Pride Celebration at Eco Evolution! 

Come have Tea (or coffee) with the Queens from  12 -1 and then stay for a family friendly drag show at 1 pm.  

Free to attend.  RSVP required.  Please “purchase” a ticket to confirm your spot. 

Bring $$$$ for tips!  Show your appreciation to the Queens through tipping. 

RSVP https://www.ecoevolution.co/collections/events-in-the-green-room/products/tea-with-queens-june-7-at-noon-show-at-1

Join us for a fun-filled community pet event at MedVet Norwalk — your local 24/7 Emergency & Specialty Veterinary Hospital on Glover Ave!

MedVet Norwalk

Saturday, June 6

1:00–3:00 PM

Bring the family (and your pets!) for an afternoon of:

Pup cups

Paw print painting

Free microchipping while supplies last

Pet Pantry samples

Raffles, activities, education resources & more!

Come take a behind-the-scenes look at our hospital, meet the team, and learn more about the specialty and emergency care available for pets in our community.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Please join us for our 35th Annual Ice Cream Social Sunday, May 31st from 1-3pm. This festive celebration and antique car show will include ice cream (generously provided by Gofer) as well as cakes and cookies donated by the National Charity Leagues. The town band will play patriotic music and there will be old fashioned games for kids. And, its all FREE!

Arrivals of vehicles are between 11 AM and 12 PM for the car show.
Ice cream and cake will be served between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM.
All participants are encouraged to stay until 3:00 PM to enjoy the full event experience.
Event Details
No Entry Fee – Advance reservation required to participate.
Vehicle Limit: Only ~40 cars can be accommodated.
Complimentary ice cream and cake will be provided.
Enjoy live music performed by the New Canaan Town Band.
All participants have a chance to win the People’s Choice Award.
The historic buildings and museum will be open for visiting throughout the event.
Children can look forward to old-fashioned games and entertainment.

Your New Saturday Tradition Starts Here!

Mark your calendars! The SoNo Saturday Market kicks off on May 30th, transforming Washington Street into an open-air market of local flavor and creativity.

30+ Local Vendors: From BathBums and The Pink Hanger to Seven16 Permanent Jewelry.

Delicious Eats: Treats from Grumpy Dumpling Co, Joma Bakery, Dippin Chicken, and more.

Live Music & Games: High energy, family-friendly fun all afternoon.

Shop Small. Eat Well. Stay a While. Admission is FREE and open to all ages.

Washington Street, South Norwalk

Saturday, May 30 | 11 AM – 3 PM

Check out the full vendor lineup and future dates at:

VisitNorwalk.org/SoNo-Saturday-Market

#SoNoSaturdayMarket #visitnorwalk

Last Saturday of the Month · May–Aug

Sholeh is inviting you to an unforgettable outdoor evening at Romanacci.

Join the party for an inspiring night of live music, great art, gelato and prosecco, all wrapped in the magic of summer vibes in Westport. Enjoy Sholeh's Sexy Fish Exhibition while DJ 2Stash spins, the street comes alive with conversation, laughter, and the infectious energy of a perfect summer evening.

You’re Invited to Our 2nd Annual Summer Street Party at Romanacci Westport!

Celebrate the Summer of 2026 with an unforgettable evening of art, food, music, and sparkling fun!

Live Art Experience by Sholeh Janati Delicious Bites by Romanacci Prosecco Toasts Gelato Treats by Oggi Music & Summer Vibes with DJ 2STASH

Eat. Drink. Connect.Catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and soak in the magic of a warm Westport evening under the open sky.

Romanacci Westport May 27, 2026 5:30 PM

Bring your summer spirit and join the party! #sholehartwear #westportct #summer2026

Come mingle, meet local professionals, and celebrate BMW's grand opening!

RSVP here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chamber-networking-event-grand-opening-celebration-tickets-1986802339280

Last Look — Likeness & Legacy: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
Sunday, May 17 from 3 – 4:30 PM
SM&NC Bendel Mansion Museum Galleries

Members and Non-Members alike are invited to join us for a closing reception and last look at LIKENESS & LEGACY, our 90th anniversary exhibition.

Featuring paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture drawn entirely from our Permanent Collection, the exhibition brings together portraits with powerful stories and meaningful ties to our history and community.

Complimentary campus admission for Non-Members begins at 2:00 PM; please let gate staff know you're here for our Last Look. Light refreshments will be served.

