Community Calendar

In the spirit of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday, the New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative (NHCCC) is sharing music about the harvest moon and nostalgia, all played on traditional Chinese instruments. This concert is open to all ages — bring the whole family!

For lovers of literature, members of NHCCC will also present a bilingual poetry recitation about the season of fall, accompanied by the guzheng, a 21-string Chinese zither. NHCCC members will act as your storytelling guides, with their personal stories and interesting facts about their instruments, making their sounds and music accessible for all to enjoy. To quote one of its fans, “NHCCC is at its heart — the bond between art, people, and [their] connection to one another.”

The New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative is a non-profit Chinese music ensemble dedicated to fostering cultural awareness in communities across Connecticut. Led by Dr. Chia-Yu Joy Lu, ethnomusicologist, erhu artist, and director of Smith College Chinese Music Ensemble and Wesleyan University's Chinese Music Ensemble, the group comprises members from diverse backgrounds and ages, all sharing a passion for expressing their voices, expertise, and stories through the performance of traditional Chinese and Taiwanese music. Since its establishment, NHCCC has performed and presented at numerous events, organizations, and schools, with unique programming that integrates traditional music and culture of China and Taiwan.

Community Partner: AAPI Westport

Debra Lynne will perform LIVE music at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on September 28th from 3-4pm. The event is free with general admission ticket purchase.

For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame....

About Debra Lynne

Debra Lynne is a singer/songwriter/musician presently living in Long Island, originally from NYC. She migrated from the piano to the guitar when she decided that carrying a piano to campfire singalongs wasn't as easy as carrying a guitar.

Debra started out with a love of folk music which gradually grew to include country music. A poet since the age of five, Debra started putting her poems to music in college. Mostly singing as a soloist up until recently, Debra now enjoys playing in duos and trios, everywhere from coffee houses to large venues. Her love of family, gardening, and sharing her music with an audience is what makes her happy. Debra writes songs of lost love, found love, the search for love, and what she humorously calls "the flip side". She looks forward to sharing her original music with you on September 28th.

The Lillibridge Ensemble and pianist colleagues in an International Music Festival of piano solos, duets, duo, trio and quintet

Lillibridge Ensemble: Madeleine Forte, Raphael Ryger, David Clampitt, Krystyana Czeiner, Karen Emery Ryger
Pianist colleagues: Ildikó Bartha, Matthew Bengtson, János Kéry, Anna Kijanowska, Sara Opposits
Special Guest: cellist John Haines-Eitzen

Free entry and all donations support the Music Scholars at Westminster Presbyterian Church

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

Wilton Library Book Sale
Thousands of books in over 100 categories for all ages..history, biography, fiction, self-help, cooking, sports and games, nature, business, crafts, psychology, health and fitness, music, poetry, art, photography, and so many more.

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

Join a sacred morning of energetic renewal and spiritual alignment led by Aggregata Zupanova, an intuitive healer and facilitator of Source-guided energy work.

This special gathering offers a powerful group healing experience, created to help you release emotional heaviness, reconnect to your inner wisdom, and anchor a deeper sense of peace within your body and spirit.

Whether you’re new to energy work or seeking a space to reset and reconnect, you are welcome here – exactly as you are.

What you can expect:
Guided group energy clearing
Source-aligned transmission for healing and clarity
Time for inner stillness, integration, and reflection
A supportive, energetic field shared by all participants
Suggested Donation: $25
50% of all contributions go directly to support The Granite Church’s community initiatives and ongoing renovations of this special gathering space.

To register, please text the word “Register” along with the number of people attending to (845) 464-4676.

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.

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

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