Litchfield Community Center

Summer Fit : Strength, Cardio, & Stretching
2026-08-18 10:15 - 11:15 (America/New_York)
Get moving, feel strong, and enjoy an energizing summer with “Summer Fit” led by Instructor Janice Connor! This fun and welcoming class combines strength training, cardio, and stretching to help improve balance, flexibility, endurance, and overall wellness for all fitness levels.
Join us on Tuesdays at 10:15 AM for a motivating workout designed to keep you active and feeling your best all summer long.
Summer Fit is covered by SilverSneakers®, Renew Active®, and Silver&Fit®. Once approved, the class will also be entered into participating program websites. If you do not have coverage, a $2 donation is appreciated.
2026 Summer Schedule:
• June 23
• June 30
• July 7
• July 14 (Rain Cancels)
• July 21
• July 28
• August 4
• August 11
• August 18
• No Class – August 24
• September 1
Come move with us this summer!

Mystery Book Club
2026-08-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Learning Center
This is a book group focused on mysteries, for the most part, books that have some international flavor.
Group meets 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Group size is limited to please contact Pat at pad44ct@gmail.com for more information on how to participate.

Duplicate Bridge
2026-08-19 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-09-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-09-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Community Room
Cost: $6*
Bring a partner, bring a lunch!
Facilitated by Chris.

Quilts that Care
2026-08-19 12:30 - 14:00
Quilts that Care is a dynamic group of volunteers that make and donate handmade quilts to cancer patients. These quilts are distributed by the social workers currently at 19 cancer treatment facilities in CT and growing.
You don’t have to be a quilter to join us. We need volunteers to iron, cut and organize fabric. All materials are supplied to us. We have pre-made quilt kits available for those who cannot make the meetings but would like to participate.
Subsequent meetings will be held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
For more info, please call Deb Van Steenberge at 860-782-1043 or email at quiltsthatcare.deb@gmail.com

Watercolors Group
2026-08-20 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-09-03 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-09-10 13:30 - 15:30
* CLASS IS FULL.
This session runs 8 weeks starting from: July 23, 2026 thru Oct 1, 2026.
Watercolor is the perfect medium to lose oneself, explore color, and serendipitous occurrences, and share experiences.
Instructor: Rose Petruzzi.
Bring what materials you have to class.
Email Rose at rose4444@icloud.com for a list of suggested materials.

Bereavement Circle
2026-08-21 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-09-04 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-09-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Community Room
Finding a Path Forward After the Loss of a Spouse or Partner
Learning how to navigate through the grieving process? This peer support group will help you to understand the uncertainty, vulnerability and trauma associated with such an immeasurable loss. There is help. There is hope. You are not alone in this journey.

Preregistration required/more information: Please contact Doreen at tangohampton@gmail.com.
Together we will hold and point a compass toward comfort

Strength Training Silver Sneakers
2026-08-31 10:15 - 11:15, 2026-09-07 10:15 - 11:15, 2026-09-14 10:15 - 11:15
Functional Strengthening will improve overall functional capacity and quality of life- improving your ability to perform daily activities such as lifting, carrying, reaching, movement, and everyday tasks.
Come and push, pull, hinge, bend, lunge, squat, rotate and lift with us! We will use dumbbells and resistance bands. Keep those muscles functioning as they were designed to.
Class is covered by Silversneakers and Renew Active insurance but anyone is
welcome to attend this class. If insurance will not be available a donation is welcomed.
The class will be 45 minutes in duration. Wear appropriate clothes for exercise, please.
Instructor
Janice Connor will be instructing the group. Janice has been a Group exercise and a Spin instructor for many years and has taught Silversneakers for over ten years. However, she finds the challenges of compound movements and using dumbbells her favorite. Janice has attended exercise classes for decades as her Mother, Ann, began teaching fitness and movement in the 1950’s in the U.K.

Chair Silver Sneakers
2026-08-31 11:30 - 12:30, 2026-09-07 11:30 - 12:30, 2026-09-14 11:30 - 12:30 | Atrium
Class Description:
60-minute chair exercise after a brief warm-up. You will use hand weights and assistance bands and incorporate moves/stretches’ ideal for those who prefer to sit during a class!
SilverSneakers can help seniors live their best lives.
Participants may experience greater energy, increased strength and improved balance and flexibility.
The benefit is included in 60+ Medicare plans.
This Modified Silver Sneakers class which includes chairs, hand weights, tubing and balls.

