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Registration using the Library’s online calendar is required. This program will be livestreamed but not recorded. A limited number of signed copies of And There Was Light will be available for purchase through Diane’s Books of Greenwich. Continue Reading →
SummerFare 2024 is an annual event that focuses on summer activities, camps and employment for kids. Continue Reading →
The First Congregational Church’s series will feature The Yale Alley Cats, Yale’s Classiest A Cappella Group at the First Music & Arts Series on Sunday, January 28 at 4:00pm. Continue Reading →
The event will feature stations with different fun activities and games, and kids will be able to take some new ideas and projects home! The event will focus on the toll plastic has taken on birds. Continue Reading →
Evonne Klein said there was a direct line from zoning to segregation. Dr. Louis Hart talked about race-based medicine. Continue Reading →
The event will also honor Juanita James, former CEO of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation (FCCF) and now on the state’s Board of Regents, for her leadership in philanthropy. Continue Reading →
The Oral History Project will celebrate 50 Years of Recorded Recollections. Continue Reading →
Highlights of the hour-long gathering included an interview with Helen Delago, a lifelong Greenwich resident who was Mrs. Edwin Binney’s nurse during her final years. Continue Reading →
In Never Enough, Jennifer Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure to perform is not a matter of parental choice but baked into our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities. As a result, children are increasingly absorbing the message that they have no value outside of their accomplishments, a message that is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large. Continue Reading →
YWCA Greenwich has a storied history of honoring extraordinary women within the community, including the BRAVA Awards, established in 1977 to recognize professional women, the Spirit of Greenwich Awards which started in 1994 to honor volunteers, and the Women Who Inspire Awards which began in 2019 to recognize all women and the fluidity in today’s work/life balance. Continue Reading →