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

Doc Night: Underdog (NR)

Avon Theatre Film Center 272 Bedford Street, Stamford, CT, United States

Wed. 4/10/24 at 7 pm ️ https://bit.ly/48fbyXe Post-film Q&A with director Tommy Hyde and Writer / Producer Aaron Woolf. Ticket Prices: Avon Members $9 General Public $14.50 Students & Seniors (Mon. - Thu.) $11 Trailer: https://vimeo.com/761183037 In Underdog, a quixotic Vermont dairy farmer risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams […]

$9 – $14.50

ICVRD-2024

We are pleased to invite you to the 2nd series on Vaccine Research and Development Conference which is going to be held in Munich, Germany during  April 22-24|2024, the premier international forum for the discussion of the latest developments in Vaccine Research and Development. We are proud to have hosted a successful conference this year-2022 […]

$749

Stories from Ukraine

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

Larissa Babij returns to the South Windsor Library to discuss her recent book A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine and to talk about the difference between writing for yourself and writing from personal experience for a public audience. She will be joined by Anne Howard, whose new book, Escape from […]

Secret London

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

In the midst of the COVID pandemic a traveler returns early to Connecticut from London saying, “Everything was closed; there is nothing to see”. Thinking about it, Dr Benfield came up with 25 sites that were “open”, free and fascinating. So if you are going to London either this summer or in the future, come […]

Free

Poetry Reading by Elizabeth Elliott

The Bookstore and Get Lit Wine Bar 11 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Elizabeth Elliott is a lifelong poet who has published 7 books of poetry. She is also a resident of the Berkshires, having lived in Tyringham with her husband of almost 30 years, composer and historian Clint Elliott, who passed away this past November. You may learn more at www.elizabethelliottpoetry.com. Category: Arts | Performing Arts | […]