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

MORE INFO & REGISTER

the ticking tent is the original brocantes-style shopping market. featuring over 60 curated artisans, antiques dealers, vintage jewelry & boutique brands for the home and more. at t.t.t. we believe in the art of discovery & the finest craftsmanship. vetted by its founders christina juarez and benjamin reynaert, the ticking tent is bursting with unique, beloved and sought after treasures from the most talented artisans and bespoke brands from across the globe.

Please mark your calendars for our annual Earth Day Cleanup! Meet us at the Friends of Main Street's green tent on the sidewalk at 372-378 Main St at 9:30 am. Help clean up litter on streets and sidewalks around town. We provide eco-friendly bags and gloves. Choose your work area, and start returning around 11:30 am for a pizza party at Noon. And remember to sign up if you are volunteering as a group! An adult must accompany children under the age of 18.

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 the Friends of the David M. Hunt Library for their monthly book sale on the first Saturday of every month from 10 am to 1 pm. New, used, cds, dvds, coffee table books, recent fiction and mystery, children's books- there is something for everyone! All proceeds benefit the library.

Teen Workshop: Engraved Frames (Grades 6+)

Discover what the CNC machine can do in this beginner-friendly workshop! You’ll learn how to create a design in Canva and then program the CNC to engrave it on a wooden picture frame. Frames will be cut after the workshop and can be picked up at the library at a later date.

Registration Required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/teen-workshop-engraved-frames/

On this World Labyrinth Day, join Marcie Swift to immerse yourself in her powerfully healing harp notes, guided imagery, and enchanting story-telling. Walk in our beautiful labyrinth to the harp’s healing vibrations, quiet your mind, recover your balance, and release worry and pain. Allow Marcie’s exquisite notes to fill you with the wonder and delight of the Divine’s embrace.

Lunch is included.

Date: Saturday, May 3

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: The Litchfield History Museum

Cost: Free for Members, $10 for non-Members

Registration Requested

Join us Saturday, May 3 at 10:00 am for a walking tour exploring Connecticut's complicated history with slavery through the life of William Grimes, a man who escaped from slavery in Georgia and wrote his autobiography in Litchfield in 1825.

Walking tours each last about 1 hour. Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a bottle of water. Free for members and $10 non-members.

This tour is a part of our series "Think What I Have Felt: Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave".  

These events are generously presented through a combination of grants, sponsorship, and in-kind donations. The Litchfield Historical Society would like to give a special thanks to Connecticut Humanities Council, Teno A. West of West Group Law PLLC, Belden House, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation, and Bantam Cinema & Arts Center.

The Potters' Marketplace is a place to view and purchase locally made pottery. The work is mostly functional, with the occasional fun, experimental piece. The functional pottery is meant to go into the dishwasher, oven, and microwave , meaning that it is really meant to be used. Ginny August has been a working potter for decades, and she enjoys the challenge of creating useful beauty. Stop in, and we can talk pots.

Foundations of Natural Farming: Fermentation & Biostimulants is a two-day immersive class designed to introduce growers, homesteaders, and natural farming enthusiasts to the fundamentals of fermentation-based soil and plant health.

On Day 1 (May 3rd), we will explore the basics of Korean Natural Farming (KNF) and Jadam techniques, including how to make Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ), Fermented Fruit Juice (FFJ), Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB), Jadam Microbial Solution (JMS), and Jadam Liquid Fertilizer (JLF). Participants will gather materials and prepare their own microbial solutions to enhance soil and plant vitality.

🌱 Why Attend?

• Gain hands-on experience making natural farming inputs
• Learn techniques to improve soil health and plant resilience
• Take home select materials as a VIP attendee
• Connect with a community of like-minded growers

Bring down some extra plants you have and swap for what you need with fellow gardeners!

Teen Art Studio is a welcoming art makerspace just for teens.

Every Second Saturday of the month, from 10:30am to 1:30pm, teens transform the program room with their laughter, inquiring minds, and art. Teen Art Studio (TAS) is a once-a-month, drop-in program that empowers teens to work independently and together on self-directed art projects. 

Facilitated by beloved teaching artist Shana Bazelmans, TAS is a welcoming place for teens to:

• Be themselves.
• Have fun making art while making friends. 
• Try their hand at varied mediums (e.g., drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion, photography). 
• Expand their knowledge of the visual arts.
• Explore major artworks.
• Build their art portfolios.
• Embark on a collective artistic journey in a relaxed, sociable studio environment, with the guidance of the teaching artist.

New teens can join at any time!

The program is drop-in and free with student admission ($5) or an annual AMP student pass. For details, email michelle@americanmuralproject.org.

