Grace Farms

Pop-up Talk | A Room with an Equal View
2025-12-02 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-30 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-26 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-25 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-23 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-22 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-11-21 15:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Grace Farms, CT
Explore the Sanctuary’s extraordinary features with a Grace Farms Educator! Discover the purposeful connection created between audiences, presenters, and nature through intentional design and learn how challenges were overcome to create this unique space. “A Room with an Equal View” is one of the rare times visitors can explore the Sanctuary without an event ticket.
About Pop-up Talks
Pop-up talks are led by Grace Farms Education Team members and designed to scale for all ages and levels of experience. These drop-in talks are included with daily registration. Times and locations of all talks are subject to change. Please learn more about what’s offered on the day of your visit upon checking in at the West Barn.

Imagination Playground
2025-12-02 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-30 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-29 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-28 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-26 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-25 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-23 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-22 10:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date
Children can build skills, solve problems, and make friends in the Court using an innovative system of large-scale, lightweight blocks designed to encourage fun and learning through curiosity-driven play. For ages 8 and under with adult caregivers.

Materials Studio
2025-12-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-26 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-25 10:00 - 12:00
Families are invited to play, build, deconstruct, reimagine, and discover the life cycle of everyday materials in our built environment with our education team. Inspired by materials in the exhibit With Every Fiber: Pigment, Stone, Glass, families can explore the unique properties of these materials and use their imaginations to create new applications for them.
OnOctober 11, 2025, Grace Farms unveiled a new iteration of the With Every Fiber exhibit, which offers insights into forced labor in the building materials supply chain. A portion of With Every Fiber was adapted and included in the Intelligens CANON at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti, open through November 2025.
Materials Studio is for ages 4 – 11 with adult caregivers. This is free and included with daily registration.

Seasonal Music | Emily Braden
2025-11-29 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-28 14:00 - 15:00
Drop into the Sanctuary during to enjoy improvisational performances of seasonal music from local artists, suited for the whole family. Registration is not required.
Today’s performance features Emily Braden, a powerhouse vocalist, songwriter and lyricist.
Braden is the winner of New York City’s ‘Best of the Best’ Jazzmobile Vocal Competition and two-time cultural ambassador with the US Embassy’s Arts Envoy Program. Originally from Boise, Idaho, Braden is a Harlem- based vocalist, songwriter and lyricist who effortlessly blends jazz and soul to elevate the tradition and win the hearts of audiences around the world. NYC performances include Birdland Jazz Club, Blue Note Jazz Club (Groove Series), The 55 Bar and Minton’s Playhouse. Her sophomore album Cannon & Sparrow is a celebration of resilience was released Spring 2023.

Music at Grace Farms
Experience Grace Farms’ distinctive, afternoon acoustic music performances in the glass-enclosed Sanctuary, against the backdrop of 80 acres of natural landscapes. Season highlights include a recital by internationally acclaimed cellist and 19-time GRAMMY® winner Yo-Yo Ma, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, and a special recital by Grace Farms Artist-in-Residence and GRAMMY®-winning Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko.

Grace Farms Tour
2025-11-29 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-11-28 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-11-22 10:30 - 12:00
This comprehensive tour invites a closer look at the architecture of the River building and Barns. Take in 360–degree views of the surrounding landscapes while exploring the building’s sustainable design, curated interiors, and materials choices. During the tour, sample a cup of tea from Grace Farms Tea & Coffee, a Certified B Corp that demonstrates and educates about ethical and sustainable supply chains.
The River building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning firm, SANAA, holds LEED Gold certification for Building Design and Construction. A demonstration of our continuing efforts to be as sustainable as possible, in 2024, we were awarded Gold certification for Building Operations and Maintenance, building on our LEED Silver certification in 2019.
The River building was awarded the prestigious 2014/2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), in addition to the AIA National 2017 Architecture Honor Award and AIA Connecticut 2016 Design Honor Award.
Approved for AIA CES 1.5 LU

Open Arts Studio
2025-11-29 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-22 10:00 - 14:00
Open Arts Studio is a site-specific creative exploration for younger audiences to engage in open-ended inquiry and reflect on the building, its shapes and designs, and its ideas. The series asks participants to respond to both the built and the natural environment, encouraging new ways of thinking. Led by Grace Farms Arts Educator Nancy Jameson, Open Arts Studio provides a new prompt monthly, along with materials and guidance for participants to make their responses.
For ages 4 – 11 with adult caregivers.

Bunny Book Group
2025-11-28 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-28 11:00 - 11:30
Listen to stories from our curated collection of books and take part in an arts and crafts activity. For up to age 5 with adult caregivers.
Capacity is limited. Early arrival is encouraged.

Court Opens at 12 pm
2025-11-28

Closed
2025-11-27
We will be closed on Thursday, November 27 for Thanksgiving.
