City of Danbury

The New American Dream Foundation's 6th Annual American Dream Awards Gala will be held at the Amber Room Colonnade in Danbury, CT on Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 6:00 PM. The event is an opportunity to come together to celebrate, inspire, and support the immigrant community, learn about their life stories and determination to pursue their American Dream.

Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Mission Health Day – a day of free health screenings and other community services for the uninsured and the income challenged, hosted by Western Connecticut Health Network and Western Connecticut State University. Tickets will be $125.00 per person including cocktail hour, a three-course dinner, entertainment, and a cash bar.

We have also partnered once again with Danbury High School’s Drama Department.

After last year’s emotional performance of “The Greatest Showman” song, “A Million Dreams,” from the perspective of the first immigrant family making the journey across the sea and arriving in Danbury, CT, DHS School’s Drama Department has taken on an impressive and promising challenge: “Hamilton – The Musical.” Three interpretative dance performances of songs from the original score of the hit Broadway play about Alexander Hamilton, who some claim is the most influential immigrant in American history, will adorn the gala’s program.

The workshop will teach attendees how to plan and prepare for a real-life pandemic.

Participants will learn crucial tips such as the importance of having an emergency supply kit at home and the fact that flu vaccines cannot cause the flu.

This presentation brought to you by the City of Danbury’s Health and Human Services Department who will educate the public on being prepared for a flu pandemic.

FREE. Registration Required. Click here to register!

All attendees and the public are also invited to come to the Flu Vaccination Clinic and Pandemic Exercise to be held at:

Rogers Park Middle School on Saturday, October 5, (9:30am – 1:00pm)

Dressing up as a zombie is optional, but encouraged. No Registration Required for October 5th.

Manhattan Short Film Festival
You Be The Judge!
Thursday September 26, 2019 @7:30PM
Film lovers in Danbury will unite with an audience of over 100,000 film buffs, across 6 continents, when the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL returns to The Palace Danbury for the opening night of the festival.
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; it’s a celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites.

The Final Ten MANHATTAN SHORT finalists hail from seven countries with films from France, Iran, Canada, Germany, and Finland alongside two films from USA and a record three from the United Kingdom. These Final ten films represent the best short films among 1250 submissions from 70 countries.

Five of the Final Ten films are directed by women, including one from Iran. This year’s Final Ten represent an extraordinary range of film genres that includes intimate dramas, spine-tingling suspense, and hilarious comedies, as well as genre surprises like a pair of science fiction films and one that focuses on tennis. “A narrative short film on sports is as rare as a centaur sighting,” notes Pia Andell, director of the The Match.

The judges of the finalists’ films are you. Audiences at each venue are asked to vote for the ONE film they think should win. Votes are tallied by each cinema and sent through to MANHATTAN SHORT HQ. The winners will be announced on Monday October 7, 2019

https://thepalacedanbury.com/5328-2/

RUMOURS
THE ULTIMATE FLEETWOOD MAC TRIBUTE SHOW
Saturday September 28, 2019 8:00PM
Relive the rock and roll magic of Fleetwood Mac with RUMOURS: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show!
RUMOURS has meticulously put together a show that spares no detail. This concert recreates the band’s legendary persona in all its youthful glory from 1975-1987. From period accurate equipment and costumes to spot on musical performances, RUMOURS takes you back to a time when FM radio was the center of the universe and bands weren’t afraid to put on a show.
Formed in the Summer of 2012 in Los Angeles, California, RUMOURS made their debut at the infamous Roxy Theatre on Sunset Strip and within months would be seen worldwide on AXS TV’s World’s Greatest Tribute Bands.
The band is comprised of Jesika Miller as Stevie Nicks, Rebecca Fishman as Christine McVie, Ned Brower as Mick Fleetwood (Rooney), Taylor Locke as Lindsey Buckingham (Rooney), Nic Johns (The Motels & Ben Lee)

https://thepalacedanbury.com/rumours/

Creating this album was a heavy task.

Since 2010, I had been recording my grandmother’s voice: on the phone with her, in her house while she was on the phone with someone, stories, jokes, anecdotes, attitude, observations…

My grandmother was 91 when I began recording her. She lived alone in her home until the last 5 months of her life, where she was moved to assisted living. She declined rapidly at 99; until that point she had lived independently and vibrantly. Despite this vibrancy, I had a sense of urgency to record her. My clandestine practice was a desire and a way to hold on to more of her than I felt I inevitably would.

https://derekpiotr.com/albums/avia/  

Derek Piotr's Avia: Chamber Edition
September 29th at 3:00 pm
Marian Anderson Recital Hall at the Danbury Music Centre256 Main Street , Danbury, CT 06810
Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to benefit the programs of the Danbury Music Centre

With Musicians Derek Piotr, David Karp, Jules Chechuti, Kyle Adamcik, Christopher Locke, Sonya Alexander, Victoria LaFitte Rosado

Derek Piotr’s Avia was originally conceived as a collection of pieces comprising an album of the same name. The pieces were a poignant response to the loss of the artist’s grandmother, Dorothy Augusta Crofut, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 99. The works therefore are heartfelt and meditative, and feature voice recordings taken by Piotr of Dorothy, in the last decade of her life. The resulting album is electro-acoustic in nature, voice recordings melding and contrasting in turn with an array of chamber instruments: Organ, Violin, Viol da Gamba, Harp and Piano.Piotr sought to bring these works to the Marian Anderson space after he was awarded a grant by the Danbury Cultural Commission to finish the album as a studio endeavor. The goal of Avia: Chamber Edition is to let these pieces breathe in a new way, aided by a small ensemble of two flutes, two violins, celesta, and organ.