
of samplings and tastings from a<br />
large selection of area restaurants as<br />
well as a variety of wines and other<br />
beverages in an outdoor setting. Your<br />
ticket will support this event which<br />
provides financial assistance to many<br />
charitable organizations within Sarasota<br />
and Manatee counties, and other<br />
Rotary projects. To date, Rotary Club<br />
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Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe has “Guys and Dolls” through November<br />
20. Call the Box Office at 941-366-1505 or visit westcoastblacktheatre.org.<br />
of Lakewood Ranch has given more<br />
than 2 million dollars from festival<br />
proceeds to charity.<br />
General admission is $95 and<br />
includes all food & beverages and<br />
free parking. Learn more at www.<br />
SuncoastFoodAndWineFest.com.<br />
Selby Library<br />
On November 14: Novel Writing<br />
in the Jack J. Geldbart Auditorium.<br />
From planning to publishing, this<br />
series will take you through all the<br />
essentials you need to help turn your<br />
book idea into a reality.<br />
From planning to publishing, this<br />
series will take you through all the<br />
essentials you need to help turn<br />
your book idea into a reality. Local<br />
authors Brian Petkash and Cooper<br />
Levey-Baker will explore the fundamentals<br />
of storytelling from crafting<br />
your setting, characters, and plot, to<br />
revising your work and submitting<br />
your manuscript for publication. This<br />
series is open to all ages, levels, and<br />
genres of writers, as well as those interested<br />
in learning more about the<br />
craft of novel writing. Drop-in to one,<br />
or all parts of this dynamic series.<br />
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Selby Gardens<br />
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens<br />
will host Seeing the Invisible at its<br />
Historic Spanish Point campus. The<br />
most ambitious and expansive show<br />
to date of contemporary artworks<br />
created with augmented-reality (AR)<br />
technology, the exhibition launched<br />
last year at 12 botanical gardens<br />
around the world. Selby Gardens is<br />
one of four inaugural sites that will<br />
continue to host the show for a second<br />
year, through September 2023. Six<br />
new garden and museum sites will<br />
join the global exhibition in October.<br />
Seeing the Invisible features works<br />
by more than a dozen internationally<br />
acclaimed artists, including Ai Weiwei<br />
of China, El Anatsui of Ghana, Isaac<br />
Julien CBE RA of the United Kingdom,<br />
and Sarah Meyohas of the United<br />
States. At Selby Gardens’ Historic<br />
Spanish Point campus, the show’s 13<br />
AR works are installed in carefully<br />
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curated locations<br />
throughout the 30-<br />
acre preserve. Visitors<br />
engage with the<br />
art through an app<br />
that can be downloaded<br />
to a smartphone<br />
or tablet.<br />
Seeing the Invisible<br />
is the first exhibition<br />
of its kind<br />
to be developed<br />
as a collaboration<br />
among botanical<br />
gardens around the<br />
world. The same<br />
commissioned artworks<br />
are placed in<br />
outdoor settings at<br />
the participating<br />
institutions, creating<br />
parallels and<br />
contrasts between<br />
them. The AR nature<br />
of the exhibition<br />
has allowed for<br />
the creation of expansive,<br />
immersive<br />
works that engage<br />
with existing features<br />
of the natural<br />
landscape, going<br />
beyond the limitations<br />
of what is<br />
possible with physical artworks. The<br />
collaboration also allows the partner<br />
gardens and museums to bring leading<br />
contemporary art to their communities<br />
in a sustainable way.<br />
For more information visit www.<br />
selby.org.<br />
At Fogartyville<br />
Joe Crookston performs on Nov.<br />
11. If you love a moving song and<br />
musical madness, singer, songwriter,<br />
and multi-instrumentalist, Joe<br />
Crookston delivers it all: the melodies,<br />
the lyrics, the energy, and a deep<br />
passion for exceptionally well-written<br />
songs. His music swirls with themes<br />
of lightness, darkness, clocks ticking,<br />
fiddle looping, weeping willows, slide<br />
guitar bending, cynicism, hope, and<br />
the cycles of life and rebirth.<br />
Tickets: wslrfogartyville.tickets<br />
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• The Slambovian Circus of Dreams<br />
will perform on Nov. 13. The Slambovian<br />
Circus of Dreams bring their rootsy<br />
psychedelica to Fogartyville! From<br />
the Hudson Highlands of New York,<br />
the Slambovians’ “hilariously genius,<br />
philosophically cosmic, folk-metal<br />
mastery”, delivers a greater human-ness<br />
that rocks. The band’s music<br />
taps a British Invasion vocabulary<br />
with dusty American folk overtones.<br />
Indoor tickets: wslrfogartyville.<br />
ticketspice.com/slambovian<br />
Outdoor tickets: wslrfogartyville.<br />
ticketspice.com/test-outdoor-seating<br />
• “Outta The Muck” documentary<br />
screening is on Nov. 15. Free admission.<br />
Family, football and history<br />
come to life in an intimate portrait of<br />
the Dean family, longtime residents of<br />
the historic town of Pahokee, Florida.<br />
Told through stories that transcend<br />
space and time, “Outta The Muck”<br />
presents an intimate portrait of a<br />
community that resists despair with<br />
love, remaining fiercely self-determined,<br />
while forging its own unique<br />
narrative of Black achievement.<br />
Reservations: wslr.org/event/screening-of-outta-the-muck-documentary<br />
• David Jacobs-Strain and Bob<br />
Beach perform on Nov. 18. David<br />
Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach are a<br />
multigenerational, bicoastal duo<br />
who have been performing blues and<br />
roots music together since 2010.<br />
Tickets: wslr.org/event/david-jacobs-strain-and-bob-beach<br />
• The World Fusion Orchestra Album<br />
Release Concert is on Nov. 26.<br />
In The World Fusion Orchestra, Gypsy<br />
Jazz meets up with funk, classical<br />
and hardcore fusion for an explosive<br />
shred fest with music from every corner<br />
of the globe. Tickets: wslrfogartyville.ticketspice.com/the-world-fusion-orchestra<br />
Fogartyville Community Media<br />
and Arts Center, 525 Kumquat Court,<br />
Sarasota.<br />
Musica Sacra<br />
Their Magical Musical Mondays<br />
are at 7 pm at First Presbyterian<br />
Church of Sarasota. Next up is A<br />
Ceremony of Carols on November<br />
28. Featuring Giuseppina Ciarla on<br />
Harp. Conducted by Dr. Ann Stephenson-Moe.<br />
First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota<br />
is at 2050 Oak Street, Sarasota. Tickets:<br />
www.musicasacrasarasota.org.<br />
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UF/IFAS Extension<br />
Sarasota County<br />
November 22 EcoWalk: Unique<br />
Preserves of Sarasota County at<br />
Sleeping Turtles South. Join a UF/<br />
IFAS Extension Sarasota County educator<br />
for a walk focused on gratitude,<br />
and learn more about our amazing<br />
and unique Florida ecosystems.<br />
Take a leisurely stroll through some<br />
of our most beautiful and environmentally<br />
sensitive lands that have<br />
been preserved in Sarasota County<br />
and learn more about what makes<br />
these areas so unique and important,<br />
the plants and animals that inhabit<br />
them, how to be watershed wise,<br />
and the management issues faced<br />
when trying to preserve these lands<br />
for future generations. register only<br />
at ufsarasotaext.eventbrite.com rather<br />
For questions, call 941-861-5000.<br />
Register: https://www.eventbrite.<br />
com/e/ecowalk.<br />
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Contemporary<br />
Dance<br />
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is<br />
prioritizing diversity through collaboration<br />
with local musicians, reviving<br />
acclaimed SCD repertory, and presenting<br />
nationally acclaimed guest choreographers<br />
by bringing their never-before-seen<br />
original works to Sarasota.<br />
All performances will be held at the<br />
Jane B. Cook Theater at the FSU Center<br />
for Performing Arts.<br />
Next up: SCD +enSRQ on December<br />
1-4. This season, SCD will<br />
collaborate with Samantha Bennett<br />
and George Nickson of enSRQ on a<br />
program exploring rhythms, dance,<br />
and song from around the world. SCD<br />
+ enSRQ also features scenic design<br />
by St. Petersburg-based multidisciplinary<br />
artist Sharon McCaman.<br />
For more information, visit www.<br />
sarasotacontemporarydance.org.<br />
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helping others this holiday season<br />
Looking for ways to help your community<br />
over the holidays?<br />
JFCS of the Suncoast Seeks Adopt-a-Family Donors<br />
With the devastation<br />
suffered by our community<br />
during and<br />
after Hurricane Ian,<br />
JFCS of the Suncoast<br />
hopes to bring cheer and comfort to<br />
local families and seniors in need<br />
during the holidays.<br />
Since 2004, JFCS has organized its annual<br />
Adopt-a-Family campaign to help<br />
ease the burden on parents struggling to<br />
provide holiday meals and gifts to their<br />
families. Donors can also brighten the day<br />
of seniors in isolation through the Adopta-Senior<br />
program.<br />
JFCS has 150 seniors and more than<br />
300 children up for adoption this season.<br />
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of<br />
donors, 150 seniors and 338 children were<br />
adopted in 2021. Donations totaled more<br />
than $79,000.<br />
Since its inception, more than 2,100<br />
children from over 660 families have benefitted<br />
from the Adopt-a-Family program.<br />
Adopt-a-Family/Senior recipients are<br />
current JFCS clients who participate in a<br />
variety of human services programs.<br />
“We live in such a generous community<br />
that comes together to provide toys, clothing,<br />
shoes and gift cards to families and seniors<br />
in need each year,” said Karen Pharo,<br />
Director of Community Outreach. “This is<br />
my fifth year hosting the Adopt-a-Family/<br />
Adopt-a-Senior program and I have seen<br />
everything from rent and utilities paid,<br />
laptops provided for school, pots and pans<br />
and home furnishings for parents and<br />
caregivers, clothing, shoes, bunk beds,<br />
appliances, bikes, and dolls. I always look<br />
forward to seeing the smiles on the faces<br />
of the recipients and being part of the<br />
hugs and tears shared each season.”<br />
How it works:<br />
Those wishing to adopt a family should<br />
be willing to purchase a gift card from a<br />
major retailer to help the parent shop for a<br />
holiday meal. Donors will be provided with<br />
details about the families they have been<br />
paired up with so they can purchase one or<br />
more of the items on the children’s holiday<br />
wish lists, as well as clothing and shoes.<br />
People who prefer not to be matched<br />
with a specific family can choose to donate<br />
money toward the purchase of gifts,<br />
or they can donate general children’s toys<br />
and items.<br />
Those adopting a senior should fill gift<br />
bags with hard candy, stamps, notepads,<br />
pens, hand lotion, hand sanitizer, lip balm,<br />
tissues, socks, refrigerator magnets, and<br />
store gift cards. People can also donate<br />
funds toward senior gift bags.<br />
How to participate in<br />
Adopt-a-Family/Senior:<br />
• If you would like to adopt a family<br />
or senior, email Karen Pharo at kpharo@jfcs-cares.org.<br />
• Donations to the fundraiser can<br />
be made through Pay Pal by choosing<br />
Adopt-a-Family/Adopt-a-Senior in the<br />
drop-down menu.<br />
• For more information and gift ideas,<br />
visit https://jfcs-cares.org/holiday-giving.<br />
Other Ways to Help:<br />
JFCS will be hosting their annual Turkey<br />
Box drive-thru event on Thursday,<br />
November 17, 4-7 p.m. at JFCS, 2688<br />
Fruitville Rd., Sarasota. For information,<br />
email kpharo@jfcs-cares.org.<br />
The 22nd annual Thanksgiving community<br />
celebration luncheon of the<br />
Sarasota Ministerial Association that<br />
brings together local government representatives,<br />
faith and other community leaders<br />
to dine with local residents at risk of<br />
homelessness will take place on Wednesday,<br />
November 23, 11:30 a.m. -1 p.m.<br />
at First Sarasota (The Downtown Baptist<br />
Church) gymnasium at 1661 Main St. For<br />
information on how to volunteer or to<br />
come as a guest for the full Thanksgiving<br />
meal, email kpharo@jfcs-cares.org.<br />
For more information, visit https://<br />
JFCS-Cares.org/ or call (941) 366-2224.<br />
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Thousands of household products<br />
that you may use every<br />
day contain human-made<br />
chemicals. They are also known as<br />
‘forever chemicals’ because they break down<br />
very slowly over time. Studies at Mayo Clinic<br />
have recently found that even small exposures<br />
to these substances pose a health risk.<br />
Dr. DeLisa Fairweather explains why postmenopausal<br />
women are at such a high risk<br />
for heart disease caused by these ubiquitous<br />
chemicals: Read on.<br />
A new American Heart Association study<br />
found that middle-aged women, those with<br />
high blood levels of these chemicals, are 70%<br />
more likely to develop high blood pressure<br />
than their peers who had lower levels of<br />
these toxins.<br />
“As soon as you go through menopause,<br />
you have a dramatic drop in estrogen,” explains<br />
Dr. Fairweather. “When that happens,<br />
