APRIL 2026
ONE YEAR BIRTHDAY EDITION!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABBLER!!!!!!!!
LOCAL HAPPENINGS!
Wednesday 4/1 Wellness Concert (ages 7-12) 430-530 Possible Futures
Wednesday 4/1 Community Baby Shower 4-7pm Stetson Library
Wednesday 4/1 Comedy Workshop 7-9pm Neverending Books
Thursday 4/2 Queer Film Club 630-9pm Best Video
Saturday 4/2 Heatsync 9pm Cafe Nine
Friday 4/3 First Friday Lounge Night 530-730pm Best Video
Friday 4/3 Paper Marbling Workshop 630-8pm Fairy Meadow Flowers
Saturday 4/4 BMX Video Night 1-4pm Jam @ Scantlebury / Show @ Devil’s Gear
Sunday 4/5 Lavender Contra Dance 4PM Group Project
Monday 4/6 Jigsaw Puzzle Club 6-10pm Elm City Games
Monday 4/6 Anti-Fascist Futures Book Club 630-730pm Possible Futures
Monday 4/6 Craft Night 7-10pm Spruce Coffee
Monday 4/6 New Haven Queer Book Club 6-8pm Neverending Books
Tuesday 4/7 Carve & Print: Linocut Basics 630-830pm The Clay Date
Tuesday 4/7 CT For Abolition Book Club 630-8pm Downtown Library
Wednesday 4/8 Idiot Box: A Rosetint Cabaret 7pm East Rock Brewing Company
Tuesday 4/9 Happy Hour Mahjong 4-6pm Hotel Marcel
Thursday 4/9 Toni Morrison Bookclub 630-8pm Possible Futures
Thursday 4/9 Community Dinner 6-8pm Neverending Books
Thursday 4/9 CT Eco Trivia 6pm East Rock Brewing Company
Friday 4/10 Screening: ET 6-8pm Best Video
Friday 4/10 Teaching Artist Concert 7pm Neighborhood Music School
Friday 4/10 Jazz Concert: Top Notch Trio 7-9pm Dixwell Q House
Friday 4/10 Idiot Box: A Rosetint Cabaret 7pm East Rock Brewing Company
Friday 4/10 Concert: Elly Kace, Figurine, Mother Juniper 6pm Witch Bitch Thrift
Saturday 4/11 Heaven 9pm Cafe Nine
Saturday 4/11 NXTHVN Open Studios 2026 1-5pm NXTHVN
Saturday 4/11 Retro Gaming Night 6-10pm Spruce Coffee
Saturday 4/11 Writers Group 12-130pm Neverending Books
Saturday 4/11 Side Lot Vintage Market 11-4pm 102 Hamilton
Saturday 4/11 Poetry Panel 2-330pm Downtown Library
Sunday 4/12 Show: Takaat 4-8pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Sunday 4/12 Queer Azz Bingo 8pm Cafe Nine
Sunday 4/12 Board Games and New Friends 2-930pm Elm City Games
Sunday 4/12 Monthly Maker Meetup 2-4pm Makehaven
Sunday 4/12 NXTHVN Open Studios 2026 1-5pm NXTHVN
Sunday 4/12 Keynote Convo: Maverick Carter + Titus Kaphar 12-1pm NXTHVN
Sunday 4/12 Advoca-Zines Workshop 2-330pm Possible Futures
Sunday 4/12 NHV Bird Club Field Trip 730am-10am Lake Wintergreen (448 Main)
Monday 4/13 Community Night 7-9pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Monday 4/13 Winnie the Pooh’s Birthday Party 3-4pm Downtown Library
Monday 4/13 CT Map Society Presentation 6-730pm Mitchell Library
Tuesday 4/14 Mahjong, Martinis, and Munchies 630-830pm Mecha Noodle Bar
Wednesday 4/15 Movie Making Meetup 7-9pm Neverending Books
Thursday 4/16 Introduction to Arduino 630-830pm Makehaven
Thursday 4/16 Kintsugi For Beginners 630-830pm The Clay Date
Thursday 4/16 The Support Pod: A Meetup for Podcasters 6-7pm Downtown Library
Friday 4/17 Show: Myles Bullen, Brook Pridemore 7-10pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Friday 4/17 Club C*nt 9pm Club Vandome
Saturday 4/18 A Night w/ the Horror Writers Association 7-9pm Best Video
Saturday 4/18 Red Skies: An Evening of Bluegrass 730pm Neighborhood Music School
Saturday 4/18 All Good Indie Film Fes t12-9pm Lotta Studios
Saturday 4/18 Earth Day Market 11am-7pm Witch Bitch Thrift
Saturday 4/18 Mutual Aid Market 1-4pm Jitterbus Cafe
Sunday 4/19 Quilt-Along: Open Sewing & Support 1-4pm Makehaven
Sunday 4/19 Lavender Contra Dance 4pm Group Project
Sunday 4/19 Care Out Loud Community Open Mic 6-930pm Spruce Coffee
Tuesday 4/21 Screening: Harold & Maude 7-9pm Lyric Hall
Tuesday 4/21 Listen Here! Short Stories by NHV Theatre Co. 7-9pm Institute Library
Tuesday 4/21 Crochet Club 6-7pm Wilson Library
Wednesday 4/22 Comedy Workshop 7-9pm Neverending Books
Thursday 4/23 Live Remix & Rescore by VideoPunks 7-830pm Best Video
Thursday 4/23 ‘Lemonade’ Turns 10 ! 6pm GRAILS
Thursday 4/23 Steamy Futures Bookclub 630-8pm Possible Futures
Thursday 4/23 Lightning Talks with New Haven IO 6-730pm Downtown Library
Thurs thru Sat 4/23-25 Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy 6pm, 8pm, 10pm Lyric Hall
Friday 4/24 Emperor Tomato Ketchup’ Turns 30! 6pm GRAILS
Friday 4/24 Book Talk w/ Emanuel Xavier 630-8pm Possible Futures
Friday 4/24 Trivaoke! 6-10pm Spruce Coffee
Friday 4/24 Abstract Line Drawing Workshop 5-7pm Inkberry
Saturday 4/25 Rock to Rock: Earth Day Ride All Day East Rock Park
Saturday 4/25 Spring Wine Club 630-8pm GRAILS
Saturday 4/25 Lesbian Feminist Icon Judy Grahn Reads New Work 6-745pm St. PJ's
Saturday 4/25 Zine Scene 12pm Witch Bitch Thrift
Saturday 4/25 MAIFEST 12-5pm East Rock Brewing Company
Sunday 4/26 Board Games and New Friends 2-930pm Elm City Games
Sunday 4/26 Elm City Reels w/ Kyle Richard McCarthy 3pm Flint Street Theatre
Sunday 4/26 Create Your Own Hand-Tufted Rug 10-430pm Makehaven
Sunday 4/26 Spring Pottery Market 1-6pm New Haven Pottery Studio
Saturday 4/26 WPKN’s Secret Seashore Dance Party 3-6pm East Haven Secret Location!
