Support the Teen Advisory Board's 2025 Field Trip by ordering One chocolate-covered pretzel flower, strawberry, and candy kiss flower for that remarkable woman in your life!

Support the Teen Advisory Board's 2025 Field Trip by ordering three chocolate-covered pretzel flowers, strawberries, and candy kiss flowers for that remarkable woman in your life!

Share in thought-provoking and engaging discussion on the visual arts and the creative journey - join the Five Points Art Book Club! Next meeting:

Thursday, May 1, 2025

2 - 3 PM

Five Points Arts Center

Topic: Carl Larsson - Select any book(s) of your choice discussing the Swedish painter, representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. He is celebrated for depictions of idyllic family life in oils, watercolors and frescoes.

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Want to enjoy some time with your friends out, but tired of the noisy and busy bars and restaurants? Well, grab some food and friends and join us at the library for our NEW BYOF and Paint. Take your time and paint at your own pace; each attendee will get to take home their finished 8 x 10 inch pre-drawn stretched canvas.

Conversational Italian, 13-sessions, is not a beginner class. It will be held on Fridays, April 25 to August 1, 9:15 to 11:15 a.m., with no class on May 30 or July 4. It is designed for those with a knowledge of basic Italian grammar and good vocabulary.  The required text is Conversational Italian: In 20 Lessons (Cortina Method) by Michael Cagno,  available online at abebooks.com.  

Yarn Bomb Drop-in Sessions are taking place at Five Points Gallery throughout the spring - free and open to the public of all ages, skills and techniques welcome!

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Fridays (weekly):

1 - 2:30 PM

April 11, 18, 25

May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Paint and sip located above Toothpick on Water Street in Torrington!

BYOB! Painting new types of still life's every week.

All materials included in price

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Torrington Recreation will be hosting a pickleball tournament on May 3rd for three divisions: Co-ed, Women's & Men's. Teams can sign up for one division by April 24th in person at the Recreation office, or online using the link below. The tournament will be a three game minimum style. If you have any questions call, email, or stop by the Recreation office!

Sign up here

Examine the bold and direct capabilities of woodcut and monotype in combination. Learn to print multiple layers of transparent inks and observe how images develop with lush color relationships and luminous surfaces. Participants will develop skills in color ink mixing, registration, printing, and stencil making.

Layered Color Woodcut/Monotype

with Jim Lee

Saturdays, May 3, 10 & 17, 2025

9 AM – 5 PM

Members: $252 / Non-Members: $280

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Create four beautiful abstract landscapes using fluid acrylics, mediums, layering, and distinctive mark-making techniques. Instructor, Heather Neilson will teach you how to work with GOLDEN fluid paints and mediums to build layers to add depth and complexity to your pieces. You will also learn color principles to apply to your paintings and experiment with mark-making to bring character and texture to your artwork.

Instructor: Heather Neilson

Saturday, May 3, 2025

10 AM - 2:30 PM

Ages: 18+

Members: $81

Non-Members: $90

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Join Jay Ignaszewski in an afternoon’s exploration diving into the creative pitfalls of moviemaking – the causes and potential resolutions to these problems.

This presentation will examine four examples of such feature films he worked on during his more than 50 years’ experience:

• “The Mean Season” with Kurt Russell
• “Roar” with Tippi Hedren
• “Throw Momma From the Train” with Danny DeVito
• “The Vagrant” with Bill Paxton

“Why Some Films Fail”

Presented by: Jay Ignaszewski

Saturday, May 3, 2025

3 – 5 PM

Five Points Arts Center

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Join us for Duck Day at Ripley!

A fun-filled, educational day for all ages featuring:

• Live raptor show by Skyhunters in Flight (2 PM)
• Reptile programs by Riverside Reptiles (11:30 AM & 1 PM)
• Rubber Duck Derby Race (12 PM)
• Face painting & hands-on activities
• Conservation games & educational exhibits
• Nature-inspired vendors
• Explore our aviaries & endangered waterfowl
• ...and so much more!

$10 per person | Kids 12 & under + Members FREE

Celebrate nature, conservation, and community with us!

Spotty Dog Rescue is having a Cornhole Tournament. Get your team together and sign up.

Strangers become friends through art making

Global artists have been randomly paired and tasked to create an artwork together.

See the results and watch the video of their relationships,

You can also check out the earlier Stranger Show of two years ago. https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/strangers

Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.

Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 67 countries in 31 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com

HOTCHKISS-FYLER HOUSE MUSEUM

Torrington Historical Society 

192 Main Street, Torrington, CT

2025 hours: Wednesday through Saturdays, April 16 - October 31, 2025

Guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 pm 

Phone: (860) 482-8260   info@torringtonhistoricalsociety.org

Admission: Adults $10 per person; children under 8 free

The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum (b. 1900) will open for the season Wednesday April 16th. The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum is a Victorian mansion that was home to two generations of Torrington residents. Gertrude F. Hotchkiss, the last family member to occupy the home, bequeathed the house and contents to the Society in 1956.  The interior of this grand house features mahogany paneling, ornate carvings, stenciled walls, murals, parquet floors and ornamental plaster treatments. Original family furnishings collections of fine and decorative arts. Artists represented are: Ammi Phillips, E.I. Couse, Winfield Scott Clime and George Lawrence Nelson.

Strangers become friends through art making

Global artists have been randomly paired and tasked to create an artwork together.

See the results and watch the video of their relationships,

You can also check out the earlier Stranger Show of two years ago. https://personaland.com/hut/exhibition/strangers

Personaland is an artist-driven global village transforming the world of art by using technology to bridge time zones and cultural boundaries. Our mission is to promote humanity, creativity, and community through a mix of entertainment, enchantment, and imagination.

Since its 2018 launch, Personaland, in its global reach, has showcased over 800 visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, and poets from 67 countries in 31 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com

HOTCHKISS-FYLER HOUSE MUSEUM

Torrington Historical Society 

192 Main Street, Torrington, CT

2025 hours: Wednesday through Saturdays, April 16 - October 31, 2025

Guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 pm 

Phone: (860) 482-8260   info@torringtonhistoricalsociety.org

Admission: Adults $10 per person; children under 8 free

The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum (b. 1900) will open for the season Wednesday April 16th. The Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum is a Victorian mansion that was home to two generations of Torrington residents. Gertrude F. Hotchkiss, the last family member to occupy the home, bequeathed the house and contents to the Society in 1956.  The interior of this grand house features mahogany paneling, ornate carvings, stenciled walls, murals, parquet floors and ornamental plaster treatments. Original family furnishings collections of fine and decorative arts. Artists represented are: Ammi Phillips, E.I. Couse, Winfield Scott Clime and George Lawrence Nelson.