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Dust off your kilts, next week Litchfield Hills Highland Games return to Lime Rock Park (Sept. 28).

The Berkshire Highlands will come alive with the sights and sounds of Scotland on Sunday, September 28, when the Litchfield Hills Highland Games return to Lime Rock Park as part of the Community Event series.

The Highland Games transform the picturesque racetrack into a stage of Scottish culture, featuring heavy athletics, clan and society gatherings, pipe bands, Scottish food and drink, the Faux Haggis Toss, children’s games and crafts, Scottish-inspired craft beer, sheep herding demonstrations, artisan spirit samplings and the spirited Kilted Mile for adults and kids. Additional activities include Highland Coo petting, a birds of prey exhibition and a British cars and motorbikes display.

Live entertainment will include performances from Coreyanne Armstrong, The Rogues, Charlie Zahm, the Talcott Mountain Highlanders, Pyramid Shriners Pipes and Drums plus others.

Inspired by The Park’s signature red, white and black colors and the legacy of Scottish racing legend Jim Clark, the Lime Rock Park Tartan from ScotlandShop will be available at the Games in lanyards and ties, with other custom items available online.

Additional sponsors supporting this year’s event include, St. Andrew’s Society of CT, Neptune Cremation Services, Nantucket Embroidery Co., Pam & Kennedy Munro, Norbrook Farm Brewery, Litchfield Distillery and Tents Unlimited.

Advanced tickets are $20 or $25 at the gate. Seniors 65 and older may purchase discounted tickets for $15 at the gate. Children 12 and under, veterans and active military (with valid military id) are free.

Litchfield Hills Highland Games

Meet the animals of Clover Hill Farm in Cornwall, CT and learn to knit!
October 11 & 18, 2025, 10-noon.
$100 per person includes all materials and farm visit.

Clover Hill Farm, 31 Hurlburt Place, Cornwall, CT
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOv7WqNEb2P/?igsh=MWQ3NmN0b3I4eTVuOQ%3D%3D

The Cornwall Library is excited to present an evening with Claire Gilman, the new Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. She will talk about her curatorial work and first exhibition at the Morgan, “Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings” (June 27, 2025–January 4th, 2026). The conversation, with author and art writer Robert Becker, will focus on the work of Yuskavage, one of the premier painters of the 21st century, and the process of creating the drawing retrospective, as well as Claire’s career in the arts. A reception will follow

The Morgan started as the personal collection of financier Pierpont Morgan and today is a renowned cultural institution that houses over 350,000 objects including rare books, manuscripts, drawings and other works of art within landmark buildings.

Prior to joining the Morgan, Gilman was Chief Curator at The Drawing Center in lower Manhattan for fourteen years. A part time resident of Sharon, she holds a PhD from Columbia University and has taught art history and critical theory at Columbia, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, The Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere, and has contributed to various art journals including The Brooklyn Rail, CAA Reviews, Documents, Frieze, and October.

Becker, a resident of Cornwall, was the Arts Editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine in the 1980s. He is author of “Nancy Lancaster; Her Life, Her World, Her Art” (Knopf), and has most recently contributed articles and essays to Artforum, Granta, The New Criterion and Hyperallergic.

Attend in-person only. Registration on the library website requested.

The Cornwall Library
30 Pine Street
Cornwall, CT 06753

Events

Join Naturopath, Dr. Lindsay Chimileski, for a monthly class that provides a deep dive into holistic healing through the seasons. From fall through early spring, we’ll explore how to identify wild herbs and fungi, craft your own remedies, and align your life with nature’s rhythms. Class meets one Thursday per month from 3:00-6:00pm.

Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
5 Churchill Rd.
Woodbury, CT. 06798

Earth Medicine School

Saturday September 20th

Rentrayage Kent hosts a special trunk show with MYSTERYJOY (Paris) and KINRADEN (Copenhagen). Discover sculptural, modern pieces—crafted for timeless wear.
Event Location

Rentrayage
Kent Barns
6 N Main Street
Kent CT 06757

Jennifer Terzian Gallery is pleased to announce TREEFORMS, a solo show of new work by Connecticut based artist Erin Koch Smith. The opening will take place on Saturday, October 4 from 3pm-5pm.

