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E-Buzz December 8, 2020 Your Weekly Top Picks from Dec. 9-15, 2020 The best guide to arts and culture in Fairfield County |
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Nancy Moore Unconventional Women
Through January 20 RPAC Gallery Ridgefield
A substantial body of brilliantly colored mixed-media pieces by Ridgefield artist Nancy Moore. These works show, “women who are not conventionally beautiful and are not engaged in conventional activity. They are perfect in their imperfections, every one of them striving to engage the viewer on some deeper level.” On view in person and online. Also see, as part of the Westport Library’s “Artists in Residences” series, a videotaped interview with Nancy Moore on the Library’s YouTube site. More... |
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Teresa Rainieri
Through January 4 Fairfield University Bookstore
Teresa reduces the color and glamour of iconic objects and people to reveal their core, through a stark contrast of shadows and lines. Underneath the layers there is a beauty to be found, that is both simplistic and bold. More... |
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Stamford Art Association Online
An online fundraising exhibition to benefit the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. Forty-seven artists have submitted works of art depicting inspirational landscapes, woodlands, trees - or denuded landscapes. Curated by Bernice Horowitz. More... |
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Black Bear
Through Thurs. Dec. 10, 7:30pm Avon Theatre Film Center Stamford
Screening of the intriguing and unexpected comedic thriller, starring Aubrey Plaza, set at a remote lake house in the Adirondacks. A couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become. More... |
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Holiday Express Model Train Show
Through Sunday Fairfield Museum & History Center
Under COVID-19 safety protocols, see model trains travel through villages, up and down mountainsides, and across snowy fields. Tickets must be purchased in advance for specific dates and times. More... |
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"Getting" Contemporary Art: Danielle Ogden
Wed. Dec. 9, 11am Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Online
The latest online class in the Museum's lecture series. This week: "Absurdity, Surrealism and Pop Art." Professor Ogden will use the themes, techniques, and processes in Dada and Surrealism as a lens to explore Genesis Belanger’s exhibition, Through the Eye of a Needle. More... |
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Wed. Dec. 9, 5:45pm Art Alliance of Stratford Zoom
Join the class for an extended pose with a professional figure model, allowing artists to focus more deeply on the finer details of the figure, exploring light and shadow. More... |
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Wed. Dec. 9, 6pm Westport Women's Club Online
Hosted by Castle Wine & Spirits, your advance ticket includes sparkling wines that can be picked up in advance. Italy and Spain are the featured countries for this tasting. Proceeds benefit community grants to Fairfield County nonprofit organizations and need-based college scholarships for local high school seniors. More... |
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Westport Library Online
Presenting the Emmy-nominated TV writer, in conversation with Dale Atkins, a local psychologist and relationship expert. They will discuss Kalb’s debut memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, telling the story of four generations of women in her family. Listen in on the conversation between two women who understand and cherish the fierce relationships that cross generations. More... |
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James Ross Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
Thurs. Dec. 10, 7pm
Fairfield University Bookstore Online
Discussing his novel, “Hunting Teddy Roosevelt.” It’s 1909, and Teddy Roosevelt is not only hunting in Africa, he’s being hunted. He encounters Sudanese slave traders, Belgian colonial atrocities and German preparations for war. He reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, now a journalist sent by Hearst to chronicle Roosevelt’s safari and uncover the former president’s political plans. The author James Ross has been a Peace Corps Volunteer and CBS News Producer in the Congo, a Congressional Staffer, and a Wall Street Lawyer. More... |
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IMAX Farewell Series Whales, Dolphins & Sharks
Thursday through Sunday Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Continuing its series of fan-favorite movies from the past three decades with five 45-minute films daily in a program "Whales, Dolphins & Sharks.” More... |
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Holiday Concert: Liz Callaway
Fri. Dec. 11, 7pm Ridgefield Playhouse Online
Tony nominee and Emmy winner and the original voice of Anastasia, Liz will perform a mix of holiday favorites and Broadway showtunes, share stories about the holidays and her career, and offer a preview of music from her upcoming holiday album, Comfort and Joy – An Acoustic Christmas. The show will be live-streamed at 7pm and available to ticket holders for seven days online. More... |
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Virtual Family Day
