Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2018

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25 Craft Fair 10 AM - 4 PM Huge Yard Sale, Nov. 25 10 AM - 4 PM Yoga-Drum Fusion Workshop Nov. 25 11 AM - 1 PM	26	27 Montpelier Shambhala: Mudra Space Awareness 6:30 - 8 PM	28 Emerald Ash Borer Workshop 4 - 6 PM Class: Herbal Support for Balancing Blood Sugar 6 - 8 PM Montpelier-Made Independent Film Screening Wednesday 6 - 9 PM City Council Meeting Agenda Nov. 28 6:30 - 9 PM	29 Open Ears at Bagitos 8:30 AM - 9:30 PM Thursday Noon Concerts at Christ Church 12 - 1 PM How to Help Your Child Deal with Stress 6:30 - 8 PM Book Reading and Discussion - Alternative Education 7 - 8 PM "Unschooling in Paradise" Book Reading, Thursday 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	30 Handel's Messiah This Weekend! (multiday) Stephan Wolfert's Cry Havoc! Performance 7:30 AM (multiday) Early Art Walk for Kats and Kids! Holiday Gifts $20 4 - 8 PM Reiki I in Nature in Hyde Park for Women 4 PM (multiday) Middlebury College Women's Soccer Final 4 Watch Party! 5 - 7:30 PM Benefit: Protecting Sacred Native Sites from Pipeline 5 - 7:30 PM CBD Yoga at Om 6 - 7:30 PM Iceberg String Quartet - Free Casual Concert on Friday 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	1 Coffee with the Mayor 9 - 11 AM Vendor/Craft Fair & Multi-Family Indoor Yard Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Craft Sale & Indoor Yard Sale - Adoption Fundraiser 9 AM - 3 PM Mobilizing Leadership to Make Bold Climate Progress 9 AM - 4:30 PM Free Intro to Studio Cycling Class 10 - 11 AM Capital City Farmers Market - City Center, 89 Main St 10 AM - 2 PM Capital City Farmers Market 10 AM - 2 PM Bake Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Invitation to International Boutique 10 AM - 8 PM Pop-Up Portrait Studio Weekend! 10:30 AM (multiday) 2 Weeks Left - Sugarbush Ski/Ride Sign Ups by Dec. 1 12 - 12 PM Holiday Brass - Music by Green Mountain Horn Club 2 PM Free Music Saturday 2 PM Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class and Dinner 3 - 8 PM Grange Presents: Local Investing & Potluck Dinner! 5:30 - 7 PM Middlebury College National Championship Watch-Party! 7 - 9:30 PM Performance by Anima 7 PM The Gift of the Magi - a Musical Retelling by Conté 7:30 - 9:30 PM Yestrogen Opens for FEMCOM 7:30 - 10 PM FEMCOM ~ Yestrogen Opens 7:30 - 10 PM Live Music, Live Dancing at Grange Saturday 7:30 - 11 PM +17 more see less
2 Zeichner Trio Plays at Jericho Library Concert Series! 2 - 3 PM Martin Pincus Memorial Gathering 2 - 4 PM Next Montpelier Community Song Circle Dec. 2 6 - 8 PM	3 AARP Tax-Aide Volunteer Information Presentation 1 - 3:30 PM Public Menorah Lighting 5 - 6:30 PM	4 Confluence Park Meeting #3 Dec. 4 All Day Central Vermont Transgender Social 7 - 8 PM Pickup "Street" Soccer 8 - 9:30 PM	5 Illumination Night at VCFA 5:30 - 6:30 PM Slash Your Energy Bills! 