EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
Join us at Greenwich Country Club for our annual Holiday Boutique! Stop by for an elevated one-stop shopping experience featuring a highly curated array of gifts for everyone on your list! Everything from fine jewelry, luxury accessories, clothing, home décor, gourmet treats, artisanal goods, children’s items, and more.
Holiday Boutique
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
Join us on Thursdays (3:00-8:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) from November 13-December 20, 2025 for our very first Arcade Winter Market inside the historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Winter Market is a cozy Downtown Bridgeport experience filled with warm drinks, artisan gifts, fresh produce, local bites, music, activities, and spaces to linger and connect. Perfect for all ages! Find that perfect gift, feel the holiday spirit, and Shop Local, Give Colorfully!
The inaugural Arcade Winter Market will include live music each week from local talent, all ages arts and crafts led by Robin Gilmore Jopp, photos with your favorite holiday characters, in addition to a range of fresh veggies, delectable prepared food, and hand crafted offerings from our favorite local vendors.
The Arcade Winter Market made possible by our partners sponsors: Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the City of Bridgeport, CT Main Street Center, Optimum Business, and Pryceless Consulting.
Arcade Winter Market
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
Join us at Greenwich Country Club for our annual Holiday Boutique! Stop by for an elevated one-stop shopping experience featuring a highly curated array of gifts for everyone on your list! Everything from fine jewelry, luxury accessories, clothing, home décor, gourmet treats, artisanal goods, children’s items, and more.
Holiday Boutique
Join SoNo 1420 America’s Maritime Distillery in celebrating National Repeal Day. Enjoy a Great Gatsby-themed evening commemorating the end of U.S. Prohibition. Prohibition era cocktails, live jazz music, and a land and sea menu prepared by LobsterCraft will be available throughout the evening. SoNo 1420 is a destination craft distillery located in historic South Norwalk, C T, producing ultra-premium distilled spirits. The Tasting Room captures a prohibition-era vibe and is the perfect
spot to enjoy award-winning whiskeys, nationally ranked vodka, and 1420' s signature craft cocktails.
SoNo 1420 Distillery Great Gatsby Party
Greenwich Art Society is pleased to announce another special event in collaboration with
Devon Vander Voort, Art Advisory
Event Description: Hosted by Devon Vander Voort and Greenwich Art Society, the experience begins with a private breakfast before diving into exclusive guided tours of SCOPE Art Show and Untitled Art Fair, featuring hand-selected booths and conversations with artists and curators shaping the contemporary art landscape.
Guests will then explore the Rubell Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) at their own pace, followed by a closing happy hour -the perfect setting to unwind and reflect on the day’s discoveries.
Devon Vander Voort
Founder
Devon Vander Voort is a private art dealer, art advisor, and artist coach. Based in New York, DVV helps clients build and maintain their private art collections. They advise their clients on mindful acquisitions and strategic deaccessions. DVV is an active participant in art fairs nationally and internationally, providing clients with insider knowledge of the current art market landscape on a global scale. DVV's museum expertise links the two worlds together creating a wide-reaching lens of the arts.
Founder Devon Vander Voort sits on the board of the Syracuse University Art Museum, the Museum Association of New York (MANY), The Greenwich Art Society, and the Visual and Performing Arts Young Alumni Council at Syracuse University. She holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from Syracuse University and a B.A. in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She is a current member of NADA (New Art Dealers Association.)
Exclusive Guided Tour of SCOPE Art Show and Untitled Art Fair in Miami Beach, Florida
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
Celebrate the winter season with the traditional art of pysanky—A Ukrainian wax-resist egg decorating artform—by making a festive holiday ornament! In this hands-on class, you’ll learn how to use a kistka, apply beeswax designs, and layer dyes to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind keepsake.
Ages 15+.
This program is:
$35 per member,
$40 per non-member
Registration required. Please register at www.newpondfarm.org
Adult & Teen Pysanky for the Holidays
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
Place a bid in our seventh annual Festival of Tabletop Trees. Local retailers, organizations, and designers will hand craft and decorate a tree which can be bid on and won at the end of our festival. Celebrate the talents of those who help us make our homes festive sanctuaries during the holiday season.
View, purchase or bid on a tree via on-site silent auction.