it really affects your immune response. And,<br />
so, you enter a much more proinflammatory<br />
state that can increase your risk for various<br />
types of heart disease, like atherosclerosis<br />
and stroke.”<br />
Forever chemicals are in thousands of<br />
household products, including shampoos,<br />
cosmetics and plastic packaging. “It’s also in<br />
our nonstick pans, stain-removing products<br />
that are in our carpeting and furniture, and<br />
on our clothes,” says Dr. Fairweather.<br />
They’re also found in water sources and<br />
foods we eat… “We’re finding that fish we’re<br />
eating have it because the water is contaminated<br />
with it. It’s a major contamination in<br />
wells and other sources of water. It’s in dairy<br />
products because the cattle or dairy cows<br />
are receiving it through fertilizer and other<br />
contaminants in their environment,” says<br />
Dr. Fairweather. Previous studies have shown<br />
that even at low levels these forever chemicals<br />
create adverse health effects.<br />
“What we can do proactively to help<br />
ourselves is to read every label on the food<br />
that we’re purchasing and make sure that<br />
it does not have chemicals that we don’t<br />
understand?” says Dr. Fairweather. “We need<br />
to educate ourselves and just make sure that<br />
if there’s anything that isn’t the actual food<br />
and natural ingredients that we don’t buy<br />
the product.”<br />
Here at The Renewal Point, we understand<br />
that this information can be very overwhelming,<br />
especially if it’s not something<br />
that you’ve already been doing. However,<br />
we don’t want that feeling to deter you from<br />
making changes. Even small changes can<br />
make a big difference. If replacing things<br />
feels daunting, then a good place to start is<br />
with any new purchases. For example, the<br />
next time you buy shampoo, check to make<br />
sure it has natural ingredients; for Christmas,<br />
put a stainless-steel pan or ScanPan on your<br />
wish list; use the “Dirty Dozen” (by the EPA)<br />
as a guide for buying healthier fruits and<br />
vegetables. Over time, you’ll see that most of<br />
your household items are no longer toxic.<br />
Additionally, at The Renewal Point, we can<br />
run tests to see if toxic contaminants are at<br />
harmful levels in your body. This will help<br />
determine how critical the issue is and how<br />
quickly you need to act in removal of the<br />
chemicals from both your body and house.<br />
If toxic chemicals are detected, we can then<br />
work together to create a manageable plan to<br />
rid your body and house of them before they<br />
cause health problems.<br />
While preventing and/or catching the<br />
problem before it becomes a health issue is<br />
ideal, we certainly understand that this is not<br />
always the case. So, if you believe that you<br />
already have health issues caused by toxins,<br />
know that it’s not too late, ~ only more<br />
critical ~ to act.<br />
For more information, please give us a<br />
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<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 13
happening this month<br />
The Orchid Show <strong>2022</strong>:<br />
Capturing the Perfect Shot<br />
At Selby Gardens downtown campus through Dec. 4<br />
Coelogyne pandurata (photo by Sandra Robinson) Brassia maculata (photo by Wade Collier) Installation image: Cliff Roles Photography Installation image: Cliff Roles Photography<br />
Paphiopedilum fairrieanum (Wade Collier)<br />
Installation image: Cliff Roles Photography<br />
Selby Gardens hosts its annual<br />
Orchid Show each<br />
fall to explore the beauty<br />
and diversity of orchids<br />
through new interpretive<br />
themes, with a variety of supplemental<br />
programs and events.<br />
Starring the plant family for<br />
which they’re best known, this annual<br />
exhibition focuses attention<br />
on Selby Gardens’ living collections<br />
and research in an imaginative new<br />
way. The Orchid Show <strong>2022</strong>: Capturing<br />
the Perfect Shot celebrates<br />
the beauty and diversity of orchids<br />
by featuring unique horticultural<br />
displays and scientific photographs<br />
of their rare orchid collection.<br />
The Orchid Show showcases<br />
the camerawork of a group of<br />
Selby Gardens volunteers whose<br />
images span 20-plus years and<br />
who help Selby Gardens scientists<br />
document the institution’s living<br />
research collection. They describe<br />
their work as plant portraiture, the<br />
aim of which is to capture the distinguishing<br />
features of each orchid<br />
as faithfully as possible.<br />
The photographs on view have<br />
been created by a group of skilled<br />
photographers connected to Selby<br />
Gardens’ mission, including Dr.<br />
Wade Collier, Dr. Aaron Fink, Suzanne<br />
Havens, Sandra Robinson,<br />
and Dr. Phil Nelson—the first to begin<br />
digitally photographing the collection<br />
nearly two decades ago.<br />
The images are displayed within<br />
the galleries of the Museum<br />
of Botany & the Arts as well as in<br />
the Tropical Conservatory at the<br />
Downtown Sarasota campus.<br />
The “living art” for which Selby<br />
Gardens is well known will be<br />
on full display inside the Tropical<br />
Conservatory, where installations<br />
will pay homage to the practice of<br />
photography by playing with lenses<br />
and mirrors while showcasing<br />
hundreds of live orchids in artistic<br />
arrangements. Different collection<br />
specimens will be rotated into the<br />
show throughout its duration, helping<br />
to ensure a new experience<br />
with repeat visits.<br />
Selby Gardens has the best scientifically<br />
documented collection<br />
of living orchids anywhere in the<br />
world, and this year’s Orchid Show<br />
will tell two main stories about the<br />
Gardens’ orchid research, according<br />
to Vice President for Visitor<br />
Engagement and Chief Museum<br />
Curator Dr. David Berry.<br />
The first story is the meticulous<br />
work of a group of volunteers who<br />
have systematically photographed<br />
Selby Gardens’ living collections,<br />
including its orchid collection, for<br />
many years. These talented photographers<br />
combine painstaking<br />
process, technical ingenuity, and<br />
individual aesthetic to capture the<br />
characteristics of each plant. “The<br />
photographs become another form<br />
of botanical evidence, a permanent<br />
record of something ephemeral,”<br />
said Berry. “They might document<br />
a flowering process that happens<br />
only once a year, or portray plants<br />
so tiny that they literally cannot be<br />
seen with the naked eye.”<br />
The second story is the artistic<br />
sensibility the photographers bring<br />
to their work, capturing the strange<br />
beauty and rich diversity of a<br />
plant family that beguiles people<br />
the world over. “Compositionally,<br />
the photographs are quite stunning,”<br />
said Berry. “They aren’t only<br />
pictures of pretty plants—they are<br />
works of art.”<br />
The Museum of Botany & the<br />
Arts will showcase 15 large-format<br />
prints of the distinctive scientific<br />
photographs, which feature striking<br />
close-ups of their orchid subjects<br />
set against a jet-black background.<br />
Interpretive material will<br />
detail the photographic process<br />
and highlight six volunteer photographers<br />
who have contributed to<br />
an archive of more than 100,000<br />
digital images of Selby Gardens’<br />
plant collections. A temporary photo<br />
studio will be set up in the Museum,<br />
where individual volunteers<br />
will periodically do their work in<br />
view of visitors and answer questions<br />
about it.<br />
Admission tickets may be<br />
purchased at<br />
https://selby.org/dsc/<br />
dsc-exhibitions/the-orchidshow-<strong>2022</strong>/.<br />
14 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
<strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong> WEST COAST WOMAN 15
Abbey<br />
Tyrna<br />
Executive Director,<br />
SUNCOAST WATERKEEPER<br />
She’s the Executive<br />
Director of Suncoast<br />
Waterkeeper,<br />
a nonprofit in<br />
Sarasota whose mission is<br />
making sure our water is<br />
clean and safe. She grew up<br />
in Cape Coral and earned<br />
her Ph.D. in Geography<br />
from the Pennsylvania<br />
State University, a Master’s<br />
in Environmental Science<br />
from LSU and a Bachelor’s in<br />
Environmental Studies from<br />
Florida State University.<br />
Most recently, she worked<br />
with Sarasota County<br />
government and the<br />
University of Florida as the<br />
Water Resources Agent<br />
for UF/IFAS Extension and<br />
Sustainability.<br />
16 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
If you like water - that is, water that’s<br />
clean to drink, safe to swim in, and<br />
not full of sewage or chemicals<br />
- this article may interest as well<br />
as inform you because there’s<br />
an organization called Suncoast<br />
Waterkeeper whose mission is just that:<br />
making sure water is clean and safe.<br />
We met back in August a few weeks after a<br />
sewage spill took place in the city of Sarasota<br />
that was contained and cleaned up (some<br />
480,000 gallons), but there is some concern<br />
about pipes and their integrity. There were<br />
also other examples of water contamination<br />
and beach advisories since August, but all that<br />
has been overtaken by the after-effects from<br />
Hurricane Ian.<br />
In what seems like years ago, not months,<br />
we met on the shore of Sarasota Bay in the<br />
Indian Beach Sapphire Shores neighborhood<br />
where I spoke with Abbey Tyrna, the Executive<br />
Director of Suncoast Waterkeeper, a nonprofit<br />
in Sarasota.<br />
Suncoast Waterkeeper (SW) is, according to<br />
their website, “…dedicated to protecting your<br />
right to clean water so you can enjoy swimmable,<br />
potable, drinkable, and fishable water.<br />
We understand the importance of healthy<br />
ecosystems and their direct connection to the<br />
health of communities as well as the health of<br />
the local economy. ”<br />
SW is an all-volunteer nonprofit started by<br />
attorney Justin Bloom. They have made the<br />
next step in their growth by hiring Abbey, who<br />
grew up in Cape Coral, and is an experienced<br />
educator and scientist. She earned her Ph.D. in<br />
Geography from the Pennsylvania State University,<br />
where her research focused on measuring<br />
the effects of development on wetlands.<br />
Before receiving her doctorate in 2015, she<br />
earned a Master’s in Environmental Science<br />
from LSU in 2008, concentrating on wetland<br />
science and management, and a Bachelor’s<br />
in Environmental Studies from Florida State<br />
University in 2001. Most recently, she worked<br />
with Sarasota County government and the<br />
University of Florida to help bring scientific<br />
knowledge and expertise to the public as the<br />
Water Resources Agent for UF/IFAS Extension<br />
and Sustainability.<br />
So this article has been updated to reflect<br />
that a Category 4 hurricane took a glancing<br />
blow to Manatee County and northern parts of<br />
Sarasota County, but punched away at south<br />
Sarasota County. In Lee and Collier Counties<br />
to the south, it was almost a knockout punch.<br />
As for her family and friends, “They were<br />
all lucky—okay physically, but emotionally<br />
it’s been a very tough time,” she explains, with<br />
many familiar and favorite places destroyed.<br />
As of this writing in late October, a beach advisory<br />
is in place in Sarasota and there’s potential<br />
for a red tide.<br />
Some may say that’s “natural,” but to Abbey’s<br />
way of seeing things, hurricanes, beach<br />
advisories and red tide are related. They reveal<br />
systems that are not prepared nor able to handle<br />
the aftermath of hurricanes, and shows<br />
that work needs to be done to mitigate those after<br />
effects. “We shouldn’t grow to expect or accept<br />
sewage spills,” she explains. Systems need<br />
to be made resilient, she explains, and adapted<br />
to rising sea levels and climate change.<br />
Hurricane Ian led to stormwater and sewage<br />
discharge along with large amounts of<br />
debris in local waterways, affecting the Gulf of<br />
Mexico, as well as bays and estuaries. And all<br />
those trees that came down? Foliage washed<br />
into creeks and bays, resulting in spikes in<br />
bacteria and nutrient loads.<br />
In what is painfully obvious, water plays a<br />
huge role in our lives beyond watching the sun<br />
go down over the Gulf or using it to drink or do<br />
things like laundry or showering. Abbey notes<br />
another concern is quantity. “We get our water<br />
here from surface water and storing water is<br />
a challenge due to evaporation rates.” Often<br />
called the aquifer where rainwater and runoff<br />
are stored, “There is less fresh, potable water.<br />
Salt water is intruding,” she states.<br />
That should set off alarm bells since<br />
Florida’s population is 22 million and climbing<br />
steadily. Will there be water to drink? Then<br />
there’s the quality of that water to consider.<br />
One state plan is to take wastewater (yes,<br />
that stuff) and make it into drinking water.<br />
“A terrible idea,” she comments. Such dire<br />
sounding ideas mean something is off, seriously<br />
off, but Abbey is decidedly pragmatic.<br />
“If we just got more efficient,” she feels, things<br />
could be different, even better. Instead of<br />
drilling more wells or reusing wastewater, we<br />
should focus on ways to better use ground water.<br />
“I don’t want to drink from the ‘collective<br />
toilet,’” she remarks.<br />
Suncoast Waterkeeper “watches over<br />