5:30 - 8 PM Slash Your Energy Bills - a Button Up Barre Workshop 6 - 8 PM Laser Night at Local64 6 - 8 PM Barre Town School Board Meeting 6 PM First Wednesdays: the Legacy of Rachel Carson 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	6 Open Ears at Bagitos 8:30 - 9:30 AM Trinity Community Thrift Store 9th Annual Winter Sale 10 AM (multiday) Spaulding High School Board Meeting 6 PM The Gift of the Magi - a Musical Retelling by Conté 7:30 - 9:30 PM	7 Huge Thrift Sale at Methodist Church in Montpelier (multiday) Barre Lions Club Christmas Tree Sale Dec. 7-9 12 - 6 PM Montpelier Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Art Walk at 41 State St. 3rd Floor Art and Gifts! 4 - 8 PM Vermont College of Fine Art's Friday Night Screening 5:30 - 7:30 PM "The Return of Crazy Chase" - Let's Try It Again! 7 - 8:30 PM You Gotta Go See Once on This Island! 7 PM (multiday) Lamoille County Players Has a Special Holiday Treat! 7 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	8 Fundraiser All Day Breakfast with Santa 8 - 9:30 AM Holiday Ugly Sweater 5k 8 AM - 1 PM Yoga Class 9 - 10:30 AM Holiday Tree & Wreath Sale Fundraiser 9 - 11 AM Gifts for All... Saturday! 9 AM - 4 PM Christmas Bazaar and Silent Auction 9 AM - 4 PM 25th Annual Solidarity Craft Fair 9 AM - 4 PM Annual Not Your Mother's Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 4 PM Kids Trade and Play 9:30 - 11:30 AM Barre Elks Hoop Shoot 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM Holiday Concert 2 - 3:30 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Winter Concert 7 - 8:30 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Choir Concerts 7 - 9 PM Fun Concert 7 - 9:30 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert 7 PM (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert - Dec. 8 7 PM Concert to Benefit Wildlife in Vermont 7:30 - 10 PM +14 more see less
9 2nd Annual Spin-A-Thon, Raise $ for the Kids! 10 AM - 2:30 PM Sitting with Change: a Retreat for Women 12:30 - 4 PM Stress, Resilience, Herbs & Yoga 2 - 4 PM Mad River Chorale Concerts Dec. 8 & 9 3 - 4:30 PM Dance, Sing & Jump Around - Bring Your Parents on Sunday! 3 - 4:30 PM Brookfield Community Singers Holiday Concert 3 - 4:30 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert - Dec. 9 4 PM Christmas Carol Sing 6:30 PM +4 more see less	10 Social Meditation 6 - 8 PM Capital City Orchestra's Holiday Concert 7:30 - 8:30 PM	11 Waterbury Band Holiday Concert 7 - 8 PM Calling All Dance Artists! 7:15 - 8:15 PM	12	13 Food and Fund Drive at Hunger Mountain Co-op 8 AM - 8 PM Open Ears at Bagitos 8:30 - 9:30 AM Pop Up Holiday Sale at the Front Gallery 9 AM (multiday) Free Workshop Social Media Marketing 12 - 1 PM Concert at Christ Church 12 PM Service of Nine Lessons and Carols 7 PM +2 more see less	14 Craft Fair & Indoor Yard Sale (multiday) Montpelier Moving Sale 10 AM (multiday) Montpelier Death Cafe Friday Dec. Meeting 12:15 - 1:45 PM Reiki I in Nature in Hyde Park Vermont for Women 4 PM (multiday) WCA Craft Fair/Indoor Yard Sale 5 - 8 PM Relay for Life Ugly Sweater Party 5 - 9 PM Ugly Holiday Sweater Party Friday, Langdon St. Tavern 5 - 9 PM Websterville Christian Academy Fair/Indoor Yard Sale 5 PM (multiday) Mother Up! Gathering 5:30 - 7:30 PM Tribute to Joni Mitchell 6 - 8 PM Girls Pickup Street Soccer at Montpelier High School 6:15 - 7:30 PM Sound Healing for Stress & Pain Reduction 6:30 - 8 PM Hockey Night in Barre 7 - 9:30 PM The Incarnation of the Logos: A Christmas Story 7:30 - 9:30 PM +10 more see less	15 