Calling All Artists—All Media Welcome!
Spend a creative morning making plein air artwork inspired by the scenic grounds of Flanders, then be part of a group exhibition featuring completed works.
The exhibition opens Friday, October 2 with a public artist reception and runs through Sunday, October 11.
Saturday, May 9
9 AM – 1 PM
Van Vleck Sanctuary
Complimentary (registration requested)
Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
Van Vleck Nature Sanctuary
5 Church Hill Road
Woodbury, CT 06798
Our Field & Forest 5K is back! Join us for a fun and scenic evening run or walk through Flanders’ beautiful fields and forest trails—then stick around to celebrate. After you cross the finish line, enjoy an after party celebration featuring live music and food trucks—the perfect way to relax, refuel, and celebrate with friends, family, and fellow participants. Whether you’re a seasoned runner, a casual walker, or bringing the whole family, this beloved community event is a great way to enjoy nature while supporting Flanders’ conservation and education mission..
DATE: Friday, June 5
TIME: 6 PM
COST: $32.80 by June 4 Ages 11+ (same day $40) | $22.20 by June 4 Ages 0 to 10 (same day $30)
Register by MAY 5TH for a FREE race shirt (for 11+ years)
Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
Sugar House
48 Church Hill Road
Woodbury, CT 06798
Registration for Flanders’ 2026 Summer Camp & Academies is OPEN! We’re excited to welcome families across the region to secure their spots for a summer filled with outdoor adventure, animal care, art, science, and hands‑on exploration (our camp & academies runs from June 8 to August 28).
Our camps and specialty academies are designed to spark curiosity, build confidence, and help children develop a meaningful connection to the natural world.
Many of our most popular weeks fill quickly each year, so we encourage families to register as soon as possible (Early Bird discount ends May 1st)
You’ll find program descriptions, weekly themes, age groups, and locations all in one place on our website.
What your child can look forward to this summer
*Engaging, nature‑based activities led by experienced educators
*Outdoor adventure, animal care, art, science, and creative exploration
*Specialty academies for deeper, interest‑driven learning
*A welcoming, supportive environment where children can grow, discover, and thrive
We can’t wait to spend the summer exploring with your children.
Summer grows here!
Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
5 Church Hill Road
Woodbury, CT 06798
The Ticking Tent – Spring Market 2026
Saturday, May 2, 2026 in the country at Spring Hill Vineyards in New Preston, CT.
Save the Date for The Ticking Tent on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at Spring Hill Vineyards in New Preston, CT. You’ll find treasures from over 60 of the most unique artisans, boutique brands, and antique dealers at this extraordinary artisan and décor fair.
The Ticking Tent is the original brocante-style artisan, antiques and design shopping event founded by interiors stylist and creative consultant Benjamin Reynaert and communications and business development consultant Christina Juarez.
If you joined us at our event last spring, you know how magical this vineyard is. Grassy fields, a restored barn, plus Adirondack chairs and picnic tables to hang out all day and enjoy the stunning grounds.
Home & Garden CT-NY is proud to be
the Regional Media Partner of The Ticking Tent.
Tickets
Early Bird Preview | 9:00–11:00 AM – $250 advance ticket
Co-sponsored by William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty and Chubb, featuring the Chubb Bouquet Bar in collaboration with Stark Blooms. A portion of proceeds will benefit Pride in the Hills.
Timed General Admission
11:00 AM–1:00 PM | $75 advance / $90 at door
1:00–3:00 PM | $50 advance / $65 at door
3:00–4:00 PM | $25 advance / $40 at door
Please save the date for the opening of NIGHT AND DAY DREAMING,
a solo show of new and recent work by Queens, NY based artist Caetlynn Booth.
Opening reception Saturday, May 2, 2pm-4pm
“Love, in its essence, is spiritual fire.” – Emanuel Swedenborg
This show of new paintings combines themes that I’ve been working on for many years including abstracted landscapes, watery environments and dreamscapes. This work is painted in oil on paper or wood panel and includes individual as well as modular paintings.
