Interest Groups
Our Interest Groups meet on a monthly or bi-monthly schedule. All members are encouraged to attend these events! In general, it is not necessary that you RSVP to the Interest Group Coordinator, but it is helpful so they know how many people will be attending. See the links below to learn about each group and to see the upcoming events.
Book Club
Book Club meets the last Tuesday of each month. Join us to discuss a great book, share refreshments and socialize a bit! Each month we hold our meetings at a member’s home. As always, we welcome anyone who loves to read. Please join us for our discussion. Short of time? Consider books on tape and downloads to your iPod or MP3 player. .
BUNCO
Bunco is a group 12 women who meet once a month to roll the Bunco dice. This is a no skill game, just a nice fun evening with the ladies. If you are intersted in being a part of this group please contact us to be put on the sub list.
Cooking Club
The Cooking Club is an organization that consists of Redding Neighbors and Newcomers members who want to share great recipes and great food. We gather on the second Thursday of the month at a member’s home to try out new recipes and bond over a home-cooked meal. It is a fun new way to socialize with neighborhood friends. The purpose of the clubs is to bring people together for an evening of eating and camaraderie.
Critics Club
Critics Club meets the third Tuesday of every month. We usually meet at the Bethel Cinema at around 7:00pm. All members are welcome to join- males and females! Sometime we go out afterwards to discuss the movie over a glass of wine or appetizers.
Guys Night Out
We are looking for suggestions for activities for mens’ night out. This can be a day or evening activity. We are going to try to plan events at least quarterly.
Guys Poker Night
Guys Poker Night is a chance for the gentlemen of the group to “bond” by playing poker. The fellows meet the first Saturday of every month at the home of a member who provides light refreshments. For ALL LEVELS! Come relax, laugh and play poker with low stakes.
Ladies Night Out
Ladies Night Out is exactly that: a Night OUT for the ladies! We so need it! After running around all month, join your fellow ladies for some fellowship and fun. All members are welcome when Ladies Nights Out are held.
Neighbors Who Network
After a summer break, Neighbors Who Network is meeting once again each month for networking and business seminars on the third Tuesday of the month. Our calendar is planned with events from now until June which include presentations on business topics ranging from blogging for business to public speaking and of course, time to network.
Upcoming Interest Groups
Critics Club
If you like movies, this is the event for you! Join your fellow newcomers for a night out at the big screen. We will meet at the Bethel Cinema for the movie and afterwards, we will go out to discuss the movie.
Movie will be selected the Sunday before. Contact Cathy Kane at Cathy.Kane@gmail.com for info.
Available Spaces: Unlimited
Book Club
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 7:30 pm
Location: Home of Valerie Staradub, 75 Fire Hill Road, 431-7645, vstaradub@hotmail.com
Contact: Carolyn Baker 664-1607 or Rebecca Sawchuk 587-1122
Book: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Description – J.Yardley, The Washington Post:
“Sometime in 1960 Ernest Hemingway completed a memoir of his years in Paris from 1921 to 1926. “If the reader prefers,” he wrote in a three-paragraph preface, “this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.” He did not submit the manuscript for publication, and the next year he was dead. …Three years later the manuscript was published as “A Moveable Feast.” The title apparently was chosen by Hemingway’s widow, Mary, who recalled words he had written to a friend in 1950: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”"
Available Spaces: Unlimited
Bunco
Hi Bunco Babes! This month’s Bunco is at the home of Laurie Mayper. Please RSVP to Laurie to let her know if you can make it. RSVP to 203-240-2741, lmayper@optonline.net.
If you are a regular and can’t make it, please contact Lisa Pompeo for the sub list so that you can get a sub for the game.
Bunco is a fun and easy dice game that you pick up quickly. The bunco group almost always needs subs. If you are interested in being on the sub list, please send your email and phone number to Lisa Pompeo at 203-938-7997 or lisa.pompeo@cbmoves.com.
Available Spaces: Unlimited
Ladies Night Out
“They’re Playing Our Song”
Neil Simon put the funny in this musical romance that follows the on-again, off-again romance of one very despondent composer and one very ditzy lyricist, as they try to create their own unique love song. Loosely based on the real-life love affair of composer, Marvin Hamlisch, and lyricist, Carole Bayer-Sager, this whirling dervish of a musical comedy will have you humming its songs between each and every laugh.
Bring dinner and beverages at 7:00 p.m. to enjoy a picnic dinner before the show (curtain at 8:00)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Ridgefield Theater Barn, 37 Halpin Lane, Ridgefield,
(203) 431-9850
Cost: $26
Order your tickets online at http://ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org/ or call the theater. Fill out the online SEATING REQUEST FORM and ask to be seated with REDDING NEIGHBORS & NEWCOMERS.
Email us to let you know you ordered your tickets and we will confirm our group is all seated together. Contact: Laurie Mayper at lmayper@optonline.net or Erika DeSantis at erika.jane.desantis@gmail.com
Note: The website has directions and more information about the show and the theater. Ticket order page shows the time as 8pm, but do not wait until 8:00 to come. You will want to arrive at 7:00 to enjoy your dinner before the lights go out and the show starts. Do not register on the Redding Neighbors & Newcomers website to purchase tickets; purchase tickets through the Theater Barn directly and contact us to confirm our group is seated together.
Available Spaces: Unlimited