ART YOU CREATE
Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at Fairfax Community Library. The Swanton Arts Council free Art Journaling Group meets at the Swanton Free Public Library. The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts a Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint n’ Sip with Sylvia Oblak. Read more…
ART ON THE WALLS
The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on fiber artist Janice Decooman. Bryan Gallery features Hunter’s Moon by Brian Hewitt. The third annual People’s Art Show continues at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more…
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Northwest Nightmares, the area’s only film festival, calls aspiring filmmakers to submit work for the big screen. GEMS submissions are open for one of Bryan Gallery’s final exhibitions of the year. The NVAA Fall Show at Copley Gallery calls member artists. The Highgate Manor hosts a Kids’ Entrepreneur Craft Fair. Read more…
DANCE
Autumn Adventures for Seniors led by Alice Reighley continues Intro to Jazz Dance. The Maple Squares of St. Albans square dancing club hosts a free night of lessons at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…
FILM
The spooky season is officially here. Tickets for the 13th annual Northwest Nightmares Film Festival at the Welden are on sale now. Read more…
HUMANITIES
Osher has pilot-in-command Beth White to discuss Women Build Planes–A Milestone in Aviation History. Vermont Humanities offers Social Tinkering: Connection Conversations and Julie Carrick Dalton discusses her latest novel, The Last Beekeeper. The Saint Albans Museum SAM Talks presents Dr. Pamela Walker to discuss The Box Project: Race, Rurality, & Civil Rights Activism from Vermont to Mississippi. The Swanton Free Public Library presents Stories of the Blues, Part 2, with Missisquoi Slim. The Haston Library hosts Kevin Graffagnino to discuss Rebels in Vermont–The St. Albans Raid. Read more…
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Artist Martha Kinney offers a Painted Mandala Class at the Dick Wright Pub. The Sheldon Library hosts a Pumpkin Crafting Workshop. Kelli Shepherd leads Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice Beginner Crochet and Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Enosburgh Rec offers a Dried Flower Workshop. River Arts begins Calligraphy Basics with Chris Carfaro. Creative Creatures meets to craft decorative potion bottles at Enosburg Public Library. Read more…
IN THE SAC
The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…
ON STAGE LIVE
The 2025 Youth Talent Search, Paint Town Pink Karaoke, an Open-Mic and Coffeehouse, Tim Brick (twice), the Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, CombustOmatics, Jeff Salisbury, JSB, the Crowe Hill Band, Sibling Reverie, SoulRockerz, Before This Time, Bob Chevalier, the Rustics, Blue Heron, Laura Fedele-Rasco, George Murtie, Miracle Blood, Nugreth, Practical Gore, Melkor, Necroborne, Greg Beeman, the Smokey Newfield Project, and the Vermont Cello Duet all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…
ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE
Virtual events continue this week. Tonya Mosley Poet Laureate Ada Limón. The Capellen Orchestra recorded My Departed Love composed by Nancy Hassett-Dahm. Read more…
FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF
The Enosburgh Public Library Reading & Discussion Group takes up Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. The Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins. The monthly SPL Book Club reads First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston and But I Progress takes up Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit. Read more…
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