Event List

Torrance York's photographic monograph Semaphore examines the shift in her perspective after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease nine years ago. Through images, York considers...

Have you been researching your family's history and are looking for a place to discuss your research with others? Come to meet other genealogists, share findings, exchange tips, an...

Once every eight years, the fantastic Witchlight Carnival touches down on your world, bringing joy to one settlement after the next. Its owners, Mister Witch and Mister Light, know...

Pulse-racing, jaw-dropping, and shiver-inducing books are always in season. Join the librarian-led bookgroup: Can’t Sleep Thrillers for the feverish fans of books with ps...

  Join Miss Dajana for Tales for Tots Storytime series with songs, rhymes, felts, and special books! This class is for those who are 18-36 months old with a caregiver....

  Join Miss Rebecca for an 8-week Twos Storytime series with songs, rhymes, felt-board stories, and special books and activities! This class is for those who are 24-36 mont...

This series of five 90-minute courses will show you how to paint landscape paintings with oils. It will open your eyes to contrast colorings, darks and lights, and the gentle shapi...

Are you a budding writer in Grades K to 2? Join Miss Rebecca for a storytelling–and story writing–extravaganza! We’ll play games to get imaginations flowing, then put ideas to pape...

RESCHEDULED FROM 2/22 to 5/2. Taylor Alison Swift has long transcended the title "singer-songwriter" - indeed, she is a pop-culture phenomenon whose success has few parallels in...

  Join Miss Dajana for an 8-week Twos Storytime series with songs, rhymes, felt-board stories, and special books and activities! This class is for those who are 24-36 month...

The New Canaan YMCA and Library have joined forces to bring you drop-in Tai Chi! Tai chi is a series of slow, gentle motions that are patterned after movements in nature.  It ...

Join Miss Rebecca for 3-5’s Storytime with songs, rhymes, felts, and special books and activities! This class is for those who are 3-5 years old with a caregiver. Registration...

Is your child gifted but requires additional support with emotional regulation or different learning needs? Join us to hear from other parents of twice-exceptional (2e) children ab...

Join us for our first musical movie in May: TOP HAT the quintessential Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film. Fred Astaire stars as a tap dancer and Ginger Rogers as his beautiful nei...

Children ages 2-3 years and their caregivers, join Miss Rebecca for a morning of stories, songs, movement, and crafts!    

An important tool in a writer's toolbox is the writer's workshop where written work is read and critiqued by fellow aspiring writers.  During this process strengths and weakne...

Using images from or inspired by Semaphore by artist Torrance York, participants will learn about how creative processes like photography and zine-making can favorably impact our h...

Celebrate music that says “thank you” from the instrument, the builder of the instrument, and the composer. Take a gratitude trip with songs that bring out our best emotions and ma...

Do you love to draw? Join a few New Canaan High School juniors for a fun-filled, hour-long drawing class on Saturday afternoon! This lesson will focus on drawing human figures. Stu...

Calling all engineers, tinkerers, and problem-solvers!  Join us in the MakerLab for a STEM challenge where you will use critical thinking, teamwork, and experimentation to tak...

New Canaan Chamber Music's Andrew Armstrong, who grew up in New Canaan, is returning for the second annual Children and Families Concert on May 5th at 3:00PM in the Jim &...

Do you love to draw? Join a few New Canaan High School art students for a fun-filled, hour-long colored pencil drawing class on Sunday afternoon! Due to popular demand, we will be ...

This class has been moved to the YMCA.  Stories, Songs, and Senses is a sensory play class for children 12 months - 3 years old and their caregiver. Class will begin w...

Registration for this event opens on 4/29 at 9am. We have teamed up with the New Canaan YMCA to create a tranquil, foundation-building class designed to introduce new students t...