Art Exhibits, Parades & A Video Game-Themed Beer Fest: Weekend In CT

CONNECTICUT — High art, low art, and Mario Kart will all have a place at the events table this weekend in Connecticut.

For some, it’s therapy. For others, sustenance. But for most of Connecticut’s anglers, fishing is “a passion that can never be explained.” Many of them will be at the 2025 Connecticut Fishing & Outdoor Show, opening at the Mohegan Sun Earth Expo & Convention Center in Uncasville on Friday, March 21 and running through Sunday, March 23.

There will be plenty of reels, nets, rods, flies, lures, and bobs, as well as seminars to help you up your game. Hunters will also get some love, with more seminars, demos and a laser shooting range. Bring the family: New this year is a Kids Fun Zone. Tickets are available online here.

St. Patrick’s Day was Monday, but the Irish aren’t done with you yet. The pipes will be skirling again in Meriden on Saturday, March 22, for the 50th Annual Meriden Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Marchers will step off at 1:30 p.m. from the corner of East Main Street and Parker Avenue, continue through downtown Meriden and conclude at the corner of West Main Street and Bradley Avenue. The Greenwich Hibernians will be leading that town’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade the next day, Sunday, March 23. Revels will begin at 2:00 p.m., at the Greenwich Town Hall.

If you’re in the mood for something a smidge quieter than drums and bagpipes, consider “coloring your way to tranquility” at the Coloring Club for Adults at the Bristol Public Library on Saturday, March 22. Guests will “color away the stress together” from 1-3 p.m. RSVP online here or by calling 860.584.7787 x3, then grab your favorite coloring supplies and your imagination, and just unwind. Admission is free.

Or you can leave it to the pros: On Friday, Connecticut’s “Oldest Running Artists’ Guild” will open the doors to its Gallery on The Green for its biennial “Word Art” exhibition. Since 2003, Canton Artists Guild artists and writers have been collaborating to explore the synergies between their respective disciplines. Visual artists create a work of art that is inspired by prose or poetry, while writers create new work in response to visual art. The exhibit runs through April 5, and opens with a reception with refreshments from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday.

The marketing magicians at Two Roads Brewing Company have found a way to combine your two utmost passions. No, not chocolate and peanut butter, but video games and beer. That’s right, Bunky, on Friday, March 21, it’ll be on like Donkey Kong in Stratford, for the Two Roads Brewing Cask Fest 2025.

There’s a lot to unpack here. A cask fest is a beer festival celebrating cask-conditioned ales—naturally carbonated, unfiltered beers served straight from the barrel. The brews poured on Friday will all be small-batch creations crafted just for this event. Each cask featured at the Two Roads Brewing Cask Fest was inspired by legendary video games like Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda, and Space Invaders, as well as the platforms where those games lived. If that’s not enough for you to drop your controller and hoist your stein, you can test your skills on vintage arcade games — think Pac-Man, Street Fighter and their contemporaries — set up throughout the venue, for free play. The event will be held at Area Two Experimental Brewing, and tickets are available online here.