This Week's Upcoming Greenwich Area Events

Greenwich CT

31 May, 2021

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GREENWICH, CT — Looking for things to do this week? Your Greenwich Patch community calendar is a great way to keep tabs on what's happening near you and discover local events that fit your interests. Here's a roundup of local events coming up in the area this week. Want to see your event in the next roundup? You can add it to the calendar using this form. As always, it's free to post an event in your community. To reach more people, you can promote your event and share it nearby for $1 per day per community. Support an Aspiring Medical Doctor When: Tuesday, June 1st at 12:00 a.m. Where: Support an Aspiring Medical Doctor What: Driven, bright, and compassionate, with a colorful personality, Gideon since childhood has wanted to be a medical doctor to preserve the sanctity of life. Due to his mother's health condition and father's passing when he was merely eleven years old, he needs support to pursue ... Learn More Help Families Stave Off Hunger and Prevent Eviction When: Tuesday, June 1st at 12:00 a.m. Where: Unite in Love What: Unite in Love has marked its one-year anniversary on May 21. Founded in 2020 and it provides relief to families impacted by lockdowns in developing countries--families left to face hunger and eviction on their own without government assistance or food banks. Unite in Love has pro... Learn More Neighbor-to-Neighbor Food and Essentials Drive When: Tuesday, June 1st at 9:00 a.m. Where: St Catherine of Siena Church-Parking area across from the rectory- 4 Riverside Ave. What: Neighbor-to-Neighbor Food and Essentials Drive. We continue to be grateful for your generosity and for the many "new" donors who show up each week. Thank you to all the supporters of Neighbor-To-Neighbor. Please continue to bring non-perishable foods of all kinds as well as di... Learn More HSS Yoga Classes – New Classes Starting June 1st! When: Tuesday, June 1st at 12:30 p.m. What: Did you know Yoga can help improve strength, increase flexibility, reduce stress and ease pain? Join HSS for online Yoga programs this summer to help support your health and wellbeing. Register today, new classes start June 1st! HSS hosts various online Yoga classes for diffe... Learn More Happier No Matter What: 30 minutes with professor Tal Ben-Shahar When: Tuesday, June 1st at 7:30 p.m. Where: Zoom What: Professor Ben-Shahar taught two of Harvard's most popular courses of all time. Now the trailblazing positive psychologist, serial entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author will share insights from his new book Happier No Matter What. As we'll learn, even in the toughe... Learn More Featured Event: Free Webinar on Retirement & Estate Strategies June 2nd @ 11am When: Wednesday, June 2nd at 11:00 a.m. Where: William O'Doherty - Thrivent What: Join us for a Free Workshop: Retirement and Estate Strategies! Managing your estate in retirement takes careful planning and understanding of an ever-changing landscape of financial considerations. Retirement and Estate Strategies is a free workshop from Thrivent that will hel... Learn More Featured Event: Free Webinar on Retirement & Estate Strategies June 2nd @ 11am (MADELINE KEVILLE) Featured Event: 5th Annual A Tast of Hope Street & Beyond When: Wednesday, June 2nd at 6:30 p.m. Where: 48 Union Street What: Come join us for this HYBRID Fundraising event to benefit Healing Hearts Adaptive Recreation. Join us for a night of magic and merriment featuring live entertainment,magicians,delicious foods,drink tastings,live music and much more! This will be a fun event for the whole family. Learn More Featured Event: 5th Annual A Tast of Hope Street & Beyond (Kimberly Colletto) Featured Event: Free Webinar on Retirement & Estate Strategies June 2nd 7pm When: Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:00 p.m. Where: William O'Doherty - Thrivent What: Join us for a Free Workshop: Retirement and Estate Strategies! Managing your estate in retirement takes careful planning and understanding of an ever-changing landscape of financial considerations. Retirement and Estate Strategies is a free workshop from Thrivent that will hel... Learn More Featured Event: Free Webinar on Retirement & Estate Strategies June 2nd 7pm (MADELINE KEVILLE) Featured Event: Live Streaming Virtual Meditation: The Joy of Authentic Self Love When: Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:00 p.m. Where: Virtual Odiyana Meditation Center What: Virtual Live-Streaming and On Demand Meditation and Buddhist Teachings from Odiyana Center. The Joy of Authentic Self-Love, weekly Wednesdays from 7-8:15pm. We all have extraordinary potential for real happiness, inner peace and lasting freedom. Authentic self-love is the wish... Learn More Featured Event: Live Streaming Virtual Meditation: The Joy of Authentic Self Love (Christine ) T'ai Chi Chih Class (Meets Online Mon & Wed) When: Wednesday, June 2nd at 3:00 p.m. What: Did you know T'ai Chi Chih can help maintain bone mass, increase strength, and decrease pain? Join HSS this summer for an online T'ai Chi Chih class to support your health and wellbeing! T'ai Chi Chih uses simple and rhythmic movements designed to improve balance, strength, f... Learn More Featured Event: The 58th Annual CCNS Art Show 2021 When: Thursday, June 3rd at 6:00 p.m. Where: 302 Wilson Avenue What: Please join us for this year's return of the CCNS Art Show! We missed everyone last year and we are planning this year to be the best year yet. This year marks our school's 58th year of holding this amazing fundraiser with such a rich history going back to the early 1960s. We ... Learn More Featured Event: The 58th Annual CCNS Art Show 2021 (Kyle Baker) Please Join Us to Fight Hunger When: Thursday, June 3rd at 12:00 a.m. Where: Come Celebrate Our Anniversary with Unite in Love! What: Unite in Love has marked its one-year anniversary on May 21. Founded in 2020, it provides relief to