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Vol. 02 · № 45
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Week of November 3, 2026
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A pocket dispatch from the city
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The dispatch · Tuesday
Happy Tuesday, neighbor.
November 3 – 9, 2026
First, the civic stuff: today is Election Day. Polls in Connecticut are open 6 AM to 8 PM. If you’re not sure where you vote, check your polling place before you head out, and if you’re in line by 8, you vote.
Then it’s a big Saturday. The Norwalk Public Library throws its 10th annual Norwalk Author Celebration, NHRL’s fighting robots tear into each other on Water Street, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking auctions off a season of prints at Monothon. Also on deck: the Farmers Market and a Poets & Writers Night Wednesday, Always…Patsy Cline opening at MTC Friday, the American Chamber Orchestra season opener Saturday night, and a Sunday talk on painter John Trumbull at Lockwood-Mathews.
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The Pearl · this week’s feature
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Indoor play · three ways to play
Chalk Club.
542 Westport Ave · Norwalk
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Open daily · 9 AM–6 PM
15,000 square feet of rainy-day insurance.
November is here. The playgrounds are cold, the kids are not. Chalk Club is a 15,000-square-foot indoor play space on Westport Ave built for exactly this stretch of the year, open every day, 9 to 6.
Drop in for $30 plus tax and get up to three hours (reservations encouraged), or go unlimited with a $180/month membership, siblings $30 more. Birthday coming up? There’s a private party room for up to 25 kids on weekends, and members save $100. Kids get grip socks at the door; grown-ups, wear socks.
542 Westport Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851 · [email protected]
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The lead · Saturday at the library
Seventy authors walk into a library.
The featured pick · Saturday, November 7, 10 AM to 4 PM, the Norwalk Public Library hosts its 10th annual Norwalk Author Celebration on Belden Ave.
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City of Norwalk Library, Belden Ave · ca. 1905
Archive image, not this week’s festival: a Detroit Publishing Co. postcard from the Norwalk Public Library collection (PastPerfect, PC 13).
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The main library on Belden Ave turns ten years of hometown writing into one long Saturday. The 10th annual Norwalk Author Celebration runs 10 AM to 4 PM, and the Connecticut Book Festivals listing puts the lineup at about 70 Connecticut authors: children’s books, poetry, nonfiction and plenty in between.
Come for the table-hopping. Meet the people who wrote the books, talk shop, get a copy signed, and find your next read from someone who lives a few towns over, or down the block. Children’s authors are in the mix, so bring the kids, and bring a tote bag. You’ll want it.
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Where
Norwalk Public Library
1 Belden Ave
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When
Sat Nov 7
10 AM–4 PM
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Lineup
~70 Connecticut
authors
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Library event page →
Festival listing →
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This week · two more to circle
The other picks.
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№ 02 · Sat, November 7 · NHRL, 165 Water St · doors 9:45 AM
NHRL Robot Fighting Pro Tour
The National Havoc Robot League runs the November round of its 2026 Pro Tour right here in Norwalk. Qualifying fights go 10 AM to 5 PM, then the Primetime Show, 7 to 10:30 PM, takes it from the quarterfinals to the finals on a live broadcast. Bots are fighting for the Golden Dumpster trophy, cash, and a ticket to the December 5 World Championships. Food trucks and a bar on site. Daytime GA, Primetime-only and all-day VIP tickets are on Eventbrite; can’t make it, watch on NHRL’s YouTube.
Tickets on Eventbrite →
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№ 03 · Sat, November 7 · Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan · 5 PM
MONOTHON Auction & Party
The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk’s print shop in Mathews Park, throws its biggest fundraiser of the year, this time a short drive up the road at the Carriage Barn in New Canaan. Silent auction at 5, live auction at 7, with monotypes made during Monothon Print Week plus prints by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Huck, Xylor Jane and Lisa Breslow. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and wine. Ticketed, so register ahead.
Register with CCP →
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Also on the calendar
Six more this week.
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Wed 04
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Norwalk Community Health Center, 120 Connecticut Ave · fresh produce and local vendors
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11 AM–3 PM
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Wed 04
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The Spread, 127 Washington St · six featured readers, then open mic; free with a two-item purchase, register ahead
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7–9 PM
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Fri 06
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Location with registration · free prevention and social-emotional workshops for adults who work with Norwalk youth
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9:30 AM–3 PM
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Fri 06
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Music Theatre of Connecticut, 509 Westport Ave · the musical play starts its run with a supersaver preview; through Nov 22
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8 PM
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Sat 07
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Norwalk Concert Hall, 125 East Ave · Schumann’s Cello Concerto with Gjorgj Kroqi, plus Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
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7:30 PM
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Sun 08
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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Ave · State Historian Emeritus Walter Woodward on painter John Trumbull
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2–4 PM
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Shuck yeah · a fact from the harbor
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“Over to see Jennie’s baby”
The postcard up top did its job long before it landed in an archive. Around 1905, the Detroit Publishing Co. printed this view of the library’s then-new building on Belden Ave, built in 1903. Somebody named Ada bought one, scribbled “Over to see Jennie’s baby, she has a nice little boy” across the bottom, and mailed it to a Miss Alice McTaney in Hoboken, N.J. The postmark is illegible, so nobody knows the week. The card came home anyway: it now sits in the Norwalk Public Library’s own collection as catalog number PC 13. The library kept its own postcard. That’s a local author move.
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