On Monday, October 31, the community is invited to enter FREE through the North entrance to participate in our Trick or Treat event! Little ghosts, wizards, sailors, and super heroes alike can trick or treat through our historic Shipbuilding Village. No registration required!
Bring your friends, start a team, and win prizes at Trivia Night from 7pm to 10pm. Trivia provided by Harrison who is back by popular demand hosting on the microphone. If you work in hospitality or at a local attraction, show your badge and enjoy $4 drafts and our Happy Hour Menu all night long!
Bring your friends, start a team, and win prizes at Trivia Night from 7pm to 10pm. Trivia provided by Harrison who is back by popular demand hosting on the microphone. If you work in hospitality or at a local attraction, show your badge and enjoy $4 drafts and our Happy Hour Menu all night long!
Lino cut by Donna M. Frustere Tuesday, November 1, 5:30 p.m. in the KTJ Studios Local printmakers D Derek (Serigraph) and Donna M Frustere (Intaglio & Lino monoprints) will demonstrate how prints are created and offer advice on collecting and caring for them. Open to all collectors and art lovers. Free but please make a…
Wednesdays November 2 – December 14, 1– 4 p.m. in the KTJ Studios With Artist Educator Sunil Howlader, this class will combine abstract and realistic elements to create a painting that is complex, dynamic, and interesting. Students will work on translating thoughts, emotions, and ideas to the canvas using texture, form, and color. A basic understanding…
Join us for “Thursdays Under the Stars” where you can experience all that our Planetarium has to offer! Each of our Thursday night programs this fall will have a unique theme, and that theme will be woven into all of the night’s elements. Each night will feature the following activities: – a 30-minute full dome…
This Native American Heritage Month join us in welcoming back the Eastern Medicine Singers for an afternoon of drumming, singing, and teaching. Made up of RI, NY, NJ, and Southeastern Massachusetts Tribes, the Eastern Medicine Singers are dedicated to keeping the eastern woodlands American Indian culture alive, and are proud to sing and drum in…
Award-winning Peruvian-American bilingual kindie music phenomenon Twinkle presents her pop/rock/hip hop concert Twinkle Time! Twinkle’s distinct vocals, high energy hip hop dancing , backed by the sparkling sounds of her incomparable band in a show-stopping performance of her original songs performed in both English and Spanish combined with music videos and webisodes has earned Twinkle…
The Holiday Gift Market returns to the Museum Store again this year! Stock up on holiday gifts while simultaneously supporting local artists, artisans, and MMoA. November 8 - December 18 during museum hours
Wednesdays November 2 – December 14, 1– 4 p.m. in the KTJ Studios With Artist Educator Sunil Howlader, this class will combine abstract and realistic elements to create a painting that is complex, dynamic, and interesting. Students will work on translating thoughts, emotions, and ideas to the canvas using texture, form, and color. A basic understanding…
Stop by our annual Holiday Bazaar, our biggest event of the year! Gift baskets, small gifts, handcrafted items, pet gifts, pies, baked goods, heat & eat meals (frozen), and much more! Take-out Soup & Sandwich Luncheon. Eat on the church steps overlooking picturesque downtown Mystic! Sorry, no inside seating due to COVID.
