Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2023

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26 Liberatory Love Auction with Nonprofit Summer Camp 5 PM (multiday)	27 Bridge Lessons 10:30 AM - 12 PM	28 Giving Tuesday: Cemetery Preservation Project 12 AM (multiday) NEKCOA and NEKCA Tech for Today and VACP Event 1:30 - 4 PM Dementia/Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group 3:30 - 5 PM Community ASL Class and Social Hour 5:30 - 6:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting 6 PM +1 more see less	29 Monthly Teen Knitting Group! 4 - 5 PM Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM	30 Town of Hyde Park Listers Meeting - Nov. 30 10 AM Homeshare Presentation 11 AM - 12:30 PM Fiber Crafternoons at the Simpson Library 3 - 5 PM	1 Annual Town of Jay Tree Lighting, Caroling, Santa Visit 6 - 7 PM The Foreigner 7 PM (multiday)	2 Community Breakfast Saturday 8 - 9:30 AM Monthly Community Breakfast 8 AM - 9:30 PM 45th Annual Christmas Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM 45th Annual Hyde Park Christmas Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Friends Book and Bake Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Sterling View Christmas Craft Show 10 AM - 2 PM 22nd Annual Festival of Lights, Saturday, Dec. 2nd 11 AM - 3 PM Johnson Badgers Softball 1 Day Clinic 12 - 6 PM Beeswax Wrap Making Workshop December 2 1 - 2 PM 2023 Hyde Park Lighting of the Wreaths 5 - 6 PM +6 more see less
3 Westmore Community Memorial Tree Lighting 5 PM	4 Blood Drive in Westfield 12:30 - 5 PM Holiday Cardmaking Event for All Ages! 4 - 5 PM Annual Meeting North Craftsbury Cemetery Association 5:30 - 6:30 PM Craftsbury Fire District #2 Regular Meeting Dec. 4 5:30 - 7 PM Council Agenda 6:30 PM +1 more see less	5 Introducing... Vermont History Day! 5 - 6 PM Community ASL Class and Social Hour 5:30 - 6:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting - Dec. 5 at 7pm 7 PM	6 Olam Chesed Club Starts Sept. 6 at 4:15! 4:15 - 6 PM Virtual Visiting Artist - Stanya Kahn 7:30 - 8:30 PM	7	8 Holiday Sale at the MAC Center for the Arts 10 AM (multiday) The Not-So-Banner Year Community Art Project VSC 3:30 - 6:30 PM The Foreigner 7 PM (multiday)	9 Christmas Craft Fair 9 AM - 4 PM Maple Gift Shop 9 AM - 7 PM Maple Gift Shop 9 AM - 7 PM Holly Jolly Brawly In-House Tournament 9 AM Green Bag Day 9:30 AM Craftsbury Holiday Market 11 AM - 2 PM Window Insert & Other Info - Holiday Farmers Market 11 AM - 2 PM Craftsbury Holiday Market! 11 AM - 2 PM Holiday Market Saturday Dec. 9 + Food Drive 11 AM - 2 PM Holiday Market in Craftsbury Saturday 11 AM - 2 PM Christmas Open House 1 - 4 PM Ballet Wolcott Fun Grinch Performance! 1 - 5 PM Why Do Rivers Flood? 1:30 - 3:30 PM Feminist Bird Club December Outing 1:30 PM Santa is Coming to Town! 4 - 6 PM Dynamism: VSC Exhibit Opening Reception 4 - 6 PM Johnson's Downtown Holiday Jubilee 4 - 6 PM +13 more see less
