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Artist Barbara Schicitano is originally from Ocean, NJ and a graduate of the Newark School of Fine Art. After college, Barbara worked for the Dan River Textile Company, in NYC, creating designs for fabric. Not long after that, she was an elementary school art teacher and eventually owned “The Art Loft," a gallery in NJ providing an outlet for local artists. Barbara has painted in all mediums but prefers watercolor, sometimes with pen and ink detail, acrylic textures and collage. The result is a unique piece of art and some very diverse styles. Her work is displayed in galleries and private collections throughout America and internationally and she has received numerous rewards and recognition. She is represented locally by The Dancing Crane Gallery and currently serves as the President of Women Contemporary Artists. Read more about Barbara by clicking here. (click here to nominate our next artist) |
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BIG THANKS At an event honoring long-time supporters of the Sarasota Ballet, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Danto, Sarasota Ballet officials announced that Danto’s Challenge to raise $1 million by April 30 had been met by an anonymous capping gift from a generous couple long dedicated to the Sarasota Ballet. To date, Sarasota Ballet has raised just over $1 million surpassing the Danto Challenge. “We set incredible artistic and fundraising goals this year; without the Danto’s gift, we simply could not have achieved them,” said Board Chairman Chris Pfahler. Way to go! |
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Every Thursday [ laughs ] “Zan’s Comedy Jam” is a regular 9:00 pm Thursday feature at BC’s Recovery Room, 2119 Siesta Drive, 941-364-8653 (near 41 and Siesta Drive). Experience some of the area’s best comics or take the stage yourself, first time or not. For information on the how, what, where, when and how, email here and click here. |
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through May 4 [ toxic audio at fst ] Five Voices...No Instruments. The Grammy nominated group and a cappella phenomenon, Toxic Audio, explores the boundaries of the human voice. 941-366-9000. |
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Daily [ talk of the suncoast ] If you missed Christine and Rick interviewing Cliff Roles on his show last Friday, you missed learning about Cliff as an adolescent, his early years in Germany and how he perfected that fake British accent (we think he is really Swiss!). Click here to listen to that interview. Some of Cliff’s upcoming guests include Iain Webb, Artistic Director of the Sarasota Ballet, on May 2; Elsie Gilmore and Laura Gale of Women with Moxie on May 5 (ah, so that’s what moxie is); journalist Charlie Huisking on May 13 and the President of the Van Wezel Foundation, Sheila Belknap, on May 14. Talk of the Suncoast is every weekday from 4:00 – 5:00 PM on AM 1220 and you can listen on your computer if you click right here. |
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Nightly [ outside music ] Mattison’s City Grill, downtown Sarasota, has music every night of the week. Here’s the line-up according to their website: Monday Fluid Edges, Tuesday Jennifer Liegh and the New Digs , Wednesday Eclipse, Thursday The Venturas, Friday Eclipse, Saturday Kool Breeze, Sunday Afternoon Andres Colin, Sunday night Debbie Keeton. Call 941-330-0440. |
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May 1 & 2 [ jungle book ] The Players Theatre presents “Jungle Book,” adapted from the “Mowgli” stories of Rudyard Kipling by Tim Kelly. This production will be presented as an interactive theatre-in-the-round experience with actors and audience on the stage of The Players Theatre. Enjoy this (non-musical) family classic where Mowgli, a lost child, is brought up by wolves, learns about survival and the “Laws of the Jungle” from his friends Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Directed by Anne Morrison. Call 941-365-2494. |
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May 2 [ picking concert ] Steve Young will perform in benefit for WSLR at Holley Hall in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center. Local musician James Hawkins and his band Cold Harbor will open the show at 8pm. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets can be purchased by calling 941-894-6469. |
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May 2 – 30 [ art music art ] The Dabbert Gallery presents “Art of Music” a group exhibition demonstrating how each artist approaches a musical theme. Artists include Candace Knapp, Francios Faucher, Craig Rubadux and Robert Baxter. (photo: "Un Grande Trompe" by Francois Faucher 40" x 30" Oil on Canvas) |
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May 4 [ benefit concert ] **this concert is now free to the public** “Humanity Working to End Genocide” presents The Gulf Coast Community Choir’s Concert to benefit the Refugees of Darfur. The special benefit concert is at 4:00 pm at the First United Methodist Church (104 S. Pineapple, Sarasota map). For more information call 941-922-1257. |
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May 6 [ american idol party ] Syesha Mercado has made it to the Top 4 of American Idol and Mattison's City Grille continues its American Idol - Syesha Party on Tuesday. Hosted by SNN's Antawan Smith and the Morning Crew, Jones & Crane, from 107.9 WSRZ. Enjoy special menu items like the "Syesha Salad" and the "Pizza Mercado" (they should also have the "Simon Lemonade") The party starts at 6:30 PM and there are plenty of TV sets to watch the show at 8:00 PM. Remember to bring your cell for the after-show voting! Can't make it downtown? Mattison's Forty One and Mattison's Riverside (Bradenton) will also have Syesha parties. Watch one of Syesha's performances on YouTube by clicking here. |