Sarasota Bay and Tampa Bay water quality<br />
and recreational water health in Manatee and<br />
Sarasota counties. We monitor the health of<br />
our local waterways and watershed and keep<br />
local citizens up to date,” says their website.<br />
It’s a large task for a small nonprofit. But<br />
citizens also help. During roundabout construction<br />
in downtown Sarasota, a resident of<br />
a nearby condo emailed SW with video taken<br />
showing sediment was going into the Bay. SW<br />
went out, Abbey explains, and saw that barriers<br />
were not in place to keep sediment from<br />
entering the Bay, causing the water to become<br />
cloudy. “They had exceeded their permit,” she<br />
explains. SW’s actions prompted a barrier to<br />
be put in place.<br />
Suncoast Waterkeeper will take action<br />
when needed to get local governments and<br />
businesses to follow environmental laws and<br />
guidelines to keep water healthy. Their goal,<br />
she explains, “is not to go after…but to solve.”<br />
They’ve filed eight lawsuits in the past five<br />
years, she explains - some being industrial<br />
wastewater suits while others were metal recycling<br />
and concrete company violations.<br />
Listening to Abbey is educational and no<br />
doubt that comes from her six years at UF/<br />
IFAS where she was a Water Resources Agent<br />
for UF/IFAS Extension and Sustainability.<br />
She wanted “to be in a group that does more.<br />
This [SW] is more direct.” She enjoys “the<br />
challenge of doing everything - I don’t have to<br />
go through a lot of channels. I was ready to be<br />
more active.”<br />
“I’m a staff of one,” she notes, but her “proactive<br />
board” and volunteers monitor things<br />
like water turbidity. It can all seem a bit daunting,<br />
but Abbey is pragmatic, even optimistic.<br />
“We can do a lot…first and foremost use less<br />
water - a lot less water. Reduce that 20-minute<br />
shower, run the washing machine and dishwasher<br />
only when full, don’t have a golf course<br />
like lawn. Use less pesticides and fertilizer,<br />
pick up after pets.”<br />
Growing in Cape Coral and playing and<br />
exploring outside, Abbey enjoyed local waters.<br />
“In seventh grade, I got to walk through Six<br />
Mile Cypress in Fort Myers,” she said. “I was in<br />
water up to my chest, and I couldn’t have been<br />
happier… I still remember the serenity of the<br />
swamp and the feel of the water. From that day<br />
on, I devoted my education to learning about<br />
wetlands and protecting Florida waters.”<br />
Her husband also has strong ties to the water<br />
having been a ship captain and who now<br />
works for an oil company. They have two children<br />
who both love the outdoors and her 14<br />
year-old son especially likes to fish.<br />
It’s good to know such a vital resource -<br />
water - is being monitored and that there’a<br />
knowledgeable team at Suncoast Waterkeeper,<br />
led by Abbey, to make sure it happens.<br />
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Season Highlights:<br />
events we think you’ll find interesting or unique<br />
MOD Weekend<br />
November 10 -13<br />
MOD Weekend <strong>2022</strong> will explore examples<br />
from Sarasota and around the globe<br />
through a variety of tours, talks and events<br />
from kayak and walking tours to a symposium<br />
and a trolley tour — all with the focus<br />
on Sarasota School of Architecture.<br />
Kayak tours are on November 11 and<br />
offer a way to view architecture in a coastal<br />
environment with the unique vantage<br />
point of the water. A nature guide and a<br />
design expert will lead you through an unforgettable<br />
tour, beginning with remarks<br />
by Sarasota School of Architecture practitioner<br />
Carl Abbott, who will talk about<br />
his Butterfield House, situated across the<br />
Bayou from Paul Rudolph’s Healy Guest<br />
House (aka “Cocoon House”).<br />
On November 12 there will be a Yoga<br />
class at Paul Rudolph’s iconic Umbrella<br />
House. The home is one of the most celebrated<br />
residential structures in the United<br />
States, and is a prime example of tropical<br />
modernism here on the gulf coast.<br />
On November 11, kick off MOD Weekend<br />
at the opening party at Ringling Museum’s<br />
Ca’d’Zan, designed by architect James Baum<br />
and completed in 1926. Enjoy cocktails, delicious<br />
hors d’oeuvres, open bar and music.<br />
November 12, the Trolley Tour visits<br />
two of the most pristine Sarasota School<br />
of Architecture structures in town: the<br />
“Healy Guest House,” 1950, and the “Revere<br />
Quality House,” 1948, both designed<br />
by architects Ralph Twitchell and Paul<br />
Rudolph. You will be guided through these<br />
privately owned, meticulously restored<br />
homes by a local architect who is wellversed<br />
in the Sarasota School of Architecture<br />
movement.<br />
On November 13 there’s a symposium<br />
with preeminent scholars to discuss a variety<br />
of issues around the topic of Tropical<br />
Modernism - from Africa to Asia to our<br />
own Gulf Coast of Florida.<br />
There’s another trolley tour on November<br />
13. Join architects and experts and<br />
tour Sarasota’s best examples of civic,<br />
commercial and residential tropical modernism.<br />
Experience well-known public<br />
structures, iconic masterpieces from<br />
the Sarasota School and beyond, as well<br />
as prime examples of vernacular design<br />
adapted to our local environment<br />
Info and tickets at https://architecturesarasota.org/mod-<strong>2022</strong>.<br />
Do you know…<br />
Ring Sarasota,<br />
Sarasota’s Premier<br />
Handbell Ensemble?<br />
Ring Sarasota<br />
This Sarasota‐based group, under the<br />
direction of former Navy bandleader Rick<br />
Holdsworth, showcases over 200 individual<br />
handbells and handchimes rung by<br />
a large ensemble of ringers to create a<br />
symphony of sound with special effects<br />
mimicking the piccolo, percussion, trombone,<br />
and even the Tibetan singing bowl.<br />
Handbells are often<br />
associated with the<br />
holidays, Christmas in<br />
particular. Ring Sarasota<br />
wants to challenge<br />
that stereotype, offering<br />
selections where<br />
handbells imitate other<br />
instruments, like the<br />
pipe organ or banjo,<br />
or musical styles, like<br />
pop, big band jazz, or<br />
patriotic music.<br />
While any music<br />
played on handbells<br />
can be enchanting, Ring<br />
Sarasota knows that<br />
this instrument truly<br />
shines when performing<br />
songs written<br />
especially for handbells.<br />
Audiences will be<br />
immersed in pop music,<br />
feel the excitement of the big band era,<br />
and experience the rhythm of Latin music.<br />
Ring Sarasota will also be a part of<br />
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ holiday<br />
season. Ring Sarasota will perform during<br />
“Wintergreen Weekend” at Spanish Point in<br />
Osprey and additionally, they are a special<br />
musical guest as part of the “Lights in<br />
Bloom” festivities on the main campus of<br />
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota.<br />
• Performance dates:<br />
• December 3 & 4: Wintergreen Weekend<br />
at Historic Spanish Point<br />
• December 17: Selby Gardens Lights in<br />
Bloom<br />
• February 19, 2023: Trinity Lutheran<br />
Church, Bradenton<br />
• March 12, 2023: Bee Ridge Presbyterian<br />
Church, Sarasota<br />
• March 19, 2023: Roser Memorial<br />
Church, Anna Maria Island<br />
For more information about Ring Sarasota<br />
performances visit RingSarasota.org.<br />
Hermitage Marks<br />
its 20th<br />
Kicking off its 20th Anniversary Season,<br />
the Hermitage Artist Retreat offers<br />
programs in November with their continuation<br />
of the “Hermitage @ Booker”<br />
series. Their second season kicks off with<br />
returning Hermitage Fellow Reggie Harris<br />
who will visit a Booker music classroom<br />
to spend time with students there before<br />
offering a public outdoor performance that<br />
evening, which will be open to the community<br />
on November 4 at 5:30pm.<br />
Nearly all Hermitage programs are free<br />
and open to the public (with a $5/person<br />
registration fee). Registration is required<br />
at HermitageArtistRetreat.org.<br />
Next up is their popular fundraiser, Artful<br />
Lobster on November 12—the only benefit<br />
to take place on their historic Gulf front<br />
campus on Manasota Key. Features a lobster<br />
feast catered by Michael’s On East and live<br />
entertainment featuring Hermitage Fellows.<br />
The Hermitage did sustain some damage<br />
to its campus caused by Hurricane Ian.<br />
The historic wooden cottages that make<br />
up the Hermitage Artist Retreat on Manasota<br />
Key are still standing after Hurricane<br />
Ian, but will probably require more than<br />
$1 million in repairs. Gifts to support the<br />
Hermitage campus repair efforts can be<br />
made at www.HermitageArtistRetreat.org.<br />
The Smothers<br />
Brothers at<br />
the Van Wezel<br />
The Van Wezel will have The Smothers<br />
Brothers on March 30, 2023, for an evening<br />
of memories featuring classic Comedy<br />
Hour clips and interactive audience Q&A.<br />
Their own television variety show, The<br />
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, became<br />
one of the most controversial American<br />
TV programs of the Vietnam War era.<br />
Despite popular success, the brothers’<br />
penchant for material that was critical of<br />
the political mainstream and sympathetic<br />
to the emerging counterculture led to their<br />
firing by the CBS network in 1969.<br />
The brothers continued to work, both<br />
independently and as a team, on stage and<br />
television, and in films during subsequent<br />
decades. Dick Smothers lives in Sarasota.<br />
www.vanwezel.org.<br />
Hermitage House<br />
Photo by Barbara Banks<br />
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Great Performers Series<br />
Emerson String Quartet<br />
Jan 30 | 7:30 pm | Riverview Performing Arts Center<br />
Pianist Awadagin Pratt<br />
Feb 15 | 7:30 pm | Riverview Performing Arts Center<br />
Chicago Symphony Orchestra<br />
Riccardo Muti, Music Director<br />
March 1 | 7:30 pm | Van Wezel<br />
English Chamber Orchestra<br />
José Serebrier, Conductor<br />
March 12 | 7:30 pm | Van Wezel<br />
Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, Music Director<br />
March 27 | 7:30 pm | Van Wezel<br />
Special Events<br />
A Chanticleer Christmas<br />
Nov 29, <strong>2022</strong> | 7:30 pm | Sarasota Opera House<br />
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine<br />
Jan 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm | Venice Performing Arts Center<br />
SCAsarasota.org<br />
941-966-6161<br />
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7:00pm | Event followed by Dessert Reception<br />
Michael’s On East | 1212 S East Ave., Sarasota<br />
Daniel Levin, contemporary artist, photographer and author<br />
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season highlights continued<br />
Alexandra Hammond, artist<br />
Guiseppina Ciarla, Harpist<br />
Art Center Sarasota’s<br />
<strong>2022</strong>-2023 Season<br />
at a Glance<br />
Art Center Sarasota’s <strong>2022</strong>-23 season<br />
features work that spans the range of<br />
artistic mediums—from abstract ceramic<br />
sculpture to documentary photography.<br />
According to Kinsey Robb, Art Center<br />
Sarasota’s executive director, “We’re<br />
a community arts center,” she says.<br />
“The community we serve is amazingly<br />
diverse. We honor that diversity with our<br />
selection of art and artists.”<br />
Robb adds that she’s excited to present<br />
a series of artist talks this season—a program<br />
that “provides audiences the ability<br />
to dive deeper into the minds of our artists<br />
in an intimate and friendly setting.”<br />
Coming up December 8-January 21 is<br />
a solo exhibition: “Alexandra Hammond”<br />
that revolves around the artist’s “Quantum<br />
Blue” series of acrylic paintings. According<br />
to the artist, they invite the viewer to<br />
enter “a zone of pure possibility — a field<br />
of active emptiness from which all forms<br />
arise out of formlessness.”<br />
Opening reception is on December 8, 6-8<br />
p.m. Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami<br />
Trail, Sarasota. For information, visit<br />
www.artsarasota.org.<br />
ArtCenter Manatee<br />
has Scratchboard<br />
Artists<br />
In November, ArtCenter Manatee has<br />
the 11th annual exhibit of the International<br />
Society of Scratchboard Artists<br />
(ISSA) in its galleries. The “drawings in<br />
reverse” will be on display November<br />
30-December 30 with an opening reception<br />
on December 1, 5-7 p.m. In 2021,<br />
artists from the USA, China, Canada and<br />
Australia were represented. Visit https://<br />
artcentermanatee.org. ArtCenter Manatee,<br />
209 9th St West, Bradenton.<br />
TOWN HALL<br />
has José Andrés<br />
The chef, restaurateur, and humanitarian<br />
will speak on March 23. José Andrés is<br />
an internationally-recognized culinary<br />
innovator, author, educator, humanitarian,<br />
and chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup.<br />
A pioneer of Spanish tapas in the<br />
United States, he is also known for his<br />
groundbreaking avant-garde cuisine and<br />
his award-winning group of nearly three<br />
dozen restaurants located throughout the<br />
country and beyond.<br />
Magical Musical<br />
Mondays by<br />
Musica Sacra<br />
They have their Magical Musical<br />
Mondays coming up on November 28.<br />
The performance will be a Ceremony of<br />
Carols featuring conducted by Dr. Ann<br />
Stephenson-Moe with Guiseppina Ciarla,<br />
