Week Calendar

Looking to try something new and maybe make a friend or two? Join the library book club! 

The Short Story Discussion group meets once a month from January through March and is moderated by Eileen Kohut. Readings will be from "That Glimpse of Truth: the 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written" selected and introduced by David Miller.

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

Watch as works of art come to life!

Get ready for an epic showdown! Join us for our Teen Super Smash Bros.™ Tournament, where teens can showcase their gaming skills on the Nintendo Switch™.

Join us to discuss Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

A priceless Monet painting has recently gone missing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We have reason to believe it’s been nabbed by the new museum curator, Vincent Hahn. Use your wits to get the painting back undetected. 

In his memoir, "All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me," Patrick Bringley explores the ways in which his exposure to art through his job as a museum security guard helped him find peace and process his emotions after lo

Cigar City: The Story of Ybor City and West Tampa

Presented by:

The Highwaymen: A group of African American artists who earned their living by selling their Florida landscape paintings out of the trunks of their cars in the 1960s.

Stop in and celebrate GREEN!! We will have two different good luck crafts available: leprechaun traps and friendship bracelets. While supplies last.

Celebrate the beauty and tradition of Pysanka, the ancient Ukrainian art of egg decorating. Learn about the intricate designs, symbolic meanings, and wax-resistant techniques used to create these stunning works of art.

The Sarasota Earlye Musicke Consort performs music spanning from the Renaissance Era to Modern Times. Each performance features descriptions of the instruments and insightful commentary about the music being shared.

Ringling professor Rick Dakan explores how new AI tools interact with the art world!

Join Tarah Hart from Venice Theatre as we bring works of art to life! Participants will use their actor's tools of body, voice, mind and imagination to become famous works of art AND even create some of their own masterpieces.

Join Bohdana Puzyk, from the Ukrainian National Women's League of America for a demonstration of the traditional Ukrainian art of egg dying, called Pysanky.

A priceless Monet painting has recently gone missing from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We have reason to believe it’s been nabbed by the new museum curator, Vincent Hahn. Use your wits to get the painting back undetected.

Make a fun Japanese koi windsock using a cardboard tube, tissue paper, and streamers. 

Do you wanna be the very best? Like no one ever was? 

Buddy up for a painting swap! Teens will pair up in this creative and collaborative project to paint a picture on the same canvas. Participants start their own painting, then swap with a partner to add to the new canvas.

Join the Jazz Club of Sarasota for a monthly jazz jam session that provides an introduction to jazz jamming. Perfect for beginners!

The motto of the Sarasota Area Playwrights Society is "Making Plays Better".  Come see the developmental process in action: a new play by a local playwright read by member actors with feedback from theatre professionals and the audience.

Join us to watch: “Miss Potter” (2006) PG

Join Beatrix Potter, artist and illustrator extraordinaire, as she experiences love, loss, and the happiness that comes from living life to the fullest. 

Sebastian Stefanovic, viola - "VELVET"