Greenfield Prize Award Dinner |

Celebrating Helga Davis, recipient of
the 2019 Greenfield Prize in Music.

The 2019 Greenfield Prize will be awarded to composer Helga Davis. Celebrate this major American creator, with insight into the field of music composition. Invite your friends!

Sunday, April 14, 2019, 6:00pm – 9:00pm.
Tickets on sale now!

Read the Sarasota Herald-Tribune article from the February 3 front page.

Celebrating the prestigious Greenfield Prize, this dinner honors the jury-selected prize recipient and anchors a weekend of artist events. The $30,000 commission is awarded annually, and rotates among drama, music, and visual art. Helga Davis (pictured above) will receive a Hermitage residency along with the commission, which will have its premiere in Sarasota in 2021 with our presenting partner, ensembleNEWSRQ.

WHAT: An elegant dinner and celebration of a major American creator, with insight into the field of music composition. Chaired by Nikki Sedacca.

WHERE: Michael’s On East, 1212 East Avenue South, Sarasota, FL

WHEN: Sunday, April 14, 2019, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

WHY: Celebrate Helga Davis, the jury-selected recipient of the 2019 Greenfield Prize in music, which consists of a Hermitage residency and a $30,000 commission for new work which will premiere in 2021.

Tickets on sale now. For sponsorship information contact Development Director Craig Badinger at development@HermitageArtistRetreat.org or 941-475-2098 ext 2.

The 2019 Greenfield Weekend is presented in partnership with the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.

The Greenfield Prize Award Dinner is also sponsored by:

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Meet Andy Sandberg, the New Hermitage Artist Retreat Artistic Director and CEO

Friday, January 24, 5:00 p.m. in the Hermitage Palm House
It is a leisurely 10 minute walk from the parking lot, so please plan to arrive 15 minutes early. Thank you.

Join us for a reception with light refreshments, a brief talk by Andy Sandberg at 5:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A. Flutist Claire Chase, a Hermitage artist-in-residence, will offer a brief performance at the event.

Registration for this free event is required; reserve your seats here.

“We recognize that not everyone knows about the Hermitage,” says Sandberg. “Or they might know the Hermitage name but don’t fully understand the breadth of our regional programming and the invaluable support we provide to artists across multiple disciplines. We felt this forum would be a good opportunity for me to introduce myself to the community and explain what has drawn me to Sarasota County—and specifically to the Hermitage. Plus, this is a chance to hear from members of our community, and to share some thoughts about what’s possible for the future of this unique and vital organization.”

Andy Sandberg was announced as artistic director and CEO of the Hermitage in December of 2019. An accomplished director, writer, and Tony Award-winning producer whose national and international career has been committed to new work and artist development, Sandberg was selected to lead the organization following an extensive national search. For more information about Sandberg, visit www.AndySandberg.com.

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SOLD OUT: The History of the Hermitage @ Manasota Beach Club

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Jan 27 @ 12:00 pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

“The History of the Hermitage: From Nudist Colony to Artist Colony,” with Patricia Caswell, Hermitage co-founder and program director, is Monday, January 27, noon, at the Manasota Beach Club, 7660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood.

The 1907 cottage on the beach was rotted and rusted in the 1990s. It took a diverse team of caring folks to save it from the elements. Beach Club owner Buffy Crampton will add to the story as Caswell tells backstage tales—from pioneers to Pulitzers. The fee, which includes lunch, is $25.

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Meet Andy Sandberg (in Sarasota) @ Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County

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Jan 28 @ 5:00 pm

Meet Andy Sandberg, the New Hermitage Artist Retreat Artistic Director and CEO

Tuesday, January 28, 5:00 p.m., in Sarasota

Hosted by the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County
1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota

Reservations for this free event are required; please click here to reserve your seats.

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When is the Last Time Someone Read You a Story? @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Palm House

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Jan 31 @ 5:00 pm

Fridays @ Five: “When is the Last Time Someone Read You a Story?” with Kirstin Valdez Quade and Sigrid Nunez
Friday, January 31, 5 p.m., Hermitage Palm House
It is a leisurely 10 minute walk from the parking lot, so please plan to arrive 15 minutes early. Thank you.

When we were children, we listened to stories read aloud. Has that ancient experience been lost? Emily Nemans, who sits on the Hermitage’s curatorial board and serves as editor of the Paris Review, reflected that Valdez Quade’s A Night at the Fiestas was one of the best story collections she’s read in years. Nunez, a titanic talent, may read from her National Book Award-winning The Friend or from something in progress.

Reservations for this free program are required and can be made by clicking here.

Kirstin Valdez Quade’s Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was a New York Times’ Notable Book and was named a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Valdez Quade is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she also taught, and is an assistant professor at Princeton.

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, For Rouenna, The Last of Her Kind, and, most recently, The Friend, which received the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her other honors and awards include four Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, and Harper’s. She lives in New York City.

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Celebrating Helga Davis, recipient of
the 2019 Greenfield Prize in Music.