A Hands-On Saturday at the Craft Center — and Halloween Week Takes Shape

If you like making things with your hands, Saturday at the Brookfield Craft Center is hard to beat. Three different studios are running at once: Turn a Bowl in a Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Blacksmith 101 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Forge, and Saturday Clay Night: Make a Bowl from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Clay Studio. The Craft Center sits at 273 and 290 Whisconier Road, and its workshops are the kind of thing that fills up — registration details are on the center's site.

Younger athletes have their own Saturday slot: the Lacrosse Club's fall clinics run from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cadigan Park, the final sessions of a season that has been building toward the spring.

Looking ahead, Halloween week is taking shape around Town Hall. On Thursday, October 29, the Senior Center hosts its Monster Mash Halloween Party at noon, and Trick or Treat at Town Hall runs from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. the same afternoon. On Friday, October 30, the Craft Center Forge fires up again with a Halloween Forged Skull workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — a fitting end to a month of making.

Early voting runs through all of it. The polls at Town Hall Meeting Room 133 are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through November 1, with extended hours — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. — on Tuesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 29. If you are already headed to Town Hall for trick-or-treating on the 29th, you can vote in the same trip.

The full calendar, with times and locations for everything above, is on the Current's events page.