Litchfield Community Center

Community Artists' Group
2026-08-11 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-18 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-25 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-01 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-08 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-15 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-22 09:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Learning Center
Cost: FREE*
Open to EVERYONE
All ages and skill levels are invited each Tuesday morning to craft, create and share!
Bring your latest project to work on or start a new and share in a leisurely and social environment.
*Instruction is available upon request for beginners*
Already know the basics? Pop in and join the artists in a free space and welcoming environment to practice and share your skills while working on a new project!
All you need to bring is an open mind and your materials!

Blood Pressure Clinic
2026-08-12 10:45 - 11:45, 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.

Table Tennis
2026-08-13 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-08-20 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-08-27 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-09-03 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-09-10 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-09-17 11:15 - 14:30, 2026-09-24 11:15 - 14:30 | Rec Area
Table Tennis is played weekly on Thursdays. Drop in. New or experienced players welcome! Paddles available.
Cost: Free

Creative Poetry
2026-08-14 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-08-28 09:30 - 11:00, 2026-09-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Learning Center
Write & Share
Creative Poetry Group
Fridays 9:30am-11:00am
Meets the 2nd & 4th Friday of the month

Bring old poems and a pen to create new ones.
This is a time to create, share and express yourself.
All ages and Skill levels are welcome to join us.

Summer Sunset Concert Series - Al Fenton Big Band
2026-08-14 18:00 - 20:00
2026 Summer Sunset Free Concert Series
All concerts are 6:00pm- 8:00pm

Al Fenton Big Band
18 member band performing best of big band jazz & swing

Food Truck: Bill’s Mobile Brick Oven Pizza
BYOB & lawn chairs, blanket
Rain (indoors) or Shine
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Open Play
2026-08-17 15:15 - 17:00, 2026-08-24 15:15 - 17:00, 2026-08-31 15:15 - 17:00, 2026-09-14 15:15 - 17:00, 2026-09-21 15:15 - 17:00 | Atrium
Grab your friends and families and come to LCC enjoy open recreation time!
This is a time for people of all ages to join us and utilize our Pool Tables, Ping Pong tables, Foosball, Board Games and Lawn Games!
Please be respectful of our property and equipment and leave the space as you found it when you leave!
Cost: FREE

Kiki Finds Her Way with Author Peni Clark
2026-08-21 13:00 - 15:00
Kiki Finds Her Way with Author Peni Clark
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Join us for a special afternoon with children’s author Peni Clark as she returns to the Litchfield Community Center to celebrate her newest book, Kiki Finds Her Way!
This heartwarming back-to-school story follows Kiki on an adventure that reminds children it’s okay to be different, everyone has their own unique strengths, and we all have a place where we belong.
Families will enjoy an interactive event featuring:

A live presentation from Peni Clark about the inspiration behind Kiki Finds Her Way
A big-screen story reading
A fun octopus facts video
An interactive octopus-themed game
A song and craft activity
Light refreshments
Signed books available for purchase
A free surprise with every book purchase

This engaging event is perfect for young children and their families as they prepare for a new school year. Come enjoy stories, smiles, and plenty of octopus fun!
Date: Friday, August 21Time: 1:00–3:00 PMLocation: Litchfield Community Center
We look forward to welcoming you for an afternoon of reading, creativity, and fun!

Free Hearing Screenings
2026-08-26 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-09-23 09:30 - 12:00 | Learning Center
Free Comprehensive Hearing Screening! Call 860-567-8302 to book your 20 minute appointment between 9:30-12pm.

Hearing Care Centers will be on site at Litchfield Community Center to offer free comprehensive hearing screenings, a series of tests that assess an individual’s ability to hear sounds and understand speech. The screening typically includes a range of tests such as pure-tone audiometry, speech audiometry, and middle ear testing. The purpose of the screening is to determine whether an individual has any hearing loss and the extent of the hearing loss.
Comprehensive hearing screening is important because hearing loss can have a significant impact on an individual’s quality of life. It can affect an individual’s ability to communicate effectively, participate in social activities, and perform daily tasks. Early detection of hearing loss can help prevent these negative impacts by allowing for prompt treatment, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, which can improve an individual’s ability to hear and communicate. Additionally, early detection of hearing loss can help identify any underlying medical conditions that may be causing the hearing loss and allow for timely treatment of those conditions. Overall, comprehensive hearing screening is an important tool in maintaining overall health and wellbeing.

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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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.
