Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2022

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25 Yard Sale Sept. 24 and 25 (multiday) Pancakes for the People Breakfast at Fox Market ($0-20) 9 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Virtual Meditation Circle 9:30 - 11:30 AM Queen Bee Day 11 AM - 2 PM Children's Room Open Hours & Barn Dance Sept. 25! 2 - 5 PM Free Pizza and Ice Cream in the Park (East Barre) 4 - 7 PM My Grandmother's Hands (BIPOC and White Groups Listed) 4:30 - 6 PM +4 more see less	26 Let's Talk About Article 22 5 - 6:30 PM Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM	27 Free Peer-To-Peer Spousal Loss Support Group 10 AM - 12 PM Friends of the Aldrich Library Annual Meeting 4 - 6 PM Berlin New Town Center Multi-Use Path Scoping Study 4:30 PM Free Series: Brain Club - Big Conversations 6 - 7 PM Pasta at the Post! 6 PM +1 more see less	28 Lecture at Senior Center 1:30 PM	29 Everyone Eats Symposium 10 AM - 4 PM Capstone's Margaret Ferguson's Retirement Open House 2 PM Genealogy and Slavery Discussion Group Sept. 29 6 - 8 PM League of Women Voters Hosts Attorney General Forum 7 - 8:30 PM	30 Major Lawn Sale/Fundraiser 9 AM (multiday) Garage / Moving Sale 9 AM (multiday) Integrative Acupuncture Open House and Congee Cookoff 4 - 7 PM Art Social 5 - 7 PM ORCA Media Open House! 📺 🎥 5 - 7 PM Travel Storytelling 5:30 - 8 PM Traveler's Circle Storytelling Night & Potluck 5:30 - 8 PM Movie Night - The Nightmare Before Christmas! 7 - 8:30 PM Cancelled: Sept. 30 Mccaffrey, Coane & Rowell at BOTH 7 - 9 PM BOH Presents the Ultimate David Bowie Experience! 8 - 10 PM +6 more see less	1 Open Studio 8 AM (multiday) Walk for Children 9 AM - 1 PM Everything Must Go Yard Sale 9 AM - 2 PM Something for Everyone 3 Family Lawn Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Connecting with the Divine Feminine 9 AM (multiday) Kitzmiller/Rotary Coat Drive Set for Oct. 1 9 AM Berlin Ice Rink Work Day Oct. 1 10 AM - 12 PM Sharpening Oct. 1 10 AM - 1 PM Vermont Open Studio Weekend 10 AM (multiday) Open Studio Weekend at Blue Roof Designs 10 AM (multiday) Join SPA for Open Studios & Fall Activities 10 AM (multiday) Open Studios at SPA 10 AM (multiday) Feast of St. Francis of Assisi Blessing of the Animals 10 AM Cycles of Life Fundraiser 10 AM Playback Theatre Show 4 - 6 PM Chicken Pie Take-Out, Oct. 1! 4:30 - 6:30 PM Inspiring Young Voters: Grange Program Saturday 5 - 6 PM Author Event with Senator Patrick Leahy 5 PM Contra Dance at the Grange Hall, Oct. 1! 7:30 - 11 PM Williamstown Roadhouse Dinner/Dance 8 - 11 PM +16 more see less
2 Leaf Peepers Half Marathon and 5k - Oct. 2, Waterbury 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Leaf Peepers Half Marathon + 5k - Oct. 2, Waterbury 9 AM - 9 PM Awareness Day 9:30 AM - 3 PM Courtney's Allies & Circle 9:30 AM - 4 PM Domestic Violence Awareness Day 9:30 AM - 4 PM Awareness Day! 9:30 AM - 4 PM Blessing of the Animals - Sunday Christ Church 10 - 11 AM Yard Sale and Free Pile Sunday 10 AM - 1 PM My Grandmother's Hands (BIPOC and White Groups Listed) 4:30 - 6 PM +5 more see less	3 Kitzmiller Memorial Coat Drive Extended! 