FESTIVALS AND FESTIVITIES
The Festival of Trees continues the magical month to usher in the holidays with the Running of the Bells, the Monte Carlo Holiday Festival, band concerts, the Vermont Choral Union and L’Harmonie des Saisons performing Handel’s Messiah, parties, Santa, and more. Franklin Rec and the Haston Library have the 8th annual Tree Lighting and Community Holiday Concert. A Celebration of the Winter Season comes to North Hero with crafts, hot cocoa, and treats, a Holiday Market, the Lighting of the Tree and caroling, storytelling, an Artisans Market, candlelit yoga, holiday cocktails, lots of food, and more. MACC presents the 24th Festival of Lights with free crafts, Peak Music, raffle baskets, clay studio planters and more. The Town of St. Albans hosts the Spectacular Holly Jolly Jamboree with hot chocolate, holiday crafts, face painting, Santa, and the tree lighting. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Artist In Residence Gallery features Janice DeCooman, Dorothy Goulet, Sarah McGarghan, and Sally Tarr with a live reception. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery opens Wintertide, its annual Winter Show, with an Opening Reception. Gail Salzman of Fairfax is featured. Bryan Memorial Gallery has Hillcrest View by Daryl Storrs. Read more…
ART FOR SALE
The Back Chamber hosts a Holiday Market. The Green TARA has an Artisans Market. The Institute for American Indian Studies annual Holiday Market is open. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Vermont Humanities has a discussion of The Fraud by Zadie Smith. Sarah Stewart Taylor discusses Paranoia in the Hills: Cold War Vermont as Inspiration for Crime Fiction. Read more…
THEATER
The South Hero Players present It’s a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play in a four-performance run. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. River Arts has the December Open Studio Figure Drawing plus Macrame Sleigh Bells with Karen. Read more…
COVID NEWS
The 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that Vermont teens’ mental health has not improved and that students are “reporting self-harm and making suicide plans at the same rates as during the pandemic.” About 19% of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 27% have gotten a flu shot. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
Mandy Hotchkiss and Wilbur, A Wonderfully Camp Little Christmas, the LMAOille County Comedy Winter Showcase, Nobby Reed (twice), Jim Branca, Josh Panda and Peter Day, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Pet Project, the Dirty Looks, Ryan Hanson, Bells on Bobtails with Dwight & Nicole and Friends, Dave Grippo, Dave Marchand, Mike and Tessa Gordon, Ezra Oklan, Leon Campos, Ben Lively, the Resistance Revival Chorus, McMaple, A Woman Named Carlos, Vanna Deux, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Justice 3, Robin Gottfried, Sister Speak, the Bootleg Band, Maggie Pierce, Rob Hale, Matt Vandy, Maddie McLennon, Brian Thompson, Meredith Gordon, Ian Paul, Carol Ann Jones, Vermont Choral Union, L’Harmonie des Saisons, the Community Chorus, the Enosburg Town Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
Jackson Ellis will sign his book Black Days. Milagro Amaya Turner will read and sign Siber Sled Dogs with one of her Siberian Huskies. The Mystery and Fantasy Book Clubs combine for Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Read more…
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