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May 4 [ key chorale ] The Key Chorale presents “Mysterious and Divine: Andre Campra and Others” at 4:00 pm at the Church of the Palms (3224 Bee Ridge Road map). Call 941-921-4845 for information and click here to buy tickets from SRQ Box office. |
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May 5 [ 10-minute plays ] The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training presents the third annual 10-Minute Play Festival at 8:00 pm in the Mertz Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail (in the FSU Center for Performing Arts map). This free event is a creative collaboration between Florida State University writers and FSU/Asolo Conservatory actors and faculty. It is also the Sarasota premiere of their original works. No reservations are necessary but tickets are given on a first-come, first-seated basis. Contact the Asolo box office at 941-351-8000 for more information. |
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May 7 – 11 [ ha ha ha at mccurdy’s ] Lifted directly from the McCurdy’s calendar: “Super sassy Valarie Storm takes you on a ride beyond the edge of insanity as she blasts through odd observations that will leave you in stitches! Valarie's enthusiastic animations and likable personality invite the audience to open their minds and laugh at others and themselves.” Call 941-925-3869. |
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May 8 – 17 [ wbtt ] The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe presents “Aunt Rudele’s Family Reunion." The play, written by and starring Nate Jacobs, tells the hilarious story of a large family reunion where one particular aunt is dead set on setting everybody straight. Tickets are on sale now at the Historic Asolo Theatre box office and by calling 941-360-7399. Tickets for groups and students are available at 941-366-1505. |
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May 9 opening [ englewood art ] Englewood Art Center, 350 South McCall Road in Englewood (map), will open its annual exhibit of artwork by students from local schools on May 9. The schools are Englewood, Myakka River, and Vineland Elementary, L.A. Ainger Middle School, Lemon Bay High School, Heritage Christian Academy, and the art center’s home school students. Each school was asked to contribute up to thirty pieces. A free public reception to the meet the artists is on May 17th from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. Call 941-474-5548 for details. (photo: Valeria Cotton, Vineland Art Instructor, with her students’ work in 2007) |
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May 9 & 10 [ pway at the pwayers theatre ] Enjoy a 1950’s musical with a big bad wolf and a sock-hopping score as The Players Performing Arts Studio performance troupe, The Players Kids, present “Doo Wop Wed Widing Hood” at The Players Theatre. The actors are age 6 – 16 and bring a lot of energy to the stage. Call 941-365-2494 for tickets to the two 7:00 pm shows. [photo credit: Jolie Schell-Schroeder. L toR: Elora Czaia (Fairy Godmother), Mikaela Vitug (Little Red), and Kathryn Huxtable (Evil Queen)] |
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May 9 – 30 [ community exhibition ] The Selby Gallery, on the campus of the Ringling College of Art, presents its annual “Community Exhibitions.” In Gallery I: “Teachers, Too” exhibits work by locals that contributed via their involvement as teachers of the Continuing Studies program’s workshops and classes. In Gallery II: “Past Present: The Art of Frank Colson, A Retrospective.” The ceramic work displayed will reflect 40 years including such works as his Tang Horse series. 941-359-7563. An opening reception is May 9 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. (photo credit: Cornwell’s “Capture the Hill”) |
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May 11 [ men’s chorus, women’s voices ] In their 11th season spring concert, the Gulf Coast Men’s Chorus and HARMONY: The Women’s Voices of Sarasota, under the direction of Philip Alexander, will be performing “Broadway, Our Way!” at 7:00 pm at The Players Theater. From “Tin Pan Alley’s” Button Up Your Overcoat (from the 1930 musical “Follow Thru”) and “Show Boat"’s Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man to “Godspell”’s Prepare Ye (The Way Of The Lord) and The Best Of Times from “La Cage Aux Folles," the choruses will delight and entertain with the depth and breadth of their performance. 941-957-0404. |
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May 13 – 25 [ vlt ] Neil Simon’s first, and some say funniest, Broadway play, “Come Blow Your Horn,” closes out this year’s Venice Little Theatre season. The comedic play is loosely based on Simon’s family and shares the lives of two brothers; one a ladies man and the other trying to escape the family waxed fruit business. Tickets are on sale now, click here for more information. |
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May 14 [ big band ] The Sarasota "Big Band" Jazz Ensemble is in concert playing the hits of Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Artie Shaw at the Mildred Sainer Music & Arts Pavilion at New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road (map). Call 941-487-4554. Tickets in advance and at the door. |
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May 15 [ cocktails and music ] Cocktails at the Ca d’Zan (John Ringling’s mansion on the museum grounds) includes live entertainment by “Shaman” from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. The $5 tickets are available only at the door. Food and drinks available for purchase. Call 941-359-5700 x 5705 for details. |
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In celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday, I am editing ON A
RAVEN'S WING, a collection of new short stories inspired by Poe. There are
21 stories and approximately 90,000 words in the book. I've now read every
story, including my own in the collection, at least twice. Among my
favorites in the book are a macabre tale by Rupert Holmes, creator of the
television series REMEMBER WENN and the Broadway