Harpist.<br />
Program: A Ceremony of Carols by<br />
Benjamin Britten; Dancing Day by John<br />
Rutter and Four English Carols by<br />
Gustav Holst.<br />
Benjamin Britten composed his A Ceremony<br />
of Carols while on a 1942 sea voyage<br />
from America to Britain. The text,<br />
in eleven movements is taken from The<br />
English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, edited<br />
by Gerald Bullett. Originally conceived<br />
as a series of unrelated songs, it was<br />
later unified into a single work with the<br />
inclusion of a Processional and Recesional<br />
in unison based on the Gregorian<br />
antiphon “Hodie Christus Natus est. A<br />
harp solo based on the chant, along with<br />
a few other motifs from “Wolcum Yole”<br />
serve to unify the work. Tickets: https://<br />
www.musicasacrasarasota.org/a-ceremony-of-carols.<br />
At The Dalí -<br />
The Shape of Dreams<br />
A profound yet common human experience<br />
— the dream — is examined through<br />
500 years of paintings from the 16th to<br />
20th century, demonstrating how artists<br />
throughout time have depicted the enigmatic<br />
state of awareness that often leaves<br />
dreamers searching for meaning. Drawing<br />
on the irony that dreams are an intense<br />
visual sensation most often taking place<br />
when the eyes are closed, the exhibition<br />
inspires questions about the very nature of<br />
reality and encourages viewers to examine<br />
dreams through different lenses — psychological,<br />
religious and metaphysical.<br />
The Shape of Dreams features a<br />
selection of art on loan from American<br />
institutions, including the National Gallery<br />
of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, The New<br />
Orleans Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art<br />
Museum, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture<br />
Garden, Chicago Art Institute and Metropolitan<br />
Museum of Art. Several works<br />
from The Dalí’s permanent collection are<br />
placed in dialog with these works to examine<br />
how Western artists have conveyed<br />
dreams, exploring the continuity and disconnections<br />
between the past and present.<br />
Running Nov. 25-April 30, 2023. The<br />
Dalí is located at One Dalí Boulevard, St.<br />
Petersburg. visit TheDali.org.<br />
Furled by Scratchboard Artist Cathy Sheeter,<br />
ISSA, 2021 Silver Award<br />
He believes we can use nourishing<br />
meals to empower people and rebuild<br />
communities. Tapping the same innovative<br />
spirit that earned his restaurants Michelin<br />
stars, Andrés formed World Central<br />
Kitchen in 2010, which provides meals in<br />
response to humanitarian, climate, and<br />
community crises.<br />
The TOWN HALL Lecture Series is presented<br />
by Ringling College Library Association.<br />
Tickets: https://www.rclassociation.<br />
org/membership/upcoming-events/<br />
Enchanted Beach by Salvador Dalí<br />
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Sarasota Contemporary<br />
Dance’s “Reclaim”<br />
Celebrating the company’s 17th anniversary<br />
Sarasota<br />
Contemporary Dance<br />
is launching its<br />
<strong>2022</strong>-2023 Mainstage<br />
Season, “RECLAIM,”<br />
a celebration of the<br />
company’s seventeen<br />
passionate years of<br />
bringing high-caliber<br />
dance to Sarasota<br />
and beyond.<br />
Sarasota Contemporary<br />
Dance’s 17th Mainstage Season,<br />
entitled “RECLAIM,” is<br />
underway. This season, Sarasota<br />
Contemporary Dance<br />
is prioritizing diversity through collaboration<br />
with local musicians, reviving<br />
acclaimed SCD repertory, and presenting<br />
nationally acclaimed guest choreographers<br />
by bringing their never-before-seen<br />
original works to Sarasota.<br />
According to Artistic Director, Leymis<br />
Bolaños Wilmott, “This year, we are<br />
excited to feature two live musical collaborations:<br />
enSRQ in<br />
December<br />
and a reprise<br />
of Jehanne<br />
with Mark<br />
Dancingers in<br />
April…These<br />
offerings continue<br />
to incite<br />
our spirited<br />
Leymis Bolaños Wilmott<br />
vision: being<br />
a versatile<br />
contemporary dance company and training<br />
ground that nurtures and provides<br />
resources for dancers and artmakers in<br />
various stages of development.”<br />
The season includes these Main<br />
Stage performances :<br />
• SCD + enSRQ<br />
December 1-3 at 7 p.m.; December 4,<br />
3 p.m.<br />
Location: Cook Theatre at the FSU<br />
Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Offered virtually December 2-4<br />
Sarasota Contemporary Dance is re-igniting<br />
relationships with other arts<br />
organizations that had to be on pause<br />
during the pandemic. This season, SCD<br />
will collaborate with Samantha Bennett<br />
and George Nickson of enSRQ on<br />
a program exploring rhythms, dance,<br />
and song from around the world. SCD +<br />
enSRQ also features scenic design by St.<br />
Petersburg-based multidisciplinary artist<br />
Sharon McCaman.<br />
• Dance Makers<br />
January 26-28, 2023 at 7 p.m. and<br />
January 29, 2023 at 3 p.m.<br />
Location: Cook Theatre at the FSU<br />
Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Offered virtually January 28-30<br />
“Dance Makers” features new, imaginative<br />
dance pieces created by nationally<br />
acclaimed contemporary choreographers.<br />
Their eclectic stories will be<br />
embodied by SCD’s versatile dancers.<br />
“Dance Makers” promises to be a season<br />
favorite by highlighting a range of<br />
works from the aesthetics of jazz dance<br />
performed to Miles Davis and syncopated,<br />
athletic Afro-Cuban movement, to<br />
more dramatic solo and duet works. The<br />
featured artists include Gilliane Hadely<br />
(Orlando), Lisa del Rosario (Austin, TX),<br />
Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez (Miami), and<br />
Tania Vergara Perez (Sarasota).<br />
• Evolving/Revolving: Jehanne<br />
April 27-29, 2023 at 7 p.m. and April<br />
30, 2023 at 3 p.m.<br />
Location: Cook Theatre at the FSU<br />
Center for the Performing Arts<br />
Offered virtually April 28-30<br />
SCD closes its 17th season with a<br />
comeback of its “Evolving/Revolving”<br />
showcase in which the company<br />
revives previously staged works to<br />
expand and deepen their meaning<br />
into evening-length performances. For<br />
RECLAIM, SCD’s striking work of “Jehanne”<br />
returns to the stage, studying<br />
Joan of Arc’s cultural influence in the<br />
Hundred Year’s War, accompanied by<br />
live music with original composition by<br />
Mark Dancigers. This work honors the<br />
human SPIRIT by demonstrating the<br />
resilience that has taken the company<br />
to this point and will continue its forward-motion.<br />
• Tickets and subscriptions are<br />
available at https://www.sarasota<br />
contemporarydance.org/in-theater<br />
or by calling the Box Office at 941-260-<br />
8485. For more information, visit www.<br />
sarasotacontemporarydance.org.<br />
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Get to know:<br />
ensembleNewSRQ<br />
Founded in 2015, they’re dedicated to playing<br />
the music of contemporary composers<br />
ensembleNewSRQ (enSRQ), the<br />
innovative chamber music ensemble,<br />
opened its <strong>2022</strong>-2023 season<br />
with “First Voices,” a concert<br />
showcasing music that reflects<br />
the historically underrepresented voices of<br />
Indigenous composers, back in October.<br />
Violinist Samantha Bennett and percussionist<br />
George Nickson are the group’s<br />
founders and co-artistic directors. Both<br />
artistic directors have announced that, new<br />
this year, they are bringing local musicians<br />
on in a new capacity as enSRQ artists.<br />
“These are the faces you already know and<br />
love in their capacity to bring<br />
modern masterpieces to life,”<br />
says Bennett. “Artists like<br />
Samantha Bennett<br />
Jennifer Best Takeda, Bharat<br />
Chandra, Betsy Traba and<br />
Marcelina Suchocka strengthen<br />
our ties to the community<br />
and will be with you on this<br />
season’s journey of musical<br />
discovery.”<br />
enSRQ is celebrating its<br />
seventh season with contemporary<br />
masterworks, new<br />
compositions, collaborations,<br />
and world premieres.<br />
Bennett and Nickson have<br />
curated a six-program season<br />
that shines a light on the evolution<br />
of contemporary music<br />
in the 21st century.<br />
Other highlights of en-<br />
SRQ’s season includes tributes<br />
to recently passed composers,<br />
George<br />
Crumb and Louis<br />
George Nickson<br />
Andriessen; world<br />
premieres of newly<br />
commissioned<br />
works by the<br />
British composer<br />
Mark-Anthony<br />
Turnage and the<br />
emerging American<br />
percussionist/<br />
composer Shaun<br />
Tilburg; and a<br />
collaboration with<br />
Sarasota Contemporary<br />
Dance. This<br />
season concludes<br />
with a first-ever<br />
concert at the<br />
Sarasota Opera<br />
House featuring 40<br />
musicians.<br />
streaming will also be available.<br />
<strong>2022</strong>-2023 Season<br />
apple Collaboration With Sarasota Contemporary<br />
Dance: December 1-4. As<br />
enSRQ has redefined the limits of new<br />
music, Sarasota Contemporary Dance has<br />
pushed the boundaries of modern dance<br />
with its inventive choreography by Leymis<br />
Bolanos Wilmott.<br />
This concert will also showcase scenic<br />
and projection design by Sharon McCaman,<br />
the St. Petersburg-based multidisciplinary<br />
artist. Performances are in the Asolo Repertory<br />
Theatre. Live streaming will also be<br />
available to viewers for this concert.<br />
apple Crumb: January 16, 7:30 p.m. “Black<br />
Angels,” the epic lament for the troubled<br />
years of the Vietnam era climaxes a tribute<br />
to George Crumb (1929-<strong>2022</strong>), the Pulitzer<br />
Prize-winning composer whose works are<br />
among the most frequently performed compositions<br />
in today’s musical world.<br />
Soprano and enSRQ favorite, Lucy Fitz<br />
Gibbon returns to sing Crumb’s evocative<br />
“Madrigals,” and the “Demeter Prelude”<br />
by Crumb’s protégé, Margaret Brouwer. It<br />
will be performed at First Congregational<br />
Church, 1031 S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota. Live<br />
streaming will also be available.<br />
apple Vespers For A New Dark Age: February<br />
6. The voices of the Dallas-based<br />
Verdigris Ensemble rise in collaboration<br />
with ensembleNEWSRQ to present the<br />
Photos by Matthew Holler<br />
choral works of<br />
two internationally<br />
acclaimed<br />
composers:<br />
“The Branch<br />
Will Not Break”<br />
by Christopher<br />
Cerrone—as<br />
inspired by<br />
the poetry of<br />
James Arlington<br />
Wright; and<br />
“Vespers for a<br />
New Dark Age”<br />
by Missy Mazzoli—set<br />
to the poetry<br />
of Matthew<br />
Zapruder. Held<br />
at First Congregational<br />
Church,<br />
1031 S. Euclid<br />
Ave., Sarasota.<br />
Live streaming<br />
will also be available.<br />
apple And The Hits Keep<br />
Coming: March 2. The<br />
versatility of the percussionist<br />
is celebrated in a<br />
program featuring Krizts<br />
Auznieks’s “Prelude and<br />
Ether” for marimbas, vibraphone,<br />
and piano; Emma<br />
O’Halloran’s “Shell” for<br />
marimba quartet; and the<br />
world premieres of newly<br />
commissioned works for<br />
percussion ensembles by<br />
British composer Mark-Anthony<br />
Turnage and the<br />
emerging American percussionist/composer<br />
Shaun<br />
Tilburg. Held at First Congregational<br />
Church, 1031 S.<br />
Euclid Ave., Sarasota. Live<br />
apple 1976: April 17. Forty musicians ensemble<br />
to perform a double bill of contemporary<br />
classics, both composed in 1976.<br />
HK Gruber’s “Frankenstein” opens the<br />
program, and Louis Andriessen’s groundbreaking<br />
“De Staat” concludes it. Held at<br />
Sarasota Opera House, 61 North Pineapple<br />
Ave., Sarasota. Live streaming will also be<br />
available.<br />
For tickets, visit www.ensrq.org.<br />
About ensembleNEWSRQ:<br />
Founded in 2015 by violinist Samantha<br />
Bennett and percussionist George Nickson,<br />
ensembleNEWSRQ (enSRQ) is dedicated<br />
to playing and advocating for the music of<br />
contemporary composers.<br />
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FOR 25 YEARS!<br />
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New College<br />
of Florida<br />
has its New<br />
Topics season,<br />
with a<br />
lineup of dynamic regional<br />
and national speakers<br />
covering a broad range of<br />
topics. Hosted by the New<br />
College Foundation, the<br />
2023 season runs through<br />
March.<br />
January 25, 2023<br />
• Fleeing Atrocities:<br />
Witness Perspectives,<br />
in partnership with<br />
the U.S. Holocaust<br />
Memorial Museum<br />
and the Dr. Helen<br />
N. Fagin Holocaust,<br />
Genocide and Human<br />
Rights Collection.<br />
Join in for a powerful<br />
conversation with two<br />
witnesses of mass atrocities<br />
nearly 80 years apart:<br />
Holocaust survivor Louise<br />
Lawrence-Israëls and<br />
Rohnigya activist and<br />
survivor Wai Wai Nu. This<br />
discussion will be moderated<br />
by Naomi Kikoler,<br />
Director of the United<br />
States Holocaust Memorial<br />
Museum’s Simon-Skjodt<br />
Center for the Prevention<br />
of Genocide.<br />
This conversation will<br />
shine a light on the ongoing<br />
persecution of the Rohingya<br />
in Burma and the unique perspective<br />
and voice that Holocaust survivors can<br />
bring to contemporary issues. In March<br />
<strong>2022</strong>, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken<br />
chose the Museum as the location where<br />
he would announce the US government’s<br />
