Community Calendar

Book Sale at the Weston Library!
The Friends of the Weston Library are sponsoring a book sale Friday, Nov. 7th through Monday, November 10th.
The Library’s Community Room will be filled with over 5000 donated books, in excellent condition, suitable for holiday gift-giving. There will be adult fiction and mysteries, young adult books, young adult fiction, puzzles and games, children’s books for all ages, CDs and DVDs. Non-fiction books are sorted into categories such as Art, Biography, Business & Politics, Cooking, Design, Gardens & Pets, Health, History, Holidays, Parenting, Religion and Sports
Some categories of interest include vintage and collectible books (including signed editions and Easton Press leather-bound volumes), a great selection of classical CDS, and a number of large-print books.
Prices are:
Adult hardcover: $3, paperback $2
Children’s hardcover $2, paperback $1
DVDs & CDs $1
Puzzles & Games $3
Some art books and collectible books priced higher.
Payment accepted: Cash, Venmo, Credit Cards (no checks)

Schedule of opening:
Friday, November 7 – 9am to 5pm
Saturday, November 8 – 9am to 5pm
Sunday, November 9 – 10 am to 5 pm All books half-price!
Monday, November 10 – 9am to 11am All books free!

Katharine Hepburn was married once, to Ludlow Ogden Smith, in 1928. She kept her Babani gown, which was sold after she passed away and stored for twenty years. The Katharine Hepburn Museum has brought this dress back home to Connecticut and it will be exhibited alongside two others - one from the play "The Lake" (1933) and one from the film "The Sea of Grass" (1947) to create a stunning trio. This beautiful exhibit brings together Kate’s stage, screen, and personal lives in a never-before-seen way.

Museum Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10 AM to 4 PM and one hour prior to performances. Closed major holidays.

Additional Summer Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12 to 4 PM in July & August only

Discover the beauty and versatility of colored pencils. Students will understand the properties of color pencil as a painting medium. Using a photo reference of your own choosing, you will learn how to layer the pencil pigment by exploring basic pencil strokes, shading, and blending to produce a variety of effects to create a finished painting.

Liz Fusco is an award-winning Long Island artist and has been painting and drawing for most of her life. Liz began painting in oils and her subjects were typically landscape and nature scenes. Liz had always wanted to learn the skill of Botanical Illustration. After completing a three-year-long process at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, New York, Liz added Certified Botanical Illustration to her other education credentials.

The cost for this 4-hour, 1-day workshop is $95 per person. Students should bring a full set of good quality color pencils (PRISMACOLOR, or Faber Castell is recommended); Stonehenge or Strathmore Bristol paper, Mi Tientes colored paper (either black or dark blue), graphite pencil HB, H; a good pencil sharpener, and a Staedtler Mars eraser.

You may register for this workshop online at https://theatelieratflowerfield.org/workshops
or call 631-250-9009 for more information.

Discover the beauty and versatility of colored pencils. Students will understand the properties of color pencil as a painting medium. Using a photo reference of your own choosing, you will learn how to layer the pencil pigment by exploring basic pencil strokes, shading, and blending to produce a variety of effects to create a finished painting.

Liz Fusco is an award-winning Long Island artist and has been painting and drawing for most of her life. Liz began painting in oils and her subjects were typically landscape and nature scenes. Liz had always wanted to learn the skill of Botanical Illustration. After completing a three-year-long process at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, New York, Liz added Certified Botanical Illustration to her other education credentials.

The cost for this 4-hour, 1-day workshop is $95 per person. Students should bring a full set of good-quality color pencils (PRISMACOLOR, or Faber Castell is recommended); Stonehenge or Strathmore Bristol paper, Mi Tientes colored paper (either black or dark blue), graphite pencil HB, H; a good pencil sharpener, and a Staedtler Mars eraser.

You may register for this workshop online at https://theatelieratflowerfield.org/workshops
or call 631-250-9009 for more information.

The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James, NY announces a call to Artists for The Atelier Invitational: A Juried Show for Guest Artists, which will be on view November 6th, 2025 through December 11th, 2025.

The competition is open to artists 16 years or older. Artists working in any medium, with the exception of photography and video, are encouraged to enter. Up to three works are permitted per entrant.

PRIZES:
1st Place: $250
2nd Place: $150
3rd Place: $50

The submission fee is $30.00 per artist. Accepted artwork must be submitted framed or gallery wrapped and ready to hang.

IMPORTANT DATES:
• Submissions must be received no later than Monday, October 20th, 2025.
• Accepted works will be notified by Friday, October 24th, 2025.
• Work should be received no later than Monday, November 3rd, 2025.
• Opening Reception, Thursday, November 7th, 2025.

To submit your work, click here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/TheAtelierAtFlowerfield/AtelierInvitational2025

For more information, please call 631-250-9009 or go to administrator@atelierflowerfield.org

Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. Also on view in the gallery will be Give Me Life, a selection of works by women artists presently or formerly incarcerated at York Correctional Institution, a maximum-security state prison in Niantic, CT, courtesy of Community Partners in Action (CPA). The CPA’s Prison Arts program was initiated in 1978 and is one of the longest-running projects of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1875, CPA is celebrating 150 years of working within the criminal justice system.

Image: Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore, Etienne, Mutulu Shakur, and Maureen Kelleher (quilt design); Maureen Kelleher (quilting), James Baldwin: Quote #3, 2019, mixed cotton blends. Lent by Maureen Kelleher, © Maureen Kelleher

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries. Offering a historical foundation for understanding today’s controversies, the exhibition features fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, among other objects from The New York Historical's collection. The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed.

The exhibition is curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, Vice President and Chief Curator at the New York Historical.

Image: Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 11852-1853, oil on canvas. Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman. The New York Historical, 1925.6

Thursday, Sept. 11 opening with Jeffrey Greene, Connecticut Prison Art Project
5:30 p.m. – Opening Lecture – Dolan School of Business Events Space
6:30 p.m. – Reception – Dolan School of Business Event Space

Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. Also on view in the gallery will be "Give Me Life," a selection of works by women artists who are presently or have been incarcerated at York Correctional Institution, a maximum-security state prison in Niantic, CT, courtesy of Community Partners in Action (CPA). The CPA’s Prison Arts program was initiated in 1978 and is one of the longest-running projects of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1875, CPA is celebrating 150 years of working within the criminal justice system.

This fall’s Artolution exhibition will feature works from the UNHCR exhibition launched at UN Headquarters on World Refugee Day 2024. A companion panel with alumni working in NGOs and related sectors will explore today’s global refugee crisis.

Representative works from their collection will be on view at 1720 Post Rd. and a companion panel discussion will take place at Fairfield Theatre Company on Sanford St.

Presented by the Center for Social Impact

Experience Santi Debriano & the Bembé Sextet—a powerhouse blend of jazz mastery and Afro-Caribbean rhythm that unites groove, soul, and spirit in one unforgettable night.
Enjoy delicious bites from Tapovana Lunch Box and a full selection of drinks, all available for purchase.
Join us for an evening of music, community, and connection at the Masonic Temple.
Tickets: $20