CULTURAL EVENTS EDUCATION& 2019-2020 SCHEDULE
DISCOVER ALL OF THE EXCITING EVENTS PLANNED FOR THIS SEASON!
MUSIC • ART • LITERATURE • HISTORY • SCIENCE • SPORTS • TECHNOLOGY
ART Art Classes & Tina Rivers Ryan Workshops “Paintings Every Art Lover Should See”
CULTURALDATES AND TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED THURSDAY | MARCH 19, 2020 Several art classes will be scheduled throughout the An art historian by training, Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan will introduce EVENTSseason focusing on drawing, water color and acrylics. the audience to five paintings every art lover should see if More details about the instructors, dates and times will they want to understand art--and that everyone who doesn’t EDUCATIONbe announced at a later date. love art should see if they want to fall in love with it. Covering Grow as an artist along with other& like-minded creatives. six centuries of paintings in ninety minutes, this lecture looks at five undisputed masterpieces that exemplify how paintings communicate ideas and shape how we see the world. Currently a curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Dr. Ryan holds five degrees in art history and formerly taught the introduction to Western art at Columbia University. LITERATURE & TECH Joseph Luzzi iPhone Photography “The American Experience Told Classes Through Seven Books”
TUESDAY | JANUARY 21, 2020 DATES AND TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED CO-SPONSORED WITH THE SFP BOOK CLUB These workshops will go over several techniques to improve In 1869, as our nation was recovering from the devastations the quality of your photographs. We will go over exposure, of the Civil War, the critic John William DeForest described cropping and angle, as well as cover the basic elements of the quest for “the Great American Novel,” suggesting how composition – such as patterns, texture, symmetry, use of difficult it was to capture the complexity and diversity of the lines, shapes and more! Bring your DSLR camera, point and American experience in a single book. The past century and shoot or your iPhone/smart phone. Any camera and any a half has seen many remarkable attempts by a wide range level of photography welcome to participate! This class is of authors to meet this challenge and distill the essence of limited to 20 participants. U.S. history. Joseph Luzzi will explore those 7 books that best represent this quest. His presentation will lead you through a fascinating world of American literature. HISTORY Louis Masur Nathanial Philbrick “Learning from “Revolutionary War” Lincoln” Dinner Event - Reservations Open Wednesday, November 6, 2019
TUESDAY | DECEMBER 10, 2019 TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 4, 2020 Louis Masur is Distinguished Professor of American Co-Sponsored with the SPYC Studies and History at Rutgers University. A graduate of New York Times bestselling author, Nathanial Philbrick, will the University at Buffalo and Princeton University, he is a discuss the thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale cultural historian who has written on a variety of topics. based on topics from his newest book In the Hurricane’s Masur returns to Sailfish Point to dive into the political Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at and constitutional history during the time of Lincoln. How Yorktown. Philbrick’s writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The did Lincoln steer the nation through the Civil War and New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, the what principles guided him as he issued an emancipation Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. He has appeared proclamation and thought about Reconstruction? Masur will on the Today Show, the Morning Show, Dateline, PBS’s discuss the qualities that made Lincoln a great leader and American Experience, C-SPAN, and NPR. offer reflections on how postwar policy may have differed had he lived.
