Mystic Restaurant Week  - November 10 – 17 Mystic Restaurant Week offers one price dining for lunch and dinner all week long.  Enjoy some of the Mystic area’s finest restaurants.  Sample specialties and multiple courses all for one low price. Mystic Restaurant Week will include restaurants in Groton, Stonington and Mystic, Connecticut.  http://www.mysticchamber.org/?sec=sec&s=85

25^th Annual Open Studio Hartford – City Wide Event - Hartford – November 15 – 16 – 11:00am to 5:00pm Open Studio Hartford (OSH) is a free, city-wide event, now a month-long. The November events begin with a popular Kick-Off Reception, Group Show, Performance Art Weekend and Open Studio Weekend, when art studios, galleries, educational institutions, art-related businesses and other creative group locations open to the public. It is a collaboration designed to promote the local arts community, the artists themselves and their work and to bring people into the neighborhoods of our capital city for an enjoyable, educational and inspiring event. 

OSH has become an event that the artists and the public anticipate and it has grown in the past three years to over 300 artists that specialize in painting, sculpture, murals, jewelry, pottery, fiber arts, graphic design, digital art, video, interactive installations, etc. at all levels. Musicians, dancers, poets and other artists perform as well.  www.openstudiohartford.com

Taste of the Season – Lyman Orchards – Middlefield – November 15- 11:00am Get ready for the holiday season by previewing ideal meal and cooking ideas, demonstrated by Apple Barrel Executive Chef Marc Gadoury, his team and our local vendors. Enjoy cooking demos and free tastings of holiday dishes, appetizers, and desserts all day, beginning at 11am. Plus, we'll have dozens of terrific recipes for you to take home so you can impress your friends and family this holiday season! http://lymanorchards.com/

Thanksgiving with the Hempsteds – Hempsted House – New London  November 16 – 1:00pm – 4:00-pm  Stop by the Hempsted Houses to watch (or help) prepare a colonial meal over an open hearth and see how the early New London colonists celebrated the fall harvest. Talk with the cooks and pick up copies of some early colonial recipes. You can also try out colonial cooking tools and gadgets, learn about foods and cooking techniques of the time and find out what the early New London settlers had to be thankful about. Light refreshments will be served. Both houses, built in 1678 and 1759, will be open for tours – the last day of the 2014 season. http://events.ctnow.com/events/view/221483/thanksgiving_with_the_hempsteds.html

 

 

Bob Chudy

Program Director

International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS)

Office of Global Affairs

University of Connecticut

Rowe Center   Room 126

Storrs, CT 06269

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web: www.isss.uconn.edu