determination of genocide in Burma. It<br />
was there that Louise and Wai Wai first<br />
met.<br />
February 16, 2023<br />
• The Bigger Picture: Entertainment<br />
Marketing in a Changing World<br />
Join Smitty Smith ’70 and Jackson<br />
George ’95 as they discuss Hollywood<br />
and the evolution of entertainment<br />
marketing in a rapidly changing world.<br />
Smith, a movie industry veteran and<br />
CEO of the creative agency InSync Plus,<br />
and George, a creative advertising executive<br />
with Disney, will take you behind<br />
the scenes to understand how Hollywood<br />
develops movies and markets<br />
their product to the consumer.<br />
With witty stories and insights, Smith<br />
and George, will also explore how<br />
Hollywood is changing and the influence<br />
of rapidly advancing technologies<br />
have on the marketing and distribution<br />
of movies.<br />
Louise Lawrence-Israëls<br />
Naomi Kikoler<br />
Cynthia Barnett<br />
March 21, 2023<br />
Wai Wai Nu<br />
Smitty Smith & Jackson George<br />
Chris Reed<br />
• The Sound of the Sea: Seashells<br />
and the Fate of the Oceans with<br />
Cynthia Barnett<br />
Award-winning environmental author<br />
Cynthia Barnett explores the long, rich<br />
and surprisingly profound relationship<br />
between humans and seashells. Traveling<br />
from Florida to the Bahamas to<br />
the Maldives, West Africa, and beyond,<br />
Barnett uncovers the ancient history of<br />
shells as global currency, their use as religious<br />
and luxury objects, and the rarely<br />
appreciated but remarkable creatures<br />
that make them.<br />
While shells reveal how humans have<br />
altered the climate and the sea—down to<br />
its very chemistry—they are also sentinels<br />
of hope for coastal adaptation for climate<br />
change, alternative energy and other<br />
solutions that lie beneath the waves.<br />
All New Topics events are held<br />
at Sanier Pavilion on the New College<br />
campus at 5:30pm. Tickets are $10,<br />
with some exceptions. To learn more<br />
and register, visit ncf.edu/new-topics.<br />
For questions, contact the New College<br />
Foundation at foundation@ncf.edu or<br />
941-487-4800.<br />
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your healthier health you<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 />
Pain and stress caused by<br />
shortened Fascia<br />
Fascia (strong connective tissue) encases all<br />
our muscles, organs, brain and spinal cord.<br />
Whenever fascia shortens any place in the<br />
body, the entire network of fascia creates an<br />
increased tension affecting the functioning<br />
of our physical body as well as our organs,<br />
our brain and spinal cord.<br />
Our body is the history of every major<br />
trauma we have experienced physically and<br />
emotionally beginning with birth issues, falls,<br />
head trauma, car accidents, childhood abuse<br />
issues, death, divorce and other emotional<br />
issues. Our body tries to minimize each trauma<br />
by shortening fascia to isolate the energy<br />
coming into the body from that trauma.<br />
Shortened fascia results in pain, loss of mobility<br />
and range of motion, organs becoming<br />
less efficient and with parts of the brain and<br />
spinal cord 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 resulting<br />
in less energy to make it through each<br />
day. As we age, the accumulation of all the<br />
tightened fascia, from every major trauma<br />
in life, begins to restrict every aspect of our<br />
body’s functions resulting in pain, loss of mobility,<br />
mis-functioning organs, loss of energy,<br />
as well as our brain 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 at bottom<br />
of the spine) is transferred up the dural tube<br />
that encases the spinal cord into the lower<br />
and upper back, the neck, the cranium and<br />
The physical stress in bodies caused by shortened<br />
fascia (connective tissue) shuts down<br />
energy flows to certain organs. Short leg syndrome<br />
by ½ to 1 in (where one leg is pulled up<br />
by shortened fascia) shuts down energy flow to<br />
the spleen (an important part of your immune<br />
system) and the small and large intestine. With<br />
the release of that shortened fascia, energy returns<br />
to these organs.<br />
the brain. Headaches, migraines, TMJ and<br />
neck problems can originate from the fascial<br />
stress in the sacrum.<br />
Releasing this sacral stress increases energy<br />
in the bladder, sex organs, kidneys and<br />
the chakras as well as releasing major stress<br />
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<br />
restricts the depth of breathing by restricting<br />
energy flow to the lungs, the pericardium<br />
and the heart. With the release of fascial diaphragm<br />
restriction, the client immediately<br />
starts breathing deeply and energy is restored<br />
to the pericardium and the heart.<br />
Shoulder blades that are cemented to the<br />
body also restricts how much the rib cage can<br />
open and thereby also restricting depth of<br />
breath. Without proper breathing, your cells<br />
do not get enough oxygen. Everyone, especially<br />
people suffering from bronchitis, asthma<br />
and COPD as well as shallow breathing can<br />
benefit when the fascial stress is released.<br />
Specialized Training<br />
to work with Brain<br />
Dysfunctions<br />
Just as the body physically gets stressed from<br />
physical and emotional trauma, the functioning<br />
of the brain is also affected by fascial stress. For<br />
our brains to remain healthy, we need dynamic<br />
production of craniosacral fluid which performs<br />
the 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 of<br />
your brain being bathed in a toxic slurry<br />
affect you: senile dementia, Parkinson’s,<br />
Alzheimer’s and other brain dysfunctions?<br />
A Craniosacral Therapist, who has received<br />
training in working with the brain, can reverse<br />
that stress on the brain that eventually can<br />
result in those brain dysfunctions. As we all<br />
know, the proper functioning of the body is<br />
dependent on a healthy functioning brain.<br />
Babies and Children can benefit<br />
■ Our little boy Leo, four years of age, had a<br />
difficult birth and at 7 months was put on antibiotics<br />
for an ear infection and as a result developed<br />
c-diff. His development came to a stop.<br />
At 3 years, with the help of an OT, he started<br />
to walk and talk. In spite of the improvements,<br />
he was unable to answer questions and his<br />
communication skills were very poor. Leo<br />
had very poor muscle tone, a lot of stress in<br />
his body and physical activities such walking,<br />
jumping and climbing were difficult for him.<br />
Beginning with the first session with Terry,<br />
he began showing improvement and with each<br />
following session. Everyone from his teachers<br />
to his grandparents noticed an increase in his<br />
■ “I was in awful pain and the<br />
MRI showed 2 pinched nerves<br />
and stenosis. I scheduled surgery.<br />
My daughter suggested Craniosacral therapy.<br />
After only 2 visits the pain was reduced to<br />
advanced craniosacral about 80% and therapy I canceled the surgery. I went<br />
for a 3rd visit and I am about 90% better.”<br />
■ “Simply Amazing! One visit was all it took for<br />
Terry to relieve 85% of my year long, nagging<br />
(sometimes severe) neck/shoulder tightness/<br />
pain!! My breathing improved tremendously.”<br />
physical strength, as well as improvements in<br />
comprehension, speech and communication<br />
skills. For the first time, he started participating<br />
in class lessons and interacting with his<br />
classmates. Terry has made a huge impact on<br />
getting Leo to a place a little boy should be at<br />
age four. We cannot thank Terry enough.<br />
■ Terry’s treatment helped our 6 week old<br />
baby boy from recent hospitalization into<br />
the first series of healthy bowel movements<br />
when seemingly nothing could help. Our son<br />
was able to latch onto the breast and for the<br />
first time completed his feeding. He was much<br />
calmer after working with Terry.<br />
■ “He was able to relieve tension that I have<br />
been carrying around for 15 years or more.<br />
I left his office table with more energy than I<br />
have had in years.”<br />
■ “I began working with him because I was<br />
dealing with anxieties, depression and lots of<br />
emotional pain inside and out. You don’t realized<br />
how much stress can cause damage to<br />
your body, mind and soul. I can say Terry was<br />
a big help.”<br />
Terrence Grywinski<br />
of Advanced<br />
Craniosacral Therapy,<br />
B.A., B.ED., LMT #MA 6049<br />
Testimonials from Clients<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 enables him<br />
to work at a cellular<br />
level and with brain<br />
dysfunctions.<br />
Call 941-321-8757<br />
for more information,<br />
Google Advanced<br />
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Therapy.<br />
■ “On a recent vacation to Siesta Key, I re-injured<br />
my back. I found Terry online. I can say<br />
with complete joy that was the best decision<br />
I made in the history of my back pain. I have<br />
sought many modalities and visit a CST regularly<br />
and never have I had such a healing in<br />
my entire body.<br />
After 3 sessions, I made a 16-hour drive<br />
home with no pain or discomfort in my entire<br />
body. Unbelievable. My body has a sense of<br />
moving freely and that is completely new. I’m<br />
advanced craniosacral therapy<br />
so grateful to Terry for his knowledge, for his<br />
sensitivity to my needs and his kind generosity<br />
in healing my body. I will see him when I return<br />
next year.”<br />
■ “I am a snowbird who spends 7 months<br />
in Sarasota. I have had back problems for 25<br />
years. Terry’s techniques have led to a great<br />
deal of release and relief in areas that have<br />
been problematic. I have been seeing him over<br />
the years when my body says ”it’s time”. Usually<br />
after a few sessions, I can tell a huge difference.”<br />
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good news department<br />
Here are just a few of<br />
the ways our community<br />
has come together<br />
to help those<br />
affected by Hurricane Ian. November<br />
is traditionally a time to be<br />
thankful, so join with us in thanking<br />
all of the organizations, individuals,<br />
businesses and foundations<br />
that have come together to help<br />
others.<br />
While the tragedy of this hurricane<br />
will be felt for quite a while, we<br />
hope that seeing how generous<br />
people are, it will warm your heart<br />
and, if you can, contribute to one<br />
of the organization below.<br />
Feeding Linemen from<br />
Kentucky<br />
Mica England, chef and owner at BLVD<br />
Café, reports, “We had the privilege of grilling<br />
at home for these linemen, that had stopped<br />
by the Café. If you see these great guys from<br />
Kentucky, they love a cold Dr. Pepper!”<br />
“Lori, my wife, went to a Feed Lineman<br />
page on Facebook. These guys were working<br />
in the same clothes for days…eating a<br />
cold ham sandwich for dinner every day<br />
when the returned to their camp. Some<br />
of the camps just fed the supervisors and<br />
not the workers because they didn’t have<br />
enough food.”<br />
“Lori washed numerous loads of clothes<br />
for them, I grilled hot dogs and hamburgers<br />
for them, made baked beans and potato<br />
salad, and gave them bags of chips and Dr.<br />
Pepper. So we got them some. They were so<br />
sweet and kind. We were so happy we could<br />
help a little.”<br />
Surprise visit by Lester Holt<br />
Chef Mica and her wife Lori helping feed linemen<br />
Chef Mica and her wife Lori also volunteered<br />
in the kitchen at Booker High school<br />
getting lunches together when they had<br />
a surprise visit by Lester Holt, the nightly<br />
news anchor for NBC who was intern covering<br />
the hurricane. “I mean what are the<br />
chances Lester holt walks in to interview<br />
you when you’re wrapping hot dogs.”<br />
Hurricane Ian Relief<br />
Concert Raises More<br />
Than $ 112,000<br />
Sarasota Orchestra and the Van Wezel<br />
held a concert on October 7 to benefit Hurricane<br />
Ian recovery efforts. The concert was<br />
organized in less than a week. Through ticket<br />
purchases, additional onsite donations and<br />
online fundraising, $56,226.78 was raised for<br />
the Suncoast Disaster Recovery Fund at<br />
the Community Foundation of Sarasota<br />
County. With the dollar-for-dollar match<br />
from The Patterson Foundation, the total<br />
amount raised was more than $112,000.<br />
“Heartfelt gratitude goes to the Sarasota<br />
Orchestra and the<br />
Van Wezel for providing<br />
this incredible<br />
community service<br />
by presenting this<br />
concert in support of<br />
the Hurricane Ian recovery.<br />
We hope this<br />
concert lifted spirits<br />
and offered an opportunity<br />
for community<br />
members to play<br />
an important part in<br />
contributing to disaster<br />
recovery across<br />
the Suncoast,” said<br />
Roxie Jerde, President<br />
and CEO, Community<br />
Foundation<br />
of Sarasota County.<br />
The concert program<br />
included a<br />
range of inspiring<br />
music, including Aaron<br />
Copland’s Fanfare<br />
for the Common<br />
Man, John<br />
Williams’ Summon<br />
the Heroes – originally<br />
composed for<br />
the 1996 Olympics<br />
– and the theme<br />
from The Incredibles.<br />
Crafted by<br />
Conductor Christopher<br />
Confessore, a<br />
Sarasota native and<br />
Principal Pops conductor of the Alabama<br />
Symphony, the concert served as a salute to<br />
extraordinary first responders.<br />
