Sarasota Livin'

Local Sarasota rock and blues jam band Skullduggery will celebrate New Year's Eve 2006 at the Backlot Theatre on Sunday, 12/31/06 from 9 pm to 1:30 am. This is a free, all ages event! Also, featuring new light show!

Skullduggery is a rock and blues jam band playing music from a huge variety of artists including Grateful Dead, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Little Feat, The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Chuck Berry, Warren Zevon, CCR, Talking Heads, bluegrass, and more. Please visit www.skullduggeryband.com for more information.

The Backlot Theatre is located at 2208 Industrial Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34234 (east of 301 at 47th Street in the industrial park). The Backlot is a non-smoking theater with a cash beer and wine bar. Please visit www.backlotarts.org for details.

For more information, please contact Turner Moore at skullduggeryband@aol.com, or (941) 400-9889. Thank you.

Local Sarasota rock and blues jam band Skullduggery will celebrate New Year's Eve 2006 at the Backlot Theatre on Sunday, 12/31/06 from 9 pm to 1:30 am. This is a free, all ages event! Also, featuring new light show!

Skullduggery is a rock and blues jam band playing music from a huge variety of artists including Grateful Dead, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Little Feat, The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Chuck Berry, Warren Zevon, CCR, Talking Heads, bluegrass, and more. Please visit www.skullduggeryband.com for more information.

The Backlot Theatre is located at 2208 Industrial Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34234 (east of 301 at 47th Street in the industrial park). The Backlot is a non-smoking theater with a cash beer and wine bar. Please visit www.backlotarts.org for details.

For more information, please contact Turner Moore at skullduggeryband@aol.com, or (941) 400-9889. Thank you.

Sarasota Green Connection, Inc. invites you to attend the next Green World Café event on January 4th, 2007 from 7-9pm in the Whole Foods Lifestyle Center. Nonviolent Communication Practitioner, Mercedes Frace, will join us to discuss Sustainable Relationships - An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a profound language process that is important for future/sustainable communities. NVC is aligned with many principles found in The Earth Charter, including points such as compassion, equality, integrity, sustainability & peace. Also called Compassionate Communication, NVC is the intention to open ourselves to others without fear, to listen without judgment, speak with honesty and love. Consciousness is at the core of NVC as it honors all human needs and shifts our paradigm to power-with relationships.

Mercedes Frace, NVC Practitioner, is a member of the Suncoast Network for Compassionate Communication (http://www.nvcsarasota.com). She is a registered Trainer Candidate with the Global Center for Nonviolent Communication (http://www.cnvc.org) and has trained with NVC founder, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg.

If you are interested in learning more about NVC, please join us on January 4th. We hope you will be able to attend this informative presentation this first Thursday of January!

All of the Sarasota Green World Café monthly events feature an SGC Approved Business Owner or other Individual committed to a future that works for all. We join to learn and celebrate the Earth Charter. Each event has a featured speaker and then an interactive conversation takes place that focuses on one of the Earth Charter principles. For more info, please visit (http://www.earthcharter.org).

These monthly events are brought to you by Sarasota Green Connection, Inc. The Green World Café is held the first Thursday of every month from 7pm to 9 pm at the Whole Foods Market's Whole Lifestyle Center. Only entrance to the Whole Lifestyle Center is on the corner of 1st Street and Lemon. The Green World Café is free and open to the public.

What: "A Night of Blues"

When: Monday Jan. 8th 6 - 8 p.m.

Where: Selby Public Library Geldbart Auditorium 1331 First St., Sarasota

Description: Artists across many genres and generations contribute to a one-night history of the blues in a remarkable film. The history of the blues movement is told through various performers, backstage interviews and archival

Contact for public: For more information contact the Sarasota County Call Center at 941-861-5000 and ask about “A Night of Blues" at Selby Public Library

Media Contact: Vera Neumann-Wood, 941-861-1175, vneumann@scgov.net

Wed Jan 10th 2007
4 to 5:30 at City Hall

Afterwards Duany will be speaking at the Downtown Partnership Annual Dinner

ARTS DAY 2007
JANUARY 14th, 2007
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

What is Arts Day?

Arts Day is a gift from our arts and cultural community to you. From the bayfront to Lemon Ave., and from First Street to Ringling Boulevard in downtown Sarasota, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the entire town is alive with performances and exhibits. Some 1,100 artists, dancers, musicians, opera singers, comedians, actors, and poets perform simultaneously on 12 stages. Over 50 arts and cultural organizations are represented during this event. Voted "Best of the Best" by Sarasota magazine for several years, Arts Day attracts more than 25,000 arts lovers from all over the world.

[ free film ]

Free screenings and discussions of the informative film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, will be held at:
1:00 pm Monday, Jan 29, and at
12:30 pm Thursday, Feb 1,

Room 307 of the Library, at Manatee Community College (MCC) Venice,
8000 S. Tamiami Trail.

The screenings are scheduled as part of a five-day “Week of Action” that calls upon American and Canadian youth to draw attention to a “Rising to the Climate Challenge: Visions of Our Future” campaign. The screenings are open to the public and more info is available by email at fordd@mccfl.edu.

Bluegrass, Newgrass and the Grateful Dead
When: Feb 12th 2007 at 6-8 p.m.
Where: Selby Public Library, Geldbart Auditorium, 1331 First St., Sarasota

This 2002 film details the deeply rooted musical friendship between Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and David Grisman, a noted bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music.

Monday, 12 February at 7:30 PM at Waldemere Fire Station. (Waldemere St and East Ave)

Come hear what they have to say. They will be making important decisions for us and spending our money .... and there are several big ticket items coming up soon ... police station and baseball stadium to name two biggies..

Do you care about smart growth - (based on your definition or mine) I want downtown to continue to get better. I want more stuff going on to draw all segments of Sarasota downtown. I want it easy to get around Sarasota County (mass transit?) I want neighborhoods to thrive and (and lots more trees) have a good mix of housing options available.

Sarasota County: A State of Our Natural Environment Report

Jon Thaxton, Sarasota County Commissioner

A retrospect account and prospective view of Sarasota County's successes and failures in protecting or natural environment.

Date: February 15, 2007
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Great Room by the Bay
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731

Contact: Donna Krabill
Phone: 941.366.5731, Extension 237
Email: dkrabill@selby.org