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SRQ DAILY Apr 23, 2018

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"This is such a festival of real respect and consideration for the film industry and for the craft of film."

- Steve Guttenberg, actor
 

[Backlot]  Kennedy's Talks NASA as Sarasota Welcomes Stars
Jacob Ogles, jacob.ogles@srqme.com

Just a day after the Senate confirmed a new NASA director in a party line vote, documentarian Rory Kennedy walked the red carpet at the Sarasota Film Festival promoting a film about the agency’s six-decade history. So how did the filmmaker with such a level of insight into the space agency feel about the news? “Well, I guess it’s good to have an administrator,” she says.

President Trump in September nominated Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Oklahoma, to be NASA’s 13th-ever administrator, but his voiced climate change skepticism and the fact he came from politics instead of the space profession made confirmation controversial. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida and a one-time astronaut, led opposition, which came down to a 50-49 vote on Friday. Kennedy’s documentary, which focuses in part on the role NASA plays in studying climate change, measured her response to the confirmation. “You are now part of a legacy and institution that has done extraordinary things,” Kennedy said. “Ultimately understanding the important stakes and efforts going on to understand what we can do to protect this world is enormous and relevant and timely. I’m sure he’ll take those responsibilities seriously.”

Of course, the festival’s Closing Night events on Sunday per usual remained more celebratory and glamorousthrough the night. Actors Virginia Madsen and Steve Guttenberg, in town with respective films 1985 and Chasing the Blues, sat down in the day for In Conversation events at Florida Studio Theatre, as did Kennedy. All walked the carpet at the Sarasota Opera House on Saturday evening.

Earlier in the day, another Florida-centric film shared Closing Day honors. Local tennis legend Nick Bollettieri took his turn in front of the flash bulbs for Love Means Zero, a documentary about his coaching career rearing such sports legends as Andre Agassi and Monica Seles. The film will soon reach national audiences with a premiere on Showtime, but Sarasota audiences were the first to see the film. “In my opinion, this was a grand slam,” Bollittieri says of the premiere. 

Filmmakers and stars spoke highly of the Sarasota Film Festival, now in its 20th year, for the way audiences celebrate cinema. “This is such a festival of real respect and consideration for the film industry and for the craft of film,” Guttenberg told SRQ. “Festivals provide the place for a safe atmosphere for everybody to present their work. Not everybody gets distributed or seen by millions, but thank God for film festivals because they present such an opportunity.”

Jurors at the festival this year, an impressive rank themselves with such notables as actress Penelope Ann Miller and New York magazine film critic David Edelstein, picked the films that left Sarasota with the greatest honorifics. I Am Not A Witch, directed by Rungano Nyoni, won the Narrative Feature jury prize while Minding The Gap, directed by Bing Liu, took the Documentary Feature award. The Independent Visions award went to Milford Graves: Full Mantis, by Jake Meginsky and Neil Young. In shorts, Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s The Burden won the Animated Shorts competition, Alireza Ghasemi’s Lunch Time won for Narrative Shorts, and Tal Amiran’s Sand Men won for Documentary Shorts.

For the Audience Awards, Brett Haley’s Hearts Beat Loud won Best Narrative Feature, while Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s RBG won Best Documentary Feature. Dan Habib’s Mr. Connolly won Best Short Film and Oded Raz’s Maktub won Best in World Cinema. 

[Education]  Doctors Hospital Introduces Students to Surgical Robots

Dozens of children will be at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota as part of national Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. The children will tour different departments of the hospital and local surgeon, Bryan Smith, MD, will give the children a hands-on demonstration with the latest robot being used for surgery. The children will get the chance to dress like a surgeon and use the robot themselves. Children ranging in age from elementary to high school will tour the emergency room, dietary, imaging and therapy areas to learn about the different departments and careers in the hospital. At noon, one of our newest surgical robots being used by surgeons at Doctors Hospital, will be wheeled into the lobby and children will get to use it to remove and replace colorful rings from a model of an abdomen. 

Doctors Hospital of Sarasota

[Education]  2018 High School Congressional Art Competition WInners Announced

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan has announced the winners of the 2018 High School Congressional Art Competition, a district-wide showcase for young artists. The Ringling Museum Ulla R. Searing Curator of Collections Curator Sarah Cartwright, the Keith D. and Linda L. Monda Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Ola Wlusek, and the Ringling Museum Manager of Design and Production Libby Bennette judged the entries. This year there were 41 students who participated in Florida’s 16th District contest. The full list of winners from Florida’s 16th District include: First Place – Hayley Wahl’s “Cicada Study,” Out-of-Door Academy in Lakewood Ranch; Second Place – Virgilio Lopez’s “Life Lessons,” Lakewood Ranch Middle School in Lakewood Ranch; Third Place – Cole Chalhub’s “Albert Einstein,” Out-of-Door Academy in Lakewood Ranch; Honorable Mention – Harley Haas’s “Before She Writes,” Sarasota High School; and The “Facebook Fan Favorite” Award – Kyla Rudd’s “Self Portrait,” Lakewood Ranch High School. The winning entry will be showcased for one year in the highly traveled corridor between the U.S. Capitol and the Cannon House Office Building. The Out-of-Door Academy student will receive roundtrip airfare to Washington from Southwest Airlines to attend the Congressional Reception in June. The second and third place winners’ art work, as well as the honorable mentions’ submissions, will remain on display in the Johnson-Blalock Education Center at the Ringling Museum for two months. 

