Community Calendar

 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

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Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

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Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

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Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

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Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

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Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

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The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

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By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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✨ Classical Ballet & Movement Technique ✨

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Sundays, 1:00–2:30 PM

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Enhance your grace, posture, and movement quality through classical ballet and mindful movement techniques. All in a welcoming, comfortable environment.

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• ✅ All Levels & Beginners Welcome
• ✅ No Partner Needed
• 👗 Dress Comfortably
• 🩰 Shoes: Ballet slippers or socks recommended (avoid rubber soles)
• 🎟️ $25 (Cash preferred, Venmo OK)
• 📍 170 Flood Bridge Rd, Southbury, CT.
• 📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183
• 👉 More classes: southburydance.com

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

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Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

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Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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Join us for a fabulous evening of Argentine Tango dancing in Southbury Connecticut.

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All levels welcome. You don’t need to bring a partner. Dance shoes optional, socks work fine. Avoid rubber sole shoes, too sticky.

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$25 payable on site. Join us! More classes at GGTANGO.com

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Dardo and Alonso

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

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Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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This generative writing workshop will focus on using archival material as an entry point into a story: either fiction or nonfiction. Participants will: read excerpts from authors using archival material in their writing, view artifacts from archives (either their own or ones supplied for viewing), and search for an entry point into their next story. Participants will have the chance to share their work at class close. All levels of writers are welcome.

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$30 gets you 90 minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts on August 27th from 7 to 8:30 pm. If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team to discuss accommodations.

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Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

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Allison Bass-Riccio is the steward of the Hazel Hawthorne archive. A writer and researcher, she teaches English at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT. She is currently working on a multi-genre book that juxtaposes Hazel Hawthorne's life with her own, highlighting the beauty of the dunes, the strength of women, and the pleasure of intentionally cultivating one's own life

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Curious about CT Hackerspace? Looking for a creative space to build, learn, or hang out with like-minded makers? Open House Night is the perfect time to visit!

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Held every Wednesday (weather permitting), this open house event is open to members and non-members alike. Work on your own projects, get a tour, meet our friendly community, or just see what the space is all about. We’ve got a wide variety of tools and equipment—plus people who love to share knowledge and ideas.

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No pressure. No agenda. Just a great night to explore and connect.

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For photos and directions on how to find us, Click Here!

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Hi everyone, I am working on prototyping my venture "Gleanings by the way" with the Connecticut Office for the Arts Evolve Cohort.

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My project is to publish a primary source journal from 1849 with ties to CT that documents a trip from Newton NJ to Wisconsin and back.

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I'd love to tell you all about it and hear what interests you the most!

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My vision is to create and publish a book that incorporates illustrations with photos of the original document with transcribed text. It will include a map to help readers follow along the journey as well as tidbits about the locations & people visited along the way.

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If you'd like to hear more and see some of my thumbnail sketches, join me for FB live next Wednesday, August 27th at 7pm.

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Here is an easy link: https://www.facebook.com/events/615763948002506

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Join us every Thursday from 9 AM to 1 PM for the Brass City Harvest Farmers Market in downtown Waterbury!

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Open to all, the markets sell a wide variety of fresh and seasonal Connecticut grown produce, local eggs, jams and more.

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Forms of payment accepted are cash, credit/debit, SNAP/EBT, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program debit cards* (senior, WIC).

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For more information you can access our website: www.brasscityharvestwaterbury.com

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Don't miss your chance to shop local, fresh, and delicious- right in the heart of Waterbury every Thursday!

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

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Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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The Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston's Creative Writing Group will meet on Thursday, August 28th from 5:00-6:15 pm in Meeting Room 1 at Thomaston Town Hall, 158 Main St., Thomaston. New members are always welcome, as are those who are just exploring the medium. The Writing Group is currently working on sharpening skills through writing prompts, and planning for publishing their writings, along with artwork from the Ten-2-One Artists group and the Camera Club. Bring a laptop or notebook and pen, and get ready to make your musings real!! For further information, contact Vinni Carey, 860-921-7856.

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Pot luck meet and greet to begin Fall singing season

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TECHNIQUE CLASS

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✨ Weekly Footwork Training ✨

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Every Thursday at 7 PM

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Enjoy an intense, fun footwork class designed to help you relax, feel grounded, and find your flow—in dance and life. Class duration approximately 1 hour.

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✅ All Levels Welcome

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👠 Socks or dance shoes (avoid rubber soles)

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🎟️ $25 per person

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📍 Studio located on private property

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📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183

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👉 More info at GGTANGO.com

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Thank you!

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

​

Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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This is a moderate B+ rated, 6+ mile hike for distance and elevation changes at the Rockhouse Hill Sanctuary 600-acre preserve. Please arrive a few minutes early because we plan to start promptly at time listed. No pets allowed.

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If you RSVP “YES” and can’t make it, PLEASE change your RSVP so that the next person on the waitlist can attend.

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At an elevation of around 1,000 feet is a spectacular overlook providing panoramic views of the Housatonic River and the surrounding landscape.

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Please wear hiking footwear and bring as needed: water, snacks, bug spray, personal first aid (and meds), poles and backpack.

