New Canaan Parks Board Approves Two Fall Festivals
Parks and Recreation · Meeting of April 15, 2026
New Canaan Parks Commission clears Shakespeare in the Park and the Waveny Park Arts Festival for a fall return. Commissioners unanimously recommended closing Bristow Park for Shakespeare performances October 4 and 11, and approved the Carriage Barn's October 11 Waveny Park Arts Festival, expected to draw about 150 guests per hour. Nova Hall of Summer Theater of New Canaan reported the group is "regularly selling about close to 900 seats every show run," but its building campaign estimate jumped to $5.1 million from an original $3 million goal.
Friends of Irwin Park detailed a native meadow project backed by $25,000 in town-funded trees. Parks Director John said an elevator delay at Waveny House has forced cancellation of nearly all weekday events there through midsummer, while a new Waveny Park playground targets a late-May opening.
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Source: the Parks and Recreation meeting of April 15, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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