Lapham Center will be traveling to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford on April 19 for tours of their featured exhibits. The Wadsworth, the oldest public art museum in the US, has a significant collection of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings of early American furniture and decorative arts.
Travelers will be touring Colts & Quilts: The Civil War Remembered, an exhibition using costumes, decorative arts and paintings to illustrate reactions to the War; and, Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond, a highly focused exhibition of paintings, drawing and rarely seen preparatory studies.
The day will include lunch at the Chowderpot in Hartford and time to check out other exhibits in the Atheneum.
Anyone planning to go should call 203-594-3620 as soon as possible to get more information on this or any of the programs described here.
Zumba Gold starts Friday, January 20 at 8:30 a.m. This active exercise program fuses Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves for and exciting hour of calorie-burning, energizing movements.
Opera fans will enjoy Dr. Jerry Sehulster's mid-winter course, German Opera from Mozart to Schumann, on four Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. beginning January 25. He will be playing and discussing the operas of Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Flotow and more.
There is also space in Dr. Richard Olson's second level American Contract Bridge League course, Diamonds or Play of the Hand. This class, starting on Thursday, February 2, noon, is intended for people who completed part 1 or those who have begun to play bridge.
Tomorrow's, January 20, Free Friday Film at 1 p.m. is Waste Land, an uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Wednesday's, January 25, film at the same time is The Riddle of Black Holes from the Through the Wormhole documentaries hosted by Morgan Freeman.
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