Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Jerry Chesley Saturdays, March 12-April 9 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Jerry Chesley’s watercolor paintings, giclées and mixed media set the stage for surrounding oneself in a rich indulgence of colors. His work showcases a variety of subject matters, including Read More >
What happens when you take some of your favorite improv games…and remove all the rules? Anything goes at Comedy Freestyle, an off-the-wall improvisation potpourri. Featuring a mashup of both short-form and long-form styles, audiences get the best of the art form when styles and techniques collide! We’ll set our performers free from all of the Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
View the artwork created collaboratively by Creative Liberties’ studio artists. Collaborating artist teams are: Traci Kegerreis and Sandy Koolkin; Donna Bergman and Judy Levine; Sandy Koolkin and Jay Li; Jenny Berry and Barbara Gerdeman; and Elizabeth Goodwill and Lisa DiFranza. Guests will be able to view the pieces the artists created together, as well as Read More >
Good Morning Bedlam has become an innovative force in the midwest folk scene. Their shows are known for their contagious energy, with members careening about the stage. With tight soaring three part harmonies, and thumping kick-drum, they captivate their audience night after night. Every song is a unique twist on what is generally dubbed as Read More >
Enjoy the music of the great composers of the American Songbook and some jazz favorites with the Danny Sinoff Trio. Sinoff, on piano and vocals, lists his influences as Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller. Danny will be singing and the music swinging. He performs favorites sung by Bobby Darin, Harry Connick, Read More >
“A Theater Maker’s Year: What ‘Went Down’” with Playwright & Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner Aleshea Harris Friday, April 8, 6pm To launch this year’s Hermitage Greenfield Prize Celebration Weekend, 2021 recipient Aleshea Harris returns to Sarasota to share her theatrical journey over the past year and the latest plans for her commission. Focused on the Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Jerry Chesley Saturdays, March 12-April 9 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Jerry Chesley’s watercolor paintings, giclées and mixed media set the stage for surrounding oneself in a rich indulgence of colors. His work showcases a variety of subject matters, including Read More >
Angélica Negrón: The Journey, The Work, The Inspiration Saturday, April 9, 3pm Angélica Negrón, winner of the 2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize in music, is equally at home composing for orchestras and chamber ensembles as she is for toys and electronics. Her music has been described as “playful and inventive” (The New York Times) as well Read More >
“Artistic License: Whose Story Is It?” with 2022 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Jurors Terrance McKnight and Gary Padmore, and Nate Jacobs, Westcoast Black Theater Troupe Founder and Artistic Director Saturday, April 9, 6pm Who has the right to tell a story? Where do the distinctions between art and documentary change the rules? As part of the Hermitage Read More >
Saturday, April 9, 7pm Tickets: $5 The third in a series of four events hosted by Spoken Word artist Melanie Lavender. Local poets are invited to participate in the Open Mic prior to the featured poet performance. Our featured performers will be the members of Black on Black Rhyme Tampa Chapter. Doors open at Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Ring Sarasota is ready to cut loose! Our ringers are excited to entertain audiences with some of our favorite music from the stage & screen. From TV favorites to classic westerns, and songs where audiences can hum along, the diverse repertoire includes such titles as “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Over the Rainbow,” and “The Read More >
Sunday, April 10, 7pm Tickets: $18 members / $20 nonmembers The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly-talented Californian cellist Natalie Haas may not seem an obvious one, but the duo’s dazzling teamwork, driving rhythms, and their shared passion for improvising on the melody and the groove of Scottish Read More >
Sarasota Concert Association presents this free concert, GS Duo in David Cohen Hall at the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center on Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 at 12 noon. The award-winning GS Duo formed in early 2010 during their undergraduate classical studies at Stetson University. Flutist Angela Galestro and guitarist Jonathan Smith offer a diverse repertoire of Read More >
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Tony Reinemann Saturdays, April 16-May 14 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Fine arts painter Tony Reinemann’s oil paintings have been described as a blend of social and magic realism that evoke a highly exaggerated Edward Hopper in a Hitchcock film. Read More >
What happens when you take some of your favorite improv games…and remove all the rules? Anything goes at Comedy Freestyle, an off-the-wall improvisation potpourri. Featuring a mashup of both short-form and long-form styles, audiences get the best of the art form when styles and techniques collide! We’ll set our performers free from all of the Read More >
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz is a comic genius, gifted pianist and American musicologist who defies easy classification. “I like to think of myself as the Victor Borge of the blues,” states the Reverend, but Billy goes way beyond Borge both in scope of subject matter (from politics to social commentary) and, of course, in taste. Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
The Cross College Alliance (CCA) Art and Art History Departments presents an inaugural multi-campus exhibition featuring student artwork from three local college campuses. Students and faculty from New College of Florida, Ringling College of Art & Design, and State College of Florida collaborated, curated and organized this exhibition of student artwork representing their respective campuses. Read More >
