Come to our big Spring Book & Bake Sale sponsored by the Friends of the Beardsley Library. Saturday, May 17, 2025. Rain or shine, from 8:30 am to 3 pm at the Barkhamsted Town Garage, Route 44, Barkhamsted.

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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In addition to our high-quality, organically grown produce, we offer a variety of certified organic garden seedlings for you to transplant into your own home garden in the spring. including a tempting selection of annual flowers. We grow heirloom, standard, cherry, plum, and patio tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, summer and winter squash, melons, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, roots, greens, a tempting selection of annual flowers, and a wide selection of culinary herbs.

GOSHEN GARDEN CLUB 2025 PLANT SALE FUNDRAISER will be held at the Goshen Fair Grounds South Entrance on May 17, 2025. Order forms for the pre-ordered perennials, annuals, herbs and hanging baskets are available online at

goshengardenclub.org. Order forms can also be found at Goshen Town Hall,

Goshen Library and Goshen Wine & Spirits. Completed order forms must be received by May 3, 2025. Member Grown Perennials, Baked Goods and a Raffle will be for sale on the day of pre-ordered plant pick up Saturday, May 17, 2025.

Presented by Tim Maurer

Take your faith to new levels: live more appreciatively of God’s intimate love and many GIFTs; live a more on-fire, TRANSFORMATIVE faith. Be inspired by testimonies of God gifting people in amazing ways and by examples of God’s people transforming the world with their gifts. Find more JOY, purpose, meaning and impact living through the faith pillars of GIFT and TRANSFORMATION. Regard the love of Jesus and Mary more profoundly and JOY-fully.

Lunch is included.

Plant lovers and garden gurus are invited to The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens annual Gardenpalooza plant sale on Saturday, May 17 from 10 am to 1 pm featuring a variety of perennials, annuals, flowers, vegetable and herb plants available for purchase from Meadowbrook Gardens. Stock up on plants to start or add to your own home garden.

Additionally, Farmers and Cooks will be on site offering tasty ready-to-eat food for purchase featuring local ingredients.

Plus, local organizations will also be present to showcase their projects and initiatives. Discover how they’re growing positive change and get inspired to dig deeper into community connections!

Bamboo pens, inks, paints, and paper (to be provided at no extra cost)

Location of Workshop: Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot

*Parking is available behind the building. 

Renowned Afghan master contemporary calligrapher Alibaba Awrang will introduce experienced artists and beginners to Persian calligraphy. One of the world’s leading living Persian calligraphers, with works hanging in museums throughout the world, Awrang will explain the historical role of calligraphy as an art form that conveys human emotions, aspirations, and beauty. He will demonstrate his art;  and then invite you to try your hand (more specifically, your bamboo pen, with inks and paint, on paper) at creating your own original piece of contemporary calligraphy.

https://www.alibabaawrang.com/

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Outdoors on the grounds of the park: Military Vehicles, Reenactor Displays, Camp Life, Military Demonstrations, Activities, Vendors, and More! Also, the Winsted Soldiers' Monument will be open for viewing.

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!

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.

Charm casting is a divination ritual that draws on traditions present in many different cultures for thousands of years. Pairing charm casting with Tarot adds a unique element to a reading, provides insight and clarity in various aspects of your life and helps you determine the best actions to take as you navigate your life's path.

Tarot and Astrology Sessions are ONE ON ONE ONLY.

You may record the Session on your phone.

Don't know the rest if the story? Come and hear about this important event in Litchfield's Revolutionary War era history!

Even if you've heard the story every year since you were little, come and celebrate this finally being marked!

As their main America 250 project, the members of the Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution are grateful to have been supported by the William Pomeroy Foundation and the Seherr-Thoss Foundations.

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.”

 Dr. Seuss’s beloved story teaches kids to treat the planet with kindness and stand up and speak up for others. Experience the beauty of the Truffula Trees and the danger of taking our earth for granted in a story that is timely, playful, and hopeful. The book’s final pages teach us that just one small seed, or one small child, can make a difference. Join White Memorial Forest Manager, Mike Berry and Environmental Educator Colleen Harrak for a la reading of this classic tale followed by a family-friendly forest walk. The program really is not just for kids! Big people are invited too! 2:00 pm, A. B. Ceder Room, Members: FREE, Non-Members: $5.00 per person. Pre-registration is required. Register online: www.whitememorialcc.org

Music in the Nave brings you magical moments from Mozart operas, featuring three up-and-coming vocalists. Soprano Juliet Schlefer (shown above), mezzo Danielle Casós, and baritone Benjamin Powell perform excerpts from Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and more, accompanied by pianist Margarita Nuller and cellist Adam Grabois.

"Landscapes", an exhibit of oil paintings by Pete Bergeron at Minor Memorial Library, 23 South Street, Roxbury, CT, will begin with an opening reception on Saturday May 17, 2025 from 3 pm to 5 pm.

Music in the Nave presents great moments from Mozart operas, performed by a trio of young, up-and-coming singers. Enjoy a day at the opera (sort of) with soprano Juliet Schlefer (above), mezzo Danielle Casós, baritone Ben Powell, pianist Margarita Nuller and cellist Adam Grabois.

Pairing Mozart’s radiant music with radiant weather has long been a popular concept, most notably with Lincoln Center’s now-defunct Mostly Mozart series. Music in the Nave continues this tradition with its second annual “Mozart in May” event.

Embellished Notifications by textile designer and fiber artist Kate Lewis offers an analog interpretation of the messages and notifications we receive digitally from various apps, brands and the outside world in general.

Conceived as an “antidote to the news” this series of work aims to capture the good feelings and happiness these digital messages offer, carrying those emotions and momentary dopamine triggers into the future.

“I thought about the relationship our phones have with brands, how we receive information digitally and which brands and phrases exactly gave me that hit of dopamine,” Kate says. “These notifications have become integral to our modern lives, with food deliveries, take out, online dating, transport...”

With a nod to traditional cross-stitch samplers, these colorful and slightly subversive hand made works aim to lift your spirits, and will look great in your kitchen.

Please join us Saturday, March 17th between 4-7PM for a conversation between Kate Lewis and curator, cultural journalist and podcast host Emily McElwreath.

For more information about the opening and exhibit email hithere@peggymercury.com

or send us a DM on Instagram

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For more information about Kate Lewis: @katelewisstudio

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For more information about Emily McElwreath: @emilymcelwreath_art

@theartcareer

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Come meet your neighbors and learn how to get involved in Kent. Refreshments provided. Children welcome, and an activity will be provided for those ages 3-12.