Apr 2, 2008
THIS WEEKEND:
What’s going on
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Creative Connections
Art by United States students and their counterparts in other countries will go on exhibit at the Flow of Art Gallery, 16 River Street, Norwalk, Thursday evening, April 3. there will be an opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for the show assembled by Norwalk-based Creative Connections. The theme for this annual event is “Interact”; it was interpreted by students in grades three to 12.
The exhibit will continue through April 27 and may be seen Tuesday-Thursday 10-5, Friday 10-9 and Saturday 11-5. For more information, visit creativeconnections.org.
Artists in their lofts
The Loft Artist Association will have its Spring ’08 Open Studios Weekend April 4-6 at the group’s new location, 845 Canal Street, Stamford. More than 40 artists will be on hand to interact with visitors and show off their new studios, from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“Our new home thrums with the heartbeat of people hard at work and excited about their new space. The mess of creation is afoot and we are delighted to share this with the public,” said acting president Lynda James Carroll.
Admission and parking are free; a $5 donation is suggested. For more information, visit loftartists.com or call 203-323-4153.
Fund-raising art show
The Junior League of Eastern Fairfield County will host its 16th Annual Art Show at the historic Burr Homestead, 739 Old Post Road, Fairfield, this weekend. Friday is the Preview Gala from 6:30 to 10:30, which includes food and wine and music; tickets are $90.
More than 100 local and regional artists will be displaying original paintings, drawings, mixed media, prints and photography, all for sale. Show hours are 10 to 5, Friday through Sunday, and general admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and free for children under 12. A hands-on event for children aged 2 to 8 will take place on Sunday from 1 to 4, and tickets are $5 per child.
For more information, visit jlefc.org or call 203-259-9995.
Shine A Light
Tickets for opening weekend may be scarce, but the Rolling Stones in IMAX will be at South Norwalk’s IMAX theater (at the Maritime Aquarium) for a while.
Shine A Light, filmed by Martin Scorsese, is based on the shows done by the legendary band at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre in 2006 during the Stones’ “A Bigger Bang” tour. More than 20 classic Stones songs are included, along with guest appearances by Christina Aguilera, Buddy Guy and Jack White. The IMAX theater will show the film daily, on its six-story screen with 10,000-watt digital surround sound system, through May 22. There are four shows daily during opening weekend; after that there will be two shows weekday evenings and three or four each weekend day. Tickets are $11.50 for adults, $10.50 for seniors and $9.50 for children; the film is rated PG-13. For reservations, call 203-852-0700, x2206. For more information, visit maritimeaquarium.org.
Connecticut Ballet
Some of the best dance numbers from Broadway shows will be presented by Connecticut Ballet this weekend in shows Friday at the Ridgefield Playhouse and Saturday at Stamford Center for the Arts Rich Forum. Under the direction of Brett Raphael, Tribute to Broadway, the show will include such highlights as “The Rich Man’s Frug” from Sweet Charity and “Sing Sing Sing” from Bob Fosse’s Dancin’.
Guest performers will include singers Paris Cheffer and Culver Casson and tap dancers Beverly Ward, Kirby Ward and Colin Pritchard.
Tickets for the Ridgefield show, at 8 p.m., are $48 and $40 (seniors, students) and may be reserved at ridgefieldplayhouse.org or call 203-438-5795. For Stamford’s show, which begins at 7, tickets are $50, $35 and $25; reservations at 203-325-4466 or scalive.org. For more information, visit connecticutballet.com.
Lego builders contest
The Discovery Center at Ridgefield will host its 12th annual Lego Building Contest on Saturday from 9 to noon at the Ridgefield Recreation Center, 195 Danbury Road/Route 35. Lego constructions are to be delivered between 9 and 10; the exhibition and competition will run from 10 to noon. Entry fee is $7 for those who pre-register and $10 for walk-ins. For information, call 203-438-1063. The exhibit space is about 18” x 30” per contestant.
