Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
Celebration of Young Photographers
Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!
ASAP! Summer Camp
Summer Camp will be running for 9 weeks for the summer 2025 season!
- June 23, 2025- August 22, 2025
- 9:00a - 4:00p
- $200 per week or 10% for all 9 weeks ($1620)
- Ages 5-12
- Located at Pleasant View Park (Durand Street) & Elise Besse Pool
Get ready for an unforgettable summer of adventure, creativity, and exploration at our themed summer camp! Each week, campers dive into a new, exciting theme, engaging in activities that spark their imagination, build new skills, and encourage teamwork. Our dedicated staff create a supportive and inclusive environment where every camper feels welcome and motivated to try new things. Each week is packed with themed games, creative arts and crafts, outdoor activities, and memorable experiences that will have campers eagerly looking forward to each new day!
Weekly Themes:
- Circus: Step right up to the greatest show at camp! Learn juggling, create clown costumes, and try your hand at acrobatics as we explore the wonders of the circus world.
- Holiday: Celebrate holidays from around the world in a week of festive fun! From Halloween to New Year's, each day is a different celebration with themed crafts, games, and treats.
- Under the Sea: Dive deep into ocean adventures! Explore marine life, create ocean-themed art, and embark on underwater-themed challenges.
- Superheroes: Unleash your superpowers! Design your own superhero persona, participate in "hero training," and work together to solve camp "missions."
- Around the World: Take a journey across the globe as we explore different cultures, languages, and traditions through games, food, and creative projects.
- Sports: Get your game face on! Try out various sports, build team spirit, and compete in friendly matches while learning the value of teamwork and sportsmanship.
- Outer Space: Blast off into space for a week of cosmic exploration! Learn about planets, create space crafts, and go on an epic space-themed scavenger hunt.
- Flora and Fauna: Discover the beauty of nature! Learn about plants and animals, explore local ecosystems, and create nature-inspired art.
- Challengers: Push your limits and test your skills! Compete in exciting team challenges, obstacle courses, and problem-solving activities designed to build confidence and collaboration.
Each week campers will have the opportunity to enjoy our Besse Pool on Mondays and Wednesdays, so don't forget your swimsuit!
Register HERE
Torrington Recreation Summer Camp
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening.
Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
Chris Barnard + Jeff Joyce Art Show
Mondays at 10:30 AM - June 23 - August 18*
For ages 4 - 8
*No class July 7
Using Letters are Characters® Parents and caregivers are children’s first and most important teachers. Ensuring that your child learns to read to their highest potential is one of the greatest gifts that you can give them. Using Letters are Characters and Letters are Builders trademarked play-based methods, we will laugh and play our way to literacy and deep reading and empower you to be a confident and competent literacy guide for your child!
This program is funded by the generous support of the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation. Register and receive a Letters are Characters or Letters are Builders kit while supplies last. In addition to the in-person program, you will also receive weekly guidance delivered right to your inbox.
Does your child need to learn to recognize the letters and know the sounds that they make?
Visit the Oliver Wolcott Library Website for more details and links to receive Letters are Characters Kits.
Learn to Read Mondays
August 15, 2024 – August 17, 2025
Celebrating the year-long loan of three Georgia O’Keeffe paintings, this exhibition unites the Mattatuck Museum’s collection with O’Keeffe’s life and work through common themes. The first pairing, Flowers and Landscapes, showcases artists who tackled similar subject matter to O’Keeffe and participated in emerging art movements, yet also occupied marginalized spaces in society. These unique spotlight exhibitions celebrate the year-long loan of three Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and will unite the Mattatuck Museum’s collection with O’Keeffe’s life and work through common themes, creating a unique dialogue between her work and other celebrated artists. Each unique pairing will be curated and narrated by a different member of the Museum’s curatorial department and offer a distinctive perspective on the Mattatuck Collection in relation to the works and story of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Exhibitions: O’Keeffe In Conversation
Beginning in June, the Mattatuck Museum will be open on Mondays! As The Monday Museum, we’re thrilled to offer our visitors a cultural destination at the start of the week—whether you’re looking to kick off your Monday with a movie, join a tour, or enjoy a quiet moment with art.
Mondays Museum
"Finding the Light": an exhibit of oil paintings by Chandra Rogers.
Chandra Rogers is a contemporary painter residing in Litchfield County with her husband and two daughters. Primarily self-taught, Chandra began consistently painting in 2012 after signing up for a local oil painting class, which led to a deluge of personal development through various classes and workshops and a lifelong passion for art. Her diverse subjects have included animals, portraiture, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and commissioned pieces primarily in oil paint, pastels, and charcoal. Her current work is inspired by the study of light, color, mark-making, and a spirited painterly brushstroke, and has been described as capturing the soul of her subjects.
Chandra is a member of the Washington Art Association and Kent Art Association and her work has been displayed in various juried and solo shows throughout Connecticut, receiving numerous awards, most notably the Barbara Goodspeed Award, Award for Graphics, and multiple Awards of Excellence at the Kent Art Association, Honorable Mention at the Washington Art Association, and most recently Best in Show at Gallery 25 in New Milford, CT. Susan Grisell, a judge at a recent juried show, stated “Chandra’s draftsmanship and attention to detail are evident in her expressive portraits of people and animals.”
Chandra’s current show is a collection of primarily recent works reflecting her love for experimentation and trying new techniques, from traditional glazing techniques to achieve a photorealistic effect, to loose abstracts with a focus on gestural brushstrokes and mark making. Subjects include a collection of sunsets, still lifes, florals, abstracts, landscapes, portraiture, and animal paintings.
Finding the Light by Chandra Rogers
Designed to hone your artmaking, expand your creative problem-solving skills and build a strong portfolio, this fully funded program offers comprehensive workshops in Ceramics, Printmaking, Alternative Photography, and Painting & Drawing. Each workshop meets one afternoon per week for six weeks. Attendees can register for any individual or all four workshops.
Instructors: Jill Van Slooten, Caleb Portfolio, Kimberly Jo & Christine Mitchell
Mondays - Thursdays, July 7 through August 14, 2025
1:00 - 4:30 PM
Ages: 13 - 17
Members & Non-Members: FREE
2025 Summer Teen Art Labs
Learn more about Indigenous artist Fritz Scholder (Luiseño) through two documentaries that dive into his life, artistic practice, and ideologies. Multiple pieces of Scholder's work will be on display at the Mattatuck Museum over the course of the next year.
Movie Monday: His Girl Friday
Anne Gill wanted to get to know her grandfather better. But he has been dead for over 20 years. Luckily, her grandfather is prolific New Yorker staff writer, Brendan Gill, who left behind a mountain of writing; from theater criticisms to coffee table books, novels to poems. Brendan was an exceptional storyteller, and as an actor and voice-over artist, Anne tells stories for a living. To try and discover more about the grandfather she didn’t get to know well in life, she began recording his short stories from the collection Ways of Loving. She wondered if, where, and how Brendan put himself into his fiction. The process asked more questions than it answered. Anne’s presentation My Grandfather’s Stories: Meeting Grandfather in his Fiction is the culmination of a creative collaboration across generations that asks, “How do we tell our own stories? Who tells them when we’re gone? And how do they change within a family over time?”
Registration is always appreciated.
Anne Gill - My Grandfather’s Stories: Meeting Grandfather in his Fiction
The 2025 season of free concerts in the Park, produced by the Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Inc., concludes on Monday, August 11th at 7 pm with a concert by Chris Coogan Quintet. The concerts are returning to the renovated Seth Thomas Park on South Main St. in Thomaston. Each concert begins at 7 pm and concludes at 8:30 pm. The Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston’s concert series is indebted to the Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation for core funding.
