Okay, campers! Rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties, ’cause it’s cold out there today.
Monday, February 2
Happy Groundhog Day.
At 6:30 p.m. at RJ Julia in Madison, two-time Survivor contestant Stephen Fishbach discusses his just-released debut novel, Escape!. Set on an island where reality contestants and producers vie for influence and then survival, Fishbach has clearly followed that old and good advice to ‘write what you know.’
Tuesday, February 3
From 6:30 to 8 p.m., Books & Company in North Haven helps people focus on UFOs—unfinished objects. “Bring any project you want to make progress on/complete. Bring any snacks/beverages you want to enjoy. Just creating time and space to work on things you want to get done/move forward on.”
At 7, College Street Music Hall hosts emo/indie rock/pop punk double headliners with a turn-of-millennium vintage: Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack.
Wednesday, February 4
At 7 p.m. at Best Video in Hamden, a Movie Trivia Night hosted by Michael Domangue tests your knowledge of cinema.
Thursday, February 5
At 7 p.m., a screening of Honeydripper (2007) in Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle “spotlights the musical cultures of the Deep South, showing resilience and renewal during the switch from acoustic to electric.” Here’s the setup: “It’s 1950 in an Alabama juke joint, and the owner (Danny Glover) has one make-or-break chance to keep it open: booking the hotshot Guitar Sam.”
At 8, a three-day, five-show run at Yale Cabaret presents Caryl Churchill’s Lovesick (1967), “a sharp, unsettling look at love under control. In a near-future world where desire is treated like a disease, therapy replaces intimacy. Darkly funny and quietly devastating, the play asks what we lose when love is regulated.”
Friday, February 6
From 5 to 8 p.m., the next First Friday open studios night at West River Arts in Westville promises “art, shopping, refreshments” and “good vibes.”
Also from 5 to 8, Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media downtown hosts an open studios night of its own, drawing people in with an exterior installation of moving images by Ghanaian artist Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson.
At 7 at Armada Brewing, “we’re diving into the dark side of love with a trivia night full of dangerous romances, killer couples, obsession, and betrayal. Movies, TV, pop culture thrillers, and twisted love stories where things go very wrong.”
At 7:30, Hamden’s Space Ballroom hosts “a Broadway dance party celebrating the best in show tunes and musical theater,” encouraging partiers to wear themed costumes and promising appearances by “Broadway stars.”
Saturday, February 7
At noon in North Haven, partake in the second and final round of Twelve Percent Beer Project’s 2026 Homebrew Championship. “All eight finalists will be pouring their beers for you to try, and we will be announcing the 2026 winner during the tasting event!” Then stick around for Retox 2026, a 2 p.m. popup festival featuring the brewers and latest beers of New London’s Tox Brewing—plus live music, food trucks, giveaways and vendors.
At 7 at Neighborhood Music School, a concert showcasing the talents of NMS’s teaching artists features “thoughtful, powerful” classical music composed centuries apart as well as “original songs blend[ing] folk, blues, and gospel through acoustic and electric textures, with spacious vocal harmonies and incisive lyrics.”
At 9, Stella Blues holds Trifecta, a three-DJ dance party starting with “smooth house grooves and hypnotic trance vibes,” moving to a “high-octane set” of “powerful beats and pumping rhythms” and finishing with “a raw, edgy mix of techno and trance energy.”
Sunday, February 8
At Kehler Liddell Gallery, an opening reception for Tom Edwards’s BIRD and Gar Waterman’s SEED—or, by their powers combined, BIRD/SEED—begins at 2 p.m. BIRD features more than 60 works “printed, drawn, painted or sculpted in response to personal encounters with winged creatures or in deep reverie of birds in nature, art, science and culture.” SEED features biomorphic stone sculpture “endeavor[ing] to “capture that moment of potential where biology, beauty, and imagination converge.”
Written by Dan Mims. Image, featuring moving images on Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, sourced from CCAM’s website. Readers are encouraged to verify times, locations, prices and other details before attending events.