Saturday November 12, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the KTJ Studios A one-day workshop for ages 10-15 with Jeff Crew, a professional exhibit designer and maker of machines and mechanical art. Bridge building involves not only physical science concepts such as forces and strength of materials, but also design, drawing and hands on construction…
Tuesday, November 15, 5:30 p.m. A leader of the historic Mystic Art Association, Lester Boronda also happened to be a member of one of the early Spanish families that arrived in northern California with Junipero Serra’s expedition in 1770. Enjoy the boldness and sweep of Boronda’s magnificent Spring Comes to Toro in Looking at Art,…
Wednesdays November 2 – December 14, 1– 4 p.m. in the KTJ Studios With Artist Educator Sunil Howlader, this class will combine abstract and realistic elements to create a painting that is complex, dynamic, and interesting. Students will work on translating thoughts, emotions, and ideas to the canvas using texture, form, and color. A basic understanding…
Join us during Transgender Awareness Week for a virtual program on Nov. 16 with Sound Experience, a Washington youth education organization serving communities and ports throughout the Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. Sound Experience staff will discuss how beginning in 2015, the organization began a journey involving gender that reflects the culture of respect…
TEENS: JOIN OUR BEGINNER BEADING CLASS AT THE BILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY Teens, make beaded bracelets at the Bill Memorial Library! We will be holding a beginning beading class with experienced beader and Bill Memorial staff member Catherine. This program happens Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 6:00 PM for students in grades 6-12, and no experience…
Join us for “Thursdays Under the Stars” where you can experience all that our Planetarium has to offer! Each of our Thursday night programs this fall will have a unique theme, and that theme will be woven into all of the night’s elements. Each night will feature the following activities: – a 30-minute full dome…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Friday, November 18, 5:30 p.m. in the KTJ Studios Let’s get crafty with pumpkins and decorate them in a surprising way by turning their surface into a beautiful mosaic piece of art. Using traditional tiles, along with other media, have fun designing a composition that will make your pumpkin the most creative in your neighborhood.…
Hygienic’s annual holiday show, Art=Gift 2022 is back! This year’s show features handcrafted, affordable art by local and regional artists. Art=Gift includes a wide array of exquisite art including, but not limited to: Paintings, Prints, Photography, Glass Art, Jewelry, Hand-printed T-shirts, Knitted Garments, Drawings, Wood-Turning, Holiday Cards, and Ornaments. Opening reception will be on Friday,…
It can be said that the personal journey of life is just a collaboration between past and present versions of ourselves. Each and every past choice we have made and experience we share with others presents a new version of ourselves. The concept of this new exhibition, titled "Abstract Deep" is composed of two series,…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
November 19, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the KTJ Studios A workshop for all ages! Let the pumpkin be our canvas! Using assorted multimedia, how will you decorate your pumpkin? This is a “no-carve” class. Drop off your child, stay and participate, or come on your own! Make a beautiful pumpkin for your…
Aaron McBride has spent more than 20 years creating creatures, technologies, and out-of-this-world locales for dozens of movies, including many Star Wars films, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean and Jurassic World. He will share about his creative process and describe how movie making has changed during the last 20 years. A question and answer…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Klea Blackhurst is a nightclub sensation who has wowed audiences in venues from coast to coast and at London’s Palladium and Royal Albert Hall and garnered rave reviews as Dolly in Goodspeed’s recent Hello, Dolly! She joins our very own Grammy & Emmy Award-winner, John McDaniel, in a fun and swingin’ holiday celebration! $30-$225 Tickets
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
• Each ticket provides access for one person to their timed event seating. • Tickets may be purchased for 12 p.m. or 2 p.m. • If you are purchasing tickets separately from your group, please let us know who is part of your group, so that we can facilitate seating you together. Minimum Table size…
Friday, November 25 – Sunday, December 4 In Store and Online Members Only – Mark your calendar! Members enjoy double the discount on their purchases at our Museum Store and online from November 25 through December 4. Receive 20% off regularly priced items (excludes original art work). Visit the store Thursdays through Sundays, 10 a.m.…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Thanksgiving dinner is done and the whole family is together. Why not spend some time outdoors on our museum grounds? We will have a variety of outdoor and indoor activities the whole family can enjoy. Try your hand at a 19th-century lawn game, make a seasonally themed craft, explore the Museum grounds with a scavenger…
