Join Connecticut Antique Machinery Association for their 40th annual fall festival!
Join Connecticut Antique Machinery Association for their 40th annual fall festival! Vendors, tractor parade, food, and much more!
10am-4pm rain or shine
CAMA Museum
31B Route 7 (Kent Cornwall Road), Kent
The 4th Annual New Milford Apple Festival, featuring vendors, crafts, apple treats, music, activities for kids and more!
The 4th Annual New Milford Apple Festival, featuring vendors, crafts, apple treats, music, activities for kids and more!
10am to 5pm on the New Milford Green – admission is free.
New Milford Apple Festival
Main Street, New Milford
Fragmented Beauty is a selection of work by Brooklyn based collage artist, Meghan Larimer. The work pulls glamorous faces and feminine forms from editorial tear sheets and adds a twist of chaotic surrealism in the form of cut and torn layers, creating new imagery and meaning entirely.
Join us for a collage making workshop led by Meghan on Saturday, September 28th.
Peggy Mercury
9 Maple Street
Unit 2
Kent Barns
Kent, CT 06757
https://peggymercury.com
Join Chef Dino Kolitsas (of Greca) for a special brunch to inaugurate the re-opening of The Silo Cooking School at Hunt Hill Farm. Start with Shrimp Cocktail Bloody Marys before indulging in a wonderful Crab Cake Kataifi appetizer that gives way to a decadent assortment of brunch classics with a distinct Mediterranean twist. Meet Chef Dino, tour The Silo and hear about all of the exciting classes, culinary events and happenings that lie ahead!
$60.00
The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm
44 Upland Rd
New Milford CT
Join us at the David M. Hunt Library for a musical story time with local author Gabriele Davis on Saturday, October 26th at 10:30am! Gabriele will read from her new book Our Joyful Noise before teaching us how to make our own maracas to create our own joyful noise.
Gabriele worked as a children’s magazine editor and a freelance language arts writer and editor for over 30 years and is the author of two picture books: Peaches (Abrams Books for Young Readers) and Our Joyful Noise (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster). Gabriele lives and works here in the northwest corner of Connecticut. She enjoys creating works that inspire children to laugh, love, discover their inner strength, and feel seen.
Copies of “Our Joyful Noise” will be on sale at the library. This event is free and open to the public!
David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
On Thursday, October 24th at 6pm, join the David M. Hunt Library, in partnership with Oblong Books and Project Sage, for a book talk with Michelle Horton, author of “Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival and Unbreakable Bonds”. This event will take place at the Center on Main, 103 Main Street in Falls Village.
Horton’s book is a breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile case: Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killing her longtime abuser; and the author, Michelle Horton, left in the devastating fall-out to raise Nikki’s young children and to battle the criminal justice system.
After the talk, the author and representatives from Project Sage will be available for a Q & A. At the end of the event books will be available for purchase and signing.
Center on Main
103 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
The Falls Village Recreation Commission and D.M. Hunt Library are excited to host our second annual Falls Village Fall Festival.
Located at the Town Farm property on Route 63 on Saturday, October 19th from 2-4 pm, we will host a community event featuring food, live music, hayrides, a pie baking contest, and more! This event is free and open to the public.
Town Farm Property
Route 63
Falls Village, CT 06031
Make learning to read fun and rewarding with the Letters are Characters program for homeschoolers!
Letters are Characters, a play-based early literacy program that empowers kids to learn to read at any stage, is partnering with the David M. Hunt Library and the NCCF to offer their program for FREE.
This program runs virtually for eight weeks after our in-person Kickoff Party on October 10th at the David M. Hunt Library, ending with our in-person Graduation Party on December 5th.
Letters are Characters is an early literacy program designed to ensure that emerging readers get what they need to succeed. The goal of Letters are Characters is to build communities where no child suffers when learning to read and all children read to their highest potential. Letters are Characters assists in empowering parents/caregivers and teachers to help their kids learn to read joyfully!
Kits will be distributed at the David M. Hunt Library for those register at our Kickoff Party on October 10th at 1:00pm. Participants will receive eight weeks of virtual guidance and can reach out to the Letters are Characters team at any time by phone or email with questions/concerns at lettersarecharacters@gmail.com.
Register today for your FREE Letters are Characters kit, and we hope to see you at our kickoff event!
Kit registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGVT5NlS6lGlq2nQ3UPvgdOEetjKk5gTH8GmT0x31shT89lQ/viewform?pli=1
David M. Hunt Library
63 Main Street
Falls Village, CT 06031
Sat., October 5, 2024 at 6 pm Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT
Antonio Vivaldi conveyed the beauty and dramatic conflicts of nature in his instrumental music with an intensity unparalleled by his contemporaries. In the violin concerto “Tempesta di mare” (The Storm at Sea) and the flute concertos “La notte” (The Night) and “Il gardellino” (The Goldfinch), Vivaldi again demonstrates how adept he is at using the solo instruments and the unique affects and atmospheres their sounds evoke.
While Vivaldi doesn’t have a direct connection with Latin America, the Baroque music of Western Europe was widely performed there, introduced by the Jesuits. Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Mandolins will be performed on Iberian colonial and native instruments, giving our listeners a taste of the fusion of traditional and folk instruments that might have been heard in the New World.
Edson Scheid, Baroque violin, Rodrigo Tarraza, traverso, Carlos Boltes, charango, and Scott Hill, guitar, with strings and basso continuo players of Crescendo Period Instrument orchestra, directed by Christine Gevert.
This concert will be repeated the following day, Sun., October 6, 2024 at 4 pm at Saint James Place ~ 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Support for these concerts has been provided by the Connecticut State Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature, and NBT Bank. We also thank WMHT Radio for their ongoing support.
Trinity Church
484 Lime Rock Rd.
Lakeville, CT 06039
Illeana Douglas, actress, film historian, Turner Classic Movies commentator and author of “Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia” will introduce a special
screening of the 1948 classic “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and two-time Oscar winner (and the author’s grandfather!!) Melvyn Douglas. Set right here in Northwestern Connecticut, and based on a book of the same title by New Milford author Eric Hodgins, “Mr. Blandings…” is a comedy about a New York couple whose dream to move to Connecticut and build their dream house turns into a nightmare.
Local actor, writer and BCAC board member Paul Marcarelli will conduct a Q&A immediately following the screening (runtime 90 mins) with Ms. Douglas, who is best known for memorable roles in such films as Cape Fear, To Die For and Grace of My Heart and TV shows like “Six Feet Under” and “Goliath.”
Tickets are $35 and available at bantamcinema.org
Bantam Cinema
115 Bantam Lake Rd
Bantam CT
https://bantamcinema.my.canva.site/mrblandings
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