Beginning October 8 and continuing on the first Sunday of the month through May, St. Paul’s on the Green will be presenting organ recitals featuring exceptional young musicians and concert artists on the Reuter/E.M. Skinner Op. 753 – 53 rank Pipe Organ. Admission by freewill donation in support of the musical life of St. Paul’s. […]

The Coventry Farmers’ Market on the grounds of the Nathan Hale Homestead is an experience not to be missed. This market carries the tradition of being the largest farmers’ market in the state, featuring some of the best of Connecticut-grown, Connecticut-made products in one of the most unspoiled countryside settings in the state. Each week, […]

Sunday, October 06, 2024 —  Sunday, February 23, 2025 Vik Muniz (Brazilian-American, born 1961) is distinguished as one of the most innovative and creative artists of our time. Endlessly playful and inventive in his approach, Muniz harnesses a remarkable virtuosity in creating his renowned “photographic delusions.” Working with a dizzying array of unconventional materials—including sugar, tomato […]

October 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 […]

Ayisha’s workshop will build on her work as a multi-media artist and dedication to social justice. “Through our art, we can convey emotions and ideas which can evoke strong feelings and new perspectives that can influence the change we wish to see in the world.” Ayisha will lead workshop attendees through collage design, note card […]

Poet Laureate Ira Joe Fisher, is holding a workshop twice a month on first and third Sundays, 1:30 to 3:30. Please register for either Group A (first Sunday) or Group B (third Sunday), but not both. Each poet should arrive with one poem in hand for that day. It will be read and discussed with […]

All profits to benefit the Institute for the Musical Arts I.M.A. Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Sponsored by ImagineMystic.com Rockshrink Musical Talent Co-Sponsored byGramma’s Attic & Sound Waves Show: 2-7p | Doors: 1p Tickets: $15 donation (tax deductible) ($3 Service Charge Included With Online Tickets. All sales are final, no ticket refunds or exchanges. Seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis, […]

Come join us for an enchanting evening filled with choral music, dance, and captivating tales of underworld and afterlife from the ancient Mediterranean. A multimedia program placing All Souls and Halloween in conversation with the Demeter and Persephone and Orphic Myths of the ancient Mediterranean. Musical program features Gjeilo's Dark Night of the Soul, Schütz's, Musikalische Exequien, and selections from Hovland's Requiem.  […]

Join us for our FIRST wine dinner at Haring’s Noank! We’re delighted to partner with Andrew Tow, Founder and Winemaker of Withers Winery for a five course experience inspired by our coastal New England bounty. Paired 5-course dinner curated by Executive Chef, Chris Vanasse Dinner begins promptly at 6pm at Haring's Noank. Ticket includes Dinner […]

Join us here at Bent of the River as we dive into Nature Journaling to understand the natural world around us. In each class, we will explore a different location on site and staff will lead the group through a guided Journaling activity. Please meet Allison in the front visitor's lot. Program Fee: $15.00 per session […]

Get ready for an evening with bestselling authors Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White as they introduce The Author’s Guide to Murder, a clever locked-room mystery set in a remote Scottish castle. Blending sharp satire, literary intrigue, and unexpected twists, this thrilling tale will keep you guessing until the very end. Meet the dynamic trio […]

Nothing quite says holidays like the smell of fresh baked cookies and breads! Over the course of these five weeks, students will practice their pastry skills as they mix, stir, measure, and bake their way to delicious treats. Each week will have activities and a story related to that treat. Five-week series of 1-hour programs […]

Safe Futures invites all members of the community to join us  for a community conversation about the future Center for Safe Futures. The Center will be a huge step forward in how our organization will be able to serve the growing number of individuals and their families dealing with abuse in New London County. The […]

The 17-piece New London Big Band brings the fun back to The Social Bar & Kitchen for their monthly residency! They celebrate a memorable year, which featured a performance at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club in New York City and a slew of sold out performances here at the Social! Schedule: The band will perform […]

Join us at Park City Music Hall for a benefit to our friends at Asheville Music Hall. Featuring members of Honeydew, Residual Groove, Sound Scheme, Wild & Co., Pangea, Drop Party & more! All tickets sales, donations and portion of bar sales for this event will go directly to Asheville Music Hall. For more information

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, […]

October 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 […]

October 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 […]

Blast off to learn about the moon, the planets, and our solar system. Create craters, make moon sand, learn about constellations, and find out what it’s like to be an astronaut. Five-week series of 1-hour programs Thursdays, Oct. 17 – Nov. 14 at 10am For 3-5 year olds who are ready to attend alone $55 […]

Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology (1939) Art history is more than a series of facts about artists, artworks, dealers, and patrons. It is also a mode of inquiry that, over decades, indeed centuries, has been shaped by the writing and research of many different scholars. Taking this insight as its starting point, this short course […]

  Brenda Geer (Eastern Pequot), endawnis Spears (Diné/ Ojibwe/ Chickasaw/ Choctaw) and Karyl Evans have been working together for over four years on a documentary film project titled “Native Peoples of Connecticut” for both public broadcast and for use as a curriculum resource for Connecticut public schools. Project director and filmmaker Karyl Evans has received […]

One of my closest buddies is having a birthday on November 6th. He'll be with us the following day. #belated We ask ourselves, what does a wine importer drink on his birthday? What's his run of show? Together, let's revisit what Ryan drank *yesterday*... ...this promises to be completely delicious and inspired. Plan on Champagne! […]

With poet Shuli Branson! Beginning a writing project can often feel insurmountable—we do whatever it takes to start getting words on the page. But that difficulty often overshadows the skill needed to know when and how to end a piece. This workshop will look at ending in relation to both form and content, pulling ideas from […]

