Summer Art Classes & Workshops at Guilford Arts Center
Guilford Art Center 411 Church Street, GuilfordJUNE 23 - AUGUST 22, 2025 There are opportunities for all ages to explore creativity at Guilford Art Center. You’ll find classes in beading, drawing, fiber, glass, leather, metals, painting, photography, printing, sculpture, sewing, special interest, and weaving, and well as our popular blacksmithing classes and ceramics classes. There are two ways to look for art classes: register online for adult, youth and teen classes and workshops or download […]
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts: Portrait Sculpture: Rhythmic Structure and Anatomy
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 84 Lyme Street, Old LymeInstructor: Stephen Perkins Dates: June 23–29, 2025 (7-day workshop, Monday–Sunday) Times: 9 am–4 pm This workshop focuses on skill-building and understanding the forms, rhythms, anatomy, and process of modeling a portrait head. Rather than striving for a specific likeness, students will create and recycle multiple head studies to develop a deeper grasp of the universal structures of the […]
College Essay Boot Camp at Westport Writers’ Workshop
Westport Writers’ Workshop 25 Sylvan Rd. S Suite J,, WestportJune 23-24, 2025 August 18-21, 20205 The college essay can be daunting in both its open-endedness and importance. The prompts ask students to do a kind of self-reflective narrative writing that many haven’t had much experience with, and, because the task often feels so high-stakes, it’s often difficult to know where to begin. How can […]
National Theater Institute at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Student Performances
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 305 Great Neck Road, WaterfordMondays June 16 through July 21,2025The National Theater Institute's Theatermakers Summer Intensive trains students in a credit-earning curriculum of acting, directing, and playwriting. The six-week program focuses on: cultivating constant creativity practice, essential training techniques, high-quality mentorship, and collaborative opportunities that yield original work. Students' pieces are performed for free each Monday night. Tickets are […]
The 2025 SummerSing Series in Old Saybrook
First Church of Christ Saybrook 366 Main Street, Old SaybrookThe 2025 SummerSing series will run for six consecutive Mondays from June 23 to July 28. All events will be held at First Church of Christ in Saybrook, 366 Main St, Old Saybrook. Registration will run from 6:30-7pm, with singing from 7-9pm. The entrance fee is $20 per person. Scores will be available to borrow, […]
Shanties & Sails Shanties & Sails: Littlefield and Morneault at the Connecticut River Museum
Connecticut River Museum 67 Main Street, Essex, CTTuesday, June 24, 2025 5:30-6:30 Shanties: FREE 7:00-8:00 Onrust: $25. Sail aboard the Onrust with the performers! Littlefield and Morneault Joseph Morneault, performing with David Littlefield as Littlefield and Morneault: A duo of folk music presenting ballads, the sea, and songs of local historical interest. David Littlefield is a lifetime resident of Old Lyme and had worked […]
Knit Your Bit National Service Project
Since its launch in 2006, Knit Your Bit has reached more than 10,000 knitters and crocheters in all 50 states. Through their efforts, the Museum has distributed more than 50,000 scarves to veterans’ centers, hospitals, and service organizations across the country. Hand knit or crochet a scarf measuring 4" - 5" wide and 48" - […]
Jacques Pepin Farm Dinner hosted by Chef Renee Touponce & Chef Natalia Vallejo at Stone Acres Farm
Stone Acres Farm 393 North Main Street, StoningtonJoin Chef Renee Touponce from Mystic's 85th Day Food Community (Oyster Club, The Port of Call, Engine Room and Haring's Noank) in welcoming Chef Natalia Vallejo from Puerto Rico's acclaimed Cocina al Fondo restaurant in San Juan. Chef Renee, Chef Natalia and the full 85th Day Team, are proud to support the Jacques Pépin Foundation […]
Ivoryton Playhouse Presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Ivoryton Playhouse 103 Main Street, IvorytonJune 26th - July 27th, 2025 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s family-friendly, colorful musical tells the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. With catchy songs like “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door,” this tale of faith and perseverance is presented with a vibrant pop and rock-infused score that […]
An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Walsh Gallery: Fairfield
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldApril 11 – August 16, 2025 This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in […]
Amazing Butterflies at Grace Farms
Grace Farms 365 Lukes Wood Road, New CanaanNow - 7/3/2025 Navigate the extraordinary metamorphosis of butterflies through an interactive indoor maze and traveling exhibit in Grace Farms’ Court, created by The Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Minotaur Mazes. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform […]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Liberation Summer of ’25 at The District Music Hall
District Music Hall 71 Wall Street, NorwalkGODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band’s first four releases—especially F#A#∞ (1997) and Lift Your Skinny […]