Art: Different Things and in Different Amounts at Eastern Connecticut
Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery 83 Windham Street, WillimanticThrough October 11, 2024 Opening reception Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. Different Things and in Different Amounts examines the complex lives of images in the work of seven contemporary artists. The artworks, when considered collectively, pose fundamental yet expansive questions about what imagery is and where it comes from. Many of the artists included in this […]
Author Talk: Marian Schembari: A Little Less Broken at Athena Books!
Athena Books 228 Sound Beach Avenue, Old GreenwichA CONVERSATION WITH MARIAN SCHEMBARI ABOUT HER LIFE-CHANGING AUTISM DIAGNOSIS October 1 | 7PM Athena Books is thrilled to welcome Marian Schembari back to Old Greenwich to celebrate the release of her new memoir, A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole. In her thought-provoking memoir, Marian chronicles the story of her decades-long […]
Suzanne Vega – Old Songs, New Songs and Other Songs at The Kate
The Kate 300 Main Street, Old SaybrookOctober 1-2, 2024 Widely regarded as one of the foremost songwriters of her generation, Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been called contemporary folk or neo-folk songs of her own creation in Greenwich Village clubs. Since […]
Learn To Quilt Series at North Branch Library in Bridgeport
Bridgeport Public Library - North Branch 3455 Madison Ave, BridgeportAnyone can learn to quilt. The secret is knowing where to start. Come and learn the basics of quilting. Program will be held on Wednesdays or Saturdays Mystery Quilt classes: Wednesday, Sept 4 & 18 Wednesday, Oct 2, 16, & 30 Wednesday, Nov 13 Time: 10:30am - 1:30pm Sew Saturday classes: Saturday, Sept 14 & […]
Miles Huston: Overshoot at The Aldrich Museum
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, RidgefieldSeptember 4, 2024 to January 6, 2025 Miles Huston's Overshoot series situates archival aerial photographs of small family farms above unfolded vegetable boxes, highlighting the shift in our collective viewing position from an on the ground horizontal plane to a novel geo-spatial view from above. The work suggests that modern ecological policies and contemporary farming, while streamlined […]
Dixwell Q-House Farmer’s Market in New Haven
Q-HOUSE FARMERS MARKET 197 Dixwell Ave, New HavenWednesdays | 3pm – 6pm Opening Day: June 12 Daniel Stewart Plaza 197 Dixwell Ave Q House and CitySeed are excited to be collaborating to bring a Farmers Market to the Daniel Stewart Plaza at Q House this summer! This market will look much like CitySeeds other markets, offering fresh locally grown and produced foods, […]
Movies in the Plaza at Pitkin Park
Movies in the Plaza is back, bringing you free Wednesday night (and now select Sunday afternoon) movie screenings May through October in downtown New Haven’s beloved Pitkin Plaza! Grab your lawn chairs, picnic blankets and some takeout from a local spot, and spend an evening under the stars enjoying blockbusters, nostalgic blasts from the past, […]
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination: Bruce Museum
Bruce Museum 1 Museum Drive, GreenwichOctober 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Inspired by a line from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination explores the artist’s lifelong admiration of the influential naturalist and his own sustained engagement with the natural world. Between his birthplace of […]
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects: Bruce Museum
Bruce Museum 1 Museum Drive, GreenwichOctober 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Widely acclaimed when it was published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects has come to be regarded as one of the important early monuments of color photography. Sternfeld (American, b. 1944) was one of a small cohort of pioneers, including William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, and Stephen […]
New Work by Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff at Chequer interiors, Essex
Chequer Interors 19a Main Street, EssexPlease join us to celebrate fall and see new work by Christian Brechneff. Thursday, October 3rd / 3-7pm Chequer Interors 19a Main Street,Essex, CT For more information
Barnum Museum’s Uncovering the Secrets of an Egyptian Mummy and Coffin: at The Bijou
Bijou Theater 275 Fairfield Avenue, BridgeportJoin us at the historic Bijou Theatre in Downtown Bridgeport for the premier showing of the Barnum Museum’s multi-award-winning documentary “Uncovering the Secrets of an Egyptian Mummy and Coffin: The Quest to Restore Personhood.” This 30-minute film tells the story of “Ipy’s mummy” and Pa-en-bes’ coffin, sharing the secrets hidden within hieroglyphs, inscriptions, and facial […]
Theater: FEVER DREAMS (of Animals on the Verge of Extinction) at TheaterWorks in Hartford
TheaterWorks Hartford 233 Pearl Street, HartfordOCT 3 – NOV 3, 2024 A steamy, decades-long affair. A remote cabin. An unexpected visitor. This is only the beginning. Full of surprising twists, dark secrets, and one very stubborn, broken cabinet, this exciting new play is from the mind of writer Jeffrey Lieber, co-creator of the hit television series LOST. Directed by Rob Ruggiero For more information […]