Festival of Trees
Join us on Thursdays (3:00-8:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) from November 13-December 20, 2025 for our very first Arcade Winter Market inside the historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Winter Market is a cozy Downtown Bridgeport experience filled with warm drinks, artisan gifts, fresh produce, local bites, music, activities, and spaces to linger and connect. Perfect for all ages! Find that perfect gift, feel the holiday spirit, and Shop Local, Give Colorfully!
The inaugural Arcade Winter Market will include live music each week from local talent, all ages arts and crafts led by Robin Gilmore Jopp, photos with your favorite holiday characters, in addition to a range of fresh veggies, delectable prepared food, and hand crafted offerings from our favorite local vendors.
The Arcade Winter Market made possible by our partners sponsors: Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the City of Bridgeport, CT Main Street Center, Optimum Business, and Pryceless Consulting.
Arcade Winter Market
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with the Weston History & Culture Center and the Friends of the Weston Public Library on Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 2pm at the Weston Public Library, 56 Norfield Rd. in Weston, CT. FREE event – Registration Required. Register here: https://westonpl.librarycalendar.com/event/jane-austen-program-4271
Come enjoy a lighthearted talk about Jane Austen and the role of dance in her life and novels. Then kick up your heels with two easy dances associated with Jane: the "Boulanger" mentioned in Pride & Prejudice and the "Savage Dance" from her family music book using instructions written in Jane's own hand! No experience needed! Lecture and dance presented by social dance historian, Susan de Guardola.
A birthday wouldn't be complete without treats. Mini-cupcakes and tea will round out this exciting afternoon as we celebrate and learn more about one of the world's most famous authors, Jane Austen. Feel free to wear a birthday hat or your favorite Jane Austen-style dress! This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library and the Weston History & Culture Center.
Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday - Lecture & Dance
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
Explore History at the Weston History & Culture Center.
Sunday, December 7, 2025 1pm - 4pm
Lots to explore for all ages. Interactive exhibits for children.
Tickets at the door. Free for WHCC members, $5 adult general admission, $3 kids 5+
- The Coley House will NOT be open for tours on this day due to an event taking place in the house.
Your admission ticket gets you the following experiences:
Exhibit: Weston at Work (In the Coley Barn):
Explore the history of agriculture, manufacturing and textile production in Weston and Connecticut during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the new, interactive exhibit, "Weston at Work". Children can card wool, weave on a wall loom, use a rope and pulley to raise a hay bale and more! The exhibit highlights the many people, including immigrant populations, people of African descent, women, and children, who helped put Weston to work. With hands-on activities for children, rare Bradley Axe tools, farming implements, a working loom and countless historic images, "Weston at Work" allows visitors of all ages to actively engage in learning about Weston's past.
Exhibits in the Visitor's Center
"Images of a Forgotten Village - Valley Forge": This exhibit is in partnership with the Weston Library Photography Club. The picturesque Saugatuck Reservoir in Weston, CT was home to a small neighborhood called, Valley Forge. This once thriving community of mills, forges and farms has vanished from memory and sight. The only reminder being photographs. Join the Weston History & Culture Center and the Weston Library Photography Club for an exploration of this forgotten valley.
"May I Have This Dance?" featuring rare social dance ephemera from the World War I / Titanic era from the private collection of dance historian Susan de Guardiola. The exhibit includes original early 20th century dance manuals, rare sheet music, and actual dance cards relating to the early days of ballroom dances such as the tango and foxtrot! Browse the cases while enjoying the exhibit soundtrack of popular ragtime dance music of the 1910s.
Fall Fun - Sunday Open Hours at Weston History & Culture Center
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
🎶 Join Us for a Joyful Celebration of the Season! 🎶
Mark your calendars for the Fairfield County Children's Choir's Annual Winter Concert on Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM at The Klein Memorial Auditorium—a heartwarming afternoon of music that promises to uplift and inspire.
This year’s program features an exciting array of new selections built around twin themes: Songs of Hope & Peace and The Music of Johnny Marks. Enjoy a moving blend of soul-stirring melodies and timeless holiday favorites from one of America’s most beloved songwriters.
