8:30am – 9:30am Elev8ion Tai Chi welcome you for your morning Intensive Tai Chi Classes
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9:00 – 9:30 A.M. Music and Art Session with Dan Tressler and Alissa Siegal
Press Play on a prerecorded live acoustic set by musician Dan Tressler while you create art led by artist and educator Alissa Siegal. Enjoy folk, Americana and pop style music with a prerecorded 30-minute Dan Tressler Kitchen Session made just for your Sunday morning. While you listen, gather your family, roommates or pod for an all-ages, hands-on art activity with Alissa using simple materials from the home – aluminum foil, markers, string, and sticks! Note: both are prerecorded videos.
9-11 prerecorded video about health and tea, a.m. recipe TBD
10-11 am Bring the Green Inside this Winter. Make a Macrame Plant Hanger with Karyn Leito of Bespoke Macrame.
Learn to make your own plant hanger and bring green inside with hanging plants. Join Karyn Leito of Bespoke Macrame for this interactive art workshop delivered to your home. Learn a fun craft you can do all winter and create a hanging garden in your house in this free Live Zoom Workshop. Password: HangPlant
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10 Body Painting with Alicia Cobb
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Alicia Cobb, visual artist and body painter, will share the fascinating transformation of a human canvas from start to finish through body art. She will share how she started the art of body painting and give her model the opportunity to talk about their experience being painted as well. Alicia will offer a 20% discount for future body paint bookings during the Bridgeport Art Trail weekend of November 14 and 15.
10:30 Rick Reyes: Fabric Chronicles
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Musician Rick Reyes shares and discusses his passion projects, The Fabric Chronicles and Rep Talk, which document and bring awareness to the second oldest profession in the world while telling the stories of the people who make up the design trade.
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11a.m.-5 p.m. The Knowlton Artists, Group Exhibit at the Boathouse
305 Knowlton St
The Knowlton is an art hub and work studio for 25 Connecticut area artists and creative businesses in Bridgeport, CT. A visit to the historic waterfront Armstrong Manufacturing building will expose you to painting, photography, sculpture, woodworking, mixed media, visual artists and more. The Knowlton collection of creatives is a unique community that supports and inspires collaboration and a thriving artist energy.
Each November, The Knowlton participates in the Bridgeport Arts Trail. This highly anticipated event. The group exhibit at the Boathouse is a ‘BAT’ favorite. This year’s exhibit features artists of the Knowlton: Alexandra Tremaine
Herm Freeman, Jonathan Joseph, Ivan Lopez, Cynthia Lucero, Ricky Mestre, Brad Noble, Dale Parsons, Jill Sarver, Katie Settel, Sunnah, Emily Swift, Zaibel Torres, Michael Vartulli, and Art of Everyone.
11 Patrice Barrett: Thermofax Screenprinting
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Painter and printmaker Patrice Barrett demonstrates of the art of printmaking with Thermofax screens. Learn how the art is created to burn the screens along with the technique of registering and printing multiple colors as one image.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm 
Gentle Morning Yoga with Lauri MacLean – All Levels Welcome!
Join dance innovator and avid yoga practitioner Lauri MacLean for a –
LIVE Zoom gentle yoga session. We will focus primarily on the spine to open the flow in order to stimulate the energy moving from the brain to body. Wear comfortable clothing, bare feet, mat suggested. Block and strap optional.
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11:30 Barb Winsor: Art, Design, and Color Tour
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As a contemporary artist and interior designer, Barb Winsor’s color palette often reflects the beautiful fabrics and textures she uses in her design projects. Barb offers a peek into those blended worlds.
12-4 pm Clymenza Hawkins Open Studio by appointment clymenzahawkins@gmail.com
Read’s ArtSpace
1042 Broad St, Downtown Bridgeport, CT
Weekend hours are from 12- 4 pm- 5 people at a time
Face masks required, gloves available
12-4 pm
City Lights
265 Golden Hill St, Downtown Bridgeport, CT 06604
https://bridgeport-art-trail.org/portfolio/city-lights/
City Lights Vintage Outdoor Tag Sale 
City Lights Vintage-Explore the inventory to create your own style, repurpose, upcycle, with vintage clothing, furniture and accessories for home and work.