2018 High School Congressional Art Competition

[Education]  Local HOSA Students Earn Trip to International Conference

Future Health Professionals from all over Florida competed in Orlando at the HOSA State Leadership Conference held April 5– 8, and HOSA students from Lakewood Ranch High School and Martha B. King Middle School placed in the top three of their respective events, Medical Spelling and Medical Reading. Their hard work and efforts paid off, earning them a trip to the HOSA International Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas, June 27-30, 2018. Gulfcoast South Area Health Education Center has been partnering with local middle and high schools, assisting the HOSA Future Health Professionals clubs as technical advisors and, when funding is available, supporting students as they travel to the state and international competitions. Joan Dixon, GSAHEC’s Director of Student Programs, visits local HOSA students monthly to help them prepare for competitive events. All HOSA students should be proud of their academic success, community service accomplishments and their commitment to fulfill such an important role as Future Health Professionals. 

Gulfcoast South Area Health Education Center



[TODAY]  GALLERY: Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads , June 9 – June 1

The Ringling is pleased to announce the presentation of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s 12 monumental bronze sculptures, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads. A sculptor, photographer, installation artist, architect and social activist, Ai is one of the most renowned artists working today. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads was inspired by the fabled fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, an 18th-century imperial retreat just outside Beijing. The 12 bronze Zodiac Heads stand on bronze columns. Each animal head measures approximately 4 feet high and 3 feet wide. The animal heads on their columns reach between 9.8 and 12 feet high, with each one weighing approximately 800 lbs. The sculptures will be on The Ringling’s grounds, which are free and open to the public. For more information please visit www.ringling.org

The Ringling, 5401 Bayshore Rd., Sarasota

[SOON]  MUSIC: A Chorus Line , April 24 – April 25, 8pm

A Chorus Line is musical theatre in its purest form. Its celebration and true-to-life depiction of performers and their struggle to achieve greatness on the Broadway stage has earned the show unanimous praise as one of the true masterpieces of live theater.  The iconographic stories, simultaneously touching, funny and inspiring, will haunt you long after you leave the theater. 

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 North Tamiami Tr., Sarasota.

[SOON]  FESTIVAL: Collaboration Celebration , April 24, 11:30am-1:00pm

Collaboration is our common thread. Our community creates the ties that bind. On April 24th The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center celebrates the many nonprofits who have found valuable collaborations on its Campus of Caring. You are invited to the Collaboration Celebration Luncheon at Michael’s on the Bay at Selby Gardens to join in honoring three agencies nominated by GSHSC’s campus community for their collaboration, growth and engagement: Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County, More Too Life and Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness.

Michael’s on the Bay at Selby Gardens, 811 S Palm Avenue Sarasota, FL 34236 United States

[SOON]  SCIENCE AND NATURE: Environmental Summit in Sarasota , April 25 – April 27

Don’t miss this community-wide environmental event that happens only once every five years. Expert panel discussions, viewpoints from local thought leaders, and provocative lightning talks will weave connections between our environmental heritage and a resilient future for healthy natural habitats.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 900 South Palm Ave., Sarasota.

[SOON]  PERFORMANCE: Mummenschanz You & Me , April 26, 8pm

This Swiss-based theater troupe has been dazzling worldwide audiences for more than 45 years with inventive uses of shadow, light, and creative manipulation of objects. “you & me” focuses on the love and mutual joy the audiences and performers experience in Mummenschanz’s one of a kind theatrical performances, hence the title “you & me”. As musicians of silence, their soundtrack is the awe, joy, and laughter expressed by audiences in response to their pioneered form of visual theater.

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 North Tamiami Tr., Sarasota.

[SOON]  BUSINESS: SRQ Hear Me Roar Leadership and Awards Luncheon , April 26, 10:30am-1pm

SRQ | The Magazine hosts the fourth annual Women in Business Hear Me Roar Leadership and Awards Luncheon on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at The Francis in downtown Sarasota. We will recognize this year's nominees and winners who are inducted into the esteemed 2018 WIB Leadership Circle during the awards ceremony. Keynote Speaker Cricket Burns of CricketsCrush.com is known for her renowed personal style and for having her finger on the pulse of collective fashion trends. She became an esteemed fashion editor and stylist in New York City where for three decadres, she held masthead positions at numerous publications including posts as fashion editor at Harper's Buzaar and Seventeen magazines. Now she focuses her laser-chic styling on the world of home decor. This year's Trailblazer Awards honoree Patti Cazzato was appointed CEO of Timbuk2 in 2014 to helm the company in its 25th anniversary year. She spent nearly three decades in global retail expansion, creative merchandising, product innovation and sustainable manufacturing with high-profile, multi-billion dollar global brands. Pop Up Boutiques and Registration: 10:30am, now expanded to Louies Modern. Luncheon program: 11:30am to 1pm. And, new this year, a post-event Roar Social takes place at Louies Modern from 1-3pm. Tickets: $75/person and $850/table. Click here for tickets.

