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O&A Sponsored Pole Dance Fitness Exhibition

[ June 14, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Outings & Adventures teams up with Apple Jelly Studios of Sarasota for an unforgettable evening of food, fun and fantasy!

Apple Jelly Studios, a member of the U.S. Pole Dance Federation, along with Outings & Adventures will be hosting an exhibition performance headlined with Steven Retchless, the “1st Male American Pole Fitness Champion!”

Steven has been featured [...]

Bowling In Boxers

[ May 1, 2011; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Outings & Adventures is proud to sponsor this evening of fun benefiting both Also Out Youth and Diversity Sarasota.

Join us for Bowling in Boxers!

To reserve your space and pre-register for just $15 click here

Price includes shoes, prizes, contests and lots of great laughs all starting at 7 o’clock.

Pics: O&A at OUT@Asolo Rep for Deathtrap

ShareIt was a perfect evening for  murder! With the storms passing overhead, our night of twists and turns kept us at the edge of our seats.
Outings & Adventures partnership with OUT@Asolo Rep made for a great time consisting of mingling with both new and established friends, meeting the cast and being chased by the paparazzi. And, [...]

O&A at Ruth Eckerd Hall: The Aluminum Show

[ April 23, 2011; 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Inventive, surprising, exciting, humorous, joyful, sparkling – and SO much fun!

In its first appearance in the Tampa Bay area, this global sensation known as The Aluminum Show combines movement, dance and visual theater into a stunning interactive experience.

Dancers breathe life into otherwise inanimate aluminum as it morphs, floats, bursts from cannons and much more in [...]

Pics: O&A at OUT@Asolo Rep for La Bete

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Oh what a night! Outings & Adventures at OUT@Asolo Rep was a tremendous success with more than 25 O&A members, from both Sarasota and Tampa Bay, filling the seats for O&A Sarasota’s first official event at the renowned play house. We laughed all night as lead Danny Scheie and cast kept us at the edge [...]

O&A Sarasota Big Gay Yoga

[ February 20, 2011; 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ]

O&A Sarasota proudly partners with Sarasota’s landmark health club facility, Bath & Racquet Fitness Club to launch O&A Sarasota’s very first athletic event, Big Gay Yoga!

Outings & Adventures has hosted many popular yoga classes such as; roof top yoga on the 9th floor of a downtown Tampa residential tower, sunset yoga on the beach, river [...]

Men’s Book Discussion Group

[ June 21, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. July 19, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. August 16, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Be sure to mark your calendar for the 3rd Tuesday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

Book discussion group is sponsored by Outings & Adventures, however, it is not an Outings & Adventures hosted event.

Monthly meetings are led and hosted by The Gay Book Guy, Robert Jaquay.

Join Robert and his avid followers monthly for food, friendship [...]

O&A Mens Evening Full Moon Dude Ranch

[ March 18, 2011; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Always a sell out, this time we’ve added a couple new twists! First, the event takes place on a full moon.

Our private event takes over O&A Member Armando Gort’s non-profit ranch, HorsePower for Kids. Its mission, and through events like ours is able to, serve inner-city children, at-risk children, and any child that could benefit [...]

O&A Sponsors Symposium at Sweeetwater Kayaks

[ February 17, 2011 5:00 pm to February 27, 2011 5:00 pm. ]

Kayak symposiums have changed the face of kayaking by bringing world class coaching to many places that normally would not have that level of coaching available.

Some of the top names in the kayaking/canoeing world will be at Sweetwater Kayaks Symposium this year. People that want to have fun, informative time in the warm Florida weather [...]

O&A Bikram Yoga Workshop

[ January 30, 2011; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ]

Expand your knowledge of the Bikram series – join Outings & Adventures as we take over Yogani Studios for our own private Bikram Workshop: Posture Intensive.

The 2.5 hour workshop, followed by yoga mingling, will be  led by Thom Taylor. The workshop  breaks down the 26 postures of the Bikram practice. We begin with a review [...]