More about our exhibition at https://www.stamfordmuseum.org/exhibitions.../now-on-exhibit

Georgetown Arts & Cultural Center is pleased to present In Bloom, a group exhibition on view May 16 through June 13, 2026, featuring work by Mary Bailey, Hannah Barrett, Diana Gubbay, Heide Follin, Eric Hibit, Catherine Howe, Erin Kono, Ann McRae, Mary Newhouse, Maggie Nowinski, Lawre Stone, and Lydia Viscardi.

A plant is never just a plant. It carries medicine and poison, memory and loss, the domestic and the wild, the carefully tended and the out of control. Across painting, sculpture, drawing, digital media, and collage, the twelve artists in In Bloom engage with botanical form as a carrier of human history: the poppy that heals and destroys, the invasive species that colonizes without announcement, the garden flower pressed into allegory, the domestic textile worked by hands we will never know. What connects them is an interest in what lies beneath — beneath the surface of the paint, beneath the beauty of the bloom, beneath the familiar form of a flower — and a shared attention to the full organism, its hidden systems as present and as consequential as what is visible above ground.

Mary Bailey carves basswood into botanical forms that have never existed in nature. The wood is left unpainted, pale and warm, and the forms arrive at their meaning through shape alone. Hannah Barrett paints flowers with dark outlines, flattened space, and the close attention of someone who has studied Medieval illumination. Her paintings look like gardens and feel like moral tales — the flowers, the vessel, the toad at the lower right all carry the weight of Medieval allegory, where nothing is merely what it appears to be. Heide Follin builds her paintings in layers, staining and pouring and collaging over printed fabric until botanical structures emerge - revealing and obfuscating the textile.

Eric Hibit draws inspiration from his backyard garden in Queens, NY. In his painting, he simplifies dahlia, snapdragon, and zinnia down to their chromatic and structural essences, and sets them in his hand-built ceramic vase whose handles simultaneously evoke the Greek key motif and the strong-arm emoji. Erin Kono works in egg tempera on shaped wood icon panels, drawing on pre-Renaissance techniques and cross-cultural heritage. Her poppies overflow ceremonial bowls decorated with watchful faces and coiling serpents. Beauty and the capacity for harm occupy the same stem. Ann McRae builds densely layered watercolors inspired by the Persian miniaturists, where every inch of the surface carries pattern — gold-outlined chambers, spiral shells, stippled grounds, interlocking botanical systems — and every element carries equal weight. Catherine Howe builds her canvases in layers: first a copper-and-mica ground, then splashes of color, then invented flowers that lean and reach with an urgency that has nothing to do with sunlight or soil.

Lawre Stone paints oversized poppies in oil on canvas — flowers that yield crucial pain relief and highly addictive drugs in equal measure. Mary Newhouse (1935–2010) made paintings in which the natural world dissolved into color and feeling, the recognizable just visible beneath layers of abstraction. Lydia Viscardi layers acrylic, collage, and vintage hand-crafted textiles onto shaped panels, building narrative worlds that feel both remembered and invented — dense, seasonal, teeming with life, as if every story the materials have ever held is being told at once. Diana Gubbay's work finds in botanical form a quiet grammar of transformation — her images catch plants mid-reveal, neither fully open nor fully closed. Maggie Nowinski works in obsessive, accumulative pen and ink to construct imagined specimens — plant-animal hybrids that press outward from voids of solid black, adaptation rendered as mark, the hidden systems of living organisms given form through thousands of uninterrupted strokes.

In Bloom understands that the way a culture treats its plants — which ones it cultivates, which ones it lets die, which ones it allows to take over — is a precise record of its priorities, its failures, and what it still has time to change.

Wilson Avenue Loft Artists Artist Heide Follin invites viewers into a lush and layered world where botanical forms become vessels for memory, emotion, and transformation. Her paintings move between abstraction and organic structure, revealing hidden networks of growth, fragility, and resilience through luminous color and intricate linework. We are thrilled to celebrate Heide’s inclusion in “IN BLOOM” at the Georgetown Arts & Cultural Center in Redding, CT — a group exhibition exploring the deeper meanings carried within botanical imagery. As the exhibition states: “A plant is never just a plant… it carries medicine and poison, memory and loss, the domestic and the wild.” IN BLOOM Georgetown Arts & Cultural Center May 16 – June 13, 2026 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 4–6 PM Congratulations Heide on this beautiful exhibition!

