Tickets $15; free for New College students, faculty and staff

 

Reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888

 

The Institute for the Ages has an ambitious vision--to be the world's largest and most significant change agent for positive aging. Institute for the Ages President and CEO Tom Esselman will provide the community with an update on how individuals and community groups within Sarasota as well as innovators around the world are focused on the global aging phenomenon. Esselman will discuss groundbreaking research initiatives and the development and applications of products, services and policies that are improving our lives as we live to be older and older.   

 

This discussion with pianist and psychotherapist Marilyn Lerner is co-sponsored by the New College Gender Studies Program and is open to New College students, faculty and staff only. Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information.

 

Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary
Visit newmusicnewcollege.org or call 941-487-4888 for more information.

This free Artist Conversation with pianist Marilyn Lerner and New Music New College Director Stephen Miles precedes Lerner's performance, Dreamwork, on Saturday, January 19.

 

Tickets $15; $5 for non-NCF students; free for New College faculty, staff and students

 

Reserve online at  donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888
newmusicnewcollege.org

 

Widely recorded and internationally renowned, Marilyn Lerner's work speaks to improvisation, not just as an approach to music making, but as a way of life, a mode of being that is accessible to all of us in our daily lives. Her groundbreaking recordings have garnered much recognition, including her two solo recordings Luminance and Romanian Fantasy, and Special Angel with Sonny Greenwich. Her intimate knowledge of the piano, combined with a fearless experimental and passionate spirit, render her a true original. Lerner's work spans the worlds of jazz, creative improvisation, klezmer and 20th-century classical music. She composes for film, theater, radio and television. She is also an audio artist and has created a series of soundscapes using samples of sounds she collects in the natural environment.

 

Free; reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/klingenstein 

 

Cynthia M. Baker, author of Rebuilding the House of Israel: Architectures of Gender in Jewish Antiquity, will give the talk "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: Exploring Images of Jewish Women through the Centuries." Drawing on art and literature from the distant to the recent past, this talk will illuminate ways in which Jewish women have been imagined--and have imagined themselves--as significant points of contact between their own and other cultures. Baker is associate professor of Religious Studies at Bates College.

 

Free; register by emailing zontasarasota@gmail.com

 

Organizational expert David Allen will lead a dynamic, interactive seminar to help organizations cut through daily clutter and make strategic decisions. Allen, an alumnus of New College, was named one of the top five executive coaches in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine and has been featured on MSNBC, ABC News, CNN and in The New York Times and Washington Post. The seminar is presented by the Zonta Club of Sarasota in partnership with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Peggy Bates Foundation.

 

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