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TWIS Tour Guide: Sarasota Film Festival
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  • Nick Friedman
  • April 7, 2015
TWIS Tour Guide: Sarasota Film Festival

TWIS Tour Guide: Sarasota Film Festival

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Christine Jennings, former WBTT executive director, with outgoing executive director Richard Parison
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 7, 2015
Richard Parison, executive director of Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, resigns

Parison, who was hired to replace longtime executive director Christine Jennings, leaves after nearly one year

  • Arts + Culture
Jeffrey Wright visits Ringling College to discuss his career and the art of film acting
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 7, 2015
A Wright Turn: Jeffrey Wright talks acting, filmmaking and Africa

Jeffrey Wright, Ringling College of Art and Design, Taia Peace Foundation, Africa, film, acting, theater

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • April 2, 2015
Staged: Asolo Repertory Theatre — The Artistic Director

“The audience is seeing the tip of the iceberg,” says Michael Donald Edwards, producing artistic director at Asolo Repertory Theatre.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • April 2, 2015
WATCH: Zach Gilliland

WATCH: Zach Gilliland

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The Sarasota Youth Orchestra represents the fusion of arts and education in the Sarasota-Manatee area
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 2, 2015
Sarasota Orchestra and Manatee County Schools invited to Yale Symposium on Music in Schools

Sarasota Orchestra and Manatee County Schools invited to Yale Symposium on Music in Schools

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    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • April 1, 2015
IN THE KITCHEN WITH: Cafe Baci

This week we went in the kitchen at Cafe Baci with owner Roberto Mei and chef Eldis Rodriguez as they prepare tomato risotto with pan seared diver scallops.

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Luis Mondragon and Gabriele Pacca are excited for their future as a part of the Sarasota Ballet’s regular company.
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 1, 2015
Promotion De Deux

After a year at Sarasota Ballet’s conservatory, Luis Mondragon and Gabriele Pacca will join its company.

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Film Festival box office moves into the Regal Hollywood Stadium 20 for the festival. The festival’s new programming team, which includes Caley Fagerstrom, Michael Dunaway and Derek Horne, strives to bring buzz-worthy, new independent movies t
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 1, 2015
Sarasota Film Festival: Reel Big Fest

Sarasota Film Festival’s programmers spend countless hours screening movies year-round. The result? More than 200 films for your viewing pleasure.

  • Arts + Culture
Mackenzie Reiss, an eighth-grader at Venice Middle School, sits down with her art teacher, Lisa Jodwalis, to discuss her next piece, a self portrait. Reiss’ work won best in show for students in this year’s Embracing Our Differences public art gallery.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 1, 2015
Embracing their messages

With its annual public art exhibit, Embracing Our Differences gives local art students and teachers the opportunity to discuss inclusion and diversity.

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'Fly'
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 1, 2015
A&E Picks and Highlights 4.1.15

A&E Editor Nick Reichert picks the events to attend this week in Sarasota, FL.

  • Arts + Culture
The Paul Rudolph walkway canopy is at the center of a debate between the Ringling College of Art and Design and the Sarasota Architectural Foundation.
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 1, 2015
Scene & Heard 4.1.15

Catch up on this week's arts news with Scene & Heard.

  • Arts + Culture
Larry R. Thompson, president of Ringling College, Janet Minker, Carl Abbott, Dan Snyder, Josh Wynne and Jeff Poleshek converged this past weekend and reached a fitting compromise regarding the Paul Rudolph Canopy
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • March 31, 2015
Canopy Compromise

Ringling College of Art and Design and the Sarasota Architectural Foundation reach agreement to preserve the Paul Rudolph Walkway Canopy

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Architectural Foundation held a protest rally this afternoon from noon to 1 p.m. to raise awareness for the Paul Rudolph Canopies
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • March 26, 2015
A Canopy Too Far: An Architectural Impasse

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota Museum of Art, Sarasota Architectural Foundation, Paul Rudolph, canopies.

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Film Festival announces its 2015 lineup
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • March 25, 2015
Sarasota Film Festival announces its full 2015 movie lineup

A diverse range of films that focus on homelessness, Florida and the latest in independent cinema.

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