| E-Buzz January 26, 2021 Your Weekly Top Picks from Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2021 The best guide to arts and culture in Fairfield County |
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| | Some Kind of Heaven
Wed. & Thurs., 7pm Avon Theatre Film Center Stamford
An exploration of life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Florida, the “Disneyland for Retirees.” While most residents have bought into its packaged positivity, four residents live on the margins, striving to find happiness. Overall, the film demonstrates that no matter our age, we are always becoming. More... |
| | Wed. - Sun. Through March 13 MoCA Westport
A High School Student Art Exhibition, with artworks created during the year 2020, illustrating a diverse portrait of what young people have been experiencing during these challenging and unique times: 200 entries from across Connecticut and New York. More... |
| | Virtual Tour: Twenty Twenty
Wed. Jan. 27, 6pm Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Online
Aldrich Educator Dayne Encarnacion explores this show of works-on-paper by seven artists, whose work is based on photographic imagery, responding to the presidential election, the reckoning with systemic racial injustice, and the coronavirus pandemic. More... |
| | London Calling Collective: In Accordion Time, Unfolding
Wed. Jan. 27, 6:30pm Ursa Gallery Zoom
Join members of the Collective for a conversation about the show. The exhibit, features poetic accordion-fold books and diverse digital dialogues, as members of the collective reimagine community for life during and after a pandemic. Then on Saturday, 12-6pm, meet the artists at the gallery in the Bridgeport Arcade. More... |
| | Connecticut's Role in WWI
Wed. Jan. 27, 6:30pm Weston Historical Society Online
A virtual lecture by Christine Pittsley, with the Connecticut State Library's “Remembering World War One” project, exploring what was happening here on the home front as our soldiers fought in the trenches. Apart from being “the Arsenal of the Nation,” what other roles did Connecticut play? More... |
| | Make History Now! Protect Historic Properties and Enjoy Economic Benefits
Wed. Jan. 27, 6pm Greenwich Historical Society Online
A virtual panel discussion featuring Jane Montanaro, Executive Director, Connecticut Preservation, and three founding partners of Historic Properties of Greenwich, as they share research on the economic and envi-ronmental benefits of designation of historic properties, and outline practical steps homeowners can take to save our communities’ history. More... |
| | 2021 Economic Outlook
Thurs. Jan. 28, 8am Fairfield Chamber of Commerce Zoom
Presenting John Traynor, Chief Economic Strategist for People’s United Bank, and Fairfield’s First Selectwoman, Brenda Kupchick, sharing their unique perspective on the national, regional, state and local economy. More... |
| | Author Talk: Anne Gardiner Perkins
Thurs. Jan. 28, 12:30pm Wilton Historical Society Online
Presenting an online discussing the new book, Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant, winner of the 2020 Connecticut Book Award for Nonfiction. Anne's book tells the true story of five of the women students—two black and three white—who broke the gender barrier at Yale in September 1969. Few were prepared for what they found when they arrived. More... |
| | Theater & Fashion in the Photography of Lalla Essaydi
Thurs. Jan. 28, 6pm Fairfield University Art Museum Online
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| | Taggart Time: Meet Artist Hollis Heichemer
Thurs. Jan. 28, 6pm Hollis Taggart Gallery Instagram Live Tune in for a conversation between Hollis Taggart's Director of Contemporary Art, Paul Efstathiou, and artist Hollis Heichemer, whose paintings are currently on view though Feb. 6 in the three-person exhibition A Way of Feeling at Hollis Taggart’s Southport Gallery. More... |
| | Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership in Turbulent Times
Thurs Jan. 28, 7pm Greenwich Library Online
Presenting a live-streamed conversation between New York Times journalist Sarah Lyall and Pulitzer-prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on her new book. More... |
| | Lady Capulet: A Virtual Performance by the Barefoot Shakespeare Company
Thurs. Jan. 28, 6:30pm Norwalk Public Library Online
This prequel to Romeo & Juliet shows what caused the feud between the Montagues and Capulets as Rose, Juliet’s mother, journeys from country girl to matriarch, navigating through repression and then power in 16th-century Verona. Produced in Central Park, by Barefoot Shakespeare Company, last August. More... |
| | Global Garden: Resonant Beauty
Fri. Jan. 29 through March 21 Stamford Museum & Nature Center
An exhibition of oil paintings, etchings and drawings by Patricia Laspino. Over her 40-year career, Laspino has developed a signature style, entwining multiple layers of transparent oil color glazes over a sculptural groundwork of botanical impressions. Her large-scale paintings use orchids symbolically to raise awareness for environmental stewardship and to convey the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. More... |
| | ReConnect Celebration: The Booksellers Panel Discussion
Fri. Jan. 29, 7pm Greenwich Library Online
Marking the culmination of its 18-month-long ReImagine renovation project, an online discussion to complement a prescreening of the recent documentary, which is available for viewing through the Greenwich Digital Library. Moderator Colin McEnroe, columnist and radio personality, will be joined by D.W. Young, the film’s director; Dan Wechsler, one of the film’s producers, and Rebecca Romney, a rare book dealer featured in the film. More... |
| | Opening: 41st Annual Photography Show
Sat. Jan. 30, 12pm Carriage Barn Art Center New Canaan
Be among the first to see the exhibition, juried by Kathy McCarver Root, gallerist and fine art photography dealer, who selected some 100 images from close to 600 submissions, by professional, amateur and student photographers. More... |
| | Frida - Viva La Vida
Sat. Jan. 30, 4:30 & 7:30pm Ridgefield Playhouse
Screening the documentary that highlights the two sides of Frida Kahlo’s spirit: revolutionary pioneering artist of contemporary feminism, and human being tormented by agony and love. With Asia Argento as narrator, the two faces of the artist are revealed through her own words, in letters, diaries and private confessions. More... |
| | Comedy Series: Matthew Broussard & Shane Torres
Sat. Jan. 30, 7pm FTC The Warehouse Fairfield
In-person and live-streamed stand up comedy series. The 2012 winner of Houston's Funniest Person, Broussard's brand of humor covers topics from physics & grammar to the hardships of looking like an 80s movie villain, while Shane Torres is a Comedy Cellar regular and touring stand-up, writer, host, and actor originally from Texas. Catch his Comedy Central Digital Series, Shane Torres Conquers Your Fears. More... |
| | How the Met Uses Media
Mon. Feb. 1, 7pm Norwalk Youth Symphony Online
An online talk by Mary Jo Heath, radio host of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (and a former NYS parent). Mary Jo shares how The Met has succeeded in reaching audiences around the globe through its radio and TV broadcasts, Live-in-HD broadcasts, and many recent initiatives to keep opera audiences engaged during the pandemic. More... |
| | Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nicholas, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA
Tues. Feb. 2, 7pm Ridgefield Playhouse
In 1977, as NASA struggled to recruit scientists, engineers and astronauts for its Space Shuttle Program, Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, embarked on a national blitz, recruiting the first African American, Asian and LatinX men and women to fly in space. More... |
| | Virtual Book Discussion: Leslee Asch
Wed. Feb. 3, 7pm Perrot Library Zoom
Hear a virtual discussion of Leslee's latest book, "Out of the Shadows: The Henson Festivals and their Impact on Contemporary Puppet Theater.” She worked for Jim Henson and the Jim Henson Company for over twenty years. Many books and thousands of pages have been written about the life and wok of the beloved American icon--Jim Henson. "Out of the Shadows" is the first to focus solely on his love of, and impact on, puppetry as a vital contemporary art form, an important and previously unexplored aspect of the Henson legacy. More... |
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