Season favorites include I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; A Holly Jolly Christmas; Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree; The Sussex Carol; Angels We Have Heard on High, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! The concert will also showcase a stirring masterpiece by J.S. Bach, the powerful patriotic anthem “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,” and—adding a touch of rock flair—Queen’s iconic “Bohemian Rhapsody”!
Bring your friends and family, and let the music of the season fill your hearts. We can’t wait to share this unforgettable experience with you!
The Fairfield County Children's Choir (FCCC) is a community-based non-profit choral program of four choirs and nearly 300 children in grades four through twelve from across Fairfield County. The FCCC has performed throughout New England (Boston, Cape Cod, Tanglewood, Burlington, Hartford) as well as in New York (Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden & West Point), Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, San Francisco, Oakland, Hawaii, Colorado, Arizona, Canada, England, Ireland, Austria and the Czech Republic. Recent performances have included Carmina Burana at Lincoln Center, the Vivaldi Gloria with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, and two first-place showings at the Golden Gate Choral Festival in San Francisco.
Fairfield County Children's Choir Winter Concert
Best-selling author Kiran Desai will discuss her novel The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny on Monday, September 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Harry Bennett Branch.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by Desai.
The book has been longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. It is the author’s first book in nearly 20 years, and her first appearance on the Booker list since winning in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award as well.
The presentation will be followed by a book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.
Kiran Desai is also the author of the bestselling novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Born in India, she came to the U.S. when she was 16. She lives in New York City.
Registration is required at fergusonlibrary.org/events.
For more information, call 203 351-8221.
Booker Prize-Winning Author Kiran Desai to Discuss Her Latest Epic at the Ferguson Library
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
Visit the Greenwich Historical Society to see our new exhibition! The Holley Boarding House: Inspiring American Impressionism explores how entrepreneurial women enabled Holley House to become the setting for the Cos Cob art colony, the first Impressionist community in Connecticut, and among the earliest in the nation. This exhibition showcases hidden paintings and items from our collection as well as items from the house on display in an exhibition for the first time. Take a guided exhibition tour on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays!
The Holley Boarding House: Inspiring American Impressionism
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
Join us on Thursdays (3:00-8:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) from November 13-December 20, 2025 for our very first Arcade Winter Market inside the historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Winter Market is a cozy Downtown Bridgeport experience filled with warm drinks, artisan gifts, fresh produce, local bites, music, activities, and spaces to linger and connect. Perfect for all ages! Find that perfect gift, feel the holiday spirit, and Shop Local, Give Colorfully!
The inaugural Arcade Winter Market will include live music each week from local talent, all ages arts and crafts led by Robin Gilmore Jopp, photos with your favorite holiday characters, in addition to a range of fresh veggies, delectable prepared food, and hand crafted offerings from our favorite local vendors.
The Arcade Winter Market made possible by our partners sponsors: Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the City of Bridgeport, CT Main Street Center, Optimum Business, and Pryceless Consulting.
Arcade Winter Market
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Mayor’s Gallery presents: “ART/PLACE visits Stamford!”
Artwork by the members of the ART/PLACE Gallery
October 16th, 2025 – December 15th, 2025
Artists’ reception Thursday October 23rd 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Stamford Government Center 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Covered on-site parking handicap accessible
The Stamford Mayor’s Gallery presents “ART/PLACE visits Stamford” at the newly renovated Mayor’s Gallery of Stamford. The exhibition runs from October 16th thru December 15th, 2025.
The artist’s reception is scheduled for Thursday October 23rd, from 4:30- 6:00 PM where the public is invited to meet the artists. Art/Place Gallery celebrated over 44 years as anot-for-profit artist run gallery, until last month where it was located in the
center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1981 and
maintained a gallery in Fairfield’s Southport train station until it burned
down in 2008. They are currently exhibiting as a group in other galleries since
losing their gallery space in Fairfield. For more about Art/Place visit them
website at https://www.artplacegallery.org/
The diversity in the art of the members includes works in oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, various forms of printmaking, collage, and digitally produced art. Art/Place welcomes area educators and institutions to bring groups in for the exchange of ideas.
Art / Place has offered a variety of outreach exhibits. These have included "Artists Invite Artists", an exhibit of art teachers in Fairfield Public schools, guest artists such as Yale art professors, CT artists including Antonio Frasconi, James Grashow, and Sol Lewitt among others.
