It’s been nearly two years since Curtain Call – Stamford, CT’s award-winning community theatre company – hosted auditions for a musical, but normal operations are finally resuming so they’re getting ready for their 31st season. Auditions for the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, 1776, the first show of their 2021-2022 season, will be held June 20…
STAMFORD, CT – Stamford Mayor David Martin announce earlier this week the addition of Park Attendants beginning May 28 through September 16, to increase resident safety and security within Stamford Parks. Beach season begins this weekend. The City is implementing safety and security initiatives to increase safety so that residents can enjoy all that Stamford…
Stamford, CT – Stamford Public Schools (SPS) announced that the Manhattanville College School of Education has awarded the 2021 Valiant Educator Award to Stamford High School (SHS) Science Teacher and 2021-2022 Stamford Teacher of the Year Donna Kaiser. This award honors a graduate of the School of Education whose career and community accomplishments reflect the…
Hallelujah, the nuns are coming! Now, more than a year after Nunsense should have played at Curtain Call, this laugh-filled tuner about a group of nuns raising money to bury their dead sisters, is finally able to open in The Kweskin Theatre, Stamford, on June 3. Unapologetically silly as ever, and strewn with groaners and…
GREENWICH, CT – Impact Fairfield County (Impact FFC), the area’s premiere women’s collective giving circle, awarded two $100,000 Core Mission Grants to Hall Neighborhood House (Bridgeport) and INTEMPO (Stamford). Impact FFC also awarded three $16,000 unrestricted general operating grants to Catholic Charities of Fairfield County (Bridgeport), Person-to-Person (Darien), and Women’s Mentoring Network (Stamford). The winners…
Cases of fully vaccinated residents contracting virus “very rare” HARTFORD, CT – As Connecticut surpasses the 50% mark for Connecticut residents ages 16 and over who are now fully vaccinated, the Department of Public Health last week released data on vaccine breakthrough cases, which clearly show that the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at fighting…
Westport, CT – Westport Farmers’ Market (WFM) is thrilled to announce that it will return to its home at 50 Imperial Avenue beginning Thursday, May 13. The summer market will run from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each Thursday through mid-November. WFM will resume the majority of its pre-pandemic, onsite shopping experience and programming while…
NEW CANAAN, CT – PAINT 2021, Silvermine’s first international exhibition, opens at Silvermine Galleries on May 8. PAINT 2021 encompasses works by 46 visual artists; among them a composer, a filmmaker, and a neuroscientist. Curated by Michelle Y. Loh, a New York based art advisor, curator, and gallery director, PAINT 2021 is the third in…
Norwalk, CT – The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum and The Stamford Art Association are issuing a Call for Artists for a juried exhibition titled, Envisioning Space: Architecture Through the Ages. The deadline to submit is June 26, 2021 by midnight. This juried exhibition will be on view at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk,…
STAMFORD, CT – Today Mayor David Martin announced Stamford’s new Residential Food Scrap Recycling Program — providing residents an environmentally safe way to dispose of food scrap waste. “If we can get a substantial portion of that food waste out of the garbage and into composting — it not only saves us money, but it…