Programs & Events

In celebration of the new book Seize the Beat: The Evolution of American Music, join acclaimed musician and Fairfield University professor Brian Q. Torff for a special talk accompanied by live music. Dive into social history of American pop music and trace its development from its African roots to the juke joint, club and concert […]

Join local novelist Dan Coonan as he discusses his novels, Presidential Spirits and Another Round—think of them as a political Field of Dreams. A moderate U.S. president who is struggling to lead amidst the country’s polarization stumbles upon a centuries-old saloon where he can drink at a nightly party with every former president, living or […]

Modernism always proclaimed itself to be more than a set of aesthetics–it was an entirely new way of building to meet the new needs and employ the new scientific advances of a new age. Christopher Wigren of Preservation Connecticut will explore some of the trends that shaped development and building in Fairfield County after World […]