Theater and Arts Events & Things to Do
Near Bradenton & Sarasota

Hermitage Fellow NI'JA WHITSON explores how nature and the environment influence their practice, sharing excerpts of works-in-progress inspired by the Hermitage’s Manasota Key campus and Florida wildlife.

Sarasota Concert Association presents a favorite of audiences, legendary pianist Emanuel Ax performing a program of late Chopin works, including Sonata No. 3, Scherzo No. 4, a selection of nocturnes and mazurkas, and the Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61

Digital artist Elisabeth Trostli creates fantastical photographic collages, in amazing detail, using her own original hand-rendered illustrations, antique papers, exquisite embellishments, photography and geometrical fractals.

Join a private tour of the David Budd exhibit, Motion Within Stillness, at the Sarasota Art Museum (SAM) led by SAM and Arts Advocates docents Judy Levine and Stephenie Frasher.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, American Theater Hall of Fame Honoree, and Hermitage Fellow Paula Vogel offers an exploration of playwriting in which Paula and members of the audience will write a short play and work on writing exercises together.

Arts Advocates is pleased to offer a new series of walking tours that will introduce participants to some of Sarasota’s public art.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat is pleased to partner with Manasota ASALH in presenting saxophonist and composer Matthew Evan Taylor.

A soloing member of pop superstar Beyoncé’s band and Artistic Director of New York’s Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra, violinist Lady Jess offers an informal concert of music composed for acoustic violin and electronics.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat presents the next installment of its “Artists & Thinkers” with Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Tom Kirdahy (Hadestown; The Inheritance; Little Shop of Horrors).

Benjamin Beilman displays his astonishing virtuosity along with international competition-winning pianist Alessio Bax in Busoni’s Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a, and Franck’s Violin Sonata in A major. Presented by Sarasota Concert Association.

A fine art show hosted by the University Park Country Club (UPCC), showcasing over 150 works of art by local artists. Free admission and free parking.

Jerry Chesley’s watercolor paintings, giclées and mixed media set the stage for surrounding oneself in a rich indulgence of colors.

Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang joins the internationally-renowned Takács Quartet in their celebrated return to Sarasota, performing Ravel’s String Quartet and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major.

Dancers from all over the country will be competing in variety of styles in Pro/Am divisions.

The Grammy Award-winning Warsaw Philharmonic, led by Music Director Andrey Boreyko, performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Also featuring Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. with Bruce Liu, 1st prize winner of this year’s International Chopin Piano Competition.

ter 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.