Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2017

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26 20th Annual Turkey Lane Turkey Trot 11:30 AM - 2 PM Hinesburg Land Trust-Turkey Lane Turkey Trot 12 PM	27 Selectboard Meeting Nov. 27 5:45 - 9:30 PM Mt. Abe Renovation Committee Meets Nov. 27 6 - 8 PM Mt. Abe Renovation CMTE Meeting Tonight 6 - 8 PM Mt. Abraham Renovation Committee Meeting 6 - 9 PM	28 Mount Abe Mentors and #Givingtuesday 12 AM - 11:30 PM Mount Abe Mentors 1 AM - 11:30 PM Library In-Service Day 10 AM - 5 PM Free! Fill-A-Bag Baby Clothes Event 3 - 6 PM Grief Anonymous Support Group 6 - 7:30 PM "Where's Help" Navigating Resources Around Treatment 6 PM +2 more see less	29 Pop Goes History: What Coca Cola Tells Us About America 12 AM Barbara Amaya: Survivor of Sex Trafficking Lecture 4:30 - 6 PM Sip, Solar and Dine at Middlebury Flatbread 5 - 7 PM Public Meeting - Wetlands Reclassification 7 - 9 PM Going Solar - Hear from Practitioners Wednesday 7 PM Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7:30 PM +2 more see less	30 Book Fair Evening Hours 6 - 8 PM Community Forum on RNESU/OVUU Budget Ideas 6:30 PM	1 Preschool Story Time 10:30 - 11:30 AM Jim Arnosky at Robinson 12:30 PM Middlebury Foods Pickup 3 PM (multiday) Wood-Fired Pizza Bake Benefit at Ripton Elementary 5 - 6:30 PM Wood-Fired Pizza Bake Benefit at Ripton Elementary 5 - 6:30 PM Chocolate Walk in Bristol 5 - 9 PM Tandem Holiday Market Friday 5 - 9 PM Tandem Holiday Market at Bristol Chocolate Walk 5 - 9 PM 10th Annual Chocolate Walk in Downtown Bristol 5 - 9 PM Holiday Market at Tandem 5 - 9 PM Memory Tree Lighting and Candy Cane Hunt 6 - 7 PM Parents' Night Out 6 - 9 PM Shopping and Family Fun at the Waldorf Holiday Fair! 6:30 PM (multiday) Shopping and Family Fun at Holiday Fair! 6:30 PM (multiday) Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble 7 - 8 PM Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble Winter Concerts 7 - 8 PM Movie Night at the Library Dec. 1 7 - 8:30 PM Food Shelf Collection at George Winston Concert Friday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Night of Led Zeppelin at the Marquis 7:30 - 10 PM Laura Thomas & the Grift Present an Eve of Led Zeppelin 8 - 10 PM +16 more see less	2 Vermont Choral Union in Concert Dec. 2 & 3 12 AM (multiday) Bixby's 11th Annual Gift Basket Silent Auction Dec. 2 12 AM Food Drive 8 - 11 AM Bristol Federated Church Christmas Bazaar 8 AM - 3 PM Wreath Sale 9 AM - 12:30 PM Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 2 PM Middlebury Farmer's Holiday Market 9 AM - 2 PM Very Merry Middlebury 9 AM Trail Clean Up Dec. 2 9 AM Santa's Visit to Middlebury Inn 9:30 AM - 12 PM Middlebury Farmers' Market Holiday Sale 9:30 AM - 2 PM MFM Annual "Holiday and Winter" Market 9:30 AM - 2 PM Snow People and Wee Trees Carving Workshop at BOVM 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Holiday Market at CCS 10 AM - 2 PM CCS Holiday Market 10 AM - 2 PM Studio Sale Saturday 10 AM - 4 PM Middlebury Studio School Craft & Pottery Sale! 10 AM - 4 PM Saturday Talk: Quebec Genealogical Records 10:30 AM - 12 PM Thrifty Treats Book and Media Sale 11 AM - 2:30 PM Turn the Light On! 11 AM - 3 PM Make Your Own Holiday Cards! 11 AM - 3 PM Anne of Green Gables - the Musical (Auditions) 2:30 - 5 PM Jackie - Film Screening and Q&A 3 - 5 PM Salisbury's Annual Holiday Tree Lighting 5 PM The Annual ISO Show at Middlebury College 5:30 PM 9th Annual Shake Off Dance Party 6 PM Swing into the Season Ballroom Dance and Silent Auction 7 - 9 PM Swing into the Season Dec 2 7 - 9 PM Ripton Community Coffeehouse with Daddylong Legs 7 - 10 PM Daddylong Legs Dec. 2 in Ripton! 7:30 - 10 PM Ring in the Advent Season with Bella Voce! 7:30 PM (multiday) +27 more see less