Recently, I have come to understand that making my work is how I love the world. At every step of my process, I have opportunities to synthesize memories of color, place, and lucid dreams, all filtered through a growing sense of emotion.
There is a sensational passion, a spiritual fire, that burns beneath and behind the making of, and looking at, visual art. My studio is the place where I feel most myself, and I look forward to entering it as a space where the rules of the outside world don’t apply and the images in my mind can be made visible while I’m safely ensconced. This is where I can explore the spiritual qualities and interconnection of the internal and external worlds that I inhabit.
The “Swamp” paintings are based on my experience observing consecutive sunrises in the swamp as an artist in residence and represent a promise of hope as moments in the progression of the auroral environment from darkness through to bright daylight. By using paint with thick impasto, the physicality of mark-making becomes a material record, capturing motion and reflections in water.
Shortly after returning to the US from living in Berlin, Germany, I participated in an artist’s residency in Mississippi, and all of a sudden, the spectacle of the swamp before me as a sensuous watery environment where I observed sunrise after sunrise from the lake’s surface, seduced me as if I had become part of the sunrise itself. There was an ecstasy to this place, and a unification of interests I had been exploring for a long time: auroral and crepuscular light, qualities of water, mirror-imagery, reflection, pattern, ambiguous forms, and the sequential and progressive qualities of experiencing a prismatic environment through time. There was an awareness at all times of things not being solid, of possibility and potential pulsating beneath surfaces. Now with this environment as an armature, I deepened the project into an extensive and ongoing investigation into abstraction.
As grouped installations, they become a tapestry of recorded time, a map or calendar representing different stages within one sunrise, or moments from many sunrises brought together, an accumulation of sunrises on bodies of water witnessed over my lifetime thus far. As individual paintings they speak to a particular moment of color and light in the landscape. I see landscape as a metaphor that possesses a mesmerizing yet impenetrable mystery.
The “Cloud Machine, Dream Machine” paintings were inspired by recent waking dreams, as a meditation on the transmutation of matter and energy from one state to another. The imagery for these paintings came to me as moving visions, like animations, in lucid dreams where light transformed into leaf-like shapes that generated clouds, and in other dreams, visions of the sky at sunset encircled by vignettes of organic abstraction. It’s amazing to me that this kind of subconscious conjuring can have so much poignancy and power while its direct genesis remains inexplicable. – Caetlynn Booth
Caetlynn Booth (b. Napa, CA) is an artist based in Queens, NY. Solo shows include Night and Day Dreaming at Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT (2026), and other recent shows at One River School of Art + Design, Allendale, NJ (2020), and a two person exhibition with Amy Lincoln at Project: ArtSpace, New York, NY (2019). Recent group exhibitions include at Utopia Gallery, Kingston, NY (2025); Project: ArtSpace, New York, NY (2025); Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2025); Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY (2025); My Pet Ram, New York, NY (2021); Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME (2019); Pulse Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL (2018); and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY (2018); among others. Booth lived in Berlin, Germany, from 2011 to 2013 working on a research and painting project as a Fulbright Scholar. In the summer of 2026 she will be an artist in residence at Leeway in Sharon Springs, NY, and previously she has been an artist in residence at I-A-M Institut and GlogauAIR in Berlin, at the Vermont Studio Center, and at the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. She received her MFA from Rutgers University (2011), and BA from the University of California at Davis (2002).
Booth is an artist, curator, arts administrator and co-director of Reservoir Studios in Queens, NY.
Jennifer Terizian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield, CT 06759
Great Mountain Forest will host this 3-day retreat for both established and emerging writers, with limited enrollment to foster interactions between attendees and the award-winning authors and naturalists who will lead the retreat sessions.
This Retreat offers a choice of 3 out of 6 sessions, a luncheon-talk about publishing work, guided walks, journaling workshops, and more. Experiencing this Retreat in one of New England’s largest conservation easements of more than 6,000 acres of contiguous forest and woodland habitat will certainly be inspiring.