play CURTAINS; a tricky gem by Peter Lovesy; a piece of literary
gamesmanship by Thomas H. Cook and a perfect little study of a madman by
82-year-old M.W.A. Grandmaster Dorothy Salisbury Davis. I have a pile of books on the corner of my desk which I want to get to next, all, intentionally, by friends who live in Sarasota including Martha Grimes, John Jakes, John Lutz, Wayne Barcomb and Peter King. My reading is not confined to the crime genre though one might argue that the two novels I re-read every two to three years, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV, are in fact quintessential crime novels. I have a general policy about recommending novels, movies or plays. I don't do it unless I'm almost 100% sure the person I am recommending the work to will like it. Taste is not always shared. For example, I think Poe's short stories are florid, haunting and were probably the product of a heat oppressed brain. I love them yet I know people who I respect who think Poe is a dated bore. My motto is: Judge for Yourself. (Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of over 50 published novels including the Lew Fonesca series; “Vengeance,” “Retribution,” “Denial,” “ |
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Kids Comedy Camp McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre has two Kids Comedy Camp sessions in June (9 – 14 and 16 – 20). The camps offer kids the opportunity to see humor in their lives, work in groups, overcome fear of presenting in front of an audience. Call Pam for information at 941-925-3869. |
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Call to Playwrights “Got A Minute?” returns in September for its 3rd annual theatrical fundraiser to benefit breast cancer research. The call is for 60 new plays, of any genre, of no longer than one minute each dealing with overcoming some kind of adversity. The deadline is June 1 and questions and submissions can be addressed via email. The annual event is produced by the eclectic theatre company, the American Cancer Society and Making Strides for Breast Cancer. Sponsorship opportunities are available by calling Pam Wiley at 941-378-7576. |
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[ summer workshops ] Registration for summer classes for youth, teens and adults is underway now at Venice Little Theatre. All classes will be held at the theatre at 140 West Tampa Avenue on the island in Venice (map). Registration forms (deposit required) are available at the Theatre’s Box Office or on the website. Forms are also available in the lobby or may be requested by calling the Education and Outreach Department at 941-486-8679. |
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Call for Artists Florida’s Art in State Buildings Program announces a new public art project at the University of North Florida. The Brooks College of Health Addition has a budget of $25,800 and the art selection committee is open to commissioning site-specific work and/or purchasing existing artwork. Interested artist can view the new Call by going to the Facilities Planning & Construction website and clicking on Art in State Buildings under Quick Links, and then Call to Artists. The submission deadline will be 5:00pm, Friday, June 20th, 2008. For more information, contact the Program Administrator: Pamela Niemczyk, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, 904-620-2810. |
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Summer Ballet Classes There is still some availability in the Florida Ballet Arts Academy’s 2008 Summer Camps & Summer Intensives. Qualified dancers can also audition for level placement in our 3 Day Dance Camps and 5 Day Summer Intensives, with both half day & full day options. Classes for kids as young as 4 years old and boys too. For more information visit their site. Click on the 'Summer Programs' page to see what's in store for your dancer this summer. |
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More Classes The Stage Door Workshop summer camp, at The Players, is for students between the ages of 8 and 17 and explores the magic of musical theatre! Join the adventure of musical theatre including play production, acting techniques and skills, technical theatre, dance, singing, creative movement, theatre games and more. Students learn alongside a professional staff while developing an understanding of the creative and physical self, and fostering self-confidence and self-esteem. Registration is open now. To receive a camp brochure or a summer class schedule you may call the Studio at 941-360-0120 or download it from their website. Scholarship applications are also available. |
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[ fst theater training ] Florida Studio Theatre’s Youth Summer Theatre Program begins June 3, 2008. The class schedule, under the direction of Kate Alexander, has something to offer everyone in the theatre spectrum. Call 941-366-9017 x 334. |
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[ auditions ] The Banyan Theater is looking for a young man, 20 - 32, who can play Irish, for the younger brother in Moon for the Misbegotten directed by Gil Lazier. Rehearsals begin on June 3, we open on June 26 for a three week run. The Banyan is a professional theater company presenting a summer season at the FSU Center. Please call Jerry Finn at 941-351-1277 for an audition appointment ASAP for next Monday, May 5. |
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Auditions [ pick me, no me ] Be sure to check the audition pages of local
theaters to make sure you don’t miss anything (click the theater name):
Venice Little Theatre •
Florida Studio Theatre
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The Banyan
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Information about show times, places and dates is assumed accurate but not guaranteed. Please contact the presenting organization directly, by the link or phone number provided, to confirm information.
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