Putnam First Fridays return for the season, May 3.
It’s that time of year again – First Fridays in Putnam are kicking off this weekend! Friday, May 3 is the beginning of the season, and we are so ready. This is one of the best events in the Quiet Corner, mostly because we love Putnam! You’ll find it all here – art, food, wine, theater, shopping, antiques. This is a celebration of all we have to...
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BESTS of Mystic Country. Yankee and Connecticut Magazine’s 2012 picks.
Noah’s Restaurant, Stonington It’s that time of year again–we’re celebrating the best of the best in our region. And boy, is this list long. Take a look then start planning your next trip. If you hurry, you can cross everything off before next year’s list is released! From Yankee Magazine – Best Quiet Place:...
Continue ReadingThe Last Green Festival in Brooklyn September 28-30, 2012. Music, food and fun in celebration of The Last Green Valley.
The Last Green Festival from Wirtalla Visual on Vimeo. Celebration Time in the Last Green Valley. In Heinlein’s classic science fiction story The Green Hills of Earth a blind song writer, “Noisy” Rhysling, struggles to return from a far away galaxy to the peace of his beloved earth. Just as in Llewellyn’s How Green was My Valley the emphasis is on...
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Enjoy Putnam’s “First Friday” festival this (August 3) and the first Friday of every month.
If you’re looking for something fun to do Friday night, head to Downtown Putnam. Named after the day on which the monthly event happens, “First Friday” is a street-side celebration that includes art, food and live entertainment for all ages. A section of Main Street is closed to traffic for this outdoor party beginning at 6 pm. Vendors set up tents...
Continue ReadingIt’s another fab First Friday in Putnam, July 6. Check out their video.
First Friday hits Downtown Putnam Connecticut again on July 6. Here’s a quick video from past events. It’s a great time: Visit the First Friday Facebook page for more info and detail. All ages are invited. FREE to join this summertime street party!
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Film Festival on the Garde’s Big Screen + A Free Season Pass for Two!
It’s a movie lover’s dream – the annual Garde Arts Center’s Winter Film Festival, beginning Wednesday, Jan. 25, will feature a diverse slate of at least 16 films all the way through March’s Academy Awards. You want more? You got it. How about a FREE season pass for two?! *See rules below Movies for every taste are included, Oscar nominated movies,...
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Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2012 Monte Cristo Award goes to…..Michael Douglas.
If you’ve never stopped to wonder who, exactly, came out of Waterford’s own Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, here’s some perspective: Their 12th annual Monte Cristo Award (named after O’Neill’s boyhood home) will go to Michael Douglas at a gala celebration in New York City in April 2012. Yes, Mr. Douglas started his career right here, in...
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Puppets on Parade. Come build ‘em big BIG with the Ballard Museum of Puppetry.
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs is offering its expertise for a really fun community project that’s FREE. September 17 and 18, 2011 Dr. John Bell of the Ballard Institute and Sara Peattie, Director of Boston’s famed Puppeteer’s Cooperative will lead a community puppet building workshop at the Mansfield Community Center. You...
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Theater by the Sea. The O’Neill.
We’re incredibly lucky around here to have the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center inWaterford, where top talent is nurtured and good theater is gospel. Hey, with Meryl Streep and Michael Douglas gracing the alumni list, what would you expect? And it’s right here, tucked in a quiet corner on the Sound, producing greatness every day. Tons of theater can be seen...
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Off Broadway. Theater in Eastern Connecticut.
It’s an awesome theater season around here, so get in line to buy your tickets! With new shows at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (also known as The Kate) in Old Saybrook, the Garde Arts Center in New London, and The Bradley Playhouse in Putnam, you’ll feel like you’re on Broadway – you just have a...
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