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, […]
AFTERWORDS: assembly—Saidiya Hartman at Wesleyan
Shaprio Center for Creative Writing 116 Mount Vernon Street, MiddletowmnSaidiya Hartman ’83, Hon. ’19 will be in conversation with Kaneza Schaal ’06 moderated by Kiara Benn ’20 as they discuss Litany for Grieving Sisters. Litany for Grieving Sisters is a new performance work, a ceremony for life at the end of the world based on Hartman’s text (originally published in the journal Representations, 2022). Reflecting on themes of kinship, maternal care, anti-Black violence, […]
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe at La Grua Center
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonWhat: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe When: October 2, 2024 at 5pm Where: La Grua Center, 32 Water Street Stonington, CT 06378 The undisputed master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, resurrects for one singular evening of mystery and horror. Immerse yourself in the life and death of the legendary author as actor Campbell Harmon performs […]
Rea Frey (In Every Life) Author Talk and Signing at Bank Square Books
Bank Square Books 80 Stonington Road, Mystic, CTBank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Rea Frey for her new book, In Every Life. Rea will be in conversation with Bookstagramer Jody Blanchette (@redreadreviews). This event is free and open to all, but we kindly ask that you click the RSVP button so that we can plan accordingly. See you there! For more […]
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, […]
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
Adult Book Fair at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonJoin the Lyman Allyn and Bank Square Books to celebrate National Book Month! Be sure to stop by the Adult Book Fair in Hendel Library, hosted by our friends at Bank Square Books. They will have a selection of books for both adults and children. While you’re here, get creative and stop by our First Thursday artmaking station! All attendees […]
William Saunders & His World- Hartford History Lecture Series
Connecticut’s Old State House 800 Main St, HartfordDr. Fiona Vernal, UConn History Department For three generations, the Saunders family operated a successful and innovative tailor business in the city of Hartford, eventually establishing a reputation as Black merchant tailors with deep ties in Hartford’s Black and white communities. Their network stretched from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York to Barbados and France. This […]
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 […]
Ivoryton Playhouse Presents Alabama Story A True Tale About the Fight for Free Speech
Ivoryton Playhouse 103 Main Street, IvorytonIvoryton Playhouse is proud to present Alabama Story by Kenneth Jones, running from October 3rd to October 20th, 2024. The play, set in the deep south in the 1960’s, tells the true story of Alabama librarian Emily Wheelock Reed, who faces opposition when she refuses to ban a children’s book about a black rabbit and a white rabbit […]