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wcw JANUARY 2023

Happy New Year! And welcome 2023! Our January offers some help with a few great resolutions. Features include Lifelong Learning, getting outdoors, getting better sleep and eating healthier - all done in a fun, enjoyable way, Our WCW this month is Stacey Corley, President of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation. Also in this issue: More Good News, Calendars, You're News, Travel News, Women in Power, Sarasota Concert Association and ACE. Enjoy!

Happy New Year! And welcome 2023! Our January offers some help with a few great resolutions. Features include Lifelong Learning, getting outdoors, getting better sleep and eating healthier - all done in a fun, enjoyable way, Our WCW this month is Stacey Corley, President of the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Foundation. Also in this issue: More Good News, Calendars, You're News, Travel News, Women in Power, Sarasota Concert Association and ACE. Enjoy!

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out and about continued<br />

• Aladdin – January 24-29<br />

• Comedy legends Rita Rudner and<br />

Robert Klein team up for a new tour<br />

on February 22.<br />

• Grammy award-winning musician,<br />

composer, and producer David Foster<br />

and singer, television, and Broadway<br />

star, Katharine McPhee are<br />

bringing their viral Instagram show<br />

on the road on February 2.<br />

• Hit country artist Scotty McCreery<br />

brings his newest tour on February 10.<br />

• Gordon Lightfoot appears on<br />

March 21.<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 />

Lectures<br />

TOWN HALL’s 42nd season kicks<br />

off on January 17 with Maria Ressa.<br />

Maria is the co-founder, CEO, and<br />

executive editor of Rappler.com,<br />

an online news organization in the<br />

Philippines.<br />

Maria, one of TIME’S “Person of the<br />

Year” for 2018 and TIME’s “100 Most<br />

Influential People” in 2019, has been<br />

honored around the world for her courageous<br />

and bold work in fighting disinformation,<br />

fake news, and attempts<br />

to silence the free press.<br />

In 2021, she was awarded the Nobel<br />

Peace Prize for her work in exposing<br />

abuses of power and growing authoritarianism<br />

under the Philippine president.<br />

She is the first journalist, since<br />

1935, to win the Nobel Peace Prize for<br />

her efforts to safeguard freedom of<br />

expression.<br />

All lectures will be presented at Van<br />

Wezel. Morning lectures begin at 10:30<br />

a.m. and evening talks begin at 7:30<br />

p.m. Call 941-309-5100 to subscribe:<br />

www.rclassociation.org.<br />

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Sarasota Institute of Lifetime<br />

