Events

Check out the Connecticut Public Community Calendar for events in your local community. If you have an event you would like to add, submit it through the calendar below and it will go through our approval process.

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Five Points Arts Print Festival Featuring Big Ink

Five Points Art Center 855 University Drive, Torrington, CT, United States

Immerse yourself in the many forms of contemporary and traditional printmaking at this free, two-day festival hosted by Five Points Arts, featuring Big Ink’s giant custom press. See art in action with demonstrations by professional printmakers and carvers, peruse the juried print show, browse prints for sale by local artists, and place your bid in […]

Free

Hike Cedar Wood Preserve

Cedar Wood Preserve North Wawecus Rd., Groton, CT, United States

This hike is at one of Avalonia’s newest acquisitions and only Norwich property, Cedar Wood Preserve —47 acres of field, woods, and water. This 1.4-mile hike goes through an upper trail with open fields and good birding opportunities and through a lower forested trail. This will be a moderate hike with some hills/slopes and a narrow, somewhat precarious path crossing a dam in the forested section.  Avalonia is hosting this adventure, but please register […]

Free

New Pond Farm Education Center Invitational Art Show

New Pond Farm Education Center 101 Marchant Road, CT, United States

This fantastic biennial event showcases artwork by some of the region’s finest artists, and includes a silent auction, art demonstrations, and activities for children and adults, all celebrating the timeless themes of nature and agrarian life inspired by the Education Center's property.

Free

Lenox Wine Fete

Pizzeria Boema 84 Main Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Food, music, wine lectures offered. A portion of event proceeds goes to the Lenox Library.

$75.00

Bethel CT Pride’s Annual LGBTQ Parade & Celebration

We are celebrating in Pride Month for the first time ever! Our FREE event will take place rain or shine outside on Saturday, June 3, from 12-5PM at the Municipal Center, 1 School St, Bethel, CT. *FREE!* *Family friendly!* RAIN OR SHINE (outdoor event) Live music and entertainment, food, artists, 50+ vendors, kids’ activities station, […]

Free

Double Stroll Through the Herman E. Sheets Family Forest

Herman E. Sheets Family Forest 94 Puttker Rd., North Stonington, CT, United States

This event is an adventure at The Herman E. Sheets Family Forest, an 87-acre picturesque preserve that lies adjacent to the Green Fall River which opened last year. It’s a mixed forest with ponds and brooks to be crossed by bridges. The hike will start out on the yellow trail (south loop). After about 0.75 miles, […]

Free

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica

Described as one of the most innovative dance companies to have achieved world acclaim in the last half-century, the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica blends the lore, music and dance traditions of Jamaica, Africa and the American South with both modern and classical ballet forms, dance performances, training and engagement programs for all people.

Trails Day Paddle: Wethersfield Cove

Wethersfield Cove Wethersfield, CT, United States

Join Great Meadows Conservation Trust's Tim Lewis and Paul Woodworth, and Connecticut River Conservancy’s Rhea Drozdenko for a paddle around Wethersfield Cove. Explore the north side of the cove and Folly Brook. View birdlife and learn about clean water efforts. If we are able, we will also venture out onto the Connecticut River. This is […]

Free

Beavers, Bird Calls, and Brilliant Bugs

Babcock Ridge and Henne Memorial Preserve Babcock Rd., North Stonington, CT, United States

Join Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman for this special family-friendly exploration of two adjoining refuges (Babcock Ridge and D.R. Henne Memorial & Shunock Brook Preserves), which are among the Conservancy’s most ecologically diverse preserves. Accompanying us on this gentle, two-mile hike is sign-language interpreter Joy Valenti, who’s experienced in making nature accessible to the D/deaf/hard of […]

Free