Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2015

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29 Town Clerk's Thanksgiving Hours 12 PM (multiday) 26th Annual Women's Festival of Crafts 10 AM (multiday) Climate March All Day Short Film & Discussion: Responding to Hate Crimes 6 - 7:30 PM	30 Senior Center Open House All Day Montpelier Senior Activity Center Open House, Nov. 30 All Day Music, Food, All Free of Charge All Day Senior Center Open House All Day Coat Drive 9 AM (multiday) Drumming Workshop Nov. 30 10 AM +2 more see less	1 World AIDS Day Event All Day Kellogg-Hubbard Library Story Time Coming to East Calais! All Day VTrans Seeking Input on Bike Routes on State Roads 6 - 8 PM Planning Commission Meeting Dec. 1 7 - 8 PM Cancellation of Select Board Meeting 7 - 8 PM Brett Stanciu Reading & Book Signing at the Galaxy Bookshop 7 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	2 It's a Wonderful Life - Radio Style, Onstage at LNT Dec. 2 & 3 (multiday) Open House at the Montpelier Shambhala Center All Day Introduction and Workshop - Ceremony Cards, Dec. 2 All Day The Ceremony Cards Event Dec. 2 All Day Jaquith's Classic Film Night Dec. 2 All Day Song at Wednesday Lunch All Day OLLI (Osher Presentation) All Day Knit Night Northeast Kingdom 6:30 - 8 PM Mindful Work Week Meditation at Milarepa Center 7 - 8 PM River Rock School Open House 7 - 8:30 PM It's a Wonderful Life - a Live Radio Play - Dec 2 & 3 7 - 9 PM Selectboard Special Meetings Dec. 2, 7 7 PM +8 more see less	3 Public Hearing Dec. 3 All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Climate & Energy in Paris & Vermont All Day Village Planning Project All Day Kids Benefit - Chilidogs + Film All Day Cabot Chilidog Fest + Film Dec. 3 All Day Planning Commission Public Hearing on Draft Zoning Dec. 3 All Day CVSWMD Planning Meeting Re: Possible Land Purchase in E. 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Dec. 3 All Day Carbon Pollution Tax Debate All Day 3rd Annual Wild Game Dinner & Silent Auction All Day Holiday Open House and Tree of Lights Ceremony Thursday at 4 Pm 4 PM Interested in Having Your Voice Heard About the School Budget? 5 - 6 PM Montpelier School Board Conversations 5 - 6 PM Come Out Tonight for Illumination Night at VCFA! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Public Hearing: December 3, 2015 @ 5:30 Pm at Barre City Hall 5:30 PM Sparking the Love of Learning 6:30 - 7:30 PM Quick Mixes Dec. 3 at Peacham Library 6:30 - 8 PM Festive Wreath Making Class 6:30 - 8:30 PM Carbon Pollution Tax Debate 6:30 - 9 PM Public Hearing - Planning Commission 7 - 8 PM +15 more see less	4 Spaghetti Dinner & Amazing Raffle All Day CES Spaghetti Dinner & Raffle Dec. 4 All Day African and Reggae Music at La Puerta Negra All Day Spaghetti Dinner & Amazing Raffle at CES All Day Montpelier Art Walk All Day Barre Holiday Market 3 - 7 PM Free Wine Tasting / Art Walk This Friday at North Branch Cafe! 4 - 8 PM Polar Express Storytime at Galaxy Bookshop 5 - 6 PM Celebrate a Traditional Buddhist Holiday Dec. 4 6 - 8:30 PM Handel's Messiah Change in Venue 7:30 PM +6 more see less	5 Moving Sale (multiday) Anima: the Soul of Winter (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around"! All Day North Danville Memory Tree! All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine All Day Twinfield Craft/Vendor Fair All Day Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around," Coming to the Haybarn! All Day Wreath Making! All Day Anima in Concert All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine with Linda River Valente All Day Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Jewelry Show Plainfield All Day DOTY's Silent Auction and All You Can Eat Pie Breakfast All Day Maple Corner Craft Fair! All Day Edgar "Skip" Byam Memorial Service Dec. 5 All Day Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Holiday Happenings Arts & Crafts Dec. 5 All Day Holiday High Tea and Raffle All Day Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day Montpelier Unitarian Church Holiday Fair All Day Montpelier's Indoor Farmers Market Starts Dec. 5 All Day Maple Corner Craft Fair! All Day Home Jewelry Show Extravaganza! 