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Creative Practices For Modern People: John Kao at Carriage Barn Arts
Carriage Barn Arts Center 681 South Avenue, New CanaanA Q&A with John Kao regarding the importance of innovation in the current professional landscape, and intentional practice for artists & creatives. The Economist called John Kao “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” He is an entrepreneur, pianist, former Harvard Business School professor, best-selling author, and Tony-nominated producer of feature films and Broadway theater. Kao […]
Author Talk “Luanne Rice at Bank Square Books
Bank Square Books 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, CTJoin Bank Square Books as we celebrate our grand opening in our new space with the release of Luanne Rice's new young adult book, If Anything Happens to Me! Come celebrate the release of Luanne's new young adult book If Anything Happens to Me and the first author event in our new location for our official grand opening in our […]
Mystic Film Festival: Susan Seidelman Talk Back and Signing
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonBank Square Books, in partnership with the Mystic Film Festival, presents an author talk and book signing with Susan Seidelman for her memoir Desperately Seeking Something. Susan will be in conversation with Maria Giese. Unable to attend this event, but still want a signed copy? Purchase the book below and specify your signing and personalization request […]
Adam Shatz: The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon at Yale Whitney Humanities Center
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenThe Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon has been dead since 1961, yet his name is invoked with increasing frequency, and has itself become a kind of Rorschach test in discussions of white supremacy, the Middle East, and settler-colonialism. In his talk at the Whitney Humanities Center, Adam Shatz, the author […]
Stowe Prize for Literary Activism Celebration: Dr. Bettina L. Love
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street, HartfordThe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is delighted to celebrate Dr. Bettina L. Love as the 2024 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner for her book Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black […]
Webinar: “An Evening with German Climate Activist and Author Luisa Neubauer”
Join the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Yale School of the Environment's Climate Learning Community for an evening with Luisa Neubauer, a German climate activist, politician, author and co-organizer of Fridays for Future. Sena Wazer, a master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment and fellow environmental advocate, will moderate the […]
Author Panel & Book Signing: Summer’s Not Over at Barrett Bookstore in Darien
Barrett Bookstore 5 Corbin Drive, DarienWe are still holding on to the easy breezy feelings beach reads give us, even after Labor Day! Join us for our Summer's Not Over (yet!) gathering at the store on Wednesday, September 18th. We'll welcome authors Maddie Dawson, Hannah McKinnon, and Colleen McKeegan to discuss their summery novels. Add this one last summer hurrah […]
Film Screening and Q & A: Retrospective with Directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel : Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenPlease join us for a mini-retrospective of their work 9/19 Screening of VERA (2022), 5pm, L01 in the Humanities Quadrangle Preceded by the Opening reception of Film & Media Studies Program at 3:30 pm Followed by a Q+A with directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel after the screening of Vera led by Fatima Naqvi (FMS) […]
John Della Volpe “How Will Gen Z Vote? Taking the Pulse of Today’s Youth” in Fairfield
Fairfield University Dolan School of Business 1073 N Benson Rd, FairfieldJohn Della Volpe is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, where he has led the institute’s polling initiatives on understanding American youth since 2000. Della Volpe's best-selling book, FIGHT, How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America, has been called "the definitive account of America's next […]
StoryFest ’24: at Westport Library
The Westport Library 20 Jesup Road, WestportStoryFest Saturday will feature an array of award-winning authors and special events featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Claire Messud, Peng Shepard, Joe R. Lansdale, Christopher Golden, Clay Chapman, Gabino Iglesias, Rachel Harrison, and many, many more. Plus a special tribute to longtime Westport Library champion and iconic Publisher's Weekly editor, the late Sybil Steinberg; a pair of […]
Nancy Pelosi, “The Art of Power” in conversation with Rosa DeLauro at RJ Julia
Omni New Haven Hotel 155 Temple St, New HavenNancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker—how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and […]
Acclaimed Irish writer Claire Kilroy in Fairfield
Fairfield University Dolan School of Business 1073 N Benson Rd, FairfieldPresented by the Fairfield University College of Arts & Sciences MFA Program in Creative Writing and their Inspired Writers Series in collaboration with the Irish Studies Program. The acclaimed Irish […]