8 AM (multiday) Save the Date: Becca Balint in Barre 5:30 - 7:30 PM CVCCSD Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM Webinar on VT Gas Systems Biogas Contract October 3 7 PM +1 more see less	4 Kitzmiller Memorial Coat Drive, Goes On! 8 AM (multiday) Free Peer-To-Peer Spousal Loss Support Group 10 AM - 12 PM Estate Planning Workshop - MSAC (In-Person or Zoom) 6 - 7:30 PM Pasta at the Post! 6 PM Main Street Middle School Community Alliance Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Nights of Grief & Mystery 2022 Tour: South Royalton 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	5 Montpelier Place - Harvest Meal at the Feast Farm 4 - 6:30 AM Kitzmiller Coat Drive, Last Call! 8 AM - 4:30 PM Weatherization 101 - Oct. 5 - Register Now! 12 - 1 PM Senior Day at the Aldrich Library, Milne Room 1:30 - 2:30 PM Jeb Wallace - “Capturing the Moment” 1:30 - 3 PM MRPS School Board Meeting - Today 6:30 - 8:30 PM Barre Homeless Task Force Agenda 7 PM +3 more see less	6 Meet and Greet Tom Kelly 6 - 8 PM Barre UUSD Curriculum Committee Meeting 6 - 8 PM Community Jam at the Montpelier Senior Center 6:15 - 7:45 PM NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM Side by Side by Sondheim 7:30 - 9:30 PM +1 more see less	7 Garage Sale 8 AM (multiday) Rummage Sale - Unitarian Church of Montpelier 9 AM (multiday) Worcester Barn Sale 12 PM (multiday) VNRC Presents “The Liminal Season” by Karen Schaefer 4 - 8 PM Pop Up Exhibit: Inside ---> Out: Incarceration 4 - 8 PM Wilderness Workshops 4:30 - 7:30 PM UVM Women's Basketball at the Barre Auditorium 5 - 7 PM 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples' Day Rocks! 5:30 PM (multiday) McCaffrey, Coane & Rowell 7 - 9 PM The Wailers presented by the BOH Celebration Series 8 - 10 PM +6 more see less	8 Estate Sale in Maple Corner to Support Curtis Pond 9 AM - 12 PM Stonewall Meadows Annual Garage Sale 9 AM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade & Play - Clothing Exchange at the Grange! 9:30 - 11:30 AM Fall Fun 5K Run/Walk 10 - 11:30 AM Sharpening 10 AM - 1 PM Huge Yard Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Clothing Sale! 11 AM (multiday) Oktoberfest! 12 - 5 PM Women's March: Rally for the RLA and Abortion Rights! 2 - 6 PM Ghanaian Jollof Rice Dinner to Help the Needy 3 - 5 PM Takeout Chicken Pie Dinner at Trinity in Montpelier 4:30 - 6:30 PM Dragulous Fall Extravaganza 5 - 9 PM Dragulous Fall Extravaganza! 5 - 9 PM Come Join a Night of Musical Mayhem! 8 - 10 PM +11 more see less
9 The Grindstone Gravel Grinder 7:30 AM - 5 PM 40th Annual Canadian Club Harvest Festival! 10 AM - 4 PM Kimchi Workshop at Orchard Valley Waldorf School 12 - 4 PM Kimchi Workshop 12 - 4 PM Green Mountain Swing Big Band at Isham Family Farm 1 - 4 PM My Grandmother's Hands (BIPOC and White Groups Listed) 4:30 - 6 PM +2 more see less	10 Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM	11 Committee/Board: Civic Center Committee 8 - 9:30 AM Free Peer-To-Peer Spousal Loss Support Group 10 AM - 12 PM Pasta at the Post! 6 PM	12 Pay-What-You-Can Somatic Bodywork Pop-Up Clinic 12 - 12 PM MRPS Partners in Education Board Meeting 5:30 - 7 PM Barre at Barr Hill 5:30 - 7 PM	13 Rummage Sale 1 PM (multiday) Invitation to VYCC Community Harvest Dinner 5 - 8 PM NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM Side by Side by Sondheim 7:30 - 9:30 PM	14 La Bonne Crepe at Enchanted Forest (multiday) White Cane Day in Barre Oct. 14 1 - 4:10 PM Heddy Trotter - Seeking Volunteers 2 PM (multiday) Trivia Night Tomorrow! 6 - 8 PM Side by Side by Sondheim 7:30 - 9:30 PM +1 more see less	15 Chicken Pie Supper at First Cong. Church of Berlin All Day Yard Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale 8 AM - 4 PM Safe @Home Course 8 AM AVCC's Summit on Climate & Resilience is Oct. 15! 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Free Training in Emergency Animal Sheltering 8:45 AM - 3 PM Free Training in Emergency Animal Sheltering 8:45 AM Craft/Flea Market 9 AM - 2 PM Craft Fair and Flea Market 9 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale - 91 Terrace St - Oct. 15-16 9 AM (multiday) Families Rise Up for Climate Justice Launch Party! 10 AM - 12 PM Auditions for "Best Christmas Pageant" 10 AM - 3 PM Everything Must Go Yard Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Washington Agricultural Association Fall Festival! 12 - 4 PM Hispanic Heritage Month 2 - 6 PM Side by Side by Sondheim 7:30 - 9:30 PM Contra Dance Tonight - At the Grange Hall 7:40 - 11 PM +13 more see less