Instructor: Janice Connor, Certified Instructor.
Class fee is covered by most Health Plans.
If you are not covered, class is $8.00 pp.
Go to SilverSneakers to check for eligibility.

League of Women Voters Meeting
2026-09-02 09:30 - 11:00
Monthly Meetings are typically at 9:30am on the first Wednesday of the month, September – June, unless there is a holiday.
All are welcome to join us at our meetings!

Adult Day Trip: Goodspeed "The Snow Goose"
2026-09-02 10:00 - 18:00
World Premiere!
On the windswept coast of England an unlikely bond forms between Philip, a reclusive artist shunned by society, and Frith, a resilient young woman, when they rescue a wounded snow goose. With World War II looming, their friendship allows her to imagine a life beyond her village, and him to confront his own humanity as he sets sail on a daring journey to save soldiers trapped at Dunkirk. Discover an unforgettable new musical with a soaring score that will fill your heart.
Cost includes round trip lift-equipped bus transportation to/from LCC, luncheon at the Gelston House, and show admission.

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Menu Choice:
Bistro steak
Parmesean Encrusted Cod
Parmesean Encrusted Chicken
Swiss Burger
Pasta Cavatelli

The Odyssey: A Two-Person Play
2026-09-03 15:00 - 16:00
What is the cost of our choices? Can love sustain across time, war, and distance? Can you ever really find your way home?
Join actors Stephen Collins and Poornima Kirby as they take on this three-thousand-year-old epic about the adventures of a wily and complicated traveler. This two-person, one-hour adaptation draws from multiple translations, punctuated with poetry and sea-chanties to connect this age-old epic to our modern time. Told as a marital squabble between Odysseus and his wife, Penelope, the story weaves through Odysseus’ travels and to his arrival in Ithaca to face the fall-out of his absence, and find out if he can really come home. With Stephen Collins as the funny, damaged, scheming Odysseus and Poornima flowing nimbly between Penelope, Calypso, Circe, the Cyclops and many more characters – this artistic, playful, searching adaptation explores the universal human needs that run through this ancient poem – from the desire to belong to the hunger for vengeance to the hope of a second chance.
Stephen Collins is an accomplished actor and literature professor, with over 20 years experience performing solo theatre pieces and literature lectures across New England. Originally from Cambridge, Ma, Stephen studied English at UMass Boston and pursued a career in sales, before returning to what he truly loves; performing and teaching. His solo shows include presentations on the life and writings of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, the theater of the 40s and 50s, Irish Poets and more. His work with actress Poornima Kirby through New Muse Productions has reconnected him to the joy of collaborative theater. http://unlaunchedvoices.com/
Poornima Kirby is a classically trained actress, writer and director, based in Boston, Ma, specializing in classical and poetic texts, as well as co-created theater. She studied drama at Vassar College, and trained in acting and Shakespeare performance at Shakespeare & Co. and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. She has performed regionally at the A.R.T.,
Actors Shakespeare Project, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, and Bay Colony Shakespeare. She has also appeared in several independent films, commercials, industrials and voice-overs, and has worked as a teaching artist in the Boston Public Schools, Tufts Medical Center and Berklee College of Music. She is Artistic Director for Theatre of Eternal Values – America (a branch of an Italy-based international company) where she has written, directed and performed in several original productions. With New Muse, she has scripted or adapted three productions in which she also performs—sometimes playing 18 characters in a single one-hour performance. www.PoornimaKirby.com.
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Connecticut Apples: "Bloom Where Planted" Class & Craft
2026-09-04 11:30 - 12:30
Familiarize yourself with the apples grown in Connecticut . We will learn how apples are grown, what types are grown, and samples a few varieties. We will use apples to print ‘ apple season’ mini tote bags.
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Alzheimer's Support Group
2026-09-07 12:30 - 13:30 | Learning Center
Build a support system with people who understand.
Alzheimer’s Association support groups, conducted by trained facilitators, are a safe place for people living with dementia and their care partners to
– Develop a support system
– Exchange practical info on challenges and possible solutions
– Talk through issues and ways of coping
– Share feelings, needs, and concerns
– Learn about community resources
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Blood Pressure Clinic
2026-09-09 10:45 - 11:45 | Learning Center
Join us at the center, as a Nurse from Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Litchfield County provide free blood pressure readings to members of the community.
No need to register. Drop in for your reading.
Call the center for more information. 860-567-8302.

