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Put on your thinking caps

 February 20, 2012

Girl Scouts of Connecticut will join with scout groups nationwide to mark World Thinking Day on Feb 22. The theme of this year's World Thinking Day is "we can save our planet." This theme is based on the United Nations' Millennium Development...

WaterFire schedules river lighting dates

 February 20, 2012

WaterFire has scheduled several dates for its signature river lightings in Providence this year.

The independent nonprofit arts organization that stages the lightings after sunset says it will hold at least four. They are scheduled for June...

Cirque du Soleil plans Oscar show performance

 February 18, 2012

Aerialists, acrobats and contortionists are among the guests at this year's Academy Awards.

Watch the Oscars in high style at The Kate

 February 18, 2012

Hold Art Carney's Oscar and meet the Carney family at the Kate's Oscar Night Benefit hosted by News 8 WTNH anchorwoman Ann Nyberg, vice president of The Kate Board of Directors, and Kristen Roberts, Comcast regional vice president of...

Carnivale lights up Mohegan Sun

 February 17, 2012

It's a small world: You can't get to Rio or Venice for Carnivale or to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? No problem. Mohegan Sun will give you a little taste of the celebrations with its own versions over the...

Free lecture considers the future of plants

 February 15, 2012

Sir Peter Crane, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and professor of Botany at Yale University, will present "The Future of Plants: Conservation and Use in the Twenty First Century" for the University of Connecticut's Edwin...

GEF presents ‘Groton’s Dancing with the Stars’

 February 13, 2012

The Groton Education Foundation will hold a special fundraiser, "Groton's Dancing with the Stars," on Friday, March 9, in the Robert E. Fitch High School auditorium. Doors open at 6 p.m. The show starts at 7 p.m.

DODGEBALL ANYONE?

 February 11, 2012

The Stonington Community Center will host its first dodgeball tournament on Saturday, March 31, starting at 9 a.m. at the COMO.

The tournament will feature four divisions: youths, co-ed adult, families and businesses/community groups. Teams...

Arts Café settles into life as a nonprofit

 February 10, 2012

These are brittle times for folks in the fine arts business. Which is sort of understandable: if the economy collapses, a lot of people are more worried about making the car payment than subsidizing, oh, a community string quartet series.

Friday benefit to boost Arts Café - Mystic

 February 9, 2012

Very few of the great poets spent a lot of time crafting verse about zombies - and that's perhaps best.

However, the estimable Arts Café - Mystic, with 17 years of programs featuring the finest poets in the country, is - (imagine "Ghost and...

Benefit to boost Arts Café

 February 9, 2012

Very few of the great poets spent a lot of time crafting verse about zombies - and that's perhaps best.

However, the estimable Arts Café - Mystic, with 17 years of programs featuring the finest poets in the country, is - (imagine "Ghost and...

Get into the spirit(s) of things

 February 7, 2012

The Norwich Arts Center is holding A Spirits Tasting - with fine wines, premium beers and scotches - at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Donald L. Oat Theater. It's a fundraiser to support the cultural programming at the Norwich Arts Center in...

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