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Sarasota Ballet dancer Caitlin Gish leads young dancers on the stage at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
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  • Amanda Morales
  • October 3, 2015
Sarasota Ballet mixes tea time with tutus

Tea & Tutus invites young dancers and families to enjoy a performance by the Sarasota Ballet.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • October 2, 2015
Movin' On Up: This Week in Sarasota's new home

Movin' On Up: This Week in Sarasota's new home

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  • Nick Reichert
  • October 2, 2015
Ringling Underground brings in the fall arts season

On October 1, Ringling Underground kicked off the fall with live performances by The Bird Tribe, Redfeather and Megan Jean & The KFB along with new art by Noelle McCleaf, Eska Plamer and Leslie Reed.

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Photographer Bruna Stude focuses on the plight of the shark and the ocean in her show at the Alfstad& Contemporary gallery.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 30, 2015
Bruna Stude: Ocean meets Art

The artist and photographer's new exhibit at the Alfstad& Contemporary gallery (running from Oct. 2-30) presents the fragile yet powerful nature of the ocean and the often misunderstood shark.

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Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Theatre. Courtesy.
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • September 30, 2015
Live theater: Critic's season picks

See what we're buzzing about in the rapidly approaching 2015-2016 theater season .

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“The response from a young crowd really feeds your performance. They're a lot more vocal when they like or hate something," says Tom Harney, left, as he and his fellow acting students rehearse for the upcoming New Stages Tour.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 30, 2015
Shaking up Shakespeare

Asolo Repertory Theatre's New Stages Tour puts a modern spin on Shakespearean classics

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Carolyn Johnson and Isabel Norton have been friends and friends of Ringling College for more than 40 years. They're most recent challenge: raising $16 million for a new college library.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 30, 2015
Bound by Friendship

Art advocates Isabel Norton and Carolyn Johnson are using their love of education to make Ringling College’s new library a reality.

  • Arts + Culture
Dolly Jacobs, co-founder of Circus Arts Conservatory and lifelong circus artist and aerialist, will perform live at 8 p.m. on Friday Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C. as a part of this year's NEA Heritage Fellowship awards.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 29, 2015
Dolly Jacobs to perform live for the National Endowment for the Arts

As a recipient of this year's NEA National Heritage Fellowship, Jacobs along with 10 other artists will perform live and streamed nationwide at 8 p.m. October 2 from Washington, D.C.

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GRANDMA
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 25, 2015
Movie Review: 'Grandma'

Movie Review: 'Grandma'

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The Rosemary Artist Housing Project will include five townhouses that will include 20 bedroom for visiting artists at Florida Studio Theatre.
  • By Nick Reichert
  • September 25, 2015
Ernie Kretzmer donates $500,000 for new Florida Studio Theatre housing in Rosemary District

Kretzmer's donation will make possible five new townhouses on Cohen Way in the Rosemary District and help serve to house the more than 100 guest artists and apprentices FST houses each year.

  • Arts + Culture
The $100,000 grant will go toward funding the 2015-2016, which includes productions of "West Side Story" and a world premiere of the original musical "Josephine." Micheal Donald Edwards, producing artistic director, announces the season.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 23, 2015
Asolo Rep receives $100,000 grant from Barancik Foundation

The gift will go toward supporting the 2015-2016 season as well as continuing the studies and community programs in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.

  • Arts + Culture
Noted illustrator and sketch artist, Sol Schwartz, who splits his time between Sarasota and Lenox, Mass., will donate a matching gift of $31,000 to the new Ringling College library.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 23, 2015
Artist Sol Schwartz gives $31,000 to new Ringling College library

Made in collaboration with The Community Foundation of Sarasota County, the gift will go toward purchasing state of the art scanners and displays essential for modern sketch artists and illustrators.

  • Arts + Culture
Betsy Hudson Traba, flute and Fernando Traba, bassoon
    By
  • June LeBell
  • September 23, 2015
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra Chamber

Chamber ensembles take audiences around the world in music

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Sarasota Music Conservatory co-founder Sean O'Neil (middle) leads students Sommer Altier and Giordano Scarano in a violin lesson.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 23, 2015
Music Mentors: Sarasota Music Conservatory moves downtown

By expanding their school’s space, Sarasota Orchestra violinists Léna Cambis and Sean O’Neil hope to also expand their students’ appreciation for music.

  • Arts + Culture
Jenny Medved has been a working artist in Sarasota for the last 15 years spreading her love of indigenous culture in her watercolors.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • September 23, 2015
Studio Space: Jenny Medved

The watercolor painter explores her Native American heritage with detailed portraits

  • Arts + Culture
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