Event List

Join us in the teen center to watch anime, discuss our favorite characters, and enjoy a small craft or art activity!

This is recommended for tweens and teens, ages 9-18.

The Sarasota Music Archive presents the John Goodman Performance and Lecture Series:

Please register for each event separately AND each name attending. (Duplicate registrations are deleted.)

Buildings with historical significance often get that designation based on age or type of architecture or where it’s located or who lived there. But you should also consider its purpose, function and role in history.

Join us for a fast-paced and fun dramatic reading of Lovers and Other Strangers with Theatre of the Mind.

Seating is first-come first-served.

Free Archaeology Lecture presented by the Time Sifters Archaeology Society: "Year in Review: What's been discovered & What's been talked about", prese

The award-winning musicians of the Astralis Chamber Ensemble have been described as “scary good” and “truly riveting.” Angela Massey (flute),Paul Aguilar (violin), Thomas Maternik-Piret (cello), and Alexandra Dunbar(harpsichord) present “Baroque M

Made by Shells, Told by Time

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Want to uncover exactly where your ancestors lived, or find out who owned your land a century ago? Join Dr.

Join a lively book club for inspiring conversations! Selby Book Club meets on the fourth Monday of most months. A different book title is chosen every month to explore. Registration is not required.

Enjoy a free one-hour lecture and Q&A to learn about the iconic paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe.

The Sarasota Music Archive presents the John Goodman Performance and Lecture Series:

Please register for each event separately AND each name attending. (Duplicate registrations are deleted.)

Join Dr. Randy Runnels, for a lecture provided by the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota

Grab a friend and some popcorn and enjoy a free showing of a different movie each month! This month’s movie will be Scott Pilgrim vs.

For over 20 years, Eric traveled around the US and Canada photographing military bases, NASA, shipyards, and more.

Wide eyes, sweaty palms and a racing heart.  Are these the tell-tale marks of a love story or a haunted tale?  If the story is set in Florida, chances are it’s both.  Across Florida, love is in the air—but that isn’t always a good t

Join us in the teen center to watch anime, discuss our favorite characters, and enjoy a small craft or art activity!

This is recommended for tweens and teens, ages 9-18.

The Sarasota Music Archive presents the John Goodman Performance and Lecture Series:

Please register for each event separately AND each name attending. (Duplicate registrations are deleted.)

Learn the secrets of ‘three pot cooking’ to create entrees that feature a melting pot worth of flavors from simple and affordable ingredients. 

Registration required.

Join producer Laurence Cotton for a film screening of America the Beautiful followed by a Q/A.

Join Dr. Jose Gaudier as he discusses important aspects of medical history as it has been displayed in some of the greatest works of art. Medicine, art, and history are combined to discuss the history of medicine.

Join Betty Nugent from the Englewood Museum to learn about these long-time residents who made a big difference in their community through their activity in the Lemon Bay Women’s Club.

Join Martha Bireda as she brings Queen Andrews, an African-American pioneer, to life, while exploring the five factors that made Punta Gorda a model for interracial unity in the Jim Crow era of the early 1960s. 

Come along for a magical journey through the beaches and rain forests of Madagascar, also called the 8^th continent!