Artbits-January 2, 2025

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery starts out the new year with the spotlight on Dee Christie, Chris Jenkins, Jaimie Katon, and Audrey Linn with a live reception at the gallery. Bryan Memorial Gallery features tiny winter landscapes by Marieluise Hutchinson. Read more…

CALL FOR DIRECTORS

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls invites directors to direct and produce one of three or more musicals this summer. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Brooke Blower talks about Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The River Arts Open Studio Figure Drawing offers a full nude session. Social Sunday continues at Milton Artists’ Guild. They also offer a Bellydance Veil Workshop with Donna Aviano. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates in person at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

About 21 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 31 percent have gotten a flu shot. COVID-19, RSV, and influenza are still here whether Vermonters get the shot or not. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Jim Branca, Jesse Agan, Chris & Erica, the Free Range Band, Moonbird, Ryan Sweezey and the Midnight Walkers, the Buck Hollers, Dan Parks, Ryan Hanson, and Sap Line all perform live in a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Highgate Library and Community Center launches the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour as a time to brainstorm opportunities for senior support. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club meets to discuss Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Read more…

LOOKING FORWARD

This year’s “looking forward columns” are spread over two weeks. This week, we have info about upcoming Arts Council and Opera House events. We will cover the Four Franklin County Festivals and our Town Bands plus Other Major Presenter plans next week. Read more…

 

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Artbits-December 26, 2024

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Dick

NEW YEAR’S EVE

Lots to do with Highlight New Year’s Eve, First Night North, Vermont Opera in Concert, Jay Peak Fireworks, the Rail Trail Pub’s New Year’s Eve Bash, 19th New Year’s Eve Dinner at the Paddle, and Taylor Park Fireworks. Acqua Mossa, Circus Smirkus, Florry, Fluffy Bus, Bizet, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Zach Nugent, Nathan Michaud (twice), Ryan Sweezey (twice), Bizet, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Zach Nugent, Barbie-n-Bones, Sticks and Stones, Neon Spoon, and more all perform live. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Jaimie Katon. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Charlie Hunter. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the January Sip n’ Slurry: Poinsettia Bowls with Lindsay. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…

COVID NEWS

The 2005 PREP Act public health emergency declaration against COVID-19 is set to expire on December 31. Gov. Phil Scott tested positive for the virus. And only about 21% of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 30% have gotten a flu shot but COVID killed 140 more Vermonters this year. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Jason Corbiere (thrice), Dave Keller, Rob Meehan, McMaple, the Duncan MacLeod Trio, Fyspot, Chris & Erica, Carol Ann Jones, Troy Millette & the Fire Below with the Owl Stars, the Jeff Salisbury Band, Sitchell, Blue Heron, Sean and Dan Jarvis, Astral Underground, and Zach Nugent’s Dead Set, all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this week with Mark Shelton singing Christmas and the Messiah reimagined by Marin Alsop, Bob Christianson, and Gary Anderson. Read more…

LOOKING BACK AT THE YEAR

The Arts Councils, Franklin County Festivals and Libraries, the Other Major Presenters, and Franklin County artists and presenters offered exhibits, live and online shows. Read more…

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

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Artbits-December 19, 2024

Posted on December 19, 2024 by Dick

FILM

The Opera House hosts a special screening of Christmas Cowboy with Eliana Ghen, Armando Gutierrez, and Courtney Gains. The new holiday story of a savvy real estate developer returning to her small hometown includes a scene filmed at the House. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Vermont Life photographer David Juaire. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Majestic Mount Mansfield by Tom Waters in the Legacy collection. The Montgomery Center for the Arts has an online survey. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

Kraemer & Kin family brewery has the Vermont Holiday Market. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The National Arts Honor Society will hold Missisquoi Mud Season Handmade Market and wants artists, makers and vintage sellers. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Cases had been falling in April and May but began rising at the end of summer through the fall. There was another uptick in COVID hospitalizations and deaths with 110 cases and four more deaths reported this week. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Holiday Music, Carol Ann Jones (twice), Jim Branca, Renee Juliette, Mitch Terriciano, Jerborn and Steve, WD-40, MGB, the Duo and Maggie, the Fairfax, Fletcher, Westford Band, Tyler Smith, the Smokey Newfield Project, the Pet Project, Will Austin, Roger Giroux, the John Lackard Blues Band, Dead Sessions Lite, IncaHoots, Giovanina Bucci all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this week. The St. Albans Tractor Parade, the Carol Ann Jones Quartet, and Mark Shelton sang holiday favorites online. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses Slow Horses by Nick Herron. The Eloquent Page hosts Terry Lovelette to sign Down-Back. Read more…

 

