Sights + Sounds at Waterside Place: The Circus Arts Conservatory
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By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Sarasota evening, the waterfront has a way of becoming a stage.
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In-depth editorial perspectives on Sarasota culture, arts, and community life.
Movie in the Park
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
As the November evening settles over Lakewood Ranch, Waterside Park will become the sort of neighborhood theater that needs no roof: a wide lawn, the glow of a movie screen, and fa…
SEA & Do Lifelong Learning Workshops
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, the sea is never merely scenery.
The 2026 Sandies Awards
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In a region where community can be as important to business as a balance sheet, recognition carries particular weight.
Wine Women & Shoes
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where a good evening can begin with a sunset over the bay and end with a spirited conversation over dinner, Wine Women & Shoes arrives as a celebration of the city’s m…
2026 CareerEdge Leadership Series
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
Leadership is often discussed in grand language—vision, influence, transformation—but in Sarasota, its most meaningful work tends to happen closer to the ground: in classrooms, sma…
MYP Coffee & Conversation - November 13, 2026
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Friday morning in November, the most valuable thing on the table may not be the coffee.
A Motown Christmas
Performing Arts
By Edit Sarasota Staff
Before the first carol is sung, “A Motown Christmas” promises to bring a different kind of holiday glow to Sarasota—one built from handclaps, velvet harmonies, and the irresistible…
Night of Hope & Healing
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where the calendar can move from gallery opening to concert hall to community gathering in a single evening, an event called Night of Hope & Healing arrives with a par…
Jazz Thursday | Sarasota Jazz Project
Arts & Culture
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Thursday evening in Sarasota, the galleries at Sarasota Art Museum take on a different kind of rhythm.
Chamber Connect Mixer: LODGCO Hospitality
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, business often begins with a conversation that extends well beyond the conference room: a chef meeting a designer, a hotelier comparing notes with a nonprofit leader,…
Fall Expo - November 12, 2026 - LECOM Park
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
By November, the Gulf Coast has begun its annual transformation.
Homeschool Days
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Thursday in November, when Sarasota’s light turns especially clear and the Gulf begins to feel like a subject for study rather than scenery, local homeschool families will hav…
The Ringling Legacy Tour
Arts & Culture
By Edit Sarasota Staff
Sarasota’s cultural identity is inseparable from the Ringling name.
Marketing on Main
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where a new restaurant can become a neighborhood landmark and a local maker can find an audience far beyond the county line, attention is its own kind of currency.
Medicare Webinar hosted by Jane Petri, RN
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where conversations about health care are as common as conversations about the weather, Medicare can still feel like a language of its own.
Governmental Affairs Committee
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In the quiet hours before a new ordinance reaches a city commission agenda—or a proposed state law begins to reshape the cost of doing business—there is often a room where the cons…
Homeschool Days
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a weekday when many classrooms are quiet, Mote Science Education Aquarium will be alive with questions: What lives beneath Sarasota Bay?
Inside the Art World
Arts & Culture
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, art rarely stays on the wall.
Art on Film | Gerard Richter Painting
Arts & Culture
By Edit Sarasota Staff
Sarasota has long understood that the arts are not separate rooms but adjoining ones: a brushstroke can speak to a musical phrase, and a choreographer’s rehearsal can reveal as muc…
Ghostbusters in Concert
Performing Arts
By Edit Sarasota Staff
By late October, Sarasota’s calendar has usually begun its seasonal turn toward the theatrical: darker evenings, brighter stages, and just enough humidity to make a ghost story fee…
TAMPA BAY TIMES HOME SHOW
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where a house is rarely just a house, the annual ritual of rethinking home carries particular weight.
Business After Hours - November 10, 2026 - Flooring America of Bradenton
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
By late afternoon, the business day along the Gulf Coast begins to loosen its tie.
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Homeschool Days
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a weekday morning in Sarasota, the ocean becomes a classroom without walls.
