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Bruce After Hours: Solstice Celebration

Celebrate the longest day of the year with science, art, music, and community. Join us for an enchanting celebration as we honor the Summer Solstice with a special Bruce After Hours event. Experience our exhibitions after dark while enjoying unique programming that brings the Museum to life and engages visitors in new and exciting ways. Bruce After Hours at the Bruce is funded by The Giving Bee Family Foundation. IMAGE: Nina Jordan Griffith, Waiting in the Shade, pastel on paper,…

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June 21, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 United States

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Bruce Museum

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Celebrate the longest day of the year with science, art, music, and community.

Join us for an enchanting celebration as we honor the Summer Solstice with a special Bruce After Hours event. Experience our exhibitions after dark while enjoying unique programming that brings the Museum to life and engages visitors in new and exciting ways.

Bruce After Hours at the Bruce is funded by The Giving Bee Family Foundation.

IMAGE: Nina Jordan Griffith, Waiting in the Shade, pastel on paper, King School, sophomore, iCreate 2025

Our galleries will remain open throughout the evening, giving you the perfect opportunity to explore our current exhibitions in a relaxed and festive atmosphere.

Event Highlights:

Extended gallery hours
Special performances and interactive experiences
Seasonal food and refreshments
Unique solstice-themed activities
Community celebration
Food & Drinks

Food options will be available throughout the evening.

Admission Prices:
$30 for nonmembers
$24 for members

Featured Performers & Presenters:

Rakefet Krochmal

A multidisciplinary artist, educator, and children’s book author (debut coming soon on Amazon). Rakefet holds a bachelor’s degree in education, a master’s degree in environmental studies, and brings over 15 years of experience working with women and children.

She loves igniting her students’ curiosity through imagination and is passionate about blending humor, art, and nature to spark creativity and empowerment in communities.

Shlomit Oren

A multi-generational person-centered expressive arts therapist, somatic therapist, and owner of Gleeful Wellness LLC. Shlomit is a multi-faceted artist, physical actress, dancer, and clown with a BA in theater, BS in psychology, and MS in clinical mental health counseling.

As a certified sound healing meditation guide, Shlomit specializes in uplifting communities through creative arts. She is passionate about accompanying individuals in their personal growth journey through the art-making process and the mind-body connection.

Quarantined Quartet

A family guitar group from Brooklyn, New York, featuring Elysa and Jason Hochman and their two sons, Joseph and Noah. Formed on March 21, 2020, the quartet gained widespread recognition during the pandemic, amassing over 1 million followers.

Their captivating style blends Spanish classical, flamenco, and world music, featuring a mix of original compositions and unique cover arrangements. Their debut studio album, Strumming the Earth, released on October 25, 2024, showcases their signature blend of tradition and innovation.

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The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

One hundred and fifty years ago a group of French artists staged their first independent exhibition in Paris and a radical movement called Impressionism was born. In July of that year, Danish artist Michael Ancher (1849–1927) joined Karl Madsen (1855–1938) in Skagen, Denmark, a fishing village located on the country’s northernmost point. As with the exhibition in Paris, Ancher’s arrival there marked the beginning of an artistic revolution that would upend the academic realism and traditional modes, subjects, and locales…

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iCreate 2025: Annual Juried Exhibition of High School Talent

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Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy (organized by The New York Historical) explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public…

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