| E-Buzz September 17, 2019 Your Weekly Top Picks from FCBuzz Events
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| | | CORRECTED VERSION There were a number of issues with the posting for Arien Wilkerson/TNMOT AZTRO at the Quick Center for the Arts on Mon. Sept. 23. They have been corrected. Please use this version. Thank you - and apologies for the errors. |
| | The E-Buzz is published each Tuesday by The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. It contains a select number of events posted on the FCBuzz Events section of our website for the coming week. We recommend you click the link in the date above for a complete review of this week's arts and cultural events. |
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Wed. Sept. 18, 6pm
ARTWorks Gallery St. Paul's on the Green Norwalk
The archetype and symbol that the labyrinth embodies provides inspiration for the paintings Tom Berntsen is showing at "in and around." The images are celebrations of the ancient practice of meditative walking. Gregg Welz has responded to Tom’s work by moving beyond his usual grid to a more circular geometry. Industrial, architectural and organic imagery has been a part of the conversation between these two artists and "in and around" is the result. More... |
| | Victor Erice Spirit of the Beehive
Wed. Sept. 18, 3pm
Pequot Library Southport
First in a series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, this stunning 1973 directorial debut by Victor Erice, is an allegorical tale set just after the Spanish Civil War, in which a 6-year-old girl, played remarkably by Ana Torrent, is fascinated, after seeing the movie Frankenstein, with finding the monster’s spirit. More... |
| | Nathalia Edenmont
Fruitfulness + Farm-to-Table Supper
Thurs. Sept. 19, 5:30pm Stamford Museum & Nature Center Opening Reception
The opening reception for an exhibition of monumental photographs of elaborate garments constructed from unconventional, often organic, materials, by Swedish artist Nathalia Edenmont, flying in for the show. Then, at 7pm, a Farm-to-Table Supper at the Knobloch Family Farmhouse, featuring Chef Alison Milwe Grace’s farm-fresh cuisine. More... |
| | RPAC Art Center & Academy Grand Opening Leslie Cober-Gentry
Thurs. Sept. 19, 6pm
RPAC Ridgefield
This new art center in Ridgefield celebrates its grand opening with a show of work in its galleries by its resident artists and of guest artist Leslie Cober-Gentry, award-wining designer and illustrator. More... |
| | Wim Wenders The Buena Vista Social Club
Thurs. Sept. 19, 6pm Bijou Theatre
Bridgeport
WPKN 89.5FM's Music on Film Series presents Wim Wenders 1999 international documentary hit about the music of Cuba and how Ry Cooder brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record the now-famous album and to perform in Amsterdam & New York. More... |
| | Social Security
Thurs.-Sun. Sept. 19-22
Through Oct. 6 Curtain Call Dressing Room Theatre Stamford
This hilarious comedy is about an art-dealer couple visited by the wife's nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal Jewish mother, all trying to save their college-student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. More...
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Thurs. Sept. 19, 6pm
Ferguson Library Stamford Opening Reception
The first to launch in a series of exhibitions on the theme of Art+Text organized by Art Spaces in Fairfield County Libraries, a consortium of libraries that curate visual art exhibitions. The Ferguson show is juried by the Stamford Art Association, with 27 works by 20 artists. Above, Reverie (detail) by Cultural Alliance member artist Heidi Lewis Coleman. More... |
| | Art+Text - Westport
Fri. Sept. 20, 6pm
Opening Reception
Westport Library's contribution to the Art+Text series of exhibitions is a double show: work by Westport artist Nancy Landauer, whose work often has a retro look and always includes text to convey a message or add pattern and texture and Westport type expert Ilene Strizver who in Talking Type, looks at the elements of typography and how the choice of font and text layout design are essential to successfully conveying the message. More... |
| | PARK(ing) Day
Fri. Sept. 20, 10am-3pm
As part of the annual global re-visioning of urban public space, developed in 2005, Downtown Bridgeport is participating in PARK(ing) Day, an event that encourages community members to transform metered parking spaces into temporary park-lets. Its purpose is to celebrate public spaces in a way that everyone can enjoy. Check out spaces activated by The Discovery Museum and Planetarium, Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, The Barnum Museum, and others along Main Street outside of Funchal Americana Buffet and Bean N Batter, and on Fairfield Avenue at Trattoria 'A Vucchella! More... |
| | Three Dog Night
Fri. Sept. 20, 8pm
Stamford
From 1969 through 1974, no other group achieved more top 10 hits, moved more records or sold more concert tickets than Three Dog Night. Their hits wind through the fabric of pop culture today, whether on the radio, where they are heard day in and day out, in TV commercials or in major motion pictures -- songs like “Mama Told Me (Not To Come)”, “Joy to the World”, “Black and White”, “Shambala” and more. More... |
