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Sarasota is PINC again
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Sarasota is PINC again

The innovative, magical day that is PINC (People, Ideas, Nature, Community) returned to the open arms of the Sarasota Opera House on December 7 after a three-year hiatus. With 12 inspiring speakers, extremely enthusiastic attendees, and many partners and volunteers, the event–an initiative of DreamLarge and presented by All Star Children’s Foundation and Ringling College of Art and Design–lived up to its promise of being the most transformative day in Sarasota. It captured the electrifying energy and the heart that defines our remarkable community.

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DreamLarge to Host Free Event Connecting Students and Nonprofits
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DreamLarge to Host Free Event Connecting Students and Nonprofits

In collaboration with the Sarasota School of Arts & Sciences, DreamLarge announces the return of DreamLarge Weekends, a program dedicated to empowering the next generation to create innovative solutions to the real challenges Sarasota’s nonprofit community is facing. Presented by Gulf Coast Community Foundation, DreamLarge Weekends will teach students about creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and provide them with a view into the world of philanthropy.

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PINC Returns to the Sarasota Opera House on Dec. 7

PINC Returns to the Sarasota Opera House on Dec. 7

After a three-year hiatus, the PINC conference is returning to the Sarasota Opera House on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. The day will feature a cast of thought-provoking speakers from diverse disciplines, including Zion Clark, a wrestler, MMA fighter, Guinness World Record holder, author, speaker and subject of an Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary called Zion.

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PINC Experience Reawakens as Festival After Two-year Hibernation
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PINC Experience Reawakens as Festival After Two-year Hibernation

For two years, PINC Experience was relegated to a dusty storage container in the garage. The annual event that celebrates design, innovation, people, creativity and changemaking through engaging speakers from around the world succumbed to the same pressures of the pandemic as every venue in the region. But starting yesterday, the event that bills itself as a day of transformation reawakened as something bigger, more accessible and, literally, more historic.

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The Wildest Year Yet
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The Wildest Year Yet

Like Sarasota’s original master of ceremonies John Ringling, Anand Pallegar and the team at DreamLarge spent the entire year planning PINC (People Ideas Nature Culture) collecting curiosities from around the globe: professors, artists, wonks, a cartographer from Hungary, a documentarian from Tehran, even a luthier from the far-off land of Columbus, Ohio.

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In 2020, DreamLarge Wants You to Think PINC
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In 2020, DreamLarge Wants You to Think PINC

Like John Ringling, Sarasota’s original master of ceremonies, Pallegar and the team at DreamLarge have spent the year since 2018’s PINC (People Ideas Nature Culture) collecting curiosities from around the globe: professors, artists, wonks, a cartographer from Hungary, a documentarian from Tehran, even a luthier from the far off land of Columbus, Ohio.

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We Can Do Better by Going Green
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We Can Do Better by Going Green

Harvest House has transformed thousands of lives by offering housing, critical social services, and neighborhood revitalization to our most needy. But last week, Erin and her team helped launch, of all things, an environmental initiative. One that will go a long way toward putting money back into their programs.

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Neighbors Weigh In On Selby Gardens' Future
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Neighbors Weigh In On Selby Gardens' Future

The public got its chance to speak to a master plan for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens at a Sarasota Planning Board meeting last week. But even after two extended meetings on a series of planning and zoning matters around vision, the board has yet to make its recommendations.

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Green No Longer
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Green No Longer

Begun in 1999 in The Netherlands by Peter and Nelleke Van Lindonk, the annual PINC (People. Ideas. Nature. Creativity.) conference has grown into a yearly celebration for the inquisitive and forward-thinking, the passionate and the bold, bringing speakers from around the world to open their hearts and minds to the audience.

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