You can still make a donation at www.cfsarasota.org.<br />
Feeding and Food trucks -<br />
JFCS<br />
JFCS hosted several food trucks in their<br />
parking lot on October 12 to help feed hurricane<br />
victims. “Our hearts are with those<br />
who are struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane<br />
Ian. We know it’s challenging trying<br />
to navigate these<br />
uncertain and devastating<br />
times, but<br />
it’s been a blessing<br />
to see so many people,<br />
businesses and<br />
organizations come<br />
together to help their<br />
neighbors.”<br />
JFCS of the Suncoast<br />
and several<br />
local food trucks<br />
joined forces to raise<br />
money and provide<br />
meals to people affected<br />
by Hurricane<br />
Ian. Organizations,<br />
churches, subdivisions,<br />
businesses,<br />
and community representatives<br />
were<br />
able to pick up free<br />
meals during the<br />
event to distribute to<br />
community members in need.<br />
Funds raised were also used to purchase<br />
groceries at a discounted rate for<br />
community members who cannot afford<br />
to replace the food they lost during the<br />
hurricane and power outages. Stan and Jo<br />
Rutstein donated $4,000 to help sponsor<br />
the Food Truck Event.<br />
To make a donation to help JFCS purchase<br />
groceries and meals, go to www.paypal.com/donate.<br />
In addition to its assistance<br />
with food, JFCS also offers a variety<br />
of counseling and mental health services to<br />
help residents dealing with the challenges<br />
and stress brought on by the storm and its<br />
aftermath. For more information, contact<br />
the Intake Department at 941-366-2224,<br />
ext. 116, or visit the jfcs-cares.org.<br />
Michael’s on East partners<br />
with José Andrés’ World<br />
Central Kitchen<br />
Michael’s on East partnered with World<br />
Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that provides<br />
meals in the wake of disasters founded<br />
by José Andrés, a chef and owner of<br />
JFCS helping to feed hurricane victims<br />
restaurants across<br />
the country including<br />
Jaleo in Orlando<br />
and The Bazaar in<br />
Miami Beach.<br />
Michael’s on East<br />
made more than<br />
10,000 hot meals for<br />
those in need as of<br />
October 2 and made<br />
5,000 more October<br />
3. Owner Michael<br />
Klauber said they<br />
worked to create balanced<br />
meals with proteins<br />
such as roasted<br />
chicken, hand-rolled meatballs or chicken<br />
cacciatore, carbohydrates such as rice or<br />
penne pasta, and vegetables including broccoli,<br />
green beans or corn. The meals were<br />
transported by Michael’s on East staff to<br />
hard-hit locations such as Port Charlotte.<br />
World Central Kitchen’s director of relief<br />
operations Fiona Donovan said that, along<br />
with preparing hot meals and sandwiches<br />
themselves, the organization has worked with<br />
around 30 restaurant and food truck partners.<br />
Meals from both World Central Kitchen<br />
and its partners are being distributed at<br />
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good new continued<br />
established sites, with food trucks also able<br />
to deploy to more hyper-local communities.<br />
If you’d like to support World Central<br />
Kitchen visit https://donate.wck.org. Donate<br />
to World Central Kitchen to help us<br />
provide fresh meals in Florida here: https://<br />
tinyurl.com/3zcbdmb8.<br />
Christine Nordstrom of<br />
5-0 Donut Company<br />
Christine made over eight trips south to<br />
bring supplies to places like a Rotunda mobile<br />
home park. “We stopped at my friend<br />
Allen’s Yummies Donuts + BBQ in Venice<br />
and dropped hot meals, gas for generators<br />
and supplies to some shut-in seniors in<br />
Placida and Rotunda.”<br />
Christine also collected donations from<br />
her many donut-loving fans tat she personally<br />
drove to those whose homes were flooded<br />
in North Port. Her fabulous donuts also went<br />
to Lee and Collier sheriff’s departments. On<br />
Love from 5-0 Donut Company<br />
another trip, donations went to the Cajun<br />
Navy Groundforce and more went to an undeserved<br />
Fort Myers community near the<br />
water where she and her volunteers loaded<br />
over 100 families with food, water, ice and<br />
supplies. She even arranged a marine delivery<br />
to the heavily-beset islands and later<br />
worked a National Guard drive through site<br />
handing out MREs, tarps, ice and water.<br />
Christine enlisted her two children who<br />
also helped with deliveries, her car loaded<br />
up with gas, ice, bread, dog food, cat food,<br />
personal hygiene, water and food.<br />
Nancy’s Bar-B-Q Delivers<br />
Nancy Krohngold, owner of Nancy’s Bar-<br />
B-Q, took onWorld Central Kitchen’s invitation<br />
to partner with them to serve 350 hot<br />
BBQ meals in North Port and in Fort Myers<br />
as well as 500 meals in Port Charlotte the<br />
next day and 500 meals again in Englewood<br />
the day after that.<br />
Nancy also wanted to “give a shoutout to<br />
Mothers Helping Mothers for their Pop<br />
Up in North Port, doing what they do best<br />
in fulfilling their mission.” Mothers<br />
Helping Mothers distributed clothing<br />
and supplies to those in need.<br />
The Junior League<br />
of Sarasota and South<br />
County Food Pantry<br />
The Junior League of Sarasota<br />
teamed up with the South County<br />
Food Pantry to collect donations<br />
for those impacted by Hurricane<br />
Ian at the Junior League of Sarasota<br />
headquarters 3300 S Tamiami Trail,<br />
in Sarasota.<br />
The Junior League of Sarasota, Inc.<br />
has also started a Hurricane Ian Relief<br />
Fund to allow its members and<br />
supporters an opportunity to participate<br />
in the rebuilding efforts of the<br />
community. Donate at https://members.jlsarasota.org.<br />
Mattison’s on the move…<br />
From Paul Mattison, “After a few days of<br />
no power and cleaning up I am happy to have<br />
our 41 location reopened. Our catering team<br />
is in Fort Myers helping with feeding emergency<br />
workers but hope you will join us for<br />
brunch, lunch or dinner at 41. Our staff will<br />
be happy to see you.”<br />
Sarasota Memorial<br />
Healthcare Foundation’s<br />
SMH Employees Hurricane<br />
Relief Fund<br />
The Foundation received a $250,000 Gift<br />
from Eliza and Hugh Culverhouse. The<br />
Foundation established<br />
the fund to<br />
help ease the financial<br />
burden facing<br />
SMH employees impacted<br />
by Hurricane<br />
Ian. Of the health system’s<br />
8000+ employees,<br />
nearly 25% live<br />
in the most hard-hit<br />
areas of south Sarasota<br />
County and the<br />
surrounding region.<br />
“Learning that<br />
over 2,000 staff mem-<br />
Nancy’s Bar-B-Q Delivers bers, nurses and<br />
A shoutout to Mothers Helping Mothers<br />
physicians left their<br />
families and homes<br />
behind to care for<br />
the community was<br />
heartbreaking,” Mrs.<br />
Culverhouse said.<br />
“The fact that many<br />
of them went home<br />
to nothing or faced<br />
unfathomable financial<br />
hardship was almost<br />
incomprehensible--we<br />
had to help.”<br />
The Healthcare<br />
Foundation also<br />
received a $200,000<br />
grant just received from Charles &<br />
Margery Barancik Foundation.<br />
“Getting SMH employees help and<br />
getting them back to normal is one<br />
of the most important things we can<br />
do right now,” said Barancik Foundation<br />
president/CEO Teri A Hansen.<br />
A donation to the Sarasota Memorial<br />
Healthcare Foundation SMH Employee<br />
Hurricane Relief Fund can be<br />
made at smhf.org/ian.<br />
Suncoast Credit<br />
Union Donates<br />
$<br />
600,000 To Hurricane<br />
Ian Relief Efforts<br />
Eliza and<br />
Hugh<br />
Culverhouse<br />
Suncoast Credit Union donated<br />
$600,000 to provide support and relief<br />
to those impacted by Hurricane Ian.<br />
Volunteer Florida will receive $500,000<br />
and the Foundation for Lee County Public<br />
Schools will receive $100,000.<br />
Volunteer Florida will administer the<br />
$500,000 gift as the state’s lead agency for<br />
volunteers and donations before, during,<br />
and after natural disasters. The funds will<br />
be disbursed to help provide funding and<br />
resources to over 85 organizations for<br />
Emergency Management purposes, going to<br />
those with the greatest need.<br />
The School District of Lee County will<br />
use the $100,000 donation to ensure students<br />
and teachers basic needs are met.<br />
Funds will cover immediate needs, including<br />
clothing, hygiene products, bedding, and<br />
transportation assistance.<br />
“We believe we have a moral obligation to<br />
help others when we are able to do so,” said<br />
Kevin Johnson, President & CEO, Suncoast<br />
Credit Union. “The impact of Hurricane Ian<br />
is tragic. Our only goal for these funds is to<br />
help those with the greatest of needs in order<br />
to rebuild communities impacted by Ian.<br />
We believe that by working together, we can<br />
all do our part to assist struggling Floridians<br />
persevere through these times.”<br />
SarasotaOUT Collected<br />
Donations<br />
SarasotaOUT collected supplies needed<br />
for those impacted by Hurricane Ian on<br />
October 5 at Mellow Mushroom. Items<br />
collected included baby food, diapers,<br />
cleaning supplies, Gatorade, water, fruit<br />
snacks, snacks, capri suns, toiletries,<br />
and paper towels. The organization<br />
also raised $425 dollars from their<br />
Sarasota OUT Awards which was donated<br />
directly to those in need from<br />
Hurricane Ian.<br />
The Soda Fountain<br />
of Venice<br />
We had the pleasure of feeding some<br />
hard working linemen yesterday<br />
for lunch in Englewood. We are so<br />
blessed to be able to give to those<br />
who are out here working away<br />
from their homes and families to<br />
help restore our home The Soda<br />
Fountain of Venice.<br />
At The Soda Fountain of Venice<br />
Soul on State Street<br />
Soul on State Street had an event on<br />
October 7 and, with over 1,000 friends and<br />
neighbors in attendance dancing and having<br />
fun to JAC of All Trades, they were<br />
able to collect over $5,000 in donations<br />
for All Faiths Food Bank’s relief efforts in<br />
southwest Florida.<br />
If you missed out on the opportunity<br />
to help out, donate to the All Faiths Food<br />
Bank at allfaithsfoodbank.org. If you<br />
missed out on the fun, they have another<br />
event on November 4: SOUL ON STATE<br />
and enjoy a soulful celebration of the 60’s<br />
and 70’s hits from K-LUV AND THE UNIT-<br />
ED FUNK FOUNDATION with Kim Lovering<br />
on vocals.<br />
continued on page 31<br />
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Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
They keep watch over water quality and recreational<br />
water health in Manatee and Sarasota counties<br />
Editor’s Note: To go along with our profile<br />
of Abbey Tyrna, we’re including a look at<br />
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S<br />
uncoast Waterkeeper watches over<br />
Sarasota Bay and Tampa Bay water<br />
quality and recreational water health<br />
in Manatee and Sarasota counties. They<br />
monitor the health of local<br />
waterways and watershed<br />
and keep local citizens up<br />
to date. Suncoast Waterkeeper<br />
will take action when<br />
needed to get local governments<br />
to follow environmental<br />
law and guidelines to keep water healthy.<br />
They’re not a singular entity: Waterkeeper is<br />
made up of 350 plus groups, defending the fundamental<br />
human right to clean water in the Americas,<br />
Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa.<br />
The mission of our local Waterkeeper is to protect<br />
and restore the Florida suncoast’s waterways<br />
through enforcement, fieldwork, advocacy and<br />
environmental education.<br />
Their first priority is to ensure that appropriate<br />
laws are being followed, and to take corrective<br />
action when they are not. Their work is supported<br />
by science, the appropriate statutes<br />
and environmental ethics. They seek<br />
to prevent environmental damage<br />
wherever possible.<br />
The suncoast includes the coastal<br />
areas of Manatee, Sarasota, and<br />
northern Charlotte Counties. The<br />
Suncoast’s major waterbodies include<br />
Sarasota Bay, portions of Tampa<br />
Bay, the Manatee River, Charlotte<br />
Harbor and the nearshore waters of<br />
the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
The growth of the surrounding<br />
communities slowly caused deterioration<br />
of the natural environment.<br />
Heavy fishing, dredging to deepen<br />
shipping channels, and the clearing<br />
of mangroves for shoreline development were important<br />
factors. Most damaging was the discharge<br />
of wastewater and other pollutants from stormwater<br />
into the bay, which destroyed water quality and<br />
grasses. By the 1970s, sea grass coverage (which is<br />
vital to marine life) had decreased by more than<br />
80%, the water was so murky that sunlight could<br />
not reach the shallow bottom, and area beaches<br />
were regularly closed due to unsafe levels of pollutants.<br />
The Clean Water Act and other legislation have<br />
brought about significant improvements. By 2010,<br />
measures of sea grass coverage, water clarity,<br />
and biodiversity had improved to levels last seen<br />
in the 1950s. The Suncoast’s shallow waters, sea<br />
grass beds, mud flats, and surrounding mangrove-dominated<br />
wetlands provide habitat for a<br />
wide variety of wildlife. More than 200 species<br />
of fish are found in the waters of the bays, along<br />
with bottlenose dolphins and manatees, plus<br />
