Saturday, January 16 2010
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.
“FLURRYING PHEROMONES ” AN INSTALLATION BY SUZAN SHUTAN
“SELF-PORTRAITS” PAINTINGS BY ERIKA ARNESON
Opening Reception: Pegasus Gallery Wednesday, December 2, 5:30-7:00 PM
Middletown Artist Cooperative resident, Erika Arneson is a MxCC Fine Art Alumnus and recent B.F.A. graduate from the Hartford Art School. Arneson’s paintings address the symbolic and introspective nature of self-portraiture and the expressive vehicle of color. The personal nature of this series explores the dynamics of self as an interdependence of past and present.
Middletown Artist Cooperative resident, Erika Arneson is a MxCC Fine Art Alumnus and recent B.F.A. graduate from the Hartford Art School. Arneson’s paintings address the symbolic and introspective nature of self-portraiture and the expressive vehicle of color. The personal nature of this series explores the dynamics of self as an interdependence of past and present.
Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall
Hours: Monday & Wednesday 5pm-8pm & Saturday 9:30-1:30pm when classes are in session.
Clare Gallery Art Exhibit
Hartford — The Clare Gallery is pleased to present A Prophet’s Ink: Drawings by Brian Kavanagh, Catholic Worker Artist. The exhibition is free and open to the public and extends from November 19, 2009 to January 26, 2010. A reception and panel discussion will be held on Tuesday, January 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The panel will include the artist Brian Kavanagh; his agent Stephen Kobasa, writer on the arts for the New Haven Advocate, New Haven Independent, and Big, Red and Shiny: An Arts Web Journal;Jackie Allen-Doucot, activist and artist, of the Hartford Catholic Worker; and Father John Baptist Pesce, C.P., Passionist priest from Holy Family Monastery.
For over fourteen years Brian Kavanagh’s work has graced the pages of the Hartford Catholic Worker newsletter, reflecting the tradition of Christian pacifism and solidarity with the poor. Therefore, his artwork feels right at home in the communal meditative environment of the Clare Gallery at the Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry. The small drawings, artwork from 1997 to the present, are graphic in style referencing a woodcut texture. Themes of outrage, sorrow and hope are powerfully visible throughout the series.
The Clare Gallery primarily features exhibitions that emphasize world religions or interfaith themes, as well as social justice themes, on either a global or local level. The Gallery is housed in the Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry at 285 Church Street. The Center is part of St. Patrick – St. Anthony Church, a vibrant and active downtown faith community.
The Clare Gallery’s hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Fridays; Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Gallery and all related events are free and open to the public. Free parking is available directly across from the church, and the facility is handicapped accessible. More information may be found at www.spsact.org, click “Community Life” and then “Clare Gallery
East Shore Reflections
This exhibit is ONGOING through Feb. 27, 2010. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday noon to 5 p.m.
The New Haven Museum announces the opening of a new exhibit, “East Shore Reflections,” a shining review of this neighborhood’s evolution from agrarian farm area, to seaside resort, to modern day family enclave and residential setting.
Treasure Books
Treasure Books: Selections from the Caroline M. Hewins Collection of Children’s Literature, is an exhibition developed by guest curator Leonard Marcus, leading historian on American children’s books. His highly acclaimed books include Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts; Minders of Make-Believe; Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; and The Wand in the Word. Caroline Hewins came to Hartford in 1875 as librarian of the Hartford Young Men’s Institute, the predecessor to Hartford Public Library. She held this position for 50 years and earned a national reputation as an imaginative, spirited, and dedicated leader, especially well regarded for her library work with children.
Hartford History Center, 3rd Floor
December through May, Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Hartford History Center, 3rd Floor
Sunday, December 6, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Afternoon Tea
Reserve your cup of tea at the Bee & Thistle Inn and Spa. Relax by the fire and listen to Faith Leitner on the harp and indulge in a tradional afternoon tea, with sweet and savory fare. Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. through January 16, 2010. Please call for reservations at 860-434-1667.
Blogging Workshop
Join instructor Shawn Hill in this introduction to blogging. Refine your skills if you've been blogging for awhile, or jump right in to starting your own blog. Class will be taught in a PC lab - students may choose to bring their own Mac or PC laptop to class.
