Calendar - Front Porch Forum

October 2022

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25 Yard Sale Sept. 24 and 25 (multiday) Yard Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Pancakes for the People Breakfast at Fox Market ($0-20) 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 Traveler's Circle Storytelling Night & Potluck 5:30 - 8 PM Travel Storytelling 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 Studios at SPA 10 AM (multiday) Open Studio Weekend at Blue Roof Designs 10 AM (multiday) Join SPA for Open Studios & Fall Activities 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) Pop Up Exhibit: Inside ---> Out: Incarceration 4 - 8 PM VNRC Presents “The Liminal Season” by Karen Schaefer 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 & Play - Clothing Exchange at the Grange! 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 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 12 - 4 PM Kimchi Workshop at Orchard Valley Waldorf School 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 Barre at Barr Hill 5:30 - 7 PM MRPS Partners in Education Board Meeting 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 Everything Must Go Yard Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Auditions for "Best Christmas Pageant" 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 Rescheduled Families Rise Up Climate Justice Launch! 10 AM - 12 PM Final Huge Yard Sale of the Season 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 The Front Poetry: Toussaint St. Negritude and Robyn Joy 6:30 - 8 PM Diabetes Undone 6:30 - 8 PM This Land - A Northeast Wilderness Trust Fundraiser 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 Nov. 4 6 - 7:30 PM Queer Poetry Reading at MSAC 6 - 7:30 PM McCaffrey, Coane & Rowell 7 - 9 PM Stage 32's Fall Play: Shakespeare! 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