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Hike Rating: B+ ~2.2mph  

Hike Leader: Patrick Cunningham (203) 837-0912

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We do ask for a contribution of $3 per hike or $15 per year to cover meetup.com fees. Please Venmo Grace Best @ Grace-Best-1. Last 4 digits of ☎️# are 9912.

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IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE:  

With your RSVP you acknowledge that “The Hiking Group - CT & NY” is not a professional hiking organization. The sole purpose of this group is to enjoy the outdoors with like-minded adventurers. Hiking, rock climbing, biking, skiing and snowshoeing have dangers, and you take those risks upon yourselves. So therefore, you agree to release the hiking group “CT & NY” from any liabilities which you may incur.

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

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Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

​

Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

​

Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

​

Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

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Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

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The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

​

By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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Come join me in listening to this country cover band outside on a hill with food and drinks.

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Our ‘Friends Friday’ Summer Concert Series is sure to be a huge hit!

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LOCATION ~ The Hilltop’ @ March Farm. Drive past the farm store (farm store on left), continue up the road bearing to the right at the top of the hill and look out for a ‘HILLTOP’ sign on your left. Head up the drive to park.

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TICKETS ~ Your receipt is your ticket. Print it out or show us digitally on the day of each concert.

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FOOD & DRINKS ~ We do not forbid outside food or drinks but ask that you PLEASE support our vendors. To be a food/beverage vendor at these events takes a lot of prep, time and energy. Help make it all worth it!

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PETS ~ We ask that you leave you precious pooches at home.

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EQUIPMENT ~ BYO Chairs, blankets, soccer balls, footballs, and of course dancing shoes or bare feet!!!

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https://www.facebook.com/CTRakesBand/videos/1823434407704056/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

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The Woodbury Brewing Company presents MACALAS Performing the Music of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer and many other on Friday, August 29th at 8:30PM.

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MACALAS performs the music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and adds other great progressive rock tunes to the show including ELO, Procol Harum, Phil Collins, Moody Blues, Grand Funk, Vanilla Fudge, King Crimson and more!

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Featuring:

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• Bruce MacPherson - keys
• Bill Calabrese - bass, guitar, vocals
• Dave LaSalata - drums, vocals

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For this event, you can purchase reserved table seating, bar seating, or general admission. Reserved table seating or bar seating will allow you and your party entry into the event with reserved seats at a table or at the bar. General admission allows you entry into the event with standing room and any open seating first-come, first-served.

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General Admission is $10 at the door.

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"In the Spirit", paintings by Melody Asbury, are display at the Woodbury Public Library during the month of August. The show encompasses some of the dreams and visions that came to her in response to recent world events. 

​

Melody has always loved and painted animals, eventually becoming a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2008, a dream of a white wolf standing quietly in her backyard caused her paintings to move in a new direction after discovering the wolf was her spirit animal. So often misunderstood and persecuted, Ms. Asbury endeavors to show the spirit and worth of wolves in the balance of nature. As a lover of horses, a vision of an Appaloosa led her to exploring war ponies and the markings the indigenous people have painted on them.  

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

​

Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

​

Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

​

Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

​

Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

​

Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

​

Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

​

The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

​

By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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 Cost:  $135

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Dates:

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 4/26 2:00-5:00 PM

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 5/17 2:00-5:00 PM

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 6/7 2:00-5:00 PM

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Price:  $135 (Optional dish slumping: +$10)

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Discover the magic of  Kiln Carving , a unique glass fusing technique that creates stunning bas-relief designs in glass! In this three-hour workshop, you’ll explore how heat and fiber paper transform smooth glass into intricate, sculpted patterns. Design and carve up to three kiln-carved squares, which can be displayed as hanging art or slumped into a dish for an additional fee. This workshop is perfect for anyone – beginners, seasoned glass artists, whoever. As long as you love glass, we got you.

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What to Expect:

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  Introduction to Kiln Carving  – Learn how to create bas-relief designs in glass using fiber paper and heat.

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  Design & Carve  – Cut and shape fiber paper templates to achieve striking dimensional effects.

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  Customize Your Creations  – Choose vibrant transparent or opaque glass to enhance your designs.

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  Guided Instruction  – Step-by-step support to help bring your vision to life.

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What’s Included:

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 All materials and tools provided

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 Personalized instruction and support

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 Up to  three kiln-carved glass squares

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 Option to have one piece slumped into a dish (+$10)

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 Location:

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18 Bank Street, Seymour, CT

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Sign Up Now!

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Seats are limited—reserve your spot today! Call  203-888-1616  or email  glasssourcestudios@gmail.com  to register.

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Location:

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The Glass Source Stained Glass Studio

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18 Bank Street

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Suite 101

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Seymour, CT 06483

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203-888-1616

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 ELEVATE  

An Afro-Caribbean ROOFTOP Experience  

Elegant. Sexy. Chic.  

 Join us for an unforgettable day on a rooftop where Afro-Caribbean vibes meet upscale sophistication.  

 Dress to impress in your finest attire.  

Date: Saturday, Aug 30th  

Time: 4 PM - 10 PM  

Location: MM - 26 Park Place waterbury CT  

Age: 21+ | ID Required  

Sounds by:  

 DJ JUNIOR | DJ KWAME | SAMMIE SOCA | DJ DEXX  

 Spinning the best of Afrobeat | Dancehall | Soca | Amapiano | Kompa  

Vibes:  

 Luxury meets culture in the heart of the city.  

