25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Mossad
3666Comedy | 2019 | Israel | 95 minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Alon Gur Arye A box office smash in its native Israel Mossad follows the tradition of The Naked Gun series with a riotous laugh-a-minute sendup of the Mossad, Israel’s revered national intelligence agency. Tsahi Halevi (Fauda, Bethlehem) stars as […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Book of Longings
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://embed.showclix.com/event/sue-monk-kidd/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "The Book of Longings" by Sue Monk Kidd | March 25 | 8:00 p.m. In Conversation with Greg Changnon, Former Book Club Columnist, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Playwright Book […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shiva Baby
3666Comedy | 2020 | USA | 77 minutes | English Directed by Emma Seligman When Danielle joins her family at a shiva, the last person she expects to run into is Max, the ‘sugar daddy’ she said goodbye to just a few hours earlier. With this unexpected clash of her worlds, Danielle is forced into […]
Music from the Sole: Percussive Dancers in Conversation
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordLeo, Artistic Director of Music from the Sole, in conversation with flamenco, step, hoop, Irish, kathak, and tap dancers. Leonardo Sandoval Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Composer Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval has become renowned in the dance world for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. He helped […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | The Crossing
3666Drama | 2020 | Norway | 90 minutes Norwegian, English Subtitles Directed by Johanne Helgeland The Crossing tells the story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Beauty of Living Twice
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://embed.showclix.com/event/sharon-stone-beauty-of-living-twice/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "The Beauty of Living Twice" by Sharon Stone | April 1 | 8:00 p.m. In conversation with International Superstar Gloria Estefan Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey […]
Drive-through Easter Egg Hunt
Free drive-through Easter Egg Hunt in the parking lot of First Baptist Church of West Hartford. Each child will receive a goodie bag with candy, stickers, and a craft to complete.
Music from the Sole: Virtual Performance and Discussion
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordJoin members of Music From the Sole as they share video of past performances and provide an inside look at each project. *This is a virtual event-online only
Sharing Credit: Jewish Loan Societies, Past and Present
jewish Historical SocietyPlease join the Jewish Historical Society for a talk with Professor Shelley Tenenbaum Sharing Credit: Jewish Loan Societies, Past and Present April 5 at 7:00 PM Register at https://jhsgh.org/sharing-credit/ to receive a Zoom link. Please contact lnewman@jewishhartford.org for questions. The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford recently launched a new Jewish Free Loan Fund which provides […]
Impact of the Spanish Conquest on Latin American Music
2558Camilo Jauregui is a native of Bogotá, Colombia and has directed, worked with, and created music programs in his home country and around the world. He now teaches at Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania. In advance of his visit to Hartford as a guest artist in an April 11 concert titled De Vuelta Al Sur, Camilo […]
Civil Right’s Film Series: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordOne of the Civil Rights movement’s pre-eminent orators, Hamer used stories from her own life to call America to account for the racism that defined every aspect of her existence—from the turn-of-the-century cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta where she was reared, to her death in an all-black hospital in 1977. Fannie Lou Hamer’s America […]
Used Bag & Bike Collection
3429On Saturday April 10, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., First Church West Hartford and the JPW Library at 12 South Main Street, will be collecting gently used bicycles and small used or new suitcases. The collection supports the missions of two local non-profit organizations: Hartford Cycles and Ädelbrook. If you need to drop off […]