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Saturday, November 1, 2025
- All dayEight Days a Week : An Illustrated Record of Rock 'n' RollEnjoy this unique exhibition of rock music memorabilia from the archive of editor, journalist, and radio disc jockey Ken Best. This personal collection features decades worth of iconic photos, album covers, posters and promotional materials that Best has amassed while writing about music for newspapers in New Jersey and Connecticut and interviewing musicians and authors on the radio at WPKN in Bridgeport and WHUS in Storrs. Highlighted will be 50 photos of major rock 'n' roll figures by Connecticut photographer Joseph Sia, including his famous image of Jimi Hendrix at Woolsey Hall in New Haven in 1968, known as "The Shadow," from Best and Sia's 1992 book,Eight Days a Week: An Illustrated Record of Rock 'n' Roll (Pomegranate Books).
- All daySubmissions Open for Letters About Literature Student Writing Contest for Grades 4-12Letters About Literature Guidelines for Student Writing Contest for grades 4 through 12 (https://education.uconn.edu/letters-about-literature-contest/)
- All dayUConn Football vs UABView UConn Football's full schedule. (https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/football/schedule)
- All dayΣΦΕ Founders' DaySigma Phi Epsilon (ΣΦΕ) was founded on November 1, 1901 at Richmond College in Richmond, Virginia.
- 3:00 PM2hArtist Lecture: "A Life Conjuring Art and Magic"The current exhibition Fate and Magic: The Art of Maureen McCabe is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Benton Museum Curator Amanda Douberley. Beginning at 3:00 pm, Douberley and McCabe will be available to sign copies of the exhibition catalogue. Maureen McCabe's lecture begins at 4:00 pm. Artist Biography Maureen McCabe (b. 1947, Quincy, MA) is a celebrated collage artist, whose playful yet carefully composed assemblages weave imagery from ancient and current cultures, together with aspects of folklore, magic, myth, and the unexplained. With a career that spans six decades, McCabe has an extensive exhibition record of more than 30 one-person gallery shows. She has exhibited her work in museums in the United States and Mexico and was the subject of a major retrospective at the Bellevue Arts Museum (WA) in 2006. McCabe received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art before teaching for four decades at Connecticut College, where she was recognized with a John S. King Faculty Teaching Award and retired as the Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor of Studio Art. McCabe has had residencies in the U.S. at Yaddo and MacDowell, and in Italy at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio and the American Academy of Rome. She lives and works in Quaker Hill, Connecticut.