Community Calendar

Katharine Hepburn was married once, to Ludlow Ogden Smith, in 1928. She kept her Babani gown, which was sold after she passed away and stored for twenty years. The Katharine Hepburn Museum has brought this dress back home to Connecticut and it will be exhibited alongside two others - one from the play "The Lake" (1933) and one from the film "The Sea of Grass" (1947) to create a stunning trio. This beautiful exhibit brings together Kate’s stage, screen, and personal lives in a never-before-seen way.

Museum Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 4 PM and one hour prior to performances. Closed major holidays.

Additional Summer Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 4 PM in July & August only

The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James, NY announces a call to Artists for The Atelier Invitational: A Juried Show for Guest Artists, which will be on view November 6th, 2025 through December 11th, 2025.

The competition is open to artists 16 years or older. Artists working in any medium, with the exception of photography and video, are encouraged to enter. Up to three works are permitted per entrant.

PRIZES:
1st Place: $250
2nd Place: $150
3rd Place: $50

The submission fee is $30.00 per artist. Accepted artwork must be submitted framed or gallery wrapped and ready to hang.

IMPORTANT DATES:
• Submissions must be received no later than Monday, October 20th, 2025.
• Accepted works will be notified by Friday, October 24th, 2025.
• Work should be received no later than Monday, November 3rd, 2025.
• Opening Reception, Thursday, November 7th, 2025.

To submit your work, click here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/TheAtelierAtFlowerfield/AtelierInvitational2025

For more information, please call 631-250-9009 or go to administrator@atelierflowerfield.org

Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. Also on view in the gallery will be Give Me Life, a selection of works by women artists presently or formerly incarcerated at York Correctional Institution, a maximum-security state prison in Niantic, CT, courtesy of Community Partners in Action (CPA). The CPA’s Prison Arts program was initiated in 1978 and is one of the longest-running projects of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1875, CPA is celebrating 150 years of working within the criminal justice system.

Image: Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore, Etienne, Mutulu Shakur, and Maureen Kelleher (quilt design); Maureen Kelleher (quilting), James Baldwin: Quote #3, 2019, mixed cotton blends. Lent by Maureen Kelleher, © Maureen Kelleher

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, among other objects from The New York Historical's collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.

The exhibition is curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator at the New York Historical.

Image: Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 11852-1853, oil on canvas. Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman. The New York Historical, 1925.6

Thursday, Sept. 11 opening with Jeffrey Greene, Connecticut Prison Art Project
5:30 p.m. – Opening Lecture – Dolan School of Business Events Space
6:30 p.m. – Reception – Dolan School of Business Event Space

Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. Also on view in the gallery will be "Give Me Life," a selection of works by women artists who are presently or have been incarcerated at York Correctional Institution, a maximum-security state prison in Niantic, CT, courtesy of Community Partners in Action (CPA). The CPA’s Prison Arts program was initiated in 1978 and is one of the longest-running projects of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1875, CPA is celebrating 150 years of working within the criminal justice system.

Our Workshop Wednesdays are back!

Every other Wednesday afternoon, we will once again open up our program to students from the community to join with our current cohort for a mini project-based learning “sprint” tackling a real-world problem in just 3 hours, end to end!

These immersive, drop-off programs give kids who are looking for additional enrichment for their school-based programs or who are in home-schooling, medical homebound or 1:1 programs the opportunity to develop critical thinking, executive function and peer collaboration skills, together with bright, gifted and twice exceptional peers.

Every week is a new project, so you can come for just a week or join them all. Each project is developed by Cajal Academy staff, or our current students! Previous projects have ranged from, “How can we create a spring garment out of upcycled fashion” to “How can we create a water filtration system using only household goods?” Each project is announced at the start of the program, so kids work through the problem as a group, working within a closed set of information provided to them over the course of the afternoon.

For our currently-enrolled students, these bi-weekly workshops provide opportunities to develop mini projects in areas of their own interests—like the project increasing conservation of Connecticut’s native carnivorous plants that one of our high school students developed for the inaugural series last year! By bringing in students who aren’t already in our community, they also offer the opportunity to develop the unique social skill of connecting, collaborating and sharing your thought leadership with new people: a critical skill in our Vision to Voice Curriculum.