For over 20 years, Coogan has led the Chris Coogan Quartet, a combo with a repertoire that includes straight-ahead jazz, fusion jazz and boogie-woogie. S’Funky, Coogan’s first jazz album containing his original songs, was released in 1995 and re-released in 1999. It features the song Cranberry Isle which took the top jazz prize in the 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Coogan’s credits as a jazz musician include performing with the late Sal Salvador, Bette Midler, Donna Summer, Paul Newman, Whoopie Goldberg, Jo Ann Woodward, Alec Baldwin, Gene Wilder, Larry Coryell, Dave Liebman, Harold Danko, Ronnie Spector, James Naughton and Phoebe Snow, as well as arranging for Teo Maceo, producer for the late Miles Davis. He appeared on television’s Celebrity Jeopardy and the Arsenio Hall Show and has performed at Manhattan’s Blue Note and the Montreaux Jazz Festival.
Coogan also leads a successful career as a choral director; as well as a writer and arranger of gospel music. He weaves jazz black gospel and white choral music into a new brand of music that engages a broad, cross-cultural audience. In 1993, he founded the good News Gospel Choir with 15 members. Today, this 50-voice, multi-denominational singing group performs nearly every weekend at churches, festivals, fundraisers and various community events throughout the state of Connecticut. “I see myself as a catalyst who uses the medium of music to bring people together” Coogan said. “It’s my passion to help people find joy in making music and singing from their souls”.
Alcohol is not permitted in the Park by Town ordinance. Bring your lawn chair, your friends, and your love of music to Seth Thomas Park on Monday, August 11th!! All ages welcome, and the Park is handicap-accessible. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will move to the Thomaston Opera House, 158 Main St. in the Town Hall. Visit the FACT website for further information or weather alerts concerning concert relocation: www.thomastonfinearts.com.
Free Summer Concert in the Park!
Global artists have sent in their wildest images, film, music and poems for Personaland's online art show
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 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
"Wearing Wild" - a wildest of art show
The Merwinsville Hotel is excited to be continuing the Glass Orb Scavenger Hunt thanks to a generous donation from the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
There are 24 area historic sites and organizations that are participating with the Hotel. Each site is hiding four numbered and dated one-of-a-kind glass orbs (three clear and one colored) either inside or outside on their property. Participants can search for and keep any glass orb that they find, but please limit one orb per person/family so everyone has a chance! Be sure to register your orb on the Merwinsville Hotel website where you can also upload a photo. Share your find on social media and don't forget to tag the organization where you found it!
The blown glass orbs that are numbered, dated for 2025, and stamped with “MHR 50”. In addition to the clear glass orbs, there are 25 colored orbs for 2025. Reminder: Because each organization's hours vary, be sure to check their websites before you head out on your hunt.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS BY TOWN:
Bantam:
Bantam Cinema
Brookfield:
Brookfield Craft Center
Danbury:
Danbury Museum & Historical Society; Danbury Railway Museum
Gaylordsville - Celebrating its 300th Anniversary!
Browns Forge; Little Red Schoolhouse; Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, Inc.; The Washington Oak Park (DAR Roger Sherman Chapter)
Kent:
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association; Eric Sloane Museum; Kent Historical Society
Litchfield:
Litchfield Historical Society
New Fairfield:
New Fairfield Historical Society (at the Little Red Schoolhouse); Preserve New Fairfield
New Milford:
Gallery 25 & Creative Arts Studio; Harrybrooke Park; Merryall Center for the Arts; New Milford Historical Society; Pratt Nature Center; The Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm Trust; TheatreWorks; Village Center for the Arts
Sherman:
Sherman Historical Society
Washington:
Gunn Historical Museum
2025 GLASS ORB SCAVENGER HUNT
Support our food, beverage and retail businesses. Get your Taste of Burlington card stamped at at least 12 of the following businesses between June 21, 2025 and September 1, 2025 for a chance to win gift certificates.
The B. Hive www.thebhiveburlington.com
Burlington Spirit Shoppe www.burlingtonspirit.com
Charming Thai Restaurant www.charming-thai.com
China Garden (860) 675-6666
Daily Mart (860) 675-7243
Delta Pizza www.delta-pizza.com
Enclave Grille www.enclavegrille.com
Greenhouse Tavern www.greenhousecafeandtavern.com
Happy Hippie Homestead www.facebook.com/people/Happy-Hippie-Homestead/61564351782316/
Hogan's Cider Mill www.hoganscidermill.com
I Know A Guy Deli www.iknowaguyfoodsllc.com
Kyle's Doghouse (860) 729-6146
Lamothe's Sugar House www.lamothesugarhouse.com
Larson's Garden Center www.larsonsgardencenter.com
Little Axe Market www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569260639474#
Little Laurel's Cookie Co. www.littlelaurels.com
The Nevermind Shop www.nevermindshop.com
Sabrina's Restaurant & successor www.sabrinasrestaurantct.com
The Swimming Pool Store www.theswimmingpoolstore.com
Tonn's Marketplace www.tonnsmarketplace.com
Thank you to our sponsors: Torrington Savings Bank, M&T Bank and the Burlington CT Police Union
Taste of Burlington
Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
Celebration of Young Photographers
Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!
ASAP! Summer Camp
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening.
Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
Chris Barnard + Jeff Joyce Art Show
“Level Up at Your Library” Summer Reading Program for all ages, Morris Public Library, June 24 -August 20, 2025.
We are excited to offer a fun and engaging Summer Reading Program “Level Up at Your Library,” June 24 – August 20, 2025.
Each reading level has their own “Level Up at Your Library” Activity Card to participate in the program. Youngsters (PreK and under) will enjoy reading with their families and engage in fun activities. Students (Grades K-Grade 5) will count the number of their new reading adventures by writing them down in their cards. Teens (Grades 6-12) and adults will explore new and special book selections, which they can easily find at their Library.
Submit your completed cards (could be more than one!) to enter for a chance to win a Level Up at Your Library Prize.
Find weekly coloring projects for children and adults throughout the program – complete yours and share it for our library display!
No registration is required – obtain your card at the kickoff, at the library or download it from the website https://morrispubliclibrary.net (all levels!).
Summer Reading Program for all ages "Level Up at Your Library"
The Morris Public Library offers Story and Music Time for participants ages 9 mo. - 5 y.o every Tuesday at 10 am.
Please call to ask if a spot is available: 860-567-7440.
Sing songs, read a story, do a craft!
Story and Music Time
Join us for Story Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 for new books, free play, and fun crafts!
Story Time
Do you like to hike? Or do you want to get into hiking more? Join our Parks and Recreation Director, Matt, and Parks and Recreation Intern, Sam, for the Emery Park Summit Hiking Club! Matt and Sam will lead a group hike at Emery Park up to the summit and lookout of Leonard Mountain.
This program is for all ages. All hiking abilities are welcome. Hikes will be canceled at Director’s discretion (inclement weather/thunderstorms, hazards on trial, major flooding, etc).
Emery Park Summer Hiking Club
Designed to hone your artmaking, expand your creative problem-solving skills and build a strong portfolio, this fully funded program offers comprehensive workshops in Ceramics, Printmaking, Alternative Photography, and Painting & Drawing. Each workshop meets one afternoon per week for six weeks. Attendees can register for any individual or all four workshops.
Instructors: Jill Van Slooten, Caleb Portfolio, Kimberly Jo & Christine Mitchell
Mondays - Thursdays, July 7 through August 14, 2025
1:00 - 4:30 PM
Ages: 13 - 17
Members & Non-Members: FREE
2025 Summer Teen Art Labs
Join the Monthly Critique sessions at Five Points Arts Center – Bring in an original work for personal, constructive feedback and discussion with Founder and Executive Director, Judy McElhone. All skill levels and mediums are welcome!
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, August 12
2 – 3 PM
Five Points Arts Center
Monthly Critique Sessions - August
Once you’ve got a 3D design you’d like to make, how can you ensure it prints successfully? Learn some tips and level up your 3D printing skills in this intermediate workshop! We’ll review some common 3D printing pitfalls and discuss how adjusting certain settings in the printer’s Cura slicing software can help. Discover how to resize a print, add supports, increase or decrease the infill level, improve details, reduce printing time, and more!
