‘Lovepiece’
Hartford artist Arien Wilkerson explores the experience of love, rejection and healing through the lens of queer people of color in “Lovepiece,” a new work at the Quick Center in Fairfield on Sept. 23. Performances are at noon, 3 and 7 p.m.
Wilkerson, a dancer, choreographer and director of Tnmot Aztro, is known for creating immersive performances that challenge audiences to hear marginalized voices and understand the issues facing them. Wilkerson is a Connecticut Office of the Arts artist fellow and has been awarded grants from the New England Dance Fund and National Endowment for the Arts. The Quick Center performance is set to an original live score from domsentfrommars, with lighting by Jon-Paul LaRocco and stage design by Joesph McCarthy. In a social experiment, the cost of the show is left up to attendees, who are asked to value their artistic experience. quickcenter.fairfield.edu
Fun at the farm
Just about every weekend, the farmers market at Dudley Farm in Guilford features free events for kids. Called the Children’s Corner, the activities range from making old-fashioned paper dolls and nature prints to music shakers and corn husk dolls.
Coming up on Sept. 7 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. is the farm’s Fairy and Elf Festival, including crafts with the Florence Griswold Museum, making fairy houses and fairy and elf crowns, fairy dancing with Starship Dance Studio and displays of rabbits and monarch butterflies. Later in the month the Children’s Corner activities include making a pine cone bird feeder on Sept. 14, storytelling with puppets on Sept. 21 and painting candles on Sept. 28. Dudley Farm is at 2351 Durham Road. dudleyfarm.com