Culturally Curious Art Lecture Series: Pixel Perfect - Chuck Close & Photorealist Painting
2026-09-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Atrium
Pixel Perfect: Chuck Close & Photorealist Painting
Enter the mesmerizing world of Chuck Close and the Photorealist movement, where artists challenged everything we thought we knew about painting by creating meticulously detailed works that seem to leap off the canvas as living photographs. Close’s monumental portraits—painted pixel by painstaking pixel using techniques that transform tiny squares of color into startlingly lifelike faces—represent both the pinnacle of technical virtuosity and a profound meditation on how we see and process visual information. Through examining Close’s revolutionary grid system, his evolution from black-and-white masterpieces to vibrant color experiments, and his place within the broader Photorealist movement alongside artists like Richard Estes and Audrey Flack, this program reveals how the pursuit of perfect visual realism becomes, paradoxically, one of the most abstract and conceptual approaches to making art.

About the presenter:
Jane Oneail is the founder of Culturally Curious, a company that curates and presents art appreciation programs. Jane holds a master’s in Art History from Boston University and a master’s in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in NH, she has worked at some of the state’s most esteemed cultural institutions, including the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, where she served as Executive Director, and the Currier Museum of Art, where she held the role of Senior Educator. Jane has also taught at the college level for more than a decade, most recently at Southern New Hampshire University.
For more information visit: iamculturallycurious.com
Donations welcome at door
* Pre-registration is advised – Click Here to Register

An Evening of Opera
2026-09-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Atrium
An Evening of Opera our Theater Screen
Doors Open at 5:30
Join fellow opera lovers to view and discuss the Opera.
Running time is approx. 3 hours and there will be one short interval when coffee will be available.

Evening Glow - Sept 10th
2026-09-10 15:30 - 16:30 | Atrium
Evening Glow Music Series
Sept 10th – 3:30PM
David Giardina – Classical Guitarist
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All are welcome to join us for relaxing and reflective music to close the day.
Performances are followed by a reception with refreshments.

Dave received his B.A. from St. Anselm College, He has also studied at Longy School of Music. With roots in the sixties folk- rock culture, Dave studied classical guitar with Sharon Isbin and Philip Defremery, Jazz with Sal Salvador and Bob Kobus and Flamenco with Mario Escudero and Paco Pena (Spain). He also played in master classes for John Williams, Manuel Barrueco, Ben Verdery, Abel Carlevaro, and Oscar Ghiglia. He has been teaching for many years on the faculties of Trinity, St. Joseph and Manchester Community Colleges, as well as privately.
Dave is an award recipient member of the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism, he has performed extensively throughout the Northeast at schools, bandshells, major festivals, First Nights, clubs and both Connecticut casinos as a soloist and with ensembles he has formed such as Fiesta del Norte, Bamboleo, Goza, and the Typsy Gypsys.
His compositions are featured on two releases by the CT Classical Guitar Society of which he is a founding, professional member. His latest release, Fiesta Grande, features music of Mexico.

Friday Feast & Dancing Feet - 9/11
2026-09-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Atrium
Enjoy a tasty lunch, wonderful music and lots of dancing!

Friday, Sep 11, 2026
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Atrium
Cost: $7 at the Door
* Pre-registration REQUIRED BY Wednesday, Sep 9th!
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Parkinson's Support Group
2026-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Learning Center
Parkinson’s support group for those with Parkinson’s and their caregivers and family members- all are welcome.
Join us for this newly developed support group at Litchfield Community center, in collaboration with the American Parkinson’s disease association, and facilitated by Heather Pierce, CDP and SA.
Participating in a support group is a wonderful way to receive practical information and education on living with Parkinson’s disease.
More importantly, members receive the support of others who truly understand.
Beginning Monday, September 11th The group will meet monthly on the second Monday of the month from 2-3 pm at the Litchfield Community Center.
For more info or any questions about the group or Parkinson’s Disease please call Heather Pierce at 860-733-9506

Litchfield Audubon Society Meeting
2026-09-14 18:45 - 21:00
The meeting and program will be available via Zoom for those unable to attend the in-person meeting at the Litchfield Community Center.

Note: To participate on Zoom, go to the Calendar section of our website, lhasct.org, to register.
The meeting times are when refreshments are available. A short business meeting begins at 7 p.m., followed by the presentation.
