Verso University, in partnership with the Song Arts Academy, offers an eight-week transformative songwriting program for adults, open to 15 participants. The program begins on Monday, September, 18th, from 7pm to 9pm, and runs through Monday, Nov. 13th.
Presenting the next Lundberg Family Foundation Master Film screening, in the Trefz Forum, on Friday evening, December 8, at 7pm (doors open at 6:30): 32 Sounds, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green, who will be present for the screening and Q&A. The film was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. 32 Sounds […]
Purchase Tickets The Speaking of Music series, a cornerstone of musical education, artfully combines narration, expert discussions, and live musical performances. Rooted in America's rich and storied musical history, Speaking of Music delves deep into the essence of indigenous musical genres, performing the music live, and through dialogue and discussion, creating a unique and uplifting live event for […]
Register Here In case you missed the event, you may watch the recorded program here. George C. Siougas’ The One Note Man tells the story of a musician caught between staying in his comfort zone, or stepping out and changing his life forever. Set at Christmas time, the film takes you on a whirlwind adventure […]
Y’s Men’s John Brandt presents “Music, the Soundtrack of Our Lives,” a video-illustrated presentation on the marriage of music and dance on-stage and in film. REGISTER HERE Music is everywhere. It underscores our daily lives and gives shape to the arts from classical symphonies to rap to theater of every description. Hardly a moment passes […]
Register Here The SHORT CUTS Film Festival is back! Curated from the prestigious Tribeca Festival in NYC, Fairfield County’s own SHORT CUTS Festival screens award-winning narrative, documentary, and animated short […]
Watch The Duke, about an art heist that changes a couple's lives as part of WestportREADS 2024! In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in […]
Tickets Here Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez will serve up their soul Winter Dance Party in the Trefz Forum at The Westport Library/Verso Studios on Saturday, January 13. Doors open at 6:30 pm; show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $20, with a cash bar available. Join us LIVE with resident SNL singing tour de […]
Buy Tickets Now! Join us on Thursday, January 18, at 7 pm in The Westport Library’s Trefz Forum for the SHORT CUTS Film Festival’s final installment of international narrative short films, curated from the 2023 prestigious Tribeca Film Festival (TFF.) Screenings include: TFF's Best Narrative Film, winner Chat Mort (Dead Cat) (Canada), a humorous look at […]
Learn about a real art mystery in the 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo as part of WestportREADS 2024. The Lost Leonardo is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1,175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and […]
Register Here Join us for a screening of the provocative documentary, WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, followed by a talkback with the film's director, James Hussey, as well as producer/editor Tory Jadow. Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by this feature documentary. […]
Expand your art heist knowledge and watch Pierce Brosnan try to outwit Rene Russo in the 1999 thriller hit, The Thomas Crown Affair, as part of WestportREADS 2024. Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that […]
Buy Tickets Now! Q&A Live Stream Talking Heads are coming to the Library for a screening of the newly remastered film about the band, Stop Making Sense. Following the screening, […]
Sherry Winston and her band’s music is diverse and progressive, with compositions from Jazz Masters pianist Horace Silver, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, pop icon Stevie Wonder, and Grammy Award and Platinum […]
Note: Due to the snow on February 13, this class will now start February 20 and run until March 12. Register Here Even though the last film he made came out nearly 50 years ago, Alfred Hitchcock's works continue to be major influences on contemporary filmmakers and not only entertain new generations of audiences but […]
