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"Tom Sachs: Cameras" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
June 21-Sept. 16, 2010 |
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Region: |
Litchfield Hills |
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City: |
Ridgefield |
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Venue: |
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |
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Description: |
This exhibition brings together 12 works , from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, perhaps more importantly, chart the course that photography and the globalization of precision manufacturing has taken over the past century. |
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"Built It" |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids, Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
August 15-Aug. 1, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Norwalk |
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Venue: |
Stepping Stones Museum for Children |
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Description: |
Join the crew and discover building basics. Lift, load, dump and haul. Learn about the building process and take a sneak peak at Stepping Stones construction plans for 2010. |
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"Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
September 12-Feb. 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Lyman Allyn Art Museum |
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Description: |
Exhibit explores the rich blend of the current art and artists emerging from the diverse cultures of Cuba. |
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"Ancestors of the Passage" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
September 12-Feb. 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Lyman Allyn Art Museum |
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Description: |
Imna Arroyo, Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University explores her heritage and ancestors with a compelling 3-dimensional installation. |
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"The Allure of Lace" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
October 17-Feb. 28, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art |
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Description: |
Exhibit displays flat-mounted laces, lace trimmed dresses and accessories, and will complement "Rembrandt's People" by showing examples of the exquisite lace collars and cuffs fashionable in the 17th century and featured in many of Rembrandt's portraits. |
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Holiday Train Show Exhibit |
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Category: |
Seasonal/Holiday Delight, Especially For Kids |
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Date(s): |
November 20-Feb. 14 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Essex |
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Venue: |
Connecticut River Museum |
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Description: |
Features an operating model railroad that is bigger and better than ever and promises to bring out the child in everyone. |
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WinterFresh Market |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
November 22-Feb. 28 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Coventry |
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Venue: |
Coventry High School |
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Description: |
Coventry Regional Farmers' Market offers a weekly indoor farmer's market featuring Connecticut's largest selection of fresh locally-grown and produced foods all winter. |
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John Haberle: "Master of Illusion" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
December 11-Mar. 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Description: |
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"Lil's 90th" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
January 6-Feb. 7, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
New Haven |
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Venue: |
Long Wharf Theatre |
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Description: |
Lillian and her family are putting the finishing touches on the much-anticipated party at which she will make her singing deput. There is a speech to be written, a band to rehearse and an outfit to choose. But then Lil's husband Charlie's secret gets out - the birthday surprise that he hoped would make her day may instead tear lives apart. The play shows that when reason fails, it is the power of love that stands the test of aging. |
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“Gee's Bend" |
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Category: |
Seasonal/Holiday Delight, Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
January 14-Feb. 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Hartford Stage |
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Description: |
Meet the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who sing hauntingly beautiful gospel melodies as they create magnificent handmade quilts. The story of the women of Gee's Bend, who quilted their way to economic freedom, already has touched millions of people who witnessed their stunning quilt work through a national exhibition tour and in the media. |
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Sean Gallagher: "Works" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
January 14-Feb. 19, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
Downtown Gallery |
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Description: |
Sean Gallagher is a Professor of Art at Central Connecticut State University. |
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"Inspired Innovation: The Shaker Way" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
January 16-Apr. 11, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Description: |
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"Faces & Figures" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
January 17-Feb. 11, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Stamford |
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Venue: |
Stamford Art Association |
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Description: |
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NEW/NOW: Kwabena Slaughter |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
January 29-Apr. 25, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Description: |
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Official State Groundhog Prediction |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 2, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Manchester |
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Venue: |
Lutz Children's Museum |
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Description: |
The official rodent prognosticator of Connecticut's meteorological conditions resides at the museum. Get up early on Groundhog Day to witness" Chuckles emerge at sunrise. |
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"Rigoletto" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 4, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Garde Arts Center |
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Description: |
The lecherous Duke of Mantua seduces wives and daughters while his hunchback Jester, Rigoletto, adds insult to injury by ridiculing their husbands and fathers. Finally, the joke goes too far and a furious father's curse on Rigoletto leads to tragic mistaken identities and murder. Teatro Lirico d'Europa presents Verdi at his best. |
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Monterey Jazz Festival |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 5-6, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Mansfield |
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Venue: |
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts |
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Description: |
