| E-Buzz February 26, 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. |
| | Gallery@Pearl Longshore Park Opening Reception This Westport-based abstract painter is equally inspired by elements that are light, beautiful and peaceful and by those that are dark, gritty, bold and graphic. The interplay between both is the channel to her observations on composition, color, shape and texture and are symbolic of her sense of visual healing, freedom and spirit. More... |
| | Thomas Allen Harris
Through a Lens Darkly
Wed. Feb. 27, 7pm Avon Theatre Film Center Stamford
This was the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans. Bringing to light the hidden and unknown images shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon. Screening to be followed with a Q&A with director Thomas Allen Harris. More... |
| | Giving Day
Thursday Feb. 28 County-Wide
Giving Day is our region's biggest philanthropic event of the year - a 24-hour online giving marathon designed to amplify the amazing work of our nonprofit community, boost staff and volunteer skills that can be used beyond Giving Day, and encourage important giving to your missions. Beginning at 12:00 am on the morning of February 28, a $1,000 prize will be awarded to the first ten nonprofits who are the first to receive 25 unique donations of $25 or more. To donate go to FCGives.org, locate the nonprofits you wish to donate to, and donate! Donations may be made for 24 hours. More... |
| | Laura Dickey Corey The Extraordinary Havemeyer Collection: From the Occident to the Orient and from Clouet to Cézanne
Thurs. Feb. 28, 5:30pm
Greenwich Library
The Greenwich Art Society presents this lecture by the Metropolitan Museum's Laura Dickey Corey, who will discuss the impact and legacy of the extraordinary gift to the Met. in 1929 of the Havemeyer collection, hailed at the time as "one of the most magnificent gifts of works of art ever to be made to a museum by a single individual." More... |
| | Victoria Johnson American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Thurs. Feb. 28, 6:30pm
Bartlett Arboretum Stamford
Victoria Johnson speaks on her best-selling book about the hitherto untold story of Hamilton’s―and Burr’s―personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. More... |
| | Fairfield Museum & History Center Opening Reception & Awards
and beverages and Fairfield musician Billy Ruegger. The jurors, Douglas Foulke, Brad Smith, and Jan Edney, along with First Selectman Mike Tetreau, will be in attendance. Every submission to the 2019 contest will be featured in a slideshow, and the jury will announce the Best in Show photographs. More... |
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Fri. March 1, 8pm
The Quick Center for the Arts Fairfield University
Described as a “charging bull” and noted in 2003 as one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People,” Farruquito has earned the hype as heir to one of the most renowned Gypsy flamenco dynasties in Spain. More... |
| | WPKN’s 6th Annual MUSIC MASH Record Fair
Sat. March 2, 8am-6pm
Read's Artspace Gallery
Bridgeport
Thirty music dealers, stocking nearly 50 tables with thousands of vinyl LP’s, 45’s, CDs, posters, and memorabilia will greet you at this fundraiser for WPKN. Plus food and drinks from Two Roads Brewing Company and Brewport, and WPKN DJ’s spinning live. More... |
| | Free Young Persons' Concert
Sat. March 2, 2pm
Pequot Library Southport
Music for Youth presents the versatile and dynamic cellist Yves Dharamraj, in its free Young Persons’ Concert series. Dharamraj is dedicated to contemporary music, is a founding member of the Bohemian Trio and follows his passion for teaching artistry, arts advocacy, and engaging new audiences as a fellow of Ensemble Connect. More... |
| | Ridgefield Guild of Artists Opening Reception
Joe McNally, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer whose prolific career includes assignments in nearly 70 countries, selected 70 works from over 200 submissions for this look at contemporary photography in our region. More... |
| | Buzz Saws, Jacks and Tops Workshop for Kids: Making a Cup and Ball Game
Sat. March 2, 11am
Wilton Historical Society
Children in Colonial times spent a lot of time working, and were eager to partake of outdoor activities, using little more than their imaginations and handmade toys and games. Made with readily available materials, Buzz Saws, Jacks, Cup & Ball, Tops and other such toys will be the topic at this workshop for kids. Museum Educator Laurie Walker will talk about how toys were made, and have everyone learn how to play Jacks, and Shut the Box. For a workshop project, the kids will make Buzz Saws and Cup and Ball to bring home. More... |
| | B. Underwater Bubble Show
Sat. March 2, 7pm
Stamford Palace
After another long day, Mr. B finds himself transported, as if by magic, to a special, colorful, happy place called Bubblelandia - a place in which to linger, to dream, to listen, to watch, to savor, and to marvel, but, above all, a place to daydream. And it is here on this planet; it is inside us, it is the ocean of our soul. More... |
| | Barbara Eden Hal Linden Love Letters
Sat. March 2, 7:30pm
Ridgefield Playhouse
Barbara Eden and Hal Linden star in A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters, a funny and emotional portrait of the powerful connection of love, starring two iconic TV stars. More... |
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Adirondack Night Howl at the Moon! CT Audubon Center at Fairfield
The "Howl at the Moon” theme sets the tone for a fun, casual evening featuring hearty food, local craft beers and foot-tapping music at the Center's annual Adirondack Night fundraising celebration featuring Audubon’s famous chili, a hearty buffet, music by The Merwin Mountain Band, open bar with spirits donated by Asylum Distillery and local craft beers provided by Two Roads Brewing Company. More... |
| | Debbie Gravitte - Live & In Person!
Sat. March 2, 8pm The MAC Milford
Tony Award Winner Debbie Gravitte performs her internationally renowned nightclub act in cabaret style. In demand from Broadway to the concert stage she is a favorite with symphony audiences, and has starred in several specials for PBS. The latest of her 4 solo CDs is Big Band Broadway. More... |
| | Gary Capozziello, violin American Chamber Orchestra
Sat. March 2, 7:30pm First Presbyterian Church Fairfield
The American Chamber Orchestra offers music to warm your heart during the winter months! Ravel's Bolero, Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, with violinist Gary Capozziello, and Grieg's Holberg Suite. More... |
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Sat. March 2, 8pm Westport Arts Center
In this Leonard Bernstein Concert Series, the Borromeo String Quartet presents a program celebrating American music of the 1930s, in honor of Bernstein. More... |
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Sun. March 3, 5pm Good Folk Coffeehouse Rowayton
The 20-year veteran of the international Folk circuit delivers compelling musical narratives filled with heart, soul, groove and grit. Preceded by an open mic. 4-4:45pm More... |
| | Frederic Chiu, piano Orin Grossman, piano
Sun. March 3, 3pm The Quick Center for the Arts Fairfield University
World-renowned pianist, Frederic Chiu, and Fairfield University Emeritus Professor Orin Grossman present an afternoon of music for one piano, four hands and music for two pianos. This concert will feature composers from Europe and America, including Brahms, Saint-Saens, Gottschalk, Gershwin and other favorites. More... |
| | Kaleidoscope
Tues. March 5, 5:30pm University of Bridgeport Opening Reception
The Schelfhaudt Gallery celebrates the Norwalk-based Wilson Avenue Loft Artists with an opening reception for “Kaleidoscope” - a show of the work of 15 artists belonging to this artists' space. More... |
| | Get ready for our Summer Camp Special Issue of the E-Buzz, containing summer camp offerings of organizations that are members of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. Delivered to your email box Wed. March 6
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