Pics: O&A Men’s Chocolatier Class

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O&A Men took over City Street Sweets candy shop in Hyde Park and got down to some serious business – chocolate therapy!  It was a full evening of heavenly aromas, tastes, textures, and sights, appealing to all of our senses and yes, providing us with substantial therapeutic benefits.
After having us fess up to our [...]

O&A Men’s Chocolatier Class

[ December 5, 2010; 6:15 pm to 8:30 pm. ] a major hit every time, outings & adventures invades our favorite chocolate shop, city street sweets, for an evening of chocolate therapy!

join us for therapy like no other!  learn, sample, create – all within the decadent setting of luxurious, premium chocolate.

our session
guided by expert chocolatiers, learn about the history of chocolate, nutritional facts, distinctive tastes [...]

O&A Hot Flow Yoga

[ December 12, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] A Hot Flow Yoga practice connects numerous traditional Bikram poses with less intense heat.

Our class will consist of one set of Bikram (a series of 26 postures and two breathing exercises performed in a heated room) with a Vinyasa (breath-synchronized movement) in between the Bikram poses. Hence described as a Hot Flow class. A great [...]

Ready? Set? Overindulge!!!!

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Get psyched. It’s coming. Around the corner. Any day now. The person standing in front of the black pot ringing the bell. Yule tide stress.
Start listening to the kinds of things people say as we get closer. See how many comments express concerns about obligations of one kind or [...]

OUT@Asolo Rep for Bonnie & Clyde: A New Musical

[ November 18, 2010; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] OUT@Asolo Rep is a special series that, like Outings & Adventures, offers people a chance to hang out with friends and meet kindred spirits in a comfortable lgbt friendly environment…out side ‘the bar.’

Outings & Adventures and OUT@Asolo Rep invite you to the season opener to the the premier lgbt theater nights in sarasota!

coming soon, an [...]

Pilates Research

Sharecamille raciopio, (center) leads o&a director of adventure, barbara voglewede and o&a chief adventure officer, robert geller through the basics of proper breathing and an introduction to the most widely used piece of apparatus, and probably the most important, the reformer.

accompanied by lpga pro megan younkman we got a sampling of various pilates principles used [...]

O&A in Tampa Bay Times

Sharetbt* Tampa Bay Times staff writer Susan Thurston along with photographer Luis Santana joined the adventure for three O&A Events during the month of September; Men’s Book Club (of which the Tampa Bay Ray’s game killed attendance, it’s o.k. we won that night!), Sunset Kayaking and Intro Stand Up Paddling. During Susan’s visits she interviewed [...]

O&A Second Chance for Irma Vep

[ October 2, 2010; 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] miss out on our o&a event for irma vep at american stage?  we can take care of you! o&a secured tickets for a second night of this hilarious gothic spoof, so that you have another opportunity to enjoy it.

about the play
a hilarious gothic spoof that won an obie award, the mystery of irma vep kicks [...]

Pics: O&A Hard Hat Tour of Dali

Sharenearly 80 o&aers donned hard hats and toured the $36 million dali museum expansion, marveling at the spectacular features of this architectural wonder.
as the first of an o&a series of art events, o&a partnered with the dali museum to offer this unique look inside the construction of the new museum space. it sits on the beautiful waterfront [...]

Book Review: The Road Home

ShareThe Road Home (Kensington, 2010) tells an entirely different story, containing the familiar elements of Ford’s very popular Last Summer and Full Circle. Yes, this has all the ingredients of a gay romance, but it is much more. This is a book about an inner journey of self-discovery and the life changing decisions that occur [...]

O&A Group KaYoga

[ October 24, 2010; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] tune in to mother nature and yourselves, as we combine kayaking and yoga in this afternoon of calming exercise.

from beginners to advanced, this event takes everyone on a journey toward more flexible bodies and calmer minds.  we start with a 1.5 mile paddle off beautiful ft. desoto, then pull in on a sandy beach for [...]

Pics: Group Shuffleboard

Shareo&a men and women met for an evening of fun and intense court action at the renowned st. pete shuffleboard club!
situated in the heart of downtown st. pete next to mirror lake, the st. pete shuffleboard club was established in 1924. it is an historic landmark, well-preserved by the club membership and the city of [...]