9 AM - 2 PM Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 2 PM Old-Fashioned New England Holiday Fair 9 AM - 2 PM 8th Maple Corner Community Center Holiday Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Home Share Now: Waived Fee and a Month of Events! 9:30 AM - 12 PM Twinfield and Plainfield Opera House 9:30 AM - 2 PM Winter Farmers' Market at Montpelier City Hall Dec. 5 10 AM - 2 PM International Boutique Benefits People Near and Far 10 AM - 8 PM The Science Behind Why Our Children Are So Sick 10 AM The Science Behind Why Our Children Are So Sick 10 AM Grow Your Own Gathering 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon Dec. 5 12 - 2 PM Edgar "Skip" Byam Memorial Service & Potluck 1 - 3 PM Peacham Library's Annual Holiday High Tea and Raffle 2 - 4 PM Peacham Library's Holiday Tea and Raffle 2 - 4 PM Holiday High Tea and Raffle 2 - 4 PM First Film Appreciation Seminar 2 PM Holiday Open House at G.R.A.C.E 4 - 7 PM Singing and Potluck- Free & Open to the Public 5:30 - 7:30 PM Missisquoi River Band at Music Box Saturday! 7 PM Missiquoi River Band at the Music Box Dec. 5 7 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM +43 more see less
6 Rachmaninoff Concert All Day Adamant Co-Op Annual Meeting & Village Potluck All Day Pancake Breakfast for Central Vermont Council on Aging All Day After the Crafts Fair in Plainfield Dec. 6 All Day North Danville Brainerd Memorial Library Open House! All Day Family Dance in Plainfield All Day Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale All Day Pancake Breakfast at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day Rink Frame Building Day All Day Plainfield Holiday Farmers Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Make the Old Fashioned Holiday Fair a New Holiday Tradition 9 AM - 2 PM Holiday Dinner 12 PM Wreath Making! 1 - 4:30 PM Dance, Sing, and Jump Around! 3 - 4:30 PM Don't Miss the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert Dec. 6 4 PM Save This Date: Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Fall Concert 4 PM Anima: the Soul of Winter 6:30 PM +15 more see less	7 Free Talk on Lyme Magnetic Protocol at Hardwick Chiropractic All Day Braco, Live Stream On-Line Sessions Dec. 7 & 8 11 AM Hazen School Board Meeting 6 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! 6:30 - 8:30 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! 6:30 - 8:30 PM Marshfield & Plainfield Energy Committee Dec. 7 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	8 E. Montpelier School Budget Forum All Day Coding Day at Peacham Library 1 - 7 PM Hardwick American Legion Beef Stew Supper Open to Public 5 - 7 PM Art Build 5:30 - 7:30 PM Dart 2.0: Doing Something About Addiction 6 - 8 PM Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Dec. 8 6:30 - 8:30 PM Poetry Book Launch Party 7 - 8:30 PM Symphony for the City of the Dead - Book Reading, Talk & Music 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	9 OLLI (Osher) Presentation All Day 3/4 and 5/6 Basketball All Day Agenda for Selectboard Meeting 5 - 8:30 PM Budget Meetings 5:30 - 8:30 PM Young Adult Book Discussion at Kellogg-Hubbard Library 6:30 - 8 PM Cancellation of Select Board Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	10 Solar Information Events (multiday) Upcoming Events at the SunCommon Pop-Up Shop and Art Gallery! All Day Conservation Commission Meeting Dec. 10 All Day Hour of Code! All Day Hour of Code! All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: a Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM No Story Time at Jeudevine Library Dec. 10 10 AM - 11 PM Public Menorah Lighting 4:30 - 5:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Free Evening of Folk Dance Instruction 7 - 9 PM +7 more see less	11 Vigil Against Hate and in Support of Our Moslem Neighbors 12 AM - 1 PM Upland Bakers (multiday) Toys for Tots Accepting Toy Donations at Center of the Berlin Mall (multiday) Enjoy a Concert at the Old Meeting House All Day Italian Dancing at Old Labor Hall in Barre All Day Acoustic Duo at Old Meeting House Dec. 11! All Day Awesome Acoustic Duo Coming to Old Meeting House! All Day The JSC World Music Ensemble and Concert Band in Concert All Day MC Film Series Reminder All Day Montpelier Schools 8 - 9 AM "A Chocolate Christmas" Celebration & Tasting 