This year's talent tour features The Kenny Barron Trio, playing sensitive melodies with infectious rhythms; violinist Regina Carter, who "Time" Magazine says "creates music that is wonderfully listenable, probingly intelligent and, at times, breathtaking daring"; the rich, flamboyantly creative, four-octave baritone of Kurt Elling; and critically acclaimed guitarist Russell Malone. |
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First Friday |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 5, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Description: |
Live jazz, open galleries, a selection of light hors d'oeuvres and beverages. |
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"Compulsion" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 5-27, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
New Haven |
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Venue: |
Yale Repertory Theatre |
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Description: |
Sid Silver wants nothing more than to bring Anne Frank's story to an American audience, and he believes he is the right man to translate the young girl's diary and adapt it for the stage. But his passion spirals into a lifelong obsession when a New York publishing house reveals its own plans for what would become one of the most powerful and enduring documents of the 20th century. |
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"Denizen" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 5, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Palmer Auditorium at Connecticut College |
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Description: |
Presented by Kinodance Company. |
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First Friday Live Sounds |
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Category: |
Performing Art, Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 5, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Norwich |
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Venue: |
Donald L. Oat Theatre |
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Description: |
Outstanding live music events. |
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Gallery Opening |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit, Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 5, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Norwich |
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Venue: |
Norwich Arts Council |
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Description: |
Featuring Norwich Arts Councils' artists and guest artists. |
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“Steel Magnolias” |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 5-6, 12-14, 18-20, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Windham |
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Venue: |
Burton Levitt Theatre |
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Description: |
Spend the evening in Truvy's Beauty Salon in Cinaquapin, Louisiana where six strong Southern women come together to share their secrets and bare their souls with liberal doses of free advice and gossip. |
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Open House |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Litchfield Hills |
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City: |
Burlington |
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Venue: |
LaMothe's Sugar House |
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Description: |
Watch the process of male syrup making, sample complimentary maple, coffee and hot cider, free lollipops for the children. |
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Eagle Viewing Boat Tours |
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Category: |
Special Community, Especially For Kids |
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Date(s): |
February 6-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Essex |
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Venue: |
Departs from foot of Main St. |
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Description: |
Take a boat tour to view eagles wintering along the Connecticut River aboard the RiverQuest, along with other wildlife. Seats are limited, tickets need to be reserved in advance. |
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EagleWatch 2010 |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 6-Mar. 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Essex |
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Venue: |
Connecticut River Museum |
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Description: |
An annual celebration of the return of bald eagles to their winter feeding grounds along the Connecticut River. Interactive exhibits, educational workshops and eagle viewing boat tours. |
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"Simon Boccanegra" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 6, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
40-year Metropolitan Opera veteran, tenor Placido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi's gripping political thriller (written for a baritone). |
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"My First Time" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 6-7, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts |
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Description: |
A new play featuring four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people. And now, these true stories and the unique characters in them are brought to life in this acclaimed 90-minute play. |
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Eagle Watches on the Connecticut River |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 6-27, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
Madison |
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Venue: |
The Audubon Shop |
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Description: |
Each winter the bald eagle make their way down the Connecticut River. Land-based guided tour of seve |
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Mystic Ballet's "Dynamic Directions" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 6 & 13, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Mashantucket |
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Venue: |
Mashantucket Pequot Auditorium |
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Description: |
Explore the intimacy, intensity and price of love. |
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BaroqueFest 2010 |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 6, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
New Haven |
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Venue: |
United Church on the Green |
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Description: |
Orchestra New England presents their annual survey of favorite music of the Baroque era, featuring ONE soloists. |
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Norwalk Community Chorale Concert |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 6, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Norwalk |
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Venue: |
Norwalk Concert Hall |
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Description: |
Four-part mixed chorus perform selections from Broadway shows. |
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Photography & Sculpture Exhibit |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
February 7-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Rowayton |
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Venue: |
Rowayton Arts Center |
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Description: |
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Twenty-Two Skidoo and All That |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 8, 2010 |
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Region: |
Litchfield Hills |
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City: |
Newtown |
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Venue: |
C.H. Booth Library |
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Description: |
Come and experience the "Roaring Twenties." |
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"Romeo & Juliet" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 10, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Palmer Auditorium at Connecticut College |
