| E-Buzz: January 15, 2019 Your Weekly Top Picks from FCBuzz Events
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| | This is a small selection of events posted on the FCBuzz Events section of our website for the coming week. We recommend you click the link above for a complete review of this week's arts and cultural events. |
| | Ghosts - French Holocaust Children
Wed. Jan. 23 Walsh Gallery, Quick Center Fairfield University Opening Reception This installation of sculptural and photographic work by Robert Hirsch commemorates the abbreviated lives of over 11,000 Jewish children sent from France to Nazi death camps. Created in the form of three one-fifth scale boxcars containing over 600 portraits, this “post-documentary” approach transforms archival material by exploring the space between art and history, making the case that contemplative picture making can imagine the unimaginable. More... |
| | Richard Frisch From Grunts to Tweets
Wed. Jan. 23 Mark Twain Library Redding In From Grunts to Tweets, Richard Frisch examines the science, speculation and popular myths that surround language. More... |
| | BRIDGEPORT VISUAL ARTS SPECIAL |
| Forgotten Panoramas: Roadsides and Waterways
Thurs. Jan. 24
Bridgeport Opening Reception
Experience the beauty, calm and restorative solitude this longtime CT Post photographer finds through the perspective of his camera lens while kayaking and trekking to capture forgotten panoramas. More... |
| | Intersectionality: Art and Identity
Thurs. Jan. 24
Read's Artspace Gallery Bridgeport Opening Reception
Five artists, whose studios are in the Read's Building, offer a contemporary framework to conceptualize the artist as connector to a set of constantly shifting factors, such as ethnicity, gender, forced migration, etc., that impact construction and expression of identity. More... |
| | Thurs. Jan. 24
Schelfhaudt Gallery University of Bridgeport Opening Reception
Works by more than 18 artists from Bridgeport’s American Fabrics Building studios, including Cultural Alliance member artists Janine Brown, Linn Cassetta, Eric Chiang, Linda Colletta, Lesley Koenig, Brechin Morgan, Meighan Morrison, and Susan Newbold, in photography, sculpture, painting, installation and mixed media. More... |
| | Charles Busch Native New Yorker
Fri. Jan. 25
The MAC Milford Arts Council
Cabaret performance by the unique playwright, actor, director, novelist, and drag icon, author and star of over 25 plays including Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. More... |
| | Masterpieces from the Museum of Cartoon Art
Sat. Jan. 26 Bruce Museum Greenwich
This exhibition, running through April 20, showcases more than 100 original works celebrating the history of this unique American art form. Curated by Brian Walker, former director of the Museum of Cartoon Art, treasures from this rich and varied repository represent all cartoon genres. More... |
| | Colonial Cookery and Customs for Kids: Welsh Rabbit and Molasses Bread
Sat. Jan. 26
Wilton Historical Society
This monthly workshop teaches kids a “receipt” (recipe) used in the Connecticut region. While the food is prepared, students hear about Colonial manners, morals and way of life. The monthly workshops feature relatively simple dishes made with local, seasonal ingredients, adapted for modern kitchens. This month Museum Educator Laurie Walker shows the children how to make Welsh Rabbit (or Rarebit), a hearty tavern favorite dating from the early 1700s, and Molasses Bread, a Revolutionary War period recipe. More... |
| | | FTC Stage One Fairfield
Theatre of War is a film telling the story of how six veterans from the Malvinas/Falklands War came together to make a film. Presented in conjunction with Campo Minado/Minefield (below), all interested in the play are encouraged to learn more about the work through watching the film, which will be followed by a panel discussion with veterans who are performing as part of the work, and moderator Peter Van Heerden, Quick Center Executive Director. All film tickets receive a free ticket to the performance below. More |
| | Lola Arias Campo Minado Minefield
Sat. Jan. 26
The Quick Center Fairfield University
Fresh from New York’s Public Theatre, this production brings six Falklands/ Malvinas war veterans, who once faced each other across a battlefield, facing each other across a stage. Told in Spanish and English, the piece is staged on a film-set-turned-time-machine, where those who fought are teleported back to 1984 to reconstruct their memories of the war and aftermath. More |
| | Seal Spotting and Birding Cruise
Sat. - Sun. Jan. 26-27 Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Cruise out onto Long Island Sound to see some of the harbor seals and gray seals that annually migrate down into Long Island Sound in the colder months from northern waters. Aquarium educators will point out these federally protected marine mammals and talk about their natural histories. More... |
| | Mini Conference: How To Get Published
Sun. Jan. 27
Join literary agent Cynthia Manson and editor Caitlin Alexander for an in-depth, 2-hour look at how to get your work published. More... |
| | Jeffrey Greene Community Partners in Action How Art Changed the Prison
Sun. Jan. 27 The Aldrich Museum Ridgefield Panel Discussion + Opening Reception
Celebrate the opening of this exhibition of the visual art of 28 artists, made in Connecticut’s prisons over the past three decades, curated by CPA's Jeffrey Greene. More... Before the opening, Greene moderates a panel discussion with former inmates and others involved in Connecticut’s correctional system on the impact of the visual arts on those incarcerated in the State’s prisons. More... |
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Sun. Jan. 27 The Warehouse, FTC Fairfield
Garrett "G.Love" Dutton, Jeffrey "The Houseman" Clemens, and Jimmy "Jazz" Prescott celebrate their 25th year as touring and recording artists who have influenced many musicians with their signature blend of Delta Blues, Hip Hop, Funk, Rock and Roll, and Jazz. More... |
| | Teaching the Eye to Hear: The Matisse Jazz Project
Mon. Jan. 28 WSHU Stone Family Assembly Hall Fairfield
Christopher Bakriges performs 20 of his jazz compositions for piano corresponding to the iconic cut paper collages of Henri Matisse published in 1947 as Jazz. More... |
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