3 Santa 5k in Burlington This Sunday! 9:30 AM Book Group Meeting 10 - 11:30 AM Holiday Party at Historic Quinlan Schoolhouse 1 - 3 PM Charlotte Historical Society Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Learn About Chanukah with Your Little One! 2:30 - 3:30 PM Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble Concerts 3 - 4 PM What Cheer! 3 - 4:30 PM What Cheer! Celebrating 50 Years of Choral Music 3 - 5 PM Vermont Choral Union Holiday Concert 3 - 5 PM Singers at New Light Service 4 - 5 PM 12th & Final Community Conversation Dec. 3 4 - 5:30 PM Messiah Sing Along at Charlotte Congregational Church 4 PM 7th Annual Sing Along Performance of Handel's Messiah 4 PM Extravagant Desserts & Silent Auction to Benefit Haiti 6:30 - 8:30 PM Extravagant Desserts & Silent Auction Benefit 6:30 - 8:30 PM Mega Dams Mega Damage and a Deep Discussion About Energy! 7 - 8:30 PM Planet Huntington Visits Mozambique Sunday Night 7 PM +13 more see less	4 International Holiday Benefit Boutique 10 AM (multiday) Lighting the Middlebury Lions Club Holiday Memory Tree 5:30 PM Amaryllis Christmas Concert 7:30 - 8:30 PM Amaryllis Holiday Concert 7:30 - 8:30 PM	5 Moving Sale! One Day Only - Drew Lane 12 AM (multiday) Lots of Fun Events at Library This Week! 12 AM (multiday) Baby Time @ the Charlotte Library 9 - 10 AM Grief Anonymous Support Group 6 - 7:30 PM Feeding Winter Birds Program 7 - 8 PM +1 more see less	6 Soundtrack for a Revolution 12 AM Toastmaster's Meeting - Champ Masters 8:30 - 9:30 AM Minecraft League 3 - 4 PM Gifts for Pets Workshop 3 - 4 PM Chess Club Meeting at Aurora - Ages 14 to 94 3:15 - 8:30 PM Cross-Country Skiing, Program Sign-Ups 5 - 9 PM Dinner, Music, Fun and More - WNRCD Annual Event 5:30 - 8 PM Architecture + Design Film Series: Dior and I 6 - 8 PM +4 more see less	7 Early Release Day Activity with Bristol Rec Dec. 7 12 AM Using Google Adwords to Improve Search Results 8 - 9:30 AM Using Google AdWords to Improve Search Results 8 - 9:30 AM Coffee & Conversation: the Bristol Trail Network 10 - 11 AM Book Bites at Ilsley Public Library 1 - 2:30 PM DR Power Equipment - Two Day Job Fair! 3 - 6 PM Pro Skin Studio Holiday Open House Thursday! 4 - 8 PM MMMUSD Community Workshops 5:30 - 8 PM HBPA Holiday Social at the Public House 5:30 - 8 PM Help Us Celebrate the Season in Song This Thursday! 6 - 8 PM 2 Year College Night at MMU 6:30 - 8 PM Public Hearing on the Proposed Lincoln Town Plan 7 - 8 PM Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves Program 7 - 9 PM Wild Cousins of Our Best Friends: Wolves, Coyotes & Fox 7 - 9 PM Bristol Town Committee Meeting 7 PM +11 more see less	8 Fire Safety Day 12 AM Preschool Story Time 10:30 - 11:30 AM Northern Daughters Opening Reception for More Light 5 - 8 PM Community Pie Social 6 - 8 PM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 7 - 8:30 PM Beauty Inside and Out 7 - 9 PM Christmas