Canceled! Back next week!
Women’s History Month is here, and we are ready to support all the local women entrepreneurs and women-owned/operated businesses!
International Women’s Day (March 7) is so important to spotlight as we celebrate all women (regardless of race, gender, and biases), their passions, and what it means to be their true authentic selves! Women supporting women should happen often and with positive intent! Come down to Parkville Market to celebrate with us in supporting women of all kinds in their business, goals, and dreams.
Join us from 11-5PM as we shine the spotlight on celebrating women in the Main Market!
Small businesses include –
Sip, sip, hooray! Join us on Saturday, March 14 for some St. Patrick’s Day Shenanigans from scavenger hunts to live performances happening throughout the day!
We’ve got fun for the whole family –
12-2PM: Kids Scavenger Hunt & Craft
3-5PM: Manchester Pipe Band
5-5:30PM: SRL Irish Dance Academy
6-7PM: Guiness Glass Etching
Check out our drink specials at The Pint all day!
Eat, drink, and get lucky – Sláinte!
Introducing Literary Salon at The Local, Sunday March 1st — the first in our new series of bringing authors and readers together at Parkville Market! 📚 🌟
We’re kicking off the series with Christopher Castellani and Grant Ginder as they dive into their compelling new releases: Last Seen and So Old, So Young. From haunting mysteries to generation-defining friendships, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
Join us for a lively evening of great books, great conversation, and great company! Get tickets now! Link Below.
General admission + book bundle includes your choice of one featured book. Signings with both authors will follow the event.
The authors book bios:
About Last Seen by Christopher Castellani
I am one of those boys they keep finding in the river.
Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a local bar. Matthew was out looking for his ex-girlfriend. Leo was walking in the woods on a winter night. Then they disappeared.
Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there? What, if anything, connects them? Some of their loved ones believe the official answers. Some are convinced the boys are victims of an insidious network called the Smiley Face Killers. Some are trying to forget them altogether. Meanwhile, Caleb, Steven, Matthew, and Leo find one other—and other boys like them—in the murky depths of the afterlife. Each tells his story in his own way, speaking his version of truth, confessing his desires and grievances and even his hopes for a future he still somehow believes belongs to him. Each revelation brings the reader deeper into their intertwined fates, along a journey through the landscapes of identity, intimacy, and the haunting echoes of unresolved grief.
Christopher Castellani is the author of four previous novels (the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love) and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. He is the winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim and Mass Cultural Council fellow, and the 2022-24 writer in residence at Brandeis University. His fourth novel, Leading Men, is currently being adapted into a film for Fox Searchlight Pictures by Oscar-winning producer Peter Spears and director Luca Guadagnino. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.
About So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
Six Friends. Five Parties. Twenty Years…How did we get So Old, So Young?
From Grant Ginder, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a generation-defining novel that is part love story, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends in love, life, and death.
For Marco and Mia, Sasha and Theo, Richie and Adam, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship.
But time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds, and testing what we thought we knew. From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues, Grant Ginder’s resonant, funny, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation, and a celebration of how love can shift, stumble, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
Grant Ginder is the author of five novels, including Let’s Not Do That Again and The People We Hate at the Wedding, now a major motion picture starring Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, and Ben Platt. Originally from Southern California, Ginder received his MFA from New York University, where he teaches writing.
Great Wood Co. is popping up in the Main Market from February 12–14 with handcrafted wood vases and fresh floral bouquets—just in time for Valentine’s Day. Stop by to shop unique, locally made pieces and pick up flowers that last longer than the moment (and look even better on your table).
Players Wanted! Join UA Academy for weekly gaming at Parkville Market!
All skill levels are invited to play on Saturdays from 6-10PM in the Conference Room on the 2nd floor – learners, casual gamers, and professionals come together to enjoy good vibes and good gaming!
Casual Play Ages 10+
Competitive Play 18+
Players Wanted! Join UA Academy for weekly gaming at Parkville Market!
All skill levels are invited to play on Saturdays from 6-10PM in the Conference Room on the 2nd floor – learners, casual gamers, and professionals come together to enjoy good vibes and good gaming!
Casual Play Ages 10+
Competitive Play 18+
Join us for our 4th Annual Back 2 Black Market on Saturday, February 7th! Black-owned and operated small businesses will pop up their shops throughout the main floor of the Market from 11AM – 5PM.
Vendors in attendance:
Join us on February 28 at 8PM inside The Local for A Night of RnB Live brings smooth sounds and live energy for an intimate evening of R&B and soul. Presented by Hip Hop for the Homeless in partnership with the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the night features performances by Two-Tone, Ysanne, and Quoron Walker, hosted by Teddy Ren.
What started as a small grassroots movement over a decade ago, has grown into a very exciting and entertaining function that has incredible reach and tons of goodwill!
Enjoy an afternoon hanging with your gnomies and decorating sugar cookies with Loren from StidYums!! Together we will practice basic royal icing piping and filling techniques, and YOU will walk away with these 6 beautifully decorated cookies.
- Event is great for all level as well as beginners. Recommended age 14+.
- Class will take place on the second floor of Parkville Market in the Conference Room- there is an elevator.
- Doors open at 12:30pm. Class begins promptly at 1pm.
- All supplies will be provided, including a take home box.
- If you require gluten sensitive, please purchase a gluten sensitive add on. StidYums processes gluten, gluten sensitive cookies are made with gluten free ingredients