All Made In Bridgeport Jewelry half price
City Lights Gallery presents “2020 Vision” Exhibit
Since many of the arts venues are closed, a small works BAT sampler will be on view at City Lights gallery featuring the works of local artists. Limited admission and face masks and physical distancing required. No appointments necessary, but there may be a need to wait outside, (like going to the grocery store.) Gallery Hours W-F 12-5, Sat 12-4
https://www.citylightsgallery.org/
L-R Yolanda Vasquez Petrocelli Janine Brown, Claude Desir Jr, Clymenza Hawkins, Lauri MacLean, Brad Noble, Rick Shaefer.
12-5 pm Gallery 9104
Gallery 9104 325 Lafayette St Bridgeport, CT 06604 Unit # 9104
https://www.iyabarts.com/
Gallery 9104 is home of Iyaba Arts, sculptures, paintings, textile collage, apparel. Iyaba Ibo Mandingo is also a poet, playwright. 
12-5 pm Ursa Gallery at the Arcade
1001 Main St, Downtown Bridgeport, CT 06604
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Cris Dam, artist/visionary/gallerist and owner of Ursa Gallery is pleased to present “In Accordion Time, Unfolding,” a show conceived by the London Calling Collective: Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Patricia Fabricant, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Katherine Jackson, Patricia Miranda, Josette Urso, and Jo Yarrington. Featuring mail art in the form of poetic accordion-fold books as well as diverse digital dialogues, the show will reflect the bonds between these artists as individuals and as a group as they reimagine community for life during and after a pandemic. “In Accordion Time, Unfolding” will open at Ursa on November 7.
12 Carlos Davila: Public Art Sculpture Demonstration
Sculptor and painter Carlos Davila shows how he is constructing Unlock Freedom, a public art sculpture using a vintage door for Ryan Park as part of a large installation project bringing life to a revitalized neighborhood in South Norwalk.
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12:30 10 x 10 Exhibit: Show and Sale
Our annual 10 x 10 art show goes virtual this year. See the art and add to your collection. Arrange for pick up or have it shipped. All artwork is 10” square, ready to hang, and just $100 each. All proceeds are split 50/50 with participating artists and our 50% benefits NEST artist projects.
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1:00 pm Susan Taylor Murray: Painting Demonstration
Susan Taylor Murray demonstrates one of her specialized painting techniques on hardboard. Learn how to use different materials and tools to explore new ways to create beautiful works of art.
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1:30 pm Associate Member Exhibit
View the works by the NEST Arts Factory Associate Members in a wide variety of media from acrylics to oils, photography to mixed media, and so much more. Hear from some of the Associates about their techniques and inspiration.
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2-4 pm Writers’ Group with Shanna Melton sponsored by City Lights/Bridgeport Art Trail
The Writer’s Group is a space for people who love words to gather and create new work. The mission is to use prompts and other creative tools to motivate the creative process. It also creates a space for us to share and get a reaction from other writers who can advise one another on how to enhance the poems and or stories we create. This is not an open mic or performance space. It is a place to create. City Lights/Bridgeport Art Trail continues to sponsor this workshop twice a month.
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Topic: The Writer’s Group with Shanna T. Melton
Time: This is a recurring meeting, the first 2 Saturdays of the month from 2-4 pm.
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2:00 pm and 7:00 pm Connect-US-CT
Online talent Show featuring local young talent
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C-U Onstage! is a talent show program where young people aged 5 to 25 take responsibility for producing the shows — from inviting their friends and family, to leading the audience in appreciating and supporting every young person who performs on stage. The talent show will stream from the website.
2pm NEST Artist Studio Tour. Kristin Merrill
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Sculptor and jeweler Kristin Merrill takes you on a live tour of her studio and showcases her jewelry and sculpture that is available the weekend of November 14 and 15. She adds tidbits about her process and the stories behind her work. Free shipping of her work purchased during the weekend.
