MYSTIC — Corey Wheeler Forrest is a third-generation trap fishermom, fish dealer and "all-around badass" who works on her family’s boat, the Maria Mendonsa, with her father and brother, according to the writer Samuel Hill, who wrote about Forrest in an article in the National Fisherman.

NEW LONDON — The Ronald K. Brown/ EVIDENCE, A DANCE COMPANY will perform at Connecticut College next week as part of the college’s 2022-23 onStage Guest Artist Series.

NEW LONDON — Maggie's Guitar, a popular local folk band that plays everything from Celtic-tinged folk to classic rock, will perform songs from "Crossing" at Friday Night Folk in New London next week. The show is a benefit for Start Fresh, a local nonprofit that resettles refugees and other d…

MYSTIC — An ice sculpture carving contest, a costume contest and a scavenger hunt are just a few of the wintertime events scheduled for next weekend at Ice in the Village, set to take place at Olde Mistick Village the weekend of Feb. 10-12.

NORWICH — Petey Hop, whose album, "The Levee" — produced by the legendary Duke Robillard of Roomful of Blues and the Fabulous Thunderbirds — was considered by critics as one of the "most significant albums this side of the '60s," will perform with his group, Petey Hop and Friends, at the Nor…

Thursday, Feb. 2

WESTERLY — The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly will highlight the work of visiting artist Jonathan Small during the month of February, along with a show called "Artists’ Favorites," featuring the oils, acrylics watercolors, photography, wood, ceramic, fiber, jewelry and sculptures o…

STONINGTON — Antoinette Brim-Bell, Connecticut’s eighth state poet laureate, will share her poems and reflect on her life, the power of words for social change, and the importance of poems and spoken word in her community at La Grua Center next week at an event co-sponsored by the James Merr…

NEWPORT — The Newport String Quartet will present the next set of concerts in its signature Newport County Concert Series next month with performances in Newport and Jamestown.

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island-based Aurea Ensemble —  a performance ensemble engaged in a joyous pursuit to investigate and invigorate the harmony of music and the spoken word — will reprise "Eating Poetry," its 2022 performance of music and poetry, on Sunday at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church…

There's a marvel of a must-see-for-fans-of-Shakespeare play currently on stage at Trinity Rep, where it is enjoying its world premiere.

Thursday, Jan. 26

The sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” leads nominations to the 95th Academy Awards with 11 nominations. Nominations included acting nods for star Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in a comeback performance decades after he starred in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” A year after a streaming service won Hollywood’s top honor for the first time, big-screen spectacles dominated Tuesday’s nominations to the 95th Academy Awards with the “Avatar” and “Top Gun” sequels getting best picture nods. Collectively, the best picture nominees have earned more than $1.5 billion domestically so far, which is a record.  The Oscars will be presented March 12 in Los Angeles.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — From the community storytellers, or griots, of West Africa to American icons like Toni Morrison, Rita Dove and Isabel Wilkerson, the spoken word has served as a fundamental medium for sharing cultural values, history and lessons throughout Black history.

NEW LONDON — Uplifted Voices, a new program from the Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble known as Silkroad, will perform at Connecticut College's Athey Center next week. 

PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra ushers in the New Year with Tania Miller conducting Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," Chopin's "Piano Concerto No.1," featuring pianist Sara Davis Buechner, and Dvořák's "Eighth Symphony." 

WARWICK — To be Irish, my mother often said, quoting the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart." 

CRANSTON — It's never too soon to start thinking about summer, and it's always fun to think about summer theater.

Thursday, Jan. 19

A day after she was interviewed by CNN's Chloe Melas about her new thriller, "Reef Road," author Deborah Goodrich Royce was on the telephone from her hotel room preparing for an event at the Writer’s Block Bookstore in Winter Park, Fla.

WESTERLY — Theatre Scrapbook, a regional, Westerly-based, youth theater company that offers free after-school enrichment programs and tuition-based camps for schools and organizations in the districts and surrounding communities, will kick off its new season with a winter musical.

NEW LONDON — A special collaboration between the New London Big Band and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra will take place at the Garde Arts Center on Jan. 21.

STONINGTON — Norwich native Christopher Faison, a Broadway star who has been heralded by critics as “silken voiced,” “a stage dynamo” and “downright thrilling," will head to La Grua Center next week to perform a cabaret act.

PROVIDENCE — "Jagged Little Pill," a musical inspired by the seminal rock album of the same name by seven-time Grammy Award-winner Alanis Morissette, opens next Tuesday at the Providence Performing Arts Center for a six-day run. 

Thursday, Jan. 12

STONINGTON — Cellist Theodore Mook and pianist Michael Bahmann will head to Stonington Saturday to perform a program of French cello sonatas — including works by Debussy, Onslow, and Poulenc — as part of the Music Matters series at La Grua Center.

NORWICH — Veteran blues guitarist Clarence Spady, a Paterson, N.J., native who began playing guitar when he was only 5 years old, heads to the Norwich Arts Center’s Donald L. Oat Theater next week.

NEWPORT — Dar Williams, the much-lauded folk musician who rose out of the vibrant mid-’90s Boston scene and was inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets and folk artists like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert and Jona…

Tickets are now being sold for events scheduled at the following area venues in the year ahead:

Thursday, Jan. 5

WESTERLY — What better way to begin the new year than with a challenge. Perhaps with an artistic challenge? That's exactly what the members of the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly are offering with their January show.

Begin the new year Sunday by exploring museums right from your favorite armchair.

STONINGTON — The “Winterlude” exhibition, featuring works by Gallery One artists, celebrates the beauty of the quiet season.

STONINGTON — Author Lauren Sandler, an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn, will lead a discussion about her acclaimed New York Times Notable book, "This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home," on Thursday, Jan. 12, at the Merrill Apartment, 107 Water St., Stonington…

What are you doing New Year's Eve? If you're still making up your mind, nearly all local hot spots, restaurants and theaters are hosting special events to help you ring in 2023 safely and in style. 

Thursday, Dec. 29