16 Pancakes for the People at Woodbelly Pizza 8 - 11 AM Yard Sale 8 AM - 3 PM Waitsfield Ski and Skate Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Celebrating Our Shared Community 9:30 - 11 AM My Grandmother's Hands (BIPOC and White Groups Listed) 4:30 - 6 PM +1 more see less	17 Cemetery & Parks Committee 11 AM Teen Writers Workshop: The Art of Mythology 4 - 5 PM Film Screening at Lawson's Finest on Monday, Oct. 17 5 - 7 PM Re: Elections 6 - 7 PM Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM +1 more see less	18 Pasta at the Post! 6 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday)	19 Button Up VT – Heat Pumps & 0% APR Financing Events 12 - 1 PM Barre City River Access Task Force Meeting 5:30 - 7 PM Senior Night for MHS's Varsity Soccer Team Oct. 19 6 - 7 PM Montpelier Roxbury School Board Meeting - Oct. 19 6:30 - 8:30 PM	20 End of Life Series (Being Mortal) on Oct. 20 1 - 2:30 PM UES Caregivers Alliance Mtg. Today! 6 and/or 7 6 - 8 PM Barre UUSD Finance Committee Meeting 6 PM Berlin Selectboard - Open Community Forum 6 PM Community Jam 6:15 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday) NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM Town Meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Finnish Ambas 7 PM +5 more see less	21 Pierre Bensusan in Concert This Friday 7:30 - 9:30 AM Goofball at Bethany Center 5 - 7:30 PM Moonlight Magic 2022 5 - 9 PM LGBTQ Poetry Reading at MSAC - Friday, Oct. 21 6 - 7:30 PM VT Bluegrass Pioneers at Whammy Bar 7 - 9 PM Two Song-Filled Concerts to Honor Larry Gordon 7 PM (multiday) +2 more see less	22 Red Cross Blood Drive at MSAC 8:30 AM - 1 PM History of the Land: Hubbard Park 9 - 11 AM Yard Sale: 41 & 42 Colonial Drive Saturday 9 AM - 6 PM Reminder - Montpelier Place Program Event #4 9 AM Final Huge Yard Sale of the Season 10 AM - 12 PM Rescheduled Families Rise Up Climate Justice Launch! 10 AM - 12 PM UVM Men's Basketball at Barre Auditorium 12 - 3 PM Montpelier Historical Society Public Meeting 2 - 4 PM Upcoming Teen Science Cafe: Sensory Science 5 - 7 PM Barre Baseball and Softball Calcutta Fundraiser 5 - 8 PM Planning Commission 5:30 PM Umlaut at the Whammy Bar 7 - 9:30 PM Swing Dance at Waterbury Grange Saturday! 7 - 10 PM Remember Larry Gordon Through His Remarkable Proteges 7:30 - 9 PM +10 more see less
23 Rec Dept Hosting Autumn Apple Cide and Dessert Social 2 - 4 PM My Grandmother's Hands (BIPOC and White Groups Listed) 4:30 - 6 PM Movements of the Soul 5 - 6:30 PM Free Community Dinner in East Barre 6 - 8 PM All-Vermont Meditation Circle 7:30 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	24 Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM	25 Notice Water Service Disruption Oct. 25 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Fisher Road Diet Scoping Study 6 PM Pasta at the Post! 6 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday) Benefit for Abortion Access with Becca Balint!! 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	26 Yard Sale (multiday) Yard Sale 8 AM (multiday) Discussion About Medicare and Medicare Advantage 12 - 1 PM Author Book Signing Wednesday 6 - 7 PM	27 Donate or Recycle Your Tires and Help Warm a Neighbor! 