2:30 pm Milford Arts Council
The Story of Women Art Exhibit
The Milford Art Center presents an exhibit of work inspired by women: their stories, their role in society, their duality, their struggles, their successes, their journey, and their future… all in celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the right to vote.
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3:00 pm Lauri MacLean reads “Ellingston Was Not a Street” by Ntozake Shange, illustrations by Kadir Nelson for the 2020 Bridgeport Art Trail
3:00 pm Jane Gilman Fleischner: Studio Tour
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Jane Gilman Fleischner works in pen and ink, acrylics, oils, and clay, and also creates gelee prints. In addition, she enjoys decorative painting on glasses and ornaments. Jane takes you to her studio to show you examples of her drawings and paintings, and the various subjects she focuses on and why, and also shows some of the craft side of her art.
3:30 pm Alicia Cobb: Body Painting Demonstration, part 2
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Alicia reveals the body painting that she began at 10 this morning to see the amazing results and hear more about the process.
4:00 pm Rick Shaefer: Studio Talk
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Rick Shaefer briefly walks through two works that are currently on his studio walls, one of which will be on display at the Silvermine Galleries in New Canaan until Jan 16, 2021 as part of an exhibition about human migration titled “The Golden Door.”
4:30 pm Janice Sweetwater: Landscape Painting Demonstration
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Painter Janice Sweetwater demonstrates a mixed-media landscape painting. Watch her as she departs from a photograph taken on location and then fills her canvas with her imagination, color, shadow, and light; reminding us all of the beauty of nature.
5:00 pm Denise Susalka: Studio Talk
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Denise Susalka presents a slide show of her painting periods, explaining her transition from landscapes to fruits and flowers, to abstracts, to rainbow eucalyptus, and then to undersea depictions. Her works are available on her website, www.denisesusalkaart.com, with a 15% discount for the Bridgeport Art Trail weekend of November 14 and 15. Below art by Denise Sasulka.
5:30 NEST Arts Factory Hallway Tour
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Take a virtual tour of the hallways of the NEST; see all of the art by the resident artists in this gallery-like setting.
6:00 pm Color Fields, music performance
Color Fields, John Torres and Scott Packham, performs their unique indie-pop blend with influences of r&b, rock, soul, and EDM. Hear songs from their new, debut album, Pendulum. www.colorfieldsmusic.com
6-9 pm
The Firm Gallery
17 Lafayette Circle downtown, Bridgeport CT 06604
https://thefirmartgallery.com/new-events
“Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” opens today.
Please join us for an Exhibition of Adger Cowans and Kimberly Joy. The Firm Art Gallery will bring artwork from special collections from “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”, featuring work by Adger Cowans that was created over two revolutionary decades in American history. This previous exhibition was organized by Tate Modern in London. This Exhibit explores what it meant to be a Black artist in America during two revolutionary decades, from the 1960s and the Civil Rights movement to the early 1980s and the emergence of identity politics.
“Duality and Abuse” by Kimberly Joy deals with the self-quality or state of having two different or opposite parts or elements. The three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives i.e., the idem, ego, and the superego.
6 pm Color Fields: Music Performance
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Color Fields, John Torres and Scott Packham, performs their unique indie-pop blend with influences of r&b, rock, soul, and EDM. Hear songs from their new, debut album, Pendulum.
7:00 pm Connect-US-CT
Online talent Show featuring local young talent
www.connectusct.org/show
C-U Onstage! is a talent show program where young people aged 5 to 25 take responsibility for producing the shows — from inviting their friends and family, to leading the audience in appreciating and supporting every young person who performs on stage. The talent show will stream from the website.
8:30 – 9:30 Chef the Chef and Mooncha of The Quest Presents Live Performance Streamed on Twitch
The Quest Presents is a CT based music collective who will play a live show streaming on Twitch. The Quest is motivated by a vision of equality and equity, giving voices to those who feel as though they don’t have them, and speaking confidence into those who feel misfortunate. Members of the Quest come from different backgrounds, races, places, sexualities, and walks of life. With that in mind, The Quest aims to present themselves as role models by using their gifts and talents to spread more positivity and expression.