Learning’s (SILL) “Global Issues”<br />

series returns. This series, which<br />

runs January 10-March 31, features<br />

25 internationally renowned experts<br />

discussing a vast range of domestic<br />

and global issues. The lectures are<br />

presented on Tuesdays, Wednesdays,<br />

and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. at the First<br />

United Methodist Church in Sarasota;<br />

Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. and Fridays at 10<br />

a.m. at the Venice Community Center<br />

in Venice; and Thursdays at 5 p.m. at<br />

the Cornerstone Church in Lakewood<br />

Ranch. Lectures will also be available<br />

for purchase on video.<br />

The <strong>2023</strong> season features the<br />

popular “Music Mondays” series,<br />

which presents performances and<br />

lively conversations with renowned<br />

and emerging performers, January<br />

9-March 27, on Mondays at 10:30<br />

a.m. at Church of the Palms in Sarasota;<br />

and Mondays at 3 p.m. at Venice<br />

Presbyterian Church in Venice.<br />

For more information and to purchase<br />

tickets, visit SillSarasota.org or<br />

call 941-365-6404.<br />

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Key Chorale<br />

They have “Miniature Masterpieces”<br />

on January 21 and 22. Maestro<br />

Caulkins leads an interactive<br />

exploration of these pint-size pieces<br />

that pack a punch. Works by Verdi,<br />

Mozart, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams,<br />

Hogan, Whitacre and more.<br />

• Cinematic Romance, collaboration<br />

with The Venice Symphony is<br />

on February 3 and 4. Fall in love<br />

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all over again<br />

with music<br />

from Casablanca,<br />

Romeo and<br />

Juliet and Gone<br />

With the Wind.<br />

• A Sea Symphony,<br />

Masterwork<br />

by Vaughan<br />

Williams is on<br />

February 10<br />

and 11. Chorus,<br />

orchestra and<br />

soloists sing of<br />

ships and their<br />

captains, wind<br />

and waves, the<br />

voyage of every<br />

human soul,<br />

and music so<br />

vivid you can<br />

almost taste the<br />

sea spray in the air. Baritone Jamal<br />

Sarikoki and soprano Suzanne Karpov<br />

add their stunning virtuosity to<br />

this epic masterwork.<br />

Information: keychorale.org.<br />

New Music<br />

New College<br />

On January 14 pianist Kathleen<br />

Supové returns to New Music<br />

New College to perform a program<br />

called “NEXT DOOR” in the Mildred<br />

Sainer Pavilion. The program contemplates<br />

the ambiguity and richness of<br />

the term “next door.” As we migrate<br />

through our volatile world, we share<br />

space with other beings; we also open<br />

doors, for them and ourselves, into<br />

the next world to come. It will include<br />

at least one world premiere.<br />

Tickets and details at www.newmusicnewcollege.org.<br />

All performances<br />

are Saturdays at 8 p.m. Each will last<br />

about an hour, with no intermission,<br />

and include a free reception either after<br />

the concert (in the Sainer lobby) or<br />

free food during the concert.<br />

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Art Classes<br />

Registration is now open for Art<br />

Center Sarasota’s <strong>2023</strong> adult education<br />

season, which runs through<br />

April and features more than 100<br />

classes, workshops, and open studio<br />

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: January 6, 13, 20,<br />

27, February 3. Discover the whimsical<br />

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 />

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Art Around<br />

the State<br />

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At The Dali: Paul Éluard: Poetry,<br />

The PMP Winter Residency runs through January 7 and offers musical training<br />

for gifted students ages 12-18 who play the violin, viola, cello and bass. The public<br />

is invited to watch these orchestra and chorus rehearsals and works-in-progress<br />

recitals in a performance tent on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.<br />

Politics, Love is on display through<br />

Jan. 8. Paul Éluard: Poetry, Politics,<br />

Love explores the world of one of the<br />

most celebrated and idealistic surrealist<br />

poets. Éluard, the ex-husband of<br />

Dalí’s wife Gala, helped found Surrealism,<br />

the French art movement<br />

whose poetry celebrated dreams, love<br />

and freedom. The exhibition presents<br />

selections of Éluard’s poetry in context<br />

with photographs and selected books,<br />

giving visitors a glimpse into the life of<br />

the man who became known as “the<br />

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 />

The Museum of Fine Arts has<br />

Multiple: Prince Twins Seven-Seven<br />

through January 15. This exhibition<br />

highlights the visionary work of<br />

Prince Twins Seven-Seven, who was<br />

the only surviving child out of seven<br />

pairs of twins born to his 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 mfastpete.org.<br />

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Selby Library<br />

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They have Write Here! Writing and<br />

Resilience Workshop hosted by Dr.<br />

Emily Carr on January 25, 4-6 p.m. in<br />

the Conference Room at Selby Library.<br />

Write Here! is a series of writing<br />

workshops that are open to the public<br />

and designed for writers of all levels<br />

and genres. Workshops offer participants<br />

an opportunity<br />

to explore<br />

a new genre, to<br />

practice a specific<br />

writing skill,<br />

to develop a sustainable<br />

writing<br />

practice, and to<br />

connect with<br />

other writers in<br />

the local area.<br />

Participants<br />

will leave with<br />

tools they can<br />

use in their everyday<br />

lives to<br />

nourish their endeavors,<br />

whether<br />

those endeavors<br />

happen on or<br />

off the page.<br />

Write Here!<br />

meets monthly for two hours on a<br />

drop-in basis; participants are not required<br />

to commit to coming to every<br />

workshop. Dr. Emily Carr is the Assistant<br />

Professor of Creating Writing at<br />

New College of Florida.<br />

Registration required. scgovlibrary.<br />

librarymarket.com/event.<br />

Meetings<br />

January 18, 6-7:30 p.m: Time Sifters<br />

Archaeological Society presents<br />

its monthly lecture program. For<br />

more information visit timesifters.<br />

org. Held in the Jack J. Geldbart Auditorium<br />

at Selby Library.<br />

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The Manatee Genealogical Society<br />