10 Breakfast with Santa at Morrisville Fire Department 8 AM - 12 PM Horse Drawn Wagon Ride with Santa 10 AM - 4 PM Horse Drawn Wagon Ride with Santa 10 AM - 4 PM Discovering the Highlands: Solo Exhibit of Landscapes 12:30 - 2 PM The Not-So-Banner Year Community Art Project VSC 1:30 - 4:30 PM Sacred Circle Dancing 2 - 4 PM Handel's Messiah, Performed by Vermont Choral Union 2 PM Historic Movie Night: Farming, Natural Disasters, Snow 6 - 7 PM +4 more see less	11 Community Dinner 5:30 - 6:30 PM Village Trustees Meeting Monday, Dec. 11 Agenda 6 - 9 PM Town of Hyde Park Planning Commission Meeting 6 PM Special Council Agenda 6:30 PM	12 LVRT Hyde Park Trailhead Meeting 5 - 6 PM Community ASL Class and Social Hour 5:30 - 6:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting 6 PM Community Conversation with Rep. Sims 7 - 8 PM	13 Two for Christmas: a Play by David Budbill All Day Money Management Winter Workshop Series 12 - 1 PM Foster Fest 5:30 - 8 PM Craftsbury School Board Meeting - Dec. 13 6 - 8 PM	14 Please Join Us - American Flatbread Benefit Bake! 4 - 9 PM Wolcott Community Forest Committee - Public Meeting 6 - 8 PM Part 3 Book Discussion "Poverty, by America" 6:30 PM Visiting Artist - Anthony Goicolea 8 - 9 PM	15 Aging Together 1 - 2 PM	16 Light Parade 5 AM - 12 PM Holiday Sale Open Studio 10 AM (multiday) Gingerbread Houses 11 AM - 1 PM Holiday Market at Lost Nation Brewing Dec. 16 11 AM - 3 PM Beeswax Wrap Making Workshop 1 PM Light Parade 5 - 8 PM Tabletop Games in Orleans County! 5 - 11 PM +3 more see less
17 Stowe Farmers' "Holiday" Market This Sunday! 12 AM - 4 PM Family Open Gym 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Holiday Pottery Sale at Muddy Creek Pottery 11 AM - 3 PM Holiday Event 1 - 4 PM Wolcott UMC's Christmas Candle Lighting Service 5 PM +1 more see less	18 Clarina Howard Nichols Center Raffle All Day Christmas Caroling in Hyde Park Village 5:45 - 7 PM Council Agenda 6:30 PM Virtual VSC Writer to Writer: Chris Martin & Rowan Riggs 7 - 8 PM ACO / Lamoille Kennels Meeting - Dec. 18 7 PM +1 more see less	19 Homeschool Parent Support Group Meeting 2 - 3 PM Dementia/Alzheimers Caregiver Support Group 3:30 - 5 PM Concert with Cristina Escobedo 5 - 6 PM Opera with Love 5 PM Community ASL Class and Social Hour 5:30 - 6:30 PM Town of Hyde Park Selectboard Meeting - Dec. 19 6 PM +2 more see less	20 Blue Christmas 6 - 7 PM	21 Community Center Holiday Party - Pictures with Santa! 1 - 4 PM 108 Sun Salutations for C'bury & Albany Food Shelves 6:30 PM	22 VSC: Vermont Week 2024 Residency Applications Now Open 12 AM (multiday) 3rd Annual Seasonal Sing-Along, Craftsbury Dec. 22 5 - 6 PM Singalong at Stores in Craftsbury Village Friday 5 - 6 PM	23 Porter Brook Trio Holiday Concert Dec. 23 7 - 8:30 PM
24 Mary Queen of All Saints Parish Christmas Mass Schedule 4 - 5 PM Christmas Eve Festival Worship at St. Matthew's 5 - 6:15 PM Mary Queen of All Saints Parish Christmas Eve 6 - 7 PM Christmas Eve Service at United Church of Craftsbury 6 - 7 PM Christmas Eve at ECPC 6 - 7 PM +1 more see less	25 Mary Queen of All Saints Parish Christmas Mass Schedule 10 - 11 AM	26	27 ReTribe Winter Teen Retreat for Ages 13-19 12 PM (multiday) ReTribe Winter Teen Retreat for Ages 13-19 3 PM (multiday) Teen Knitting Group 4 - 5 PM	28 Town of Hyde Park Listers Meeting 10 AM	29	30 Free Punch & Judy Puppet Show in East Craftsbury 2 - 3 PM
31 Family Open Gym 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM	1	2 Wolcott Village Wastewater Committee Meeting 5 PM	3	4 Take a Culinary Trip to Morocco at HCA! 5 - 7 PM Town of Hyde Park DRB Hearing 6 PM	5 Ice Skating Rink - Community Get-Together 4 - 6 PM	6 Community Breakfast at Second Congo Church 8 - 9:30 AM Community Breakfast 8 - 9:30 AM Amnesty International's First Meeting of 2024 10 AM Art and Watershed Program at the Lanpher Library! 10 AM