Community Calendar

Kick off Memorial Day Weekend on Long Island at The Great American Food & Craft Festival, a premier outdoor festival featuring food trucks, artisan makers, handcrafted goods, live music, and a festive beer & wine garden in the heart of Deer Park.

This family-friendly community event brings together the best of local flavor and creativity with a curated marketplace of makers, chefs, and specialty vendors. Guests can shop unique handmade products, discover new foods, enjoy interactive activities, and experience a full day of entertainment in a walkable, open-air festival setting.

What You’ll Experience:

• Curated artisan & maker market with handcrafted goods

• Food trucks, specialty bites & local flavors

• Beer & wine garden with seating & live music

• Interactive activities for kids, teens & adults

• Memorial Day Weekend celebration in Deer Park

Whether you’re searching for things to do on Long Island Memorial Day Weekend, family events in Suffolk County, local food festivals, or artisan craft fairs near Deer Park, this event delivers a full day of food, shopping, music, and community fun.

Plan Your Visit

• Free parking available

• Open-air, walkable festival grounds

• All ages welcome

• Rain or shine event

Two singer-songwriters host two additional singer-songwriters every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Dunville’s LittlePub. We tell our stories in song and provide an encouraging environment for songwriters to ply their craft. Hosted by Erik Moses and Bill Dempsey

“A powerful, fast-moving adaptation of King Lear - a story of family, power, betrayal, and madness that feels more like modern drama than classic Shakespeare.” The original “Succession” story is about the aging head of the family and what to do with 3 kids who want the kingdom. Adapted to a dynamic 90-minute play with “sword” action.

Please join us and experience presentations from our local cast, including Mark Feltch (Newtown), who stars as King Lear, with New Milford’s Vicki Sosbe (Goneril), Erin Shaughnessy (Regan), and Abi Heydenburg (Cordelia) as his daughters. The full cast of 19 talented actors from across the state of Connecticut, include Sam Everett (Danbury), Colin McLoone (Brookfield), Jim Hipp (Sherman), Vincent Christoni (Trumbull), Tom Heydenburg (New Milford), Sean Gorman (Bethel), Todd Santa Maria (Cheshire), Michael Briney (Naugatuck), Thomas Ovitt (New Preston), David Regelmann (Bethel), Tim Heydenburg and Isabelle Bergman (New Milford), Ron Malszka (Bridgewater), Fred Thaler (Cornwall) and Billy Anderson (Bethel).

Jane Farnol, Gaylordsville resident and author of "Shakespeare for Contemporary Theatre", directs this streamlined adaptation that emphasizes action while preserving Shakespeare’s language.

This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 75 works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.

For Which It Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.

Curator: Carey Mack Weber, Executive Director, Fairfield University Art Museum
Faculty Liaison: Aaron Weinstein, PhD, Assistant Professor of Politics

Two singer-songwriters host two additional singer-songwriters every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Dunville’s LittlePub. We tell our stories in song and provide an encouraging environment for songwriters to ply their craft. Hosted by Erik Moses and Bill Dempsey

Two singer-songwriters host two additional singer-songwriters every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Dunville’s LittlePub. We tell our stories in song and provide an encouraging environment for songwriters to ply their craft. Hosted by Erik Moses and Bill Dempsey

In partnership with Huntington Learning Center, students in grades K-5 build and program robots, work in teams and learn STEM skills while having fun. Classes held at the YMCA in Westport. Do not have to be a YMCA member to register for these classes.

Come down and boogie @TheLab every Tuesday from 6-8pm

The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winning play comes to life on the Playhouse stage.

Eboni Booth’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize winning breakout play is an uplifting, gentle and powerful exploration of change, friendship, and quiet courage. Meet Kenneth, a creature of habit whose world is upended when his lifelong job ends – and he’s nudged into the unknown by his best friend Bert and a few unexpected encounters over mai tais at the local tiki bar. This luminous new American play draws us into a deeply human journey, as Kenneth takes small steps into a bigger world – one where every connection holds the power to transform a life.

Two singer-songwriters host two additional singer-songwriters every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Dunville’s LittlePub. We tell our stories in song and provide an encouraging environment for songwriters to ply their craft. Hosted by Erik Moses and Bill Dempsey