Join us for our annual First County Bank Maple Sugar Fest Sundays as we make our very own line of maple syrup from the 200+ mature maple trees found right here on our 118-acre campus. We’re one of only two official maple sugar producers in Fairfield County! Each Sunday we’ll open our site at 10 am with […]

Oscar Nominations are out and what are those Short Films, anyway? Join us to watch 9 of the 15 films over two Sundays, February 25 & March 3, at 6:00 pm.  The films will be grouped according to duration to keep each evening under 2.5 hours. Snacks and beverages provided but feel free to BYO. […]

Screening in the Library’s Trefz Forum, Below Surface is an award-winning short documentary that reveals the extraordinary power of community through an unlikely subject: a YMCA Aquafit class – that is, the Westport/Weston YMCA. This exercise class, led by gifted and compassionate instructor Patty Kondub, inspired the connection among a group of multicultural and multigenerational individuals as they […]

Join us in the loft with our friend Chef Chris Scott from Butterfunk Biscuit Co. & Top Chef season 15 for a collaboration dinner. $175 per person includes 5 courses and beverage pairings. We will be offering N/A and alcoholic beverage pairings. For more information

Western Connecticut State University will host the five Connecticut college students selected to be Connecticut Poetry Circuit Poets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, at the Kathwari Honors House on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Among the featured poets will be WCSU senior Meaghan Canavan, a Professional Writing student from Hopewell […]

CONNECTICUT POETRY CIRCUIT READING: The Connecticut Poetry Circuit will visit WCSU: WCSU Writing major Isabella Bullock will join fellow Connecticut Collegiate Poets Sara Greene of Eastern Connecticut State University, Oliver Egger of Wesleyan University, Alisa Mejia of Quinnipiac University and John Nguyen of Yale University, who will read from their own work at 7:30 p.m. in the Kathwari […]

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames. Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth – New London, the Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies: Professor Matt Warshauer shares stories about the Thames River region when it […]

Now through June 22: During the long decade of the 1970s, artists replaced traditional artistic gestures with other operations, creating new abstract languages and vocabularies. This exhibition shows how four artists nailed, glued, unraveled, twisted, folded, pierced, and tied, and most importantly, fastened—all to aesthetic effect—to highlight the labor of art making. For more information  […]

Lecture is in person  or online: In conjunction with Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger, whose work is included in the exhibition, and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. This dialogue will be introduced and moderated by the art historian and curator Mary Schneider […]

Manchester Arts Commission sponsors a networking event for Art and Artists. 5:30-6PM - We invite you to enjoy some small bites and a cash bar so you can mix and mingle with fellow creatives. 6-7:30p - There will be some introductions, presentations, inductions, and an update on the State of the Arts.   SHARE You or a […]

The Gunn Memorial Library and the Hickory Stick Bookshop are pleased to welcome author Peter Vermilyea  for a captivating talk on his latest book, "Litchfield County and the Civil War".  The talk is titled "The Strange Case of Dr Beckwith: A Tale of Scandal and Intrigue in Civil War Litchfield County". For more information

Almost one third of the food that is grown in the United States is wasted. In this professional development workshop, teachers will explore why and where food gets wasted, learn about strategies and community programs to prevent waste, discover ways to reduce food waste in the classroom, and educate their students about food waste. For […]

About the Farmer's Market The Stonington Farmers’ Market began in 1997 under the initiative of Geoffrey Little. The enormously popular market attracts residents from the Borough and surrounding communities who come to buy fresh, healthy, local food. In 2008 the Stonington Farmers’ Market became a year-round event, moving inside during the winter months. For more […]

This program will introduce the NEH grant-funded project, “Not your grandfather’s art history: A BIPOC Reader,” a collaboration with Smarthistory.org led by Olivia Chiang, that includes 20 essays authored largely by scholars of color and which aims to broaden the scope of the traditional art historical canon. During the program, Chiang will examine two case […]