In partnership with The Barnes Museum and Kinsman Brewing Company, Program Director Matt Award-winning poet and author Lisa Samia will present her work, an anthology of 28 poems and 28 […]

Through February 21, 2025 In this exhibition, the artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells the story of the Afri-Caribbean migration to Europe and North America in the twentieth century through his paintings and sculptures. On view for the first time as a full series, his sixty-one part painting series, Arwe Journey, depicts the history of the Windrush […]

November 1 to December 14, 2024 The Essex Library will host a new exhibit in the Buel Room from November 1 to December 14 featuring artwork by Keith Michael Fiels. Fiels is the former executive director of the American Library Association. He has been painting for most of his life, receiving art training at the […]

Join us for our annual clothing fundraiser! You'll find many treasures; come browse and take home your favorites! Women's Clothing Gorgeous New Dresses (Sponsored by Winged Monkey, Westport) Men's Clothing Children's Clothing Shoes, Boots Handbags Scarves Jewelry and so much more! Friday November 8th: EARLY BIRD ACCESS 9:00 AM – 10 AM $10.00 DONATION AT THE […]

November 9, 2024-ongoing Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word ‘impression’ as applied to art . . . really means the only truth because it means going straight to nature for inspiration and not allowing tradition to dictate your […]

Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Marten will talk to Michelle Kuo, chief curator at large and publisher, Museum of Modern Art. About Helen Marten Born in Macclesfield, UK, in 1985, Helen Marten is an artist and writer who works across sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and writing to create work that questions the stability of the material […]

Join Nancy Schuler as she moderates this discussion with Priscilla Jeffery, the founder of the Rural Education Advocacy Project-REAP. REAP is a Girls’ Education Advocacy Program developed to sponsor girls’ education in Ghana. Priscilla has created and sells beautiful bags (totes and purses) made in Ghana to fund her foundation and purchase books, supplies and uniforms […]

Founded in 1989, Vista Life Innovations, Inc., including its newer southeastern campus of New Heights established in 2021, is a 501(c)3 community based, post-secondary nonprofit training program located in Madison, Westbrook, and Pawcatuck Connecticut.  Vista is accredited, program wide, by the National Commission for the Accreditation of Special Education Services (NCASES) and serves individuals with disabilities such […]

Melisa Trinidad, flute; Rachael Brown, cello; and Linda Hinz, piano have put together an all-women composers program: 1. Diane Goolkasian Rahbee b. 1938 now living near Boston 2. Eugénie Ricau Rocherolle b. 1936 living in Old Lyme, CT 3. Mel Bonis (1858-1937) (Her real name is Mélanie but she could only get published under Mel.) She attended the Paris Conservatoire, her teachers included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, and Auguste Bazille. 4. Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) Professor of […]

Our Annual Winter Celebration -- it’s a Holiday Sing-a-long, with tubas! Admission by donation. For more information  

Saturdays | 10am – 1pm Opening Day: April 6 Conte West/Hills Middle School 511 Chapel St, New Haven The Wooster Square Farmers Market has been a staple in the Wooster Square community for over 15 years. During the COVID19 global pandemic the Wooster Square market moved to the very spacious parking lot of Conte West […]

The farm is bustling with life and abundant with produce.  We've gotten so much planted this week and many spring projects are wrapping up.  Come check out what has changed! Our Market will be open every Saturday starting April 6th, until Thanksgiving. 10AM-1PM with guest vendors weekly. For more information

November 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025 Wes and Rachelle Siegrist are an American husband and wife team who mesmerize viewers with miniature paintings so exquisitely crafted that they are often mistaken for tiny photographs.  Their tiny treasures, as collectors often refer to them, typically measure less than 9 square inches and appear even more […]

Through February 2, 2025 Buttons On! marks the first-ever retrospective for creative artist, Beau McCall. Proclaimed by American Craft magazine as “The Button Man,” McCall creates wearable and visual art by hand-sewing clothing buttons onto mostly upcycled fabrics, materials, and objects. Buttons On! showcases pieces from McCall’s nearly forty-year career, the debut of several new works, and select archival material. Organized […]

11am to 1:30pm Graduate music student Emma Mistele presents a day-long (from 11am to 11:30pm) screening of her adaptation of "Perfect Lives" (1977-1983), a TV opera by Robert Ashley (1930–2014). Ashley’s original television opera is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al., in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions […]

We are thrilled to announce a special milestone for Eating with the Ecosystem’s Annual Community Seafood Dinner—our 10th Annual event is just around the corner!    When: Saturday, November 9th Where: South Kingstown Elk’s Lodge   This dinner is one of our favorite events of the year, bringing together seafood enthusiasts and community supporters for an evening filled with exceptional […]

Mark your calendars now to enjoy this annual Lyme Public Hall tradition, served up in our lovely historic setting. The dinner features hearty homemade clam and corn chowders (free refills and vegetarian option available), special recipe coleslaw, breads, and homemade apple crisp, all made with love right here in Lyme from our time-tested recipes. All […]

Hugh Birdsall, has been playing music in Connecticut for decades, literally. He is a founding member of The Reducers, Dogbite, The Three-Pack, The Original Sinners, SheSaidHeSaid, and more recently, Hugh and Dana, and The Ground Zero Boys. . Heavily influenced by 30’s blues, 40’s hot jazz, 50’s rock n’ roll, the 60’s folk movement, and […]

Our search for a new Music Director continues, with our third of four candidates*: Leslie B. Dunner. Hailed as "dazzling, elegant, polished, and riveting" by critics for his electrifying concert performances, guest conductor Leslie B. Dunner comes to perform a program that is sure to stir concertgoers. Lauded for his world premiere performances of Anthony […]