Exhibiting artists at the Mayor’s Gallery include Lynne Arovas, Bevi Bullwinkel, Art Gerstein, Stephanie Hilton, Lois Goglia, Alice Katz, Judith Lambertson, Julie Leff, Mary Louise Long, Keith Magner, Toby Michaels, Lina Morielli, Diane Pollack, Dave Pressler, Jason Pritchard, George Radwan, Rosa Elvira Sclafani and Florence Zolan.
The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of Stamford’s Government Center. The City of Stamford which gives area artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in this space. There are six exhibitions annually featuring emerging and professional artists.
Please contact curator Ellen Gordon at esgordon@optonline.net for more info.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Friday 1pm – 4pm. ID required to enter Government Center.
The Mayor's Gallery presents "ART/PLACE visits Stamford"
Join Greenwich Historical Society for a Holiday Tea in the historic barn! Guests will enjoy a short, docent-led walking tour of the site inspired by the myriads of beautiful winter scenes painted by the Impressionist artists who lived and worked at the Holley boarding house then cozy up in the barn to enjoy a historically inspired tea party. Registration is required.
Holiday Tea with the Holley's
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
Join us on Thursdays (3:00-8:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) from November 13-December 20, 2025 for our very first Arcade Winter Market inside the historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Winter Market is a cozy Downtown Bridgeport experience filled with warm drinks, artisan gifts, fresh produce, local bites, music, activities, and spaces to linger and connect. Perfect for all ages! Find that perfect gift, feel the holiday spirit, and Shop Local, Give Colorfully!
The inaugural Arcade Winter Market will include live music each week from local talent, all ages arts and crafts led by Robin Gilmore Jopp, photos with your favorite holiday characters, in addition to a range of fresh veggies, delectable prepared food, and hand crafted offerings from our favorite local vendors.
The Arcade Winter Market made possible by our partners sponsors: Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the City of Bridgeport, CT Main Street Center, Optimum Business, and Pryceless Consulting.
Arcade Winter Market
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
Celebrate the holidays at Greenwich Historical Society’s Annual Holiday Festival! Bring your entire family for fun holiday-themed crafts, decorate your own gingerbread people, and take photos with a special guest from the North Pole in the Historic Barn.
Take part in the holiday cheer with delicious, sweet treats and explore our beautiful, illuminated grounds. Warm up outside by the fire with some s’mores and hot cocoa or a winter beverage to round out an evening of holiday fun!
Holiday Festival
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
Tickets: TPNC.ORG
Each season, The Town Players of New Canaan produce a unique experience for kids to perform with adults. The last few years we have chosen a holiday show. This year, we are bringing back a beloved classic children's book... on stage.
The Children's Literature Association named CHARLOTTE'S WEB "the best American children's book of the past 200 years"!
Joseph Robinette, working with the advice of E.B.White, has created a play that captures this work in a thrilling and utterly practical theatrical presentation. This is a timeless, heartwarming play about friendship.
For ALL ages! Great family outing!
CHARLOTTE'S WEB - book by E.B.White, play adapted by Joseph Robinette
Award-winning Pantochino Productions presents a new, warm and wonderful musical about a small town with a holiday namesake. Here in Santa Claus, Ohio, everything is all about Christmas—every shop, every restaurant, every day, all year long. But when a hot shot lawyer threatens to ‘cease and desist,’ the jolly old elf himself comes to the rescue! Described as a ‘greeting card channel’ holiday movie live on stage, it’s 100% merry, cheerful, feel good fun!
‘Welcome to Santa Claus’ features book and lyrics by Bert Bernardi and music by Justin Rugg. Performed at the MAC, Milford Arts Council on Railroad Avenue in downtown Milford, seating for the show is cabaret-style at tables and chairs. Audiences are invited to bring their own food and drink to enjoy during the show. Free parking in all train depot lots at showtime. Sponsored by Berchem Moses PC. Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 2 and 5:30pm, Sundays at 2pm.
Welcome to Santa Claus
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.