WONDERLAND: Please join us Saturday for the opening of Spectrum, our annual contemporary art show. Juried by Katharine Earnhardt founder @masonlane_art this exhibition is inspired by the magical and fantastical.

YOU’RE INVITED: to a world of refined beauty and thoughtful curation.

Sorokin Gallery ▪️ Westport, CT

Join us for the Opening Reception of our Westport space, an intimate evening unveiling a sophisticated collection of abstracts and landscapes by an exceptional group of artists.

▪️ DATE: Friday, May 15
▪️ TIME: 5:30–7:30 PM

Enjoy wine and light bites as you experience art in an elevated, elegant setting designed to inspire and captivate.

Kindly RSVP to sorokingalleryrsvp@gmail.com to receive the event address and secure admittance.

We look forward to welcoming you!

▪️ Pictured ▪️
Artist: Roget8000
Title: Lick the Sky
Acrylic on canvas
40x30 in

Spring is here and so is a NEW art exhibit! See this colorful and thought-provoking collection of works on display, and meet talented local artists of the Klein Mezzanine Gallery.
May 14th, 6pm-7:30pm

Our building addition is now complete, so patrons can use the new elevator up to the Mezzanine!

This event is FREE and open to the public
Free parking
Complimentary beverages & light appetizers

Curated by Benjamin Casiano

More info is at theklein.org

Transformations examines the use of diverse materials in art and the many ways artists reshape and reimagine a single material within their practices. The Spring 2026 exhibition at browngrotta arts, Transformations: Dialogues in Art and Material, takes a deep dive into materiality itself. It highlights the wide range of materials artists employ—including clay, silk, steel, bark, seaweed, (May 9 - 17, 2026) RSVP https://browngrotta.com/exhibitions/transformations-dialogues-in-art-and-material

Join us on May 9th in Westport for a morning of cars, coffee, and connection. From vintage icons to modern exotics, our design center will be surrounded by incredible vehicles and even better people.

Step inside, explore curated building products, and see what’s possible for your next project.

Cars. Coffee. Community.

We’ll see you at INTERSTATE. RSVP here https://www.interstatelumber.com/contact/events/rsvp/?id=33617

FREE mat Pilates pop up @ilovecarpediemcafe in Norwalk from 6-730pm - would love to see you there!! Looking to stretch, strengthen, and have fun? Swing by our in-person Mat Pilates session! It's the perfect chance to try out Pilates moves, improve your core, and meet fellow fitness enthusiasts in a chill setting. Whether you're a total newbie or a pro, come vibe with us and give your body some love. No fuss, just good energy and good times. Don’t miss out on this awesome pop up—see you on the mat!Tickets on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-mat-pilates-pop-up-tickets-1987719621897?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGne6GO8N69u1Tlnwc1PJm0pfh-LFm4iutlzRb8JZGB3qECwzi3IvPJqAmt5-8_aem_QrXfLaHouYWUAzHjYnRaWA&keep_tld=true

ART TO THE AVENUE IS BACK!

May 7 - 25, 2026

Opening Night Festivities:

Thursday, May 7 | 5 to 7PM

Live Music by

Nine of Hearts | 299 Greenwich Avenue (Front Lawn)

Grace Notes|‍ ‍Corner Elm Street & Greenwich Avenue

Greg Detroy | 15 West Putnam Avenue (Hunter Douglas by Smart Blind Design)

Mike & Vin | 23 Lewis Street (Famille Jewelers)

https://www.greenwichartscouncil.org/art-to-the-avenue

You’re invited

For 50 years, you’ve been part of our story

Now it’s time to celebrate together

Stamford Location

Saturday May 2nd

5–8 PM

Helping us celebrate

@reddirooster

@chat_bbq

We will have Kentucky Derby signature drinks

And All your favorite DiMare desserts

Dress in your Derby best

Live Derby on the big screen

From our family to yours—thank you for 50 incredible years

#50YearsStrong #DiMareFamily #StamfordCT #CommunityLove KentuckyDerbyParty LocalFavorites

RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dimare-pastry-shop-50th-anniversary-party-tickets-1984627989742?aff=ebdsshsms&utm_share_source=listing_android&sg=9f8176418ba1c12b3ea0964be6419762e69b9f8f351ae5d26bab264cc5c0a4083a1fd99ba286a8fcd10fe9bc96d709637603c65781f6f0eaeba3f2e65bb6d21811bea32ba2a874498af640620d

Plural.

No single story.

A spring exhibition celebrating artists, community, and creative diversity.