1 - 4 PM Toys for Tots 4 PM (multiday) Community Meeting in Barnet Dec. 11 6:30 - 7:30 PM Community Meeting in Barnet on Dec. 11 6:30 PM Holiday Music in Cabot Friday 7 - 8 PM Northeast Kingdom Chorus Presents Winter Concerts 7 PM +12 more see less	12 Huge Ski Sale (multiday) Montpelier Memory Cafe Meets Dec. 12 All Day Destination Imagination Creativity Fair for Kids All Day Upland Bakers at the Jaquith Dec. 12 All Day Create Signs for Jobs, Justice and Climate Rally in Boston Dec. 12 All Day Toy Swap! All Day Santa Coming! All Day Green Mountain Youth Symphony Concert! All Day Destination Imagination Creativity Fair for Kids All Day Ballet Wolcott Performs Nutcracker Suite Performance at Town Hall! All Day Love Light Ceremony All Day Men/Women's Holiday a Cappella Show All Day Crafternoon at Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery All Day Michael Arnowitt Piano at Bagitos All Day Barretones A Capella Barbershop Group Xmas Concernt Dec. 12 All Day Touch of Vermont Holiday Gift Market Dec. 12 All Day Adamant Cookbook Signing Dec. 12 All Day 22nd Annual Solidarity Craft Fair and Silent Auction All Day Earthwalk Craft Party and Online Auction All Day Planting Hope's 22nd Solidarity Craft Fair/Silent Auction 2015! 9 AM - 4 PM Touch of Vermont Holiday Gift Market on Saturday 9 AM - 4 PM 22nd Annual Solidarity Craft Fair & Silent Auction Dec.12 9 AM - 4 PM St. Johnsbury Victorian Holiday Celebration 9 AM - 9 PM Huge Ski Sale 9 AM (multiday) Santa, Crafts and Latkes at Peacham Library 10 AM - 12 PM Holiday Open House at Hooker Mountain Farm! 10 AM - 2 PM The Art House Holiday Market! 10 AM - 3 PM 31st Annual Open Studio and Glass Sale 10 AM - 5 PM Harvey's Lake Open Houses 10 AM (multiday) Open Houses Around Harvey's Lake 10 AM (multiday) Holiday Book Sale at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library 10 AM Herb Club This Saturday 1 - 3 PM Screenplay as Memoir: VCFA Faculty Talk/Reading 2 - 3 PM Holiday a Cappella Show Saturday 2:30 - 4:30 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Concert Featuring Willem Lange! 3:30 - 5:30 PM Hanukkah Celebration with Live Music, Free Food, and Dancing! 4:30 PM Contra Dance 5:30 PM Choral Ensemble Anonymous 4 Dec. 12 7:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM Cabot Contra and Square Dance Saturday! 7:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM +37 more see less
13 Holiday Craft Fair Benefit 10 AM - 3 PM Central VT SUR (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Upcoming Meeting 2 - 5 PM Special Not-To-Miss Celebration Sunday 3 PM Hardwick American Legion Post 7 Christmas Party (Members Only) 4 - 7 PM Northeast Kingdom Chorus Presents Winter Concerts 4 PM +1 more see less	14 Playground Design Open House Dec. 14 All Day Meeting Regarding I-91 Bridge Project in Irasburg All Day PES Monday Lunch with Peacham Seniors All Day Irasburg, VT – Regional Concerns Meeting 5:15 PM Come Hear About Design Ideas for Union's Playground! 5:30 - 7 PM Peacham School Board of Directors' Meeting Agenda 5:30 - 7 PM Winter Walkabout: Solstice Dreaming at Kellogg Hubbard Library 5:45 - 7:45 PM Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol Dec. 14 6:30 PM Barnet School Board of Directors' Agenda 7 - 8 PM Plainfield Selectboard Agenda/ Traffic Hearing Monday 7 PM Comedy Showcase 7:30 PM +7 more see less	15 Women of Maple Corner and Greater Calais Yankee Gift Exchange! All Day Cabot Town Budget Meeting 5:30 - 7 PM Recycling and You! Presentation by Central VT Solid Waste Mgt 6:30 - 8 PM Twinfield Union School Board Dec. 15 6:30 - 8:30 PM Vermont Libertarian Party - St Johnsbury Town Committee 6:30 PM Selectboard Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	16 Award Winning Film Screening at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Dec. 16 All Day Community Forum on Marijuana: the Other Side of Cannabis All Day Award Winning Film - Kellogg Hubbard Library Viewing All Day "The Other Side of Cannabis" Documentary Screening All Day CCSU Executive Committee Meeting Time Change 4:30 - 6 PM Danville's Holiday on the Green 5 - 7 PM Danville High School Open House Wednesday 6 - 7:30 PM "The Other Side of Cannabis" 6 - 8 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers Winter Concert 7 PM +5 more see less	17 Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Concert Tonight at North Church! All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Morse Farm Ski Touring Giving Away Day Passes at SunCommon Pop-Up All Day CES Board Meeting Agenda All Day Free Ski Passes, Rum and Creamery Samples All Day Montpelier School Conversation All Day Free Gift Wrapping! 