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SUMMARY:Short Attention Span Literary Club
DESCRIPTION:Once per month\, we get together to chat about short stories. Anyone can join in\, no commitment required! \nThis month\, we discuss “The Pura Principle” by Junot Diaz. You can find the story here. \nThe club meets online using Zoom. Click here to register. You’ll receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link. \nWe’re offering this program for free\, but if you would like to make a donation to support our public programming\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nQuestions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at natalie_belanger@chs.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/sascl-62/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club,online programming
ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T090000
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SUMMARY:Inspire Center - New Theme!
DESCRIPTION:The Inspire Center brings history and problem-solving together in a hands-on creative space for visitors of all ages! Look closely at objects from the CMCH collection\, get inspired\, and work together to create something new. With objects and themes changing monthly\, you can enjoy unique experiences all year long! February’s challenge is to make something unique and innovative using only paper! What can you create?\n\nThe Inspire Center is open Saturdays and Sundays and is included with museum admission. For more information about this space\, please visit the Inspire Center webpage. Questions? Contact Katerina Mazzacane\, Youth and Family Programs Manager\, at 860-236-5621 x222\, or email katerina_mazzacane@chs.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/inspirecenterfebruary/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Family Programs,Inspire Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T110000
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SUMMARY:Family Program: Valentines for Kids
DESCRIPTION:Happy Valentine’s Day! Using historic valentines from the CMCH collection as your inspiration\, create one-of-a-kind valentines to give to your loved ones! \nThis program is FREE and great for children of all ages. For more information\, please contact Katerina Mazzacane\, Youth and Family Programs Manager\, at 860-236-5621 x222\, or email katerina_mazzacane@chs.org. \nThanks to Berkshire Bank for their support of this program.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/valentinesforkids/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Family Programs,Free First Saturday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230207T130000
DTSTAMP:20221103T195921Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: What Time Is It?
DESCRIPTION:The clock may feel ever present in our lives. However\, many of the tasks we do every day rely not on the second hand but on our senses to “know time.” A recipe can tell us to simmer our soup for 15 minutes\, but that mechanical measure flies out the window if the taste\, temperature\, or consistency isn’t right. Across the Anglo-Atlantic world in the long 18th century\, craftspeople\, artisans\, and makers also relied on their senses to “know time.” \nIn this talk\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Alexandra M. Macdonald will draw from both the museum and archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History to explore the myriad ways people used their eyes\, ears\, tongue\, hands\, and nose to “regard the signs” in maker’s spaces in the long eighteenth century. This presentation will offer an introduction into how time has always been sensory and suggest that clock time may not be as all-consuming as it might feel. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public.  Click here to register through Yapsody. You’ll get a confirmation email and the Zoom link will be in the attached ticket. You’ll also receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the morning of the event. \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-what-time-is-it/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T180000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Literacies: A Digital Resource From Overlooked Archives
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Literacies is an exciting digital anthology that reveals the surprising\, often neglected roles reading and writing have played in the lives of marginalized Americans—from indigenous and enslaved people to prisoners and young children. Come learn more about using these sources (and expert commentaries) in your classrooms and libraries! \nHidden Literacies was created by Trinity College. Learn more here. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. When you register\, you’ll get an email from Yapsody with an attached “ticket” — the Zoom link is in that ticket.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/literacies/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230211T110000
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SUMMARY:Black Connecticans\, Ordinary and Extraordinary
DESCRIPTION:Step into our collections spaces to take an exclusive look at items representing a spectrum of the Black experience in Connecticut. You’ll learn about Augustus Washington\, who abandoned a successful Hartford photography business to build a new nation in Africa. Then\, browse through the photo album of a Hollywood actress who became a champion of labor rights for black entertainers. Marvel at the gorgeous costumes created by CT’s West Indian community for their annual MAS celebration\, and see artifacts documenting the Civil Rights movement in our state. \n$10 for CMCH members\, $15 for non-members. Ticket includes admission to the museum’s galleries. Click here to purchase tickets. Spaces are limited! \nQuestions? Contact Adult Programs Manager Natalie Belanger via email at natalie_belanger@chs.org\, or call (860) 236-5621 x289.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/black-connecticans-ordinary-and-extraordinary/2023-02-11/
LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth St\, Hartford\, 06105
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SUMMARY:Movie Under the 'Stars:' "The Lego Movie"
DESCRIPTION:Did you know Lego bricks used to be made right here in Connecticut? Join us for a special showing of The Lego Movie and follow these Connecticut-made toys on a wild adventure! Families are encouraged to bring pillows and blankets and wear their comfiest footy pajamas! Free popcorn and juice boxes will be provided. Quiet toys and activities to enjoy during the movie will also be available. \nThis program is FREE and great for children ages 6 and up. Doors open at 5:30\, and the movie begins at 6:00. Pre-registration is encouraged\, but walk-ins are welcome. To pre-register\, please click here. \nFor more information\, please contact Katerina Mazzacane\, Youth and Family Programs Manager\, at 860-236-5621 x222\, or email katerina_mazzacane@chs.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/thelegomovie/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Lunar New Year!
