| E-Buzz September 1, 2020 Your Weekly Top Picks from Sept. 2-8, 2020 The best guide to arts and culture in Fairfield County |
| | | The E-Buzz is published each Tuesday by The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. The E-Buzz is a selection from the events posted by our members onto the FCBuzz Events section of our website for the coming week. Click here for a complete selection of events during this period. |
| | | | All week, at The SoNo Collection’s People's United Magnificent Room, on the second shopping level of the mall, you can check out the growing number of canvases painted live and donated to the Cultural Alliance for a silent auction. On Oct. 3, the top four canvases will be presented in a live auction. Save the Date! #SoNoArtCares. More... |
| | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin Wed. Sept. 2 - Thurs. Sept. 10 Avon Theatre Film Center Online
A new documentary by Werner Herzog, who turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. More... |
| | Inspirations of Sea and Sky: Catherine Andersen
Wed. Sept. 2 - Wed. Sept. 30 Geary Gallery Darien
An exhibition of the impressionist seascapes and landscapes by a first-generation American, born to Italian and Irish parents, whose inspiration, she says, comes from the sea, sky, clouds and marshes, as she strives to create art that is reflective and calming. More... |
| | Thurs. Sept 3 - Thurs. Oct. 1 Virtual Exhibition
A curated virtual exhibition, Together was funded by the CT Office of the Arts. Nadia comments: "During these past months, we have experienced the power of coming together and staying together while staying apart. The artwork selected for this exhibition express in different ways unity, connection, integration, and togetherness." Artists include Cultural Alliance members Eric Chiang, Rosa Colón, Eugenie Diserio, Joanie Landau, Susan McHale, Amy Oestreicher, Justin Perlman, and Ruth Kalla Ungerer. Nadia was a recipient of an Artists Respond grant from the Office of the Arts, that provided funding to artists for the creation and presentation of free and accessible on-line arts-based experiences. More... |
| | IMAGES 2020 Preview Party with Victoria Will
Thurs. Sept 3. 7pm Fairfield Museum & History Center Facebook Live
This is a virtual preview party, where the Grand Prize Winners of the annual Images exhibition will be announced and photographer and celebrity portraitist, Victoria Will, will open the Museum’s first-ever outdoor exhibition, featuring her work, on the Museum Commons. She will share some fascinating stories behind her celebrity portraits and the tintype photography process she used in this project. More... |
| | Jazz at Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Spotlight: The Alexa Tarantino Quartet
Fri. Sept. 4, 7pm
MoCA Westport
Tarantino is a vibrant, award-winning, young jazz saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, and educator, who was named one of the Top 5 Alto Saxophonists of 2019 by the JazzTimes Critics’ Poll. Wynton Marsalis has said of her: “Alexa is a one-woman wrecking crew, an indomitable force for expression, education, and absolute excellence.” Bring lawn chairs and enjoy food and drink trucks on the premises. More... |
| | Friday Night Flicks: The Cardboard Bellini
Fri. Sept. 4, 7pm Housatonic Museum of Art Online
The CT Film Festival and Housatonic Art Museum co-present the first in a series of art-related films shown for free online, The Cardboard Bellini. Filmmaker Olympia Stone follows artist James Grashow as he builds a giant cardboard fountain, inspired by the baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. From its conception, he intended the work to be put outside to disintegrate. This film documents the process from start to finish - from premiering indoors in 2010 at the Taubman Museum of Art, Richmond VA, to, after shows in New York and Pittsburgh, being installed outdoors at our own Aldrich Museum in 2012, where it lasted six weeks. Grashow will be present for Q&A after the Friday night viewing. More... |
| | Classic Rock Film Festival
Friday - Monday, 3:45pm & 7:45pm Avon Theatre Film Center Stamford
A four-day festival of classic rock documentaries: From the 1964 A Hard Days Night, presenting the Beatles just as they were becoming a worldwide phenomenon, to D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back (1967), his account of Bob Dylan's last acoustic tour across England, to Monterey Pop, Pennebaker's 1968 classic, now in a 4K restored version, showing the first Monterey International Pop Festival, with career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, to David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin's Gimme Shelter - their 1970 film often called the greatest rock film ever made, following the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. More... |
| | Backcountry Jazz Labor Day Concert
Sat. Sept 5, 5pm Private Lawn Greenwich
Featuring Bennie Wallace, tenor sax; Special Guest Nasheet Waits, drums; Pat Bianchi, Grammy nominated organist; and Paul Bollenback, Grammy nomi-nated guitarist. Call to reserve tickets and you will be told the location. More... |
| | Silvermine Art Center
The A•ONE national competition/exhibition highlights the diversity of work that is currently being made by established and emerging artists. Established in 1949 as the New England Exhibition, it later became known as Art of the Northeast and is now a national show featuring a wide range of collectible contemporary artwork that is both vibrant and surprising. Reservations must be made in advance and are being accepted from Tuesday, Sept. 8. More... |
| | Center for Contemporary Printmaking Online
The first of six two-hour online classes, offered Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-3:30pm through Sept 24. The cyanotype, or “blue-printing,” is an iron-based photo printing process that responds to UV light. Participants will create cyanotype prints on paper and fabric bases, using the sun as the exposure unit. More... |
| | Let's Learn Stuff: Victoria Sautee
Tues. Sept. 8, 4pm Pantochino Productions Facebook Live
Join Victoria for random bits of knowledge, comedy, stories, special guests and her two favorite chums, Dick and Jane. Always surprises, games and fun for all ages. Tune in via Pantochino Productions’ Facebook page for live streaming episodes, or view past episodes on YouTube! More... |
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