BANNED BOOKS
The Swanton Free Public Library will have a Banned Books and Ousted Authors panel with Becky Rupp to discuss the whether there are books kids shouldn’t read. Should a book be taken off the shelves based on the writer’s past behavior, or religious or political views? All of these questions and more. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on clay artist Wendy Everhart. Bryan Memorial Gallery features It’s in the Air” by Judith Selin. The Milton Artists Guild Art and Stroll Festival has over 75 art and craft vendors and live music. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features nature photographer Diane Stevens. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
River Arts hosts the in-person, Paint & Sip Autumn Birches guided by Evie Mason. The Fairfax Community Library offers Tea and Bristles with Julie Griffis. Read more…
DANCE
Island Arts opens the barn doors for Community Folk Dancing with instructor Leslie Alpert. Read more…
FESTIVALS AND SHOWS
The Art and Stroll Festival a the Milton Artists Guild has over 75 art and craft vendors plus live music and prizes. Read more…
FILM
It is Classic Movie Night (and Afternoon!) at the St. Albans Free Library with His Girl Friday starring Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy. The Richford First Baptist Church hosts a workshop on Screenwriting and Producing a Faith-based Film with a screening of Stand in the Gap and special Guests Steven and Beth Zambo. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Vermont Humanities’ American Stories Across the Generations, focuses on Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary. Isaac Evans-Frantz and Neda Saleh talk about how Action Corps mobilized the bipartisan passage of a bill in Congress to end the U.S. and Saudi war in Yemen. The St. Albans Free Library Revisits Dorothy Canfield Fisher with a presentation by Ben Koenig. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues with the Past, Present and Future for the Franklin County Airport presented by Clifford Coy. Read more…
NETWORKING
The Opera House at Enosburg Falls hosts its first-ever Community Brainstorming Session and Ice Cream Social to share programming and event ideas and get some darned good ice cream. The Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network hosts a Day of Learning and Information for artists, event organizers, keepers of culture. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
14th Star hosts a Pebble Art Workshop. Lisamarie Charlesworth leads Learn to make Artist Trading Cards at the Bryan Gallery. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. River Arts begins a new series, Creative Art Series for 60+ Seniors, with Jen Volansky. Read more…
COVID NEWS
COVID-19 is still here. 26 Vermonters died from COVID-19 in August, six in the last week alone. The updated vaccine is available now. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The Witches Ball, 90 Proof (twice), George Murtie, Jamie Lee Thurston, Ron Gagnon, FYSPOT, Roger Giroux, Uncle Jimmy, Chris & Issy, the Remnants, Lixx, Blues Without Borders, the John Daly Trio, the Duncan Macleod Trio, Sarah Bell, Ryan Hanson, Blue Heron, Ethan Sawyer and Martin Fredrick, Cooie Defrancesco, the Seth Yacovone Band, All Without the Bass, the Nobby Reed Project, The Duo, John Seiden, Neil Wright all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Fairfax Reads Book Group discusses all the books they read over the summer. Bent Northrop Memorial Library has a Pop-Up Book Discussion of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half. The St. Albans Free Library Revisits Dorothy Canfield Fisher with a Ben Koenig. At the Swanton Free Public Library, the monthly SPL Book Club discusses We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates. But I Progress takes up Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright. Read more…
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