2 PM (multiday) Open House Event at the Vermont State Archives 5 - 7 PM Open House Event at the Vermont State Archives & Record 5 - 7 PM Planning Commission Meeting 5:30 PM Montpelier Republican City Committee Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Barre Unified Union School District Board Meeting 6 PM This Land - A Northeast Wilderness Trust Fundraiser 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM The Front Poetry: Toussaint St. Negritude and Robyn Joy 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday) NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM +7 more see less	28 Furthermore Friday: Open House at Cardboard Teck 10 AM - 6 PM Berlin Elementary Halloween Party 5 - 6:30 PM Travel Storytelling 5:30 - 8 PM Folk Mountain Gospel 6 - 7:30 PM Folk Mountain Gospel 6 - 8 PM +1 more see less	29 Out of the Darkness Community Walk Until 10 AM Annual Fall Clothing Drop ‘N Swap is Back! (multiday) Montpelier Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event 9 AM - 1 PM Happy Haunting Craft Show 9 AM - 3 PM GMKnitting Guild Yarn Sale! 10 AM - 12 PM Ecology of Hubbard Park - Hike and Discussion - 10/29 10 AM - 1 PM Montpelier PLACE - Ecology of Hubbard Park 10 AM - 1 PM Drug Take-Back Day at MPD! 10 AM - 2 PM Montpelier Complete Streets "Glow Ride" 6:30 - 8 PM Vermont Symphony Orchestra + MCGC = Paradise and Light 7:30 - 9:30 PM +6 more see less
30 Annual Halloween Bake Sale 🎃👻 10 AM - 4 PM Tending Our Grief: a Community Grief Ritual 3 - 5 PM The Corpse Bride - A Playback Theatre Show 4 - 6 PM	31 Accessible Trick or Treating 4 - 5:30 PM Trick or Treating in Downtown Montpelier 4 - 5:30 PM Do You Like to Sing? 6:30 - 9 PM	1 Free: Neurodiversity & Culture - Brain Club Every Tues. 6 - 7 PM Pasta at the Post! 6 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday) Sing with the Green Mountain Chorus for the Holiday 7 - 8 PM Obtaining Italian Citizenship Presentation 7 - 8:30 PM Obtaining Italian Citizenship Presentation 7 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	2 Barre UUSD Finance Committee Meeting All Day Senior Day at the Aldrich Library! 1:30 - 2:30 PM Curt Lindberg, of VT Half-Earth Alliance Nov. 2 1:30 PM WCUUSD Community Forum 6:15 - 7:15 PM Wednesday, 6:30PM - MRPS School Board Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	3 Barre UUSD Curriculum Committee Meeting 6 PM Community Jam at the Montpelier Senior Center 6:15 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 PM (multiday) NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM Meet and Greet with Brenda Siegel 7 - 9 PM Laugh! & Support Junior League of Champlain Valley! 9 - 10 PM +3 more see less	4 Artisans Hand Craft Gallery Birthday Sale (multiday) Outdoor Sale at Trinity Methodist Church Nov. 4-5 10 AM (multiday) James Secor: Chirping in the Thickets at the Front 4 - 7 PM Queer Poetry Reading at MSAC 6 - 7:30 PM Queer Poetry Reading at MSAC Nov. 4 6 - 7:30 PM Stage 32's Fall Play: Shakespeare! 7 - 9 PM McCaffrey, Coane & Rowell 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	5 Fox Paw School's Tracking Club Meets This Saturday! 9 AM - 12 PM Simply Crafts Fair at National Life 9 AM - 3 PM Estate Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Berlin Fall Scholastic Chess Tournament 9 AM - 3:30 PM Girls 9-13yrs Self-Defense Class! 2 - 3:15 PM Monteverdi Faculty Recital to Benefit Scholarship Fund 2 - 4 PM Charles Bohn: a Retrospective, Poetry Reading 3 - 6 PM Girls 13-19 Yrs Self-Defense Class 3:30 - 5 PM Vermont ATHENA Leadership Awards Gala 5 - 10 PM Mountainfilm on Tour Stop in Waitsfield 6:30 - 9:30 PM Stage 32's Fall Play: Shakespeare! 7 - 9 PM Backcountry Barn Bash 2022 7 - 10 PM Contra Dance Again, Saturday at the Grange! 7:30 - 11 PM +9 more see less