Presented by SPAG

Opening Reception at the Mansion

Saturday, April 25 | 5–8 PM

25 France Street, Norwalk

Live music, refreshments, guest artists, games, and a silent auction supporting charity

Also on view Sunday, April 26 | 1–3 PM

There will be live music, food trucks, kids' activities, vendors, and a trashion show.

Please visit https://www.visitnorwalk.org/earth-day-festival/ for more information and we look forward to seeing you there!

Join us at this exciting contemporary art experience which represents Mr Brainwash's personal artistic homage to Vincent van Gogh. Pop art phenomenon Mr Brainwash is jetting in from LA for a spectacular night of fine art and fun. Be among the first to view the new limited editions and original works that are as brimming with positive energy as the man himself.

As well as meeting our unforgettable guest, at the event you will be able to enjoy music from our live DJ and a drinks reception, before your chance to view the exhibition in full. 

Exhibition will show in gallery April 23rd to May 3rd 2026.

RSVP https://clarendonfineart.com/en-us/collections/mr-brainwash-in-attendance-at-clarendon-fine-art-westport?om_campaign=omme_16a1f630-984_86573_247926&om_send=2b781d8c7ef14cfda013ffcde8f763b4&utm_campaign=10884_cfa_westport_mr_brainwash_april_2026&utm_content=westport_database_prospect_signed_up_in_last_6m&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cfa+event

Please join us for an Earth Day opening reception of the exhibition: “Signs of the Times: The Pleasures and Perils of Plastic” at The Westport Library

WED, APRIL 22, from 6–8 PM

Free and open to the public.

The Westport Library
Sheffer Gallery

20 Jessup Road

Westport, CT 06880

Reception 6–7 PM | Artist Talk 7–8 with Miggs Burroughs

Signs of the Times is an ongoing series by kHyal. Complex, and unclassifiable, kHyal’s mixed media work riffs off of pop culture icons and performs like a Rorschach Test in a behavioral science lab, tugging at the neurons of each viewer, and born to challenge perceptions. Using ordinary objects snatched from dumpsters, recycle centers, flea markets, tag sales, thrift stores, the ocean, and the street — assembled with raw precision in a dazzling cacophony of visual clutter — each piece decidedly explodes the human-centric flaws, foibles, and sometimes tragic outcomes of a plastic society.

kHyal’s work is an archeological dig, an observation of the mess we call mankind, in a rearrangement of the discarded ordinary into an awkward form of self-portraiture through vignettes of childhood memory, sometimes blended with current events.

About kHyal

kHyal is a self-taught environmental activist and digital art pioneer who has worked with recycled materials since the early 1980s. She created street art and found-object sculpture in Los Angeles before moving to New Haven, where she was among the first wave of self-taught artists to use personal computers to create immersive multimedia installations and live MIDI performances incorporating video and computer animation. 

Sustainability has long been central to kHyal’s practice. She is a Certified Climate Reality Leader, a Beyond Plastics advocate trained by former EPA administrator Judith Enck, and a Project Limulus Beach Captain conducting horseshoe crab conservation as a citizen scientist along the Connecticut coast. She is a graduate of the NYC Department of Sanitation’s Trash Academy and a Save the Sound Cleanup Captain, and is a member of Clean Creatives, Break Free from Plastic, and the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

From 2022–23, kHyal was part of the global team invited by Seth Godin to support climate action through The Carbon Almanac. She spearheaded the online sustainable fashion resource guide, contributed to the LinkedIn Learning course 34 Things to Know About Carbon and Climate, created content for The Daily Difference, and produced a standalone event as part of the worldwide book signing. The Carbon Almanac received the “Most Insightful Data Book” award for Data Literacy.

kHyal has been an invited speaker at the Yale School of Sustainability, a featured guest on the Climate Gist and EarthWork Collective podcasts, and a recipient of a Connecticut Office of the Arts Artists Respond grant for an environmental justice project. She has also spoken on climate and plastic pollution at NYPL, MoCA CT, the School of Visual Arts, the Connecticut Art Directors Club’s As We Create podcast, and Earthworks: Unhurried Conversations.

Photo: Tyler Jayson

URSA Gallery is proud to present POW WOW, the annual spring exhibition at the

Colorblends House and Spring Garden, curated by looketha. Opening March 31 and on view

through May 10, the show brings together a wide-ranging group of contemporary artists within one of

Connecticut’s most distinctive cultural settings, where landscape, architecture, and artistic practice

meet in a shared atmosphere of exchange and discovery.

