Discover handcrafted holiday and Christmas gift items from hundreds of American artists at Guilford Art Center’s annual holiday gift shopping event, Holiday Expo 2023 from November until January. NEW this year is an Accessories Showcase, featuring an expanded selection of contemporary accessories from small-batch and New York boutique designers.
Best Buds Flower Farm has some fun Crafternoons scheduled for this Fall to help cultivate your creativity! Sign up to make an Everlasting Wreath, Thanksgiving Centerpiece or Lush Holiday Wreath. While you're there enjoy a complimentary wine or seltzer and a homemade sweet treat!
Make a gift that will be remembered. Create Song Lyric Collage Blocks with PaperScape Artworks at their Sunday workshops now through December 10th. Craft beautiful handmade paper collages with typewriter written songs lyrics of your favorite songs.
After 42 years of delighting us with curated antiques, Black Whale Antiques is closing up shop. Don't miss their retirement celebration sale and a chance to say good bye.
Rock n' Roll legends Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash are together again to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. You read that right -- see them at the Ivoryton Playhouse!
Give the gift they'll get to enjoy repeatedly all year long -- a membership to the New Britain Museum of American Art. Membership includes free general admission to the Museum, discounts on programs and classes, invitations to exhibition openings, and discounts in the Museum Store and Café.
Kids and adults get ready for the Find the Buoy Holiday Scavenger Hunt in Stonington Borough. Pick up a postcard, find buoys at select locations, get your postcard stamped, and you will be entered to win one of four amazing prizes!
Women Reframe American Landscape illuminates the artistic contributions and perspectives of women and you can see the exhibit, featuring 19th century American artist Susie M. Barstow, at the New Britain Museum of American Art through March 21.
Get into the spirit! "A Christmas Carol" has pleasantly haunted generations of audiences around the globe, and Legacy Theatre invites you to make merry and ring in the holidays with their annual acclaimed rendition of the famous story.
Help keep others warm this winter. As the holiday season approaches, Ashlawn Farm Coffee would like to invite you to take part in their One Warm Coat donation. For every guest who brings a coat to donate, Ashlawn will offer a complimentary hot coffee, hot tea or cold brew of your choice.
Whether you are a bride on a budget, or perhaps a bride that is getting married soon, he White Dress by the Shore wedding dress sample sale is for you, shop over 100 sample wedding gowns.
Enjoy 10% off IPL/Photofacial and Laser Hair Removal Packages at Refine Medical Aesthetics if purchased before 2024! Gift Cards available for all services.
Explore gorgeous islands around the world as they were meant to be explored with Captain Joy of Joyride Charters. No experience necessary! Sit back, relax, read a book and watch the coast go by or get involved and learn more about sailing.
Give the Gift of Books! The Friends of the Guilford Free Library will ring in the season with their festive annual Holiday Sale in December. Shop carefully selected choices for readers of all ages as well as stocking stuffers.
Pop by the Dudley Farm Museum for their Holiday Market the first three weekends in December from 10am - 2pm. Specialty items from vendors will be sold in and around the Munger Barn.
Enjoy Holiday cocktails at the River Valley Artists’ art show. Small paintings and unique handcrafts will fill the rooms at Promethea Potters located in an historic building in Deep River that has been renovated into a pottery studio and gallery.
Looking for hometown memories printed on pillows, tea towels, wine bottle bags, aprons, and more? Then don't miss the Second Annual Pop-Up Shop on the front porch of TownieSwag Studio in Killingworth. Close to 150 towns available.
Say Old Saybrook for the holidays! On December 2nd stroll Main Street for horse-drawn wagon rides, the Stocking Walk, carolers, Heroes Tree lighting, extended merchant hours and restaurant specials including live music.
Beloved familiar and new masterworks and artists will be featured at Musical Masterworks' December concerts when they will welcome four new artists to the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. The concerts will feature grand works by Dvořák, Bach as well as original works from Thurber and Lark.
