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Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota has extended “Songbirds of the Seventies” a second time, now through September 20. The cabaret is a musical celebration of the female singer-songwriters who defined the ‘60s and ‘70s.
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“Inner Cartographies” presents a collection of paintings, textile-based works, assemblages and mixed media practices that chart metaphors for lived experience, fragments of memory, familial histories, cultural inheritance and individual transformation – that is, interior landscapes that resist fixed boundaries and reveal the self as fluid and continuously evolving. The exhibition is part of this year’s Collier County ¡ARTE VIVA! Celebration.
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Roland Ruocco is a studio artist, but he’s best known for the dozens of murals he’s painted across Southwest Florida. Wendy White is an abstract impressionist painter, but she’s renowned for her award-winning short film “Roses Are Blind” and one-woman play, “The Jewish Nun,” performed Off-Broadway and internationally. Their September show, “Counterparts,” at DAAS CO-OP features their studio work.
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