Join the Hilton Mystic for a fantastic evening of dueling pianos featuring the talent from Savage Pianos. This troupe joins us from New York City...they play at a variety of restaurants throughout the Northeast and they are returning to Mystic! The audience creates the playlist and the pianists make it come alive - they're funny,…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
The Find the Buoy Holiday Scavenger Hunt is returning to Stonington Borough and kicking off on Small Business Saturday, November 26th. Visit the Borough between 11/26 and 12/31/22; pick up a postcard and get it stamped at each of the 18 participating buoy locations; drop your stamped postcard at any buoy location by 12/31 and you will be…
Thanksgiving dinner is done and the whole family is together. Why not spend some time outdoors on our museum grounds? We will have a variety of outdoor and indoor activities the whole family can enjoy. Try your hand at a 19th-century lawn game, make a seasonally themed craft, explore the Museum grounds with a scavenger…
Hosted by Adventure Mystic Wear Your Favorite Santa or Holiday Outfit Best Outfit & Best Vessel Wins $25 Gift Card Experienced Paddlers ONLY! Admission:$25.00 and a New, unwrapped Toy Wetsuits & Booties are recommended Only 24 Spots Available for this Event YOU MUST CALL AHEAD TO RESERVE 860.245.6086 Sign In 11:00am Safety Meeting 11:45 Launching…
Santa Claus is coming to Downtown Mystic! Spectators flood Mystic River Park to watch Santa arrive at 2pm on a tug boat to open his ears to the wishes of children waiting anxiously in line to see him. The Christmas tree in Mystic River Park will be lit at 6pm. Followed by the Holiday Lighted Boat…
Visit the Stonington Town Fisherman Docks in Stonington Borough for the 2nd Annual Lighting of the Stonington Lobster Trap Tree! Exhibit will be opening Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 4:30PM The Stonington Lobster Trap Tree opens at dawn. The Tree will be lit every night between Dusk - 9:30 PM until early January 15, 2023.…
The 19th Annual Mystic Holiday Lighted Boat Parade will take place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Following Santa arriving by tugboat and the lighting of the Mystic River Park Christmas tree, spectators flood both sides of the Mystic River to see the decorated and decked out boats pass by. Decorated vessels will parade down the Mystic River…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Thanksgiving dinner is done and the whole family is together. Why not spend some time outdoors on our museum grounds? We will have a variety of outdoor and indoor activities the whole family can enjoy. Try your hand at a 19th-century lawn game, make a seasonally themed craft, explore the Museum grounds with a scavenger…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
This "sure to impress" holiday stocking is a great beginner sewing project. Each one is totally unique to the maker. Create a handmade decoration for the holidays. In this class at Spark Makerspace, 7 Union Street, New London, CT, our sewing teacher Sherri will guide you step by step as you create a simple quilted…
Create a beautiful wreath, kissing ball or centerpiece for your home. At this winter workshop you’ll learn how to identify different evergreens and learn wreath-making techniques and other holiday decorations. We provide a variety of evergreen boughs, berries, vines from our woodland campus, along with cones, wire and ribbons for your project. Meets at DPNC.…
Join us for “Thursdays Under the Stars” where you can experience all that our Planetarium has to offer! Each of our Thursday night programs this fall will have a unique theme, and that theme will be woven into all of the night’s elements. Each night will feature the following activities: – a 30-minute full dome…
THE MYSTIC GARDEN CLUB GREENS SALE 2022, ONLINE AND IN PERSON The Mystic Garden Club Greens Sale returns in full force for the 2022 holiday season. Our long-standing tradition of offering custom-decorated wreaths will return to our in-person sale. We will also offer our most popular items online again this year. Online shopping opens November…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, & 17 5 – 8 p.m. Lantern Light Village is an outdoor, free-roaming experience designed to exemplify the differences between the modern and 19th century holiday seasons. Take a journey through time as you seamlessly transition between the holidays you experience today and the holidays of the past. Enjoy…
Create a beautiful wreath, kissing ball or centerpiece for your home. At this winter workshop you’ll learn how to identify different evergreens and learn wreath-making techniques and other holiday decorations. We provide a variety of evergreen boughs, berries, vines from our woodland campus, along with cones, wire and ribbons for your project. Meets at DPNC.…
Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village. The largest holiday light display in southern New England is FREE to the public. Parking is also free. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another…
Visit Olde Mistick Village for carolers and a brass band playing holiday favorites! Santa will also be making an appearance! And what would our carnival be without Santa’s Workshop Children’s Gift Store?! Santa will set up shop in the Meetinghouse as a gift store for children to buy gifts for their family and friends.
December 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, & 17 5 – 8 p.m. Lantern Light Village is an outdoor, free-roaming experience designed to exemplify the differences between the modern and 19th century holiday seasons. Take a journey through time as you seamlessly transition between the holidays you experience today and the holidays of the past. Enjoy…