Tag Sale enthusiasts and treasure hunters everywhere are welcome to visit our friendly community offering great shopping, dining and entertainment throughout the city!
Link to the locations signed up!
To Join the Tag Sale:
1. Use the link below to download and print the PDF registration form or pickup the registration form one of these locations.
- Torrington Public Library @ 12 Daycoeton Pl, Torrington, CT 06790
- Torrington Parks and Recreation @ 153 S Main St., Torrington, CT 06790
2. Complete the registration form.
3. Make your payment (check or money order) payable to Torrington Parks & Recreation Department.
4. Drop off your payment along with the completed registration form to:
Torrington Parks & Recreation Department
153 S Main St
Torrington, CT 06790
City Wide Tag Sale
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.
Journaling to the Beloved
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!
Make Music Day
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!
Summer Lego Saturday
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.
Book Signing - Steven Gleason -The Seasons of the Flynns
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.
Litchfield Hills Farm Fresh Market
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
Pollinator Palooza, Family Fun!
Have you ever wondered how handcrafted brooms are created? Join us for this day-long hands-on class taught by Massachusetts broom maker Alan Curboy. Students will learn the basics of broom material selection and layout while using traditional tools and methods to create a hand-crafted finished product. As a group, we will discuss the various aspects of the craft and go step by step, making both a Whisk broom and Cobweb style broom.
Broom Making Workshop
Begin your story-filled summer adventure at the Gunn Jr. Library on Saturday, June 21 from 10am to 12pm during a special Summer Reading Kick-Off event in collaboration with The GIANT Room, a NYC-based innovation hub for kids.
This community event invites kids and families to level up your imagination with hands-on activity stations led by The GIANT Room. You can create characters, build new worlds, try stop motion animation, and more! It’s the perfect way to jumpstart your summer reading and dive into a season of creativity.
Whether you participated in the GIANT Room remix stations this spring or are joining in for the first time, this is a great opportunity to dive into storytelling through hands-on play and shared creativity.
This program is made possible with generous support from the Connecticut State Library.
Registration Encouraged.
Tri-Town Summer Reading Kick-Off with The GIANT Room
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
Firetruck with Dad
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.
Father’s Day & Puppy Storytime with Lee Sohl
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.
Janna Watson - Poems Without Words
Sipping and shopping, who could say no? Join us the weekend of 6/21-6/22 for our Summer Market in June! Joining us as vendors:
Medicinal Synergy:
Organic and natural skincare products that’ll make your skin happy!
Jen Wyz Art:
Jen creates beautiful watercolor pieces that’ll make your house pop for the summer!
Paparazzi Jewelry:
A selection of classic and modern jewelry, you’re guaranteed to find something that matches you!
Beaded by Bae:
Beaded designs from bottle stoppers to bookmarks, spice up your collection!
Looking for a bite too? Have no fear, Greenhouse Tavern Food Truck will be here!
June Summer Market: Day 1
Mela is a 4th Generation Clairvoyant Liaison with over 35 years experience in spirit communication.
Clairvoyance is the ability to perceive that which most others cannot. This is in direct communication with spirit. No one spirit can be guaranteed to come through in any session. Whoever is the one with the message, will present themselves.
6/21 SPECIAL GUEST READER: CLAIRVOYANT , PSYCHIC MEDIUM MELA RISPOLI (In person or Virtual)
Greenhouse Tavern located in Burlington, CT will be up here with their food truck! They have a variety of fresh meals such as tacos, sandwiches, and small bites, including vegetarian options!
Stop in and grab a bite and glass of wine!
Greenhouse Tavern Food Truck
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 *
Connecticut's African American Soldiers - presentation by Hamish Lutris
The William L. Besse Municipal Swimming Pool is scheduled to open from June 21, 2025 - August 31, 2025. Join us for our Opening Day Pool Party on June 21st starting at 1pm and enjoy ice cream, music, games, and more! Get your summer started at the Besse Municipal Pool!
Pool Passes can be purchased in person at the Recreation office or online at CommunityPass.
Opening Day Pool Party
Thrifty Boutique and Andy’s Attic will be hosting a summer fashion show featuring both shops collection of clothing for sale. Thrifty boutique will be hosting, Saturday June 21 at 1:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.