Gee's Bend Quilts on Display at Hill-Stead Museum
In its very first exhibition in the Pope Riddle house of artworks not from the founding family’s original collection, Hill-Stead Museum is proud to feature a special exhibition of quilts by Gee's Bend artists and other renowned quilters, including Hartford's own Ed Johnetta Miller. The exhibition is a component of Hartford’s Community Health Services’ Community Threads project, a city-wide arts movement involving Hartford Stage, Hill-Stead and select arts & culture organizations to create community quilts and to celebrate the culture of quilting. The museum will display a total of 5 quilts by African American women, ranging in date from 1900 to 2005. In a manner befitting both their function and the deeply personal context of their creation, the quilts are placed on the Pope family master suite and guest room beds.
The Afro-Semitic Experience.
Congregation Mishkan Israel and the Unitarian Society of New Haven announce a concert with The Afro-Semitic Experience on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Featuring the New Haven premiere of their new CD, The Road That Heals the Splintered Soul, will be musicians David Chevan on bass; Warren Byrd on piano and keyboards: Alvin Carter, Jr., drums; Baba David Coleman, percussion; Stacy Phillips, violin and Dobro; and Will Bartlett, saxophone and clarinet.
Tickets are $15, payable at the door. All proceeds go to Columbus House, a shelter for the homeless, and its emergency overflow shelter.
The concert will be at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden, CT.
For further information, call (203) 288-3877 or (203) 288-1807.
Winter Film Festival
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Bus Trip: Metropolitan Opera's Carmen
Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale's 2010 opera trip to the Met in New York City leaves Spencer Street commuter parking lot at 8 AM on January 16th for a 1 PM performance of Carmen, returning approximately 8:15 PM. Price includes transportation, opera ticket, driver’s tip and a contribution to MSOC. To join the trip, or for more information, E-mail MusicSix@cox.net or phone (860)228-2921.
Bus leaves from Spencer Street commuter lot.
Goodspeed's 5th Annual Festival of New Artists
The Fifth Annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists, produced by Goodspeed Musicals’ Max Showalter Center for Education in the Musical Theater, kicks off its much anticipated three day festival of brand new works on Friday, January 15, at the Goodspeed Opera House with a staged reading of Hello Out There. On Saturday, January 16, the triple feature musical ReWrite debuts. On the final day of the festival, Lincoln in Love will be presented. Several special events will round out this exciting weekend. Tickets are available at the Goodspeed Box Office or by calling 860-873-8668 or online at www.goodspeed.org. Tickets are $15 each for one show, $10 each for students.
This year, Goodspeed has expanded its popular Festival Package with a weekend full of interesting events. The $75 package includes admission to all 3 staged readings; The Noel Coward Foundation Symposium: Creating Next To Normal with Tom Kitt (Tony Award winner Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations); “Pick-Two” festival seminar sessions; a Saturday evening pre-show dinner at the Gelston House with an engaging post dinner discussion hosted by a special guest speaker; and a Meet the Writers Reception which will complete the weekend’s festivities. Also included in the special Festival Package is admittance to the Friday Night and Saturday Night Cabarets: informal gatherings showcasing new songs by new artists.
For both Festival Package and single ticket holders, Goodspeed Opera House tours and movie musicals screenings will be offered throughout the weekend.
Storm Over Morocco - Book Event
Book Signing/Presentation: Storm Over
Saturday, Jan. 16, 1 – 6 pm, BORDERS,
It is a true story about a desperate escape from an Islamic sect which wrongly accused the author of being a Zionist spy in 1978 and tried for sabotage, a capital crime, by an extremist Islamic group in
The 3rd Edition includes new chapter on recent meeting with Militant Palestinians West Bank refugee camp.
The author is available for interviews.
Contact:
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Tel.US : 917-653-7649 / Tel. Paris: 011 336 2435 6659
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Solving the Puzzle: Lyme Disease, West Nile Virus and You
This is an original Yale Peabody Museum exhibition that investigates West Nile virus and Lyme Disease. These two diseases are "vector-borne" -- that is, the pathogen is transmitted to humans by an arthropod, and in both cases a blood-sucking one! Giant models of a mosquito and a tick help explain the puzzle that is the transmission, detection and treatment of these diseases. The exhibition explores the differences between the viral and bacterial pathogens, when they arrived in Connecticut, and how our changing environment is increasing the incidence of both diseases. The exhibition is on view through April 25.