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FINE Networking Meeting
Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Ct, Westport, CT | Get Directions »
$5.00
Our speaker at the December 15th meeting of FINE, will be Colin M. Caplan, founder and owner of Taste of New Haven food and drink tours. Colin started this company in September of this year as a way of providing a one-of-a kind event for both Connecticut residents and tourists. For the restaurants and shops the tours provide direct stimulus, new and potential repeat customers and an image of busting activity. Colin also felt that this idea would change people’s perception and image of New Haven, which has been plagued with negative publicity in recent years.
Colin will talk about how he took a traditional education and career like architecture and turned it into non-traditional entrepreneurial ventures with multiple streams of income including leading culinary walking tours, authoring published and non-published books on history and architecture and historic design and research. Colin will explain some of his methods of marketing and the technology he used to do it. He will also talk about the challenges he has faced in getting started and his ideas for growing the business in 2012.
He was born and raised in New Haven and developed a passion for architecture and history at an early age. Colin received a Masters in Architecture and Minor in Earth Science from Tulane University in New Orleans. He returned to the Elm City where he worked with a non-profit affordable housing development company, multiple architecture firms and became heavily engaged in his community.
Colin is Historic Officer of the Friends of Edgewood Park, Historian for the Broken Umbrella Theater Company, past Chair of the Alliance for Architecture, past board member of the New Haven Preservation Trust and in 2008 Colin was recipient of the Annual Arts Award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Colin has published four books on New Haven history and architecture. He has written and is continually researching and writing histories about towns, neighborhoods, buildings and families all over Connecticut. His collection of vintage photography is viewable and reprints are available for purchase online at www.magrissoforte.com. Colin’s tour company is also online at www.tasteofnewhaven.com.
The meeting is in the Lucille Lortel Barn at the Westport Country Playhouse from 9 – 11 AM with time for networking before and after Mr. Caplan’s talk. Coffee, tea and a baked good ( prepared by Bette Lynn Paez, co-leader of FINE, financial planner, and former bakery owner) will be provided. In order to cover the expense for the room and coffee when we don’t have a coffee sponsor, there is now a $5 charge which will be collected at the door
Event Details
| Where | Westport Country Playhouse 25 Powers Ct, Westport, CT 06880 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 9:00 am–11:00 am |
| Who to bring | Everyone |
| Website | http://www.FINENetworking.org |
| Phone | 203-803-0714 |
| ed.fitzgerald@cbmoves.com | |
| Price | $5 |
More About Westport Country Playhouse
Westport Country Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater, serves as a treasured home for the performing arts and is a cultural landmark for Connecticut.
Under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos and management direction of Michael Ross, the Playhouse creates quality productions of new and classic plays that enlighten, enrich and engage a diverse community of theater lovers, artists and students.
The Playhouse's rich history dates to 1931, when New York theatre producer Lawrence Langner created a Broadway-quality stage within a 1830s tannery. The Playhouse quickly became an established stop on the New England 'straw hat circuit' of summer stock theatres.
Now celebrating its 79th season, Westport Country Playhouse has produced more than 700 plays, 36 of which later transferred to Broadway, most recently the world premiere of Thurgood and a revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town with Paul Newman, and in earlier years Come Back, Little Sheba with Shirley Booth, The Trip to Bountiful with Lillian Gish, and Butterflies Are Free with Keir Dullea and Blythe Danner.
For its artistic excellence, the Playhouse received a 2005 Governor's Arts Award and a 2000 'Connecticut Treasure' recognition.
It was also designated as an official project of Save America's Treasures by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is entered on the Connecticut State Register of Historic Places.
Following a multi-million dollar renovation completed in 2005, the Playhouse transformed into a year-round, state-of-the-art producing theater. It has still preserved its original charm and character.
In addition to a full season of theatrical productions, the Playhouse serves as a community resource, presenting educational programming and workshops, a children's theater series, symposiums, music, films, and readings.
Other events here
- Save the Children Hosts Benefit at Westport Country Playhouse Fri, May 18, 6:00 pm