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Artbits-December 12, 2024

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Dick

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Saint Pauls UMC hosts a New Old Fashioned Christmas Party with food, fellowship, singing, and a Yankee Swap. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

‘Tis the Giving Season. Artist In Residence hopes readers can help Rai$e the Roof of the Gallery. Bryan Memorial Gallery features At the Bridge by George Van Hook. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Abbey hosts the Early Christmas Show with Debbie Paradee of Busy Hands Crafts. Kraemer & Kin has the Vermont Holiday Market. The 10th annual Montgomery PTCO Holiday Craft Show will have hand made art and crafts and food. The Institute for American Indian Studies annual Holiday Market has one-of-a-kind gifts from local and indigenous vendors. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person, Paint & Sip: Winter Landscapes Watercolor with Evie Mason. Read more…

DANCE

Vermont Swings with Joe’s Big Band. Read more…

FILM & FILM MEETUP

It is Classic Movie Night with Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart as anonymous pen pals in the Shop Around the Corner. Zach Scheffler and Franklin County Film Club host a Film Club Collab at 14th Star. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Will Eberle explores A Bridge Across Our Two Vermonts, focusing on the issues of addiction, housing insecurity, and poverty. Read more…

THEATER

The Opera House hosts the Best Christmas Pageant Ever with the Herdman family as they crash the annual Christmas pageant. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The River Arts Mindful Art Series continues with Creative Escape led by Jen Volansky. The Milton Artists’ Guild has a Live Model Figure Drawing Class taught by Patrick McAllister. Social Sunday continues. The Haston Library hosts a Felting Workshop with Carolyn Kittell. Read more…

COVID NEWS

There was a slight uptick in ER visits. COVID hospitalizations and deaths continue as we move indoors for the winter with an increase from the week before. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Troy Millette (twice), the Fire Below, Forest Station, Frankie White, Ryan Sweezey and the Midnight Walkers. Blue Heron, the Fairfax, Fletcher, Westford Band, Next Stop Comedy, Roger Giroux, Jerborn, the Shane Murley Band, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Joe’s Big Band, the Champlain Trio with Letitia Quante, Emily Taubl, and Hiromi Fukuda, John Geno, the Blue Rock Boys, Eric Bushey, Cliff Crosby, Christopher McWilliams, Savage Hen, Matt Hagen, Gay For Disco, Middle Ages, Rangus, Ivamae, Andriana Chobot, Danny and the Parts, Santa’s Brand New Bag, Matt Dolliver, Justice 3, Carol Ann Jones, Nobby Reed, and Jason Corbiere all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

April Verch, Shane Cooke, Danny Perrault and Mark Shelton all appear almost live through the holiday magic of the Internet. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. Jason Barney and Christine Eldred will sign and talk about The Hidden History of Lake Champlain. Read more…

 

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Artbits-December 5, 2024

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Dick

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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Artbits-November 28, 2024

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Dick

Happy Thanksgiving.

ART FOR SALE

All local sellers of the arts are open this weekend. Kraemer & Kin has a two day Maker’s Market. 14th Star holds a Sip & Shop. The Masonic Lodge presents a Holiday Bazaar and Craft Fair. Read more…

FESTIVALS

The Festival of Trees ushers in the holiday season beginning with the Tree Walk on Saturday. There will be the Tree Lighting, Hallmark in the Park, Winter Games, a live chess game, a fake snowball fight, the Holiday Paint Party, a free Holiday Movie, and more in St. Albans. Christmas in the Park starts the holiday season in Swanton. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight is on potter Gillian Ireland. Bryan Gallery features Nathaniel Williams in Stowe. The Milton Artists Guild is open. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Aaron York. Read more…

GIVING TUESDAY

This Giving Tuesday, you can help continue arts presentation and programming around Franklin County. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association presents Stories of Resilience: Abenaki Tribal Garden with Chief Shirly Hook and Doug Bent. Chris Graff discusses Fifty Years that Transformed Vermont. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Snow Farm Vineyard hosts a Pebble Art Workshop. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates in person at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

About 18 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 26 percent have gotten a flu shot. Please be careful as we gather to give thanks. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Dan Parks, the Soul Rockerz, Kyle Stevens, moonbird, Tom Bisson, the Rustics, the Shane Murley Band, Ryan Hanson, Cooper, the Missisquoi River Band, Jerborn, and more all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

NW Access TV recorded its Annual Meeting and showcased the Franklin County Quilt Show. Tony Pietricola talked with Toni Basanta on the Havana Fairfax Connection. Mark Shelton sang Elvis and More. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Most libraries will be closed today and tomorrow. The Highgate Library and Community Center offers Christmas Card Making. Read more…

 
 

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