Tickets and VIP available now  

 Follow us: @Mr_onemanband | Info: (203)807-9488

 🎸 Mad House Band at Sunset Grille Saturday, August 30th | 6 PM – 9 PM $10 Lawn Seats

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Rock the last Saturday of August with Mad House Band at Sunset Grille! Bring your friends, your lawn chairs, and get ready for a night of pure musical fun. Let’s keep those summer vibes going strong!

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📍 834 Northfield Rd, Watertown, CT

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Connect with us: facebook.com/thesunsetgrillect | Instagram: @thesunsetgrillect

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www.thesunsetgrillect.com

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✨ Argentine Tango Workshop and Social Milonga ✨

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Join our two-hour class to deepen your connection with yourself and others through authentic tango movements. Immerse yourself in beautiful Argentine Tango music and awaken your inner fluidity and passion.

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🎟️ $25 per person (payable at studio)

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🚗 Limited free parking—friendly carpooling available

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📍 RSVP MANDATORY just Call/Text 347-579-8183

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👉 More at GGTANGO.com

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Alonso

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Get ready to dance in Seven Angels’ aisles as this tropical music transports you to the Caribbean isles!! Musician Jefferey Clayton founded PanNeubean Steel to share his passion for music and his Jamaican heritage.Showcasing the Steelpan’s versatility, this rhythmic ensemble incorporates various traditions from the Caribbean (reggae, soca, calypso), Afro-Caribbean, Contemporary, Jazz, Soul, Fusion and Classical music. PanNeubean Steel delivers the BEST Caribbean Music to the heart of Connecticut!

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Tickets: $30

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The Woodbury Brewing Company presents 2nd Nature on Saturday, August 30th at 8:30PM.

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Formed in 1992 and hailing from the Brass City, 5 friends started what is now known as 2ND Nature. Known for their Rock/Pop repertoire as well as their vocal harmonies, 2ND Nature was a strong fixture on the Waterbury scene and are still going strong.

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Please Note: Bar Seating, and any available tables are all first-come first-served; General Admission is $5 at the door.

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For this event, you can purchase reserved front table seating for 4, 6, or 8 people. Reserved table seating will allow you and your party entry into the event with reserved front stage seats at your own table.

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Your table reservation begins at 7:00pm. If you would like an earlier reservation, please contact WBC 48 hours prior to the event via email at booking@woodburybrewingcompany.com.

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

​

August 1 - September 7, 2025

​

Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

​

Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

​

Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

​

Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

​

Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

​

Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

​

Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

​

The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

​

By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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✨ Classical Ballet & Movement Technique ✨

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Sundays, 1:00–2:30 PM

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 Enhance your grace, posture, and movement quality through classical ballet and mindful movement techniques. All in a welcoming, comfortable environment.

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• ✅ All Levels & Beginners Welcome
• ✅ No Partner Needed
• 👗 Dress Comfortably
• 🩰 Shoes: Ballet slippers or socks recommended (avoid rubber soles)
• 🎟️ $25 (Cash preferred, Venmo OK)
• 📍 170 Flood Bridge Rd, Southbury, CT.
• 📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183
• 👉 More classes: southburydance.com

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 We look forward to welcoming you!

Build your 1:1 Art Lesson to you. You can customize each lesson by the skills that you want to learn. This can be in the medium of your choosing. We offer this to children, teens and adults. 

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We also offer packages upon request that are tailored to your artistic and creative goals. Contact genna@artlightenct.com for more information.

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1 Lesson = $75

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4 Lessons = $285

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6 Lessons = $430

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8 Lessons = $575

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Join us for a fabulous evening of Argentine Tango dancing in Southbury Connecticut.

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All levels welcome. You don’t need to bring a partner. Dance shoes optional, socks work fine. Avoid rubber sole shoes, too sticky.

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$25 payable on site. Join us! More classes at GGTANGO.com

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Dardo and Alonso

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

​

The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Curious about CT Hackerspace? Looking for a creative space to build, learn, or hang out with like-minded makers? Open House Night is the perfect time to visit!

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Held every Wednesday (weather permitting), this open house event is open to members and non-members alike. Work on your own projects, get a tour, meet our friendly community, or just see what the space is all about. We’ve got a wide variety of tools and equipment—plus people who love to share knowledge and ideas.

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No pressure. No agenda. Just a great night to explore and connect.

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For photos and directions on how to find us, Click Here!

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Join us every Thursday from 9 AM to 1 PM for the Brass City Harvest Farmers Market in downtown Waterbury!

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Open to all, the markets sell a wide variety of fresh and seasonal Connecticut grown produce, local eggs, jams and more.

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Forms of payment accepted are cash, credit/debit, SNAP/EBT, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program debit cards* (senior, WIC).

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For more information you can access our website: www.brasscityharvestwaterbury.com

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Don't miss your chance to shop local, fresh, and delicious- right in the heart of Waterbury every Thursday!

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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 Spotlight on Main: Thomaston

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Momentum is building in Thomaston!

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The town is holding a series of summer events to celebrate their 150th anniversary, they recently worked with NVCOG to update their Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD), they completed their 3rd annual CMSC Main Street Management Assessment, AND they implemented their Main Street Accelerator project resulting from their 2024 Cohort team work.