many types of marine invertebrates including<br />
oysters, scallops, clams, shrimp and crab.<br />
Sarasota Bay, Tampa Bay, and Charlotte Harbor<br />
are included in the twenty-eight estuaries in the<br />
country designated by the EPA as estuaries of national<br />
significance under Section 320 of the Clean<br />
Water Act. Each Bay has an Estuary Program that<br />
recommends specific actions to be taken by local<br />
governments as well as state and federal agencies<br />
to restore and protect specific waters that<br />
are in the proposed<br />
jurisdiction<br />
of the applicant.<br />
What Suncoast<br />
Waterkeeper<br />
has worked on<br />
and continues to<br />
monitor: protecting<br />
coastal habitats,<br />
dredging and<br />
beach renourishment,<br />
sewage and stormwater pollution, offshore<br />
Justin Bloom, founder<br />
factory fish farms and informing the public.<br />
Justin Bloom is the founder and board member<br />
of Suncoast Waterkeeper. He got his JD at Tulane<br />
Law School and has been a practicing environmental<br />
attorney specializing in prosecuting pollution<br />
cases and representing communities for<br />
over 18 years.<br />
His experience includes investigation, enforcement<br />
and litigation of Clean Water Act violations<br />
and “Toxic Tort” cases. He has successfully represented<br />
many plaintiffs affected by the BP Deepwater<br />
Horizon oil spill and other oil spills in the<br />
US. Prior to returning to the Suncoast, he worked<br />
in New York City as Waterkeeper Alliance’s Eastern<br />
Regional Director. Justin’s family first came<br />
to the area in the ‘70s. He attended New College,<br />
where he graduated with a concentration in environmental<br />
studies in 1991.<br />
A major sewage spill in Manatee County, July 3, 2020<br />
What is the Clean Water Act?<br />
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal<br />
law in the United States governing water pollution.<br />
Its objective is to restore and maintain the<br />
chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the<br />
nation’s waters; recognizing the responsibilities<br />
of the states in addressing pollution and providing<br />
assistance to states to do so, including<br />
funding for publicly owned treatment works for<br />
the improvement of wastewater treatment; and<br />
maintaining the integrity of wetlands.<br />
The Clean Water Act of 1972 was one of the United<br />
States’ first and most influential modern environmental<br />
laws. Its laws and regulations are<br />
primarily administered by the U.S. Environmental<br />
Protection Agency (EPA) in coordination with state<br />
governments, though some of its provisions, such<br />
as those involving filling or dredging, are administered<br />
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.<br />
Under the CWA, EPA has implemented pollution<br />
control programs such as setting wastewater<br />
standards for industry. EPA has also developed<br />
national water quality criteria recommendations<br />
for pollutants in surface waters.<br />
The CWA made it unlawful to discharge any<br />
pollutant from a point source into navigable<br />
waters, unless a permit was obtained. For more<br />
information on Suncoast Waterkeeper, visit<br />
https://www.suncoastwaterkeeper.org/.<br />
30 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>NOVEMBER</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
good new continued<br />
Making a Difference, one<br />
squeeze at a time…<br />
Her name is Delaney Lockwood. She is<br />
a 13-year-old eighth grader who has performed<br />
in several shows at Venice Theatre<br />
including A Christmas Carol.<br />
When she learned of the severe damage<br />
to the theater, she was determined to<br />
squeeze something positive from the situation.<br />
A lemonade stand with all proceeds<br />
to help in the restoration of the theater she<br />
loves. Expecting to raise perhaps $100,<br />
she was amazed when, in a mere three<br />
hours, she sold $700 worth of lemonade...<br />
all for Venice Theatre.<br />
If you’d like contribute to Venice Theatre,<br />
and don’t want to operate a lemonade stand,<br />
consider a donation by sending a check to<br />
Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W., Venice,<br />
FL 34285.<br />
Toulmin Foundation<br />
provides match<br />
for donations to<br />
All Faiths Food Bank<br />
All gifts to the area’s only food bank and largest<br />
hunger relief organization will matched,<br />
up to $100,000 thanks to the Virginia B.<br />
Toulmin Foundation – in partnership with<br />
Keith Monda and Veronica Brady, Kathy and<br />
Delaney Lockwood’s lemonade stand<br />
Travis Brown, and Bob and Lin Williams –<br />
every gift to All Faiths Food Bank for Hurricane<br />
Ian disaster relief will be matched, up<br />
to $100,000. Gifts can be made via All Faiths’<br />
website at allfaithsfoodbank.org.<br />
Before the storm made landfall, All Faiths<br />
Food Bank initiated the movement of food<br />
and water to shelters and disaster relief organizations,<br />
to assist storm victims in our<br />
community. In the wake of the storm, All<br />
Faiths is dedicated to working tirelessly to<br />
provide meals, water and supplies to those<br />
affected by Hurricane Ian.<br />
So far, All Faiths has distributed nearly<br />
150,000 bottles of water, more than 140,000<br />
meals, and almost 200,000 hand-held, easyto-eat<br />
snacks.<br />
All Faiths held a large-scale distribution<br />
at Van Wezel on October 5. As of that date,<br />
80% of its agency partners are open and<br />
able to distribute food. Visit allfaithsfoodbank.org/foodfinder<br />
for updates on dates,<br />
locations and times that food and water will<br />
be available.<br />
All Faiths will provide support to Harry<br />
Chapin Food Bank in Fort Myers as it restores<br />
its facility and begins addressing the<br />
devastating needs in Lee and Collier counties.<br />
All Faiths is currently assessing the status of<br />
Harry Chapin’s agencies in Charlotte County<br />
and will supply food and water to help meet<br />
the needs of community members there.<br />
“Our hearts go out to our neighbors impacted<br />
in South Sarasota County and the<br />
An All Faiths Food Bank team member loads a truck with supplies bound for Venice High School;<br />
AllFaiths sent 60,000 pounds of food, enough to serve 18,000 people over the course of three days.<br />
families in Southwest Florida. The Food<br />
Bank is here now and will continue to be<br />
here to assist in the long-term recovery for<br />
those impacted by Hurricane Ian,” said All<br />
Faiths Food Bank CEO Sandra Frank.<br />
Boys & Girls Club In North<br />
Port Hosted Food Pantry<br />
Gene Matthews Boys & Girls Club In<br />
North Port hosted a Food Pantry with All<br />
Faith’s Food Bank back on October 7 at<br />
the Gene Matthews Club, 6851 Biscayne<br />
Drive in North Port.<br />
Sarasota Garden Club<br />
collected goods<br />
Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation<br />
has provided $644,000 as part of its<br />
immediate Hurricane Ian relief with an aim<br />
to help teachers recover from the storm and<br />
return to their classrooms while also aiding<br />
area nonprofits to provide critical help in<br />
food provisions, early learning and youth<br />
services, mental health, and other areas.<br />
Barancik Foundation created a $200,000<br />
fund for the Sarasota County School District<br />
to assist staff with immediate needs<br />
and a similar $30,000 effort for the DeSoto<br />
County School District.<br />
Another $200,000 was contributed to<br />
help ease the financial burden on thousands<br />
of Sarasota Memorial Health<br />
Care System staffers impacted by storm.<br />
About 25% of the system’s more than 8,000<br />
employees live in the hard-hit areas of<br />
south Sarasota County.<br />
“With our critical focus on education, we<br />
knew we wanted to target teachers,” said<br />
Teri A Hansen, the foundation’s president<br />
and CEO. “We have seen so much disruption<br />
in learning since the start of the COVID-19<br />
pandemic, we want to do everything we can<br />
to minimize the further impact on our students<br />
from Hurricane Ian.<br />
“We also know how hospital staff have<br />
been facing a continuing cycle of crises, and<br />
we want to help them take care of their families<br />
and get back to helping the community<br />
that needs them,” Hansen said.<br />
Other recipients of the Barancik funding<br />
and other aid include the Boys & Girls<br />
Club of Sarasota and DeSoto counties,<br />
the YMCA of Southwest Florida,<br />
All Faiths Food Bank, Harvest House,<br />
Links2Success, Children First, Florida<br />
Center, and Early Learning Coalition.<br />
Barancik and the region’s other major<br />
foundations are coordinating to make sure<br />
they are not duplicating efforts and are collaborating<br />
to provide complementary relief<br />
that magnifies impact. Additional efforts<br />
will be made by Barancik Foundation for<br />
the longer-term recovery.<br />
More ways you can help:<br />
• Gulf Coast Community<br />
Foundation<br />
On October 2, Gulf Coast Community<br />
Foundation’s Board of Directors approved<br />
up to $800,000 to support the Hurricane<br />
Ian Disaster Relief Fund. These funds<br />
will be fully matched by donor contributions<br />
and immediately available to primarily support<br />
our communities including Venice,<br />
North Port, Englewood, Charlotte County,<br />
Lee County, and DeSoto County.<br />
Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s Hurricane<br />
Ian Disaster Relief Fund will support<br />
those most devastated. “We will prioritize<br />
health and human services needs primarily<br />
in southern Sarasota County including<br />
Venice, hard-hit North Port, Englewood,<br />
Charlotte County, Lee County, and DeSoto<br />
County. Our generous Board of Directors<br />
has provided up to $800,000 that will be fully<br />
matched by our donors and community.<br />
100% of our Hurricane Ian Disaster Relief<br />
Fund will go directly to support our community.”<br />
https://www.gulfcoastcf.org<br />
• The Community<br />
Foundation of<br />
Sarasota County<br />
The Community Foundation of Sarasota<br />
County’s Suncoast Disaster Recovery<br />
Fund gives donors the opportunity to<br />
support long-term, long-range programs<br />
to sustain human service agencies serving<br />
people in Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee,<br />
and Sarasota counties as they recover<br />
from Hurricane Ian’s impactGulf Coast<br />
Community Foundation activates Hurricane<br />
Ian Disaster Relief Fund<br />
The fund is fueled by a unanimously<br />
Board-approved $800,000 initiative to support<br />
our local community most impacted by<br />
Hurricane Ian. Donor’s contributions to the<br />
fund will be fully matched by the $800,000.<br />
Donations can be made via the website at:<br />
www.gulfcoastcf.org/hurricane-ian-disaster-relief-fund.<br />
Checks can be mailed<br />
to Gulf Coast Community Foundation<br />
Headquarters at 601 Tamaimi Trail<br />
South, Venice FL 34285 with “Hurricane<br />
Ian” in the memo line.<br />
The fund will be used primarily to support<br />
the recovery and rebuilding of our<br />
community with a focus on southern Sarasota<br />
County including Venice, hard-hit<br />
North Port, Englewood, Charlotte County,<br />
Lee County, and DeSoto County. Health and<br />
human services needs will be a top priority<br />
in the coming months.<br />
• The Patterson Foundation<br />
The Patterson Foundation has given<br />
a gift of $500,000 to the new Suncoast<br />
Disaster Recovery Fund. In addition,<br />
TPF has offered a dollar-for-dollar match<br />
for every donation up to $750,000 – all of<br />
which has the potential to bring the fund<br />
to at least $2 million to strengthen Hurricane<br />
Ian recovery efforts in Charlotte,<br />
DeSoto, Manatee, and Sarasota counties.<br />
Find out more and contribute at https://<br />
www.cfsarasota.org/<br />
• The Healthcare<br />
Foundation’s SMH<br />
Employee Hurricane<br />
Relief Fund<br />
Sarasota Memorial’s Healthcare Foundation<br />
has established the SMH Employee<br />
Hurricane Relief Fund. Because of the<br />
number of employees who may need financial<br />
assistance—possibly thousands—we<br />
need your support, too.<br />
Donate at smhf.org, or send a check to:<br />
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation,<br />
1515 S. Osprey Ave, Ste B4, Sarasota,<br />
FL 34239.<br />
Hope this made you feel great about<br />
your community! We sure enjoyed pulling<br />
together the many ways people<br />
have helped their neighbors.<br />
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Still sitting in traffic going to<br />
Lido Beach?<br />
Time to consider — and enjoy — the Bay Runner Trolley instead<br />
Beautiful Lido Beach is free and, for now,<br />
parking is also free. Now there’s a free<br />
transportation option for getting to the<br />
beach. In the past, I’ve coped with the<br />
traffic and crowds by heading to Lido at<br />
off hours - usually the morning hours. I’d<br />
drive downtown, drive over the bridge and park relatively<br />
easily, as long as it was before 10 a.m. Then I<br />
decided to try the Bay Runner Trolley being offered<br />
by the City of Sarasota as an alternative to driving.<br />
Here’s how it went.<br />
I parked at the Second Street garage at Whole<br />
Foods (3rd or 4th floor - free for four hours) walked<br />
past Mattison’s, spied the Bay Runner Trolley sign<br />
at Main and Lemon and waited. I’m the only one at<br />
the trolley stop and it’s 6 p.m. on a hot August night<br />
and soon a trolley pulls up.<br />
It’s open air on the Bay Runner Trolley, but as soon<br />
