Friday, February 7th, 2020:

• "The Color Purple" February 5 - 9 The Foxwoods Broadway Series. Don't miss the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash hit The Color Purple at Foxwoods Resort Casino. The Color Purple is the 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival! Hailed as “a direct hit to the heart” (The Hollywood Reporter), this joyous American classic conquered Broadway in an all-new "ravishingly reconceived production that is a glory to behold” (The New York Times). With a soul-raising, Grammy®-winning score of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues, The Color Purple gives an exhilarating new spirit to this Pulitzer Prize-winning story. Don’t miss this stunning re-imagining of an epic story about a young woman’s journey to love and triumph in the American south. Experience the exhilarating power of this Tony-winning triumph that New York Magazine calls “one of the greatest revivals ever.” Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 2 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m. & 6 p.m., $40-$70,Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino, 350 Trolley Line Blvd. Mashantucket, CT
• CT Guitar Festival, 7-9 It's time for the 3rd Annual Connecticut Guitar Festival!!! World music duo "Instruments of the People", jazz legend Joe Carter, and acclaimed classical guitarist Mak Grgic take the main stage at Westport Library TONIGHT to officially begin Suzuki Schools' "Connecticut Guitar Festival". Don't miss this amazing night of music for only $10 a ticket., 7pm-9pm, The Westport Library, 20 Jesup Rd Westport, CT
• "Sylvia", February 7 - 23 *Sylvia introduces us to the characters of Greg and Kate, who have entered the empty-nest time in life and have moved to Manhattan after 20 years in the suburbs. Greg is struggling with being dissatisfied with his job while Kate is excited about her new teaching opportunities and new found freedom. However, life has a way of giving you what you think you don’t want and that’s when Greg finds Sylvia, a street-smart lab/poodle mix, and brings her home only to promptly become a wedge in Greg and Kate’s marriage. Sylvia, while a comedy, has touching moments about relationships, nature, and growing older.Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 4 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m., $35-$65,*Music Theatre of Connecticut, 509 Westport Ave. Norwalk, CT
• 94th Annual Jumpfest Winter Festival - Eastern States Ski Jumping Championship, February 7 - 9 Excitement returns to Salisbury February 7-9, 2020 when the Salisbury Winter Sports Association (SWSA) hosts the 94th Annual Jumpfest, a three-day celebration and competition featuring the best junior ski jumpers in the eastern United States. The jumpers you watch We make our own snow. Even if the Winter looks brown outside your window, it's white over at Satre Hill thanks to our two state-of-the-art snow guns. We will do our part to keep you warm with blazing bonfires hot food and beverages hot and cold- but do dress warm- it's Winter outside! If you have never seen ski jumping live, you have never truly witnessed the sport. Standing amidst the ringing cowbells, with crowds cheering on their favorites, hearing skis slapping against the landing hill as these brave jumpers soar up to 200 feet through the air at speeds up to 50 miles an hour, is something you must experience. Various times, various prices, some free, Satre Ski Hill, 80 Indian Cave Rd.(off Rte. 44) Salisbury, CT
• Central CT Beer Shuttle, February 7 *Friday night beer shuttle to Relic Brewing, Better Half Brewing, Witchdoctor Brewing and Firefly Hollow .There are three sessions to choose from. $20, includes transportation only. Must pre-purchase tickets online. Please be outside of the breweries at these designated times to catch the shuttle. We will wait approx. 5 minutes per stop but are not responsible for you missing the shuttle.*5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. $20, Firefly Hollow Brewing, 139 Center St, Bristol, CT
• Atlantic Broadband Garde Cinema Series: "Parasite", February 7 Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairy tale. Meet the Park family, the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.The 2020 Atlantic Broadband Garde Winter Cinema Series Pass brings you – for one package price – twenty or more critically acclaimed and Oscar and Golden Globe nominated films with state-of-the-art 4K digital projection and full surround sound. Limited availability so buy today. Rated R. 7:30pm, $12 ticket, series pass $62, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St. New London, CT

Saturday, February 8th, 2020:

