9:00 am – 11:00 am
Please join us in learning how to plant vegetable seeds, particularly a heritage pumpkin variety called Connecticut Field pumpkins. This pumpkin will have its own class at the Litchfield Garden Club’s flower show called Celebrating Connecticut. The Flower Show will take place this September the 18th but entries will be accepted on the 17th also.
Join Kate in this fun and informative workshop!
Free, registration required
Kate Jamison Horticulture Chair, Litchfield Garden Club.
Litchfield Community Center
421 Bantam Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-8302
www.thecommunitycenter.org
4/22/26
Pumpkin Workshop: 4/22
Join us for our “Rooted in Care-Growing Together” OPEN House with tours at the Cottage at Litchfield hills where life continues to grow. Herb and flower planting in honor of Earth Day, refreshments along the way. #Come Grow With Us.
The Cottage at Litchfield Hills
376 Goshen Rd.
Torrington, CT
http://www.cottagelitchfield.com
GEORGE HOME is pleased to host
author, editor, stylist, and co-founder of The Ticking Tent,
Ben Reynaert.
April 11th from 12-3pm
Meet Ben for a signing of his new book, The Layered Home,
a celebration of maximalist design where more truly is more.
Featuring over 200 photographs and insights from creative tastemakers, he explores how layering pattern, color, and personal treasures transforms a house into a deeply lived-in home.
GEORGE HOME
4 Titus Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
https://georgehomect.com/
Who doesn’t need to decompress and unwind after the grind? AMP’s popular Happy Hour Piano Series eases you into the weekend with live piano music and libations in Connecticut’s most unique art space.
Held the fourth Friday of the month from 5pm to 7pm, AMP’s Happy Hour Piano Series features a captivating pianist performing in a variety of styles including jazz, blues, pop, classical, and more. It can be a relaxed hang with friends or an intimate evening out.
Reserve your $8 tickets in advance or purchase at the door.
AMP’s regular Friday exhibit hours (10am to 5pm) are extended for the Happy Hour Piano Series, 5–7pm. The cash/credit bar opens at 5pm. Live music begins at 5:30pm.
Isabella Mendes, jazz and bossa nova
Friday, April 24
5–7pm I Music Starts: 5:30pm
Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, and educator Isabella Mendes is one of New Haven and Hartford County’s top Brazilian and Jazz entertainers in the industry and has earned an impressive list of accomplishments well beyond her years. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Isabella started to study music at age four and hasn’t stopped since. She has been studying with Grammy Winner pianist Fabio Torres and Emmy Winner vocalist Michal Towber. Isabella is also the founder and owner of IMMusic Studio, a private music school, where she teaches piano and voice. She is an advocate for women and diversity in the arts, and is leading workshops bringing diversity through music in schools and community events.
The Happy Hour Piano Series is supported in part by the Greenberg family.
American Mural Project
90 Whiting Street,
Winsted, CT 06098
https://www.americanmuralproject.org/piano-series
Sep 19, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – $25
TO THE POWER OF ONE – PLAY SERIES
MOTHER (and me)
A daughter’s story of love, loss, and goulash
Her mother is a larger-than-life Hungarian force of nature — all Zsa-Zsa, grand opinions, and showbiz dreams. And she’s slowly waltzing into dementia. Which means her Broadway-baby, Melinda must step up, step in, and finally figure out who she is without the woman who always took up all the room.
Melinda Buckley’s award-winning one-woman show is outrageous, tender, and completely unforgettable.
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
9/19/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/mother-and-me
Sep 10, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – $40
From New Jersey, John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania.
In addition to 11 critically acclaimed albums, John released a collector’s edition box featuring a hi-definition DVD and companion CD called The Gypsy Life. Windham Hill also released a collection of John’s greatest hits from the label called Pure John Gorka. In 2010, he also released an album with his friends and Red House label-mates Lucy Kaplansky and Eliza Gilkyson under the name Red Horse. Getting high praise from critics and fans alike, it landed on the Billboard Folk Charts and was one of the most played albums on folk radio.
Many well known artists have recorded and/or performed John Gorka songs, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Mary Black and Maura O’Connell. John has graced the stage of Austin City Limits, Mountain Stage and has appeared on CNN. His new song “Where No Monuments Stand” is featured in the upcoming documentary Every War Has Two Losers, about activist and Oregon Poet Laureate William Stafford (1914-1993).
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
9/10/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/john-gorka
Aug 29, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – $25
George Mallas and Louise Coombe are singer/songwriters with unique musical styles, each creating a journey through lives both real and imagined. Mallas is a pianist whose voice and songwriting are reminiscent of Jackson Brown or Cat Stevens. He’s a master of heartbreak infused with optimism. Coombe is a guitar player with southern roots that often show in the scenes she creates in her songs. Her vocals are delightful both in tone and narrative. An evening with the two of them features a back and forth of styles, as they present some works on their own and some together. Their collaborations are a clear demonstration that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Both artists have recorded several albums and perform regularly throughout New England.
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
8/29/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/louise-coombe-george-mallas
Aug 22, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – $25
ANYTHING HELPS
Written & Performed by Mark Lanham
HOPE | FAITH | COFFEE
A New Play About Charity
A LATE–BLOOMER NEW YORK CITY ACTOR chooses to commit a singular act of charity—serving free coffee to a small segment of the city’s 150,000+ homeless population living on its affluent Union Square. In the process, he discovers a familial connection with this colorful but broken cadre of characters. As COVID overtakes Manhattan, his experiences among the poor lead him into a “dark night of the soul,” from which he ultimately emerges, finding reconciliation with God and true affirmation of the Franciscan belief that “it is in giving that we receive.” Actor and award-winning writer MARK E. LANHAM and award-winning director CHRIS CLAVELLI come together to tell a tale that is both timely and timeless—an ode to the modern urban age that cheerfully refutes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished.
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
8/22/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/anything-helps
Aug 15, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM – $25
We’re celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with an evening of American protest music. From the Revolutionary War to 2026, this music has been a vibrant part of our democracy. You’ll hear selections by Dylan, Chapman, Ochs, Mitchell, Chapman, and Springsteen, to name a few. Performers include Missy Alexander, Caroline Bennett, Bob Brophy, Chuck Cundari, Nancy Janutalo, George Mallas, Susanna Marker, Felicia Michael, George Potts, Nancy Walsh, and Al Burgasser.
Nadine Strossen, Civil Liberties activist and past president of the ACLU, will provide introductory remarks.
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
8/15/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/merryall-presents-songs-of-protest
Jul 18, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM – $25
The critically-acclaimed, multi-award-winning Inheritance: A Litany is a personal narrative, dance-opera, non-linear play, and comic drama. The interdisciplinary tour-de-force, that premiered Off-Broadway, honors the parent-child relationship, its psychologies, and its histories—comedic, deeply intimate, and yet also universal. The text material is based on lists Ms. Brenner began making, noting rather profoundly how she had become her parents—and how we inherit not only parts of our parent’s physical, psychological, behavioral, emotional traits, but also their objects, belongings, even thoughts and ways of being in the world, while also uncovering what make us each unique, complicated human beings. “We need artists like Ms. Brenner now in this world.” C. Darling, All About Solo, NYC.
Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road, New Milford, CT 06776
7/18/26
https://www.merryallcenter.org/event-details/inheritance-a-litany
