Chinese Feature Film Series
Features works by scores of artists who had one-person shows in the gallery since 1986, including Helen Frankenthaler, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Lesley Dill, Joseph Rodriguez, Faith Ringgold, Greogory Amenoff, Heinz Lechner, Graciela Iturbide, Pat Stier, Tom Feelings and Milton Glaser. The Gallery is located on MLK opposite the gate to the main campus.
The Basch Gallery’ exhibit Creative Spontaneity in Glass continues through March 23. The Gallery is open from 10-4 Mon - Sat and is located in the same building as the film showing.
Saturday (Feb 23) will be the last day of the Trustee Scholars show in The Willis A. Smith Galleries (also in the same building as the film showing). Gallery open 10-4 Mon – Sat.
Thursday, Feb 21, 6-8 pm:
East-West College of Natural Medicine is having an Open House with complimentary acu-treatments, lectures, consultations, demos, and refreshments. 3808 N. Tamiami Trail (just north of Myrtle, east side of 41). The College offers a 5-year Master’s Degree in Oriental Medicine and maintains both a student clinic and a professional clinic. This is a good opportunity to become acquainted with EWC’s services if you are interested in Chinese medicine.
Spring 2013
SATURDAY CHINESE FEATURE FILM SERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design / Academic Center Room 207
Admission is free. All films have Mandarin sound-tracks and English subtitles.
February 23: 1:30 pm
The Message风声
Directors Chen Kuofu 陈国�and Gao Qunshu高群书,
2009. 118 min
Stars Zhou Xun and Li Bingbing
In 1942 Japanese occupiers set up a puppet government in Nanjing, with the collaboration of the Nationalist Republic’s traitorous Vice President Wang Jingwei. Many well-organized resistance movements sprang up for the purpose of assassinating both Chinese collaborators and leaders of the Japanese occupation. Several successful high-level assassinations lead the Japanese to suspect a mole within their Anti-Insurgency Center. The Japanese Intelligence Office abducts five Chinese suspects (three men and two women) and subjects them one-by-one to relentless interrogation and physical tortures in an attempt to elicit confessions that will reveal the identity of the mole and the resistance leader known as The Phantom. A dark, suspenseful, and brutal spy thriller.
March 23: 1:30 pm
Little Red Flowers 看上去很美
At a 1950s Beijing kindergarten boarding school for children of Party cadres, good behavior and conformity wins “little red flowers”. A four-year old boy’s recalcitrance disrupts the equanimity of the staff and promotes various episodes of chaos. Performances by the very young actors strain belief in this charming, poetic, and painful struggle between authoritarian control and resistance to it in the early days of socialist education in New China. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Wang Shuo, one of China’s irreverent contemporary writers.
April 20: 1:30
The Mission�火
Director Johnny To杜琪峰 (Mandarin: Du Qifeng)
Hong Kong, 1999. 84 min.
Five bodyguards hired to protect a triad boss from assassination by an unknown assailant accompany him wherever he goes. They must act as a unit, and so they build a mutual loyalty resembling the sworn brotherhood (结义兄弟jieyi xiongdi) of traditional martial arts (wuxia 武侠). Whenever the Boss comes under fire they successfully protect him. But eventually they confront a situation in which loyalty to the Boss conflicts with loyalty to ‘the brotherhood’. The cinematography soars to a level of visual elegance that transcends its mundane subject matter. Color is low key – and in long shots the five often appear as black silhouettes, each focused on a different point – like living Giacometti sculptures. Extreme close-ups that encourage empathy are absent. The soundtrack is effective and elegant. Considered by many critics to be this director’s best film.
Series is designed and hosted by Dr. Carolyn Bloomer to supplement her Cross-Cultural Perspectives course Modern China,
Co-sponsored by the Gulfcoast Chinese American Association. and the Sarasota Chapter of the U.S.-China People’s Friendship Association.
For more information contact: cbloomer@c.ringling.edu.
Location: Campus of Ringling College of Art and Design in the new Academic Building on the west side of Old Bradenton Road south of Martin Luther King Boulevard. The building is #34 on the campus map available on line at
Gentle Reminder - One World Gala RSVP Deadline Near
The 2013 One World Gala will be at the prestigious Sarasota Bay Club at 6:30 pm on Sunday, March 3. This event is the major fund raiser for our Sarasota Sister City program. The Sister Cities Association of Sarasota is a 501 (3) c non-profit charity and our funding comes solely from membership dues, grants and donations. It is the One World Gala that allows us to accomplish are role as the international of the City of Sarasota and meet the goals established by President Eisenhower who was responsible for the founding of Sister. The 2013 One World Gala is our kickoff event to recognize our 50th anniversary as a citizen diplomacy organization.
Please RSVP to attend our 2013 One World Gala as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary, recognize community leaders who best emulate the vision of President Eisenhower and provide us with the funding necessary for our remaining 2013 program. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a One World donation to support our outreach initiatives.
