Exhibition: Christmas in Africa

Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center 1 State Street, New Haven, CT, United States

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm EXCEPT Thursday, November 28 (Thanksgiving) and Wednesday, December 25 (Christmas Day) with free parking and admission. Most Christians who live in Africa are in nations south of the Sahara Desert, though they can be found throughout the entire continent. The faith first spread into Africa as […]

Free

Exhibition- Away in a Manger- The Creation of Nativity Scenes

Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center 1 State Street, New Haven, CT, United States

Exhibition open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm EXCEPT Thursday, November 28 (Thanksgiving) and Wednesday, December 25 (Christmas Day) with free parking and admission. Many crèches, the three-dimensional representation of the Nativity scene, feature a diversity of settings and stable designs — the most common of which is an open-front wood structure. However, many […]

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Kat Owens, “Entangled & Ingested” at CT State Community College – Middlesex

Ct State Community College - Middlesex 100 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT, United States

Opening Reception on Thursday, November 21, 4:00-6:00pm at Pegasus Gallery. Kat Owens creates life-size portraits of animal species impacted by plastics discarded by humans.  Each work is composed of consumer waste and recycling stream packaging that are manipulated into visually striking compositions. The basis of her process includes mosaic, quilt, and collage traditions but encompasses […]

Rowayton Arts Center Holiday Gift Show – Nov. 29 thru Dec. 24

Rowayton Arts Center 145 Rowayton Avenue, Norwalk, C, United States

The RAC gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by approximately 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There's also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift […]

1940s Christmas by Candlelight Tours of the Coley House

Weston History & Culture Center 104 Weston Road, Weston, C, United States

Explore a World War II home front Christmas at the Coley House. With only holiday lights and candlelight, take a guided tour through this mid-19th century farmhouse, decorated as it would have been during the 1940s, when the last three generations of the Coley family occupied the home. View authentic 1930s and 1940s holiday decorations. […]

$15 – $25

1940s Christmas by Candlelight Tours of the Coley House

Weston History & Culture Center 104 Weston Road, Weston, C, United States

Explore a World War II home front Christmas at the Coley House. With only holiday lights and candlelight, take a guided tour through this mid-19th century farmhouse, decorated as it would have been during the 1940s, when the last three generations of the Coley family occupied the home. View authentic 1930s and 1940s holiday decorations. […]

$15 – $25

Walk-In Tour | Vik Muniz

New Britain Museum of American Art 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT, United States

Walk-In Tour | Vik Muniz   Dive deeper into the NBMAA’s temporary exhibitions! On this Docent-led hour-long tour, participants will look closely at special exhibition Vik Muniz.  Sundays at 1 p.m. | October 13, 2024 - February 23, 2025 Please note: There will be no Sunday 1 p.m. tours on December 22, December 29, and January 5.

Film | American Masters: Marian Anderson – The Whole World in Her Hands

New Britain Museum of American Art 56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT, United States

Explore the life, career, art and legacy of the African American contralto and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson. Best known for her concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, Anderson christened the Washington, D.C. landmark as a place of protest after she was discriminated against on the basis of a "whites only" […]

Book Talk on the Connecticut Freedom Trail: A Free Woman on God’s Earth

Digital Event Digital event, Hartford, C, United States

For 2025’s first Conversation at Noon on the Connecticut Freedom Trail, author and educator Jana Laiz, M.Ed. will discuss the life and times of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman and her co-authored children’s biography, “A Free Woman On God’s Earth” The True Story of Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, acknowledged by the Trustees of Reservations as the most historically […]

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