MIDDLETOWN, CT — Wesleyan's Center for the Arts carries Middletown's weekend. The last days of an exhibit marking 50 years of the university's Navaratri Festival, a free student-led tour of the Zilkha Gallery's furniture show "Mozart's Chair" and an afternoon of Irish, Scottish and New England tunes at Crowell Concert Hall round out the week.
This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment
- "50 Years of Navaratri at Wesleyan" — Thursday, Oct. 29, and Friday, Oct. 30, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Posters, concert programs, photographs, costumes and instruments from the World Music Archives trace the world-renowned practitioners of Indian arts who have performed at Wesleyan's Navaratri Festival. The exhibit closes Friday. Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Usdan University Center
- Saturday Tour: "Mozart's Chair" — Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p.m. Student gallery assistants lead a free tour of the group exhibition, which considers how furniture sets the conditions for action. Everyone is welcome; RSVPs are encouraged but not required. The gallery is also open Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace
- Kitchen Céilí and Friends — Sunday, Nov. 1, 3 p.m. Stan Scott, Dorothea Hast and George Wilson play traditional music of Ireland, Scotland and New England, joined by stepdancer Ethan Kubico. The group's Patch listing says the concert is free and open to all ages. Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave.
See the Navaratri archive before it closes Friday, take the free "Mozart's Chair" tour on Halloween afternoon and end the weekend with fiddles and stepdancing at Crowell.
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