I-Park is celebrating the season with Holiday Cheer during the final OPEN Studios of the year on Sunday, December 3rd at 1:00 pm. You'll have a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at this open-air, private studio incubator.
Kick off your holiday celebration with festive performances at the Cappella Cantorum Winter Concert on Sunday, December 3 conducted by Simon Holt.
Leather Man/Eliza B. is having a store-wide Santa Sale! 20% off purchases at the outlet store ONLY December 1st-21st.
Celebrating it's 50th anniversary, Connecticut River Museum will host its highly anticipated annual holiday event, Mistletoe and Martinis on Wednesday, December 6th featuring a festive selection of martinis, delectable hors d’oeuvres, music and the chance to win a stunning piece of diamond jewelry from Becker’s Diamonds and Jewelers.
Celebrate the season at Artemisia with a special book signing of 'Connecticut Gardens' with Photographer Caryn B. Davis. Enjoy shopping interiors inspiration and small gifts while enjoying holiday spirits and festive bites.
Get into the holiday spirit with cooking classes at Weeked Kitchen. Their three-hour classes are hands-on where you'll arrive as strangers but leave as friends.
Enjoy the sound of silence. Take a day of silence and rest at the Guest House Center in Chester. In this sacred space you have permission to go nowhere, do nothing, say nothing and be no one to anyone except your self.
Get your permanent jewelry fix with a holiday twist at the RiverLane. On December 12, F U S I O N Permanent Jewelry will be in-store to help you get decked out for the Holiday season. Get your custom fit and welded necklaces, bracelets, anklets, rings, and charms right on-site.
Head to Lyme Academy of Fine Arts on December 9th for an afternoon of festive activities including art demonstrations, music by the Old Lyme Town Band, Lyme-Old Lyme High School Select Singers, visit and selfies with Santa, food and drinks by the fire, holiday craft making and more.
Con Brio Choral Society will be presenting two Christmas concerts at Christ the King Church in Old Lyme on December. Enjoy Zelenka’s Missa Gratias agimus tibi, plus choruses, motets and favorite carols.
Santa Claus is coming to Saybrook Home! Sunday, December 10 from 1-3 p.m., Santa and the Mrs. will be in our Old Saybrook flagship store for a meet and greet. Bring the whole family!
Want to hear some of the most beautiful singing on the planet? Then you're all set. Straight from Sweden, it's Kongero, one of the top a cappella groups on the planet, with harmonies to slay. And it won't be in some stuffy concert hall, it'll be at the equally beautiful Deer Lake Preserve in Killingworth on December 10th from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Ditch the selfie and upgrade to your best self with a professional headshot on December 12th with Kelley Norcia Photography.
The new moon is a great time to manifest your intentions for the month. Join House of the Triple Moon to hold space, meditate and journal during the powerful phase of the moon.
Get ready for an evening of relaxation and retail therapy at the Cerulean Spa at the Mystic Marriott with 15% off all retail purchases. Sip on cocktails and enjoy hors d'oeuvres as you shop.
Get ready for family fun at Lyman Allyn in December. They have plenty of holiday fun planned throughout the evening at their family-friendly festive holiday party at the Museum on December 14.
Join Shoreline Playwrights at Drama Works Theatre for a fun and festive evening that will feature readings of two different holiday one-act plays by Teresa Mella Fogel and Laura Thoma.
Saint Ann's Parish in Old Lyme welcomes all to a wide variety of Christmas Events this month.
The Old Saybrook Racquet Club Winter Junior Tennis Program begins Monday, December 18th. They are offering red ball, orange ball, green ball, yellow ball and Sunday High School drop-in training. Spaces are limited so register soon.
Give yourself the best Christmas present ever, your wedding dress! Everthine Bride is closing out the year with their last Sample Sale of 2023! Bridal gowns will be 30-80% off
Looking for something to keep you busy this winter? Sign up for The Garde Arts Center 2024 Breezeline Winter Cinema Series Pass for only $65.
