Shoreline Arts Alliance

06/11/2026

Meet Shoreline Arts Alliance Organizational Member - Madison Art Society....dedicated to the promotion of the arts throughout the Connecticut Shoreline

2026 is a special year for the Madison Art Society Plein Air Painters as we celebrate 200years of the beautiful shoreline town of Madison. MAS will commemorate theBicentennial by dedicating the first 13 weeks of our 22-week plein air season to painting Madison’s 13 historic districts. Each week, a...

06/11/2026

Ivoryton Playhouse will continue its summer season with the Tony Award-winning musical 1776, starring Broadway’s Mark Aldrich* (My Fair Lady, Disney’s Newsies: The Musical, Ragtime).

The Tony Award-winning Musical Begins Performances June 25 and Opens June 26 Ivoryton Playhouse will continue its summer season with the Tony Award-winning musical 1776, starring Broadway’s Mark Aldrich* (My Fair Lady, Disney’s Newsies: The Musical, Ragtime). The production begins with a first p...

06/11/2026

Rachel Beauchemin, museum educator at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History (CMCH), will share fascinating tales of tavern life during,“ Tapping Into the Past: Tavern Life in Early Connecticut,” at the Pardee-Morris House on Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 2 p.m.

New Haven, Conn. (June 10, 2026)— According to legend, the sign that once graced the General Wolfe Tavern in Brooklyn, Connecticut (originally owned by Israel Putnam), was shot at by disgruntled patriots during the Revolution because it depicted a British redcoat officer. Rachel Beauchemin, museum...

06/10/2026

Join us JUNE 25th from 5-7PM for CELEBRATION of the ARTS 🎉

The event is completely free and open to the public! Bring friends and family to enjoy performances, art, and readings!

06/10/2026

06/09/2026

Meet some of the beloved creatures that hold a vital role in our ecosystem in a special presentation at the Pardee-Morris House, “Totally Turtles”with Meigs Point Nature Center

New Haven, Conn. (June 8, 2026)— Connecticut is home to eight species of year-round turtles, including one species known as a stinkpot, which releases a smell to ward off predators, similar to skunk spray. Meet some of the beloved creatures that hold a vital role in our ecosystem in a special pres...

06/09/2026

Kevin Johnson, a researcher with the Connecticut State Library History and Genealogy Unit, says there were an estimated 5,000 Black soldiers in Revolutionary War—including nearly 500 from Connecticut—serving in militias, seagoing services, and support activities. Johson will portray one such Connecticut soldier during a free NH250 evening event “Jordan Freeman: The Fight to Set a People Free,” at the Pardee-Morris House on Wednesday, June 17, 2026

New Haven, Conn. (June 5, 2026)— Kevin Johnson, a researcher with the Connecticut State Library History and Genealogy Unit, says there were an estimated 5,000 Black soldiers in Revolutionary War—including nearly 500 from Connecticut—serving in militias, seagoing services, and support activitie...

06/09/2026

“The past created the present, so if we want to know why things are the way they are, we need to understand history,” says State Historian Andy Horowitz. In a freewheeling lecture, “Why Connecticut 250 Matters,” Horowitz will explore how the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States offers a prism for making sense of the present and the future.

06/09/2026

New Haven Museum will host an engaging evening exploring the rich history, culture, and stories behind New Haven’s iconic pizza scene with Colin M. Caplan on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. The program is the latest in the museum’s Whitney Literary Society Book Club series and the “Monthly Slice” series at NHM, presented in conjunction with the exhibition, “Pronounced Ah-Beetz.”

06/09/2026

Essex Winter Series is grateful to once again be one of the area’s local nonprofit recipients of funding from the Essex Bank Community Investment Program

ESSEX, CT (May 2026) – Essex Winter Series is grateful to once again be one of the area’s local nonprofit recipients of funding from the Essex Bank Community Investment Program (CIP). As President & CEO Diane Arnold and Vice President Elizabeth Kuhns noted their congratulatory comments, “We ar...