Woodbury & Middlebury Weekend Guide: Flanders' Art Show Closes And Blues At The Flat Five

WOODBURY, CT — Woodbury's nature center wraps up its annual art show and teaches mushroom growing, while the Flat Five books a Friday band and Middlebury's Vyne serves its Sunday brunch, from Thursday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Oct. 18.

This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment

• 5th Annual Exhibition of Art — Thursday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the show closes Sunday. Flanders Nature Center, Van Vleck Gallery, Van Vleck House, 5 Church Hill Road, Woodbury
• Home Mushroom Cultivation — Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Permaculture instructor Elmo Ranelli covers mushroom anatomy and cultivation, and participants inoculate substrates for oyster, wine cap and shiitake mushrooms and take home an oyster mushroom kit; it is $65 for members and $75 for nonmembers. Flanders Nature Center, Trail House, 47 Church Hill Road, Woodbury

This Weekend's Restaurants & Bars

• Carl Ricci & 706 Union Avenue — Friday, Oct. 16. The blues tavern behind the 1754 House is open 5 to 10 p.m., with the kitchen serving until 9; enter at the back of the building. The Flat Five, 506 Main Street South, Woodbury
• Sunday brunch — Sunday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dishes include baked brioche French toast with vanilla custard and caramelized banana. Vyne Restaurant & Bar, 1365 Whittemore Road, Middlebury

Catch the Flanders art show before it closes Sunday, learn to grow mushrooms Saturday, hear Carl Ricci at the Flat Five on Friday and finish with brunch at Vyne.

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