• Monster Jam, February 8 - 9 Monster Jam brings high-octane entertainment to the XL Center. These action packed live events showcase some of the most recognizable Monster Jam trucks in the world, performing jaw-dropping displays or gravity-defying feats. Sat. 1 p.m. & 7 p.m., Sun. 1 p.m. $15-$50, XL Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Hartford, CT
• Atlantic Broadband Garde Cinema Series: "Uncut Gems", February 8 Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler, is always on the lookout for the next big score. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides, in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win. Rated R, $12, 7:30pm
• Boozin' In Your Onesie Bar Crawl Hartford, the weather is cold & you want to be comfy... What better way to be than Boozin' In Your Onesie @ The World's Most Comfortable Bar Crawl on FEB. 8th, 3pm-10pm, $18.75-$29.99,Hartford, CT (DOWNTOWN)
• Celebrate Chinese New Year in the Elm City, February 8 New Haven Museum is partnering with the Yale-China Association for Lunarfest 2020. Activities include children’s arts and crafts; music; dance; Tai Chi and Qigong; shadow puppetry; theatre; exhibits, and more. Lunarfest begins at 10 a.m. with a colorful lion and dragon dance parade from Church/Elm to the corner of Whitney/Trumbull, and a lion dance "meet and greet" on Whitney Ave. at 11 a.m. The fun moves indoors at 1 p.m. at several locations: William L Harkness Hall (WLH) (100 Wall St.; Affinity Federal Credit Union (55 Whitney Ave.); Ely Center of Contemporary Art (51 Trumbull St.); Office of International Students & Scholars (421 Temple St.); Yale-China (442 Temple St.); New Haven Free Public Library (133 Elm St.), Rosenfeld Hall (109 Grove, enter on Temple), and New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave.), 10 a.m.- 5 p.m, free, New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave.New Haven, CT
• Atlantic Broadband Garde Cinema Series: "1917", February 8 Director: Sam Mendes, Writers: Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Stars: Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Studio: DreamWorks/Universal, Awards: Two Golden Globes (Best Picture, Director), Three Critics Circle Awards (including Best Director), Nominations: 10 Oscars (including Best Picture), Schofield and Blake, two young British soldiers during the First World War, are given a seemingly impossible mission. With time against them, they must deliver a message, deep in enemy territory, that will stop their own men, and Blake’s own brother, walking straight into a deadly trap. Rated R. 3pm, $12, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London, CT

Sunday, February 9th, 2020:

• Rock & Roll Playhouse: Music of Phish for Kids, February 9 The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series hosted at historic music venues across the country, allows kids to “move, play and sing while listening to works from the classic-rock canon” (New York Times). Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children age ten and under games, movement, stories and an opportunity to rock out in an effort to educate children and explore their creativity. The Rock and Roll Playhouse is an early and often first introduction to a child’s lifelong journey with live music and rock and roll. 11:30am, $15 in advance, $17 at the door. The Warehouse at Fairfield Theatre Company,7 0 Sanford St. Fairfield, CT

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Find more things to do here!

Or check out a newly released movie such as:

• Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn
• And Then We Danced (Limited)
• Come to Daddy (Limited)
• Horse Girl (Limited)
• The Lodge (Limited)

Hi all, Wondering if anyone has any information on these they can share? Am trying to collate a list of these - so the club name, name of rewards and a link and any info on when they introduced them or added pokies integration with this (e.g. card readers on pokies).
It has cropped up in a recent suicide that a club had a frequent loser reward system
Seems some have just rolled it into an automatic membership thing. Given how sneaky they are about pokies/gambling in general - it won't be well advertised.
Context: I remember a lot of resistance to the idea of pokies having mandatory pre-commitment because it would be too burdensome to modify pokies machines - yet all these machines in all the clubs have rolled out membership card integration without somehow going bust. I guess when it allows them to tally up who are the problem gamblers to target them to maximise losses per addict - they find the time to replace/upgrade the machines.
Examples:

• Dee why RSL - "Ambassador" rewards: https://www.deewhyrsl.com.au/membership/
  
• Manly leagues club - "Eagles": https://manlyleagues.com.au/membership/
  
• Merrylands RSL - "lucky rewards" or with a bunch of 8s in it: http://www.mrsl.com.au/lucky-rewards-program/
  
• Penrith RSL - "Aspire": http://www.penrithrsl.com.au/aspire-rewards/
  
• RSL Victoria - "RSL rewards" http://www.rslvic.com.au/membership/rsl-rewards/
  
• Hornsby RSL - "Hornsby RSL rewards program" - https://www.hornsbyrsl.com.au/membership/hornsby-rewards-program
  
• chatswood RSL - just part of their membership: https://www.chatswoodrsl.com.au/membership/
  
• East's - "East's rewards": https://eastleaguesclub.com.au/membership/rewards/
  
• Brothers Cairns, "star rewards" - note they only give a 1 to $6 pokies turnover ratio. Even mention this on their website which is rather sloppy for the typical stealth casino: https://www.brotherscairns.com.au/membership/star-rewards
  
• Canterbury leagues club - "engage" rewards program: https://canterbury.com.au/engage/
  
• A company "Gobsmacked Loyalty Pty Ltd" seems to be the tie in with the EFTPOS cards - a look for staff finds they describe themselves as being part of the gambing & casino industry. Finally some honesty. Guess it was named after the amounts of money available per pokies machine?
  
• st George leagues club: "golden dragon rewards" - includes a golden dragon EFTPOS card option to cash in those points - a service from Gobsmacked https://stgeorge.org.au/membership-benefits/
  

Edits below from others (thanks!):

• The tradies in Canberra - https://thetradies.com.au/events/use-your-card-to-earn-win