All Cajal Academy programs are open by application to kids who have high analytical reasoning and/or creative thinking skills, including students who have learning, social-emotional, neurophysio and/or chronic medical differences, even ones as complex as connective tissue disorders like Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. As with all Cajal Academy programs, learner needs are support through our unique Neuro- and Trauma-Informed Approach to understanding and supporting gifted and/or neurodivergent kids’ learning and social-emotional needs.

All Cajal curriculum is developed in ability-based groupings but part of the power of our program is the nurturing, mixed-age community that develops among our students so our Workshop Wednesdays Series is open to kids in grade-equivalencies of 2-12 who are not physically aggressive towards staff or peers and do not have a current history of elopement or substance abuse. For older learners, this provides unique opportunities to develop leadership skills, together with teens currently enrolled in our high school program.

This fall’s Artolution exhibition will feature works from the UNHCR exhibition launched at UN Headquarters on World Refugee Day 2024. A companion panel with alumni working in NGOs and related sectors will explore today’s global refugee crisis.

Representative works from their collection will be on view at 1720 Post Rd. and a companion panel discussion will take place at Fairfield Theatre Company on Sanford St.

Presented by the Center for Social Impact

The Seymour Library welcomes back John Cilio. Mr. Cilio will talk about the cosmic frontier beyond our own solar system.

Learn from Mr. Cilio why neighboring stars, exoplanets, and intellersteller phenomena--as well as dark matter and dark energy--are studied and learn what makes that study relevant to life on earth.

This is a free event and all are welcome. Registration is not required. For more information please call the Library at 203-888-3903.

The Kabbalah of Meaning

Discover Why You’re Here — and How to Live It Every Day

Fairfield, CT —

What if you woke up each morning knowing exactly why you’re here?

That’s the question at the heart of The Kabbalah of Meaning, a new six-week course led by Rabbi Shlame Landa of Chabad of Fairfield.
Classes begin October 29, with both morning and evening options.
Registration is open at JewishFairfield.org/JLI.

Find Meaning in the Life You Already Live

Life moves fast — work, family, responsibilities — and before we know it, we’re on autopilot. But beneath all the motion, there’s a quiet question: Does all this add up to something?

The Kabbalah of Meaning dives into timeless Jewish wisdom that helps us uncover the purpose already woven into our daily lives.

Participants will explore:

Why your soul came into this world — and what that means for your daily choices.
What makes humans unique in an age of AI and machines.
How to connect the dots between work, family, faith, and self.
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been learning the teachings of Chassidus because it answers a question we all have: Why did my soul come to this world?” says Rabbi Landa. “Once you know your purpose, you start to see meaning in every breath of life.”

Whether you’re new to Jewish learning or looking to deepen your perspective, this course offers a refreshing, down-to-earth path to clarity, peace, and purpose.

Course Details

Morning Option:
Wednesdays, 11:00 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
October 29 – December 10
Mozaic Senior Living, 4200 Park Ave, Bridgeport CT

Evening Option:
Wednesdays, 7:30 – 8:45 P.M.
October 29 – December 10
Berkowitz Chabad House, 452 Brookside Dr, Fairfield CT
In-person only

Instructor: Rabbi Shlame Landa
Course Fee: $105 | Couple Discount $180

What Participants Say

“Each JLI course leaves me with something that changes how I see life. This one sounds like it’s going to be the most personal yet.” — Past Participant

Join thousands worldwide who’ve found clarity and connection through JLI’s acclaimed adult-education programs.

The Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director, will celebrate the centennial of the birth of American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis during the 2025-26 academic year. Tonight’s concert will feature world premieres of big band arrangements for the Yale Jazz Ensembles Big Band by Michael Mossman, including Boplicity, Budo, and Deception, from Davis’ pioneering album “Birth of the Cool.”

“Birth of the Cool” is a compilation album of eleven tracks recorded by Davis’ nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consists of innovative arrangements influenced by Afro-American music and classical music techniques and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of “cool jazz.”