Presented by Maureen O’Brien

This daylong program will explore guided journaling as a path toward deepening our relationship with God. Themed prompts, built upon focused reflections from the Psalms, the Miracles of Jesus, insights from saints, and other spiritual writings, will inspire retreatants to respond with writing full of truth and beauty. Whether familiar with journaling, or just emerging, this program will provide support and space to fill pages and find, within them, the Beloved. All seekers welcome! 

Lunch is included.

Make Music Day is an international day of free live music. Musicians of all types, skill sets, and ages come together with venues to put on concerts all day. This day is all about bringing live music experiences to our community.

Make Music Day happens every year, June 21st. This year, the event falls on a Saturday. 2025 is the eighth year that Northwest CT is participating. Register as a venue or performer and start promoting your participation in Make Music NWCT!

Register to participate!

Learn more and see performances in the area!

Gallery 25 Presents: Heatwaves & Hues – A Summer Art Show

Heatwaves & Hues, running from Friday, May 2 – Sunday, August 17. This vibrant exhibition will showcase works bursting with color and inspired by the warmth and energy of summer.

Plan a Fun Weekend in New Milford!

New Milford is an exciting destination, offering a variety of activities for visitors. Enjoy well-reviewed restaurants, pubs, and unique shops, take in a film at our charming Art Deco movie theater, or catch a live performance at the innovative TheatreWorks playhouse. Stroll through our beautiful historic New England Green, a perfect spot to relax and soak in the town’s charm.

Experience Gallery 25

Gallery 25 is an artist-run gallery featuring 25 members working across all genres. Along with our exciting exhibitions, we invite you to take part in our workshops, live demonstrations, artist discussions, and photography walks!

We welcome you to explore, create, and be inspired!

Join the Housatonic Valley Association for a pond exploration program at The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm in New Milford, CT! From 10 am to 12 pm, discover the interesting critters that live in the waters of this beautiful Connecticut property and learn about their habits, life cycles, and what we can do to keep these ecosystems healthy. 

Families and participants of all ages are welcome! Nets and buckets will be available for the collection of specimens who will be observed and safely released at the end of the program. We encourage participants to wear rubber boots and rain pants/waders. 

Kick off your Saturday and build Lego's with Noah!

For grades 1st-4th

Theme: Summer Party

Check out our website for our summer full of actitivites for kids and family!

Please join us at the West Cornwall Farm Market on The Wish House Lawn Saturday June 21. 10am-1pm

and meet local author Steven Gleason. Books will be available for purchase and signing ; )

The Seasons of the Flynns

In 1960s America, traditional values are giving way to new perspectives on love, politics, and women’s place in society. Against this turbulent backdrop, The Seasons of the Flynns charts the intertwined fates of Sara Michaels, a college student set on an acting career, and Bob Flynn, a young Bostonian struggling to emerge from the shadow of a domineering father.

Having married and found a home in the suburbs of New York, Sara and Bob seem settled on a conventional course in life. But they soon find their union troubled by unresolved questions about who they are and what they want for themselves. Can Bob stay committed to his young wife and his corporate law job while more exotic possibilities beckon? Will Sara have to trade her dream of a life in the theater for the role of suburban wife and helpmate? As they struggle with these quandaries, their lives are transformed in ways that reflect the changes roiling the society around them.

Steven Gleason

Local author Steven Gleason took up fiction writing after a decades-long career in international affairs. He published a novella, "Carmen's Passion," in December 2022. His first full-length novel, "The Seasons of the Flynns," appeared in March 2024.

A graduate of McGill University and NYU, Gleason lived for many years in New York City while traveling widely for business and pleasure. In retirement he returned to his native New England, where he enjoys reading, cooking and outdoor sports when not engaged in his second career of writing fiction.

The Litchfield Farmers Market is one of the few year-round markets in the Connecticut. The weekly Saturday market offers fresh seasonal produce, fruit, berries, herbs, sustainably sourced fish; artisanal cheeses, breads and baked goods, local honey, maple syrup and gifts - all raised, grown or crafted by 15+ local vendors. 

The market occasionally hosts live music and supports non-profits from throughout the Litchfield area.

INDOOR MARKET - November through mid-June (intermittent Saturdays through the winter months -- check the website for dates.) Open Saturdays 10am - 1pm at the Litchfield Community Center located at 421 Litchfield Road, Litchfield, CT.

OUTDOOR MARKET - mid- June through October located at Center School, Litchfield.

Join Litchfield Hills Audubon Nature Explorers at Kalmia LHAS Sanctuary in Harwinton, Ct to celebrate birds, bees, butterflies, and all the other creatures that make our gardens grow. Gather by the beautiful butterfly garden to watch them in action. Learn about the vital role they play in our environment and how we can protect them.

Enjoy fun activities and yummy snacks! Take home a free plant for your pollinators!

Saturday, June 21, 2025 10:00am (rain date Sunday, June 22, 2025 10:00am)

Pre-registration appreciated at lhasjunior@gmail.com.

Questions: Vickie Dauphinais 860-805-9167

Kalmia Butterfly Garden is on the Harwinton Pollinator Pathway

Come anytime between 11am and 12pm on Saturday the 21st of June to see a real firetruck and the Harwinton firefighters! Touch the truck, sit in the truck, and check out some firefighter gear! See the flashing lights! Ask the firemen any questions you might have and learn about what it means to be a firefighter! (all are welcome, not just dads) For kids of all ages. Please register @harwintonlibrary.org/events

Join Lee Sohl and her dogs for some Father’s Day stories! We will be meeting in the Junior Room. Children of all ages are welcome to participate.