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Our next Spotlight on Main will include networking time, presentations from local officials and a guided walking tour. The event kicks off with networking at Clocktown Brewery, located in a section of the former Seth Thomas Clock Factory. Thomaston Economic Development Commission will lead a presentation that provides insights on volunteer engagement, discuss what’s driving the positive change in downtown and some of the challenges they are up against.

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Event Schedule

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This event is rain or shine.

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• 3:00 Networking & Check-In
• 3:30 Presentation from Thomaston EDC
• 4:00 Walking Tour of Downtown
• 5:00 Networking Reception

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During our walking tour, we’ll see the branded elements that are helping to shape Thomaston’s unique sense of place. We’ll visit the Railroad Museum of New England and hear how partnering with regional businesses activated an underutilized rail line and created a destination. We’ll walk the future site of the Greenway connecting Watertown and Torrington and hear how the revitalized green space has brought together the community.

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As always, our Spotlight is focused on highlighting best practices in downtown management. Join us on September 4th to hear how a dedicated EDC has leveraged CMSC resources to bring vibrancy to their downtown!

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Space is limited. Please use the link below to register for the event.

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https://ctmainstreet.org/events/som-thomaston/

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Held on the first Thursday of each month, the CT Hackerspace Board Meeting is an open forum for members to stay informed and engaged with the direction of our organization. Join us to hear updates from the board, discuss current and upcoming initiatives, and share your ideas or concerns. All CT Hackerspace members are encouraged to attend and take part in shaping the future of our community.

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TECHNIQUE CLASS

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✨ Weekly Footwork Training ✨

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Every Thursday at 7 PM

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Enjoy an intense, fun footwork class designed to help you relax, feel grounded, and find your flow—in dance and life. Class duration approximately 1 hour.

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✅ All Levels Welcome

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👠 Socks or dance shoes (avoid rubber soles)

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🎟️ $25 per person

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📍 Studio located on private property

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📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183

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👉 More info at GGTANGO.com

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 Why Poetry? Unlock Your Doors!

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Dare to discover who you are! This series of four poetry sessions will not only enrich your writing, but will open doors to your creative self; walk through any one that suits you. All levels welcome.

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Teacher Bio:

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Award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. In addition to working with students at SCSU, she is thrilled to teach both art and poetry to Senior Citizens in person and online throughout Connecticut. Her work is published in journals across the country, including War, Literature & the Arts, Connecticut Review, Main Street Rag, San Pedro River Review, VietNow Magazine, and Paterson Literary Review. She has served as Keynote Speaker for the MPAC-Young Writers Awards as well as judged Connecticut High School Poetry Out Loud competitions. Pat is President of the Connecticut Poetry Society and served as editor of Connecticut River Review from 2012–2017. On a global scale, she mentors Afghan women writers living in Afghanistan and beyond, resulting in a collection of poems in English, Maybe I Should Fly, by two Afghan sisters who lived under the Taliban regime. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Under the Red Dress, After Hours, and A Town Like That. Pat was the recipient of the prestigious CSCU system-wide Board of Regents Outstanding Teacher Award in 2019, as well as the J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teacher Award in 2021. Pat is the Poet Laureate of Cheshire, CT.

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$150 gets you 90 minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts from 7 to 8:30 pm on four consecutive Thursday nights with Pat Mottola from September 4th to September 25th.

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If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team by emailing info@ballandsocket.org to discuss accommodations.

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Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

​

Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

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Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

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Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

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Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

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Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

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Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

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This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

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The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

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By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

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These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

​

Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

​

Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

​

Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

​

Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

​

Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

​

The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

​

By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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Take a break after your work week and meet up with other adults the first Friday of each month to play art games that will boost your drawing skills and increase your creativity in a fun, low-pressure, party-like atmosphere. Art games can be the start of getting into a creative routine and being playful can be a boon to getting out of a creative rut. Potluck snacks are encouraged! Instructor: Megan Jeffery (1 day)

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Inspired is an original theatrical production presented by City Youth Theater/City Stage Company. This thought-provoking and empowering play explores the journey of young artists as they discover the power of creativity, resilience, and community. Through a mix of heartfelt storytelling, music, and movement, Inspired celebrates the courage it takes to use your voice and the strength that comes from standing together.

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Join us for a powerful and uplifting performance that will leave you moved, motivated, and—above all—inspired.

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Directed by: Tom Ovitt

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

​

The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

​

Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Students will work with Prismacolor soft, wax-based colored pencils to learn layering, blending, and shading techniques on professional acid-free paper. Subjects vary according to each student’s personal design to create lasting works of art. Returning students will work on continuing projects. Instructor: Norma Curtis (6 weeks)

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Join Woodbury author David Newell for a book signing at the Woodbury Public Library. He will be sharing his recently published his third book,  Meade Hill Road , the sequel to his first novel  Sarah Jane. The book series, based on a Vermont farm family, are set in the late 1800’s. He is currently working on the third book in the series. Mr. Newell’s first published work,  Petey and Quackers , is an illustrated true story the author wrote for his granddaughter about Petey, a pigeon, and Quackers, a disabled duck, who become inseparable friends for life. 

