As a thank you to Westport Library supporters of its “What Do You Geek?” campaign, library executive director Bill Harmer tonight presented a giant “The Westport Library Geeks You” from library staff at a reception marking the end of the almost five-month awareness campaign. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

A bust of Westport Library benefactor Morris K. Jesup was decked out in his Geek t-shirt tonight as guests attended a “It’s a Wrap…Geek Party” marking the end of its Geek library awareness campaign that began in April.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Celebration cakes were at the ready tonight at the Westport Library’s “It’s a Wrap…Geek Party” as the library ended its What Do You Geek? library awareness campaign. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Youngsters and some adults worked a “What Do You Geek .jigsaw puzzle tonight at the Westport Library’s “It’s a Wrap…Geek Party” marking the end of its Geek library awareness campaign. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Pequot Library in Southport on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. will host a reception to kick off an exhibit of the three People’s Choice art show winners from last year’s “Exploring the Landscape of Art, Exploring the Art of Landscape “exhibit. Westport artist Miggs Burrough’s lenticular images will share the exhibit space with painter Nancy Smith, and jeweler and ceramicist Deborah Kouzoukian. In honor of Kouzoukian’s ceramic pomegranates and Burroughs’s’ lenticular pomegranate, there will be zesty pomegranate cocktails served at the reception. The show runs until Sept. 20.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

By Susan Granger

“Kubo and the Two Strings” begins with the ominous warning - “If you must blink, do it now” - because “if you look away, even for an instant, our hero will surely perish.”

Set in ancient Japan, this animated fantasy-adventure revolves around an 11 year-old boy named Kubo (Art Parkinson), a story-telling musician whose skill at origami (the art of paper-folding) resonates with Hosato (George Takei), Akhiro (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) and Kameyo (Brenda Vaccaro).

While taking care of his ailing mother, who warns him to be home before nightfall, the tranquility of Kubo’s life is suddenly shattered when he accidentally breaks a supernatural curse.

Accompanied by a snarky, sassy Monkey (Charlize Theron), Kubo flees, determined to acquire three specific pieces of armor that belonged to his late samurai-warrior father in order to fulfill his destiny.

Sue Gold, executive director of the Westport Historical Society, tonight welcomes guests to a benefit end of summer party at the Compo Mill Cov home of Robin Tauck (l). Tauck was a sponsor of the WHS exhibit “the beautiful POND” based on the book of the same title by local artist and author Judith Orseck Katz. Like the book, the exhibit features watercolors of the Sherwood Mill Pond and its environs. It runs through Sept. 1. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Chris Berardo & the DesBerarados closed out the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts season tonight with a large crowd in attendance. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo