The Weekend BDB Arts Section 3.31.12

Bethel Cinema

269 Greenwood Ave
Bethel, CT 06801

(203) 778-3100 

BEING FLYNN

(R) Running Time 1:52

2:35p 7:15p

FOOTNOTE

(PG) Running Time 1:55

1:25p 4:05p 6:45p 9:10p

FRIENDS WITH KIDS

(R) Running Time 1:57

12:15p 4:55p 9:35p

KID WITH A BIKE

(PG13) Running Time 1:37

1:05p 3:10p 5:15p 7:30p 9:30p

SALMON FISHING IN YEMEN

(PG13) Running Time 1:57

12:00p 2:20p 4:40p 7:00p 9:20p

On Saturday, March 31, Bethel Blooms will be featuring an Art Walk throughout the shops and businesses in the downtown area. The event will be held rain or shine, and the featured artists' work is located inside the following shops and businesses: 

Cupcakes and Milkshakes - Marc Moorash (Seraphemera Books) & Bethel Students
Wesley Lounge / Fulton Jewelers - Kyle Shike, Sue West & Bethel Students
Take Time Relaxation Center - "I like the way I look"  Self Portraits by K-8 Students
Private Fitness Studio - Bethel Students
English Apothecary - Laura McCormick & Bethel Students
Hedgehog & Company - Kaz Oda & Several other local artists and photographers - vintage watercolors, oil paintings & prints
Aurora Photography - Aurora Olmstead
Bethel Chamber of Commerce - Michael Seri & Kathy Miller
Bethel Photoworks - Bethel High School Students
Boylan Chiropractic - Danielle M Soule
Daily Fare - Elisabeth J. Levy
Carlson Physical Therapy - Jennifer Ganser and Barbara Liviosi-Conlin
Molten Java - Ival Stratford-Kovner
Byrd's Books - Jim Felice (Upstairs Gallery) & Bethel Students
DRS Designs - Stamping Workshop
Karate America - Peter Schacter & Bethel Students
Bethel Music Center - Live Music from 11:30 - 12:30 and 1:30 to 2:30
Wah-Lah - Nicole Cudzilo & Bethel Students
Alice's Flower Shop & A Country Touch Gifts - Gregg Karvelis & Bethel Students

To find out more information about this event, 

2012 Brookfield Film Festival - "Shorts and to the Point"

The 4th Annual Brookfield Film Festival: "Shorts and to the Point”. An annual showcase of award-winning short films.  Tickets $10.  3 Screenings:Friday March 30 at 8:00pm, and Saturday March 31 at 4:00pm & 8:00pm. Reservations are suggested. Call 203-775-2895 or email ann.amorossi@gmail.com to reserve.  182 Whisconier Rd, Brookfield, CT

More information: http://brookfieldartscommission.org/

APR. 1 JAZZ COMBOS CONCERT: The WCSU Jazz Combos will perform at 3 p.m. in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. The concert will be free and the public is invited. Donations to support the department of music will be accepted. For more information, call (203) 837-8350 or visit www.wcsu.edu/music/concerts.asp.

BOOK CHAT & SIGNING WITH HISTORIAN & LOCALLY GROWN AUTHOR DAN CRUSON

March 31, , 43 Main St, Danbury
11:00 am to 12:00 pm. This event is FREE & open to the public.

Join us in welcoming Dan Cruson for a very special chat & book signing event.  Mr. Curson will be discussing his latest publication from The History Press and signing copies of his book.

Putnam’s Revolutionary War Winter Encampment
The History and Archaeology of Putnam Memorial State Park

Putnam State Park, Connecticut’s first state park, was the site of Revolutionary War general Israel Putnam’s last command. In the winter of 1778–79, three thousand troops of the Continental army built and lived in “the city,” a winter encampment in the valleys of northern Redding. Historian Daniel Cruson describes in fascinating archaeological detail the construction of the camp and the soldiers’ daily struggle to survive. Mutiny, execution, skirmishes and the heroism of Putnam himself are revealed in this compelling history. The story of Putnam State Park doesn’t end when Continental troops marched out to engage the British; Cruson takes readers from the creation of the park itself to the present day.

This even is FREE & open to the public!  Mr. Cruson's book will be available for purchase in the museum gift shop.

CREATIVE CHALLENGE, PUBLIC CALL TO GRAPHIC DESIGNERS!

Submit Entries for Association New Logo Design | Deadline April 6

Danbury, CT March 12, 2012 – the Housatonic Valley Cultural Alliance announces a new Call for entries for eligibility to participate in a creative challenge: An Association Logo Design for HVCA.  The selected graphic designer will create a logo design package for HVCA to use on letterhead, business cards, brochures, banners, and websites.  Selected artist will also have the opportunity to provide collateral design services including membership brochures, banners, etc.  In addition, the graphic designer will work with the web design team to update the website.  The winner of the challenge will receive cash compensation and award prizes – a value of $1,875 for the completion of design package and services. Prizes include a 1-hour consultation with Hal Tweedy and owner of Dream Bigger Coaching, a gift card from the Danbury Fair Mall, and 6-months logo banner advertisement.

One (1) designer will be selected and all applicants will be notified.  Selected artist will work closely with HVCA to finalize the basic logo design package. 

Application Deadline: April 6; Announcement of Selected designer: April 13; Completion of logo package: May 4; Completion of brand materials: June 1

For the complete guideline information and to submit entries visit www.hvculturalarts.org

Crazy Making: The Art of Sherri Wolfgang

How Art Saved the Soul of Sherri Wolfgang

The event is not this weekend, but tickets must be purchased in advance.

Westport — In 2004, a storm of mental illness swept through Sherri Wolfgang’s world and tore her life apart.

For 25 years, her business, The Dynamic Duo Studio, Inc., was an award-winning design and illustration firm in New York, producing everything from the covers of the New York Times Magazine, Der Spiegel, Forbes and Barrons to ad campaigns for Coca-Cola, IBM, Burger King, MTV and Nickleodeon to the sets for movies such as “Zoolander.”

But in the end, the illness — bipolar disorder — would cost her her business and threaten to destroy her and her two young daughters.

In 2006, Wolfgang, a Westport resident, began the project she has titled “Crazy Making,” a scathing, existential series of paintings about the ravages of mental illness.

That series is going to be at the center of a benefit cocktail reception and exhibition at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan on the evening of May 18.

The exhibit, sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness - Connecticut, is titled “Art Talks” and will feature “unabashed works by and about those with mental illness,” including members of the ArtShip program at New Haven’s Fellowship Place.

The reception and exhibition are the Fairfield County kickoff for the annual NAMIWalk to raise awareness and combat the stigma of mental illness, and will include a talk on “Breaking Through: Retraining the Brain for Recovery,” by Morris D. Bell, Ph.D., ABPP, professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale School of Medicine.

The benefit and exhibit will be at the Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, May 18th. Tickets will not be available at the door but must be purchased in advance on the NAMI website: http://www.namict.org/art-talks.php.

Mirror mirror on the wall, who wrote the greatest fairy tales of all? 

The Brothers Grimm did and they're coming to the Palace Danbury

along with a beautiful showgirl to perform their best loved stories.

Don't let the title fool you, the new show from Pantochino Productions

has old-fashioned storytelling for the kids with plenty of spoofs & goofs

of favorite fairy tales. Mix in enough clever jokes to entertain the adults

and you get a "happy ever after" show the whole family can enjoy.

Saturday, March 31, Two Performances,  2:00 PM & 7:00 PM  All Seats $15