Tuesday, October 20 2009

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Kiss Me, Kate

With William Shakespeare’s classic The Taming of the Shrew as its foundation, and Music & Lyrics by the immortal Cole Porter, this classic Broadway musical will put a spring in your step. Big-time actors Lilli Vanessi and Fred Graham are formerly-married, constantly battling, and now forced to reunite for a new musical version of…what else? The Taming of the Shrew! Their onstage tussles as Shakespeare’s Katherine and Petruchio are nothing compared to their offstage affairs, backstage brawls, and hilarious misunderstandings. As time goes by the couple realizes, much like the characters in the original play, that they are hopelessly bound to each other. The enduring Tony Award-winning score includes hits such as Another Op'nin, Another Show, Why Can't You Behave? and Brush Up Your Shakespeare.
 

Performance Information:

Dates: September 25, 26, October 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24

Times: Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 pm/ Sundays 2:00 pm

Tickets: $20.00 (includes $1.50 service fee) Reserved Seating

 

October New Exhibits and Opening Reception at Silvermine Guild Arts Center

Opening Reception to be held October 18 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Exhibit runs from October 18 through November 13.

 
 Director’s Choice: Scott Bricher - “Dreams, Desires & Curiosities”
                  In this exhibit of works ranging from large scale realist oil paintings to small mixed media pieces, dream images are linked with the mystical and everyday to create images of discovery. The artist uses multiple themes, while maintaining their separate identities…. existing side-by-side to create a suggestive ambience, each with its own chapter or vignette yet forming a complete story, leaving it to the viewer to compile the images for their own meaning.
 
 Juried Guild Group - “Narrative”
                 An exhibition of artworks with social, political, historical and psychological dimensions. Visual expressions of cultural and personal worlds can possess deeply powerful communicative imagery arrived at through literal, abstract and figuratively visual means. The intention of this exhibit is to reveal timeless stories in powerfully evocative ways. Artwork in all mediums juried by artist Mary Frank.
 
Mary Frank – “Selected Works”
                 For over 50 years, Mary Frank has used such diverse media as sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking and encaustic to explore the idea of narrative, suggesting that her primary loyalty is not to a particular way of working or to any medium, but rather to the power of direct expression and to the act of creation itself. In this exhibit of selected works, the viewer will identify with the artists imaginary figures, landscapes and creatures on the emotional, philosophical and psychological levels. 

 

GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm; Sunday: 1 – 5 pm.
 

Connecticut College Art Department Faculty Exhibition: Fall 2009

Manwaring Gallery: Featured Artist - Ted Hendrickson Gallery 66: Greg Bailey, Barkley Henricks, Maureen McCabe, Timothy McDowell, Pamela Marks, Denise Pelletier and Andrea Wollensak.

Gallery Talk: Ted Hendrickson, Wed., Sept. 16, 4:00 p.m., Reception 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. and Sun., 1-4 p.m. Closed Oct. 8-11

 

 

Pottery Classes at Greenleaf Pottery

Classes in wheel-thrown pottery are offered Tuesday or Thursday evenings year around at Greenleaf Pottery. Beginning as well as advanced students welcome. Call for more information.

 

 

Mystery in the Stacks

Love mysteries? Like free prizes? Play The Maltese Falcon library mystery game. Follow a series of clues throughout the Shelton Libraries. Help solve the mystery of who stole Peaches, the library snake’s cousin Malta. When you think that you have solved the mystery, write down who you think is the culprit on a form found at either the Plumb or Huntington Branch Libraries. Successful sleuths will be entered in a drawing for 2 $50 gift certificates to Staples. The Big Read is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

EVENT DURING LIBRARY HOURS

 

Mystery Hunt at the Museum

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

Come to The Barnum Museum and try your hand at being a detective. Create a detective badge and follow the clues to find the missing sculpture.
 

Create a Bookmark

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

Come on down to The Barnum Museum and create a bookmark; use it in your favorite book.
 

Art of Deception Exhibition

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

In collaboration with the Music and Arts Center for Humanity and the University of Bridgeport, The Barnum Museum will host an extraordinary collection of student art and writing that will speak to the themes of The Maltese Falcon. The exhibition will challenge the viewer to look beyond the obvious to discover deeper meanings intended by the artists.

 

 

Art of Deception Special Exhibit

10:00am – 4:30pm Daily; Sunday, 12:00pm-4:30pm

A special exhibition presented in the historic Blue Parlor period room at The Barnum Museum.
 

Big Read Mystery Lab

10:00am-5:00pm

The Discovery Museum’s Big Read Mystery Lab will bring out your inner
detective, whether you’re a puzzle ponderer by nature or not. Visitors can
gather clues and examine evidence to solve totally fictional, historically
hokey “Crimes of Science”. Included with general admission.

 

Women's Work, Women's Dreams

The works in this exhibition reflect the visions of Swedish women who broke from their traditional roles of women, mothers and homemakers to explore their creativity as textile designers, weavers, painters, sculptors and glass artists. Their art resonates with dream-like images of free-flying birds evoking flight and escape from domestic confinement, year-round idyllic visions of midsummer blossoms, and spare Nordic landscapes filled with greenery, water, space, and light.  

Women's Work, Women's Dreams celebrates a remarkable legacy from a country whose art and artists are little known to American viewers.  The Benton Museum is grateful to Samuel and Ann Charters for sharing their extraordinary collection of Swedish Art and Art Glass and for curating this exhibit.

Gallery Hours: 

Thursday & Friday: 10 am - 4:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday: 1 - 4:30 pm

The Benton will be closed:

November 23 - December 2

 

Big Read for Little Tykes

11:00am-12:00pm

Come to the Barnum Museum and listen to a mystery book. This program is
geared for pre-k and includes making a craft at the end.
 

 

"The Malted Falcon"

6:00pm-7:00pm

Why let the grown-ups have all the fun?  Join us for a series of 4 weekly
programs to listen to, discuss, and maybe solve this comic mystery.  For
kids ages 9 – 11. The Big Read is funded by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts. Please bring a canned/non-perishable food item for
the Area Congregations Together Food Bank.
 

 

Disease Detectives

Solve infectious disease mysteries by examining interactive patients, analyzing lab tests and identifying culprit microbes. Running Monday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday noon to 5 p.m. through Jan. 31.

 

 

Financial Services Reform: What It Means to You

The State of Connecticut Department of Banking is hosting Securities Forum 2009: Financial Services Reform – What It Means to You on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at the New Haven Lawn Club in New Haven, Connecticut. The program is geared to financial services industry professionals and securities law practitioners. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Gary B. Gorton, Professor of Management and Finance at Yale University's School of Management.  The program will highlight the Obama Administration’s reform plan and what it affects – risk management, traditional regulators, hedge funds, advisers, mandatory arbitration, derivatives – and more. In addition, the program will include special segments on regulatory updates of interest to investment advisers and broker-dealers. The registration fee (which includes luncheon) is $70 per person, discounted to $60 per person for multiple attendees from the same firm.