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Greenwich's Weekend Guide: The Bruce Museum's Space Family Day And Author Grace Lin
The Bruce Museum hosts Family Day: Spectacular Space, Grace Lin visits Greenwich Library and Friends Friday Films screens 'The Automat.'
GREENWICH, CT — The Bruce Museum turns its attention skyward Saturday with Family Day: Spectacular Space, featuring planetarium shows and astronomers. Greenwich Library has a busy weekend too: "The Automat" with its filmmaker Friday, bestselling children's author Grace Lin on Saturday and an art opening at the Byram Shubert branch. The Greenwich Tree Conservancy leads a nighttime walk at Montgomery Pinetum on Thursday.
This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment
- Trees at Night, Thursday, Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m. Town Tree Warden Dr. Greg Kramer leads a walk with UV flashlights to see what the pinetum looks like after dark. Free; registration is required. Montgomery Pinetum, 130 Bible St.
- Friends Friday Films: "The Automat", Friday, Nov. 13, 7 to 9 p.m. The documentary tells the story of the Horn & Hardart automats, with Reel Talk speaker Lisa Hurwitz, in the Berkley Theater. Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Ave.
- Family Day: Spectacular Space, Saturday, Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Inspired by the exhibition "Rohini Devasher: Solar Poetics," families can catch 25-minute planetarium shows with That Planetarium Guy (10:15, 10:50 and 11:25 a.m., 1 and 1:35 p.m.; $5 for most visitors, registration and museum admission required), make space crafts and talk with the Greenwich Astronomical Society from 1 to 4 p.m. Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive
- Children's AuthorsLive: Grace Lin, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2 to 3 p.m. The New York Times bestselling author gives an interactive presentation on how a book is made, in the Marx Family Black Box Theater. Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Ave.
- Art Opening: "Recent Paintings" by Gary Calabro, Saturday, Nov. 14, 3 to 5 p.m. Byram's own Gary Calabro shows new work and familiar Greenwich scenes, with refreshments from the Friends. Byram Shubert Library, 21 Mead Ave.
Night trees, a documentary, a day of space at the Bruce, Grace Lin and a Byram art opening give Greenwich a weekend for every age.
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