Dates:  June 14 – July 27, 2025

Reception: Saturday June 14, 4 – 6 PM, public invited

Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday 11:00 – 5:30, Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 and by appointment

Kenise Barnes Fine Art is honored to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Janna Watson. Watson is a conceptual painter based in Toronto, Canada. Poems Without Words is Watson’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery who has included Watson in eight other exhibitions and placed her work in numerous private collections. The gallery has represented the artist since 2017.

Through her practice, Watson works to reframe spirituality into objects that reflect fluidity, agility, and joy. She communicates this through a queering of the painterly process, into one that is diversely applied, gestural, and multi-oriented. Janna intentionally forgoes the use of borders on her paintings to create a sense of the infinite, and the inherent vulnerability of a spirituality that is not contained by a canon.

Janna Watson’s compositions and color choices are both careful and spontaneous, each gesture evoking an unstated emotional response. The paintings are generous passages of vivid color with swooping buttery paint strokes, and calligraphic marks floating on fields of saturated color. They are not spare, but they have an implied economy of language, each gesture gathered towards the others with an unseen gravitational force coalescing into a graceful equilibrium.

Part of the exhilaration I acquire from painting is being able to see shifts within myself manifested into a physical reality. The most truthful form of expression I have found in my life thus far has been the abstract language of painting.  – Janna Watson, 2025

Janna Watson’s work is widely exhibited internationally including in Canada, the United States and Taiwan. Watson’s paintings can be found in significant collections including Google, Air Canada, TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, CIBC, Toronto, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Toronto, HBC Global Art Collection, New York, to name a few. Watson earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto.

Please contact Lani Ming Holloway, Associate Director, Lani@kbfa.com, 860 560 3085 with inquires or to arrange a preview of the exhibition.

In honor of Juneteenth Freedom Day 1865 - EVENT #1 Presenting Hamish Lutris speaking on Connecticut's African American Soldiers

The Public is invited to this presentation at THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF TORT LAW

654 Main Street- Winsted, CT

* Presentation 1:00pm to 2:00pm * 

* Museum will be OPEN 10am to 5:00pm *

In honor of Juneteenth Freedom Day 1865 - EVENT #2 the Winsted Soldiers' Monument will be OPEN 2:00pm to 4:00pm

The Public is invited to

THE WINSTED SOLDIERS' MONUMENT

84 Crown Street- Winsted, CT

* Monument will be OPEN 2:00pm to 4:00pm *

** Park always open during daylight hours **

How is it that some feature films can fail?

Bad premise, inept direction, studio interference or lack of promotion?

Take a look at some projects that range from unknown, independently financed features to mega studios’ potential blockbusters – all of which got in trouble, and most became forgotten. We'll explore these five films:

• “Howard the Duck” with Lea Thompson
• “The Mean Season” with Kurt Russell
• “Roar” with Tippi Hedren
• “Throw Momma From the Train” with Danny DeVito
• “The Vagrant” with Bill Paxton

“Why Some Films Fail”

Presented by: Jay Ignaszewski

Saturday, June 21, 2025

3 – 5 PM

Five Points Arts Center

MORE INFO & RSVP

Making Insects Sculptures from Nature: A Creative Exploration

Discover the beauty of everyday treasures in Found Objects in Nature, a unique workshop that invites participants of all ages to explore the artistic potential of natural foraged materials. This program, led by artist Betsy Duckworth, encourages creativity, craft, and new ways of seeing the world around us.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own found flora—items from nature such as dried or pressed flowers, leaves, twigs, acorns and anything else that speaks to them. The artist will also provide an assortment of materials, ensuring everyone has plenty to work with. Through discussion and hands-on work, attendees will learn to utilize the things they’ve found to make an insect sculpture that they may take home with them and explore other ideas in which they might use these wonderfully bountiful – and free- art supplies!

This interactive session will include:

• A short discussion on the significance and history of found objects in art.
• Creative prompts to help participants see potential in ordinary materials.
• Hands-on time to experiment and create, using provided paper, glue, and extra dried and pressed flora.

Whether you're a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, this class offers an inspiring opportunity to transform the unexpected into something beautiful.

All ages welcome. No prior experience necessary. All supplies included.

Bring your own chair and join us at the The Station, home of the Litchfield Land Trust, for Music on the Solstice.

We are delighted to show you our office in the renovated train station, our maps of protected regional land, the new plantings and the caboose being renovated along the Greenway and our non-profit campus.

Live music will feature some very talented regional musicians, including John Stey with Al Cattey and Jim Katzin. Light appetizers and beverages will be provided.

This event is rain or shine!

Annual Benefit Party.

Please visit the link below for more information:

https://www.kentmemoriallibrary.org/benefit-2025/

Join us for a Studio Affair

Saturday, June 21st

21+ 6:30 - 10:00PM - Free

Unleash Your Inner Artist

Express your Creativity

Bring your Passion

Do you have a craving to unleash your creativity but aren't sure where to start? Well, look no further! We aim to create a vibrant space for our community to gather, socialize with friends, and even make new ones. Our focus is on inclusivity and fostering creativity.

If you're already working on a masterpiece, feel free to bring it along and showcase your skills. You don't have to be a professional artist to join in; all you need is the passion to create. Just bring your enthusiasm, and we'll supply a variety of materials for you to play around with.

Spread the word, invite your friends, and get ready for an unforgettable experience! Plus, if you're feeling thirsty, don't forget to bring your own beverages.

Located at 12 Main Street, New Milford, CT

(860) 354-4318. Walk in and create!!

https://www.villagecenterarts.org/eventscalendar