ART ON THE WALLS
The second annual People’s Art Show opens with a Reception at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Tess Follensbee. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Moon Rising on Banister Road by Lynn VanNatta. Read more…
ART (SUPPLIES) FOR SALE
The Milton Artists Guild Art Supply Sale has art and crafting supplies for sale as a MAG benefit. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
River Arts hosts the in-person, Paint & Sip — Vermont Autumn Landscapes with Jen Volansky. Read more…
CALL FOR ARTISTS
GEMS, Bryan Gallery’s annual members’ exhibit returns this year to the Middle Room. The spooky season is upon us. Film makers should submit their eeriest efforts to the Northwest Nightmares Film Festival. Read more…
CREATIVE AGING
Vermont will be the oldest state in the nation with one of the highest life expectancy rates at nearly 80 years of age. Participating in the arts as one ages can improve emotional well-being, support good health, strengthen social engagement, and bring purpose and joy. Read more…
FESTIVALS AND SHOWS
The second annual, two-day Rail City Tattoo Festival offers live music, tattooing, vendors, and more in City Hall plus an official punk rock and hardcore Afterparty with Rough Francis, The Path, Old North End, Dead Street Dreamers, and Violet Crimes. Snow Farm Vineyard celebrates its 11th annual Harvest Festival with Chris and Issy, an artist gallery, and more. Read more…
FILM
The 1985 film Unbroken Circle uses the words and music of a dozen Vermont musicians, historic photos, and location videography to trace traditional country music in Vermont. It is Classic Movie Night with Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Randy Kritkausky presents An Indigenous Perspective on Nature: Working Together as Allies on Zoom. Bent-Northrop Memorial library offers Cemetery Sleuthing with Erin E. Moulton. The Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission hosts Truth and Healing: In Search of a Common Memory. Chief Brenda Gagne will lead the opening ceremony. Osher continues the series with UVM Professor Luis Vivanco to explore When the Bicycle Came to Vermont. The North Hero Public Library presents Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, In Literature and In Our Lives with Shanta Lee. Erica Heilman talks about Rumble Strip: Building Community in Our Divided Society. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Cathy LaClair will reprise Sparkle and Support: a Metal Earrings Workshop for MAG. Social Sunday continues. The Mindful Art Series offers Create & Connect Mixed Media with Jen Volansky at River Arts. The Healing Arts Series offers its newest class, Meditate, Breathe, & Create with Victoria Veldon and Randy Putvain. Read more…
COVID NEWS
The number of COVID-19 cases in Vermont continues to increase. There have been 1,206 total pandemic deaths reported as of September 28. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The Nobby Reed Project (twice), Jim Branca and Friends, Laura Fedele-Rasco, B-Town, Roger Giroux, the Smokey Newfield Project, the Shane Murley Band, the Blue Rock Boys, All About Pie, Dan Parks, Will Austin, Bushey/Bedell/Branon, and Sisters in Crime all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
Many libraries will be closed Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. The Eloquent Page has Donna Howard and Gail Schwartz for a special reading of Falling Through the Night. Glenn Fay will discuss and sign Ambition: The Remarkable Family of Ethan Allen. Patricia Letourneau Henderson will read and sign Captive Company. But I Progress takes up Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Read more…
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