Posts Tagged ‘Arts’
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Buzz about the Festival is beginning slowly but surely and Meow Meow is quickly becoming the talk of the town. Just last week local media expressed interest in seeing Meow Meow at the Festival and St. Petersburg Times, who featured the Festival in this weekend’s Sunday paper, devoted some quality ”air” time to Meow Meow. SX News, Australia’s famed LBGT publication, featured maestro Lance Horn who had this to say about Meow Meow: “The reason I drop everything to go around the world with her is the utter joy,” he tells SX. “Even in the midst of all the insanity and irreverence, there’s an intrinsic happiness that’s underneath all of it. Even if it’s manic on the surface, it’s just her love of what she’s doing that’s infectious. And she’s so proficient at working out exactly what the audience needs – and how to communicate by any means possible to get the point across. She also has a knack for picking the right/wrong person out of an audience – she’ll always pick the person with the medical problem. Or the critic!”
I suspect that she will sell out pretty fast and I suggest you get your tickets now.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Tags: Arts, LBGT, Meow Meow, Ringling International Arts Festival
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
An article, Research points to a bias against female playwrights, in yesterday’s local paper caught my attention. It reminded me of a blog post dated June 19, in which I pointed to another article that highlighted female playwrights, in particular, Ella Hickson. Gender aside, two leading playwrights, one male and one female, one legendary and one emerging, were chosen to showcase their work at the Festival based on artistic merit and literary ingenuity. Legendary playwright Peter Brook will present his U.S. Premiere of Love is my sin and relatively new playwright Ella Hickson will present Eight. Check them out at the festival this year.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Arts, Eight, Ella Hickson, Festival, Love is my sin, Ringling International Arts Festival
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
In a follow up to yesterday’s blog post, I found two examples of Sarasota/Manatee’s commitment to the arts. Check out the Sarasota Arts Council’s new website and the Sarasota’s first-ever Vinyl Music Festival.
Tags: Arts, Festival, Manatee, Sarasota, Vinyl Music
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Making headlines in her native Israel, Deganit Shemy has been making her way quite nicely in NYC’s burgeoning modern dance scene. As I dug around to find out more about this esteemed choreographer, I came across an article that sums up a performance of Arena and sheds more light on Deganit’s impressive talent. Enjoy and purchase tickets to her shows–I’m positive you won’t be let down.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager
Tags: Arena, Arts, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Festival, Israel choreographer
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Passion. The word evokes deeply rooted emotions in everyone of us. Passion means many things to many people. Webster’s dictionary provides several definitions for passion all of which have the same core meaning. Passion is an intense, driving and liking for some activity, object or concept. As I peruse reviews of the artists coming to the Festival, the concept of “passion” eminates from the screen. It solidfies itself as the common denominator that cuts across disciplines and binds the performers together as a formidable artistic force poised to take Sarasota, Florida and the world by storm. Imagine the energy, spirit and inspiration that will be unleashed during those five days in October. Ready yourself for the explosion that will captivate and motivate you by indulging your artistic passion this weekend.
Tags: Arts, Festival, passion, Ringling International Arts Festival
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Accolades for the artists performing in the Festival accelerate by the day. Just today an article by Fast Forward Weekly, a leading cultural magazine in Calgary, Canada, features Canadian dance standout Azure Barton. The feature highlights Azure’s commissioned piece, Busk, and mentions her performance at the Ringling Festival. Fast Forward Weekly describes Azure’s style as “… collaborative and project-based because she loves the nurturing intensity that comes with a commission. Her company, Aszure & Artists, are her collaborators but her inspiration comes from any and all forms of art.” Check out the article and learn more about Azure Barton. It is an enjoyable read.
Tags: Arts, Aszure Barton, Busk, Canada, Dance, Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Spain and South American have been on my mind this week. Naturally, my mind drifts to thoughts about food and cultural arts. I realized that while I am familiar with the tango, Argentina’s spicy aphrodisiactic dance, I am not as familiar with flamenco. Since Spain’s leading flamenco virtuosos María Pagés will be performing at the Festival, I thought I should freshen up.
Flamencos’ origin is most commonly attributed to Andalusia, an autonomous region now part of Southern Spain, however the colorful history is richly debated. More details to come in a future blog. Let’s keep it simple for now. There are three main forms of flamenco–dancing or baile, guitar playing or guiterra and songs or cante-and a mixture of any three of these elements, or any one element on its own, can be considered “flamenco.” Flamenco takes on a variety of themes from love, passion, loss and heartbreak to politics and humor and is performed around the world. Performers clap, kick, sing, snap small hand-held percussion instruments call castanets and move their body in tempered rhythms to music unleashing a presentation of passion and emotion that is seemingly unbridled yet precisely structured.
Compañia María Pagés will present Flameco y Poesía with her company of nine dancers and musicians in October. It is sure to be a passionate display of song, dance and music that is alluringly graceful and exotically enticing.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Arts, Compañia María Pagés, Festival, flamenco, Flamenco y Poesía, Ringling International Arts Festival, Spain
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
This morning Dwight Currie and I took a long, casual drive to Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island to further drum up community support for the Festival. After finding a mom-and-pop cafe for Monday morning’s requisite coffee, Dwight presented to the Manatee County Tourist Development Council. The TDC is an advisory committee appointed by the county that recommends policy and oversees the use of all “bed tax” funds collected in Manatee County. The Council is eager for the Bradenton CVB to work with the Ringling and they were glad to hear that we have already met to discuss marketing and public relations opportunities. If you’ve got any great marketing ideas for us send them our way. Better yet share this blog with your friends, family and co-workers.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Arts, Bradenton, Festival, Manatee County, tourist
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I got to thinking today about what we mean by “international” arts festival. Its’ meaning is indeed trifold. Many of the artists hail from a foreign land (for instance Israel, Australia, and France), most of the Festival artists have performed around the world and Sarasota/Manatee is already a sun-kissed haven for international tourists. To top it off, the BAC and Ringling Museum have illustrious international reputations so it is a no-brainer that we are working across the world to invite our international friends and fans to take part in the Festival. In fact, I’m shipping a box of brochures to France today for a public relations company working with the Sarasota and Manatee CVB’s. Bon Voyage!
Lynn Hobeck Bates, PR Manager The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Arts, Festival, international, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Summer is the season for art festivals around the globe. From America’s most acclaimed Spoletto in Charleston, S.C., which just wrapped up another season yesterday, to Holland and Vienna, artists are filling schedules and selling tickets. Many of the emerging artists bound for Sarasota/Manatee in October are performing around these festivals. For instance, Deganit Shemy & Company received a new residence and commission by Dance @ DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center) and Azure & Artists are in residency at the Bnaff Centre in Canada where they will also perform at the Bnaff Summer Arts Festival. Elevator Repair Service just wrapped up performances of The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) at the Vienna Festival yesterday and are off to the Holland Festival in Amsterdam this coming weekend. With all the traveling this summer, I hope they have a chance to catch a trip to Siesta Key while in town for the Ringling festival in October. Sounds like they will need it. What a mutually beneficial relationship for everyone-artists might have the chance to get some R&R on award-winning beaches and Floridians get to see highly sought-after artists without having to leave the state.
Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager at the Ringling Museum
Tags: Arts, Aszure Barton, Bnaff Centre, Dance, Deganit Shemy, Elevator Repair Service Theater, Festival, Holland Festival, Manatee County, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, SCVB, Siesta Key, Spoleto Festival USA
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