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Watkinson School Presents...Freshly Squeezed with Colin McEnroe
Last seasons Freshly Squeezed with Colin McEnroe, hosted at Watkinson School, was a complete sell out! Join us for the seventh season, as parents, community leaders, educators, everyone who cares about the challenges we're facing these days gathers for the opportunity to think and talk together at these three nimble, personal, and participatory forums.
For those who enjoy wisdom with wit, substance with style, and the opportunity to be part of the conversation, Freshly Squeezed with Colin McEnroe has become a must-go series!
You can buy the series or just a single event.
"True or False? Political decorum only flows in one direction."
October 3, 2018 Common wisdom says that once you walk downstairs to the place where the sizes of candidates body parts are fodder for discussion, where one presidential nominee calls another such a nasty woman in a debate, where middle-finger salutes at the working press become commonplace at presidential rallies, you never go back up those stairs. On the eve of a midterm, we want to talk about whether that is true and whether the 2018 political ecosystem caught the coarseness virus from 2016. And how do we get back up those stairs? How do we bleed some of the anger and vulgarity out of our political discourse?
"The King. Before There Was Lebron, There Was Elvis."
January 30, 2019 This year we want to spend some time with the artist who defined the birth of rock and roll and was the genres first superstar. Elvis left two legacies. Musically, he pulled several American musical traditions out of the shadows, braided them together and made them mainstream. Personally, he created a far darker template for the way a musical celebrity could be devoured by the very fame he avidly sought. Music savant and piano genius Steve Metcalf returns for his record-shattering third appearance at Freshly Squeezed.
"You Are Just Something Left Over From Star Formation. But Don't Feel Bad About It."
April 3, 2019 It could be argued that you will never understand yourself if you don't understand the universe. And the universe is full of both beautiful and scary things. At least once, something has come roaring out of the skies to reconfigure completely life on earth. So it might be a good idea to study the heavens. If it's a clear night, we'll have telescopes outdoors, but one of the many misconceptions about astronomy is that its entirely visual. There are blind astronomers and ways to hear the stars. One way or another, we're going to blow your mind.
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LocationWatkinson School, Foisie Family Amphitheater (View)
180 Bloomfield Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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