Friday, May 21

Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, 11:30 am, Brookfield Town Hall.

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials, 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall.

Don’t Dress for Dinner by Town Players, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $15, Marc Camoletti’s comedy continue weekends to May 29; 270-9144.

Saturday, May 22

Newtown Choral Society Spring Concert, 7:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, tickets $9 adults, $7 seniors and children 12 and under, selections from Smokey Joe’s Café, jazz standards and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” music director Mary Andreotta and singers will be joined by accompanist Todd Gorski, guest instrumentalists, and soloist Daniel J. O’Connor (St Rose School fifth grade student); 426-3769.

Don’t Dress for Dinner by Town Players, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $15, Marc Camoletti’s comedy continue weekends to May 29; 270-9144.

Connecticut Master Chorale Spring Concert, 8 pm, St Rose of Lima Church, 46 Church Hill Road, tickets $15/advance, $20/door, spring performance by 55-voice auditioned chorale will offer Dvorak’s Te Deum and Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise: A Symphonic Cantata, accompanied by Connecticut Master Chorale Orchestra and professional soloists; 743-0473.

Sunday, May 23

Matinee performance of Don’t Dress for Dinner by Town Players, curtain 2 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $15, Marc Camoletti’s comedy continue weekends to May 29; 270-9144.

4th Annual Housatonic Valley Classic, expected to reach Newtown 2:20 pm, final stage of Tour of Connecticut bicycle race will run from Route 25 onto Currituck Road, to Main Street, to Sugar Street, to Boggs Hill Road, to Hattertown Road, to Poverty Hollow Road and into Redding, begins (1 pm) and ends in Danbury (approx 4 pm).

“Celebration of the Arts II,” 3 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, tickets $15/advance, $18/door, performances by classical pianists Margarita Nuller and Rosaleen Rhee, vocalists Pamela J. Hoffman (soprano) and Boyd Schlaefer (bass-baritone) with accompanist Susan Anthony-Klein, also art show and sale by painters Betty Christensen, Ruth Newquist, and Dimitry Shibayev, fundraiser for meetinghouse; 270-8293.

 

Monday, May 24

“Skin Sense,” 7:30 pm, Msgr Conroy Room, St Rose School, Church Hill Rd, free program by Dr Grace Federman, a board-certified dermatologist, sponsored by the St Rose Parish Nurse Ministry; 426-2573, ext 16.

Board of Fire Commissioners, 7:30 pm,  Sandy Hook Firehouse, Riverside Road.

Newtown Pension Committee, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Tuesday, May 25

“Flowers With Flair,” 1 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free program by Sherry Sanelli on designing floral arrangements for flower shows, hosted by The Garden Club of Newtown (nonmembers welcome); 270-1108.

Open Space Committee, 4 pm, Canaan House at Fairfield Hills.

Public Building and Site Commission, 6:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Wednesday, May 26

Blood pressure screenings, 10 am–noon, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free screenings by registered nurse, information also available, no appointment needed.

Blood pressure screening, 11am–noon, Nunnwauk Meadows, Nunnawauk Road, free screenings by Connecticut VNA.

Society of Creative Arts of Newtown, Inc (SCAN) meeting, 1:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free program on painting with oils by guest artist Anda Styler; 426-6654.

Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART), board of directors, 4 pm, HART office, 62 Federal Road, Danbury.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, Canaan House at Fairfield Hills.

Thursday, May 27

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Friday, May 28

Don’t Dress for Dinner by Town Players, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $15; 270-9144.

Saturday, May 29

Great Pootatuck Duck Race Festival , 10 am–3 pm, Sandy Hook Center, ongoing activities, duck race at 2 pm, sponsored by Newtown Lions Club.

Final performance of Don’t Dress for Dinner by Town Players, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $15; 270-9144.

Monday, May 31

MEMORIAL DAY