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Brookfield Film Festival 2024!

Brookfield Film Festival March 21-24

The Brookfield Film Festival has grown!  Proceeds of the film festival go toward scholarships for a graduating high school senior from Brookfield who is pursuing a career in the arts. New this year is the festival kick off, Music Indie Evening, an evening of Music Videos from local bands at 7:30 PM on Thursday March 21st.

Friday, March 22nd at 7:30 PM is the first screening of the always popular Shorts & to the Point, a curated selection of award winning films from across the country.

Saturday, March 23rd begins with Read Through Indie Morning at 10 AM. This section of the film festival allows actors, directors, and writers to connect while reading through and critiquing scripts. Read Through Indie Morning is followed by Regional Indie Afternoon at 2:00PM. Regional Indie Afternoon is a screening of short films directed by filmmakers from CT, MA, NY and RI. A second screening of Shorts & to the Point at 7:30 PM rounds out the activities for March 23rd. Sunday March 24th is the festival’s closing showing of Shorts & to the Point at 3PM.

If you have questions or are interested in tickets, please contact the Brookfield Arts Commission by email at brookfieldartscommissionct@gmail.com.

Sandra Cointreau Art Exhibit at Brookfield Town Hall

Starting on February 20th there will be a Sandra Cointreau Art Exhibit at Brookfield Town Hall!

Since graduating as the sole female in her civil engineering class of 1,000 males, 50 years ago, Sandra has been painting. Mostly she painted nights and weekends, while she worked as a civil engineer on hazardous waste remediation, infrastructure strategic planning, and climate change mitigation. 

Her projects took her from army arsenal sites to post conflict zones, and into the slum areas of the world’s poorest areas…to over 65 countries. Traveling about 30% each year to do the field work, and able to be home in the countryside of Connecticut for the research, analysis, and report writing. 

Painting and meditation helped her balance her analytical work with intuition and creativity…and she learned to consider these activities an important part of her work. Sandra learned that this balance of art, meditation and engineering allowed the subconscious to help find creative solutions and see how they mapped out strategically. And watercolor traveled well, becoming her primary medium. No matter where she was in the world, her paintings were based on her personal and genetic memory and love of Connecticut, where her family has been based for over 400 years. Her paintings were her home away from home. She hopes you enjoy the color and serenity of these works.

Come by Town Hall to check them out!

Brookfield Arts Commission will host a reception for Sandra Cointreau at Brookfield Town Hall on Tuesday, March 12 at 5:00 pm.  Sandra plans to do a painting demonstration during the reception.  Come along to see her wonderful art and enjoy some refreshments. Town Hall is at 100 Pocono Rd, Brookfield.

 

 

Flyer for the Brookfield Creates: Sidewalk Chalk Event. It is a multicolored pigment explosion on a black background with white writing to give details of the event.

Brookfield Creates: Sidewalk Chalk Take Two 2023

Brookfield Creates: Sidewalk Chalk was supposed to be just a one day affair but we love this town so much that we are committed to use our raindate this Friday to bring you another opportunity to come create with us! Join us and our fabulous commission members at the Brookfield Town Municipal Center on Friday, July 28th between 4 and 6pm. We supply the chalk and you bring your imagination! Even if you were one of the brave attendees from last week, please come again! While you are here, enjoy some of the photos from last Friday.

 

Flyer for the Brookfield Creates: Sidewalk Chalk Event. It is a multicolored pigment explosion on a black background with white writing to give details of the event.

Brookfield Creates Sidewalk Chalk 2023

Flyer for the Brookfield Creates: Sidewalk Chalk Event. It is a multicolored pigment explosion on a black background with white writing to give details of the event. Join the members of the Brookfield Arts Commission at the Brookfield Town Hall for a free event on July 21st at 4pm. Event is open to any Brookfield resident, young or just young at heart. We supply the chalk and the sidewalk, you bring your creative energy and imagination.

The event will begin at 4pm in front of Town Hall and continue until 6pm. We hope to see you there! We’ve met some very talented chalk artists since this event started. Remember it gets hot out there, so don’t forget your sunscreen and water. We take place at the same time as the Farmer’s Market and right before the Bock & Blu, Concert in the Parks. You can make this a fun evening in the park.

Brookfield Creates Sidewalk Chalk is just one of the community outreach events hosted by the Brookfield Arts Commission. The Commission strives to bring more art experiences to the community of Brookfield. Registration is encouraged by emailing BrookfieldArtsCommissionCT@gmail.com. Rain date will be July 28th.