Artbits-August 3, 2023

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer continue with Franklin County Field Days plus live shows in nine Towns. Read more

FIELDS OF SUMMER

Vermont’s finest country fair takes to the fields of Highgate for the 47th Franklin County Field Days. Come for the lineup of the best music, arts and crafts, and weeds of summer. Neon Spoon and Friction, Bad Horsey, the Old Man Garage Band, Chris & Erica, Julia Parent, the Missisquoi River Band, the Darcy Cahill Band, and Johnnie Bubar all fill the stage live. Read more

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Lindsay DiDio, Barbara Flack, Meta Strick, and El Towle with a live reception at the gallery. Atlas Obscura declared Cold Hollow Sculpture Park one of the 10 Unexpected Delights of Vermont’s Arts and Culture Scene. A Retrospective Looking Forward–the Art of Aida Whedon fills the MCA. Off The Rails has artwork by Tina Logan and Todd Logan. Read more

ART YOU CREATE

The Swanton Arts Council hosts Stampin’ Up! Cardmaking with Barb. All supplies are provided. Read more

HUMANITIES

The Nebizun: Water is Life Abenaki Teach-In will be at the Mt. Kearsage Indian Museum. The Historical American Women FUNdraiser celebrates the accomplishments of pioneering women in American history–Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, Anna May Wong, Bessie Coleman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Maria Tallchief–with impressionist Terry Buehner. Becky Rupp will discuss Soup to Nuts: An Eccentric History of Food. The Abenaki Word of the Week is translated. Read more

THEATER

Adam Wilber, Ryan Bliss, and Kozmo do Magic Beyond Imagination at the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. James and the Giant Peach Jr takes over the Island Arts Center. Read more

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has three workshops this week: Drawing 101 with Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr., Social Sunday, and Learn Zentangle with Julia Davenport. Read more

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates in person at the library. Read more

COVID NEWS

NMC has submitted its proposed budget for next year to the Green Mountain Care Board. The GMCB requests show the profound impacts of COVID-19 on our health care system across all 14 Vermont hospitals. Read more

ON STAGE LIVE

Carol Ann Jones (twice) with Will Patton, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Nathan Michaud, Blues for Breakfast, the Shane Murley Band, the Duel, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Sibling Reverie, Smokin’ Gun, Medicine Tribe, the Nobby Reed Project, the Champlain Consort, Jacob Green, Dan & Sean Jarvis, the Free Range Band, the Jolly Roger, Tim Brick, Cooie DeFrancesco, the Enosburg Town Band, Back Porch Revival, Sister Speak, Kat Wright and Brett Hughes all appear live on a stage near you. Read more

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

DonnaRae Menard releases her third mystery, Murder in the Village Proper, at the Eloquent Page.Read more

 

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