Collaborations - Community Connections
ARTSalon: Artists, Their Work & Background Stories
Derek Fell
Topic: Gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright
Tuesday, February 7, 2 PM
at BIG ARTS Center
Derek Fell is a writer and photographer with art, travel, and garden books totaling more than 2.5 million in print. His talk is about the gardens of Frank Lloyd Wright.
$5
Ocean Conservancy's Vikki Spruill
Lecture Presented by BIG ARTS and the
Sanibel Sea School
Wednesday, February 15, 7:30 PM
at BIG ARTS Center
Spruill is the president and CEO of Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that educates and empowers citizens to take action on behalf of the ocean. Drawing from Ocean Conservancy's more than two decades of work in the Gulf region and her own connection to the beaches of Florida, Spruill will address fisheries and restoration in the Gulf of Mexico, ocean acidification, trash in our ocean, and how seashells can inform and inspire us to understand and promote healthy oceans.
General: $20, Child 17 & Under: Free
ArtPoems
The Collaborative Transmedia Poet and Artist Project of Southwest Florida
Friday, February 24
Reception begins at 7 PM, Presentation starts at 7:30 PM
at BIG ARTS Center
ArtPoems showcases artworks inspired by poems and poems inspired by artworks; paintings, sculptures, photography and, mixed media artwork paired with villanelles, sonnets, ballads, and free verse.
Collaborating visual artists are Peg Cullen, Pascale Doxy, Cheryl Fausel, Stephen Hayford, Philip Heubeck, Shelia Hoen, Hollis Jeffcoat, Dennis Joyce, David King, Doug MacGregor, Andi McCarter and J.R. Roberts. Jim Brock, Dorothy Brooks, Carol Drummond, Katelyn Gravel, Sandy Greco, Bob Maxeiner, Jesse Millner, Joseph Pacheco, Marsha Perlman, Sid Simon, Larry Stiles and Lorraine Vail are the poets.
Dancers, African drummers, guitarists, and other musicians will accompany this ArtPoems performance.
$10
Island Jazz
Sundays in February:
February 5, 12, 19 and 26 at 3 PM
at BIG ARTS Boler Garden
The band, comprised of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians, performs Big Band and Dixieland-style music in Boler Garden. In case of rain, the concert will move to the Gainer Veranda.
Concerts are free. Beach chairs recommended.
Play Reading:
Never Too Late
Sunday, March 11, 7:30 PM
Community Theater
at Herb Strauss Theater
BIG ARTS Live Theater Committee selected plays written by local playwrights, these plays will be presented as readings. On March 11 four actors will perform Never Too Late by Claudia Burns. What happens when an unemployed construction worker living with his sister starts a business which becomes a smashing success? Witness the inevitable conflicts and verbal skirmishes when romances also arise and complications multiply.
$12
Child 17 & Under $5
Writers Spring Read
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 PM
at BIG ARTS Center
The Sanibel-Captiva Island Writers will perform selections from their prose and poetic works; the "reads" have been an island tradition since 1987. The selections have been chosen carefully for quality and listener friendliness.
$5
ARTSalon: Artists, Their Work & Background Stories
Dr. Paul Brooke
Topic: Wildlife and Birdlife on Sanibel
Thursday, March 22, 3:30 PM
at BIG ARTS Center
Initially trained as a biologist and naturalist, Dr. Paul Brooke earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska. He is a Professor of English at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he teaches advanced creative writing, among other courses. His book of poetry and photography, Light and Matter, was published in 2008.
$5
Community Chorus
Spring Concert
Thursday, March 22, 7 PM
at BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
The Community Chorus, directed by Steven Cramer, is taking a fresh look at old standards, singing favorites from Verdi to Gershwin to Manhattan Transfer. The 80-voice BIG ARTS Chorus, led by Steve Cramer, will be accompanied by musicians hailing from New York City and locals from Island Jazz. They will perform classical, jazz, gospel, and folk music, including a premier performance of an original arrangement of "Shenandoah."
Adult: $10
Student/Child free with adult
Community Band
Spring Concert
Thursday, March 29, 7 PM
at BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
Led by Don Knowland, the band will cover an assortment of well-known favorites including Georgia on My Mind, Winds a Whispering, National Emblem March and Genius of Ray Charles.
Adult: $7
Student/Child free with adult
Island Jazz
Sundays in March:
March 4 and 18 at 3 PM
at BIG ARTS Boler Garden
The band, comprised of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians, performs Big Band and Dixieland-style music in Boler Garden. In case of rain, the concert will move to the Gainer Veranda.
Concerts are free. Beach chairs recommended.
Play Readings:
- Carmen Garmin
- Lady Godiva of Flamingo Landing
- Homecoming for Sergeant Porter
Sunday, April 1, 7:30 PM
Community Theater
at Herb Strauss Theater
BIG ARTS Live Theater Committee selected plays written by local playwrights, these plays will be presented as readings. On April 1 actors will perform Carmen Garmin and Lady Godiva of Flamingo Landing by Marci Rudin, and Homecoming for Sergeant Porter by Wally Kain.
Carmen Garmin is about a driver who experiences his GPS voice coming to life, castigating him for his neglect of his former wife and young son, which leads him to change his ways.
The Lady Godiva of Flamingo Landing is about three couples on the Amtrak cartrain to Florida, and what transpires after a naked woman is discovered in a country club locker room. In the end all is revealed.
Homecoming for Sergeant Porter deals with a fraught encounter of an angry Army vet of the Iraq war and the widow of a fallen Marine in the same war. Matters take a different turn as they come to know one another.
$12
Child 17 & Under $5
Island Jazz
Sundays in April:
April 1, 8 (Easter), 12, 15 and 22 at 3 PM
at BIG ARTS Boler Garden
The band, comprised of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional musicians, performs Big Band and Dixieland-style music in Boler Garden. In case of rain, the concert will move to the Gainer Veranda.
Concerts are free. Beach chairs recommended.
Past Events
Shakespeare:
Scenes and Monologues
Sunday, January 29, 7:30 PM
Community Theater
at Herb Strauss Theater
Annette Trossbach and Robert Runcke will perform scenes from Macbeth, the Oberon-Titania scenes from Midsummer Night's Dream, and the Lady Anne seduction scene from Richard III. In addition, they will perform the Ages of Man from As You Like It Clarence's Dream from Richard III, a prologue from Midsummer Night's Dream and an epilogue from The Tempest. These scenes and selections will be done as readings.
$12
Child 17 & Under $5
