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>