- September 6, 2024
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Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria, which broke ground on its renovation of the downtown Sarasota building at 27 Fletcher Ave. on May 7, 2018, opened to the public May 17 after nearly a year of construction. The 2,600-square-foot building has been completely redone to feature 150 seats and serve lunch and dinner seven days a week. The original Bavaro’s opened in March 2009 in Tampa as what the restaurant says was the first traditional Neapolitan Pizzeria in the state of Florida. For more information call 552-9131 or visit bavarospizza.com.
Several local arts organizations received large gifts recently, so let’s break it down:
Ringling College of Art and Design announced in a release May 16 that Tricia Mire has joined the college’s Office for Advancement as senior development officer. With more than two decades of fundraising experience — most recently as Asolo Repertory Theatre’s director of development for the last eight years — Mire is ready to be responsible for working with donors to foster strategic fundraising at the school.
“I look forward to helping more people discover what makes Ringling College so unique, and the incredible mark our graduates are making on the world,” Mire said in the release.”
The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County announced in a May 16 release that Nancy Roucher will receive the Dr. Mary Palmer Trailblazer Award for Elevating Arts Education at the Florida Alliance for Arts Education’s Annual Summit June 21 in Fort Lauderdale. In response to the cuts to arts education in Sarasota County in 1988, Roucher founded the Arts Education Task Force through the Sarasota Arts Council, which is now the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County.
*Correction: The front page of the Observer's A&E section in the 5/23 print issue named the wrong employer for Tricia Mire.