25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shiva Baby

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Comedy | 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 […]

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Music from the Sole: Percussive Dancers in Conversation

3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West Hartford

Leo, 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 […]

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25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | The Crossing

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Drama | 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, […]

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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/mandell

In 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 […]

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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.

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Music from the Sole: Virtual Performance and Discussion

3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West Hartford

Join 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

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Sharing Credit: Jewish Loan Societies, Past and Present

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Please 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 […]

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Impact of the Spanish Conquest on Latin American Music

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Camilo 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 […]

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Civil Right’s Film Series: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America

3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West Hartford

One 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 […]

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Used Bag & Bike Collection

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On 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 […]

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De Vuelta Al Sur

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De Vuelta Al Sur (A Flight to the South) is a journey into chamber music by Latin American composers. Camilo Jauregui (percussion and conductor) and Alejandro Pinzon (bandoneón) are the leaders of Pittsburgh's Camerata 33, a chamber orchestra dedicated to presenting concert music by Latin American composers. They will join forces with Cuatro Puntos Ensemble […]

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Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The SS Officer’s Armchair

Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://www.showclix.com/event/daniel-lee-ss-officers-armchair/tag/mandell

In 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 SS Officer's Armchair" by Daniel Lee | April 11 | 2:00 p.m. In Conversation with CNN's Holly Firfer Zoom Author Talk & Q & A Based on documents […]

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