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Description: |
Presented by the Acting Company and the Guthrie Theater. |
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"Remembering Stanley Boxer: A Suvvey with Hofstra University" |
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Category: |
Museum/Gallery Exhibit |
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Date(s): |
February 11-Mar. 28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Bridgeport |
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Venue: |
Housatonic Museum of Art |
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Description: |
Boxer, a New York prolific painter, preferred the tern "practitioner" to "artist." He remained tru to the materially dense abstract mode on which his reputation rested. |
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Hartford Symphony Orchestra |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 11-14, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Bushnell Center for Performing Arts |
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Description: |
Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks performs Mozart Piano Concerti. |
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Daivd Finckel & Wu Han |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 11, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
West Hartford |
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Venue: |
Millard Auditorium at University of Hartford |
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Description: |
This husband and wife team is a perennial crowd favorite performing a program of Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. |
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Monterey Jazz Festival |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 12-13, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
A celebration of one of the longest running and most important jazz festivals in the world. |
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"And the Oscar goes to ..." |
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Category: |
Seasonal/Holiday Delight, Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 12, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Trumbull |
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Venue: |
The Center |
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Description: |
A tribute to Oscar musicals. Cabaret style, bring your own refreshments. |
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Valentine's Day |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids |
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Date(s): |
February 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Brooklyn |
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Venue: |
Creamery Brook Bison |
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Description: |
Bring a blanket for you and your favorite Valentine to enjoy a wagon ride to the bison and warm up after with hot chocolate. Children 12 and under can make a Valentine frame. |
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Sunday Music Series |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
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Description: |
Concert in the Stanley Works Center. |
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Camp Monty |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids |
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Date(s): |
February 15-19, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Oakdale |
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Venue: |
The Dinosaur Place |
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Description: |
Get out of the cold and celebrate the warm weather - inside. Participate in fun spirited games, free crafts and more. |
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Winterfest |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids, Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 17, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
New Britain |
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Venue: |
Stanley Quarter Park |
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Description: |
Ice skating, sledding, food, pony rides, bonfire, music, ice sculpture demonstration, jugglers and more. |
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"Sylvia" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 17-Mar. 14, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
New Haven |
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Venue: |
Long Wharf Theatre |
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Description: |
Sylvia, a lovable dog, would do anything for Greg. A constant companion, she loves him unconditionally and hangs on his every word. Greg would do anything for Sylvia, even staying home from work to spend time with her. Greg's wife Kate, on the other hand, is not thrilled that Sylvia's made herself so at home, let alone that she is sleeping on Kate's precious couch. Add the fact that Sylvia is played by a vivacious young woman and you view the relationship between a man and his best friend in a w |
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Connecticut Flower & Garden Show |
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Category: |
Major |
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Date(s): |
February 18-21, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Connecticut Convention Center |
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Description: |
Exquisite gardens created by the area's finest landscape designers. Floral and horticultural masterpieces, gardening products and services; 200 exhibitors displaying fresh flowers, plants and herbs. |
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Moscow State Radio Symphony |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 18, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Mansfield |
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Venue: |
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts |
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Description: |
Under the skilled musical direction of Alexei Kornienko, the Orchestra plays with boldly articulated bravura, and the composer's vision lingers long after violinist Nadezda Tokareva's expressive, beautifully-toned performance. |
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Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 19, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
The "New Yorker, "Lucy Kaplansky ... has a fetching voice and an insightful perspective on the human condition." "Shindell is a master builder of songs ..." "Boston Globe." |
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 20, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
Gilbert Kalish, piano and Ani Kavafian, violin play an evening of Beethoven. |
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Hartford Symphony Orchestra Pops |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 20, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Bushnell Center for Performing Arts |
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Description: |
From Gilbert & Sullivan and Irving Berlin, to Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyed Weber - the audience is invited to tour the world of Broadway over the course of a century with three of today's most accomplished artists. |
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Winterfest |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids, Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 20-21, 2010 |
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Region: |
Greater New Haven |
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City: |
Middlefield |
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Venue: |
Lyman Orchards |
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Description: |
Celebrate the fun side of winter with snow and ice sculpture demonstrations, snowboarding and skiing exhibition, free food samples, horse drawn wagon rides and more. |
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Led Zeppelin Experience |
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Category: |
