Join Senior Naturalist Frank Gallo for a series of casual walks. Frank will guide us around area parks, preserves, and open spaces this spring. Along the way, he will discuss the area's natural history, pointing out birds, plants, and other species. These are easy level walks. Wednesday, April 23 - Selleck's & Dunlop Woods, Darien Friday, April 25 - Silvermine-Fowler Preserve, New Canaan Friday, May 2 - New Canaan Nature Center All walks are canceled is rain. Registration is required.

New Canaan Artisans Spring Boutique Preview Party with wine and cheese refreshments offers first choice shopping for exceptional quality gifts and handcrafts. Including home décor, knitted children's sweaters, needlepoint, embroidered linen and table decorations. Just to name a few of the many exceptional handcrafts you will find at this wonderful community event. Your preview party ticket entitles you to 10% off on dinner at the Roger Sherman, preview party night. Reservations for dinner are required. For dinner reservations please call…

The New Canaan Artisans Spring Boutique showcases exceptional quality gifts and handcrafted items. This event offers a diverse array of exquisite handcrafts, including home décor, knitted children's sweaters, needlepoint creations, embroidered linens, and beautifully crafted table decorations. These are just a few of the many exceptional handcrafts you will find at this wonderful event. All proceeds from the New Canaan Artisans Spring Boutique benefit charities throughout Fairfield County. Come shop at the New Canaan Artisans Spring Boutique and make a…

Join us for a Kentucky Derby Party at the New Canaan Inn! Saturday, May 3, 2025, doors open at 5:30pm for Mint Juleps, hors d’oeuvres and viewing of the 151st Run for the Roses. $150 per person, all financial proceeds benefit The Inn. Tickets available at https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E344664&id=1

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world in Paris in Ruins, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune profoundly impacted modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.   

This captivating program highlights composer and New Canaan native Gwyneth Walker, who will also narrate her evocative work "Trails and Open Spaces." The program will also feature "How Rivers Become Other Rivers" by Marc Chan and Antonín Dvořák’s beloved "Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 88." Quantum Leap ensemble performers includer Edita Orlinyte (violin), Shan Jiang (violin), Suzanne Corey-Sahlin (viola), Gunnar Sahlin (cello), and Maxim Pakhomov (piano). “True ‘quantum leaps’—the jumps electrons make between energy levels—are actually small but definitive…

CHARIS TO SING MODERN CHORAL CLASSICS Charis Chamber Voices offers two major contemporary works for chorus and string orchestra on its Spring program: Tarik O’Regan’s Triptych and Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe. Charis’s Artistic Director, Jeremy Wiggins, conducts, Saturday, May 3 at 4:00 p.m. at Irvington Presbyterian Church, 25 North Broadway, Irvington, NY, and Sunday, May 4, at 4:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, 178 Oenoke Ridge Road, New Canaan, CT. O’Regan, born and educated in Britain and…