Week of Events
KELP ME OUT HERE! – THE HISTORY, USES, FUTURE, AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF KELP AND SEAWEED IN NEW ENGLAND
Please join us at the UNITED Table for the next event in our series with Eating With the Ecosystem as they host a panel and tasting event showcasing Kelp – a type of seaweed that has long been integral to New England’s coastal ecosystems and communities. In recent years, kelp farming has emerged as a […]
Author Talk and Signing: Caoilinn Hughes (The Alternatives) at Bank Square Books
Author Talk and Signing: Caoilinn Hughes (The Alternatives) at Bank Square Books
Caoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at […]
Adam Gopnik: To Fix Democracy, Figure Out What’s Broken at Wesleyan
Adam Gopnik: To Fix Democracy, Figure Out What’s Broken at Wesleyan
Join celebrated writer Adam Gopnik, best known for his essays in The New Yorker, for an impassioned talk on the need to protect democracy at such a fractious time in American political history. “When democratic practices are in power, they look boringly normal; it’s startling to realize how fragile they really are, and how hard they […]
Talk: “The Petro-Welfare State: Alaska’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability ” with Philip Wight
Talk: “The Petro-Welfare State: Alaska’s Experiment in Fiscal and Ecological Sustainability ” with Philip Wight
Philip Wight is an Assistant Professor of History and Arctic & Northern Studies at the University of Alaska. He is an energy and environmental historian, with a focus on infrastructure, mobility, and climate. He teaches classes in Alaska history, the contemporary history of the circumpolar north, as well as energy and climate history. Dr. Wight […]
Like Notes of Music: Documentary Screening and Artist Talk with Christian Peltenburg-Breshneff
Like Notes of Music: Documentary Screening and Artist Talk with Christian Peltenburg-Breshneff
Internationally known artist Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff will screen his award winning documentary about his life and work Like Notes of Music. Copies of his books The Greek House, Into the Garden, and Homage will also be available for purchase. A reception with follow at the Cooley Gallery, 25 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT at 4 pm […]