Fairfield University June 2008 Calendar of Events | Press Releases

Concerts and Special Events

Saturday, June 28 at 8 p.m., The rolling lawn in front of the DiMenna Nyselius Library Pre-concert at 6:30 p.m. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Rain Date: Sunday, June 29 at 8 p.m.

Free outdoor Pops Concert with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra , Matthew Savery, Guest Conductor. The evening's program: Pops favorites for the entire family, including light classics, Broadway hits, and Soprano Rebecca Sjowall, the 2007 Winner of the Jenny Lind Competition. Pre-Concert Program featuring The BearCats Jazz Band. Free parking with continuous shuttle buses from campus parking lots to concert site. Bring a picnic and a blanket or beach chair. No pets permitted on campus. Call the Greater Bridgeport Symphony at (203) 576-0263 for program details and directions or online at www.bridgeportsymphony.org . Admission is free. No tickets required.

Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery

Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 12 to 4 p.m. Closed Mondays. Thursday, June 12, 2008-Thursday, July 31, 2008

This exhibition features Paintings on paper by Tom Weaver, Chair, Department of Art at Hunter College. Weaver's range of painterly means encodes subtle contradictions in his works, which combine the "immediacy of touch" of "pointillist" drawing, glazing technique, blending, scumbling and dripping with "mechanized" devices or repetition, found wood blocks and decorative-pattern rollers. These combination assemblage images are not seamless but rather assert and question their own authority. The artist communicates states of introspection, absorption, isolation, reverie and loss of control. Curated by Jo Yarrington, Chair, Studio Art Department, Fairfield University. Admission is free.

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