Ages 18+
Registration Required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/beyond-the-basics-fine-tuning-3d-prints-with-cura/
All participants must have a signed GML Makerspace waiver on file. Please arrive a few minutes early to complete this paperwork if this is your first Makerspace program.
Gunn Memorial Library Adult Workshop: Beyond the Basics: Fine Tuning 3D Prints with Cura
Jonathan Doster is back! Join “Mr. D” for fun summer evenings of chess. Jonathan will teach, guide, and talk strategy with players of all skill levels. Adults and children over the age of 6 are welcome; please note this is not a drop off program for children under 12. Please register.
More Ego-Less Chess (ages 6 to adult)
Join this club to learn the ukulele and to improve your skills. Playing the ukulele with others is loads of fun! A collaboration between NMPL and NM Senior Center. If you are over 60 and need a ride to the library, please call 860-355-6075.
Ukulele Club
Join us at Honeybee Books and Tea for our weekly Open Mic Night!
With a full technical assortment of equipment, we are more than happy to welcome:
- Musicians
- Poets
- Stand-up Comedy
- Reading Excerpts
- Dance
- Puppetry
- Whatever Makes You Buzz
We ask that attendees arrive promptly at 6:00 pm to respect performers. For more information, check out our website or stop by in-store.
Honeybee Books & Tea Open Mic Night
Bring a couple of songs, a story, a few poems, or your tight 8 minutes of standup to the Merryall Center's Open Mic.
Signups start at 6:30 for our 7:00 open mic. Two songs
or 8 minutes.
Open Mic Night
Global artists have sent in their wildest images, film, music and poems for Personaland's online art show
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 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
"Wearing Wild" - a wildest of art show
The Merwinsville Hotel is excited to be continuing the Glass Orb Scavenger Hunt thanks to a generous donation from the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
There are 24 area historic sites and organizations that are participating with the Hotel. Each site is hiding four numbered and dated one-of-a-kind glass orbs (three clear and one colored) either inside or outside on their property. Participants can search for and keep any glass orb that they find, but please limit one orb per person/family so everyone has a chance! Be sure to register your orb on the Merwinsville Hotel website where you can also upload a photo. Share your find on social media and don't forget to tag the organization where you found it!
The blown glass orbs that are numbered, dated for 2025, and stamped with “MHR 50”. In addition to the clear glass orbs, there are 25 colored orbs for 2025. Reminder: Because each organization's hours vary, be sure to check their websites before you head out on your hunt.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS BY TOWN:
Bantam:
Bantam Cinema
Brookfield:
Brookfield Craft Center
Danbury:
Danbury Museum & Historical Society; Danbury Railway Museum
Gaylordsville - Celebrating its 300th Anniversary!
Browns Forge; Little Red Schoolhouse; Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, Inc.; The Washington Oak Park (DAR Roger Sherman Chapter)
Kent:
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association; Eric Sloane Museum; Kent Historical Society
Litchfield:
Litchfield Historical Society
New Fairfield:
New Fairfield Historical Society (at the Little Red Schoolhouse); Preserve New Fairfield
New Milford:
Gallery 25 & Creative Arts Studio; Harrybrooke Park; Merryall Center for the Arts; New Milford Historical Society; Pratt Nature Center; The Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm Trust; TheatreWorks; Village Center for the Arts
Sherman:
Sherman Historical Society
Washington:
Gunn Historical Museum
2025 GLASS ORB SCAVENGER HUNT
Support our food, beverage and retail businesses. Get your Taste of Burlington card stamped at at least 12 of the following businesses between June 21, 2025 and September 1, 2025 for a chance to win gift certificates.
The B. Hive www.thebhiveburlington.com
Burlington Spirit Shoppe www.burlingtonspirit.com
Charming Thai Restaurant www.charming-thai.com
China Garden (860) 675-6666
Daily Mart (860) 675-7243
Delta Pizza www.delta-pizza.com
Enclave Grille www.enclavegrille.com
Greenhouse Tavern www.greenhousecafeandtavern.com
Happy Hippie Homestead www.facebook.com/people/Happy-Hippie-Homestead/61564351782316/
Hogan's Cider Mill www.hoganscidermill.com
I Know A Guy Deli www.iknowaguyfoodsllc.com
Kyle's Doghouse (860) 729-6146
Lamothe's Sugar House www.lamothesugarhouse.com
Larson's Garden Center www.larsonsgardencenter.com
Little Axe Market www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569260639474#
Little Laurel's Cookie Co. www.littlelaurels.com
The Nevermind Shop www.nevermindshop.com
Sabrina's Restaurant & successor www.sabrinasrestaurantct.com
The Swimming Pool Store www.theswimmingpoolstore.com
Tonn's Marketplace www.tonnsmarketplace.com
Thank you to our sponsors: Torrington Savings Bank, M&T Bank and the Burlington CT Police Union
Taste of Burlington
Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
Celebration of Young Photographers
Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!
ASAP! Summer Camp
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
Different bird species choose specific trees for food, shelter, and song. On this program, learn how knowing your trees will help you spot more birds. Join Sanctuary Manager/ Naturalist Lori Lichtenauer at Deer Pond Farm for a unique twist on traditional birding. This is a relaxed walk through various habitats, perfect for curious beginners and seasoned birders alike. Bring your questions and your love for feathered friends!
Register here.
This program meets at Deer Pond Farm, 57 Wakeman Hill Road, Sherman, CT 06784.
$5 members, $10 non-members
Birding By Tree @ Deer Pond Farm in Sherman
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening.
Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
Chris Barnard + Jeff Joyce Art Show
Take a scenic summer ride through the Berkshires where you’ll enjoy many exciting contemporary art exhibitions. Enjoy a convenient catered box lunch at Lickety Split Cafe right on campus (menu options below) so you can get the most out of your time exploring the museum along with a Guided Group Tour. For additional info and ehibitions, visit www.massmoca.org.
Cost includes lunch & Guided Tour
* Pre-registration & pre-payment required.
REGISTER
Adult Day Trip: Mass MocA Museum of Contemporary Art
“Level Up at Your Library” Summer Reading Program for all ages, Morris Public Library, June 24 -August 20, 2025.
We are excited to offer a fun and engaging Summer Reading Program “Level Up at Your Library,” June 24 – August 20, 2025.
Each reading level has their own “Level Up at Your Library” Activity Card to participate in the program. Youngsters (PreK and under) will enjoy reading with their families and engage in fun activities. Students (Grades K-Grade 5) will count the number of their new reading adventures by writing them down in their cards. Teens (Grades 6-12) and adults will explore new and special book selections, which they can easily find at their Library.
Submit your completed cards (could be more than one!) to enter for a chance to win a Level Up at Your Library Prize.
Find weekly coloring projects for children and adults throughout the program – complete yours and share it for our library display!
No registration is required – obtain your card at the kickoff, at the library or download it from the website https://morrispubliclibrary.net (all levels!).
Summer Reading Program for all ages "Level Up at Your Library"
"Finding the Light": an exhibit of oil paintings by Chandra Rogers.
Chandra Rogers is a contemporary painter residing in Litchfield County with her husband and two daughters. Primarily self-taught, Chandra began consistently painting in 2012 after signing up for a local oil painting class, which led to a deluge of personal development through various classes and workshops and a lifelong passion for art. Her diverse subjects have included animals, portraiture, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and commissioned pieces primarily in oil paint, pastels, and charcoal. Her current work is inspired by the study of light, color, mark-making, and a spirited painterly brushstroke, and has been described as capturing the soul of her subjects.
Chandra is a member of the Washington Art Association and Kent Art Association and her work has been displayed in various juried and solo shows throughout Connecticut, receiving numerous awards, most notably the Barbara Goodspeed Award, Award for Graphics, and multiple Awards of Excellence at the Kent Art Association, Honorable Mention at the Washington Art Association, and most recently Best in Show at Gallery 25 in New Milford, CT. Susan Grisell, a judge at a recent juried show, stated “Chandra’s draftsmanship and attention to detail are evident in her expressive portraits of people and animals.”