Second Saturdays, 10:30am to 1:30pm

Upcoming Dates:

December 14

January 11

February 8

March 8

April 12

May 10

June 14

Teen Art Studio is made possible in part by The Torrington Savings Bank Foundation, Renee Chatelain, and Kevin Lyle.

Saturdays in May t 10:30 AM

All Ages Welcome!

Saturday Storytime is BACK! Come to OWL for an all ages storytime in the children's room every Saturday at 10:30 then stay to play. In addition to our puppet theater, wooden blocks, and train set, and dollhouse! We also have an ongoing Scavenger Hunt with fun prizes for winners as well as a special weekly craft for older children. And most importantly come in to browse our collection of print books, Nutmeg nominees, and Wonderbooks!

Guild Coffee, presented by our Volunteer Guild!

Kick start your day at the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon with the Volunteer Guild and enjoy a nice cup of joe while chatting with fellow patrons.

Kenise Barnes Fine Art is honored to present an exhibition featuring hand-painted cyanotypes by Julia Whitney Barnes and drawings by Sarah Morejohn.

Julia Whitney Barnes is well known for her innovations in Cyanotype (camera-less photographic printing process) paintings. Whitney Barnes’ multi-step process includes harvesting flora (flowers and weeds being equally important) and combining several species into a single composition on photo sensitive cotton paper. After exposing the work to UV light, the resulting blue and white image is carefully hand-painted in many layers of watercolor, gouache, and ink, reanimating the vitality to the ghost of the objects. The artist is most interested in creating work that feels both beautiful and mysterious. Her artwork symbolizes resilience and are the records of the historical moment in which they were made, the process, and the artist’s will and interest in reasserting the presence of the image.

Whitney Barnes recently completed permanent public installations in The Botanist’s Mural, Vassar College/Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Brooklyn Botanical: PS 253 (glass commission), Public Art in Public Schools/Percent for Art, Brooklyn, NY, Planting Utopia (interior installation), Albany International Airport, Albany, NY, Planting Utopia (interior and exterior installation), Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, NY. The artist has received the following honors and awards; Maker-Creator Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Library & Garden (2024-25), Individual Artist Grant, (partnering with Shaker Heritage Society), New York State Council on the Arts (2018), Individual Artist Commission, NY State Decentralization Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY (2015), Gowanus Public Arts Initiative Grant (ArtsGowanus, The Old Stone House & District 39), Brooklyn, NY, Residency with Site-Specific Installation & Fellowship, Fjellerup I Bund I Grund, Fjellerup, Denmark, to name a few. Her work has been featured in Architectural Record, Times Union, The B Magazine, The Jealous Curator, Create Magazine, American Art Collector Magazine and many other publications and podcasts. Julia Whitney Barnes earned her BFA Fine Arts, Painting, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY and her MFA Fine Arts, Painting & Combined Media, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY. The artist lives and works in NY.

Sarah Morejohn’s fascination with non-linear patterns in nature drives her work. Through drawing, she considers how the relationship to nature is mediated both by objective understanding and subjective imagining of it. Considering the symbolic connections between nature, the body, and climate change Morejohn draws partial six-fold symmetries. By building a drawing line by line, sharp angles soften and wiggle, cell-like shapes minnow along while branches and flowers become a part of the flotsam disconnected from the earth. Figurative snow crystals become interlaced with one another and their environment, jumbling towards their own future transformations. Morejohn’s drawing process is intuitive and organic, artifacts of the process, drips, spills, flaws and mistakes are embraced. By collaging the imperfect pieces of her drawings together the work becomes a metaphor for the ever-changing uncertainties of life.

Sarah Morejohn’s work in in the collections of Heustis Hall, 1% for Art Oregon Arts Commission, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Echo Laboratory, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, Ursell Laboratory, Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Project Art & Medical Museum, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA. She was awarded residencies at Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY and Playa Art and Science Residency, Summer Lake, OR. Morejohn earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. The artist lives and works in CA.

Please contact Lani Ming Holloway, Associate Director, Lani@kbfa.com, 860 560 3085 with inquires or to arrange a preview of the exhibition.

Lisa Marsan is a licensed Massage Therapist & Intuitive and has been been working with the Tarot Deck for 40 years+. Lisa respects the uncanny wisdom & insights the cards provide. She feels the cards do not "foretell" the future but show us the forces at work in a situation in order for you to make an informed decision.

As a Virgo Sun, Lisa will dive deep into your Reading. Her Taurus Rising adds grounding energy to the Reading. Lisa’s Scorpio Moon is highly intuitive and will hone in on the deeper issues.