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10am-1pm | Class: Creating a floral print tray and hand-building pottery
Come learn how to create and decorate your own floral print tray.
Meet at the Sarasota Art Museum Pottery Studio at 10am.
Class limited to 15 participants.
Cost: $50pp members, $60pp non-members
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--- | March 21, 2025
5:30-10pm
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Bayfront Park overlooking Sarasota Bay is a gorgeous place for this very popular event.
This year's movie will be 'Top Gun: Maverick', the sequel to Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.
Enjoy a gourmet dinner, live auction, popcorn, concession candies, and then settle back to enjoy a movie under the stars. Tickets are $85 per person.
YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:
• Live Music by Tim Michael McCaig
• Gourmet Chef Catered Dinner Overlooking Sarasota Bay & Movie Under the Stars
• Complimentary Beer, Wine, Champagne & Bottled Water
• Fresh-popped Popcorn & Candy Concessions
• Fantastic Prizes Awarded throughout the evening
Cocktails begin at 5:30pm.
(Rain date is Saturday, Mar 22.)
See this year's flyer.
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--- | March 27, 2025
10am-2pm | Trip: Robinson Preserve and Palma Sola Botanical Garden Visit
Robinson Preserve and Palma Sola Botanical Garden. Come see this beautiful area landmark.
Meet at Pavillion #1 north entrance. at 10am, lecture 10:30, lunch at noon, followed by walks.
Lecture and walk $25 pp members, $35 pp non-members includes beverages, snacks, and lunch.
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--- | April 10, 2025
10:30am-2pm | Trip: Mindful Blooms Farm in Myakka City
Join us for an amazing tour of Mindful Blooms Farm, an incredible sustainable flower farm, have lunch, and arrange flowers you can take home.
See www.mindfulbloomsfarm.com.
Meet at the farm at 14800 Sugar Bowl, Myakka City, FL at 10:30am. Lunch will be served at 12:30pm.
$55pp members, $65 non-members, includes lecture and lunch
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--- | April 15, 2025
6:30-8pm | Monthly Program: Decorating with Botanicals at Windward Bay Clubhouse
Join LeGardinia Bleu to learn how to make beautiful arrangements using local botanicals.
To be held at the Windward Bay Clubhouse starting at 6:30pm. Further details to follow.
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--- | April 17, 2025
4:30pm | Comedy Night at the Pavilion - Town Center Green
Starting at 4:30, Tim Michael McCaig, will sing for guests while they gather, socialize, enjoy food trucks, and the beer, seltzer and hard tea products.
Next will follow our hilarious local comedians who will be introduced by Cliff Hornsby, a Longboat Key resident aka Geri-Atric.
Tickets are $30 per person and will be available soon.
See the flyer for this year's entire Arts in April event.
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11am-1pm | Arbor Day and Annual Meeting
Come for our annual meeting, enjoy lunch on the Club, and meet this year's grant and scholarship recipients.
We will meet at 11am at:
The Longboat Island Chapel
6200 Gulf of Mexico Dr
PLEASE RSVP: This is a free event for members but we do pay the caterer so please honor your RSVP. Thanks.
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9:30am-5:30pm | J. McLaughlin Trunk Sale - Spring '25
Our last trunk show of the year at J. McLaughlin's. This event is always a huge hit with a portion of the proceeds going to the Club's scholarship programs. |
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--- | October 1, 2026
11 days | Tour Southern Africa and Safari, Oct 2026
Here's the mother of all field trips ... ;)
Join us for an incredible 11-day, 10-night tour of Southern Africa which includes 4 nights in Cape Town, an amazing 4-night stay at a nature reserve, plus a 2-night stop at spectacular Victoria Falls.
Note that the trip is for Oct 2026 departure. Exact dates not yet determined.
Cost is $7,466 per person (based on double occupancy) and does not include most meals or beverages and roundtrip airfare to/from Cape Town, SA.
To learn more, click here.
We expect this trip to sell out so start planning now. |
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