BANNED BOOKS WEEK
Banned Books Week began last Sunday and culminates with Let Freedom Read Day. The theme is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Artist In Residence Gallery features Sarah McGarghan, Longina Smolinski, Gillian Ireland, and Deb Shell with a live reception at the gallery. The Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts the third annual People’s Art Show with an Opening Reception. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park is showing Fall colors. Read more…
ART FOR SALE
The Masonic Lodge holds its Fall Harvest Craft Fair with pull tabs, a 50/50 raffle, and about 16 craft vendors. Read more…
ART YOU CREATE
The United Church of Fairfax hosts the Fall Paint Class with Joanne Delaney. Hearthside Handcrafts meet at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. Autumn Adventures offers Paint and Tea with Victoria led by Victoria Vining. Paint and Sip Sunflowers with Sylvia Oblak fills the Milton Artists’ Guild. River Arts hosts the October Paint & Sip Autumn Glow with Evie Mason. Read more…
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Northwest Nightmares, the area’s only film festival, calls aspiring filmmakers to submit work for the big screen and “a rabid audience of home-grown horror fans.” Read more…
DANCE
The Maple Squares of St. Albans square dancing club host a free night of lessons at the Swanton Free Public Library. Autumn Adventures continues Intro to Jazz Dance led by Alice Reighley. Read more…
FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
Enosburg will Paint the Town Pink with the spooky spoof Witches and Warlocks Fight Cancer at the Opera House and the Luminary Walk in Lincoln Park on Sunday. Comic Con is here with the Rail City Fan Fest at Collins Perley Sports & Fitness Center. The Highgate Library and Community Center Fall Harvest Festival will include paint a pumpkin and touch a tractor. Snow Farm Vineyard hosts its annual Grape Harvest Festival with the Buck Hollers. Read more…
FILM
It is Classic Movie Night (and Matinee!) at the St. Albans Free Library with Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Read more…
HUMANITIES
The Vermont History Center hosts Hidden Heritage: The Vermont Indian Community, 1790-2010 with Dr. Fred Wiseman. The Sheldon Historical Society presents Jeffrey Brace: Revolutionary War Soldier and Slave. The Haston Library presents Soulspun Kitchen with Erin Moulton at Franklin Homestead. Read more…
THEATER
The spooky spoof Witches and Warlocks Fight Cancer comes to the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Bryan Gallery hosts the 2025 Fall Plein Air Retreat with T.M. Nicholas and Leo Mancini-Hresko. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Julie Jones to teach Brushstrokes & Hashtags: Social Media Made Simple. Social Sunday continues at MAG. River Arts offers the craft workshop Macrame 101: Tie Your Way In with Karen. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
A Bluegrass Jam, Evan Barber, Dan Jarvis, Frevo, Tim Brick and the Enablers, Barbie N Bones, DJ Lady Livy, the Crowe Hill Band, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, Magnetic Horse, Dan Parks, Cooie Sings, the Shane Murley Trio, Dale & Darcy, and the Buck Hollers all play live at a venue near you. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
Libraries will be closed on Monday. Muffin Monday continues. The St. Albans Free Library Tuesday Night Book Group will discuss Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. The Banned Books Group will discuss All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson. Read more…
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