Summer mingles with fall as annual regional events converge.
Monday, August 26
A “Meet the Owls” event at SCSU’s Jess Dow Field introduces both students and the public to the school’s 2024-25 athletic squads. “The event will feature food trucks, interactive games and contests and giveaways including schedule posters and team pictures to be autographed by the 200-plus student-athletes competing in the Fall.”
Tuesday, August 27
Elm Shakespeare Company’s annual production in Edgerton Park, this time Richard III, enters its final week under the stars. The show starts at 7:30, tonight through Sunday.
Wednesday, August 28
The final Twilight Concert of the summer brings “the sizzling bomba” of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental to the picnic-friendly grounds of the Pardee-Morris House.
Thursday, August 29
At 7 p.m., a screening of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (1946)—the first film adaptation of Beauty and the Beast—opens a three-part classic French film series at the Institute Library.
Friday, August 30
The 42nd annual Odyssey festival, a celebration of Greek culture at Orange’s Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, begins. From noon to 10 today through Sunday and noon to 6 Monday, organizers promise “culinary delights,” cooking demonstrations, presentations, music and dancing.
At 7 p.m. in Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, the new academic year’s Treasures from the Yale Film Archive series opens with a screening of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Featuring award-winning cinematography, “this enigmatic Australian New Wave masterpiece delves into the mysteries of a clutch of Victorian schoolgirls roving through the wilderness on a hot summer afternoon.”
At 9, Cafe Nine hosts the next installment of Heaven, “New Haven’s post-disco dance night. Expect to hear Italo, electro, hi-NRG, synth-funk, alternative pop, and disco-infused electronics of all kinds!”
Saturday, August 31
Today through November 3, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, a “Fall Festival” at Bishop’s Orchards in Guilford offers a range of pastoral family attractions: apple picking, wagon rides, a corn maze, food trucks (some days), a pumpkin patch (starting in mid-September) and a many-splendored kids’ activity area.
Today through October 20 on the Lebanon Lions Club Country Fair Grounds, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, the Connecticut Renaissance Faire invites attendees to “feast like a king” at nearly two dozen food and drink providers; “shop like a queen” at “New England’s largest medieval marketplace, featuring over a hundred artisan shops”; and “laugh like a fool” across “12 stages of top-tier entertainment, including side-splitting comedy, awe-inspiring acrobatics, and interactive shows.”
Sunday, September 1
The 17th Annual DooWop Cruisers Car Show delivers a dose of fleeting summer from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at North Haven High School.
So, at 4 p.m., does the finale of Milford’s Walnut Beach Summer Concert Series, featuring musical act the RumRunners, who say: “This is one of the premier local legendary events taking place annually, and is sure to be off the hook!”
At Toad’s Place at 7, a second annual tribute to legendary New Haven guitarist Rohn Lawrence, who died in late 2021, features local musicians and “special guests” performing rock, soul, R&B and funk. If it’s like last year’s tribute show, this one is a fundraiser for Lawrence’s Still in the Ville Foundation, which provides instruments to budding guitarists in need.
Written by Dan Mims. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
