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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Tree Walk

Cedar Hill Cemetery 453 Fairfield Ave, Hartford, CT, United States

Arborist John Kehoe leads this walk featuring Cedar Hill Cemetery’s rare and notable trees. The tour, through the ornamental foreground and historic memorial sections, will highlight trees such as the beautiful European Weeping Beech, the unusual (for the Northeast) Umbrella Magnolia, and the Huss Hemlock named for a resident of Cedar Hill. The Tree Walk […]

Earth Art

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

This special Family Event will be led by Redding artist Alice Smith. Participants will be given a brief introduction to the Earth Art movement of the late 60s and early 70s. Small groups will then be led out to explore and gather materials from the farm’s wildflower meadow, wetlands, and woodlands, paying careful attention not […]

Free

Carving Birds of the Redding Woods

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

Renowned bird carver and wildlife sculptor, Peter Bowe, offers an exciting hands-on bird carving workshop entitled, “Birds of the Redding Woods”. Participants will work alongside Peter to carve and paint their own Chickadee or a White Breasted Nuthatch. Having worked as a wildlife artist for the past 48 years, Bowe specializes in birds and marine […]

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