families impacted by lockdowns in developing countries--families left to face hunger and eviction on their own without government assistance or food banks. Unite in Love has pro... Learn More Featured Event: Free Music Fridays on Greenwich Ave Starts June 4 When: Friday, June 4th at 12:30 p.m. Where: Greenwich Avenue What: Re-Imagine Greenwich Announces Free Music Fridays on Greenwich Avenue This SummerLet's get back to enjoying live music outdoors! Free Music Fridayswill provide live music, free of charge and open to the public, everyFriday from 12:30 to 1:30 pm at Greenwich Common in downtown... Learn More Featured Event: Free Music Fridays on Greenwich Ave Starts June 4 (Sue Bodson) Featured Event: Art Celebration on the Lawn When: Friday, June 4th at 5:00 p.m. Where: Carriage Barn Arts Center What: In LiveGirl's 4th annual arts celebration, this year's curated "She is Rising" exhibit is a celebration of women of various ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities – some captured from life, and others imagined – who represent female power in a myriad of manifestations. Please come... Learn More Featured Event: Art Celebration on the Lawn (LiveGirl) Featured Event: This Magic Moment Celebrates Dance To Benefit CLC When: Friday, June 4th at 7:00 p.m. Where: Greenwich Audubon Center What: Dance to the music of DJ April Larken, under the open-sided Tent at Greenwich Audubon Center, in the fresh air, according to CDC guidelines.Come with your Dance Pod and compete for a prize, or dance the night away! ONTHEMARC Catering will serve lite bites and delicious dessert... Learn More Featured Event: This Magic Moment Celebrates Dance To Benefit CLC (Sue Bodson) BOOK SALE - Friends of the Byram Shubert Library When: Friday, June 4th at 4:30 p.m. Where: 55 William Street West What: The Friends of the Byram Shubert Library Outdoor Book & Media Box Sale BONANZA 3 Day Sale – Friday June 4, Saturday June 5, Sunday June 6 Over 30 categories of quality fiction, nonfiction & children's books more than 25,000 to choose from. 1,000s of DVDs, CDs, Audioboo... Learn More Art Celebration on the Lawn! When: Friday, June 4th at 5:00 p.m. Where: Carriage Barn Arts Center What: In LiveGirl's 4th annual arts celebration, this year's curated "She is Rising" exhibit is a celebration of women of various ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities – some captured from life, and others imagined – who represent female power in a myriad of manifestations. Please come... Learn More Dance Party Benefit with DJ April Larken When: Friday, June 4th at 7:00 p.m. Where: Greenwich Audubon Center What: Dance the night away, under the open-sided tent. Lite bites, small plates, drinks and dessert, catered by OntheMarc Catering will be individually plated and safely served throughout the evening. In-person capacity is limited. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-1... Learn More Maryknoll's Day of Prayer: The Beauty of Marriage When: Saturday, June 5th at 10:00 a.m. Where: Online Event Only - Please do not come to the Maryknoll Society Center What: Pope Francis' Prayer Intention for June is The Beauty of MarriageMaryknoll Fathers and Brothers invites the community to join them in spirit on Saturday, June 5 in response to Pope Francis' call for prayer for "The Beauty of Marriage.  "Let us pray that for young people who ar... Learn More Help Local Charity Raise 100K in 100 Days When: Saturday, June 5th at 12:00 a.m. Where: https://gf.me/u/zmryqh What: Local non-profit seeks Community support for programs providing relief to those in needOn Saturday, April 24, 2021, we distributed nearly 1,000 food boxes because of your donations -- YOUR DONATIONS MATTER!In 2020, over 3,000 food boxes were distributed to those food insecure ... Learn More BOOK SALE - Friends of the Byram Shubert Library When: Saturday, June 5th at 9:00 a.m. Where: 55 William Street West What: The Friends of the Byram Shubert Library Outdoor Book & Media Box Sale BONANZA 3 Day Sale – Friday June 4, Saturday June 5, Sunday June 6 Over 30 categories of quality fiction, nonfiction & children's books more than 25,000 to choose from. 1,000s of DVDs, CDs, Audioboo... Learn More Frogs Make Me Hoppy! A Pond Puppet-Making Workshop When: Saturday, June 5th at 3:00 p.m. Where: Greenwich Audubon Center What: In celebration of the special springtime sights and sounds of frogs we experience at Georgie's Pond and our Vernal Pools, join us for this special program with Adelka Polak of Sova Puppet Theater! Sova Dance & Puppet Theater's "Frogs Make Me Hoppy" program is a highly eng... Learn More Featured Event: New Canaan Mounted Troop " Kick Up Your Hooves" When: Sunday, June 6th at 9:00 a.m. Where: New Canaan Mounted Troop, Inc. What: Join New Canaan Mounted Troop for a day & evening of Horses, Food & Fun.9AM-3PM Horsemanship Review, Drill Team, & Gymkhana.5:30-8PM Adults only Dinner by Pesca, Music by Band central, Drinks by Baked & Sauced and Cocktail tasting by Walter Stewarts Wine. Learn More New Canaan Mounted Troop " Kick Up Your Hooves" (Claudia King) BOOK SALE - Friends of the Byram Shubert Library When: Sunday, June 6th at 12:00 p.m. Where: 55 William Street West What: The Friends of the Byram Shubert Library Outdoor Book & Media Box Sale BONANZA 3 Day Sale – Friday June 4, Saturday June 5, Sunday June 6 Over 30 categories of quality fiction, nonfiction & children's books more than 25,000 to choose from. 1,000s of DVDs, CDs, Audioboo... Learn More Check out all the local events posted by your neighbors, or add your own, on the Greenwich Patch community calendar. Editor's note: This article was automatically generated based on event information mainly provided by community members. Patch has not independently verified most of this information, always check with organizers to confirm posted events are proceeding as planned. Click on any event in the list for more details. You can also reach out to [email protected] with any questions or other feedback about this article.