Lecture: Matt Warshauer: New London, the Sugar Trade, and Slavery in the West Indies
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThe Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth – New London, the Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies: Professor Matt Warshauer shares stories about the Thames River region when it […]
Single-Session Open Studios at Lyme Academy of Fine Art: Printmaking/Sculpture/Drawing
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 84 Lyme Street, Old LymeThese are ongoing studio sessions: For more information and scheduling Open Studio Printmaking Thursdays, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm, monitored Saturdays, 10:30 am- 2:30 pm, monitored Open Studio Figure Drawing Saturday Morning Open Figure Drawing – Short Pose 10 am-1 pm Monitored by Ethan Martin Location: Cole Studio Open Studio Sculpture Saturday Morning Open Studio […]
Exhibition: A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, MANow through June 22: During the long decade of the 1970s, artists replaced traditional artistic gestures with other operations, creating new abstract languages and vocabularies. This exhibition shows how four artists nailed, glued, unraveled, twisted, folded, pierced, and tied, and most importantly, fastened—all to aesthetic effect—to highlight the labor of art making. For more information […]
Lecture: Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture
Knafel Center 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MALecture is in person or online: In conjunction with Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger, whose work is included in the exhibition, and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. This dialogue will be introduced and moderated by the art historian and curator Mary Schneider […]
State of the Arts in Manchester 2024
Manchester Country Club 305 South Main Street, ManchesterManchester Arts Commission sponsors a networking event for Art and Artists. 5:30-6PM - We invite you to enjoy some small bites and a cash bar so you can mix and mingle with fellow creatives. 6-7:30p - There will be some introductions, presentations, inductions, and an update on the State of the Arts. SHARE You or a […]
Author Talk – Peter Vermilyea, “Litchfield County & The Civil War”
Gunn Memorial Library 5 Wykeham Road, WashingtonThe Gunn Memorial Library and the Hickory Stick Bookshop are pleased to welcome author Peter Vermilyea for a captivating talk on his latest book, "Litchfield County and the Civil War". The talk is titled "The Strange Case of Dr Beckwith: A Tale of Scandal and Intrigue in Civil War Litchfield County". For more information
Yale Repertory Theater: Escaped Alone By Caryl Churchill
Yale Repertory Theater 1120 Chapel St, New HavenMarch 8 - March 30, 2024 Three old friends and a neighbor. A verdant backyard on a summer afternoon. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill’s convention-defying play, Escaped Alone, sets in comic and devastating counterpoint the consolations of a good chat and the looming weight of disasters both intimate and global. For more information and showtimes
Teacher’s Workshop: Food Waste, In-Person at the Yellow Farmhouse
Yellow Farmhouse 389 N. Main Street, StoningtonAlmost one third of the food that is grown in the United States is wasted. In this professional development workshop, teachers will explore why and where food gets wasted, learn about strategies and community programs to prevent waste, discover ways to reduce food waste in the classroom, and educate their students about food waste. For […]
Screenwriting with Janet Roach: THE HOOK
Connecticut College Mohegan Avenue Parkway, New LondonScreenwriting Workshop With Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Janet Roach: Part 1: THE HOOK Mystic Film Institute is delighted to announce part 1 in a series of intensive screenwriting workshops led by Oscar-nominated screenwriter, Janet Roach. You may attend a stand-alone workshop or immerse yourself in the full experience by taking all three. Whether you're honing your skills […]
Lecture: A Cannon to the Canon? Case Studies in Moving Beyond the Textbook at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis program will introduce the NEH grant-funded project, “Not your grandfather’s art history: A BIPOC Reader,” a collaboration with Smarthistory.org led by Olivia Chiang, that includes 20 essays authored largely by scholars of color and which aims to broaden the scope of the traditional art historical canon. During the program, Chiang will examine two case […]
Maple Sugar Fest Sundays
Stamford Museum & Nature Center 39 Scofieldtown Road, StamfordJoin us for our annual First County Bank Maple Sugar Fest Sundays as we make our very own line of maple syrup from the 200+ mature maple trees found right here on our 118-acre campus. We’re one of only two official maple sugar producers in Fairfield County! Each Sunday we’ll open our site at 10 am with […]
Chamber Music Masterworks with Musicians of the NY Philharmonic
Hoff-Barthelson Music School 25 School Ln #1, Scarsdale, NYJoin us for an exciting afternoon of chamber music performed by musicians from the New York Philharmonic as part of the School’s Elaine Stamas Chamber Music Residency. View flyer here. General admission: $35 Purchase tickets here. Program: Schubert String Quartet No. 9 in G minor, D. 173 Anna Rabinova, violin Alina Kobialka, violin Vivek Kamath, […]