Finding Your Voice as a Parent Webinar: Special Education Law and Advocacy

Zoom webinar (online)

Finding Your Voice as a Parent Webinar Special Education Law and Advocacy Roundtable Date: Tuesday March 19th 2024 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. EST Register here on Zoom: https://bit.ly/87325T Co-hosted online with the Stamford JCC (Stamford, CT). Speakers: Attorney Lawrence Berliner, Connecticut Special Education Law Jane Faherty, Stamford JCC JumpStart Director & Special Education Advocate Allie Grafman, Special […]

Free

Women’s Army Corps: Marching into History

South Windsor Library 1550 Sullivan Avenue, South Windsor, CT, United States

Discover how women in World War II ushered in new economic and social changes that would forever alter the role of women in American society. Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States mobilized for war. The Women’s Army Corps brought women into the effort. Female Soldiers were lauded for their professionalism and […]

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A Night at the Public House: Let Them Vote!

Connecticut's Old State House 800 Main St, Hartford, C, United States

Hike up your petticoats and meet us in Hartford for "A Night at the Public House: Let Them Vote!" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Campbell (and special guests from Sea Tea Improv) will be on hand to tell the story of Isabella Beecher Hooker and the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association’s fight for the enfranchisement of women […]

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Organic Lawn Care for Homeowners

Pollinator Pathway Stamford Speaker Series with Mill River Collaborative, "Healthy Yards for Pollinators, Pets & People" kicks off with "Organic Lawn Care for Homeowners." You can have lush green lawn without using chemicals harmful to children, pets and wildlife. Peter Newcombe of PJC Organic will cover the basics of how to grow healthy turf using […]

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Laying the Groundwork for an Equitable Modern Electric Grid

Zoom

MAR 28, Thurs, 12-1:30PM, free webinar with PURA Chair, Marissa Gillett and Rep. Jonathan Steinberg In order for Connecticut to transition to carbon-free electricity, we will need to rethink our electric grid. Today’s grid was designed in a different age for a different mix of power producers and consumers. Even today, it has areas of […]

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Women’s Leadership in Motion: An Evening with Olympic Athlete Gabby Douglas

Trinity College 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT, United States

Gabby Douglas, the 27-year-old American Olympic gymnast, author, and entrepreneur best known for her performance at the 2012 London Olympic Games, will speak at Trinity College on March 28, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Just over a decade ago, Douglas become the first Black woman to win the Olympic individual all-around title and the first U.S. gymnast […]

FINDING YOUR FUNNY VOICE- taught by Lisa Lampanelli

Playhouse on Park 244 Park Road, West Hartford, CT, United States

SATURDAY, MARCH 30th 11am - 5pm at Playhouse on Park   Cost: $300   Learn from Lisa’s three decades of standup experience in “Finding Your Funny Voice,” a class offered by Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, CT. In the one-day class, Lisa will give students the basic building blocks of a standup comedy/storytelling performance, […]

$300.00

What Is A Disaster? State Historian Andy Horowitz in Conversation with Jacob A. C. Remes

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United States

Floods and earthquakes, wars and famines, engineering failures and economic collapses — these frightening events seem to define modern life. We name them “disasters.” But what makes a disaster different from other periods of time? In a freewheeling conversation, two leading scholars in the field of disaster studies will consider events in Connecticut history and […]

Free – $15