Salsa Under the Stars
Salsa Under the Stars returns to the Parkville Market patio with Joey Salsa Con Huertas leading the steps and DJ Bombero supplying the soundtrack. Grab a drink, your dance partner (or find one when you get there), and let your feet handle the rest.
Sensory Friendly Day at the CT Science Center
Explore the Connecticut Science Center at your own pace during Sensory-Friendly Day, designed with comfort, choice, and flexibility in mind. Enjoy hands-on science and discovery in a more welcoming sensory environment without missing out on the fun of exploring.
Gallery Talk: Women Sculptors Who Shape(d) the Art World
Meet the women who carved, cast, and shaped their way through an art world that didn’t always make room for them. Denise Giannino explores works by sculptors including Harriet Whitney Frishmuth and Maria Martins and the barriers they broke along the way.
Music in the Galleries: Red Yellow Blue Green Black
Renaissance art gets an improvised soundtrack as Austin Larkin and Zach Rowden perform in Red Yellow Blue Green Black at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Violin and bass respond to the artworks around them, turning a walk through the galleries into part concert, part conversation across centuries.
Curator Talk: Global Aesthetics in Sèvres Porcelain
A Japanese-inspired vase and a cacao-filled scene from Mexico reveal just how far French porcelain traveled without leaving the kiln. Curator Linda Roth explores how two works from the famed Sèvres manufactory reflect centuries of artistic exchange and changing global tastes.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
In post-revolutionary Iran, literature professor Azar Nafisi gathers a small group of female students to secretly read banned Western classics in Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024, NR). Behind closed doors, books become a way to speak freely, share their lives, and imagine possibilities beyond the restrictions surrounding them in this adaptation of Nafisi’s acclaimed memoir.
Austin House Tour
Tour the home of legendary museum director A. Everett “Chick” Austin and Helen Goodwin at 130 Scarborough Street in Hartford’s West End. Modeled on a Venetian Renaissance villa, the Austin House was built in 1930 and seamlessly blends 18th-century rococo style with radically modern Bauhaus design. The tour includes portions of the home only accessible […]
Lilo & Stitch
Life gets a little more chaotic on Kauaʻi when Lilo adopts Stitch, a troublemaking alien she mistakes for a dog, in Lilo & Stitch (2002, PG). Playing free at the Wadsworth Atheneum as part of Second Saturdays for Families, this funny, heartfelt adventure mixes hula, Elvis, and intergalactic mayhem with a story about finding your […]
9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero
Marking the 25th anniversary of September 11, 9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero revisits the extraordinary public debate over the future of Lower Manhattan after the attacks. Showing at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the film captures thousands of New Yorkers coming together to help determine how Ground Zero would be rebuilt and remembered.
Free Movies in the Park: Cool Runnings
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme… Cool Runnings (1993, PG) is sliding into Bushnell Park for Free Movies in the Park. Grab a blanket and cheer on Jamaica’s first bobsled team in the wonderfully unlikely underdog story inspired by their Olympic debut.