Eastern Connecticut Center for History, Art, and Performance

02/28/2026

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08/27/2025

Important update to our pages!

📢Important Update to Our pages📢

Our page is moving! Starting soon we will be simplifying our pages to make it easier to connect and share information.

Our The Packing House page will be 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 to "Eastern Connecticut Center for History, Art, & Performance (EC-CHAP)". This will become our single hub for all updates, events, and news across all EC-CHAP programs! This includes The Packing House performance venue, The Gardiner Hall Jr. History Museum, the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery, and our Artist in Residence Program.

If you are already following The Packing House, great! No need to do anything as that page will soon be reflect our full nonprofit name and offerings. If you are not following The Packing House, please give us a follow to stay in touch once this page is removed!

Thank you for your continued support 😄🎶🏛️🎨

08/20/2025

📢Important Update to Our pages📢

Our page is moving! Starting soon we will be simplifying our pages to make it easier to connect and share information.

Our The Packing House page will be 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 to "Eastern Connecticut Center for History, Art, & Performance (EC-CHAP)". This will become our single hub for all updates, events, and news across all EC-CHAP programs! This includes The Packing House performance venue, The Gardiner Hall Jr. History Museum, the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery, and our Artist in Residence Program.

If you are already following The Packing House, great! No need to do anything as that page will soon be reflect our full nonprofit name and offerings. If you are not following The Packing House, please give us a follow to stay in touch once this page is removed!

Thank you for your continued support 😄🎶🏛️🎨

04/18/2025

Our Gallery & Museum will be closed this Saturday (4/19) and next Saturday (4/26) as preparations begin for a new exhibition at the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery! "Broken Homes" by Allison Pillari and Secondary will have its opening reception on Friday, May 2nd from 6:30pm-8:00pm.

Through landscape or portrait these works represent life and their ever changing states. The work created by Allison Pillari and Secondary represents different perspectives of time and transformation. Landscapes frozen in time and works of art transforming over multiple years to communicate change.

Details on the artists and upcoming exhibition here: https://www.ec-chap.org/dye-and-bleach-house-community-gallery

04/15/2025

We would like to thank all those who came out to “Songs for Ukraine II”, a Benefit Concert to support the people of Ukraine. Your attendance and generous support is greatly appreciated. 100% of all funds raised will go directly to Ukraine through our charitable partner, Direct Relief.
�We wish to thank and acknowledge the following:
Project Sponsors:
Creative Champion Level - Larry Grasso & Cindy Moeckel.�Enthusiast Level - Willimantic Food Coop and Willington Veterinary Center.

Program Participants:
Alex Kuzma, Master of Ceremony; CT State Troubadours Kala Farnham, Kate Callahan, Lara Herscovitch, and Pierce Campbell; and Resident Artist Jack Broderick.

Silent Auction Donors:
Tony's Garage, Mansfield Supply Hardware Store, Willimantic Food COOP, Blondies's Restaurant, Georgina's Restaurant, Dean Bolt, and Rooted Dreams & Floral Design Co.

Finally, we would like to thank all the folks who generously donated to this project either online or in-person.

EC-CHAP will continue to accept donations for the “Songs for Ukraine II” Project through June 30, 2025. Free will donations of any amount may be made by visiting:

https://ec-chap.square.site/product/donation-for-songs-for-ukraine-ii/79?cs=true&cst=custom

11/28/2024

Our Gallery & Museum will be closed this Saturday (Nov 30th) as preparations have begun for a new exhibition at the Dye & Bleach House Community Gallery! "Landscapes Through Texture" by Carol Mackiewicz Neely will have its opening reception on Friday, December 13th from 6:30pm-8:00pm. This collection of texture paintings depicts imagined landscapes existing in a misty haze or from high above in a bird’s eye view snapshot. Details on the artist and exhibition here: https://www.ec-chap.org/dye-and-bleach-house-community-gallery