| E-Buzz December 29, 2020 Your Weekly Top Picks from Dec. 30, 2020 - Jan. 5, 2021 The best guide to arts and culture in Fairfield County |
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| | | Golden Door Interview: Sofie Swann
Through Thurs. Dec. 31 Silvermine Arts Center YouTube
Continuing its series of videotaped interviews related to its The Golden Door exhibit, featuring artists whose experience of immigration or migration informs their art. This week: Sofie Swann, an Iranian American painter who was on the last plane out before the revolutionary government shut down the airport in Tehran. Swann’s large-scale paintings are filled with small repeated motifs, organized around a grid, showing links to both Minimalism and Pattern & Decoration, two art movements that took hold in the 1970s. The exhibit is on view through Jan. 16. More... |
| | The Dissident
Through Thurs. Dec. 31 3:45pm & 7pm Avon Theatre Film Center Stamford
Presenting a new documentary by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel, a real-life international thriller and an intimate portrait of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi who, on October 2, 2018, entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul never to come out. As his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together clues to his brutal murder, they expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved. More... |
| | Fri. Jan. 1, 3:30pm & 7pm
Showing the 2000 Oscar Award-winning film inspired by writer and director Cameron Crowe’s experiences as a teenage rock journalist. Featuring Bill Crudup, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand, Zooey Deschanel, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. More... |
| | Malcolm Mitchell My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World
Sat. Jan 2, 2pm Fairfield University Bookstore Zoom
Presenting a free, virtual, kids’ Story Time, with a Super Bowl Champion who will read from his new children’s book, My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World, and answer questions. Perfect for ages 4-8. Copies of the book are available in advance, at the store, and online. More... |
| | A Way of Feeling
Sat. Jan. 2, 5 - 8pm Hollis Taggart Southport Opening Reception
An opening reception for the new exhibition featuring Thomas Agrinier, Hollis Heichemer, and Anna Pietrzak. Based respectively in New Hampshire, New York City and Paris, these three painters show distinctive explorations of the Romantic tradition, by emphasizing an appreciation of nature, imagination, emotion, and transcendent experiences. COVID protocols apply. More... |
| | New Year Brass Concert
Sun. Jan 3, 3pm Stamford Symphony Channel Online
An online concert of music to uplift and renew, played by the Stamford Symphony’s Brass Quintet. The program includes: Stamitz, Wind Quartet in E-flat major, and brass music by Beethoven, Holborne, Maurer and more. The quintet will also discuss their experience of playing as a small ensemble, compared to performing as part of the full orchestra. Hosted by Music Director, Michael Stern. More... |
| | Tues. Jan. 5, 7pm Music on the Hill Zoom
Join the chorus to sing "A New Year Carol," by Benjamin Britten, a setting of the poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and many more! Registration required. More... |
| | Presidential Trappings: First Ladies, Inaugurations, Libraries, and Ballot Design
Tues. Jan. 5, 7pm New Canaan Library & New Canaan Museum & Historical Society Zoom
The first in a series that begins with a focus on America’s unelected leaders – First Ladies. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, discusses roles played by first ladies since 1789, including characteristic types: the celebrity, he political partner. the controversial, and the reluctant first lady. More... |
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