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, […]
Jimmy Greene Quintet at The Side Door
The Side Door 85 Lyme Street, Old LymeA native of Connecticut, Greene is considered one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. His previous solo releases, Flowers: Beautiful Life Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue), the GRAMMY®-nominated Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue), Live at Smalls (SmallsLive), Mission Statement (RazDaz/Sunnyside), The Overcomers Suite (NuJazz), Gifts and Givers (Criss Cross), True Life Stories (Criss Cross), Forever […]
Cato Corner Farm Bloomsday Sale
Cato Corner Farm 178 Cato Corner Road, ColchesterWe have an exciting sale this weekend on one of our most popular cheeses - Aged Bloomsday! The current batches are earthy, intense, and complex. Perfect for pairing with dark beers, red wine, and whiskey. All the best winter sippers! Enjoy $10 off per pound this weekend at our farm shop and all our NY […]
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
Beatrice Cuming: Connecticut Precisionist at Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonNow through May 26, 2024: Artist Beatrice Cuming (American 1903-1974) celebrated modernity in her dynamic depictions of urban life in the 1930s, ‘40s, and early ‘50s. Painting in a Precisionist mode, she merged elements of European modernism with American subject matter to explore and elevate regional industry and the built landscape. For more information
“An Inconvenient Cop” Author Edwin Raymond: Book Signing and Talk
American Mural Project 90 Whiting Street, WinstedCritically acclaimed author Edwin Raymond, former NYPD lieutenant, will discuss and sign his book, An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. Raymond is depicted prominently in his former role as a police officer in AMP’s mural of workers, on permanent exhibit in Winsted, CT. During the evening’s presentation, he will be joined by […]
Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Sounds of Scotland
Garde Arts Center 325 State Street, New LondonScotland’s rugged, island-bound geography and the romantic history of its tartan-wearing clans have captivated audiences for centuries, right up to today’s streamers of Outlander. Setting the tone for the ECSO’s February 24 concert will be the overture to Giuseppe Verdi’s 1847 opera Macbeth, based on William Shakespeare’s tragedy about the murderous 11th-century Scottish general. With a […]
DPNC: Leila Philip (Beaverland) Author Talk and Signing
Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center 109 Pequotsepos Rd, MysticBank Square Books presents an author talk and signing at Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center (DPNC) with Leila Philip for the book, Beaverland. An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a […]