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5 Things All About Westport: August 8

Movie "Accepted" screening at Levitt Pavilion tonight and more.

  • The Planning & Zoning Commission’s Downtown Initiatives Sub-committee will meet at 8 a.m. in Room 201, Town Hall, to discuss downtown planning issues.
  • The movie "Accepted" staring Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Blake Lively will be screened at 7 p.m. tonight at the . The movie is being presented as part of the “Teenflix” series and is sponsored by the Westport Youth Commission. (In case of rain, call 203-291-4840.)
  • An exhibit featuring the photographs of Guy Sherman is currently on display at the Westport Library. The exhibit, which runs through Sept. 30, includes photos taken in Hawaii, California and Westport, and focuses on the beauty of the views Sherman experienced.
  • The Christo and Jeanne-Claude exhibit, featuring two large-scale works in progress by the artists, “Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado” and “The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates,” continues this week at the Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. "Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado” is “a proposed site-specific installation of 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric suspended high above the Arkansas River along a 42-mile stretch in south-central Colorado,” while “The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates” will be made of “approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked oil barrels secured to an inner structure.” The exhibit runs through Sept. 4. Gallery Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 12 noon to 4 p.m., Sunday.
  • Ever wonder what Westport was like during pastoral times? You can get a fairly good idea through the exhibit “Westport Farming: Then & Now” currently on display at the Westport Historical Society, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The exhibit, which opened in May and runs through September, is being presented as part of the Society’s “Back to Our Roots” festival. It features local farming artifacts, including a special section focused on Wakeman Town Farm, and chronicles “evolving local farming practices, from the Pre-Contact era/indigenous tribes, through the Colonial Puritans and Connecticut Yankees, to today’s return to local produce,” according to the Society.
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