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
“Music Around the World” with Hermitage Fellow Kavita Shah, Thursday, April 21, 6pm: Hermitage Fellow Kavita Shah’s music “reflects the insatiably curious mind of an ethnographer, the soul of a poet, and the eye of a painter” (Owen McNally, NPR). Having traveled the world and performed throughout six continents, Shah’s music reflects each journey as Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
The finale in the Jazz at Two series features the ten piece band of Rodney Rojas. His group, The New Profiles in Jazz play jazz standards, blues, bossa and music from the American Songbook. Band members include Pete BarenBregge, Dave DeWitt, “STretch” Bruyn and Greg Caputo among others. Admission at the door, $10 - $20. Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Tony Reinemann Saturdays, April 16-May 14 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Fine arts painter Tony Reinemann’s oil paintings have been described as a blend of social and magic realism that evoke a highly exaggerated Edward Hopper in a Hitchcock film. Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
This will be a great market with lots of opportunities to find some wonderful art at great prices. Our studio artists will be here and we'll have artist vendors in the yard. Grandma Wan's Thai Food Truck will be here and Ray and Patti will be back with FREE craft BEER! We'll also have a Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Tony Reinemann Saturdays, April 16-May 14 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Fine arts painter Tony Reinemann’s oil paintings have been described as a blend of social and magic realism that evoke a highly exaggerated Edward Hopper in a Hitchcock film. Read More >
National Water Dance: “Dancing Out of Time” with Sarasota Contemporary Dance Saturday, April 23, 3:30pm Sarasota Contemporary Dance partners with the Hermitage Artist Retreat on Manasota Key to perform new works created for National Water Dance, revolving around gratitude for water while highlighting the urgent need to preserve our local water resources. This performance is Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
Choral Artists celebrates Earth Day with a world premiere of a spectacular new work by James Grant, featuring baritone soloist Marcus Deloach, The Women's Ensemble from Parrish Community High School and the Choral Artists singers with a full orchestra. The program also includes a setting by Ola Gjeilo of Walt Whitman's poem, Song of the Read More >
Ring Sarasota is ready to cut loose! Our ringers are excited to entertain audiences with some of our favorite music from the stage & screen. From TV favorites to classic westerns, and songs where audiences can hum along, the diverse repertoire includes such titles as “Let the Sun Shine In,” “Over the Rainbow,” and “The Read More >
For 73 years, students involved with the Circus Arts Conservatory’s Sailor Circus Academy have amazed audiences with an incredible spectacle of youth circus arts. In “The Greatest Little Show on Earth!” audiences from near and far will be enthralled as young athletes, ages 8-18, flip, fly and soar to new heights in a show that Read More >
With the breath of springtime in the air, tonight's performance by the Venice Concert Band will bring the current season to a beautiful conclusion. With music from The Mission, Aladdin, and the composer Marvin Hamlish, you will leave this program with a refreshed spirit.
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
Join Docent Norman Burr on a 90-minute fascinating trek through the historic grounds. Walk through the arboretum and learn about rare, interesting, and exotic plants. Normal will discuss the geologic history of Florida and how plant life evolved. He will also share the history of the inhabitants of the Elling Eide Center from pre-history to Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Tony Reinemann Saturdays, April 16-May 14 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Fine arts painter Tony Reinemann’s oil paintings have been described as a blend of social and magic realism that evoke a highly exaggerated Edward Hopper in a Hitchcock film. Read More >
Join our Patriot Plaza team from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County and The Patterson Foundation at the Sarasota National Cemetery as our Patriot Plaza Guides present fun family activities that honor service, inspire patriotism and embrace freedom. April 30th, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Register here: https://forms.gle/FCs6WpvsqLqHMaXu8 May 1st, 2022 Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Arts Advocates Member Exhibit – Tony Reinemann Saturdays, April 16-May 14 Arts Advocates Gallery, The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 Fine arts painter Tony Reinemann’s oil paintings have been described as a blend of social and magic realism that evoke a highly exaggerated Edward Hopper in a Hitchcock film. Read More >
What happens when you take some of your favorite improv games…and remove all the rules? Anything goes at Comedy Freestyle, an off-the-wall improvisation potpourri. Featuring a mashup of both short-form and long-form styles, audiences get the best of the art form when styles and techniques collide! We’ll set our performers free from all of the Read More >
Wise, heartfelt, and often comical, this anthology of award-winning short plays celebrates imagination! These winning plays, written by elementary school students from our community and around the world, are brought to life by a cast of professional actors. From a star who could not twinkle to a dragon plagued by hiccups, we've shined a spotlight Read More >
Join our Patriot Plaza team from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County and The Patterson Foundation at the Sarasota National Cemetery as our Patriot Plaza Guides present fun family activities that honor service, inspire patriotism and embrace freedom. April 30th, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Register here: https://forms.gle/FCs6WpvsqLqHMaXu8 May 1st, 2022 Read More >