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1-4pm | Class: Sip and Paint Orchids
What better way to learn how to paint orchids than doing so while sipping on your favorite beverage?
Meet at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center. Class size will be limited to 20.
$50pp members, $60pp non-members
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6:30pm | Monthly Program: Save Our Seabirds
Come learn about this great organization that rescues and rehabilitates the area's seabirds.
Meet at the Save Our Seabird facility at 6:30pm on City Island. Tour the facility and learn about the wonderful services it provides.
Note that this monthly program is at CITY ISLAND, not Windward Bay. |
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--- | March 20, 2025
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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5-8:30pm
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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 $75 per person.
More information to follow so please check back again.
(Rain date is Saturday, Mar 22.)
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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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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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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
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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.
More details and ticket prices to follow.
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tba | Arbor Day and Annual Meeting
Come for our annual meeting. Lunch will be provided.
Time and location to be announced.
PLEASE RSVP if you are coming so we have a good count for lunch.
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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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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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