Chandra’s current show is a collection of primarily recent works reflecting her love for experimentation and trying new techniques, from traditional glazing techniques to achieve a photorealistic effect, to loose abstracts with a focus on gestural brushstrokes and mark making. Subjects include a collection of sunsets, still lifes, florals, abstracts, landscapes, portraiture, and animal paintings.
Finding the Light by Chandra Rogers
Designed to hone your artmaking, expand your creative problem-solving skills and build a strong portfolio, this fully funded program offers comprehensive workshops in Ceramics, Printmaking, Alternative Photography, and Painting & Drawing. Each workshop meets one afternoon per week for six weeks. Attendees can register for any individual or all four workshops.
Instructors: Jill Van Slooten, Caleb Portfolio, Kimberly Jo & Christine Mitchell
Mondays - Thursdays, July 7 through August 14, 2025
1:00 - 4:30 PM
Ages: 13 - 17
Members & Non-Members: FREE
2025 Summer Teen Art Labs
The Mystery Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Wednesday, August 13, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "The Spy Coast" by Tess Gerritsen.
Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement.
But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends―all retirees from the CIA―to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This “Martini Club” of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they’re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives.
Complicating their efforts is Purity’s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie’s reluctance to share information―and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn.
As Jo’s investigation collides with the Martini Club’s maneuvers, Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends―and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau―Maggie might just be able to save the life she’s built.
New registrations and book requests: 860-567-7440 or
Mystery Book Club
Global artists have sent in their wildest images, film, music and poems for Personaland's online art show
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 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
"Wearing Wild" - a wildest of art show
The Merwinsville Hotel is excited to be continuing the Glass Orb Scavenger Hunt thanks to a generous donation from the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
There are 24 area historic sites and organizations that are participating with the Hotel. Each site is hiding four numbered and dated one-of-a-kind glass orbs (three clear and one colored) either inside or outside on their property. Participants can search for and keep any glass orb that they find, but please limit one orb per person/family so everyone has a chance! Be sure to register your orb on the Merwinsville Hotel website where you can also upload a photo. Share your find on social media and don't forget to tag the organization where you found it!
The blown glass orbs that are numbered, dated for 2025, and stamped with “MHR 50”. In addition to the clear glass orbs, there are 25 colored orbs for 2025. Reminder: Because each organization's hours vary, be sure to check their websites before you head out on your hunt.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS BY TOWN:
Bantam:
Bantam Cinema
Brookfield:
Brookfield Craft Center
Danbury:
Danbury Museum & Historical Society; Danbury Railway Museum
Gaylordsville - Celebrating its 300th Anniversary!
Browns Forge; Little Red Schoolhouse; Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, Inc.; The Washington Oak Park (DAR Roger Sherman Chapter)
Kent:
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association; Eric Sloane Museum; Kent Historical Society
Litchfield:
Litchfield Historical Society
New Fairfield:
New Fairfield Historical Society (at the Little Red Schoolhouse); Preserve New Fairfield
New Milford:
Gallery 25 & Creative Arts Studio; Harrybrooke Park; Merryall Center for the Arts; New Milford Historical Society; Pratt Nature Center; The Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm Trust; TheatreWorks; Village Center for the Arts
Sherman:
Sherman Historical Society
Washington:
Gunn Historical Museum
2025 GLASS ORB SCAVENGER HUNT
Support our food, beverage and retail businesses. Get your Taste of Burlington card stamped at at least 12 of the following businesses between June 21, 2025 and September 1, 2025 for a chance to win gift certificates.
The B. Hive www.thebhiveburlington.com
Burlington Spirit Shoppe www.burlingtonspirit.com
Charming Thai Restaurant www.charming-thai.com
China Garden (860) 675-6666
Daily Mart (860) 675-7243
Delta Pizza www.delta-pizza.com
Enclave Grille www.enclavegrille.com
Greenhouse Tavern www.greenhousecafeandtavern.com
Happy Hippie Homestead www.facebook.com/people/Happy-Hippie-Homestead/61564351782316/
Hogan's Cider Mill www.hoganscidermill.com
I Know A Guy Deli www.iknowaguyfoodsllc.com
Kyle's Doghouse (860) 729-6146
Lamothe's Sugar House www.lamothesugarhouse.com
Larson's Garden Center www.larsonsgardencenter.com
Little Axe Market www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569260639474#
Little Laurel's Cookie Co. www.littlelaurels.com
The Nevermind Shop www.nevermindshop.com
Sabrina's Restaurant & successor www.sabrinasrestaurantct.com
The Swimming Pool Store www.theswimmingpoolstore.com
Tonn's Marketplace www.tonnsmarketplace.com
Thank you to our sponsors: Torrington Savings Bank, M&T Bank and the Burlington CT Police Union
Taste of Burlington
Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
Celebration of Young Photographers
Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!
ASAP! Summer Camp
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening.
Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
Chris Barnard + Jeff Joyce Art Show
“Level Up at Your Library” Summer Reading Program for all ages, Morris Public Library, June 24 -August 20, 2025.
We are excited to offer a fun and engaging Summer Reading Program “Level Up at Your Library,” June 24 – August 20, 2025.
Each reading level has their own “Level Up at Your Library” Activity Card to participate in the program. Youngsters (PreK and under) will enjoy reading with their families and engage in fun activities. Students (Grades K-Grade 5) will count the number of their new reading adventures by writing them down in their cards. Teens (Grades 6-12) and adults will explore new and special book selections, which they can easily find at their Library.
Submit your completed cards (could be more than one!) to enter for a chance to win a Level Up at Your Library Prize.
Find weekly coloring projects for children and adults throughout the program – complete yours and share it for our library display!
No registration is required – obtain your card at the kickoff, at the library or download it from the website https://morrispubliclibrary.net (all levels!).
Summer Reading Program for all ages "Level Up at Your Library"
This workshop will focus on pinch, slab and coil handbuilding techniques enriched by demonstrations on sculpting small and large forms designed for indoor and outdoor installation. Open to all levels of experience, you will have the opportunity to creatively express yourself through clay.
Instructor: Kathy McFadden
Thursday - Saturday, August 14, 15 & 16, 2025
10 AM - 3 PM
Members: $247.50 / Non-Members: $275
Handbuilding Techniques
Get ready to go big! The New Hartford Artisans Guild is thrilled to announce our upcoming Big
Works Art Show, celebrating artwork that makes a bold statement. This is your chance to showcase
your largest, most impactful pieces—the only requirement is that one dimension must be at least
24 inches. Whether it’s towering canvases, sweeping landscapes, or grand sculptural forms, we
want to fill the gallery with work that commands attention. Don’t miss this opportunity to take up
space and let your creativity shine on a larger scale!
Open Call for the Big Show
The Gunn Museum announces a new exhibit American Perspectives: Peril and Possibilities. This exhibit is part of our American Revolution 250 celebrations.
The exhibit tells the story of the impossible dream, a revolution against the world’s mightiest Empire that would create a new nation built on the ideals of freedom, liberty and opportunity. The exhibit discusses Connecticut and our community including during the war.
Peril and Possibilities Exhibit
Join us for Story Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 for new books, free play, and fun crafts!
Story Time
Enjoy the works of
Photographer Sarah Blodgett & Basket Weaver Tina Puckett
About the Artists
Sarah Blodgett
Sarah Blodgett is a photographer from the Hudson Valley in New York. Born in New York City, daughter of a professional advertising photographer, she bought her first camera at the age of ten and has been shooting ever since. A commercial & portrait photographer professionally since 1993, her passion now lies with creating images of wildlife and natural areas. Her primary focus is on birds as well as landscapes, seascapes, still lives and florals. She also offers speaking programs to accompany her work with a focus on ecology and preservation of the natural world around us.