Concert & Singalong 7 - 9 PM Robinson and Rohe - the Longest Winter 7 PM 12th Annual Broadway Direct at VOH 7:30 - 9:30 PM Casual Friday Live! at Marquis Theatre in Middlebury 8 - 9:30 PM Casual Friday Live! Marquis Theatre in Middlebury 8 - 9:30 PM +7 more see less	9 Special Saturday Storytime at Library 12 AM Whiting Holiday Bazaar 8 AM - 3 PM Pancake Breakfast at Sustainability Academy 8:30 - 11:30 AM Breakfast with Santa 8:30 - 11:30 AM Vergennes Farmer's Market 9 AM - 12 PM Craft Fair at St. Jude's Church 9 AM - 3 PM Holiday Craft Making with Kaylin 10 AM - 12 PM 2017 GMPR Craft/Vendor Show 10 AM - 3 PM You're Invited... To My Holiday Pop Up Shop 10 AM - 4 PM Holiday Cardmaking for Adults 11 AM - 3 PM Holiday Lunch at the Library 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Holiday Crafts with Kaylin 1 - 3 PM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 2 - 3:30 PM Open Studio and Artwork Sale Saturday 2 - 6 PM Advent/Christmas Craft Night at RCC 4 - 7 PM Coffee House Night 6:30 - 9 PM Monthly Coffee House Saturday 7 - 9 PM Concert - They Might Be Gypsies 7:30 PM +14 more see less
10 Breakfast Buffet Sunday at Mason Lodge 12 AM Buffet Breakfast 8 - 10 AM Moving Sale Sunday Dec. 10 10 AM - 4 PM Woody Jackson 2nd Chance Studio Sale 10 AM - 5 PM Santa's Coming to Town 1 - 3 PM Gingerbread House Decorating Event Dec 10 1 - 3 PM Rainbow Girls Informational Day 1 - 3 PM Santa's Visit at CVFRS Sunday 1 - 3 PM Christmas Concert in Lincoln 2 - 3 PM Amaryllis Holiday Concert 2 - 3:30 PM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 2 - 3:30 PM Mary's Restaurant: Holiday Tea 2 - 3:30 PM Annual Caroling Party 2 - 4 PM HAS Christmas Concert - Dec. 10 2 PM Amaryllis Choir in Lincoln 2 PM The Farmers Banquet on Climate Change 3 - 7 PM Help Us Fill the Flynn for Orchestrachoruspalooza! 4 - 6 PM Support Our Young Musicians! 4 - 6 PM Free Community Dinner 5 - 6:30 PM +15 more see less	11 Selectboard Agenda Dec. 11 12 AM Breakfast with the Principal of MMU 7:30 - 8:45 AM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 2 - 3:30 PM Community Workshop Monday 5:30 PM Lights in the Night at Charlotte Congregational Church? 6 - 7 PM Community Gun Violence Vigil - Dec. 11 at CCC 6 - 7 PM Buffalo Dream Circle 6 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting 6 - 9:30 PM ACSD Budget Meeting Tonight! 6:30 - 9 PM Addison County Democrats Meeting Dec. 11 7 - 8:30 PM Addison County Democrats Meeting Dec. 11 7 - 8:30 PM Hinesburg Selectboard Meeting Dec. 11 7 PM +8 more see less	12 Pop Up Coworking - Holiday Edition Dec. 12 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Pop Up Shop Revisited: Come One, Come All 9 AM - 5 PM High School Concert 12 - 1 PM Holiday Cookie Decorating, Crafts, and Games Tomorrow! 1:50 - 4 PM Holiday Cookie Decorating, Crafts, and Games! 