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Join the 3rd Annual Puerto Rican Parade and Bori-Fest in Waterbury. The celebration kicks off with a parade from Downtown Waterbury (@11:30 AM). It continues at Library Park with the Bori-Fest (@1:30 PM), featuring cultural performances, music, local vendors, and Puerto Rican cuisine. Únete al 3er Desfile Anual Puertorriqueño y al Bori-Fest en Waterbury. La celebración comienza con un desfile desde Downtown Waterbury (@11:30 AM) y continúa en Library Park con el Bori-Fest (@1:30pm) ofreciendo presentaciones culturales, música, vendedores locales y comida puertorriqueña.

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

​

Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

​

Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

​

Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

​

Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

​

Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​

Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

​

Full Artist Statement:

​

Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

​

This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

​

The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

​

By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

​

These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

​

Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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 Date & Time:

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• Saturday, July 19, 2025 — 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
• Saturday, September 6, 2025 — 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Description:

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Experience the soothing sounds of nature with our Wind Chime Workshop! Join us for an enchanting afternoon of creativity as you craft your own fused glass Wind Chimes, perfect for bringing melody and charm to your outdoor spaces.

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In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the art of glass fusing under the expert guidance of our experienced instructor. Using an assortment of colorful glass pieces, attendees will design and assemble their own unique Wind Chimes, incorporating elements such as beads, shells, and other embellishments to add personality and flair.

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Each participant will have the opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind Wind Chime that reflects their personal style and aesthetic. Whether you prefer a whimsical design with playful colors or a more elegant, nature-inspired theme, the possibilities are endless!

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After the workshop, participants will take their completed Wind Chimes home to be strung and hung in their outdoor spaces. The gentle tinkling of glass against glass will bring a sense of serenity and tranquility to any garden, patio, or porch.

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Workshop Highlights:

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• Create your own fused glass Wind Chimes to add charm to your outdoor spaces.
• Explore the art of glass fusing under the guidance of our experienced instructor.
• Customize your Wind Chime with colorful glass pieces, beads, shells, and more.
• Take home a unique handmade creation to enjoy the soothing sounds of nature.

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Dates & Prices:

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• Saturday, July 19, 2025 — 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
• Saturday, September 6, 2025 — 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Materials Included:

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• All glass materials necessary for creating a fused glass wind chime.
• Access to tools and equipment during the workshop
• A large selection of beads & strings to string your wind chimes when they are finished.

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Registration: Secure your spot today by calling 203-888-1616 or emailing us at glasssourcestudios@gmail.com. Limited spaces available, so don't miss out on this opportunity to create a beautiful fused glass windchime to enhance your outdoor oasis!

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Inspired is an original theatrical production presented by City Youth Theater/City Stage Company. This thought-provoking and empowering play explores the journey of young artists as they discover the power of creativity, resilience, and community. Through a mix of heartfelt storytelling, music, and movement, Inspired celebrates the courage it takes to use your voice and the strength that comes from standing together.

​

Join us for a powerful and uplifting performance that will leave you moved, motivated, and—above all—inspired.

​

Directed by: Tom Ovitt

​

Join Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell for an artist's reception highlighting recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery. 

​

The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. 

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 On September 6th from 6-8 pm, enjoy a free outdoor concert featuring local bluegrass legends, Goodnight Blue Moon.

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Bring your lawn chairs and a picnic dinner from one of our local restaurants for an evening of music.

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Grab your spot and start your picnic at 5:30. We will have cold beverages available for sale with all proceeds benefitting future programming on-site.

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Music from 6-8 pm.

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Goondight Blue Moon

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Blending rich vocal harmonies with lush orchestrations, Goodnight Blue Moon has created a sound that is steeped in tradition, yet entirely current. GNBM is known for their energetic, honest, and dynamic live performances, offering a refreshing take on Americana roots music.

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Awarded Best Roots Act in the 2016 New England Music Awards, and Best Folk/Traditional Act in the 2018 and 2013 Connecticut Music Awards, Goodnight Blue Moon has cemented their place as one of New England's premier groups. They have shared the stage with indie-folk heavyweights Hurray for the Riff Raff, Spirit Family Reunion, Wild Child, Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons, and Mother Falcon among others, in addition to creating a diverse and devoted following of their own. Goodnight Blue Moon has been regularly featured on WNPR's Where We Live and NEXT with John Dankosky. Their festival credits include CT Folk Festival, LAUNCH Music Festival, MUSIKFEST, Podunk Bluegrass Festival, I AM Festival and Block Island Music Festival. Goodnight Blue Moon's third studio album Dawning Dream was released April 2018. 

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This event is produced by Ball & Socket Arts.

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Advance (free) registration encouraged.

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✨ Argentine Tango Workshop and Social Milonga ✨

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Join our two-hour class to deepen your connection with yourself and others through authentic tango movements. Immerse yourself in beautiful Argentine Tango music and awaken your inner fluidity and passion.

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🎟️ $25 per person (payable at studio)

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🚗 Limited free parking—friendly carpooling available

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📍 RSVP MANDATORY just Call/Text 347-579-8183

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👉 More at GGTANGO.com

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 Other Asterisms by Deborah Hesse

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August 1 - September 7, 2025

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Located in The Workshop Gallery, Building 3.

