Upcoming Events

Out-of-towners use area code 941
NM = Non-Mensa Event C/D = This household has a Cat/Dog NS = No Smoking
SS = Separate Smoking WA = Wheelchair Access
Sometimes, last-minute changes must be made to the Manasota Mensa calendar of events after the print-edition of The 4M has gone to press. This website calendar can be changed at a moment's notice. Be sure to check this website for the most up-to-date schedule of events.
May
May 12, 19, 26
- Monday – 7:00 PM – FREE – EVENING
SCRABBLE.
Night time Scrabble is a success! Come
play Scrabble at the Gulf Gate Books-A-Million, Highway
41 (Tamiami Trail ) and
May 13 - Tuesday -
6:30 PM - $$ - SUPPER. Join us at Gecko's
Grill & Pub at #4870 in The Landings Shopping Center, U.S. 41 and
May 13
- Tuesday - 7:30 PM - FREE - "WAIT,
WAIT, DON'T TELL ME" TRIVIA NIGHT. Join
our trivia enthusiasts as we compete with other teams at Gecko's
Grill & Pub, at #4870 in The Landings Shopping Center, U.S. 41 and Proctor Road
in south
CHANGE May 14
- Wednesday - 6:00 PM - $$ - DINNER MEETING.
Tonight's dinner, celebrating Stewart Ogilby's 3/4 century
birthday, is being switched to the Red Lobster in
Sarasota (a couple hundred feet south of Gulf Gate, on the east side of 41). It
seems that the Palma Sola Bay Grille, where we had planned this event, has bit the
culinary dust! Help us celebrate Stewart's birthday! Let Don
Brunner know by 7:00 PM on Tuesday, at 360-0646, if
you'll be joining us.
May 16, 23 –
Fridays – starting at 5:00 PM – $$ - P.O.E.T.S. (Phooey
On Everybody . . . Tomorrow’s Saturday) CORNER. P.O.E.T.S. is one of our most popular events – our
weekly impromptu get-together, attitude adjustment session, and dinner. We're
meeting at the Ruby Tuesday's at
the (Westfield) Sarasota Square Mall. Ruby Tuesday's
has a wide variety of great food at reasonable prices - and an outstanding salad
bar – what could be better?! So, come get your @#&% attitude adjusted –
and join us at P.O.E.T.S. Corner at the Ruby
Tuesday's Restaurant this Friday! NS, WA
May 17
- Saturday - 11:30 AM - $$ - SATURDAY LUNCH BUNCH.
The lunch bunch is meeting at the
May 24
- Saturday – 7:00 PM - $3.00 – MONTHLY
GATHERING. Jeff DeCola and
Helen Shaw will be hosting our June gathering at their home at
May 25
- Sunday - 7:00 PM – FREE – GAMES
NIGHT. Just about every month, we meet at Nancy Heinrich’s,
May
26 – Monday – 6:00 PM - $$ -
GECKO’S for P.O.E.T.S. “NORTH BRANCH”. This is sort of a once-per-month
P.O.E.T.S. Corner North – an opportunity for our members who live in the
northern region of Manasota Mensa. We’re meeting at the Gecko’s Grill & Pub,
now. It has excellent food at very reasonable prices. Join us for dinner at Gecko’s
Grill & Pub,
May 26 – Monday – 6:00 PM - $30.00 –
May
29 – Thursday – 7:00 PM – FREE – “SORDID
LIVES” with Ruth Danielle.
At a Palm Springs RG years ago, I laughed my way through this 2000 Del Shores
movie. With the help of Renaissance Video (necessary because I didn’t remember
its name or anybody in it – Olivia Newton-John,
May 31
- Saturday – 2:00 PM - $30.00 –
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