Power Hour Lunch - Embassy Suites by Hilton Sarasota
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, the middle of the day can feel like its own kind of crossroads: downtown workers stepping out for lunch, visitors taking a break from the waterfront, and longtime resi…
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EXCEL - LEVEL 3 - HANDS-ON CLASSES at SCF
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where small businesses, nonprofits, classrooms, and creative ventures often overlap, knowing how to make sense of a spreadsheet is more than an office skill—it is a fo…
Big Bank Theory Volunteer ONLINE Orientation - November 10, 2026
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
Sarasota’s cultural life runs on more than stages, galleries, dining rooms, and packed calendars.
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25th Annual Halloween Safe Kids Night
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
By late October, Sarasota’s evenings have begun to soften, the air carries the first hint of a seasonal shift, and children everywhere are negotiating the most important question o…
Young Leaders Alliance (YLA)
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In a region shaped by fast growth, the next generation of civic and business leadership is already at work—often before its members have settled into the titles that will define th…
2027 Inspiring Hope Dinner - KICK OFF EVENT
Entertainment
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, hope is rarely an abstract idea.
Daylight Saving Time in Effect – Park Closes at 6pm
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, the end of daylight saving time arrives not with a dramatic change in the weather, but with a quieter adjustment to the day: the evening walk gets shorter, the park’s…
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Tidewell Foundation Remembrance Walk 2026
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where memory is often tied to a place—a favorite beach at sunset, a garden in bloom, a familiar table filled with family—the act of remembering can become a form of ga…
Sip N’ Brew – Every Mon, Wed & Thurs, 9am-1pm
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Sarasota morning, the best plans often begin with something simple: a good drink, open air, and nowhere urgent to be.
Sip N’ Brew – Every Mon, Wed & Thurs, 9am-1pm
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
At Nathan Benderson Park, the day often begins with motion: rowers cutting clean lines through the water, runners tracing the shoreline, children making a beeline for the playgroun…
Trick Or Treat On The Lake, Presented by Alpha Law Group
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
As October settles over Sarasota, the shoreline at Nathan Benderson Park is preparing for an evening when the usual regatta traffic gives way to capes, costumes and candy.
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Sip N’ Brew – Every Mon, Wed & Thurs, 9am-1pm
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
At Nathan Benderson Park, the morning often arrives with a particular kind of momentum: rowers cutting clean lines across the water, cyclists tracing the park’s paths, families gat…
Kavyno Wellness Social
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Sunday morning in Sarasota, the best kind of reset may not happen in solitude.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Saturday morning, the shoreline at Nathan Benderson Park will become a sea of pink shirts, handmade signs, and familiar faces—survivors, caregivers, families, friends, and nei…
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where pink can mean a sunset over the bay as easily as a ribbon pinned to a lapel, October offers a chance to turn visibility into solidarity.
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Events Archive | Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On Sarasota’s waterfront, the future has always arrived by way of the sea.
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The Market at NBP – Every Friday, 9am-1pm
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Friday morning, Nathan Benderson Park becomes more than a place for rowing shells, regattas, and long waterfront walks.
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where the calendar is crowded with festivals, regattas, gallery openings and outdoor gatherings, some occasions ask us to pause rather than hurry on to the next thing.
Read story: United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where the horizon often seems to invite us outdoors, Nathan Benderson Park offers a particularly fitting place to pause, gather and reflect.
Read story: United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In October, Nathan Benderson Park takes on a different kind of color.
Read story: United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
At Nathan Benderson Park, the water has a way of making a gathering feel larger than the moment itself.
Read story: United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, October arrives with a particular shade of pink.
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Events - Nathan Benderson Park
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
As the sun lowers over Sarasota, Nathan Benderson Park will begin its transformation from an arena of oars and finish lines into a field of floating light.
Events - Nathan Benderson Park
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
On a Saturday morning in October, Nathan Benderson Park will become a place of remembrance, reflection, and forward motion.
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where the calendar is crowded with regattas, festivals and outdoor gatherings, a pink ribbon can carry a quieter kind of significance.
Read story: United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
United in Pink at NBP – Breast Cancer Awareness in Oct
Travel & Outdoors
By Edit Sarasota Staff
In Sarasota, where October’s bright skies can make even an ordinary morning feel ceremonial, Nathan Benderson Park will turn its attention to a cause that touches nearly every comm…
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