Especially For Kids |
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Date(s): |
February 20, 2010 |
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Region: |
Litchfield Hills |
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City: |
Waterbury |
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Venue: |
Palace Theater |
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Description: |
Hammer of the Gods recreated the sights, sounds and mystical aura of a real Zeppelin concert as the band performs flawless renditions. |
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Winter Carnivale |
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Category: |
Festivals, Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Chester |
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Venue: |
Downtown |
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Description: |
Featuring food from local restaurants, street performers, ice carving competition, and a Chilly Chili Cook Off, and a festively decorated tractor parade. |
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"Strega Nona" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
Musical tale of a friendly good witch in a tiny Italian town. When clumsy Big Anthony misuses her magic book, and pasta threatens to engulf the entire town, Strega Nona saves the day - and Anthony learns a valuable lesson. This delightful tale is full of folk wisdom and fun. |
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Choral Celebration of Black History Month |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Vernon |
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Venue: |
First Congregational Church |
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Description: |
A collaboration with the Hartford Chorale Chamber Singers and the Vernon Chorale. |
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Open Cockpit Sunday |
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Category: |
Special Community |
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Date(s): |
February 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Windsor Locks |
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Venue: |
New England Air Museum |
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Description: |
More than a dozen aircraft open to climb into and play pilot. Additional activities on site and food available all day. |
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Reenactment of General Israel Putnam's Historic Ride |
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Category: |
Historic Events |
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Date(s): |
February 22, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Greenwich |
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Venue: |
Putnam Cottage |
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Description: |
Anniversary of General Israel Putnam's historic ride to Stamford (1799) for reinforcements to fight back the British forces invading Greenwich. |
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"Spring Awakening" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 23-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts |
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Description: |
A groundbreaking fusion of morality, sexuality and rock n' roll that has awakened Broadway like no other musical in years. |
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“Motherhood Out Loud" |
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Category: |
Seasonal/Holiday Delight, Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 24-Mar. 21, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Hartford Stage |
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Description: |
A new play conceived and produced by veteran Broadway producers Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein, celebrates the personal, funny, diverse, exciting, touching and altogether extraordinary experiences that unite us all. From stepmoms to single moms, immigrant moms to grandmothers, new moms to empty nesters. The play reveals the raw emotions and rocky road we travel in life. |
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Bela Fleck - The African Project |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 25, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
Mansfield |
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Venue: |
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts |
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Description: |
The unrivaled master of the American banjo, Bela Fleck is also a historian of his craft. Several years ago he went from the United States to Africa, intrigued by the banjo's ancestry and an urge to bridge the continents' musical divide. In this collaboration with amazing African musicians, Fleck creates some of the most memorable music of his career. |
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Ballet Folklorico de Mexico |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 26, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
This spectacular company reflects not only Mexico, but also the rest of the world and the beauty of the universe in motion. |
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Northeast Fishing & Hunting Expo |
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Category: |
Consumer Shows |
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Date(s): |
February 26-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
River Valley |
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City: |
Hartford |
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Venue: |
Connecticut Convention Center |
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Description: |
Hundreds of fishing and hunting related exhibitors, public service exhibits, casting pond, trout pond, seminars. |
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"A Chorus Line" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 26-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Litchfield Hills |
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City: |
Waterbury |
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Venue: |
Palace Theater |
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Description: |
The musical for anyone who is ever had a dream and put it all out on the line. This nine-time Tony Award winning singular sensation is the longest running American Broadway musical ever. |
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"Wikiphobia" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 27, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Fairfield |
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Venue: |
Quick Center for the Arts |
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Description: |
Show combines hilarious on the spot improvisation with suggestions from the audience to create a unique kind of humor. |
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"The Wedding Singer" |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 27-28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Mystic Country |
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City: |
New London |
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Venue: |
Garde Arts Center |
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Description: |
Based on the popular movie of the same name, this musical comedy will take audiences on a fun-filled, nostalgic blast to the past to the days of big hair, leg warmers and Valley Girls. |
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Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra Winter Concert |
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Category: |
Performing Art |
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Date(s): |
February 28, 2010 |
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Region: |
Fairfield County |
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City: |
Bridgeport |
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Venue: |
Klein Memorial Auditorium |
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Description: |
Featuring four orchestras and featuring a commissioned work by Rex Cadwallader. |
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