Art tag sale
Silvermine School of Arts will have an Art Materials & Equipment Tag Sale Fund-raiser on Saturday from 10 to 5 to benefit the school’s Scholarship Fund. Items such as stretcher bars, paints (oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels), frames, cameras, enlargers, ceramic supplies, painting and drawing materials, photography, printmaking, jewelry and sculpture supplies and equipment, and art books will be for sale. (Donations of such materials will be accepted on Thursday and Friday, April 3 and 4, from 11 to 5 at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center Auditorium.)
The arts center is at 1037 Silvermine Road in New Canaan; for more information, call 203-966-6668, x2 or e-mail school@silvermineart.org.
Shower of Quilts XII
The Connecticut Piecemakers Quilt Guild will present its Spring Shower of Quilts XII Show on Saturday and Sunday at Seymour Middle School, 211 Mountain Road, Seymour. Guild members have created a red and white sampler quilt, each square hand-pieced or hand-appliqued and hand-quilted, which will be raffled for the benefit of the Smilow Family Breast Health Center at Norwalk Hospital.
Hours are 10 to 5 on Saturday and 10 to 4 on Sunday; admission is $6 for one day, $10 for both; children 12 and under, $3. For more information, visit ctpiecemakers.org.
Bakelite centennial
Opening Saturday at the Mark Twain Library in Redding is Heat and Pressure — 100 Years of Bakelite, the first American exhibition of The Amsterdam Bakelite Collection. The exhibit will run through May 30 and will be supplemented by personal items owned by Hugh Karraker of Redding, a great-grandson of the plastic’s inventor, chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland.
The material was used for everything from toys to Revereware pot handles to jewelry after Dr. Baekeland discovered it while working on a substitute for shellac. (It was formed from phenol and formaldehyde under heat and pressure.) The exhibit at the Mark Twain Library will demonstrate the variety of products and forms to which Bakelite was put, including a number of movements in art and design, among them Art Deco, Bauhaus, Streamline and 1960s style. In addition to items loaned by Mr. Karraker, the show will include objects from the Museum for the History of Science and the Vincolit Company in Ghent.
The Mark Twain Library is at 439 Redding Road (Route 53) in Redding; for more information, visit MarkTwainLibrary.org or call 203-938-2545.
Photographers’ eyes
Focus ’08, the Wilton Arts Council’s 10th annual photography show, will be on display from April 5 through 26 at the Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road. Adult (both professional and amateur), high school student and youth divisions will be judged by Joseph DeRuvo, Erin McAndrew and Sam Brody. There will be a reception on Friday, April 11, from 6 to 7:30 at the library. For more information, visit wiltonarts.org.
Choir college chorus
The Westminster Chapel Choir, a renowned group of singers from the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J., will sing in Wilton Saturday at 7:30 as part of the Arts at St. Matthew’s series. Tickets for the concert, which will take place at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 36 New Canaan Road, are $5 for students and $20-$40 for adults. For more information and tickets, call 203-762-7400 or visit stmatthewswilton.org. The final concert in this series will feature Judy Collins on April 27 at 4.
Final finalist
The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra will be led by Christopher Confessore, with pianist Andrew Armstrong as guest soloist, on Saturday evening at 8 at the Ridgefield High School auditorium, 700 North Salem Road/Route 116. Mr. Confessore is the fourth and final music director candidate to conduct the orchestra this season. He has chosen a program that include’s Michael Torke’s An Italian Straw Hat Suite, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in f minor.
For ticket information, call 203-438-3889 or visit ridgefieldsymphony.org.
Cabaret in Darien
Claire Karpen, a Darien native, will bring her show, Here I Am! A Cabaret, for one night to the Darien Arts Center’s Weatherstone Studio on Saturday, April 5, at 8. She’s coming out to the suburbs after sold-out performances at the Duplex in New York City. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for young people and full-time students and may be ordered at arts.darien.org or call 203-655-5414 (Cabaret).
