Phoebe’s BookCellar Fill-A-Bag Sale
Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old LymePhoebe’s BookCellar Fill-A-Bag Sale Purchase a bag for $5 and fill it with quality books, CDs, and DVDs on display in the Library’s Community Room. All proceeds benefit the Library.
Chinese Dinner: White Gate Farm
White Gate Farm 83 Upper Pattagansett Road, East LymeChinese Dinner — Fresh and Fragrant ! Gather friends of come alone and make new ones at this delicious family style dinner in the cozy Inn. Groups of 4 or more will be seated at their own table. Smaller parties will be at a communal table. BYOB is welcome. We all know how hard it […]
Lecture Series: Coastal Perspectives: A Tale of Two Estuaries: Patrick Lynch
Avery Point Auditorium 1084 Shennecossett Road, GrotonPlease join us for our 28th season. This annual lecture series spans the breadth of human interactions with coastal waters, including speakers from the natural and social sciences as well as arts and humanities. A Tale of Two Estuaries Patrick Lynch, artist | author | designer | photographer Connecticut’s two largest riverine estuaries have long […]
Design in Dialogue: A Conversation with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenIn a career that has spanned over 50 years, the renowned graphic designer, public artist, and educator Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (b. 1940, B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A. 1964) has created community-based and politically responsive work that champions principles of advocacy and inclusion. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design, […]
Unsilenced: Music from Afghanistan – Arson Fahim & Cuatro Puntos Ensemble
Lutheran Church of Saint Mark 75 Griswold St, Glastonbury, CTThis is a project organized and sponsored by Cuatro Puntos, in partnership with Arson Fahim. It features 12 musicians still inside Afghanistan who recorded their music in secret in 2023, not allowing even the ultimate in threats and possible punishments to stop them from their art. Cuatro Puntos ("four points" in Spanish) is a […]
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Page Knox, Women Surrealists & Their Trans-Atlantic Voyages
Carriage Barn Arts Center 681 South Avenue, New CanaanIn collaboration with the New Canaan Library: Please join Dr. Knox for a discussion about the under-appreciated Female Surrealists...painters and photographers, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington who, in their journeys of self-discovery, ventured across the Atlantic to find new personal and universal truths. These international artists both championed Surrealist ideas and pushed against them to […]
Women in the Arts Lecture Series: Get the Picture with Bianca Bosker
Carriage Barn Arts Center 681 South Avenue, New CanaanIn collaboration with the New Canaan Library: In Conversation with Bianca Bosker, author of NYT bestseller Get The Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See In her latest journalistic endeavor, Bosker immerses herself in the nerve center of the art world and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, […]
The Collapse of Nature: Insect Decline in the Anthropocene
University of Connecticut Biology/Physics Building 91 N. Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CTJoin the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and the Connecticut Entomological Society for a free lecture by Entomologist and UConn Professor Dr. David Wagner.Dr. Wagner will lecture on his entomological research surrounding invertebrate conservation, including topics such as pollinator decline, invasive species impacts, and climate-change threats. For more information