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Opening Reception on Friday, August 1st from 3-6PM

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Artist Talk on Friday, September 5th at 6PM

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Regular Gallery Hours from 12-4 pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

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Other Asterisms is a solo exhibition by Deborah Hesse featuring sculptural, light-responsive wall works made from industrial and everyday materials. Together, the pieces form a constellation—charting imagined links between the material and immaterial, the physical and virtual. Evoking underwater ecosystems, celestial maps, and microscopic life, these luminous, biomorphic forms blur boundaries and invite reflection on unseen systems beyond the known world.

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Deborah Hesse is a multimedia artist and independent curator based in New Haven, CT. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Tamarind Institute Fellow in Lithography. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and a Regional Project Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Hesse was an international artist-in-residence at the Hongti Art Center in Busan, South Korea, where she created a solo exhibition based on research into traditional seaweed cultivation. She has also received Rhode Island and Connecticut Visual Artist Sea Grant Awards, as well as artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, GreenWave, and Weir Farm Art Center. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally, with exhibitions in South Korea, New York, New Mexico, and Connecticut—including venues such as Real Art Ways, Housatonic Museum, University of Connecticut, Artspace, University of New Haven, Silvermine Art Gallery, and Governors Island Art Fair.

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Full Artist Statement:

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Other Asterisms features luminous, shaped, biomorphic wall works organically arrayed across the gallery. As a group, these abstractions evoke celestial constellations, bioluminescent aquatic forms, and microscopic life—confounding scale and seeking to make the immaterial visible.

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This constellation of forms emerges through a layered process that blends digital fabrication with intuitive, material-based experimentation. I work with industrial byproducts—mainly sign- making materials—alongside birch wood, photo fragments, acrylic, and ink to create dimensional wall pieces that function as spatial paintings.

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The initial shapes are inspired by natural forms and phenomena—seaweed pressings, fluid dynamics, the contours of spills—drawn from local specimens and debris gathered on daily walks. These fragments are translated into digital outlines and cut with a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, then altered by hand with paint, adhesive color gels, and embedded imagery—merging precision with improvisation.

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By combining fabricated and hand-altered materials, I explore how light, transparency, and surface interact to produce shifting forms and layered visual experiences. The planar, layered structures also reflect how digital life flattens and fragments information, reducing complexity into fleeting impressions.

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These works probe the shifting boundary between physical and digital realities, drawing on the materials’ signage origins to question what is real, simulated, or invented. The process— manipulating synthetic materials into organic, responsive forms—reflects a broader interest in transformation, perception, and the increasingly fluid spaces we inhabit between tangible and virtual realms.

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Together, the pieces form a kind of sensory map—linking the digital, natural, and constructed to explore connections between the infinite and the everyday.

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✨ Classical Ballet & Movement Technique ✨

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Sundays, 1:00–2:30 PM

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Enhance your grace, posture, and movement quality through classical ballet and mindful movement techniques. All in a welcoming, comfortable environment.

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• ✅ All Levels & Beginners Welcome
• ✅ No Partner Needed
• 👗 Dress Comfortably
• 🩰 Shoes: Ballet slippers or socks recommended (avoid rubber soles)
• 🎟️ $25 (Cash preferred, Venmo OK)
• 📍 170 Flood Bridge Rd, Southbury, CT.
• 📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183
• 👉 More classes: southburydance.com

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Don’t miss out on an unforgettable night of worship and gospel music! Join acclaimed saxophonist Quinn Mitchell and special guests the Mount Olive AME Zion Choir and Rema Fountain of the Spiritual Souls for a soul-stirring evening of joyful gospel and praise celebration at Seven Angels!

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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We’ll start with fun, game-like drawing prompts to get our creative juices flowing, then move on to longer experiments that help us explore different drawing implements and techniques. You’ll discover which drawing tools and color combinations inspire you, unlocking your unique artistic voice. It’s a playful, hands-on way to find your personal style, learn some drawing techniques and have fun in the process. For intermediate level students. Instructor: Megan Jeffery (6 weeks)

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Are you nervous to stand before a crowd to voice your thoughts, ideas and opinions or give presentations to your team or your doctoral thesis defense? Then you've come to the right place! Find out more about the best self-paced public speaking and leadership training in the world.

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We meet on 2nd & 4th Monday from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The club is open to all interested parties. Free admission. No ticket required.

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NOTE: This is an online meeting due to the pandemic stay-at-home policy. Please visit the website http://1628.toastmastersclubs.org/ and find the Zoom link.

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Join us for a fabulous evening of Argentine Tango dancing in Southbury Connecticut.

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All levels welcome. You don’t need to bring a partner. Dance shoes optional, socks work fine. Avoid rubber sole shoes, too sticky.

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$25 payable on site. Join us! More classes at GGTANGO.com

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Dardo and Alonso

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Small Worlds: The Art of Haiku with Amy Graver on Tuesday, September 9th from 7 to 8:30 pm.

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Explore the power and precision of haiku in this 90-minute, hands-on workshop featuring traditional, modern, haibun, and linked forms. Through joyful discussion and creative exploration, participants will learn essential elements – seasonal imagery, line breaks, rhythm, and juxtaposition – while engaging in fun, generative writing exercises.

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We’ll try a collaborative “haiku pass,” spark inspiration with a haiku prompt deck filled with sensory cues, and write ekphrastic haiku inspired by gallery artwork or a chosen image. The session will close with a surprise take-home prompt and a small project to carry your haiku into the world.

