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  • May 2026

  • Fri 8

    PERFORMANCE | American Contemporary Dances with The Hartford Dance Collective

    Featured May 8 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    For the first time, the Webb Deane Stevens Museum brings live dance into its historic barn. Experience an in-the-round performance by The Hartford Dance Collective featuring new and established works that explore strength, resilience, and self-expression. Inspired by America's 250th anniversary, these bold dances amplify women's voices—in a space where the courage to claim one's own has always mattered. Seating is limited.

  • Sat 9

    CLASS | Saturday Morning Arts: Open-Level Dance Class with The Hartford Dance Collective

    May 9 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Join us one Saturday a month at 10 am to awaken your creativity and get you moving. Each month, a choreographer from the Hartford Dance Collective will lead an open-level dance class designed to build curiosity, strength, range of motion and confidence in your own dance movement.

  • Sat 9

    PERFORMANCE | American Contemporary Dances with The Hartford Dance Collective

    Featured May 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    For the first time, the Webb Deane Stevens Museum brings live dance into its historic barn. Experience an in-the-round performance by The Hartford Dance Collective featuring new and established works that explore strength, resilience, and self-expression. Inspired by America's 250th anniversary, these bold dances amplify women's voices—in a space where the courage to claim one's own has always mattered. Seating is limited.

  • Sun 10

    TEA | Mother’s Day Tea

    Featured May 10 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Treat the special women in your life to an elegant Mother’s Day filled with flowers and flavor. Enjoy music and a morning stroll through our gardens, then share tea, cake, and conversation overlooking the beautiful grounds.

  • Thu 14

    LECTURE | The Art of Collecting

    Featured May 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Join textile historian Ned Lazaro, Associate Curator of Textiles and Costumes at The Wadsworth Atheneum and former curator of textiles at Historic Deerfield for a moderated discussion on the history of collecting schoolgirl samplers and other forms of needlepoint in the United States.

  • Sat 23

    FREE EVENT | Wethersfield 250 Jubilee: Revolutionary War Encampment & Traditional Trades Fair

    Featured May 23 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Travel back in time and experience our Annual Revolutionary War Encampment and Traditional Trades Fair. Join us all day for a fun, educational immersion in the Colonial era, including period music, open hearth cooking demonstrations, children’s colonial games, traditional craft-making, woodworking, masonry, weaving, musket demonstrations, camp tours with the 5th Connecticut Regiment, and so much more.

  • June 2026

  • Tue 9

    WDS BOOK CLUB | The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding

    Featured June 9 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Meet fellow history enthusiasts in person as we discuss thought-provoking books by acclaimed authors.

  • August 2026

  • Tue 11

    WDS BOOK CLUB | The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

    Featured August 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Meet fellow history enthusiasts in person as we discuss thought-provoking books by acclaimed authors.

  • September 2026

  • Thu 10

    LECTURE | Civic Stitches: Early American Needlework and National Identity 

    Featured September 10 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    This companion lecture to the exhibition American Girlhood by guest curator Emily Whitted will explore the larger history of needlework as part of early American education for girls.

  • October 2026

  • Tue 13

    WDS BOOK CLUB | Spiritualism’s Place: Reformers, Seekers, and Séances in Lily Dale

    Featured October 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Meet fellow history enthusiasts in person as we discuss thought-provoking books by acclaimed authors.

  • December 2026

  • Tue 8

    WDS BOOK CLUB | Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

    December 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

    Meet fellow history enthusiasts in person as we discuss thought-provoking books by acclaimed authors.

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