Tina Puckett
American Master Weaver Tina Puckett is a self-taught Artist. who has been weaving since 1981. For over 40 years the woven arts have been evolving and each one is indescribably dynamic and colorful. The character of each piece is an expression of Tina's imagination and her sense of color that she applies to the weaving and structural form. Throughout Tina’s career she has exhibited her woven arts at museums, art galleries, libraries and art shows. Also, has been featured in magazines, books, newspapers, TV and on different platforms on the web.
Artist Statement
My woven pieces from baskets to wall sculptures, ceiling hangers, to furniture has evolved and is the way I define myself as an artist, and as a woman. I am fulfilling my dreams that started out with my imagination as a set designer. My creative path took a turn. It was not set design—but the woven arts with its many forms and functions where I found the passion for my life’s work.
The natural beauty of Bittersweet always sparks my imagination and is at the heart of the many pieces I weave. My imagination guides all that I do and it has become very attuned to the harmony of shapes, forms, and colors of the vines and reeds. I am also influenced by the beauty of our natural world and wonder how to weave it.
My palette for color is very much influenced by this experience of growing up in South America. I mix my own dyes and enjoy building a palette for the reeds that will shape textures and forms with color into a
one of a kind woven art!
Mixed Media Exhibit
"Finding the Light": an exhibit of oil paintings by Chandra Rogers.
Chandra Rogers is a contemporary painter residing in Litchfield County with her husband and two daughters. Primarily self-taught, Chandra began consistently painting in 2012 after signing up for a local oil painting class, which led to a deluge of personal development through various classes and workshops and a lifelong passion for art. Her diverse subjects have included animals, portraiture, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and commissioned pieces primarily in oil paint, pastels, and charcoal. Her current work is inspired by the study of light, color, mark-making, and a spirited painterly brushstroke, and has been described as capturing the soul of her subjects.
Chandra is a member of the Washington Art Association and Kent Art Association and her work has been displayed in various juried and solo shows throughout Connecticut, receiving numerous awards, most notably the Barbara Goodspeed Award, Award for Graphics, and multiple Awards of Excellence at the Kent Art Association, Honorable Mention at the Washington Art Association, and most recently Best in Show at Gallery 25 in New Milford, CT. Susan Grisell, a judge at a recent juried show, stated “Chandra’s draftsmanship and attention to detail are evident in her expressive portraits of people and animals.”
Chandra’s current show is a collection of primarily recent works reflecting her love for experimentation and trying new techniques, from traditional glazing techniques to achieve a photorealistic effect, to loose abstracts with a focus on gestural brushstrokes and mark making. Subjects include a collection of sunsets, still lifes, florals, abstracts, landscapes, portraiture, and animal paintings.
Finding the Light by Chandra Rogers
Designed to hone your artmaking, expand your creative problem-solving skills and build a strong portfolio, this fully funded program offers comprehensive workshops in Ceramics, Printmaking, Alternative Photography, and Painting & Drawing. Each workshop meets one afternoon per week for six weeks. Attendees can register for any individual or all four workshops.
Instructors: Jill Van Slooten, Caleb Portfolio, Kimberly Jo & Christine Mitchell
Mondays - Thursdays, July 7 through August 14, 2025
1:00 - 4:30 PM
Ages: 13 - 17
Members & Non-Members: FREE
2025 Summer Teen Art Labs
Over the hour, participants will read articles from French magazines covering cultural topics and current events. This program is an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow Francophiles, share perspectives, and experience the richness of the French language in a welcoming environment.
Registration is required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/french-club-for-adults-3/
Gunn Memorial Library - French Club for Adults
Artist Gail O'Donnell will lead an indigo and clay resist workshop at the David M. Hunt Library on Thursday, August 14th from 2-4 pm. Come Join us as we explore the exciting world of indigo! People have used and been fascinated by indigo for thousands of years. It has influenced art and artists throughout the ages and has been used to color everything from crayons, paint, cosmetics and fabrics. Everyone will leave with two or three flour sack dish cloths they have painted themselves with a special clay paste and then dipped in indigo. No experience necessary, all materials provided. Registration is required for this program as it is limited to twelve participants.
Indigo and Clay Resist Workshop
For the first year, we will be hosting a summer market located at COE PARK on the same nights as our Summer Concert Series. Each Thursday between June and August, check out vendors of all different varieties from meats, veggies, maple syrup, handcrafted goods, and more! Check out our full vendor list soon! Inquire above if you would like to be a vendor!
Torrington Recreation Summer Market
Patrons 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
SCHEDULE
Thursdays
Tours leave at 4,5,6, 6:30, 7, 7:30
Fridays
Tours leave at 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 6:30, 7, 7:30
Saturdays & Sundays
Tours leave at 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3
The iconic family-favorite board game comes to life! Enter the world of CLUE in the interactive and immersive experience, CLUE: A Walking Mystery.
Have you ever wanted to solve a cold murder case? Have you ever wanted to inhabit the world of CLUE and unravel its mystery like a real detective? This is your chance. CLUE: A Walking Mystery is an interactive, IRL version of the beloved board game. In this version, the murder was never solved, the mansion sold, and the furniture from all nine rooms has been auctioned off and scattered throughout downtown Torrington.
In this new spin on everyone’s favorite mystery game, guests step into the roles of descendants of the beloved CLUE characters: Mayor Green, Colonel Mustard, Solicitor Peacock, Professor Plum, Miss Scarlett and Chef White.
You are a newly minted detective sent to find clues in pieces of furniture that came from the iconic rooms in Tudor Mansion (the Library, the Billiard Room, the Ballroom, etc.) in order to solve the murder mystery and finally answer the questions:
WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT?
Clue: A Walking Mystery
Gallery 25 Presents: Heatwaves & Hues – A Summer Art Show
Heatwaves & Hues, running from Friday, May 2 – Sunday, August 17. This vibrant exhibition will showcase works bursting with color and inspired by the warmth and energy of summer.
Plan a Fun Weekend in New Milford!
New Milford is an exciting destination, offering a variety of activities for visitors. Enjoy well-reviewed restaurants, pubs, and unique shops, take in a film at our charming Art Deco movie theater, or catch a live performance at the innovative TheatreWorks playhouse. Stroll through our beautiful historic New England Green, a perfect spot to relax and soak in the town’s charm.
Experience Gallery 25
Gallery 25 is an artist-run gallery featuring 25 members working across all genres. Along with our exciting exhibitions, we invite you to take part in our workshops, live demonstrations, artist discussions, and photography walks!
We welcome you to explore, create, and be inspired!
Gallery 25 Summer Art Show: Heatwaves & Hues
Wrap up a fun summer with your friends and family.
Join us for a fun evening and exciting entertainment.
Come early to for food trucks and ice cream.
Trampoline Show starts at 6pm
Co-hosed by Litchfield Park & Rec and the Litchfield Prevention Council
Sponsored by: Thurston Funeral Home, John Scheepers Bulbs and The Litchfield Inn
Flippenout Trampoline Show
Calling all adventurers! Gather your friends and visit the Makerspace to level up your D&D campaigns with custom miniatures. Utilize a range of materials, from low-tech supplies like paper, clay, and fabric to high-tech tools like 3D printing and generative AI, to create miniature versions of your characters. *Please note that since 3D printing can take a considerable amount of time, all 3D-printed miniatures will be printed after the workshop and may be picked up from the library at a later date.**
Grades 6-12
Registration Required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/teen-ddiy-make-your-own-miniatures-grades-6-12/
All participants must have a signed GML Makerspace waiver on file. Please arrive a few minutes early to complete this paperwork if this is your first Makerspace program.
Gunn Memorial Library Teen Makerspace Workshop - Teen D&DIY: Miniatures
Discover the ancient art of pysanky--Ukrainian egg decorating--in this hands-on workshop. Learn about the rich history of this beautiful folk art, and decorate your own egg using the traditional wax-resist process.