1:50 - 4 PM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 2 - 3:30 PM 'Pack the House' at Mt. Abraham Basketball Home Openers 5:30 PM (multiday) Free Community Meal 6:30 PM Informational Meeting Tuesday 6:30 PM +5 more see less	13 Public Feed at Sentinel Farms 12 - 3 PM Fundraiser/Holiday Tabletop Centerpiece Workshop 2 - 3:30 PM Holiday Tabletop Wreath Workshop/Fundraiser 2 - 3:30 PM How to Eat Like a Child Musical at Muhs Auditorium 2 - 3:30 PM Public 9 Foot Menorah Lighting 5:30 - 6:30 PM Bixby Showing "I Called Him Morgan" 6:30 - 8 PM Middle School Winter Concert 7 - 8 PM Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of Suspense 7 - 8:30 PM Swedish St Lucia Celebration 7 PM Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7:30 PM +6 more see less	14 Sr. Lunch at Libanus Lodge in Bristol on Elm St 11 AM - 1 PM Community Presentation of the Essex Plan 5:30 - 7 PM Drop in College Application & Essay Support Sessions 5:30 - 7:30 PM Mt. Abraham UM/HS Renovation Committee Meeting 6 - 8 PM Mt. Abe Reno Committee Meeting 6 PM High School Winter Concert 7 - 8:30 PM Addison Repertory Theater's Evening of One Act Plays 7:30 PM (multiday) +3 more see less	15 Preschool Story Time 10:30 - 11:30 AM Bristol Suites Open House Friday Evening 5 - 8 PM Eat, Drink and Be Merry Downtown Music Event 5 - 9 PM Island Girl Jewelry/Trunk Show 5 - 9 PM Win This Painting! 5 - 9 PM Carols from Many Lands Sing-Along 6 - 7 PM Christmas Caroling 6 - 7 PM Live Music at Huntington Library Dec. 15 7 PM Night Fires 8 PM +5 more see less	16 Middlebury's 2nd Annual Pickleball Tournament 12 AM (multiday) Dessert Social 12 AM Huntington Holiday Boxes 12 AM Vergennes Holiday Farmer's Market 9 AM - 12 PM Vergennes Holiday Farmer's Market 9 AM - 12 PM Winter Sing-Along with MCMC 10 - 11 AM Landscape Painting at the Library 10 AM - 12 PM Ellen Spring Studio Holiday Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Genealogy Hands-On Workshop, Bixby Library, Vergennes 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Genealogy 1-On-1 Workshop at the Bixby 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM On Tyranny, Letter-Writing 10:40 - 11:40 AM Chocolate Making at the Library 1 - 2 PM Santa is Coming to Town! 1 PM "Death & the Underhouse" Book Release at the Bixby 1:30 - 3 PM Yoga and Acupuncture Workshop 4:30 - 7 PM New Haven Winterfest! Saturday 4:30 - 8 PM Songs of the Season - a Holiday Concert 7 PM Authentic Ethiopian Dinner at Tandem 8 PM +14 more see less
17 The Balladeer & The Bluesman 12 AM Charlotte Congregational Church Christmas Pageant 10 - 11 AM Another Special Music Sunday at the United Church 10 - 11 AM Santa is Coming to Hinesburg 10 AM - 2 PM Mary's 35th Annual Free Holiday Meal 11:30 AM - 2 PM MCMC Presents: Mclane & Cummings and Kehler! 1:30 - 6 PM Middlebury Messiah Sing 2 - 4:30 PM Pop Up Shop: the Final Poportunity 2 - 7 PM Outdoor Live Nativity 4 - 5 PM "Celebration of Christmas" at East Monkton Church 4 - 5 PM Celebration of Christmas at East Monkton Church 4 - 5 PM Celebration of Christmas at East Monkton Church 4 - 5 PM Solstice Fundraiser Event 5 - 6 PM Peter Griggs Christmas Music Concert 7 PM +10 more see less	18 Monday Munch 12 AM Public Hearing: New Land Use Regulations 12 AM Cribbage Monday Night 12 AM Selectboard Meeting Dec. 18 6 - 9:30 PM	19 Ferrisburgh Selectboard Meeting Dec. 19 12 AM Baby Time @ the Charlotte Library 9 - 10 AM Cvsd Communications Committee Mtg 5 - 5:30 PM Cssu Legacy Board Final Meeting 5:30 - 6 PM Cvsd School Board Budget Meeting 6 PM Christmas Benefit Concert and Hymn Sing 7 PM Hinesburg Development Review Board Dec. 19 Agenda 7:30 PM +3 more see less	20 Charlotte Senior Center Lunch Wednesday 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Edward Heyman's Soup's on Night Wednesday! 