Moving Sale! 9 - 11 AM Touch of Vermont Holiday Market Dec. 15 9 AM - 4 PM Touch of Vermont Holiday Market 9 AM - 4 PM Holiday with the Animals at Central VT Humane Society 10 AM - 2 PM Holly-Gams 10 AM - 2 PM Big Art Studio Sale 10 AM - 5 PM Barre Above Teaching Certification Class 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM The Phoenix - Vermont CrossFit at GMCF 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Holiday Concert - Waterbury Community Band 3 - 4 PM Softening to Our Roots 3:30 - 6:30 PM Music for a King - a Celebration of Christmas 6:45 - 9 PM Paul Asbell's “Burmese Panther” CD Release Performance 7:30 - 9:30 PM Contra Dance Saturday: Dugan Murphy & Cloud Ten 7:30 - 11 PM +9 more see less
16 Elks Buffet Brunch 9 - 11 AM	17	18 Granite City Grocery Finance Meeting All Day	19 Memorable Times Cafe Dec. 19 at VT History Center 1:30 - 3 PM Memorable Times Café Dec. 19 1:30 - 3:30 PM City Council Meeting Agenda and Addendum 6:30 - 10 PM	20 Noon Concert at Christ Church 12 PM Montpelier Death Cafe Meeting 5:30 - 7 PM Carmen & Sam: Comedy Holiday Shownanza! 8 - 9 PM	21 Health and Wellness Professionals 8 - 9:30 AM Winter Solstice Celebration - Yoga, Community, Food! 5:30 - 8 PM Kirtan Friday 6 - 8 PM Blues/Fusion Dance - Solstice Edition! 7 - 11 PM	22 Free Clothing at Trinity United Methodist Church All Day Stories for a Winter's Eve - Patti Casey and Friends All Day Santa at Aldrich Public Library 3 - 4 PM Green Mountain Nutcracker at Barre Opera House 7 - 9 PM 12th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker Dec. 22-23 7 PM (multiday) The 12th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker, Dec. 22-23 7 PM (multiday) Onion River Chorus Presents Baroque Masterworks 7:30 PM +3 more see less
23 No-Rehearsal Christmas Pageant at Uu Church Dec. 23 All Day Holiday Singalong 4 - 6 PM Holiday Sing-Along at The Grange 4 - 6 PM Pipedreams Flute Quartet Presents Holiday Flutes 6 - 7 PM	24	25 Community Christmas Dinner 12 - 2 PM A Movie and Asian Food for Christmas 2 - 5 PM	26 Blood Drive Dec. 26 All Day Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime / No Mas Muertes! 5:30 - 6:30 PM Important Talk by Elsa Egstrom of No More Deaths 5:30 - 6:30 PM	27 Open Ears at Bagitos 8:30 - 9:30 AM	28 Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour at Espresso Bueno 8:30 - 10 PM	29 The Nutcracker: Children's Party at Aldrich Library 12:30 - 3:30 PM Last Contra Dance for 2018: Nils Fredland and Polaris! 7:30 - 11 PM
30	31 New Year's Eve 5k Run 2 - 3 PM New Years Eve Family Glow Party 8 PM (multiday) New Year's Eve at City Hall 8 PM (multiday)	1	2 Mad Men and Mad Women: Gender in Mid-Century America 7 - 8:30 PM	3 Open Ears at Bagitos 8:30 - 9:30 AM French Block Open House and Community Celebration 5 - 7 PM Barre City Neighborhood Watch Meeting 6 PM	4 New Year's Resolution Potluck 6:30 - 8:30 PM Coming Home at Montpelier City Hall 6:30 PM	5 Christmas Tree Pickup Fundraiser All Day Scout Christmas Tree Pick Up Fundraiser 9 AM - 4 PM Open Gym Basketball 11 AM - 2 PM People's Lobby (Review) + Food (Potluck) 5:30 - 7 PM People's Lobby (Review) + Food (Potluck) 5:30 - 7 PM Grange Contra Dance - New Year, More Dancing! 7:30 - 11 PM +2 more see less