Monday 4/27 Q+ Teen Space 2-4pm Downtown Library
Tuesday 4/28 Songwriters Circle 6-10pm Spruce Coffee
Thursday 4/30 Dia Del Niño 3-5pm Fair Haven Library
RECURRING FUN
Every Monday Low Key Bridge 7PM Institute Library
Every Tuesday Midnight Visitor 9PM Channel 27
Tues + Thurs Fix Your Bike + Buy A Bike 4-7pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Every Wednesday Anti-Capitalist Reading Group 6-8pm Neverending Books
Every Wednesday Music Library Open Hours 5-6pm Wilson Library
Every Wednesday Open Mic 6-9pm Spruce Coffee
Every Wednesday Game Design Night 6-10pm Elm City Games
Fridays Coffee Outside Bike up East Rock 8AM Meet @ Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Every Friday Jazz 515-730pm Institute Library
Every Friday Spring Jazz Series 830 + 10pm Firehouse 12
Every Friday Midnight Visitor Midnight Channel 27
Every Friday Party Games Night 7-1130pm Elm City Games
Saturdays New Haven Go Club 1-430pm Downtown Library
Every Saturday & Sunday Movie Screenings Flint Street Theater
Every Saturday Open Farm Day 10am-2pm Common Ground
Every Saturday Meditation 1030am-12pm Downtown Library
Every Sunday Sound Bath Sundays 5-6pm Onda Healing Arts
Weds, Fri, Saturdays, Sundays Dryyp Saunas Various Times C.I.T.A. Park
Every Week New Haven Sketchers Check their socials!
GET INVOLVED & GET RESOURCES
Thursday 4/2 Fair Haven Community Management Meeting 6-8pm Fair Haven Library
Mondays 4/6 + 4/13 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 12-4pm Mitchell Library
Wednesday 4/8 Name + ID Clinic 6-8pm Planned Parenthood
Wednesday 4/8 CPR Training for Mandarin Speakers 5-7pm Downtown Library
Saturday 4/11 Rock to Rock Day of Service All Day Various Orgs (Sign up online!)
Saturday 4/11 Bike Box Repair Clinic 10am-1pm Corner of Hazel St & Shelton Ave
Saturday 4/11 Absolute Pardon Workshop 230-330 Wilson Library
Saturday 4/11 Math Tutoring 2-4pm Downtown Libary
Tuesday 4/14 Hill North Community Management Team 6-745pm Wilson Library
Saturday 4/18 Long Wharf Clean Up + Sustainability Fair 1030am-3pm Long Wharf
Tuesday 4/21 Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Community Meeting 7-9pm Neighborhood Housing Services
Wednesday 4/22 Urban Garden Bike Tour 430-530pm Meet @ Newhallville park
Saturday 4/25 Bike Box Repair Clinic 10am-1pm Corner of Hazel St & Shelton Ave
Saturday 4/25 Mothers Demand Action 1-3pm Stetson Library
Saturday 4/26 Free4All 12-4pm Neverending Books
Monday 4/27 CPR Training 2-4pm Mitchell Library
Tuesday 4/28 CPR/AED/NARCAN Training 2-4pm Wilson Library
Every Monday Hearing Voices Weekly Meeting 430-530pm Wilson Library
Every Monday Volunteer Mondays 4-7pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Tues & Thursdays DIY Shop Hours 4-7pm Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op
Every Wednesday AA Meeting 12-130pm Neverending Books
Every Friday Blood Drive 1130am-5pm Whitneyville Cultural Commons
Every Saturday AA Meeting 8-930am Neverending Books
Every Sun Free Laundry Voucher Distribution 2pm Trinity Church on Green
Mon thru Thursdays Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 4-730pm Downtown Library
Mon through Fri Free Breakfast 630-830am Sunrise Cafe (57 Olive Street)
Mon– Thurs, Sun 230-3 Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen 5-6pm New Haven Green
Sundays thru Fridays Drop-in & Resource Center 130-530pm 266 State Street
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