| | Through Oct. 6 The MAC Milford
Milford Arts Council's Eastbound Theatre opens its season with David Auburn’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize & Tony Award-winning drama about Catherine, a young woman who has inherited her father’s mathematical brilliance and who battles to discover whether she has also inherited his debilitating mental illness. More... |
| | Ridgefield Guild of Artists Opening Reception
This annual juried exhibition features 50 works by 30 artists, selected from 400 submissions by Fred Giampietro, owner of the Fred Giampietro Gallery, in New Haven. More... |
| | Otherwise Obscured -Erasure in Body and Text
Sat. Sept. 21, 5pm Franklin Street Works Stamford Opening Reception
This exhibition, curated by Danilo Machado - a Brooklyn-based arts writer who grew up in Stamford - examines relationships between the erasure of text through redaction and illegibility, and the erasure of bodies through policy and violence. More... |
| | WATER
Sat. Sept. 21, 5pm AXEL Interiors
Norwalk Opening Reception
This exhibition features works by four artists (Helen Cantrell, Susan Fehlinger Brec Morgan and Lincoln Perry) depicting both different takes on the perennially favorite seascape and studies of how we interact with water. More... |
| | Greater Bridgeport Symphony Look to the East
Sat. Sept. 21, 8pm The Klein Bridgeport Journey along the Silk Road, with a visit from Kayhan Kalhor, master of the kamancheh, and members of the Silk Road Ensemble playing Kalhor's 2002 Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur, with Colin Jacobsen's Atashgah, for kamancheh and strings, and Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, performed by Matthew Hill, 16-year old winner of GBS’ Young Instrumentalists’ Competition 2019. More... |
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Sun. Sept. 22, 11am-4pm
MOCA Westport |
| | Robert Wilson Barnum, An American Life
Sun. Sept. 22, 2pm
Hear author Robert Wilson, editor The American Scholar, talk about his well-received new book, Barnum, An American Life, showing Barnum "as a complex and versatile businessman, undeserving of the shady showman caricature that’s been painted of him." More... |
| | Famous Families of Fairfield Historical Bike Tour
Fairfield Museum & History Center This 5-mike bike tour will reveal the stories of important families from Fairfield’s long history, many of whose names are still well documented on the streets and buildings of the town, including Rodger Ludlowe, Mabel Osgood Wright, the Ogden family, the Jennings family, the Perry family, the Wakeman family, the Osborn family, and the Burr family. More... |
| | 39th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award Show
Sun. Sept. 22, 4pm Stamford Art Association
Opening reception for this highly competitive juried competition, named for the world renowned color theorist, and former Stamford resident, that is the only artistic contest devoted exclusively to the use of color. 45 artists were juried into the show; Cultural Alliance member Claudia Renfro, won this year's contest with her Red Background. More... |
| | Arien Wilkerson + Tnmot Aztro Performance Art and Dance Installation
Mon. Sept. 23, 12pm, 3pm & 7pm
Quick Center for the Arts Fairfield University
Award-winning Arien Wilkerson, and Tnmot Aztro Performance Art and Dance Installation, in a 2-week residency at the Quick Center, present three performances of their work-in-progress, Lovepiece, a 30-minute dance and multimedia installation, focused on building a healthy relationship with yourself, and the process of healing from rejection, hate, poverty, and humiliation. More... |
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Mon. Sept. 23, 5pm
Gallery@Pearl Longshore Restaurant Opening Reception
Enjoy this solo show by Cultural Alliance member Kelly Rossetti (recipient of an award of excellence at the recent Westport Fine Arts Festival) of her abstracts and abstracted landscapes. More... |
| | Michael Bielawa Wicked Bridgeport
Tues. Sept. 24, 6:30pm
Bridgeport Public Library North End Branch
The Bridgeport Community Historical Society presents Michael Bielawa, librarian, historian, and author, who will lead a virtual visit through scenes of some of the city’s shocking crimes from over 100 years ago. Copies of Michael’s books will be available for sale and signing. More... |
| | | Fashion Illustration I-IV
Saturdays, 9am
New England Fashion+Design Association
Norwalk
The New England Fashion+Design Association was born from the need to introduce Fashion Design classes to all ages, not as basic sewing but as professional training to prepare students to become part of the Fashion Industry. Students achieve a very high fashion skill set, proven by their acceptance into Ivy League University programs of Fashion Design or Stage Design. Try this course: start at any time and move from level I to level IV in four weeks. More... |
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