Ukrainian Egg-Making
Enjoy two themed cocktails created by a talented bartender from Litchfield Distillery while enjoying an evening with Mattatuck Museum Chief Curator Keffie Feldman. Learn more about the art on display in The Body Imagined, and hear from artists featured in the exhibition.
Non-Member: $15
Member: $10
Sober: $5
Register Online:https://www.mattmuseum.org/calendar/cocktails-conversations-the-body-imagined/
Cocktails & Conversations: The Body Imagined
Come check out the Torrington Recreations 2025 Summer Concert Series at Coe Park! Over the course of 14 weeks, every Thursday, starting June 5th and running through September 4th, we will be hosting 14 different bands who will perform a range of different genres. Concerts will be held on the outside portico at the Coe Memorial Park (101 Litchfield Road) from 6pm-8pm. Bring your blankets, chairs, food and drinks to enjoy our concerts in the park!
Acid Wash is an area favorite specializing in 70s and 80s rock and hard rock.
2025 Summer Concert Series: Acid Wash
Summer ART Club with Liz Rosiello
Thursday Evenings • 6–8 PM • $65 per session
For Adults & Young Adults (ages 14+)
All skill levels welcome!
Join artist and instructor Liz Rosiello for a summer of creativity, skill-building, and artistic exploration! Each session of this laid-back, small-group Summer Art Club focuses on a different essential art skills—from drawing fundamentals to watercolor journaling to mastering color and value. Classes take place at Gallery 25 and we will draw inspiration from downtown New Milford, making the town itself part of your inspiration!
June: Drawing Fundamentals
Thursdays, 6/19 & 6/26 | 6–8 PM
Sharpen your drawing skills as we explore composition, perspective, and technique. We’ll be sketching the charming architecture of downtown New Milford as we learn! Sign up for Liz's June session: https://square.link/u/kXuz29Hg
July: Art Journal & Sketchbook
Thursdays, 7/10 & 7/17 | 6–8 PM
Create vibrant entries in your art journal using watercolor while learning new landscape techniques. We’ll draw inspiration from the nearby Riverwalk and Train Station views—a perfect outdoor sketching session! Sign up for Liz's July Session: https://square.link/u/E2ThVyBq
August: Learn Color & Value
Thursdays, 8/7 & 8/14 | 6–8 PM
Session 1 dives into color theory and how to apply it meaningfully in your art. In Session 2, we’ll focus on value—the true backbone of great painting. Learn how to make your work pop and why value is everything! Sign up for Liz's August Session: https://square.link/u/Ea9y3Kvk
Whether you're just starting out or looking to deepen your practice, Summer Art Club offers a welcoming, fun space to grow your skills with guidance from a passionate teacher.
Spots are limited—sign up early to save yours! Use the links to sign up for your sessions! Sign up for all three sessions or choose the sessions that fit your schedule!
Gallery 25 in the Historic Train Station
11 Railroad Street
New Milford, CT
Summer Art Club: Thursday Evenings with Liz Rosiello
Auditorium
Writers of all experience levels are invited to share their WIPs, brainstorm ideas, have fun with writing prompts, or simply connect with other writers.
Waterbury Writers
Hello! Practice speaking English in a casual setting at the library. Tutors from Literacy Volunteers on the Green will be on hand to keep the conversation flowing.
ESL Cafe
Join us for unforgettable Summer Concerts – Music, Community, and Good Vibes –Thursdays in July and August, 6:30-8:30 PM at historic East End Park. The concerts are free and brought to you by Friends of Main Street Summer Concerts, sponsored by Northwest Community. Bring your lawn chairs and picnic dinner, or grab something from nearby eateries. The concerts are a fair-weather event. Inclement weather can result in a concert cancellation that same day.
Alcohol and Cannabis are not allowed in the park. Individuals who appear intoxicated will be reported to the police, removed, and can be fined up to $90/incident.
🎺 Summer Concerts on the Green
Global artists have sent in their wildest images, film, music and poems for Personaland's online art show
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 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
"Wearing Wild" - a wildest of art show
The Merwinsville Hotel is excited to be continuing the Glass Orb Scavenger Hunt thanks to a generous donation from the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
There are 24 area historic sites and organizations that are participating with the Hotel. Each site is hiding four numbered and dated one-of-a-kind glass orbs (three clear and one colored) either inside or outside on their property. Participants can search for and keep any glass orb that they find, but please limit one orb per person/family so everyone has a chance! Be sure to register your orb on the Merwinsville Hotel website where you can also upload a photo. Share your find on social media and don't forget to tag the organization where you found it!
The blown glass orbs that are numbered, dated for 2025, and stamped with “MHR 50”. In addition to the clear glass orbs, there are 25 colored orbs for 2025. Reminder: Because each organization's hours vary, be sure to check their websites before you head out on your hunt.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS BY TOWN:
Bantam:
Bantam Cinema
Brookfield:
Brookfield Craft Center
Danbury:
Danbury Museum & Historical Society; Danbury Railway Museum
Gaylordsville - Celebrating its 300th Anniversary!
Browns Forge; Little Red Schoolhouse; Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, Inc.; The Washington Oak Park (DAR Roger Sherman Chapter)
Kent:
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association; Eric Sloane Museum; Kent Historical Society
Litchfield:
Litchfield Historical Society
New Fairfield:
New Fairfield Historical Society (at the Little Red Schoolhouse); Preserve New Fairfield
New Milford:
Gallery 25 & Creative Arts Studio; Harrybrooke Park; Merryall Center for the Arts; New Milford Historical Society; Pratt Nature Center; The Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm Trust; TheatreWorks; Village Center for the Arts
Sherman:
Sherman Historical Society
Washington:
Gunn Historical Museum
2025 GLASS ORB SCAVENGER HUNT
Support our food, beverage and retail businesses. Get your Taste of Burlington card stamped at at least 12 of the following businesses between June 21, 2025 and September 1, 2025 for a chance to win gift certificates.
The B. Hive www.thebhiveburlington.com
Burlington Spirit Shoppe www.burlingtonspirit.com
Charming Thai Restaurant www.charming-thai.com
China Garden (860) 675-6666
Daily Mart (860) 675-7243
Delta Pizza www.delta-pizza.com
Enclave Grille www.enclavegrille.com
Greenhouse Tavern www.greenhousecafeandtavern.com
Happy Hippie Homestead www.facebook.com/people/Happy-Hippie-Homestead/61564351782316/
Hogan's Cider Mill www.hoganscidermill.com
I Know A Guy Deli www.iknowaguyfoodsllc.com
Kyle's Doghouse (860) 729-6146
Lamothe's Sugar House www.lamothesugarhouse.com
Larson's Garden Center www.larsonsgardencenter.com
Little Axe Market www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569260639474#
Little Laurel's Cookie Co. www.littlelaurels.com
The Nevermind Shop www.nevermindshop.com
Sabrina's Restaurant & successor www.sabrinasrestaurantct.com
The Swimming Pool Store www.theswimmingpoolstore.com
Tonn's Marketplace www.tonnsmarketplace.com
Thank you to our sponsors: Torrington Savings Bank, M&T Bank and the Burlington CT Police Union
Taste of Burlington
Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
Celebration of Young Photographers
Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!
ASAP! Summer Camp
The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.
An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening.
Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.
This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.
Chris Barnard + Jeff Joyce Art Show
“Level Up at Your Library” Summer Reading Program for all ages, Morris Public Library, June 24 -August 20, 2025.
We are excited to offer a fun and engaging Summer Reading Program “Level Up at Your Library,” June 24 – August 20, 2025.
Each reading level has their own “Level Up at Your Library” Activity Card to participate in the program. Youngsters (PreK and under) will enjoy reading with their families and engage in fun activities. Students (Grades K-Grade 5) will count the number of their new reading adventures by writing them down in their cards. Teens (Grades 6-12) and adults will explore new and special book selections, which they can easily find at their Library.
Submit your completed cards (could be more than one!) to enter for a chance to win a Level Up at Your Library Prize.
