Join artist, educator, and designer Natalie Stopka for a hands-on workshop where you'll create your own pastels using brick, slate, and gypsum. Participants will mix their own pigments and craft unique pastels to take home. In 2023, Stopka visited Grace Farms to host a textile workshop focused on extending the life of textiles with patches and repair techniques.

The Fairfield County Plein Air Painters will be at Lee Garden on July 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., painting the New Canaan Beautification League's hidden gem. Join them as they memorialize this beautiful space. While you're there, stroll the meandering paths of lush greenery and unique summer plantings. Can you spot the garden fairies? Lee Garden is located at 89 Chinchester Road, New Canaan. The rain date is July 31.

This July, Grace Farms is hosting Songs of the Summer, a new and free performance series taking place on Thursday afternoons throughout July. Held in the Pavilion with doors open, these intimate performances feature smaller local acts, unplugged. The Songs of Summer series invites all ages to experience a moment to pause, sip iced tea (available for purchase), and enjoy lingering summer moments with connection to music, architecture, and the landscape. These performances are a drop in, family-friendly experience for…

Hailed for her “sublime cello prowess” (Take Effect), “absorbing originality” (Gramophone), and “mesmerizing beauty” (NY Music Daily), internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko is a dynamic, versatile artist who has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars sextet (extolled by The New York Times for “combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble”), Hlusko also regularly…

A Summer evening of Chamber Music performed by Charles Ives Music Festival Artists Opening with a beautiful piece by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Vocalise”, and the first movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, CIMF Artist-Faculty will perform additional solo and chamber works by Nina C. Young and Aleksandra Vrebalov. The CIMF Artist Chamber Orchestra, led by Jacob Joyce will perform works by Paul Frucht and John Adams, all of which traverse multiple musical and emotional spaces. Featuring CIMF…

MONTHLY WELLNESS COLLECTIVE MEETUPS at HAYVN IN-PERSON EVENT Thursday, 8/7/25: 9am-6:30pm Note: Meetings are 1st Thursday of the month/alternating daytime and evening meetups 4:30pm-5:30pm: Connect 5:30pm-6:30pm: Learn: Q&A with Leonoura Rhodes, Expert on Stress Management and Brain Health 9am-5pm: Work: Wellness Collective Coworking Day - cowork at HAYVN for day w/ peers COST HAYVN Members: Free with code on members portal. For help accessing members portal please email questions@hayvn.com Non-Members: $25, includes your day of coworking at HAYVN LOCATION HAYVN…

Join Grace Farms Director of Horticulture Kimberly Kelly in the Grace Farms Garden to learn which crops to sow for fall harvest, as well as methods of extending the growing season with winter hoops, row covers, and fall plantings.