Sat. Dec. 12, 9am Fairfield University Art Museum Online Offering a virtual family activity with Holiday Crafts. Celebrate the second day of Hanukkah and the season of Advent with these holiday-themed art activities. Kits with art supplies and instructions will be available for pick-up at the Museum prior to the program. More... |
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Sat. Dec. 12, 10am Westport Museum for History & Culture This year's Market will be held in a tent with a warming fire, Santa Claus and up to 10 local vendors. More... |
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Book Signing & Exhibit: Tom Kretsch
Sat. Dec. 12, 1pm Nylen Gallery Westport CAFC member and Westport-based photographer Tom Kretsch will hold a book signing and display of work from his recently published book, "Touching Maine,’' a 93-page hard bound book of photographs and essays about the "soul and spirit" of Coastal Maine, gathered from Tom’s 10 years of visits to communities along the Maine coast. The exhibit will stay up through December. More... |
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Scenes from the Nutcracker
Sat. Dec. 12, 2pm & 5:30pm Darien Arts Center Online A favorite Darien holiday show performed by the Darien Art Center’s dance companies and geared for younger audiences. More... |
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29th Annual Nutcracker Ballet
Sat. Dec. 12, 4pm Klein Auditorium Online Livestream of the Academy of the New England Ballet Company’s 29th Annual Nutcracker. The Company has been working hard to keep this holiday tradition going and to bring you a quality show with beautiful choreography, new costumes and scenery. More... |
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Sun. Dec. 13, 12pm The SoNo Collection Norwalk Members of the Norwalk Symphony will present an afternoon of live music. At noon, Wendy Kerner on harp, and at 1:30pm a string trio with Emanouil Manolov (violin), Suzanne Corey-Sahlin (viola) and Gunnar Sahlin (cello). More... |
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Fun/No Fun: Children's Book Art: James Stevenson
Sun. Dec. 13, 9:30am-4:30pm Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum opens its new exhibition on James Stevenson. Adults know this witty and prolific New Yorker cartoonist of over five decades, while children have known him as the author and illustrator of hundreds of children’s books that induce fits of giggles. Deftly drawn with an assured line, and colored with soft watercolor washes, Stevenson’s whimsical sketches evoke a sense of memory and nostalgia. More... |
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Days to Remember: Members Exhibit 2020
Sun. Dec. 13, 12-5pm Center for Contemporary Printmaking
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) opens this exhibition of prints by member artists reflecting on CCP’s 25th anniversary, their own history and development as artists, or on the world today. Awards will be made by Cybele Maylone, Executive Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. More... |
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Brass & Organ Christmas Concert
Sun. Dec. 13, 7pm First Presbyterian Church Online Immerse yourself in the Christmas sound of trumpets, French horns, trombones, a tuba, percussionists, and a 4,026 piped organ live-streamed as John Sheppard and the New York Symphonic Brass present Christmas music along with members of the choir. More... |
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Spotlight on Arts & Culture: Keeping Arts & Culture Alive After COVID-19
Mon. Dec. 14, 12pm WPKN 89.5FM Hear from Elizabeth Shapiro, Head of the CT Office of the Arts, on the recent award of $9 million of relief funds to 154 arts nonprofits in the state, organizations that received the funds, and legislators that understand the key role of such funding in keeping the arts and culture alive in CT. But is it enough? Hear from others ineligible for such funding and ideas for how else we can all help keep the arts and culture alive in CT beyond the end of the pandemic. More... |
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Conversation: Renovation of the Rothko Chapel
Mon. Dec. 14, 7pm The Glass House Online An online conversation between architects Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky, and Christopher Rothko on the renovated Chapel in Houston that displays 14 monumental paintings by Mark Rothko within an octagonal space designed by the artist in collaboration with Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, and Eugene Aubry. More... |
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Virtual Poetry: Capturing “The Now"
Tues. Dec. 15, 4pm Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Online Leading an online intergenerational workshop guiding participants as they write in response to recent news photos, and perhaps inspired by the Aldrich’s evolving Twenty Twenty exhibition. More... |
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A New Surprise in the Accelerating Universe
Tues. Dec. 15, 8pm Westport Astronomical Society Online WAS celebrates the pre-Winter Solstice with Alex Filippenko, a member of both the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a member of both teams that were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2011 for revealing the accelerating expansion of the Universe. Professor Filippenko will speak on “A New Surprise in the Accelerating Universe.” More... |
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