Registration is open for early-bird discounts through May 31 ($385; $285 for students) and then $435/$335 after May 31. Camp-style lodging is available ($70/two nights), or attendees can book lodging at a local inn or airbnb, or commute. The weekend will include catered meals and refreshments. For session and presenter information, please go to https://greatmountainforest.org/writing-retreat-2026
Great Mountain Forest, Yale Camp, 209 Chattleton Road, Falls Village, CT 06031
As part of its celebration of 250 years of American independence, the Cornwall Library presents Peter Vermilyea, local author, speaking about his new book, “Litchfield County in the American Revolution.”
This free event is on Saturday, May 2 at 5 pm. Registration at 860-672-6874 or CornwallLibrary.org is required.
From the first sparks of revolution in the 1770s, Litchfield County played an important role in the War of Independence.
Roger Sherman of New Milford was on the five-member committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Oliver Wolcott of Litchfield signed the document and oversaw the transportation of a toppled statue of King George III from New York City to his hometown, where it was melted down and turned into more than forty thousand musket balls. Those musket balls were perhaps fired by hundreds of local militia, including Black residents, who served in the war, while many other residents helped furnish supplies and information to the army.
However, not everyone supported the Patriot cause, as the county was also home to those who remained loyal to the British King. Later years saw the Continental Army make a winter encampment in New Milford and several visits by George Washington.
Historian Peter Vermilyea reveals how liberty, sacrifice, and resilience in a small corner of New England helped shape the destiny of a new nation.
The Cornwall Library
30 Pine Street
Cornwall, CT 06753
AMEICO is bringing its signature blend of timeless, design-forward goods to a special sidewalk sale, featuring a curated selection of lighting fixtures, iconic steel toolboxes from Toyo Steel, elevated stationery including notebooks and journals from Karst, and versatile, sustainably made waist bags and backpacks from Ucon Acrobatics—all in a range of colors, shapes, and sizes, and more! All offered with an understated, upscale sensibility at approachable prices.
Friday, April 24th 2026
12:00PM to 7:00PM
We hope to see your there!
*In person sales only. No phone/email/online sales.*
AMEICO
29 Church St
New Milford, CT 06776
A gentle dose of magic, with serious side effects… Learn Magic. A two‑hour gathering of magic where you don’t just watch, you learn. Unlock the kind of magic that does more than amaze, it builds confidence, focus, and connection. In this interactive experience, you’ll learn powerful, easy‑to‑master tricks. Great for groups and gatherings, as a fresh team‑building tool for teens and corporate groups, or as a unforgettable date night where you and your partner learn to read minds (or at least make it look that way), and for ages 9 and up. Every routine is designed to be fun, practical, and customizable, so you leave not just entertained, but equipped with secret skills you can use to spark wonder in any room you walk into. It is sooooo much funnnnnnn… Join for Summer sessions.. Limited availability.
Looking forward!!!!!
The Hughes Memorial Library
35 Lower River Road
West Cornwall, CT 06796
http://conjurecamp.com
Spring is here and alas a wonderful time to get out of the house. EXTENDED AGAIN through end of August. Seats still available for this Sunday April 26th, 2026 from 2-4 pm.
Acclaimed Magicienne Belinda Sinclair invites patrons to experience a time when famous female conjurors captivated their guests by performing impossible feats of magic. Drenched in fascinating history, the thrilling two hour journey into the past will come to life with Belinda re-creating astonishing displays of legerdemain. Fusing magic with allegory, Sinclair performs her theatrical magic and captivating stories, with an interactive, entertaining, historical journey into the life and art of magic and its female masters.
For adults 12 and up.
Last chance for tickets. Seats are limited.
Friday’s-Sunday April 26th-September 7th, 2026
Reserve your place for this immersive intimate experience.
*Limited Seating : Reservations required *
The Hughes Memorial Library
35 Lower River Road
West Cornwall CT, 06796
http://conjurecamp.com
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