Events Fort Myers

A Big thanks to Stuart Brown and SBDAC  for letting me know this was going on Friday night mark your calendars.

Alyce Bochette is co-director of Dance Bochette. She spent 20 years touring internationally with dance companies including Mark Morris, May O’Donnell, and Rachel Lampert.  For the May 21 event, Bochette will dance one solo piece, “Suspension,” choreographed by May O’Donnell in 1939, with music by Ray Green.

The Bochette Dancers include local dancers Mariquita Anderson, Jennifer Reed, Lynn Vosloo, Kelley Natella, and Gerri Reaves, and the performance features actors Katie Pankow and Jim Brock.  Music for the reception and intermission will be performed by pianist Mary Seal.

With collaboration in staging and lighting design by Edison State College theater director, Stuart Brown, Alyce Bochette brings together original music and video by Rodney Woolsey and original poetry by Jim Brock, created specifically for the dance.  The performance builds on the theme of salvaging, with modern dance that is accessible, lyrical, vibrant, and whimsical.

Bochette wants her audience to consider the dynamic of salvaging in their own lives, whether it is spiritual, familial, ecological, or nostalgic, in which we seek to reclaim, recover, remember, and even revise our own lives.  The event brings together the audience as community.  It also affords each of us a little space for personal reflection.

The event begins with a 7:00 p.m. reception, and performance at 8:00 p.m. at the Sidney and Berne Davis Arts Center in the River District of Fort Myers at 2301 First Street.  Tickets are $35. Student tickets with student seating are $15. For more information and tickets, call the box office at (239) 333-1933 or visit the website at www.sbdac.com.

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American Cancer Society Relay for Life meets in Centennial park for its 3rd year.   We are extremley excited to have so many teams participating this year.   We have a lot of  things planned for this great event for cancer awareness.   The evening starts at around 5:00 pm Friday and goes into 11:00 am Saturday.   We have plenty of things planned for all ages.   We even have a local Breast Cancer Survior Lynne Reinas who is showing her work at the Relay Site as well as the Starbucks downtown.    We have bounce houses and Slides for the kids.   We have musical entertainment by many local acts  performing  as well.  If you look around downtown during Art Walk you might even run in to Mz Relay Downtown 2010.   There is a silent auction .  Plenty of Food and Trips to win.  Please stop on by Here is what is planned.

 5:00-6:00  Survivor Registration  food provided by Morgan House

If you are a survior or Cargiver please come on down for the event.

6:00 -6:15  Mayors Proclamation  in absence of Mayor Henderson  Mayor Pro Tem Thomas Leonard0

 Survivor Lap ,Care Givers Lap

Start the Relay-

6:15 to 7:15 Chip Withrow  http://www.myspace.com/chipwithrow   (performance)

7:15 to   7:30 Miss Relay contest and then head to the Streets

7:30 to 8:15   Colton James

Scavenger  Hunt- Downtown

 8:15 to 9:00  Emma Coleman     http://emmabriggscoleman.com/  (performance)

 9:00 to 9:30 Lumiara

 Poker Lap – Best hand first wins.  If you have an Ace trade up to two cards.

 9:50 to 10:40 Sean  Renzetti   http://www.myspace.com/srenzetti   (Performance )

 10:40 to 11:40 Strange Arrangement   http://www.strangearrangement.net

12:30 am              Kacie Phillips and Friends  perforamance

7:00 am to 8:00 morning music wake up call  a little work out  in the morning

 8:00 am to 8:30  Tim Hawkins *

8:30 am to 9:00  3 girl Trio *

  9:30 to 10:45    PG the Party Guy   ready 2roll.com  (Performance)

 10:45 to 11:00 am  Awards and Drawings

Artist Otto von Kotzebue will travel from Germany for the opening night of the “Visions” exhibit at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center May 7.  “Visions” showcases artists from around the world represented by Maria Kann through May 27 at SBDAC.  Besides German artist Otto von Kotzebue, the exhibit features Patricia Mulko of France, Gloria Audo of Argentina, and Sandi Badash of the United States.  Opening reception starts at 6 p.m. during downtown Fort Myers’ Art Walk.  Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays.

Otto von Kotzebue’s exhibitions took him to Italy, France, Germany, and all over the United States.  Now, they will take him to Southwest Florida’s Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center.  His work shows his special love for American cities like New York and Chicago and more rural landscapes like the plains of the West.  Meet this acclaimed artist along with the intriguing works of these international artists:

• Gloria Audo (Argentina), who studied with masters such as Ponciano Cardenas and Carlos Canas.  She has illustrated books, painted murals, and shown her art around the world. 
• Sandi Badash has done one woman shows around the country in California, Connecticut, New York, and Arizona, as well as in Cambridge, UK.
• Patricia Mulko, of France, has had exhibits all over Europe, at Agora Gallery in New York, and Sweet Art Gallery Naples Florida. 

Visions opens May 7 during Art Walk, with a reception open to the public at 6 p.m.  Regular exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.