Greenwich Regatta
The fifth annual NYPPEX Greenwich Invitational Regatta, featuring the Greenwich High School Crew, will take place Sunday, April 6, from 9 to 3:30 at Greenwich Harbor, rain or shine. Spectators are welcome and there will be viewing from Roger Sherman Baldwin Park or along Steamboat Road (take I-95 Exit 3). The 1000-meter dual races, hosted by the Greenwich Water Club, will start adjacent to the Delamar Greenwich Harbor Hotel and finish just south of Indian Harbor Yacht Club.
Opening Sunday
Botanicals, an exhibit of prints created by Eve Stockton of Weston, will open with a reception on Sunday from 3 to 5 at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery of the New Canaan Library, 151 Main Street. The show includes large-scale woodcuts from her “Bloom” and “Evolutionary Landscape” series that explore change and transitions in the natural world.
These works may be seen at the library until May 12. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 to 8, Friday-Saturday, 9 to 5, and Sunday, noon to 5. For more information, call 203-594-5000.
Wind ensemble
The fourth and final Candlelight Concert in the 2007-08 series will take place Sunday at 4, presenting Windscape at the Wilton Congregational Church, Ridgefield Road (Route 33). The wind ensemble will play a program of 20th Century music including works by Elliot Carter, Samuel Barber, Irving Fine, Vincent Persichetti, Jean Michele Damase and Gyorgi Ligeti.
Tickets are $25 (seniors, $20; students, $10) and will be available at the door at 3:30. For more information, call 203-762-3401 or 762-5019 or visit wiltoncandlelightconcerts.org.
Piano recital
The Center for Chamber Music of Greenwich will present pianist Jonathan Biss on Sunday at 4 at the Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. He will play works by Beethoven, Schubert, Janacek and Schoenberg, including the Beethoven Sonata Op. 28 “Pastoral.”
Mr. Biss, who made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2001, is a frequent performer at international music festivals and gives frequent recitals here and abroad. In May, he will play with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine.
Tickets are $35 ($15 for students), which includes a champagne reception following the program. For more information, call 203-661-6626 or visit centerforchambermusic.com.
Joyful Noise finale
Rebel, the Baroque ensemble, will perform the concluding concert of the Joyful Noise series at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 884 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, on Sunday at 4. the program will feature works for two violins, cello, and harpsichord by Purcell, Biber, LeClair and Telemann. A freewill offering will be taken.
For more information, call 203-322-0066 or visit stjohnelca.org.
A Georgetown Story
The Georgetown History Project, a non-profit committee of area residents, will screen A Georgetown Story, bringing local history to life at several locations in the next week. The 30-minute documentary about the town made up of parts of four towns (Redding, Weston, Wilton, and Ridgefield) tells about Georgetown’s industrial past, its neighborhoods and residents.
The Redding Community Center will show the film on Sunday at 4; other dates are: Ridgefield Library, April 10, 7 p.m.; Weston Library, April 12, 4 p.m.; and Wilton Library, April 13, 4 p.m. For more information, e-mail lynn.hyson@gmail.com or call 203-431-0613.
From Coventry
Alistair Reid, assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral in England, will perform an organ recital on Sunday, April 6, at 5 at St. Barnabas Church, 954 Lake Avenue, Greenwich. The program is presented by Fairfield-Westchester Concerts Inc. and tickets are $25. For more information, call 203-661-5526 x21.
And coming up...
The Joel Barlow High School Select Choir will perform with Caledon, the trio of tenors from Scotland, on Tuesday, April 8, at 7 at the Joel Barlow High School Auditorium, 100 Black Rock Turnpike/Route 58, Redding. The performance is co-sponsored by the Friends of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, of Redding and the Select Choir. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased online at firstchurchredding.org or by calling the high school at 203-938-2508 x1569.
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