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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 Page 113 WILDLIFE ART FESTIVAL AND SYMPOSIUM PLANNED The Rotary Club of Sarasota will present the first Sarasota Wildlife Art Festival and Wildlife Symposium on Saturday and Sunday, March 2 and 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Ken Thompson Park, 1700 Ken Thompson Parkway, City Island, Sarasota. including the one worn by Winter, the aquatic star of the movie Dolphin Tale, the release notes. Other speakers will be Dr. James ���Buddy��� Powell, executive director of Sea to Shore Alliance; Sara Kane, public outreach manager for the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program; and Dr. Jay Leverone, a senior environmental scientist The event will feature a juried exhibition of for the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. wildlife-inspired art and fine crafts by more than 25 painters, sculptors, photographers, Tickets are $5 for adults; children age 12 and jewelers and other craftspeople, a news re- under will be admitted free. Admission entilease says. The works, which will be for sale, tles guests to free entry to the adjacent Save were juried by Ringling College of Art and De- Our Seabirds wildlife sanctuary and a $5 dissign instructors. count on admission to Mote Marine during the festival, the release points out. The event will include a symposium ���with prominent speakers in the field of wildlife re- Food and beverages will be available for habilitation and other environmental topics,��� purchase. Proceeds from the festival will the release adds. Among the speakers will be benefit Save Our Seabirds and the RoKevin Carroll and Dan Strzempka, two pros- tary Club of Sarasota, the release notes. thetic experts known for their work with the For information, call 840-1193 or visit development of prosthetic tails for dolphins, www.sarasotawildlifefest.com. SARASOTA COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR MOE TO BE HONORED The Church of the Redeemer invites the public to a Friday, March 8, memorial concert honoring the late Dr. Daniel T. Moe, Redeemer���s longtime composer-in-residence and wellknown area conductor. The concert will begin at 8 p.m., with a wine and cheese reception for concertgoers immediately following it in Gillespie Hall, a news release says. lease notes. After earning his choral directing degree in 1981, Tipton moved to France, where he was the organist and choirmaster at the American Cathedral in Paris for 20 years, the release points out. Moe and his wife, Ann Stephenson-Moe, who is the organist/choirmaster at Redeemer, had seen Tipton perform in Paris several times, and student and teacher had stayed in touch over the years, the release continues. Tipton Performing in the concert will be Ned Tipton, played the organ at Moe���s requiem in 2012, minister of music at St. John���s Episcopal Caand he has performed widely across the Unitthedral in Los Angeles. Tipton was a student ed States and Europe. of Moe���s at Oberlin College in Ohio, where Moe taught at the Conservatory of Music from During his career, Moe was hailed by New the late 1970s through the early 1990s, the re- Yorker music critic Andrew Porter as the

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