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SUMMARY:Family Day featuring Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo
DESCRIPTION:Family Day\, August 18 from 12-2 PM \nRegister Now. \nEvent Highlights: \n\nAfrican Drumming Demo with multi-instrumentalist Kwame’ Henry Jones\nEnjoy a musical journey led by award-winning Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo\nArt Tents: Meet our dedicated teachers and explore various art mediums\, allowing families to engage creatively. \nIce Cream Treats served by the South Norwalk Ice Cream truck\nExplore our current exhibition and teaching garden\nThe Artisan Marketplace is open from 12-4 PM\, handcrafted items made by local artisans are available for purchase\n\nJoin us for Family Day on August 18th from 12-2 PM at MoCA CT. Timbalooloo will provide an engaging jazz-centered musical performance at 1 PM. The South Norwalk Ice Cream truck will be on hand serving treats for everyone to enjoy. This event allows visitors to explore our galleries\, classrooms\, grounds and garden\, as well as learn about new initiatives. From 12-1 PM\, African Drumming Demo with multi-instrumentalist Kwame’ Henry Jones. Dive into the world of West African rhythms using authentic instruments\, including Djembe\, Doundoun\, and Shakere’. Mr. Jones\, a beloved artist in Fairfield County\, will teach us how music shares thoughts\, ideas\, and stories. Music activities are suitable for toddlers to age 12.  \nTimbalooloo’s mission is to inspire and empower a new generation to become proficient in the language of music. Celebrating varied musical traditions and encouraging creativity\, Timbalooloo celebrates diverse musical traditions and encourages the creation of new music. Oran Etkin\, Timbalooloo’s creator\,  is widely recognized as one of the top clarinetists and composers of his generation. He was recently voted the #1 rising star clarinetist in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll and regularly performs at major jazz festivals worldwide. Etkin has also contributed to numerous albums\, including a Grammy Award-winning compilation. \nOur outdoor Artisan Marketplace will also be running from 12-4 PM and offer a wide variety of unique\, handcrafted items. From jewelry and pottery to textiles and artwork\, there will be something for everyone to enjoy and appreciate. The galleries inside will also be open to enjoy our latest exhibition\, ColleCTomania. It’s an exhilarating exhibition displaying over 100 Swiss posters from the renowned Tom Strong\, among others. You won’t want to miss it. \nFree for MoCA members\, $20 admission for non-members and $5 for children under 5 years old. \n  \nAbout Oran Etkin: Timbalooloo: \nTimbalooloo seeks to uplift communities by exposing children and families to the richness of global culture in New York and beyond. They seek to empower a new generation to become fluent in the language of music through a unique approach inspired by the way children learn languages fluently.  Instruments come to life and speak through their music and children create music by making their instrument talk. We center our practice around respect for the child and their self-expression\, celebration of diverse traditions and an inspiration to create new music. \nThrough our highly trained Timbalooloo teaching artists\, we offer classes through various partner schools and community organizations. While Timbalooloo is centered in New York\, we have been getting increasing international attention and now tour the Timbalooloo live concerts at major venues worldwide (from Kennedy Center to Istanbul Jazz Fest\, North Sea Jazz to Shanghai Theater). We have also begun licensing the method and providing teacher training to partners worldwide so they can spread the joy of Timbalooloo to their communities. Yet the core of our work continues to be in New York City\, deepening bonds in our community through music and a celebration of culture. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/family-day-featuring-oran-etkin-timbalooloo/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Performance
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SUMMARY:Artisan Marketplace Summer Series
DESCRIPTION:Announcing our Artisan Marketplace Summer Series\, outdoor events that celebrate local artisans and their creations.  \nOutdoor Artisan Marketplaces will take place on select Sundays throughout the summer from 12p-4p:  \n\nJune 16\nJune 30\nJuly 14\nJuly 28\nAugust 4\nAugust 18\nSeptember 8\n\nThis year’s Artisan Marketplace will be held outdoors\, providing a beautiful and spacious setting for visitors to explore a wide variety of unique\, handcrafted items. From jewelry and pottery to textiles and artwork\, there will be something for everyone to enjoy and appreciate. The galleries inside will also be open to enjoy our latest exhibition. \nThe Artisan Marketplace Summer Series is a perfect opportunity for families and friends to spend a leisurely afternoon supporting and discovering the talent and creativity of local artisans. We continue to accept vendor applications – click here to apply!
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/artisan-marketplace-summer-series/2024-08-18/
LOCATION:MoCA Westport\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, CT\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,HP Featured
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Hours
DESCRIPTION:Visit the exhibition\, ColleCTomania between 12-4 PM. \nRegister Here. \nAbout ColleCTomania: \nThis exhilarating exhibition displaying over 140 Swiss posters from the renowned collector Tom Strong. Strong is a New Haven\, Connecticut-based graphic designer\, photographer and collector who has spent sixty years amassing\, displaying\, sharing\, and living amongst his archive. The exhibition\, curated by Pamela Hovland and Karen Salsgiver\, includes a widely diverse range of posters from the 1930s to the present. \n\nSwitzerland’s design culture has had a significant influence on the discipline of graphic design. Swiss posters in particular\, especially those designed during the 1950s and 60s\, have attained iconic status and are part of design education in schools across the globe. Created at uniform scale to be displayed in the streets of Zurich\, Lucerne and Basel\, these posters are now highly collectible\, preserved in the archives of major museums and reproduced in art and design books. \nYale University’s graphic design program\, the first in this country\, was critical in disseminating the work and ideas of Swiss designers. Several influential practitioners were invited to New Haven to teach courses and workshops to students\, including Tom Strong\, eager to experiment with typography\, form and craft. When Yale’s design graduates scattered around Connecticut and the country as both practicing and teaching designers\, the visual language and ideology of the ‘Swiss International Style’ spread far and wide. \n\nThe poster as a large\, public\, graphic form has held its prominent place throughout the history of design. Tom Strong’s vast collection of Swiss posters\, accumulated over six decades\, spans the mid-century to today. His archive includes diverse and boundary-breaking visual strategies employed through inventive uses of type and typography\, image-making\, layering and collage. The posters illustrate myriad expressions in style\, subject matter and ever-evolving technologies. Strong’s posters showcase both the outsized influence of Swiss design as well as the contemporary experimentation that builds on that legacy. Seeing the posters fill the gallery walls is pure visual delight. \nColleCTomania invites the viewer to interact with the posters in a way that correlates to the way we interact with social content; The fast pace consumption of images and text and managing to remember the most impactful or relating subjects. The idea of swiping as we see content is no different from how we view art in any institution. We tend to stand for the works that render us speechless and with ColleCTomania\, the wide number of posters that are being displayed serves as a compelling contrast to this belief. \n“Why do I continue to collect Swiss posters? I guess you like Beethoven and then Stravinsky comes along with different principles\, blows your head off. And then you go further\, and you find more composers who you never knew anything about. The body and the brain and the ear are accustomed to surprise and difference and beauty. Other than that\, I can’t defend it or describe it. These posters have power. You can’t deny it.”- Tom Strong
URL:https://mocact.org/events-calendar/exhibition-hours/2024-08-18/
LOCATION:MoCA\CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, 06880\, United States
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