Posts Tagged ‘Ringling International Arts Festival’
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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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 23rd, 2009
I’m meeting with media around Florida again this week to promote the Ringling International Arts Festival. Yesterday the SCVB public relations rep and I visited the Naples/Ft. Myers area. Today we plan to be in the Ocala/Gainesville area. Then Wednesday we’ll cross the state to visit Florida’s largest metropolitan area, Jacksonville.
If you are media, or if you know any media that we should meet with, drop me a line. Every lead helps to promote this awesome fesitval.
Posted by Lynn Hobeck Bates, Public Relations Manager, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
One of the best things about festivals is often the food. After all, festivals focused solely on food have popped up across the country from New York to L.A. In additon to the Festival Cafe (more to come soon!) Treviso Restaurant on the Ringling Museum grounds will offer fresh ingredients blended into dishes that will make your taste buds dance. In addition to being open 11 a.m.-11 p.m. every day of the festival, Treviso will also serve up a Sunday brunch–every Sarasotans favorite–on Oct. 11. I hope to share some recipes from the chef soon.
For patrons wanting a more casual lunch between performances, grab a bite to eat at the Banyan Café and dine beneath the banyans. If you are in the mood for some culinary explorations beyond the Museum gates, you are in luck. The area is home to some highest-rated restaurants in the country.
And, by the way, you can actually hit up Disney World’s Food and Wine Festival before or after the Ringling International Arts Festival. Orlando is just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Sarasota/Bradenton.
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Banyan Cafe, food, food festival, restaurants, Ringling International Arts Festival, Treviso
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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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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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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
For all of you dying to know who has the lead in ticket sales, wait no longer. Drum roll please…Meow Meow. it is. As I crawled the web looking for her most recent ditty, I came across, after purging all of the mentions of cats and kitties, some colorful reviews in various media outlets around the world of her Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour which will be featured in Sarasota/Manatee. Is it your cup of tea?
Lynn Hobeck Bates, PR Manager Ringling Museum of Art
Tags: "Ringling Museum of Art", Add new tag, Arts, Festival, Manatee County, Meow Meow, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Photo: Idil Sukan
Playwright and director Ella Hickson’s performance Eight is now showing in London and they are doing a really “cool and snazzy” online voting page. Basically, when you purchase your ticket online you get to vote for four characters you want to be in the cast. There are no plans to do this at the Ringling International Arts Festival-Eight will be performed by young actors from the UK and students from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, but it is cool food for thought for some other savvy theater company looking to shake things up a bit. What do you think?
Tags: Arts, Dance, Eight, Ella Hicks, Festival, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, London, Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota, vote
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