as we get up a little speed, things cool off. What<br />
amazed me soon into the ride is how I actually got<br />
to see downtown. And that means people, storefronts,<br />
and all the changes that have taken place<br />
and yes, new construction. These are things you<br />
never see when you’re staring straight ahead at the<br />
car in front of you.<br />
It’s a circuitous ride through downtown (for now)<br />
due to the roundabout construction at Gulfstream,<br />
but hey, you get to see how large that project actually<br />
is, something you’d never experience if you have<br />
to drive/navigate around it.<br />
All told, the Bay Runner has six stops in the downtown<br />
area, including the intersection of Main Street<br />
and School Avenue and the intersection of Main<br />
and Palm Avenue. Look for the Bay Runner sign or<br />
download the app at SarasotaBayRunner.com, and<br />
you’ll see all the stops. A trolley appears every 20<br />
minutes. Ok, enough for the educational part. Now<br />
for the fun part.<br />
Off we go over the Ringling Causeway and you get<br />
to take in that great view of Sarasota Bay —all<br />
360 degrees worth — another thing you can’t<br />
(and shouldn’t) do while driving. Then you’re<br />
on your way to St. Armands Circle and can take<br />
in “the scene” there and not have to watch for<br />
someone cutting ahead of you.<br />
The Bay Runner stops at a few locations on St.<br />
Armands and then Lido Beach before<br />
ending its route at Ted Sperling Park<br />
at South Lido Beach. On the return to<br />
Sarasota, we pick up vacationers who<br />
are headed to dinner downtown. It’s<br />
like a pre-dinner show taking that ride<br />
and by doing so, they’re free to enjoy a<br />
cocktail or two without worries about<br />
driving. The entire roundtrip trip is well<br />
under an hour and you may just notice<br />
yourself being more relaxed and<br />
your knuckles haven’t turned white.<br />
Sarasota, and Florida in general, are<br />
not exactly hotbeds of public transportation,<br />
but the reality of how effective,<br />
useful, convenient and good for the<br />
environment it is has expanded greatly in<br />
the past few years. But the tipping point<br />
was no doubt that traffic has gotten to be<br />
quite challenging in the City of Sarasota<br />
due to traffic that is more like traffic year round - not<br />
just seasonal. Add to the mix roundabout construction<br />
for quite a while to come.<br />
Each trolley is equipped with two wheelchair positions<br />
and a lift that extends on and off the bus. The<br />
Bay Runner is also equipped with two front bicycle<br />
racks. Heading to the beach? You can take some gear<br />
with you — totes, shopping bags and other carry-ons<br />
that can easily fit within a passenger seating area.<br />
But there are even more possibilities - have dinner in<br />
downtown Sarasota then head to the beach to see<br />
the sunset— all while not looking for parking or sitting<br />
in traffic. I spotted a trolley coming back from<br />
Lido and a crew from the Lido Beach Resort got off.<br />
Employees and workers can also use it to commute.<br />
Launched this past March, the Bay Runner Trolley<br />
has become a hit. Mark Lyons, Division General<br />
Manager of Parking/Mobility<br />
at the City of Sarasota, is pleased<br />
with the ridership. Operating since<br />
March, he notes that the Bay Runner<br />
provided 14,257 rides in March<br />
alone. He adds that peak ridership<br />
is from noon to 4 p.m.<br />
The Bay Runner was approved by<br />
the City Commission to help alleviate<br />
traffic congestion between<br />
downtown Sarasota and the barrier<br />
islands. The Florida Department<br />
of Transportation (FDOT)<br />
funded 40% of the cost (it’s free to<br />
ride) with other funding coming<br />
from City of Sarasota Economic<br />
Development Fund, the Business<br />
Improvement District of St. Armands,<br />
and the Downtown Improvement<br />
District.<br />
The trolley service will have a three-year trial run,<br />
which will allow the city to gather data and information<br />
about it, but the numbers are good, according<br />
to Lyons. Others have taken note as well. Lyons states<br />
that the International Parking & Mobility Institute<br />
(IPMI) gave their Award of Excellence for Innovation<br />
in a Mobility, Transportation, or Parking Program to<br />
the City of Sarasota last year.<br />
Habits may be hard to break, but siting in traffic,<br />
wasting time and fuel, are great reasons to try something<br />
new. Your blood pressure will be glad you did.<br />
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• Use the app. It’s available on the App Store, Google<br />
Play and SarasotaBayRunner.com, has real-time<br />
information, including approximate arrival times.<br />
A QR code on Bay Runner stop signs directs users<br />
to the app as well.<br />
• Hours: 8 am to midnight, seven days a week, including<br />
holidays. The Bay Runner carries 28 passengers<br />
• Nice extra: you can connect to the Legacy Trail.<br />
Bring your bike from the Legacy Trail Extension<br />
Pick-up, located at School Avenue and Main Street.<br />
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Top Tips for Eating Better During the Holidays<br />
The holiday season is a joyous time of year, but it’s also a challenging one,<br />
especially when trying to maintain healthy habits and behaviors. Typical celebrations<br />
tend to include lots of food, sweets, and drinks, and fewer opportunities for<br />
exercise and self-care.<br />
But with some preparation and planning, you can avoid the common obstacles that<br />
may have derailed your efforts in the past.<br />
Two health experts, Virginia-based Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDCES, CHWC, FAND,<br />
author of Prediabetes: A Complete Guide and Karen Collins, MS, RDN, CDN, FAND, nutrition<br />
advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research, and founder of Taking Nutrition from<br />
Daunting to Doable, to created a list of practical cooking, eating, and entertaining tips to<br />
help you successfully navigate the holiday table with health goals intact.<br />
Whether you’re hosting a family affair or just a lucky party guest, these tips can be used by<br />
anyone to eat better during the holidays.<br />
Add Vegetables to Everything<br />
Whenever possible, always add more vegetables, says Weisenberger. “If a recipe calls for 3<br />
carrots, use 5.” And don’t be afraid to modify dishes by dropping in a few extra veggies.<br />
It’s easy to add more vegetables to dishes like stuffing, soup, stew, rice, or even macaroni<br />
and cheese. You can pretty much boost the vegetable content of any starchy side dish you<br />
can think of.<br />
For people with cardiovascular disease or diabetes, sending blood sugar or blood pressure<br />
beyond safe levels can be a problem, so making healthier, more vegetable-forward recipes<br />
can help people enjoy holiday traditions without putting their health at risk.<br />
1 teaspoon olive oil<br />
2 teaspoons cooking<br />
sherry (or white<br />
wine)<br />
1 cup chopped onion<br />
1½ tablespoons<br />
chopped fresh garlic<br />
1 cup sliced carrots<br />
2 stalks celery, sliced<br />
2 cups cubed potatoes<br />
1 tablespoon chopped<br />
fresh thyme, or 1<br />
teaspoon dried<br />
1 tablespoon chopped<br />
fresh marjoram, or<br />
1 teaspoon dried<br />
1 tablespoon<br />
chopped fresh rosemary,<br />
or 1 teaspoon dried 1 bay leaf<br />
2 cups low-sodium vegetable broth<br />
1 cup fresh corn kernels<br />
F Harvest Chowder<br />
Harvest Chowder T<br />
Little steps can have a bit impact<br />
Heat oil in large heavy saucepan. Add onion and sauté 5 minutes. Add garlic, carrots,<br />
corn, celery, bay leaf, sherry, potatoes, herbs and vegetable broth. Cover, bring to boil<br />
and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender. Simmer for<br />
3 more minutes or until corn is tender. Discard bay leaf. Purée 1 cup soup in blender and<br />
return to pot. Season with cayenne, salt and pepper. Garnish with sliced green onion.<br />
Servings: 4. Nutritional Information: One serving contains: Calories 269; Total Fat 3g;<br />
Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 82mg; Total Carbohydrates 59g; Protein 8g.<br />
F Honey Glazed Carrots<br />
Cayenne to taste<br />
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper<br />
to taste<br />
1 bunch green onion, sliced small<br />
Honey Glazed Carrots T<br />
1 tablespoon butter<br />
1 leek, white part only,<br />
halved, sliced small and<br />
washed thoroughly<br />
1 pound carrots, sliced<br />
1 cup orange juice<br />
1/4 cup wildflower honey<br />
1 cinnamon stick<br />
2 teaspoons chopped fresh<br />
a mint<br />
Freshly squeezed lemon<br />
juice from 2 small lemons<br />
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt<br />
Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add leek and cook 2 minutes<br />
or until lightly browned. Reduce heat to medium. Add carrots and cook 2 minutes or<br />
until lightly browned. Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to<br />
low, cover and simmer 15 minutes or until carrots are soft. Discard cinnamon stick<br />
before serving.<br />
Servings: 6 to 8. Nutritional Information: One serving contains: Calories 114; Total Fat<br />
1g; Cholesterol 2mg; Sodium 111mg; Total Carbohydrates 27g; Protein 2g.<br />
Focus on Fruit for Low-Fat, Low-Sugar Desserts<br />
Focusing on fruit and other low-fat ingredients is a healthy way to end the meal with a<br />
sweet, satisfying treat. Fruit parfait with layers of fruit alternating with layers of plain or<br />
lower-sugar lemon yogurt, baked pear or apple with nuts and a dollop of yogurt, and ‘nice<br />
cream’ (blended frozen bananas and other fruit) are all excellent low-fat dessert options,<br />
says Collins.<br />
Don’t Fear Your Favorite Holiday Foods<br />
Whether you’re a person with diabetes or just someone who is watching what they eat,<br />
you don’t need to avoid all of your favorite holiday foods. The key is portion control and<br />
thoughtful choices. “Everyone has to make decisions during the holiday season when it<br />
comes to the dinner table,” says Weisenberger, but focusing on festive, celebratory foods<br />
(ginger bread, eggnog, latkes) can help provide the most satisfaction.<br />
Modernize the “Charcuterie” Board<br />
“Your charcuterie board doesn’t need<br />
to be confined to sausages and other<br />
processed meats and cheeses. Make<br />
plant-based foods at least 2/3 of the<br />
board by including vegetables, fresh<br />
fruit, dried fruit, and nuts,” says Collins.<br />
If you’re hosting, keep things interesting<br />
by serving some innovative<br />
homemade dips along with your platter.<br />
For example, start with a base of<br />
plain, low-fat Greek yogurt, hummus,<br />
avocado, or pureed beans, and then<br />
dress it up with some extra seasonings,<br />
fresh herbs, spices, or condiments like<br />
a spicy mustard or chile paste.<br />
Try to Stick to Normal Eating Patterns<br />
It’s easy to find yourself enamored by the all the festive foods coming out of the kitchen,<br />
but you should try to stick to your usual eating pattern when possible. “The plate method<br />
of meal planning works very well for a buffet. Fill half your plate with non-starchy vegetables,<br />
one-quarter of your plate with protein-rich foods and the remaining one-quarter of<br />
your plate with starchy foods,” suggests Weisenberger.<br />
Build Around Beans<br />
Beans are a great source of fiber and plant-based protein, and they can easily play the role<br />
of meat in dishes like shepherd’s pie, pot pie, and stuffed peppers. Try adding them to<br />
salads, soups, and vegetable dishes, or serve them as an appetizer, like roasted chickpeas<br />
or steamed edamame. Add more beans, but it’s important to look at salt levels and try to<br />
purchase canned beans that are low-sodium.<br />
Drink from Smaller Wine Glasses<br />
Overdoing it with wine, beer, and spirits is common during the holiday season. To avoid<br />
this, Collins recommends using a smaller wine glass. “Many wine glasses today can include<br />
two or three ‘servings’ of wine when filled,” she says. “People often don’t realize that the<br />
big glasses of were designed to include lots of air space for sniffing.” It’s also wise to have<br />
a pitcher of water filled with sliced citrus fruits or fresh herbs that’s in close proximity to<br />
where the alcoholic beverages are being served.<br />
These tips will allow you to enjoy all the delicious, celebratory foods that are so important<br />
to the holidays, without having to feel guilty or stressed. Remember, if you slip up or overdo<br />
it, you can always recommit to your healthy intentions the next day.<br />
1 large cucumber,<br />
peeled, seeded and<br />
cut into 1/4-inch<br />
diced pieces<br />
2 large tomatoes, diced<br />
2 medium red bell<br />
peppers, diced small<br />
1 cup red cabbage, finely<br />
shredded<br />
2 bunches green onions,<br />
finely chopped<br />
1/2 cup radish, finely<br />
diced<br />
1 medium half-sour pickle, finely<br />
diced, or 1/3 cup chopped green<br />
olives<br />
3 tablespoons olive oil<br />
F Fall Salad T<br />
Fresh squeezed juice of 1/2 to 1<br />
lemon, or to taste<br />
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper<br />
to taste<br />
Combine all the vegetables and pickles or olives in a salad bowl. Use enough olive oil to<br />
moisten the vegetables and add lemon juice to taste. Season with salt and pepper, then toss.<br />
Servings: 8. Nutritional Information: One serving contains: Calories 102; Total Fat 6g;<br />
Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 379mg; Total Carbohydrates 13g; Protein 2g.<br />
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