Gulf Coast Community Foundation awards $75,000 to Sarasota Audubon for Re-Wilding the Quad Parcels The Sarasota Audubon Society recently received a $75,000 grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation in support of their joint project with Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast to re-wild the Quad Parcels at the Celery Fields. “We are grateful to Gulf […]
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Sarasota Film Festival 2023- 25 Years
Sarasota Film Festival Announces Initial Programming for 25th Anniversary Event, Running March 24th through April 2, 2023 Festival to Close with Sean McNamara’s ON A WING AND A PRAYER Grammy Award-Winning Folk-Rock Duo Indigo Girls and Emmy-Nominated Actress-Producer Roma Downey to Receive Festival Honors Musical Documentaries Spotlighting Little Richard (Lisa Cortés), Indigo Girls (Alexandria Bombach), […]
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Boutique Resort Casa de Las Olas : Biosphere Tulum
Boutique Resort Casa de Las Olas : Biosphere Tulum olastulum.com If you want to get away to a small little resort with only 5 suites right on the Gulf of Mexico, near Tulum and the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve, swim in caves, eat fish that was caught that morning, and take in historical Mexico, then […]
Selby Lights A Bloom 2022
Tickets are now on sale for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ annual Lights in Bloom® holiday light show. Ranked among the 10 best botanical garden holiday light displays in the country last year by USA TODAY, the walk-through show will run select nights from December 10 through January 5 at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus. Tickets […]
Siesta Key Sand Festival 2022
November 11-14 24 artists converge on Siesta Key to compete in an amazing Master Sand Sculpting competition. The sculptors create a large community carve, 8 solo sculptures and 8 team sculptures. On Saturday evening, enjoy the sculptures under colored lights after sunset. The timed competition is judged and the winners are revealed on Sunday afternoon. […]
Four Hurricanes in Six Weeks
Florida, officially known as the “Sunshine State,” was dubbed the “Plywood State” by media after it was battered by four hurricanes in only six weeks during the 2004 hurricane season. Nearly every square inch of Florida felt the impacts from at least one of those four storms. Waves on top of a hurricane’s storm surge […]
Seeing the Invisible – Spanish Pointe
SELBY GARDENS EXTENDS “SEEING THE INVISIBLE” ART EXHIBITION FOR SECOND SEASON AT HISTORIC SPANISH POINT CAMPUS Featuring Contemporary Art Created with Augmented-Reality Technology, Innovative Show Will Be on View at 10 Sites in Eight Countries During “Season 2” – Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will host a second year of the cutting-edge contemporary-art exhibition Seeing the […]
2022 Chalk Festival – New Art Mediums
Sarasota Chalk Festival UPCOMING EVENT: October 28 – 31, 2022 International Chalk Festival, ‘A SPIRITED Museum in Motion’ at the Venice Airport, Venice, FL USA. Once a year, you the spectator are afforded the opportunity to become an integral part of the fine art creative process. From start to finish, you can witness the largest gathering of renowned […]
Tulips Gallery
OurTownSarasota has traveled over 100,000 miles to bring you adventures from around the world from the Amazon to New Zealand. These photos are from our trip to the Portland, Oregon Tulip Festival usually held in April each year. Copies available. Copyright: OurtownSarasota, Michael Penn. No reproduction is permitted. These photos are available for sale on […]
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