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$75 includes all 3 Saturday sessions – payable to the instructor at class. Create colorful paintings of Spring landscapes in watercolor using enjoyable, creative techniques and tips. Focus on skills of color mixing, brushstrokes, and washes. Students of all levels welcome. Supply list provided upon registration.

Registration is required.

Community Health & Wellness is the only federally qualified health center (FQHC) in the far Northwest Corner of CT. Nobody is turned away. Staff from the center, including Joanne Borduas, the CEO of CHWC, Cay Hosterman, Elizabeth Ridgway, and Rebecca Malone, all nurse practitioners, will discuss the center’s services and programs.

Registration is requested.

$75 includes all 3 Saturday sessions – payable to the instructor at class. Create colorful paintings of Spring landscapes in watercolor using enjoyable, creative techniques and tips. Focus on skills of color mixing, brushstrokes, and washes. Students of all levels welcome. Supply list provided upon registration.

Registration is required.

$75 includes all 3 Saturday sessions – payable to the instructor at class. Create colorful paintings of Spring landscapes in watercolor using enjoyable, creative techniques and tips. Focus on skills of color mixing, brushstrokes, and washes. Students of all levels welcome. Supply list provided upon registration.

Registration is required.

Katie Freygang will lead a discussion of the book Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong, This book reassembles ecological wisdom from various cultures, religions, and philosophers into a foundational approach for modern times. Attendees are invited to bring their own favorite books dealing with nature or the environment to share during the last ten minutes of the event.

Registration is required.

Acclaimed poet Phillis Levin will read from An Anthology of Rain (2025), the most recent of her six published collections, at 5pm on Saturday, April 26. Levin’s honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Atlantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Paris Review, PN Review, Poetry, Poetry London, Raritan, and The Yale Review.

She lives in New York and West Cornwall, Connecticut. Her books will be available for sale.

Registration is required.

In this workshop students will explore the power of direct address in poetry. The act of speaking to (rather than of or about) a person, a thing, a place, or an idea opens us to a real or an imagined Other – and to a new engagement with language. Unfamiliar elements within oneself are called forth and previously untapped possibilities of diction, tone, and style emerge in the writing process. Workshop members will receive a packet of contemporary poems that exemplify ways of deploying direct address. Through several in-class exercises, we will experiment with (and experience) the vital charge of this ancient rhetorical strategy. Feel free to bring a poem you have already composed, especially one that’s ready to be transformed.

Open to all writers and readers; enrollment is limited to 12. There is a fee of $25 for the workshop, scholarships are available.

Registration is required.

Come join us for a week of reading, arts & crafts, and new & exciting enrichment activities.

Open to ages 6-11, camp runs from 9am-5pm daily, $100 per child per session.

Email CornwallLibraryYA@gmail.com with questions!

Camp Guidelines: Campers must be entering 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade in the fall school year of 2025. Each week of library camp costs $100. The full cost of $100 must be paid at the time of registration in order to secure your camper’s spot. Scholarships are available. Library camp will be held Monday-Friday. Drop-off is at 9:00am each day and pick-up is at 5:00pm each day. Special arrangements can be made for early drop off or late pickups. We ask that families who register have the intent of their camper attending for the full 5 days of their registered session. Please present a photo ID in order to pick up your camper. Your camper must be reasonably self-sufficient and able to follow directions in order to take part in the program. No meals or snacks will be provided by the library and must be provided by caregivers at morning drop off, each day.

Come join us for a week of reading, arts & crafts, and new & exciting enrichment activities.

Open to ages 6-11, camp runs from 9am-5pm daily, $100 per child per session.

Email CornwallLibraryYA@gmail.com with questions!

Camp Guidelines: Campers must be entering 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade in the fall school year of 2025. Each week of library camp costs $100. The full cost of $100 must be paid at the time of registration in order to secure your camper’s spot. Scholarships are available. Library camp will be held Monday-Friday. Drop-off is at 9:00am each day and pick-up is at 5:00pm each day. Special arrangements can be made for early drop off or late pickups. We ask that families who register have the intent of their camper attending for the full 5 days of their registered session. Please present a photo ID in order to pick up your camper. Your camper must be reasonably self-sufficient and able to follow directions in order to take part in the program. No meals or snacks will be provided by the library and must be provided by caregivers at morning drop off, each day.