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that Lunar New Year has been celebrated in Connecticut for over 150 years? Come to the CMCH to welcome the Year of the Rabbit and learn about the many ways that Lunar New Year is celebrated today across different cultures. \nThis free event will last from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. The lantern-making activity\, dance performance\, and gallery talks will be repeated. \n1:00 – 2:00 Lantern Making Craft (supplies limited; first come first served)\n1:30 Dance Performance by students from Ju Long Wushu Chinese Martial Arts Training Center\n2:00-2:20 Gallery Talk in Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission\n2:30 – 3:30 Lantern making craft (supplies limited; first come first served)\n2:45-3:05 Gallery Talk in Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission\n3:00 Dance Performance by students from Ju Long Wushu Chinese Martial Arts Training Center\n3:45-4:05 Gallery Talk in Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission\n1:00 – 4:00 A Taste of Lunar New Year – sample treats while supplies last\, and share your own Lunar New Year traditions with others \nWe thank our partners: \n\nThe Lunar New Year dance performance will feature students from Ju Long Wushu Chinese Martial Arts Training Center\nThe paper-lantern making craft will be led by Quan Tran\, Senior Lecturer and Senior Program Coordinator in the Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration Program at Yale University\n\nYou don’t have to pre-register for this free program\, but it helps if you click here to let us know you’re coming! \nFor more information\, please contact Katerina Mazzacane\, Youth and Family Programs Manager\, at 860-236-5621 x222\, or email katerina_mazzacane@chs.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunar-ny/
LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth St\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Black Revolution on the Sea Islands
DESCRIPTION:This virtual Lunch and Learn presentation by Frances O’Shaughnessy draws on military letters\, treasury reports\, and personal letters from the denoted “Port Royal Experiment\,”  including a letter from the CMCH collection\, to historicize Gullah Geechee people’s expressions of freedom during the Civil War\, what Frances calls a Black Revolution for Freedom. \nNew England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Frances O’Shaughnessy will draw on Gullah Geechee music and sermons\, in particular\, to demonstrate an alternative narrative to the Civil War\, one that does not subsume Black practices of freedom under the U. S. Military\, but rather considers their world-making practices on the plantation\, even when their worlds proved provisional. They consider how the Black Revolution travelled across the Sea Islands\, with planters fleeing plantations as smoke from cotton fires filled the air. \nFrances narrates Gullah Geechee peoples’ destruction of planter property\, within themselves and within the land\, as the destruction of property itself – as an idea\, as a thing\, and as an essence – an anti-proprietary freedom\, whose vision encouraged Black women to rip cotton from the soil and replace it with the seeds of potatoes\, peas\, squash\, and corn. Frances creates a material history\, drawn from the aesthetics and spirituals of Gullah Geechee life\, to critically engage with alternative humanities present in the past\, precisely because they permit us to imagine other possibilities to live and be together. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public.  Click here to register through Yapsody. You’ll get a confirmation email and the Zoom link will be in the attached ticket. You’ll also receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the morning of the event. \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-black-revolution-on-the-sea-islands/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T140000
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SUMMARY:Mystery Home: Discover the Story of Your House! (SOLD OUT!)
DESCRIPTION:**We’re sorry\, this program is sold out!** \nInterested in learning more about your home? This two-hour program will give you an introduction to researching the history of your house. In the first half\, CMCH staff will present practical strategies to uncover your home’s past\, using maps\, deed research\, census records\, and more. Then\, you’ll be given time in our Research Center to start your journey\, with staff available to help. Bring your laptop! \nThis program is open to the public. The cost is $5 for CMCH members and for members of the West End Civic Association; $10 for non-members. Spaces are limited\, so reserve your spot today! \nQuestions? Contact Adult Programs Manager Natalie Belanger via email at natalie_belanger@chs.org\, or call (860) 236-5621 x289.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/23965/
LOCATION:Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, 1 Elizabeth St\, Hartford\, CT\, 06105\, United States
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