Details on how to RSVP or donate follow:
2013 One World International Award Dinner
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 6:30 PM
Please reply by February 20, 2013
Name__________________________
Address_______________________
City__________________________
Phone_______________________ Email_________________________
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________ Guest Ticket (s) $125/person
________ Patron Ticket (s) $250/person
________ Table Host- Table for 8 @$1,000/per table Total $_________
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Make check payable to SSCA or Sarasota Sister Cities Association
& mail to:
Sarasota Sister Cities Association
City Hall
1565 First St
Sarasota, FL 34275
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Things to do in Sarasota
There are lots of things to do in Sarasota. The Web sites below tell you about some of them.
visitsarasota.org
visitflorida.com
sarasotadowntown.com
starmandscircleassoc.com
ringling.org
vanwezel.org
floridastudiotheatre.org
asolorep.org
banyantheatercompany.com
sarasotaopera.org
selby.org
visitsarasota.org
visitflorida.com
sarasotadowntown.com
starmandscircleassoc.com
ringling.org
vanwezel.org
floridastudiotheatre.org
asolorep.org
banyantheatercompany.com
sarasotaopera.org
selby.org
Sustainability Conference
Sustainability through Renewable Energy and Aquaculture
November 13-15, 2013
University of South Florida-Sarasota/Manatee
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Raymond Young, Ph.D., Chair, Harry Dunn, Gloria Grenier, Dave Harralson, Ph.D., John Buechler, Ph.D., Erin Martin, Ph.D., Andrew Ezzell
BACKGROUND
One of the major missions of Sarasota Sister Cities Assn. Inc. (SSCA) is to foster international relationships between Sarasota and its sister cities through exchanges in areas of culture and education. SSCA’s objective is to develop respect, understanding and cooperation through citizen diplomacy. In furtherance of this objective, SSCA is planning a three day conference on “Sustainability Through Renewable Energy and Aquaculture” for November 13-15, 2013 at the University of South Florida – Sarasota/Manatee. The goal of the conference is to bring together both professionals and students from Sarasota area institutions and institutions located in our Sister Cities in a forum based on Sustainability.
OBJECTIVES
The program is near final form and the three major objectives of the conference will explore the following:
- Sustainability, exploring issues such as sustainability concepts, sustainability management, sustainable agriculture, and energy transfer and distribution
- Renewable Energy Alternatives, exploring such issues as new developments in solar energy, photovoltaics, fuels from biomass and ocean wave technology.
- Sustainability of Ocean Resources, exploring such issues as closed-circuit, non-polluting aquaculture, aquaculture of giant prawns, sturgeon, and caviar.
PRESENTERS & PARTICIPANTS
The topics for the conference will emphasize expertise in the Sarasota area as well as in our Sister Cities. Additional subject area expertise will be provided by outside speakers. A special student session is planned where local and sister city college and high school students will have the opportunity to interact through both poster and summary oral presentations. Area high schools will include Pineview (solar energy), Riverview (aquaculture), Booker, Suncoast Polytechnical and Sarasota High School.
Regional presentations are planned from the University of South Florida, State College of Florida, Ringling College of Arts & Design, and University of Florida-Extension in the areas of Sustainability; from Florida Solar Energy Center, Florida Inst. of Technology and the USDA in the area of Renewable Energy and from Mote Marine Laboratories and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Aquaculture. This will be complimented by Sister City presentations in these topic areas from University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France, Carnegie College, Dunfermline, Scotland, Autonomous University of the Yucatan, Merida, Mexico, The Interdisciplinary Center, Tel Mond, Israel, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy and Jimei University, Xiamen, China. It is planned that a professional speaker from each of the sister city institutions will be accompanied by several college and/or high school students for participation in the conference. Additional tours will be provided for the sister city delegates.
Additional attendees to the conference would include students and professors from area colleges and high schools, employees of government and public institutions, Mote Marine, energy firms, green architects and interested Sarasota general public.
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Embracing Our Differences
Embracing Our Differences 10th Anniversary Outdoor Exhibits Announced
The winners of the 10th annual Embracing Our Differences outdoor juried art exhibit have been selected and will be on display March 31-June 2 at Sarasota’s Bayfront Park, on March 31-April 29 at Rossi Waterfront Park in Bradenton, and on May 1-June 2 at North Port High School. More than 2,400 entries were submitted by individuals from 44 countries and 32 states.
Sister Cities Association of Sarasota has partnered with Embracing Our Differences through our Alliance member of the Sarasota Manatee Jewish Federation since the initiative began. We annually invite artists from our Sister Cities to compete. Over the years we have had many artists submissions from our twinned communities displayed. Winners for 2013 are expected to be announced soon.
The centerpiece of the Embracing Our Differences are 39 billboard size images (12.5 feet by 16 feet) created by local, national and international artists, writers and students. The display reflects the artists' interpretations of the theme "enriching lives through diversity."
For more details visit embracingourdifferences.org.
Winners 2013 One World Award
Winners of the 2013 One World award have been announced by the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota. The winners to be honored at the third annual One World Gala on March 3 are former Sarasota Mayor Lou Ann Palmer and the Sarasota Christian School. Each honoree will be recognized as the most remarkable Sarasota individual and organization who have “enhanced world understanding and respect” through extraordinary work, volunteer service or philanthropy envisioned by President Eisenhower when he created the citizen diplomacy initiative following World War II.
The Sarasota Christian School, led by Principal Dawn Graber, is being spotlighted for the student relationships it purposely carries out, in each grade K-12, with students in 13 different countries, including Iraq, Palestine, Cambodia and other troubled areas of the world.
The One World Gala, this year being held at the prestigious Sarasota Bay Club on Sunday, March 3, is open to all who wish to honor the 2013 award winners and attend this kickoff event commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Sister Cities Association of Sarasota.
For full details call Bill Wallace at
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