Things To Do in February and March 2022

White Gate Tuscan Dinner, 2/27: Enjoy an an evening with Tuscan favorites like Fresh Pappardelle with Pork Sugo, Toasted Hazelnuts and Shredded Grana Padano and Bisteca Steak Florentine Salad with Arugula at White Gate.
present a concert of Haydn, Prokofiev, Zwilich and Weber
Side Door Jazz Club,Old Lyme: Check out the outstanding line-up at the premier Jazz venue in Connecticut.
The Lyme Art Association will present a 5-part virtual art lecture series via Zoom on The Art of America: How Great American Artists Revealed a New Country and Its People. Bob Potter, former Executive Director of the Lyme Art Association, will explore iconic art by leading artists from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. Lectures will take place every Thursday in March at 7pm via Zoom.
Powder Ridge, 3/12: Big Hair and Big Air Ski and Snowboard Competition: Dust off those skis and ski suits from the 1970s and 1980s and enjoy the crazy day at Powder Ridge.
New Britain Museum, Wednesdays in March: Get creative at a weekly watercolor class with artist Mary Smeallie to demystify the intimidating medium of watercolor. We’ll start from scratch—discussing types of paper, pigments, color mixing, and glazing as well as tricks and techniques.
Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, 3/27: The Art of Shearing: A Sheep to Shawl Festival, 10am – 4pm. While the sheep are being shorn, Hill-Stead Museum will welcome fiber artists and vendors demonstrating skirting, carding, spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting, felting and more. Plus free hayrides to and from the barns, food vendors, and craft activities.
Mercy By The Sea, Madison, 3/25 – 3/27: An Introductory Enneagram Workshop in Times of Change, Challenge and Loss with Roberta Whitney. This introductory Enneagram program will provide attendees with knowledge of an ancient system of nine personality types, informed over centuries by philosophy, theology, and psychology. In exploring the Enneagram structure and each of its personality types, we invite outcomes that include increased self-compassion and empathy, spiritual growth, accessing gifts we each uniquely bring to these times; opportunity for increased mindfulness of prevailing needs (for self and others); and honed capacity for responsiveness with centered strength of our whole being to stressful situations.