| E-Buzz February 12, 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. |
| | The General's Cook
Wed. Feb. 20 12:30pm Fairfield Museum & History Center In this latest History Bites Lunchtime Chat, Ramin Ganeshram, Executive Director of the Westport Historical Society, will discuss her new historical novel. Based on actual events, the story follows the adventures of Hercules, George Washington’s enslaved chef, and his precarious and terrifying bid for freedom. Bring a bagged lunch. Beverages and dessert provided. More... |
| | Oren Cass The Once & Future Worker
Thurs. Feb. 21, 5:30pm GenRe Auditorium UConn Stamford The World Affairs Forum presents Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, as its 2019 Global Economic Trends Lecturer, speaking on The Once and Future Worker – the subject of his 2018 book, which has been described as the "essential policy book for our time. More... |
| | WPKN Music on Film Series: Finding Fela
Thurs. Feb. 21, 7pm
Bijou Theatre Bridgeport
Fela Kuti created Afrobeat, a new musical movement on the African continent, and used that forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. Doors open at 6pm; Fela Kuti Afrobeat music in the lobby and a Two Roads Brewing beer tasting. Movie screens at 7pm. More... |
| | Thurs. Feb. 21, 8pm
The MAC Milford
Elizabeth Ziman is Elizabeth & the Catapult, a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter from New York, who has scored several award-winning documentariesr, and who won the 2015 Independent Music Award for Songwriting, Folk category. She will be singing songs from her recent fourth album, Keepsake. More... |
| | The Warehouse FTC Fairfield
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| | That's Weird! The Oddest Items in the Archives
Sat. Feb. 23, 2pm
Rowayton Community Center
In a program arranged by the Norwalk Historical Society and the Rowayton Historical Society, Natalie Belange of the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) speaks on some of the oddest items in the CHS archives and shows how even the oddest artifacts can be gateways into a deeper understanding and appreciation of our state’s history. More... |
| | Peter Toth, piano Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano Greenwich Symphony
Sat. Feb. 23, 8pm
Sun Feb. 24, 4pm Performing Arts Center Greenwich High School
The Greenwich Symphony Orchestra plays music by Levine, Liszt, Dohnanyi, and De Falla in a concert featuring soloists Peter Toth, the Hungarian pianist renowned as an interpreter of Liszt, and American mezzo-soprano, Lucia Bradford. More... |
| | Leonard Bernstein West Side Story
Sat. Feb. 23, 8pm
Norwalk Concert Hall
The Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, together with New Paradigm Theatre, present a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's iconic West Side Story. Share Maria and Tony's story, along with the Jets and the Sharks, in celebration of Bernstein's 100th birthday. More...
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| | Ain Gordon + Josh Quillen Radicals in Miniature
Sat. Feb. 23, 8pm
Sun. Feb. 24, 3pm The Quick Center Fairfield University
Written, directed and performed by Ain Gordon, three-time Obie Award-winning writer, director, actor and Guggenheim Fellow, and Josh Quillen, composer and performer-in-residence at Princeton University, this is Gordon’s theatrical memoire, recalling the electric New York City where he grew up in the 1960s. More... |
| | Story Pirates Greatest Hits
Sun. Feb. 24, 1pm
Silvermine Arts Center New Canaan Opening Reception
A big, hilarious sketch comedy musical performed by professional actors and musicians, based entirely on stories written by elementary school students. Story Pirates will keep you doubled over laughing, all the while motivating kids to pick up a pencil and write from their own imaginations. Sketches run the gamut from kung fu ninja babies fighting crime, to cats flying, to tickle monsters who rule the world. More... |
| | David Dunlop How the Mind’s Eye Works
Sun. Feb. 24, 3pm
Mark Twain Library Redding
Modern-day old-master artist David Dunlop, host and writer of PBS series, "Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop,” presents this illustrated talk on the power of visualization. He shows how Galileo, Newton, Edison, Einstein, and others, relied upon image making to discover fresh insights into how the world works and demonstrates how to use forms of visualization to expand your own understanding of complex problems in order to solve them. More... |
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Perren-Luc Thiessen, piano First Presbyterian Church of Stamford
Continuing its child prodigy series, "Fish Church" presents 15-year-old pianist Perren-Luc Thiessen , winner of the 2017 Young Pianist of the North Piano Competition, in Newcastle, England. He will be performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Drozdoff, Medtner and Prokofiev. More... |
| | Jim Clark & Friends: Arthur Lipner & Brasilian Vibes
Sun. Feb. 24, 3pm Norwalk Public Library
In the first in this series of three jazz concerts, Jim Clarke and Friends, the Norwalk saxophonist is in concert with Arthur Lipner & Brasilian Vibes, internationally acclaimed for his marimba and vibraphone playing. More... |
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