Kumi Organo, Spring Detox, and Books To Movie Night

For the choices of things to do this week offered by , we’ve got quite the avalanche of music. And movies. But we’ll start with the tunes.

It begins with…an art exhibit? Yes, at you can check out “Lyrical Warriors,” an exhibit on the use of music by African-American women to implement change. The live entertainment starts Thursday, when takes the stage at the ’s Oasis Room at 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $30 and include pre-show appetizers at 6:30 p.m. Kumi Organo plays a piano recital at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Cummings Arts Center at .

Other weekend music includes an in-store concert by Jeff Brando, starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday at . On the same day, you can catch Sinners Circle at 7 p.m. at and the at the Oasis Room at 8 p.m.; tickets for the latter show are $40 and include a reception at 7 p.m. The plays a 2 p.m. concert on Sunday at the ’s Leamy Hall, featuring a preview of music they’ll play during their spring tour. Moving on into next week, you can catch the regular jazz set at 8 p.m. on Monday at Bean and Leaf, or test your knowledge of 90s music videos at 9:30 p.m. at the to try to win a bar tab.

Two movie offerings come from the Garde Arts Center as part of the New London Spring Film Festival. For $4 each, you can go see at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The has a free screening of Race to Witch Mountain at 5 p.m. as part of their Books to Movie Night.

Other events happening this week:

• Scrabble night, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight at the Public Library of New London
• Weekly wine and cheese tasting, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at
• Oneness Blessing Experience, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday at the
• “Spring Detox-Twist, Bind and Unwind with Meaghan Minogue,” 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday at ; $30 for one workshop, $50 for both
• Jibboom Club, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday at the ; donations requested for refreshments

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