Find weekly coloring projects for children and adults throughout the program – complete yours and share it for our library display!
No registration is required – obtain your card at the kickoff, at the library or download it from the website https://morrispubliclibrary.net (all levels!).
Summer Reading Program for all ages "Level Up at Your Library"
This workshop will focus on pinch, slab and coil handbuilding techniques enriched by demonstrations on sculpting small and large forms designed for indoor and outdoor installation. Open to all levels of experience, you will have the opportunity to creatively express yourself through clay.
Instructor: Kathy McFadden
Thursday - Saturday, August 14, 15 & 16, 2025
10 AM - 3 PM
Members: $247.50 / Non-Members: $275
Handbuilding Techniques
"Finding the Light": an exhibit of oil paintings by Chandra Rogers.
Chandra Rogers is a contemporary painter residing in Litchfield County with her husband and two daughters. Primarily self-taught, Chandra began consistently painting in 2012 after signing up for a local oil painting class, which led to a deluge of personal development through various classes and workshops and a lifelong passion for art. Her diverse subjects have included animals, portraiture, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts and commissioned pieces primarily in oil paint, pastels, and charcoal. Her current work is inspired by the study of light, color, mark-making, and a spirited painterly brushstroke, and has been described as capturing the soul of her subjects.
Chandra is a member of the Washington Art Association and Kent Art Association and her work has been displayed in various juried and solo shows throughout Connecticut, receiving numerous awards, most notably the Barbara Goodspeed Award, Award for Graphics, and multiple Awards of Excellence at the Kent Art Association, Honorable Mention at the Washington Art Association, and most recently Best in Show at Gallery 25 in New Milford, CT. Susan Grisell, a judge at a recent juried show, stated “Chandra’s draftsmanship and attention to detail are evident in her expressive portraits of people and animals.”
Chandra’s current show is a collection of primarily recent works reflecting her love for experimentation and trying new techniques, from traditional glazing techniques to achieve a photorealistic effect, to loose abstracts with a focus on gestural brushstrokes and mark making. Subjects include a collection of sunsets, still lifes, florals, abstracts, landscapes, portraiture, and animal paintings.
Finding the Light by Chandra Rogers
Get ready to go big! The New Hartford Artisans Guild is thrilled to announce our upcoming Big
Works Art Show, celebrating artwork that makes a bold statement. This is your chance to showcase
your largest, most impactful pieces—the only requirement is that one dimension must be at least
24 inches. Whether it’s towering canvases, sweeping landscapes, or grand sculptural forms, we
want to fill the gallery with work that commands attention. Don’t miss this opportunity to take up
space and let your creativity shine on a larger scale!
Open Call for the Big Show
The Gunn Museum announces a new exhibit American Perspectives: Peril and Possibilities. This exhibit is part of our American Revolution 250 celebrations.
The exhibit tells the story of the impossible dream, a revolution against the world’s mightiest Empire that would create a new nation built on the ideals of freedom, liberty and opportunity. The exhibit discusses Connecticut and our community including during the war.
Peril and Possibilities Exhibit
Computer Classroom
Find out how My Town, My Story can help you preserve and share your favorite memories, then learn how Shakesperience Productions can help you present them as a monologue or scene. Final products may include video recordings accessible through the library and scenes for students to perform in future years.
My Town, My Story
Enjoy the works of
Photographer Sarah Blodgett & Basket Weaver Tina Puckett
About the Artists
Sarah Blodgett
Sarah Blodgett is a photographer from the Hudson Valley in New York. Born in New York City, daughter of a professional advertising photographer, she bought her first camera at the age of ten and has been shooting ever since. A commercial & portrait photographer professionally since 1993, her passion now lies with creating images of wildlife and natural areas. Her primary focus is on birds as well as landscapes, seascapes, still lives and florals. She also offers speaking programs to accompany her work with a focus on ecology and preservation of the natural world around us.
Tina Puckett
American Master Weaver Tina Puckett is a self-taught Artist. who has been weaving since 1981. For over 40 years the woven arts have been evolving and each one is indescribably dynamic and colorful. The character of each piece is an expression of Tina's imagination and her sense of color that she applies to the weaving and structural form. Throughout Tina’s career she has exhibited her woven arts at museums, art galleries, libraries and art shows. Also, has been featured in magazines, books, newspapers, TV and on different platforms on the web.
Artist Statement
My woven pieces from baskets to wall sculptures, ceiling hangers, to furniture has evolved and is the way I define myself as an artist, and as a woman. I am fulfilling my dreams that started out with my imagination as a set designer. My creative path took a turn. It was not set design—but the woven arts with its many forms and functions where I found the passion for my life’s work.
The natural beauty of Bittersweet always sparks my imagination and is at the heart of the many pieces I weave. My imagination guides all that I do and it has become very attuned to the harmony of shapes, forms, and colors of the vines and reeds. I am also influenced by the beauty of our natural world and wonder how to weave it.
My palette for color is very much influenced by this experience of growing up in South America. I mix my own dyes and enjoy building a palette for the reeds that will shape textures and forms with color into a
one of a kind woven art!
Mixed Media Exhibit
Gallery 25 Presents: Heatwaves & Hues – A Summer Art Show
Heatwaves & Hues, running from Friday, May 2 – Sunday, August 17. This vibrant exhibition will showcase works bursting with color and inspired by the warmth and energy of summer.
Plan a Fun Weekend in New Milford!
New Milford is an exciting destination, offering a variety of activities for visitors. Enjoy well-reviewed restaurants, pubs, and unique shops, take in a film at our charming Art Deco movie theater, or catch a live performance at the innovative TheatreWorks playhouse. Stroll through our beautiful historic New England Green, a perfect spot to relax and soak in the town’s charm.
Experience Gallery 25
Gallery 25 is an artist-run gallery featuring 25 members working across all genres. Along with our exciting exhibitions, we invite you to take part in our workshops, live demonstrations, artist discussions, and photography walks!
We welcome you to explore, create, and be inspired!
Gallery 25 Summer Art Show: Heatwaves & Hues
Patrons 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
SCHEDULE
Thursdays
Tours leave at 4,5,6, 6:30, 7, 7:30
Fridays
Tours leave at 2, 3, 4, 5,6, 6:30, 7, 7:30
Saturdays & Sundays
Tours leave at 10, 10:30, 11, 11:30, 12, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3
The iconic family-favorite board game comes to life! Enter the world of CLUE in the interactive and immersive experience, CLUE: A Walking Mystery.
Have you ever wanted to solve a cold murder case? Have you ever wanted to inhabit the world of CLUE and unravel its mystery like a real detective? This is your chance. CLUE: A Walking Mystery is an interactive, IRL version of the beloved board game. In this version, the murder was never solved, the mansion sold, and the furniture from all nine rooms has been auctioned off and scattered throughout downtown Torrington.
In this new spin on everyone’s favorite mystery game, guests step into the roles of descendants of the beloved CLUE characters: Mayor Green, Colonel Mustard, Solicitor Peacock, Professor Plum, Miss Scarlett and Chef White.
You are a newly minted detective sent to find clues in pieces of furniture that came from the iconic rooms in Tudor Mansion (the Library, the Billiard Room, the Ballroom, etc.) in order to solve the murder mystery and finally answer the questions:
WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT?
Clue: A Walking Mystery
Fridays from end of May through mid-October. 3:00 TO 6:00 PM Rain* or Shine!
Held at the KENT LAND TRUST FIELD, 37 South Main Street (Route 7 just south of the traffic light) and across the road from Kent Greenhouse & Gardens
Fresh produce, baked goods, homemade preserves, fresh poultry, gourmet mushrooms, herbal teas & products, honey, maple syrup, salsa, guacamole & chips, and more!!
*In case of heavy rains or storms we will be located at CT Antique Machinery Association, 31 Kent Cornwall Rd (Route 7 North) - advance notice will be given.