4 - 5 PM Toastmaster's Meeting - Champ Masters Dec. 20 5:30 - 7 PM Elisabeth Von Trapp Benefit Concert Dec. 20 7 PM	21 First Meeting of Ilsley's New Teen Advisory Group! 3:30 - 4:30 PM Lularoe Fundraiser to Benefit Children's Activity Fund 4 PM (multiday) Winter Solstice Celebration at the Waterworks 4:30 PM	22 Grinch-Tacular! 10:30 - 11 AM Preschool Story Time 10:30 - 11:30 AM Lumen Lantern Making Workshop 4 - 5 PM Lumen Festival in Bristol 5 - 9 PM Lumen Festival: Celebration of Fire & Light 5 - 9 PM Illumination of Starksboro's Memory Tree 5:30 - 7 PM Friday. Fire. Luminary Labyrinth 6 - 9 PM +3 more see less	23 Winter Solstice Forest Bathing 3 - 5 PM
24 Christmas Eve Pageant Open to All! 4 - 5 PM Special Music at the Cornwall Church 5 PM Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service 7 PM Christmas Eve at North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church 7:30 - 8:30 PM Ripton's Annual Christmas Eve Celebration 7:30 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	25 Community Kundalini Yoga Class on Christmas Day 5:15 - 6:45 PM	26	27	28	29 Preschool Story Time 10:30 - 11:30 AM Tween & Teen Pizza Party at Ilsley Public Library! 12 - 1:30 PM	30 Vergennes Farmers Market 9 AM - 12 PM Vergennes Farmer's Market Tomorrow 9 AM - 12 PM Homestyle Moroccan Dinner at Tandem 5 - 8 PM Homestyle Moroccan Dinner at Tandem 5 - 8 PM The 18th Annual Middlebury Tiger Alumni Hockey Games 5 - 11 PM +1 more see less
31 New Year's Eve Festivities 3:30 - 10 AM Bristol Best Night! 3:30 - 9:30 PM Cornhole Golf and Other Fun on New Years 3:30 - 9:45 PM Get Your Bristol Best Night Buttons 3:30 - 10 PM Bristol Best Night! 3:30 - 10 PM New Years Eve at the Public House 4 - 9 PM New Year's Eve with the Grift at Town Hall Theater 8 PM (multiday) +3 more see less	1 Tarot Study for Men 6 - 9 PM	2 Baby Time at Charlotte Library 9 - 10 AM Grief Anonymous Support Group 6 - 7:30 PM	3 Toastmaster's Meeting - Champ Masters 8:30 - 9:30 AM Toastmaster's Meeting - Champ Masters Jan. 3 8:30 - 9:30 AM Tot Time at Holley Hall 10 AM - 12 PM MAUSD Budget Informational Meeting - Community Forum 6:30 - 7:30 PM	4 Pokemon Training Camp 3:30 AM - 8 PM Vermont Song Farmers gathering Jan. 4 6 - 8 PM Knitters Anonymous (and Anything Fiber Arts Related Too!) 6 - 9 PM Knitters Anonymous (and Anything Fiber Arts Related Too!) 6 - 9 PM Video Tour India/The Himalayas with Photographer - Monks 7 - 8 PM +1 more see less	5 Casting for Harvard Thesis Film 12 AM (multiday) Bixby Showing "Wonder Woman" 6:30 - 9 PM Quadra and the Growlers Are Back! 6:30 - 11:30 PM Special Evening with the Justin Panigutti Band 9:30 PM	6 5 Town Community Forum-Envisioning Future of Mt Abe 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Five Town Community Forum 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Five Town Community Forum 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Thinking Outside the Box: Five-Town Community Congress 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Vergennes Farmer's Market Closed Tomorrow 9 AM - 12 PM Middlebury Co-Op Grand Opening Jan. 6 - Join Us! 10 AM - 3 PM "The Western Star" Performances in January 4:30 - 6 PM Live From Here Listening Events (Formally Prairie Home) 4:30 - 7 PM Live From Here Listening Events (Formally Prairie Home) 4:30 - 7:30 PM Michael Arnowitt 6 - 8 PM +6 more see less