For the sixth straight year, the annual “most creative day in Sarasota” known as People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity,” or PINC, took an eight-hour plunge into the mystery and method of inspiration before a sellout crowd at the Sarasota Opera House. And as usual, approaches taken by the 12 scheduled speakers were all over the board.

For the sixth year in a row, Sarasota’s PINC Experience is hosting an eclectic lineup of “Global Thinkers and Innovators” for a day-long affair Thursday that celebrates the acronym People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity. Per tradition, 12 speakers will each get 20 minutes to provide what founder Anand Pallegar is fond of calling a “bubblebath for your brain.”

DreamLarge ends a hands-on, weekend-long program for teenagers to figure out how to solve real local challenges. Teenagers here have great ideas, and on Sunday, the adults were ready to listen, with pens and paper in hand.

For years, the accepted premise about Sarasota was that for bright, creative young people, the region’s good schools and abundant cultural offerings made this a great place to grow up. But 15 years ago, a young man in his 20s executed a remarkably successful reverse migration. At a low point in his short life, he moved here from Detroit, and — with encouragement from some visionary local business leaders — gradually discovered an environment where he could flourish.

Looking for what’s being billed as “a bubble bath for the brain”? The PINC Experience announced the eclectic conference will be returning to Sarasota in December, along with the first of its many speakers.

The BLVD Bike Ride is the first of many future community events planned by DreamLarge, a benefit corporation that started a decade ago. It spun into its own entity in 2015 with a mission to connect the community and promote positive growth.

State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota was awarded a $3.6 million grant by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity to create a Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation in the old SCF library on the Bradenton campus and a regional coding academy that will include a location in downtown Sarasota.

People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity. Better known as PINC, this unique event, now in its fifth year, brought together 12 global thinkers on our local Sarasota Opera House stage, presenting their forward-thinking initiatives to a sold-out audience.

From the quasi-slapstick antics of an extreme balloon sculptor to an examination of “a culture of hate” documented by experiments on ravens and crows, the fifth annual “bubblebath for the brain,” otherwise known as PINC, left another sold-out audience standing and swaying in a hip-hop sing-along during Thursday’s finale at the Sarasota Opera House.

People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity. Better known as PINC, this unique event, now in its fifth year, brought together 12 global thinkers on our local Sarasota Opera House stage, presenting their forward-thinking initiatives to an appreciative audience.

Sixteen eclectic speakers at the fourth annual PINC Experience wow a capacity crowd Thursday.

Sarasota’s fourth PINC (People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity) event is scheduled to bring another eclectic group of at least 13 speakers to give TED-style talks Dec. 7 at the Sarasota Opera House.