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You’ll leave with several original haiku, new generative techniques, and a deeper appreciation for the small worlds that live in a single moment. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned writer, come ready to observe, imagine, and surprise yourself.

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$30 gets you 90 minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts from 7 to 8:30 pm. 

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If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team by emailing info@ballandsocket.org to discuss accommodations.

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Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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We’ll create a cartoon avatar of ourselves and tell personal stories through bite-sized 4-panel comics, exploring everything from childhood memories to life with our families, past and present. Each week, we’ll focus on a new prompt, while studying how cartoonist-memoirists use pacing, tone and lettering to enhance their narratives. By the end, you’ll have a collection of short, powerful stories and the skills to continue developing your own graphic memoir at your own pace. Instructor: Megan Jeffrey (5 days)

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Join Woodbury's 3rd Poet Laureate, Katie Baker, for an evening of poetry open to all. The Open Mic Nights meet monthly; September's theme is IDENTITY.

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Feel free to bring original poems to share, or read a selection from a favorite poet. People are also welcome to just come and listen. All are welcome.

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Curious about CT Hackerspace? Looking for a creative space to build, learn, or hang out with like-minded makers? Open House Night is the perfect time to visit!

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Held every Wednesday (weather permitting), this open house event is open to members and non-members alike. Work on your own projects, get a tour, meet our friendly community, or just see what the space is all about. We’ve got a wide variety of tools and equipment—plus people who love to share knowledge and ideas.

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No pressure. No agenda. Just a great night to explore and connect.

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For photos and directions on how to find us, Click Here!

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Join us every Thursday from 9 AM to 1 PM for the Brass City Harvest Farmers Market in downtown Waterbury!

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Open to all, the markets sell a wide variety of fresh and seasonal Connecticut grown produce, local eggs, jams and more.

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Forms of payment accepted are cash, credit/debit, SNAP/EBT, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program debit cards* (senior, WIC).

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For more information you can access our website: www.brasscityharvestwaterbury.com

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Don't miss your chance to shop local, fresh, and delicious- right in the heart of Waterbury every Thursday!

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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TECHNIQUE CLASS

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✨ Weekly Footwork Training ✨

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Every Thursday at 7 PM

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Enjoy an intense, fun footwork class designed to help you relax, feel grounded, and find your flow—in dance and life. Class duration approximately 1 hour.

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✅ All Levels Welcome

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👠 Socks or dance shoes (avoid rubber soles)

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🎟️ $25 per person

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📍 Studio located on private property

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📲 RSVP via Call/Text: 347-579-8183

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👉 More info at GGTANGO.com

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 Why Poetry? Unlock Your Doors!

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Dare to discover who you are! This series of four poetry sessions will not only enrich your writing, but will open doors to your creative self; walk through any one that suits you. All levels welcome.

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Teacher Bio:

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Award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, Pat Mottola teaches Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned both an M.S. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. In addition to working with students at SCSU, she is thrilled to teach both art and poetry to Senior Citizens in person and online throughout Connecticut. Her work is published in journals across the country, including War, Literature & the Arts, Connecticut Review, Main Street Rag, San Pedro River Review, VietNow Magazine, and Paterson Literary Review. She has served as Keynote Speaker for the MPAC-Young Writers Awards as well as judged Connecticut High School Poetry Out Loud competitions. Pat is President of the Connecticut Poetry Society and served as editor of Connecticut River Review from 2012–2017. On a global scale, she mentors Afghan women writers living in Afghanistan and beyond, resulting in a collection of poems in English, Maybe I Should Fly, by two Afghan sisters who lived under the Taliban regime. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Under the Red Dress, After Hours, and A Town Like That. Pat was the recipient of the prestigious CSCU system-wide Board of Regents Outstanding Teacher Award in 2019, as well as the J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teacher Award in 2021. Pat is the Poet Laureate of Cheshire, CT.

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$150 gets you 90 minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts from 7 to 8:30 pm on four consecutive Thursday nights with Pat Mottola from September 4th to September 25th.

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If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team by emailing info@ballandsocket.org to discuss accommodations.

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Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Bethlehem artist and Arts Alliance of Woodbury President Marc Russell will show recent photographs at the Woodbury Public Library Gallery during the month of September. 

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The exhibit takes two directions in showcasing Mr. Russell’s photography. Landscape photographs made during visits to our National Parks are shown along with images created in the garden and the studio. Many of the photographs are made using 4x5 black and white film and printed by Mr.Russell in his darkroom and also featuring images from his Garlic and Mushroom series. Mr.Russell says, “Nature’s inspiration is boundless. Taking time to enjoy, examine and reflect often leads to new discoveries. His work comes from explorations while hiking and traveling as well as in the garden, where nature provides the colorful, varied and wonderful array of forms, patterns, shapes and textures. 

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Marc Russell holds an MFA degree from Brooklyn College with studies at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum, Pratt Institute and Maine Photo Workshops. Mr. Russell has been a New York City advertising, event and portrait photographer. He created a photography department at the Taft School and was an adjunct professor at Suffern Community College teaching Black and White photography and advanced studio techniques.