The Francis, Downtown Sarasota, 1289 N. Palm Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34236

[SOON]  THEATER: Nice Work If You Can Get It , April 26 – May 13, 2pm, 7:30pm or 8pm depending on day

A play written in the spirit of Gatsby, Nice Work tells the riveting story of a wealthy bachelor in search of meaning. Jimmy Winter is marrying just to appease his mother and retain his inheritance, but when he drunkenly stumbles into a team of bootleggers, his life unwittingly takes a turn for the new. 

Manatee Performing Arts Center, 502 3rd Ave. W., Bradenton

[SOON]  PERFORMANCE: Great Masters of Dance , April 27 – April 28, 2pm and 7:30pm

Closing the season with two company premieres and one of the sexiest shows in ballet, the night begins with Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading. A company premiere, this epic romance celebrates pure dance with unfettered passion. Following Leaves, the company premiere of George Balanchine’s Bugaku illustrates the choreographer’s genius, and concludes with another production of company favorite Sir Frederic Ashton.

Sarasota Opera House, 5555 North Tamiami Trl., Sarasota

[SOON]  MUSIC: Yanni 25 Live At The Acropolis Anniversary Concert Tour , April 29, 7pm

Live at the Acropolis was released in 1994 and is the first ever live album and concert video from the maestro. Recorded at the Herodes Atticus Theatre in Athens with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra from London, the concert took a year and a half to complete. Live at the Acropolis became an incredible success and is the second best selling music video of all time.

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 North Tamiami Tr., Sarasota.

[SOON]  GALA: Blossoms and Brunch , April 28, 10:30am

Share the legacy of Mable’s beloved rose garden while you enjoy a beautiful brunch surrounded by blooming roses. Blossoms & Brunch will begin with a mimosa reception complete with entertainment and silent auction. A seated brunch will begin at 11:30am. Following brunch, return to the rose garden to discover a variety of sweets at our dessert buffet. $120.

Bayfront Gardens Mable's Rose Garden, 5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243

[SOON]  MUSIC: James Bond in Cello Case , April 28 – April 29, Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 3pm

Putting the debonaire and danger back into the cello, the Rastrelli Cello Quartet thrills and entertains with nontraditional programming and performance leading back to a single source—MI6 superspy James Bond. The quartet brings iconic Bond songs to new life, ranging from the days of Sean Connery and From Russia with Love to Daniel Craig’s modern incarnation.

Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota

[SOON]  GRAB BAG: SRQ Vets: Vietnam Remembrance Day , April 29, 3:30pm

Join SRQ Vets in honoring all who served during the Vietnam Conflict at JDub's Brewing Company. Family activities such as a bounce house and games will be available, as well as adult activities such as drinking, dancing and an auction. Time was served and now is the time to honor service.

JDub's Brewing Company, 1215 Mango Ave., Sarasota.

[SOON]  MUSIC: A Tribute to Music in Cinema , May 4 – May 5

We will end our Finding Maestro Season in spectacular fashion as acclaimed violin soloist and former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow, performs John Williamsʼ themes from Far and Away and Schindlerʼs List. The program also features classics from Oscar-winners Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone.

Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Ave., Sarasota.

[SOON]  FESTIVAL: Sarasota Veg Fest , May 5

Featuring nationally renowned and local speakers, food preparation demonstrations, plant-based food, live music from a variety of talented musicians, dance performances, eco-friendly vendors & exhibitors, humane education, a veggie kids zone, yoga classes, film discussions, a veg parade, and more, the event is fun for all ages, genders, and species. 

Sarasota Fairgrounds, 3000 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota.

[SOON]  FOOD: SRQ Magazine Salsa de Mayo Festival , May 5, 10:30am-1pm

Join us for SRQ Magazine's SALSA DE MAYO FESTIVAL on Saturday, May 5, 2018 from 10:30-1pm outside at Morton’s Market in Southside Village, Sarasota. Local chefs are invitied to create an interpretive gourmet salsa to compete for the title of Best Handcrafted Salsa. Attended by food enthusiasts, families and neighbors, Salsa de Mayo showcases innovative creations from fire-roasted poblano salsas to shrimp salsa ceviches! Join us to celebrate the magazine's 20th Anniversary as we turn up the heat!

Morton's Gourmet Market, Outside, 1924 S Osprey Ave, Sarasota

[SOON]  MUSIC: City Sounds , May 5, 7:30pm

In aconcert that is sure to capture the essence of bustling city life, some of the world's greatest cities provide the backdrop for this Discoveries program. Beethoven's mighty music speaks of the Parthenon's destruction in his Overture to The Ruins of Athens. Night music creeps through sultry Madrid streets in Boccherini's highly evocative Quintet in C Major. See the Big Apple through the lens of dance in excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free and and Gruber's lively swing-style Manhattan Broadcasts. Copland's Quiet City casts the bustling metropolis in subdued and achingly beautiful colors.

Sarasota Opera House, 61 North Pineapple Ave., Sarasota.

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