Sarasota Festival of New Plays - Young Playwrights Festival

Tel Mond, Israel

Betty Greenspan    CD Director
Kim Sheintal          VC Director

Sarasota Festival of New Plays - Young Playwrights Festival


Sarasta Mayor Suzanne Atwell meets with the Young Playwrights group.



Sarasota Sister Cities viewed a number of plays written by students, including students from our Sister Cities of Tel Mond, Israel, Vladimir, Russia, and Dunfermline, Scotland.  The young playwrights from Tel Mond and Dunfermline were in Sarasota and signed autographs. The cast and creative director provided outstanding performances.



Young Playrights from left to right
Aleksandra Radmoska, Kara MhairiClare McAuley, Ori Segev
Aleksandra and Kara are from St Columba's High School, Scotland. Their teacher is Miss McDonald. They are in the eighth grade. The Play they wrote was entitled, "The Bonnie Old Visit at Sterling Castle".
Ori Segov is from the Shelanu School, Tami Philosph, in Israel. He is in the sixth grade. His play was entitled "The Promise".




Camy Robbins escorted the young playwrights around Sarasota


Ori and Bill Wallace

Ori, Camy, Kara, and Aleksandra







Alliance Membership Policy

Sarasota Sister Cities Association
Alliance Membership Policy

General:

An Alliance Member may be a non-profit organization with which SSCA is involved through joint projects and/or with whom affiliation would support SSCA’s mission.

  • The number of SSCA Alliance Members is not limited.
  • Alliance Members are appointed by the SSCA Board of Directors and their membership can be terminated at any time at the discretion of that Board.
  • Alliance Members are not required to pay dues, and their status is that of a non-voting member of SSCA.

Nominations for Alliance Membership:

Any member of SSCA supported by a seconder may nominate an organization (hereinafter referred to as ‘organization’) for Alliance Membership.

All nominations are to be in writing and submitted to the Vice President for  Membership along with a written statement of the reasons why the nominator and seconder consider the nominee qualifies for Alliance Membership, and how the granting of Alliance Membership would be appropriate and mutually beneficial.

Regular Review and Updating of Alliance Memberships:

The Vice President for Membership will be responsible for ensuring the regular updating of the name of the individual who is the point of contact in each Alliance Member’s organization. This is to be done no less frequently than once per year, a month prior to the deadline for publication of SSCA’s Membership Directory.

At the annual general membership meeting the Vice President for Membership will provide an updated list of all Alliance Members, together with any recommendations for memberships which should be terminated, primarily because they have become inactive or are no longer appropriate. 


SCAS Alliance Member Seeking Help


Most SCAS members are aware of the tragic death of Taian (Andrew) Tian, 51, manager of New Dynasty Restaurant on South Tamiami Trail. Tian, a member of our alliance organization the Gulfcoast Chinese American Association, died on July 19 as a result of injuries sustained in an attack by three men who left the restaurant without paying their bill. A member of the SUR-13 gang in Manatee County has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in the case.

He is survived by a 23-year-old son Beichen who is a 2nd year pharmacology student at Florida State University (Gainesville). A trust fund has been created to assist Beichen with completing his education and meeting medical costs. SCAS members who wish to contribute can send checks to The Andrew Tian Memorial Trust Fund. PO Box 21465 Sarasota 34231

Because Tian had been at New Dynasty for eight years and enjoyed conversing with customers, many people in our community had come to know him as a kind, gentle, and generous man with an upbeat sense of humor. Tian held a degree in engineering and immigrated from China in the early ‘90s in order to offer his son a bright future in the U.S. The Gulfcoast Chinese American Association has been closely associated with our twinning with Xiamen, China, even before it became one of our eight sister cities.

A memorial service celebrating Tian’s life will be held on Sunday, July 28 at 3 pm at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1031 S. Euclid Ave, Sarasota.


Sister City International Conference - Report - July 12-13, 2013

Social Media / Communications Report July 2013


Our Sister Cities Social Marketing plan is on this blog. If there is interest I will conduct a class for our membership on how to use social marketing - blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest. Please let me know if anyone is interested.


We attended the Sister Cities International Conference last week and attended several social marketing classes.  The International staff noted that Sarasota has an excellent social marketing program and asked us how we do it. We advised the group that it is not that difficult - learn to produce a blog or a Facebook page. Everyone acknowledges the difficulty in getting the media to cover our efforts - negative news is much more in demand.

We went on the Sister City visit to Vladimir Russia.  We have two blogs and photos published. You can see them on our blog in the top left column.



We took photos of our group in front of beautiful Russian architectural structures, holding copies of Sarasota media. Hopefully they will print these photos.



We encourage you to share photos and stories about your efforts with Sister Cities. Send them to me and I will post them to the blog and Picasa or Pinterest, or teach you how to do it if you prefer.



Our Web site is working well and has links to all of our social media. The address is:


Thank you for your review. Let me know if you have any concerns or questions.

Saving trees / improving the environment with electronic communications.


Craig Hullinger VP Communications



Meet & Greet July 16, 2013

Meet and Greet
Tuesday 5-7 pm – July 16, 2013
Caragiulos in Sarasota - 69 South Palm Avenue
 
A fine time had by all at the Meet and Greet. Thanks to Gayle Maxey and Tom Halbert for their great work in setting up these great events.








 
Caragiulos in Sarasota at 69 South Palm Avenue is the location of our July Meet & Greet. The happy hour venue will be the spacious bar with full cocktail, wine and beer specials. An added attraction for this event will be a Treviso martini in honor of Sister Cities of Sarasota 50th anniversary year! Caragiulos has bar, high rise and booth seating plus room to mingle in an attractive setting.

Caragiulos became one of Sarasota’s most popular eateries in much the same way the family found the cozy storefront on Palm Avenue, with… ease. From his bakery in Brooklyn, Tony Caragiulos and his five sons came to Florida in pursuit of an agreeable location to open a simple Italian restaurant. 

After an exhausting, two week long car trek around Florida with no prospects and tempers flaring, Tony signaled for the car to pull over; “Stoppa the*#!*#!!!! car!,… This is it,” he declared, pointing to the vacant stucco location… And it was.
Courtesy RSVP by June 16. This will allow Caragiulos to ensure they have sufficient bar staff for our meet & greet group. Last minute walk-ins are encouraged.
Gayle Maxey, Events Director
Sister Cities Association of Sarasota
RSVP: 941-416-3565 or gmaxey632@gmail.com





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