Artbits-October 23, 2025

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio hosts a Spooky Season Paint Night. The Swanton Arts Council makes Junk Creatures with Abbey. Milton Artists’ Guild has rescheduled Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint ‘n’ Sip, then glow in the dark for a Spooktacular Starry Night Paint ‘n’ Sip with Sylvia Oblak. Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at the Fairfax Community Library. Read more

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Lindsay Didio. The third annual People’s Art Show ends this Saturday at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more

ART FOR SALE

MVU hosts the annual Craft Fair in the gym and the Trahan Theater with handmade treasures to unique gifts. Read more

DANCE

Autumn Adventures for Seniors led by Alice Reighley continues Intro to Jazz Dance. Read more

FILM

The Montgomery Center for the Arts will be bedecked with cobwebs and zombies for the Night of the Living Dead. Lots of Rocky Horror at the Opera House at Enosburg Falls with a shadow cast and the Welden with an exclusive prop bag. The Depot presents Witch, Please: A Hocus Pocus Movie & Dining Experience. Read more

HUMANITIES

Osher continues with former Christina Fearon to discuss Chinese Art and the Poetic Imagination. Bryan Gallery hosts the Land, Light, Water & Air Artist Roundtable with William Gotha, Marisol Rosenbluth, and Andrew Orr. The Haston Library hosts the VNA & Hospice Grief Timeline Workshop and Bent Northrop Memorial Library has Death, Dying and Danishes, both with Mary Pleasant. Vermont Humanities has Andrew Ingall, Gail Golec, and others to tell stories and legacies in Looking Back/Moving Forward: Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+. Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette talk about the Language of Resilience: Words in a Warming World. Read more

TALL TALES AND HALLOWEEN

14th Star Brewery goes Beyond the Taproom and into the shadows for a Paranormal Investigation led by the Beer Wine & Spirits team. Kraemer & Kin has their 6th annual Pumpkin Carving. Read more

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Milton Artists’ Guild continues Social Sunday and teaches Halloween Zentangle with Julia Davenport. River Arts continues DIY Cosplay Creations with Abby O’Sullivan. Read more

ON STAGE LIVE

Comedy for a Cause with Boom City Improv supports The Cafe Youth Center, Spooky Saturday, the Misty Bay Ramblers the Dale and Darcy Band, the Owl Stars, Evan Jennison and Matt Schrag, the HallowQueen Drag Show, Mr. French, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Lawless, the Hitmen, the Tom Caswell Blues Band, the Phillip Hyjek Trio, Will Austin, Dave Miller, Antara & Chris Cheney, Paul Asbell, Nathan Michaud, the Smokey Newfield Project, the St. Paul’s Praise Band, Robertpalooza tribute to Robert Resnik, the Arpeggione Duo, Evan Alsop, the BFA Chorus/Chamber Singers, Bands 1/2 and Jazz Band and the BFA Modern Band all perform live at a venue near you. Read more

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fairfax Community Library has a Silent Reading Party. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club meets for Shady Hollow by Juneau Black. The Sheldon Historical Society hosts Eizabeth Gauffreau for The Weight of Snow and Regret. Read more

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