My work often starts with something abstract – like a wayward emotion, a memory, or a hard to remember dream. Narrative is important to my work as an impetus, but I am always seeking places to depart from intentions, combine visual languages, and find something new or surprising. I am interested in the middles of things, facts into fiction, real into imagination, observation into abstraction, painting into drawing, childhood into growing up. My work often emerges out of trial, error, and engagement with materials and color. I employ the logic of daydreams and let the materiality of the work play a part in what happens next in hopes of giving language to things that are hard to talk about in other ways – things like shame, joy, love, and loss.

Treeforms are a play on Colorforms, the childhood toy with plastic shapes and colors that can be moved around to form pictures and stories. There is a loose play with the idea of a treehouse forming around trees that are also in flux. Everything is in a state of moving, hiding, shifting, dancing, and growing. I am interested in the romance of a treehouse as an ideal, built out of love, as a place that can be a shelter or permission to dream. It is a structure that is both an interior and exterior, and I use it as a metaphor for shame, but also for imagination. Treehouses feel rooted in childhood, slightly magical, built around a tree, which is simultaneously alive and rooted. And for the most part, you can’t live there. There is no running water, no heat, often no walls or permanent protection. There is always a time where you have to come down. – Erin Koch Smith

Jennifer Terzian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield 06759

Jennifer Terzian Gallery

October 18, 4 pm, Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA
October 19, 4 pm, Trinity Church, Lakeville, CT

Crescendo’s award-winning Andean Instrumentalists Carlos Boltes, charango and viola, and Gonzalo Cortés, quena, zampoña, and flute, are joined by Artistic Director Christine Gevert, virginal and percussion, in a unique chamber music concert of Latin American Music. Explore South America’s music through a blend of indigenous, European, and African musical elements. The ensemble presents transcriptions and arrangements of early compositions and folk themes, alongside contemporary fusion pieces by composers and artists such as Manuel de Zumaya, Antonio Sarrier, Illapu, Los Kjarkas, and others.
Event Location

Trinity Church
484 Lime Rock Rd
Lakeville, CT 06039

Crescendo Home

Join us for a free screening of one of the most unique Disney animated films of all time ––1991’s Rock-a-Doodle. Starring country legend Glen Campbell as an Elvis-coded anthropomorphic rooster, and made by iconic animator and filmmaker Don Bluth, Rock-a-Doodle is nothing if not memorable! Join Edmond and his barnyard friends as they take off on a mission to bring back Chanticleer back from his dreams of stardom in the big city to save the farm from the Grand Duke of Owls and his evil plans. Run time: 74 min. Saturday 9/20, 6-7:30pm. Free admission.

The Colonial Theatre, 27 Railroad St., North Canaan, CT 06018
https://www.canaancolonial.com/event-details-registration/free-community-screening-rock-a-doodle

Fusing magic with allegory, acclaimed magician Belinda Sinclair performs her theatrical magic with captivating sleight of Hand, featuring stories about magic in the hands of women. The experience is an interactive, entertaining, historical journey into the life and art of magic and its female masters.
Two hour experience exposes how they convinced the world that magic is real and that miracles are plausible. For adults
Friday and Saturday evenings: September 20th, 26th, and 27th, 2025 from 7:30-9:30
Ages 12 and up.
Reservations required.
Tickets on Website or Call 917 860-1640

THE HUGES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
35 Lower River Road
West Cornwall, Connecticut 06796
http://conjurecamp.com

1:00-3:06 PM
FREE

Join us as we resume our movie showings starting October 6, 2025, with a brilliantly executed 1997 Academy Award winning film (Rated: R, duration 2H 6M).

For more information about the movie and to register, please call the library at 860-868-7586 or visit our website at www.gunnlibrary.org.

Gunn Memorial Library
5 Wykeham Rd
Washington, CT 06793

https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/monday-movie-matinee-good-will-hunting/