Join us for an informative and engaging community forum: "Is Connecticut A Great Place to be A Child?" You're invited to join the movement to "End Child Poverty Now" and support all children and families in our region. This event is presented by Connecticut Community Foundation with Moderator Ginny Mink from CT Mirror, and features panelists from DataHaven, CT Voices for Children, and Connecticut Fair Housing Center. The forum offers a valuable opportunity to connect with concerned community members and offers steps toward meaningful action. 

Together, we can work toward a future where every child in Connecticut has the opportunity to thrive and prosper. This forum is free and open to the public, and space is limited. Learn more and register today to reserve your spot. 

Join us for an informative and engaging community forum: "Is Connecticut A Great Place to be A Child?" You're invited to join the movement to "End Child Poverty Now" and support all children and families in our region. This event is presented by Connecticut Community Foundation with Moderator Ginny Mink from CT Mirror, and features panelists from DataHaven, CT Voices for Children, and Connecticut Fair Housing Center. The forum offers a valuable opportunity to connect with concerned community members and offers steps toward meaningful action. 

Together, we can work toward a future where every child in Connecticut has the opportunity to thrive and prosper. This forum is free and open to the public, and space is limited. Learn more and register today to reserve your spot. 

Join us for an informative and engaging community forum: "Is Connecticut A Great Place to be A Child?" You're invited to join the movement to "End Child Poverty Now" and support all children and families in our region. This event is presented by Connecticut Community Foundation with Moderator Ginny Mink from CT Mirror, and features panelists from DataHaven, CT Voices for Children, and Connecticut Fair Housing Center. The forum offers a valuable opportunity to connect with concerned community members and offers steps toward meaningful action.  

Together, we can work toward a future where every child in Connecticut has the opportunity to thrive and prosper. This forum is free and open to the public, and space is limited. Learn more and register today to reserve your spot.  

Join us for an informative and engaging community forum: "Is Connecticut A Great Place to be A Child?" You're invited to join the movement to "End Child Poverty Now" and support all children and families in our region. This event is presented by Connecticut Community Foundation with Moderator Ginny Mink from CT Mirror, and features panelists from DataHaven, CT Voices for Children, and Connecticut Fair Housing Center. The forum offers a valuable opportunity to connect with concerned community members and offers steps toward meaningful action.

Together, we can work toward a future where every child in Connecticut has the opportunity to thrive and prosper. This forum is free and open to the public, and space is limited. Learn more and register today to reserve your spot.

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.  

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.

Date: Friday, June 6

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Location: The Litchfield History Museum

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

Registration Requested

Join us Friday, June 6 at 4:00 p.m. to learn how the town has marked moments of celebration and commemoration. This tour is being held in conjunction with the Litchfield Historical Society’s newest exhibit, Litchfield Remembers: The American Bicentennial & Beyond. We suggest arriving early to see the exhibit!

The walk will begin at the Litchfield Historical Society (7 South Street) and lasts approximately 1 hour. Wear comfortable shoes and bring a bottle of water. Walking tours are free for members and $10 for non-members.

Walking Tours are sponsored by Berkshire Alarm

Screening of “Willy Loman Comes to China”

The Arthur Miller Writing Studio, Inc. together with the Minor Memorial Library, will screen the short documentary, “Willy Loman Comes to China” in Roxbury, CT. 

Friday, June 6th, 2025 | 05:00 PM ET

Minor Memorial Library

23 South Street, Roxbury, Connecticut 06783

Q&A to be held after the screening. Refreshments will be served. Reservations are requested as space is limited.

Photo: Arthur Miller (right) during rehearsal of Death of a Salesman at the People's Art Theater. Beijing, China, 1983. © Inge Morath / Magnum Photos

Gather the girls and run over to Sunset Meadow and join us with Stillwaters USA for a Shell Candle Workshop!

Make beautiful Shell Candles (3 per person) using clean ingredients and real shells from the CT shoreline!

On Friday, June 6th, at 7PM, Kebar returns to 2nd Home. We love having him at 2nd Home, and so does everyone who is here when he is. Don't miss him!

For reservations (encouraged but not required) call 860-238-4500 or email us at momanddad@2ndhomelounge.com

See our complete event list - https://2ndhomelounge.com/events/

Our Google Street View is online, and it looks amazing:

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2nd Home Lounge

524 Main Street, Winsted

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Grand Opening at Rifugio Litchfield Hills

Saturday, June 7 | 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

461 Bantam Rd., Litchfield, CT

Join us for the grand opening of Rifugio Litchfield Hills—your new local hub for bikes, trails, and the active outdoors. Located at the edge of White Memorial, Rifugio is a space for those who love to move, connect, and explore through an active lifestyle rooted in community.

Our opening day includes a curated lineup of rides, runs, family-friendly activities, and après-style gathering on the patio.

Highlights Include:

• Morning group gravel rides and trail runs

• Kids Bike Skills Clinic (ages 7–13) + Ice Cream Party

• Free Strider Bike Games for ages 2–6

• Guided e-bike ride and picnic at Topsmead

• Aperitivo Hour with a Spritz Bar and patio refreshments

For full details and to RSVP: https://go.kceadventures.com/rsvp-rifugio-litchfield

The Litchfield Farmers Market is one of the few year-round markets in the Connecticut. The weekly Saturday market offers fresh seasonal produce, fruit, berries, herbs, sustainably sourced fish; artisanal cheeses, breads and baked goods, local honey, maple syrup and gifts - all raised, grown or crafted by 15+ local vendors. 

The market occasionally hosts live music and supports non-profits from throughout the Litchfield area.

INDOOR MARKET - November through mid-June (intermittent Saturdays through the winter months -- check the website for dates.) Open Saturdays 10am - 1pm at the Litchfield Community Center located at 421 Litchfield Road, Litchfield, CT.

OUTDOOR MARKET - mid- June through October located at Center School, Litchfield.