The Met: Live in HD - Giordano's Andrea Chénier
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)
(Included): Annual Members Exhibition
EXHIBITION DETAILS :
LOCATION: Lithography Studio Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
A retrospective solo exhibition celebrating Jane Cooper’s work, presented in recognition of her “Best in Show” award from the 2024 Annual Members’ Exhibition.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
Image: Jane Cooper, Girl with Apple, Monotype, 2004.
Jane Cooper: Genesis
Margins of Memory exhibit
Opening reception: Saturday, November 8, 1-4 PM
Exhibit: November 8, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Gallery hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-4 PM, and by appointment
Crown Gallery is proud to present Margins of Memory, an exciting new exhibit that brings together six international artists who currently reside in New York but span five different countries of origin, offering a global yet deeply personal meditation on memory and healing through the expanded mediums of print, papermaking, collage, and installation. In a world increasingly marked by displacement, fragmentation, and collective grief, these artists turn to the tactile intimacy of works on paper-etchings, monoprints, handmade pulp, and experimental processes-as a way to trace the fragile imprints of memory: personal, ancestral, and imagined.
Paper, as both surface and substance, holds and reveals. Its fibers retain touch, absorb pigment, and fray with time. In this exhibition, curated by Sariah Park, paper becomes a vessel for healing: a space where trauma can be transmuted, and stories-once silenced-can find form. Despite vast cultural and geographical distances, each artist finds a shared language in the medium itself. Printmaking, with its cycles of layering, pressing, and repetition, echoes the rituals of remembering and forgetting. The handmade sheet becomes an archive; the printed image, a gesture of reclaiming.
Together, these works invite viewers not only to look but to feel-to engage with memory not as static record, but as a living, breathing process of making and mending.
Participating artists include Emilie Houssart, Holland/U.K., Hayoon Jay Lee, South Korea, Anette Millington, USA, Malgorzata Oakes, Poland, Sariah Park, USA, and Xuewu Zheng, China
Margins of Memory opens on Saturday, November 8 with a reception from 1 - 4 PM, and runs through January 10, 2026. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 4 PM, and by appointment. ADA accessible, free parking.
Margins of Memory Exhibit at Crown Gallery
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
The Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) gallery will be filled with original, handcrafted works by over 50 local artists/artisans for the annual Holiday Gift Show: small ornaments and holiday-related items as well as jewelry, ceramics and knitted items plus cards, prints and paintings. There’s also a special selection of items by the Rowayton Gardeners. Proceeds from the Holiday Gift Show are used to support RAC and its educational outreach.
Opening day at RAC is Friday, December 5 from 12 to 5 pm. Hours for Saturday, December 6 are 10 am to 7 pm (for Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, November 28 is 12 pm to 5 pm. After that the show will be open Tuesday through Friday from 12 pm to 5 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 5 pm (closed on Monday) until Christmas Eve from 10 am to 2 pm. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER HOLIDAY GIFT SHOW
Join us on Thursdays (3:00-8:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.) from November 13-December 20, 2025 for our very first Arcade Winter Market inside the historic Arcade Mall. The Arcade Winter Market is a cozy Downtown Bridgeport experience filled with warm drinks, artisan gifts, fresh produce, local bites, music, activities, and spaces to linger and connect. Perfect for all ages! Find that perfect gift, feel the holiday spirit, and Shop Local, Give Colorfully!
The inaugural Arcade Winter Market will include live music each week from local talent, all ages arts and crafts led by Robin Gilmore Jopp, photos with your favorite holiday characters, in addition to a range of fresh veggies, delectable prepared food, and hand crafted offerings from our favorite local vendors.
The Arcade Winter Market made possible by our partners sponsors: Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council, the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, the City of Bridgeport, CT Main Street Center, Optimum Business, and Pryceless Consulting.
Arcade Winter Market
The 45th Annual Faber Birren Color Show, curated by Madeleine Pierpont (Web3 and Emerging Technologies programming at MoMA), is a fantastic and diverse exhibition centering original, creative, and innovative uses of color. Accepted artists have competed nationally to show at our historic gallery in downtown Stamford. Don't miss this opening! Purchase art, enjoy light refreshments, and meet local/regional artists! Admission is free!
Closing Reception: Thursday, December 18, 5:30-7 PM
Stamford Art Association & Townhouse Gallery
39 Franklin Street
Stamford, CT
