Westport Journal

Free First Saturdays
2027-02-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2027-03-06 11:00 - 17:00, 2027-04-03 11:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-01 11:00 - 17:00, 2027-06-05 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Westport Museum for History and Culture, 25 Avery Place, Wesport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
First Saturdays are a great opportunity to experience what we have to offer at the Westport Museum free of charge on the first Saturday of each month.
Young visitors can enjoy a scavenger hunt in the museum, the diorama of Westport featuring an audio tour by Joanne Woodward, coloring pages, colonial games and more. Adult visitors will enjoy our wide array of exhibits.

Art Adventures! – Saturday Drop-In Art Class for Kids
2027-02-06 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-02-13 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-02-20 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-02-27 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-06 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-13 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-20 12:00 - 13:30, 2027-03-27 12:00 - 13:30 and 13 more dates | MoCA CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
Your child can join us every Saturday for a relaxed and inspiring drop-in art class at the museum! Whether your child is an experienced artist or just looking to have fun, our multi-media classes offer a creative space to explore new techniques and expression through art. Each session is designed to be fun, interactive, and hands-on, with a focus on encouraging your child’s unique artistic voice.
Each class will feature a new theme or project, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage so they can come back week after week to try something fresh and create their own masterpieces.
Materials are provided. Come create, connect, and have fun with art!

MoCACT Presents: Calidore String Quartet
2027-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | MoCA CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
In residence at Lincoln Center. This winter, in our galleries.
The string quartet was written for rooms exactly like ours. In residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Calidore String Quartet — hailed by The New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity” and praised by The Los Angeles Times for “the kind of sublimity other quartets spend a lifetime searching for” — performs amid the contemporary art of MoCACT’s galleries, every bow stroke and breath at arm’s length. This is chamber music as it was meant to be heard: four musicians who “speak, breathe, think and feel as one” (The Washington Post), and an audience close enough to be drawn inside the conversation.
Winners of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a BBC Music Magazine Award, recipients of the $100,000 M-Prize, and celebrated for their complete Beethoven cycle at Lincoln Center, the Calidore spotlight their acclaimed 2026 album American Tapestry — a sweeping survey of the American voice featuring Samuel Barber’s transcendent Adagio, Wynton Marsalis’s jazz-inflected At the Octoroon Balls, and the world-premiere quartet version of John Williams’s “With Malice Toward None,” arranged by the composer himself.

MoCACT Presents: Jasper String Quartet
2027-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 | MoCA CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
One of America’s most celebrated quartets — and its most imaginative.
A great quartet doesn’t just play the notes — it makes you hear why they matter. The Jasper String Quartet, praised by Gramophone as “flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced,” has built its reputation on programs that connect the great canon to the living composers shaping music right now. In MoCACT’s galleries, surrounded by contemporary art and seated steps from the players, you’ll experience that artistry the way it lands best: up close, where the drama is impossible to miss.
Recipients of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper String Quartet was named CMA’s 2025 Album of the Year for Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung — music The Strad called “sonically delightful and expressively compelling.” At this performance, they preview their 2026 release Lamenting Earth, a luminous meditation on humanity and the natural world. Expect an evening as intellectually alive as it is profoundly moving — the work of one of the preeminent American quartets of the twenty-first century.

MoCACT Presents: Time for Three
2027-04-29 19:00 - 20:30 | MoCA CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
“Simply put, they’re a knockout.” — Sir Simon Rattle
Forget what you expect from a string trio. Grammy- and Emmy-winning Time for Three defies convention, merging classical virtuosity with Americana and singer-songwriter craft into a sound entirely its own — three classically trained musicians who, as the Chicago Sun-Times put it, “look and act more like an indie rock band.” From Carnegie Hall to MoCACT’s galleries, violinists Nicolas Kendall and Charles Yang and bassist Ranaan Meyer play and sing with an infectious joy that turns a concert into an event — and in a room this intimate, you’re not so much in the audience as in the band.
Their album Letters for the Future, recorded with The Philadelphia Orchestra, won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and reached the Billboard classical top 10. Fresh from the world premiere of Emily – No Prisoner Be with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, the trio brings its virtuosity, original songwriting, and bold reimaginings to Westport for an evening of pure, exhilarating artistry.

MoCACT Presents: Kate Kortum
2027-05-08 19:00 - 20:30 | MoCA CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, Connecticut, 06880, United States
One of the finest jazz voices of her generation.
Kate Kortum is one of the most acclaimed young vocalists in jazz today. At just 24, she has already performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alongside Wynton Marsalis and won the 2025 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition — jazz’s most prestigious vocal prize. MoCACT’s galleries are the ideal place to hear her: an intimate room where Kortum’s warm, story-driven phrasing and easy swing land with the immediacy of a great late-night set.
A Juilliard graduate who has also sung at the Newport Jazz Festival and Birdland, Kortum blends bebop agility, blues feeling, and theatrical flair into something entirely her own. With her standout band she performs music from her acclaimed debut Good Woman and her bold 2025 release Wild Woman, reclaiming and reimagining the Great American Songbook through a distinctly modern, female lens.
