Clay Play
For ages 8 up
Saturday, November 2nd. 2:00-4:00PM
This is a chance to try the pottery wheel and get your hands in some clay. We show you how, then you get on the wheel right away. $50 ea
Village Center for the Arts
12 Main Street, New Milford, CT
(860) 354-4318
12 Main Street, New Milford, CT
https://www.villagecenterarts.org/things-to-do-calendar
A Halloween Party to Die For …Murder Mystery Dinner & a Show
There’s a mafia murder and the killer could be anyone! Join Landmark Community Theatre and AspenDream Productions as they present a fundraising dinner event to benefit LCT on Saturday, October 26, 2024, Doors open at 6:00 pm and the show begins promptly at 7:00 pm.
In a Halloween WhoDunnit mystery, old lovers, rivalries, and ambitions surface as alumni gather for the final class reunion of St. Rigatoni High before the school’s unfortunate closing. The notorious New York gangster, Uncle Franco Machiavelli, makes a guest appearance, but the night is interrupted by a murder. Guests will spend the evening interacting with actors in full character, as part of a live murder mystery show. Not only is the audience challenged to determine ‘whodunit’, but they are also drawn into the events themselves. **Costumes are encouraged but not required.
Admission includes hors d’oeuvres, an Italian-style buffet dinner, soft drinks, and dessert. Cash Bar is available on-site. Group discounts are available.
Lyceum Banquet Hall at 181 Main St. in Terryville, CT.
Admission includes hors d’oeuvres, an Italian-style buffet dinner, soft drinks, and dessert. Cash Bar is available on-site. Group discounts are available.
Admission: $75 BOX OFFICE 860-283-6250
https://www.landmarkcommunitytheatre.org/
The previously scheduled site-specific production of Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE has been pushed due to town zoning complications. Sharon Playhouse is looking forward to setting new dates. In the meantime, please join them for a FREE, one-night-only, reading in The Bok.
Based on actual events that occurred during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692, and inspired by the wave of hysteria that swept the nation under McCarthyism in the early 1950s, THE CRUCIBLE is widely considered a masterpiece. This timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. Among the most produced plays since its 1953 debut, THE CRUCIBLE is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable of contemporary society, as it explores our relationship to fear, fundamentalism, and groupthink.
7-9:30 PM
The Bok at the Sharon Playhouse
49 Amenia Road
Sharon
Your favorite fall event is back! Join The Warner for a swanky Wine & Food Tasting presented in partnership with The Cork Fine Wine & Spirits.
Your favorite fall event is back! Join The Warner for a swanky Wine & Food Tasting presented in partnership with The Cork Fine Wine & Spirits.
The Cork will generously donate 10% of all sales that evening back to the Warner!
General admission tickets are $30, and VIP tickets are $100. VIP ticket holders get a nifty advantage with early access to the entire event at 6 pm!
The Wine & Food Tasting is one of the Warner’s largest fundraising events, spanning both the Main and Studio Theatre Lobbies. This year’s bash includes wine, spirits, local craft beers, and food from the area’s vibrant dining scene!
The exclusive VIP Room located in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre offers top-notch indulgence with specialized catering, dreamy chocolate samplings, private tastings of premium wines and spirits, and rockin’ music.
Nancy Marine Studio Theatre
84 Main Street
Torrington
Author Talk & Book Signing: Peter Friedman and Grant Copeland
Mattatuck Museum will welcome Peter Friedman and Grant Copeland, President and Chief Creative Officer at WORX, to The Mattatuck Museum on Friday, November 1, from 6-7:30 PM for an author talk and book signing for their co-authored book “I’ll Get the Tip.” The book is a heartwarming collection of stories full of anecdotes and life lessons from behind-the-scenes moments with sports, music, politic, and entertainment icons from throughout Peter Friedman’s five-decade career as a television commercial and video producer. $10.00 per Adult $5.00 per Member.
Mattatuck Museum
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702
https://www.mattmuseum.org/calendar/peter_friedman/
Jazz Cafe Night
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
$15 pp or $25 a couple
* Reservations encouraged.
Unwind with an evening of soulful rhythms and smooth sounds from the “Ivan Polyanskiy Quintet” as they bring the heart of New York City jazz to life.
Enjoy Coffee, tea and sweets in an intimate cafe setting included in admission (BYOB)
Ivan Polyanskiy – saxophone
Josh Deutsch – trumpet
Andrew McGowan – piano
Peter Brendler – bass
Mike Camacho – drums
Litchfield Community Center
421 Bantam Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-8302
https://thecommunitycenter.org/event.php?id=19297
KMR Arts presents an art show, “Convergence,” featuring the photographic works by Peter C. Jones and Barbara Vaughn, on view Saturday, October 26 through Sunday, November 10 at The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, November 2 from 3 to 6 pm.
Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens
One Green Hill Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
November 19 from 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Please register for in-person at OWL website.
Live on Zoom; link at our website.
Finn Outwater, a junior at Lakeview High School, was selected as one of fifteen student/teacher pairs to be part of the Albert H. Small Normandy Institute. He will discuss his experiences in both Washington D.C. and Normandy, France as he learned about D-Day, researched the airborne assault and wrote a detailed biography about a local hero from Watertown who is buried in the American Cemetery in Normandy.
Finn will share plenty of images from his trip and stories about his visit to Brecourt Manor, Marie Louise Osmont’s chateau, the Azeville Battery, and Pointe du Hoc, amongst others. Finn will also reveal what he learned at the National Archives and how Southbury had a surprising role in World War Two. Come learn from a young historian why it is so important to remember the events of D-Day after eight decades and how history can play an important role in all of our lives.
Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street
Litchfield, CT 06759
Join us for an Art Talk with Peter Steiner as he discusses his recent work in our new art exhibition, “All Over the Place” on Thursday, November 21st 5:30 – 7:00pm at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, CT! This event is free and open to the public.
Peter Steiner’s life, echoing the title of his current exhibition, has been all over the place. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, he studied and received a PhD. in German, taught at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA) and then left teaching to become an artist, painting and drawing and cartooning. Steiner eventually became a regular contributor to The New Yorker, most notably for a 1993 cartoon with the caption, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” His cartoons also appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Washington Times, and locally in The Lakeville Journal. His cartoons have been in exhibitions all over the place, including Washington, DC, Warsaw, Poland and Vienna, Austria. Peter Steiner has also published nine novels, all thrillers, beginning with A French Country Murder (2003, St. Martin’s Press). The New Detective, his most recent novel, was published in 2023 by Severn House.
David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
On Saturday, November 16th at 1 pm the David M. Hunt Library will present Schaghticoke: Stories of Survival with the Institute for American Indian Studies.
In this presentation, led by Educational Outreach Ambassador Darlene Kascak, of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, participants will be immersed in the lifeways of the Schaghticoke People in the past and present day. Learn about how these Eastern Woodlands Natives adapted in order to survive the changes that colonization had on their lives by working together for the sake of the community and innovation through knowledge of their natural resources.
This program is free and open to the public.
David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
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