NEIGHBORHOODS
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GLENBROOK
The Glenbrook Neighborhood Association will hold its September quarterly meeting from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Glenbrook Community Center, 35 Crescent St.
Candidates in the Nov. 6 election have been invited to introduce themselves at the meeting, present a short statement, and stay afterward to speak with Glenbrook residents. The neighborhood association will also provide information about Stamford’s new list of accepted recycling items, and what is no longer allowed.
STRAWBERRY HILL
The Strawberry Hill Neighborhood Association will hold a ceremony Thursday in memory of Karina Tinajero-Arreguin, a former Stamford High School student who died in 2016 after being hit by a van on Strawberry Hill Avenue.
Tinajero-Arreguin was on her way to take the SAT when she was struck.
A bench with a plaque in her memory was installed at Carpinella Park, where the Strawberry Hill Neighborhood Association will hold the ceremony starting at 3 p.m.
The ceremony will also highlight the other new benches installed at the park and their contribution to a “new ‘park’ feel for Carpinella Park,” according to a release from the organization.
DOWNTOWN
The annual MarcUS for Change 5K Walk & Run will be held Sept. 30 from 9 a.m. to noon at Mill River Park and Greenway.
The race celebrates the life of Marcus Dixon McInerney, a former Stamford High School football player who died in an accidental shooting. The 5K is also a way for the Stamford community to come together to raise funds for the Stamford Public Schools Education Foundation.
The 5K will be one of the events under the umbrella of US Day, which will include entertainment, food and activities that promote the health of the community’s youth. All participants will receive a free shirt. The school with the most participants will receive the MarcUS for Change Spirit Award as well as $500 toward the school’s PTO.
Tickets are available at athlinks.com.
SOUTH END
The “Liver Life Walk,” meant to bring awareness to liver disease and raise funds for educational programs and patient services, will be held Sept. 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Hosted by the American Liver Foundation and American Foundation Connecticut Division, the walk will take place at Commons Park in the South End.
For tickets, visit liverlifewalk.org/Stamford.
DOWNTOWN
Franklin Street Works will host a benefit party called “Intersections: Celebrating Feminist Voices” from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets start at $60 and can be purchased at 501auctions.com/intersections.
The event will honor Ingrid Semaan, director of the University of Connecticut Stamford’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and exhibiting artist Trisha Baga, who was in Franklin Street Works’ inaugural exhibition and has since had solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The event will feature music and an open bar, as well as a silent auction, that includes original artworks as prizes.
Franklin Street Works is a nonprofit contemporary art center located at 41 Franklin St. For more information, visit franklinstreetworks.org or call 914-309-3310.
NORTH STAMFORD
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center at 39 Scofieldtown Road will feature an exhibit from Stamford’s Loft Artists Association until Oct. 28.
The exhibit, titled “The Loft Artists: Then and Now 40 Years of Art,” showcases 80 works from past and present members.
“The exhibition will provide a visual timeline of artists living in Stamford from 1978 to the present, illustrating how the art has evolved into the current Stamford arts scene as well as showcasing the dynamic, reciprocal relationship the (Loft Artists Association) has created and fostered with the local community here,” said Jillian Casey, curator of collections at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center.
The exhibition includes a diverse collection of visual art from paintings and sculpture, to multimedia work and more.
For more information regarding the Loft Artists Association, visit loftartists.org.
Museum members can access the exhibit for free. Non-members can view the art with the price of admission to the museum.
The Stamford Museum galleries are open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information about the exhibition, visit stamfordmuseum.org or call 203-9776521.