is hosting a Virtual Seminar on January<br />

28, 10 a.m.-4:15 p.m. They will<br />

have four nationally known speakers.<br />

The theme of the seminar is “Finding<br />

Your Elusive Ancestors.” You will be<br />

able to submit your questions to the<br />

speakers for expert guidance, and you<br />

will also have the chance to win prizes<br />

from major genealogical companies.<br />

Program speakers and topics:<br />

• Blaine Bettinger, PH.D., J.D., will<br />

discuss “Evaluating a Genealogical<br />

Conclusion Including DNA<br />

Evidence” – incorporating DNA evidence<br />

with documentary evidence is<br />

not a simple matter.<br />

• Michael D. Lacopo, D.V.M. will present<br />

“She Came From Nowhere….<br />

- Using Social History in Your<br />

Research.” His research skills cover<br />

a broad range, with specialties in<br />

Mennonite, German, Swiss, Mid-Atlantic<br />

American, genetic genealogy,<br />

social history and advanced problem<br />

solving.<br />

• J. Mark Lowe, a Fellow of the Utah<br />

Genealogical Association (FUGA),<br />

author and lecturer, will speak on<br />

“Overcoming Record Loss.” Preparing<br />

a diligent strategy of discovery<br />

and investigation may provide substitutes<br />

or alternate records that lead<br />

to many of the missing answers.<br />

• Cyndi Ingle, creator of CyndisList.<br />

com, will discuss her research methodology<br />

in: “Diligence Online:<br />

Keep Looking Everywhere to Find<br />

Your Elusive Ancestors.” With<br />

the exception of the U.S., U.K., and<br />

Canadian censuses, there is no one<br />

complete database or collection of<br />

everything you need for one place or<br />

one record type. The answer to this<br />

is thorough, detailed, and relentless<br />

searching across multiple repositories<br />

and collections.<br />

Cost: Members $40; Non-members: $50.<br />

Learn more and register at mgsfl.org/.<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 <strong>2023</strong>. 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 curated<br />

locations throughout the 30-acre<br />

preserve. Visitors engage with the art<br />

through an app that can be downloaded<br />

to a smartphone or tablet.<br />

Seeing the Invisible is the first exhibition<br />

of its kind to be developed<br />

as a collaboration among botanical<br />

gardens around the world. The same<br />

commissioned artworks are placed in<br />

outdoor settings at the participating<br />

institutions, creating parallels and<br />

contrasts between them. The AR nature<br />

of the exhibition has allowed for<br />

the creation of expansive, immersive<br />

works that engage with existing features<br />

of the natural landscape, going<br />

beyond the limitations of what is possible<br />

with physical artworks.<br />

For more information visit www.<br />

selby.org.<br />

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Contemporary<br />

Dance<br />

Sarasota Contemporary Dance<br />

Spring In-Studio Performance Series<br />

continues with Scylla Licombe (poet)<br />

collaboration with SCDE on January<br />

13-14. Francis Schwartz (composer/<br />

musician) is on February 10-11.<br />

Dance Makers is on January 26-<br />

29 at Cook Theatre at the FSU Center<br />

for the Performing Arts. “Dance<br />

Makers” features new, imaginative<br />

dance pieces created by nationally<br />

acclaimed contemporary choreographers.<br />

“Dance Makers” highlights a<br />

range of works from the aesthetics of<br />

jazz dance performed to Miles Davis<br />

and syncopated, athletic Afro-Cuban<br />

movement, to more dramatic solo<br />

and duet works. The featured artists<br />

include Gilliane Hadely (Orlando,<br />

FL), Lisa del Rosario (Austin, TX),<br />

Melissa Cobblah Gutierrez (Miami,<br />

FL), and Tania Vergara Perez (Sarasota,<br />

FL).<br />

For more information, visit www.<br />

sarasotacontemporarydance.org.<br />

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Save The Date<br />

The 25th Annual Thunder By The<br />

Bay Music & Motorcycle Festival has<br />

two two headline acts performing<br />

live on stage at next year’s Festival –<br />

38 Special (February 18) and Colt<br />

Ford (February 19). The iconic threeday<br />

Festival, organized by and benefitting<br />

Suncoast Charities for Children,<br />

is scheduled for February 17-19<br />

at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.<br />

For tickets, vendor information,<br />

sponsorship opportunities, and a<br />

complete listing of all Festival events<br />

visit: THUNDERBYTHEBAY.ORG.<br />

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10 WEST COAST WOMAN <strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2023</strong>

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