Douglas Brinkley “Moonshot – John F. Kennedy and Space” KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dinner Event - Reservations Open December 4, 2019
TUESDAY | MARCH 3, 2020 Just months after being elected president of the United Brinkley will discuss the brilliant men and women who made States, John F. Kennedy made an astonishing announcement this giant leap possible and the technology that enabled to the nation: we would put a man on the moon by the end this achievement. His perspective as a historian, along with of the decade. Douglas Brinkley will take us through an lengthy interviews with Neil Armstrong, provide unique engrossing journey back to the 1960s by re-creating one insight into this audacious endeavor. At the center of this of humankind’s most exciting and ambitious acheivements. story is John F. Kennedy himself and his intimate involvement Brinkley will bring together the extraordinary political, with the program. Brinkley also offers insight into future cultural, and scientific factors that fueled the birth and opportunities to mobilize resources and motivate people to development of NASA and it’s manned space programs. achieve the seemingly impossible. SCIENCE
Catherine Sanderson David J. Helfand, Ph.D. “Science of Happiness” “Mysteries of the Universe”
TUESDAY | JANUARY 7, 2020 TUESDAY | MARCH 31, 2020 You will be surprised at what really makes us happy. Each of us have, at some point in our life, questioned the origin What role do money, marriage, friends, children, weather, and evolution of the universe, including the so-called Big Bang, age, and religion play in making us feel happier? Is and the vastness that defies human comprehension. Science happiness stable over time? How can happiness be is now in a position to provide understandable explanations of increased? Professor Catherine Sanderson will describe these concepts, as well as other recently defined phenomena cutting-edge research from the field of positive such as Black Holes and Gravity Waves, and the search for psychology on the factors that do (and do not) predict intelligent life. On March 31, you have an opportunity to happiness, and provide participants with practical (and have your questions addressed by Professor David Helfand of relatively easy!) ways to increase their own psychological Columbia University in a lecture that will be both informative well-being. Catherine Sanderson is the Manwell Family and entertaining for our lay audience. Dr. Helfand has served Professor of Life Sciences (Psychology) at Amherst as chair of the Department of Astronomy and co-director of the College. In 2012, she was named one of the country’s Astrophysics Laboratory at Columbia. He is a past president of top 300 professors by the Princeton Review. the American Astronomical Institute and is currently Chair of the American Society of Physics. SPORTS John Feinstein “A Life in Sports from the Best Seat in the House” Dinner Event - Reservations Open Wednesday, November 27, 2019
TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 25, 2020 Co-Sponsored with the Golf Club Times bestseller. His 36th book, The Legends Club,chronicles John Feinstein is the author of 40 books, including the two the rivalries and relationships among Mike Krzyzewski, Dean best-selling sports books of all time: A Season on The Brink Smith and Jim Valvano. In addition to his books, John also and A Good Walk Spoiled, both number one New York works for The Washington Post, The Golf Channel, Golf Times bestsellers. Ten of his books have been mysteries Digest, Sirius XM, CBS Sports Radio and Comcast Sportsnet. written for kids. The first of these, Last Shot, won The Edgar He has been inducted into The Naismith Basketball Hall of Allen Poe Award for mystery writing and was also a New Fame; The National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall York Times bestseller. His most recent non-fiction book, of Fame; The U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame and the Where Nobody Knows Your Name, was his 23rd New York Greater D.C. Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. MUSIC Orin Grossman Atlantic Classical Orchestra “History of Jazz” “Appalachian Springs Suite”
TUESDAY | NOVEMBER 12, 2019 THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 20, 2020 Orin Grossman is known for his ability to entertain and Join Maestro David Amado and the Atlantic Classical Orchestra educate any audience on a wide variety of subjects. He as they bring Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite to life. weaves together academic research, personal anecdotes, This gorgeous and supple masterpiece, scored for a thirteen- and musical talent so seamlessly that time virtually flies by. member chamber orchestra, was written for choreographer Grossman returns to Sailfish Point to discuss the “History of and dancer Martha Graham. Copland’s music paints pictures Jazz”. Join us in the Terrace Grill for a scotch tasting prior to of America’s natural beauty with both grandness and intimacy. the performance. Maestro Amado will highlight the performance with insights into the life of Copland, and this most iconic piece of music.
Monthly Jazz Series with the Jupiter Jazz Society THURSDAY | DECEMBER 5, 2019 Have dinner and drinks in THURSDAY | JANUARY 16, 2020 the Terrace Grill while being entertained by the Jupiter THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 13, 2020 Jazz Society. Reservations are THURSDAY | MARCH 12, 2020 not accepted and tables are available on a first come, first THURSDAY | APRIL 16, 2020 served basis.
More details will be provided as arrangements are finalized with each speaker. Unless noted otherwise, all afternoon events will begin at 4:30 p.m. and dinner events will begin at 6 p.m. Please note that the 90 day reservation policy applies for the three dinner events. The 24 hour cancellation policy applies to all Cultural Events & Education speakers and workshops. THE CANCELLATION POLICY APPLIES TO ALL EVENTS Cancellations made less than 24 hours prior to Sailfish Point special events will be charged 50 percent of the event price. If the cancellation is the day of the event or the Member does not attend the event, the full price for the event will be charged to the Member’s account.