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The Bruce Porter Memorial Music Series for 2018-2019 will open on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. with pianist Benita Rose and saxophonist Tony Gibbs presenting classical music played on an instrument customarily associated with jazz.
The New England Air Museum will host its fall Open Cockpit Day on Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Granby Civic Club will meet on Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. at the Senior Center.
The Granby Artists Association is pleased to announce its 17th annual Open Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
The McLean Auxiliary is holding its annual membership drive for 2019 at a Membership Social on Friday, Oct. 19, 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Hartford Room in the Burkholder Community Center on the McLean Campus.
The Granby Camera Club will meet on Monday, Oct. 1, at the Granby Senior Center at 7 p.m. The program will be on travel photography.
Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times best-selling novels and a volunteer at Connecticut’s York Correctional Institution. He will be hosted by Lost Acres Vineyard for a fund raiser to support CASA’s Ranchero Pandillero, an innovative program in Mexico to reduce gang violence.
Education@Hartford Stage has launched a new series of acting classes for youth at The Complete Actor Studio, located at the Riverdale Farms Shoppes in Avon.
The Oct. 3, Granby Women’s breakfast program topic will be the Kenya Healthcare Initiative for Girls presented by Dr. Ralph Stroup and Mary Ann Stroup.
On Monday, Oct. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m., Guiding Eyes for the Blind will showcase its guide dogs in training at an open house at the First Congregational Church, 219 North Granby Road.