The title POW WOW evokes gathering, collective presence, and the energy created when artists and

audiences come together in one space. It also carries an older resonance, tracing to the

Algonquian-rooted phrase pau wau or pua wua, often interpreted as “he who dreams.” In this

exhibition, those meanings converge: POW WOW becomes both a meeting place and a space of

vision, shaped by imagination, conversation, and the communal force of art.

Set at the Colorblends House and Spring Garden, POW WOW draws much of its character from the

site itself. Renowned for its spectacular spring bloom, Colorblends offers a setting in which gardens,

architecture, and contemporary art exist in direct dialogue. The artist reception on April 18 will take

place as the tulips and other flowers reach full bloom, making the landscape an essential part of the

experience. As visitors move from the vivid expansiveness of the gardens into the intimate interior of

the restored Victorian house, the exhibition unfolds through changing registers of color, light, texture,

and space.

Featuring artists Christian Miller, Clymenza Hawkins, Thomas Mezzanotte, Susan Reinhart,

Andrzej Dutkanicz, Scarletchild, Carlos B. Biernnay, Cris Dam, Eliana Mesa, looketha, George

Perham, Scott Richter, Susan Clinard, Yolanda Vasquez Petrocelli, Todd S. Rogers, Frank

Foster Post, Kelly Mastronardi, and John Bright, POW WOW reflects URSA’’s commitment to

fostering artistic community across regions.

Just one month away! Join us at our Spring Open House! So many new things to see! RSVP today 🍾 #appliances #openhouse #poundridgeny #outdoorkitchens #indoorkitcheninspo

We heard Ben & Jerry’s is giving out free ice cream on April 14…

So yeah… we’re doing it too

Mr. Frosty’s FREE CONE DAY - 4/14/26

12PM – 7PM

Pick your cone. Pull up. Be happy.

Vanilla • Chocolate • Swirl • Pineapple Dole Whip

Limit 1 kids size soft serve cone per person - Must follow us on social media (Instagram - Facebook - or TikTok) LAST free cone served at 7pm. While supplies last.

#MrFrostys #FreeConeDay #NorwalkEats #SoftServeSeason #DoleWhip

JOIN US for an awesome evening of performances, readings, and creative community!!

SPRING/SUMMER: NORWALK CLOTHING SWAP AT @theartmonsterstudio

Hosted by Natalia Aristizabal & Caitlin Fitzpatrick

Swap • Connect • Refresh your wardrobe

Bring up to 20 lightly used, clean clothing & jewelry items and join us for a fun, community-filled evening at The Art Monster Studio!

57 Chestnut St, Norwalk, CT

(across from Space Cat Brewing & East Coast Kombucha)

Event Day: April 9 | 4–8 PM

Clothing Drop-Off:

Monday, April 6 (10 AM–6 PM)

Tuesday, April 7 (10 AM–6 PM)

Wednesday, April 8 (10 AM–6 PM)

Thursday, April 9 (10 AM–3 PM) - in advance of the event!

Location: Hallway to the left of the the Little Art Bodega vending machine

Guidelines: Clean, lightly used, wearable clothing only. No stained, torn, or damaged items. All donations will be inspected before the swap.

Monetary donations are welcome!

Suggested donation $10 to support kids’ art classes at The Art Monster Studio

Come swap, laugh, and celebrate community!

#norwalkct #clothingswap #communitylove #sustainablefashion #artmonsterstudio

Registerhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/springsummer-norwalk-clothing-swap-at-the-art-monster-studio-tickets-1984577331221?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ5UDhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeXoeXXVLqrIzJG7swB7I3-8V7XVSyM8JWtWVuvEg8Xim0FAfmhhIU9bahqQE_aem_b72mVtX6z-Efcb8NBRLpkA

Celebrate the season with us at the 5AM Art Studio Art Show! Enjoy an evening of inspiring artwork, delicious food, and refreshing drinks in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

🗓 Art Reception: April 2, 2026
⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Upper Crust Baking Company
980 Post Rd
Darien, CT

🎨 Exhibiting Artists:
Maya Santangelo
Devan Markiewicz
Carolyn Childs
Karen Schlansky
Meghan Gardner

Come connect with the artists, explore beautiful new works, and celebrate creativity this spring!

Learn more: www.5amartstudio.com
Follow us: @5amartstudio

#SpringArt #ArtReception #5AMArtStudio #DarienCT #SupportLocalArtists