Kent CT Farmers Market
Ready for dessert? Sweeten your day by joining Matt Yanarella with MY Productions CT at the David M. Hunt Library as we hand-make cannoli, a classic Italian dessert, from shell to filling on August 15th at 3:30pm. Register today online or contact the library for more information.
Cannoli Making Workshop
We are excited to bring a Sushi Making class to the brewery on August 15th. Come on down and check it out. Registration is open at: https://thesushiclass.com/event/bad-dog-brewing-co/
Sushi Making Class
The Fantasy Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Friday, August 15, at 6:30 PM, and the group will discuss “When the Moon Hatched” by Sarah A. Parker.
The Creators did not expect their beloved dragons to sail skyward upon their end. To curl into balls just beyond gravity’s grip, littering the sky with tombstones. With moons. They certainly did not expect them to FALL.
As an assassin for the rebellion group Fíur du Ath, Raeve’s job is to complete orders and never get caught. When a rival bounty hunter turns her world upside down, blood spills, hearts break, and Raeve finds herself imprisoned by the Guild of Nobles—a group of powerful fae who turn her into a political statement.
Crushed by the loss of his great love, Kaan Vaegor took the head of a king and donned his melted crown. Now on a tireless quest to quell the never-ebbing ache in his chest, he is lured by a clue into the capitol’s high-security prison where he stumbles upon the imprisoned Raeve …
Echoes of the past race between them.
There’s more to their story than meets the eye, but some truths are too poisonous to swallow.
E-book and e-audio are available via Libby app.
New registrations and book requests: 860-567-7440 or https://morrispubliclibrary.net/library-calendar-event-registration/
Fantasy Book Club
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
RSVP online
Sip Dip Done
On August 15, we’re partnering with Boondocks Film Society to screen the 2001 romantic comedy, "Amélie". This event is sponsored by National Iron Bank.
"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.
Movie rolls at dusk. Check our website, Instagram or Facebook accounts for any changes or updates.
Outdoor Movie Night
Affectionately known as SOOP, Seat Of Our Pants has ascended to the forefront of the Connecticut roots music scene with award winning, heartfelt, and clever songs that put a smile on your face, a tear in your eye, and get you thinking about the world around you. From sellout shows at The Buttonwood Tree, to the grand stage at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, to Podunk Bluegrass Festival, and many of the premiere listening rooms around the state, SOOP never disappoints their audiences. The unique mix of instruments, and impeccable intricate harmonies, distinguish Connecticut’s one-of-a-kind SOOP. Their cornucopia of folk instruments and rock-infused songwriting are a contagiously fun experience.
Seat of Our Pants
Join us on August 15th at 7:30pm for the 6th Annual Steve Bennett Memorial Comedy Show at the JCC in Sherman!
Laugh along with some of the freshest comic voices on the stand-up stage, in keeping with the raucous comedy events our longtime resident Steve Bennett organized over the years!
Full Comedian Lineup Coming Soon!
*a portion of the proceeds from this show benefit the Steve Bennett Memorial Scholarship Fund
6th Annual Steve Bennett Memorial Comedy Show
It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra and Heavy Metal flow freely at one of the Sunset Strip's last legendary venues, a place where legendary rocker Stacee Jaxx takes the stage and groupies line up for their chance at an autograph. Amidst the madness, aspiring rock star (and resident toilet cleaner) Drew longs to take the stage as the next big thing (and longs for small-town girl Sherri, fresh off the bus from Kansas with stars in her eyes). But the rock 'n' roll fairy tale is about to end when German developers sweep into town with plans to turn the fabled Strip into just another capitalist strip mall. Can Drew, Sherri and the gang save the strip – and themselves – before it's too late? Only the music of hit bands Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and more can hold the answer. Presented by LCT Student Theater, the cast is comprised of teenagers ages 13 through 19 years old.
August 9, 15, 16 @ 8 p.m.
August 10 & 17 @ 2 p.m.
Admission $26 (plus fees)
Rock of Ages - Teen Edition
ACCLAIMED MAGICIAN BELINDA SINCLAIR PERFORMS HER THEATRICAL MAGIC WITH CAPTIVATING SLEIGHT OF HAND, FUSING ALLEGORY WITH HISTORICAL STORIES ABOUT MAGIC IN THE HANDS OF WOMEN, AND HOW THEY CONVINCED US ALL THAT MAGIC WAS REAL AND THAT OUR POTENTIAL IS GREATER THAN WE THINK IT IS
BELINDA SINCLAIR IN "THE LAST ILLUSION"
Global artists have sent in their wildest images, film, music and poems for Personaland's online art show
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 68 countries in 32 group art shows and 55 individual exhibitions, many with videos of artist profiles. https://www.personaland.com
"Wearing Wild" - a wildest of art show
The Merwinsville Hotel is excited to be continuing the Glass Orb Scavenger Hunt thanks to a generous donation from the New Milford Commission on the Arts.
There are 24 area historic sites and organizations that are participating with the Hotel. Each site is hiding four numbered and dated one-of-a-kind glass orbs (three clear and one colored) either inside or outside on their property. Participants can search for and keep any glass orb that they find, but please limit one orb per person/family so everyone has a chance! Be sure to register your orb on the Merwinsville Hotel website where you can also upload a photo. Share your find on social media and don't forget to tag the organization where you found it!
The blown glass orbs that are numbered, dated for 2025, and stamped with “MHR 50”. In addition to the clear glass orbs, there are 25 colored orbs for 2025. Reminder: Because each organization's hours vary, be sure to check their websites before you head out on your hunt.
PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS BY TOWN:
Bantam:
Bantam Cinema
Brookfield:
Brookfield Craft Center
Danbury:
Danbury Museum & Historical Society; Danbury Railway Museum
Gaylordsville - Celebrating its 300th Anniversary!
Browns Forge; Little Red Schoolhouse; Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, Inc.; The Washington Oak Park (DAR Roger Sherman Chapter)
Kent:
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association; Eric Sloane Museum; Kent Historical Society
Litchfield:
Litchfield Historical Society
New Fairfield:
New Fairfield Historical Society (at the Little Red Schoolhouse); Preserve New Fairfield
New Milford:
Gallery 25 & Creative Arts Studio; Harrybrooke Park; Merryall Center for the Arts; New Milford Historical Society; Pratt Nature Center; The Silo @ Hunt Hill Farm Trust; TheatreWorks; Village Center for the Arts
Sherman:
Sherman Historical Society
Washington:
Gunn Historical Museum
2025 GLASS ORB SCAVENGER HUNT
Support our food, beverage and retail businesses. Get your Taste of Burlington card stamped at at least 12 of the following businesses between June 21, 2025 and September 1, 2025 for a chance to win gift certificates.
The B. Hive www.thebhiveburlington.com
Burlington Spirit Shoppe www.burlingtonspirit.com
Charming Thai Restaurant www.charming-thai.com
China Garden (860) 675-6666
Daily Mart (860) 675-7243
Delta Pizza www.delta-pizza.com
Enclave Grille www.enclavegrille.com
Greenhouse Tavern www.greenhousecafeandtavern.com
Happy Hippie Homestead www.facebook.com/people/Happy-Hippie-Homestead/61564351782316/
Hogan's Cider Mill www.hoganscidermill.com
I Know A Guy Deli www.iknowaguyfoodsllc.com
Kyle's Doghouse (860) 729-6146
Lamothe's Sugar House www.lamothesugarhouse.com
Larson's Garden Center www.larsonsgardencenter.com
Little Axe Market www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569260639474#
Little Laurel's Cookie Co. www.littlelaurels.com
The Nevermind Shop www.nevermindshop.com
Sabrina's Restaurant & successor www.sabrinasrestaurantct.com
The Swimming Pool Store www.theswimmingpoolstore.com
Tonn's Marketplace www.tonnsmarketplace.com
Thank you to our sponsors: Torrington Savings Bank, M&T Bank and the Burlington CT Police Union
Taste of Burlington
Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.
Submissions: now - September 26, 2025
Theme: Transformation
Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm
Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org