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Marc Russell has exhibited work in group and solo shows including the Queens Museum, Mattatuck Museum, Five Points, Rockefeller Gallery, Hopper House, Rockland Center for the Arts, Renaissance Gallery, Olivet College, Soho Photo, Uma Gallery, Imaging Arts, Upstream Gallery, Suny Albany, Washington Art Association, Flanders, Blue Hill, Salmagundi Club, many art fairs and is in numerous personal collections.

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Join local author S Daignault for an author talk and book signing for her newly released book  O2: Earth's Last Breath -  a nail biting race against time - at the Woodbury Public Library. The year is 2039 and Sydney Davis is a geophysicist working at The Earth Institute for Health when a series of oxygen-related catastrophes knock the earth into a tailspin of imminent death across all existing life. Time is running out and the very existence of all life is in the balance!

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Sandra Daignault had a successful career in business working for Fortune 100 corporations where she traveled within the US and abroad. After retiring she dedicated her time to her life-long love of writing. When she's not following her passion for writing she paints, participating in shows and establishing herself as a noteworthy area artist. 

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Free admission and programming on the Second Saturday of each month.

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Access for All Initiative sponsored by Art Bridges Foundation

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Free admission and programming on the Second Saturday of each month.

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La Alcaldía de Waterbury reconoce la importancia de facilitar directamente el acceso comunitario a recursos y a servicios municipales para nuestra comunidad bendecido con el idioma español. La ciudad invita más de 25 organizaciones sin fines de lucro locales , DJs , y recursos estatales de apoyo  a participar en el evento, todos con personal que habla español. La feria también incluirá camiones de comida latina , vendedores  y presentaciones musicales  para mantener el evento emocionante y relevante.

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The City of Waterbury Mayor's Office recognizes how important it is to directly promote community access to non-profit resources and city services catering to Spanish speaking community members. The City is inviting 25+ local non-profits , local DJ , and statewide advocacy resources  to table at the event, all with staff that speak Spanish. The fair will include Latin-based food trucks , vendors , and musical performances  by our city’s youth just to keep the event exciting and relevant. If any of this sounds appealing to you, we invite you to come down and visit us Saturday, September 13th!

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Is illness an obstacle, or an opportunity, for artistic creativity? How do artists with visual loss deal with their illness? How do visual changes affect an artist's work?  In this conversation, Dr. Vincent de Luise will explore the visual impairments of several of the greatest artists in the western Canon - Euphronios, Rembrandt, Titian, Goya, Daumier, Degas, Cassatt, Monet, Georgia O’Keefe, Francis Bacon and Chuck Close. The talk will take a “Slow Look” at their works to see how they overcame their visual changes to create masterpieces.

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Vincent de Luise MD is an assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Yale University School of Medicine and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Medical Humanities at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Vincent is a clarinetist and is president of the Woodbury-based Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation.  He also serves as the cultural ambassador and a program annotator of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra. 

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The Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Inc., in conjunction with the Railroad Museum of New England, will hold a unique event on Sunday, September 14th from 12-5 pm: a Train Car Arts Show! The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, September 13th, from 3:30-5:30 pm to preview some of the submissions from our Ten-2-One Artists, our Camera Club, and our Creative Writing Group. Music will be provided by Tom Turci of Southington. The event will be open to the public on Sunday, and walk-ins are cordially invited. For further information, visit the website at www.thomastonfinearts.com.

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✨ Argentine Tango Workshop and Social Milonga ✨

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Join our two-hour class to deepen your connection with yourself and others through authentic tango movements. Immerse yourself in beautiful Argentine Tango music and awaken your inner fluidity and passion.

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🎟️ $25 per person (payable at studio)

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🚗 Limited free parking—friendly carpooling available

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📍 RSVP MANDATORY just Call/Text 347-579-8183

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👉 More at GGTANGO.com

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Alonso

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 TWO SHOWS! Saturday, September 13 at 8pm and Sunday, September 14 at 2pm

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Remember all the wonderful Variety shows we all grew up on in the 70s and 80s? Now is your chance to see them live and recreated by Las Vegas’ number one impersonators of all time. All your favorite legendary superstars come alive in “An Evening with The Stars.” The NBC Today show says “it’s one of the most extra­ordinary shows we have ever seen.” Sonny & Cher, Billy Joel, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Tom Jones, and many many more hosted by THE EDWARDS TWINS FROM LAS VEGAS.

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Join us for our Book Sale! The sale is inside the library, cash only, and most books are 50¢ to $2. The library will not be open for normal use.

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The Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Inc., in conjunction with the Railroad Museum of New England, will hold a unique event on Sunday, September 14th from 12-5 pm: a Train Car Arts Show! The public is invited to an opening reception on Saturday, September 13th, from 3:30-5:30 pm to preview some of the submissions from our Ten-2-One Artists, our Camera Club, and our Creative Writing Group. Music will be provided by Tom Turci of Southington. The event will be open to the public on Sunday, and walk-ins are cordially invited. For further information, visit the website at www.thomastonfinearts.com.

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Thomaston Police Explorers present:

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Thomaston, Connecticut's 34th Annual Summer Cruise

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In Memory of Terry W. Hawley, Founder

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Proceeds to benefit the Thomaston Police Explorers Post 4343

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For more information contact the Thomaston PD at 860-283-4343

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To learn more about The Thomaston Police Explorers program visit the Police Department's webpage

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Get updates about the car show on the Thomaston Car Show Facebook Page

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