Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 31-Jan. 6
Dancing into a new year
The Sarasota Ballet kicks off the new year with its third digital program of excerpts from a wide variety of pieces by six different choreographers. The company announced in December that it would continue its online presentations through the rest of the season. The latest offering, available Friday through Tuesday features Peter Darrell’s “Othello,” Christopher Wheeldon’s “The American,” Sir Matthew Bourne’s “The Infernal Galop,” Sir Peter Wright’s “The Mirror Walkers” and “Summertide,” Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s “Concerto” and Dominic Walsh’s “Clair de Lune.” Admission is $35 and the program may be viewed as many times as you like through Jan. 5. For more information: sarasotaballet.org
UpdatedMon, Jan 11, 2021 at 5:37 pm ET
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From Karyn Olivier, The Battle is Joined, 2017. Vernon Park, Philadelphia PA. Commissioned by Monument Lab and Mural Arts. Video documentation with audio recording of Trapeta B. Mayson’s poem Monuments to Brown Boys commissioned for public art instal (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
John Sims, Freedom Memorial at Gamble Plantation, 2020. Video animation with sound, 12 foot Afro Confederate flag, marker. (USF Contemporary Art Museum)
TAMPA, FL On Jan. 22, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts, is launching the hybrid exhibition titled Marking Monuments in both online and physical spaces.
Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 24-30
Our weekly guide to the visual and performing arts in Sarasota and Manatee counties.
A world of art at The Ringling
A new exhibition will be frequently changing for visitors to the Ringling Museum. “For Real This Time” is a new video installation that explores social justice issues through the work of eight different artists. Deanna Bowen’s “sum of the parts: what can be named, 2010 is the opening feature through Jan. 7. The artist videos, which continue through May 16, examine “the current state of American society and pose uncomfortable yet vital questions about personal and collective attitudes toward issues of race and inequality,” according to the museum. Coming up are videos by Allison Janae Hamilton, John Sims, Cauleen Smith, Martine Syms, Kara Walker and Bear Witness. Elsewhere at the museum, you have until Jan. 3 to see “Being Seen: Recent Acquisitions from The Ringling Photography Collection.” Visitors also c
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Subscriber only They are calling it a Christmas miracle at the Whistlestop museum. The original name plate of the legendary Mary Ann locomotive has mysteriously reappeared after 127 years. The little locomotive, the first built in Queensland, disappeared without a trace in 1893 after a Mary River flood and a disastrous fire at the Dundathu sawmill where she was stored. Maryborough engineer Peter Olds, long intrigued by the quaint little loco with the upright boiler, was the driving force behind the building of a replica, launched in 1999 after being rebuilt from three historic photographs. The Mary Ann has since been an iconic attraction in Maryborough, pulling carriage loads of visitors and residents through Queen s Park on her regular outings before returning to her home at the Whistlestop museum.
King Day celebration to be virtual
The 24th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration will be livestreamed via Zoom and Facebook Live due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Rev. Fred King, chairman of the organizing African American Pastors Alliance, made the announcement. The theme will be “The Dream Lives On.”
“Due to widespread interest in the event, we chose not to cancel it,” King said.
The past several years, about 330 people, ranging from city and county leaders to clergy to foundation and nonprofit executives attended at The Commons or Columbus North High School. Each year, a keynote speaker focuses on some element of human rights, civil rights or a related topic linking to the life of King, who led the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s before he was assassinated in 1968.