Engagement in the Arts is essential to every student, teacher, and community member. With this belief is at its core, the Van Wezel is committed to assuring each student receives a well-rounded education, each teacher has tools and resources to reach every student, and every community member has access to meaningful arts experiences.
Schooltime Performances for 2024-24 School Year
Providing Schooltime Performances during the school year is one of our most exciting adventures. Please check our website for more updates and information. If you have any questions, please contact Margaret Lindsey at (941) 263-6750 or Margaret.Lindsey@sarasotafl.gov
mia.strickland@sarasotafl.gov
http://www.vanwezel.org/edu/st.cfm
777 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236
9412636771
Appropriate for students in Grades 4-12
10:00 and 11:45 – November 6, 2023 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Jean-Michel and the Be-Bop Kings aims to introduce young audiences to the legacies of these groundbreaking musicians through the captivating work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and explores what they share in common and how their respective life experiences and the social conditions they navigated shaped their worldview, informed their artistic sensibilities and inspired prolific creative output.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (b.1960-d.1988) ranks among the most compelling painters of the 20th Century. He possessed a deep love and passion for jazz, particularly the be-bop style, and found great inspiration in the creative achievements of the genre’s great masters, often paying homage by depicting them in his paintings as noblemen, kings and heroes. Not unlike the music of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie and other architects of modern jazz, Basquiat’s work possesses visceral intensity, humor, spontaneity, fire and grit.
Register HERE!
Margaret Lindsey
9412636750
margaret.lindsey@sarasotafl.gov
11/6/23
10:00
11:45
Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
$7 per ticket (Title I schools are free!)
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