10 AM (multiday) Social Service Requests - Town of Cabot 5 - 5 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Introduction to the Teaching of Bruno Groening 6 - 7 PM Dec. 17 Taiko Event and River of Light! 6 PM No Tickets to Star Wars? Come See a Yiddish Movie Instead! 6:30 - 8:30 PM Holiday Concert at North Church Dec. 17 7:30 PM +12 more see less	18 Peacham Elementary School Students A-Caroling We Go! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman This Sunday 2 - 4 PM Family Day at Middleground Exit 9 Middlesex Friday 3 - 6 PM	19 Pottery Seconds Sale! All Day Heartbeet's Production of the Shepherd's Play All Day Contradance All Day Patti Casey in Concert at Old Meeting House All Day Swedish Hearts + Paper Stars Workshop All Day Pottery Seconds Sale! All Day Hardwick Winter Holiday Farmers' Market All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Stories for a Winter's Eve All Day Onion River Chorus Dec. 19-20 All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Open Studio at Vermont Glass Workshop 10 AM - 5 PM Origami Ornaments for All Ages 1 - 3 PM New Study Group on History of Christianity 7 - 8 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers Winter Concert 7 PM Light in the Night: an Evening of Stories and Songs for the Winter 8 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM +14 more see less
20 Annual Carol Singalong Dec. 20 All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Christmas Candlelighting Service All Day Old West XMas Eve Children's Choir All Day Candlelight Service All Day Memorial for Jean Lathrop All Day Found Lost Dog in Lower Cabot - Yours? 12 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Cabot Arts Show and Tell, Sunday, Willey Building 3 PM +6 more see less	21 Warm Clothes & Toys Giveaway Monday Evening 5 - 7 PM Emes Budget Deliberations and Forum 6 - 7 PM	22 Kabbalah and Psychology (multiday) Water/Wastewater Meeting Announcment and Agenda All Day Woodbury Select Board Special Meeting All Day Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra Tuesday 6:30 - 10:30 PM	23 Public Notice of Conveyance of Real Estate 24 V.S.A. § 1061 (multiday)	24 Candlelight Christmas Eve Service All Day Candlelight Christmas Eve Service 6:30 - 7:30 PM Festive Eucharist at St. Andrew's and Lessons and Carols 7 - 8 PM Christmas Eve: One Week from Tonight! 7 PM	25 Cabot Community Christmas Dinner All Day	26
27 Breakin' Up Christmas: Cajun Comes to Cabot December 27 3 - 7 PM Holiday Concert with Porter Brook Trio! 5:30 - 7:30 PM	28 Refugee Situation Talk Given by Humanitarian Relief Workers All Day Discussion at the Craftsbury Public Library All Day Woodbury Select Board Meeting Agenda Dec. 28 All Day Braco's Healing Gaze - 4 Live Stream Sessions - Catamount Arts 11 AM - 2:30 PM Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra 6:30 - 10:30 PM Agenda Plainfield Selectboard Meeting Monday 7 - 9 PM Selectboard Agenda 7 PM +3 more see less	29	30	31 Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ All Day Winter Carnival All Day Ring in the New Year at First Night St. Johnsbury! All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ All Day Fireworks, Music and Magic Happening New Year's Eve All Day Bielawski Recaps 2015 on Bellyfeel Radio WGDR All Day Hardwick Gazette's Mike Bielawski on Bellyfeelradio WGDR 2015 Recap 7 - 8 AM New Year's Eve 5k Road Race 2 PM Montpelier Alive New Years Eve Festivities 4 - 11 PM See Marko the Magician on New Year's Eve! 4 - 11 PM First Night St. Johnsbury 4 PM (multiday) Family Friendly New Year's Eve Dinner 5:30 - 8:30 PM Family New Year's Celebration 5:30 - 9 PM Main Street Arts Café @ St. Andrew's Episcopal Church 7 - 11:30 PM +10 more see less	1 Sacred Circle Dance 2 - 4 PM Skate for the Cure Friday Night! 7 - 9 PM	2 Story Time at the Jeudevine! All Day The Odd Wednesdays at Sweet Melissa's in Montpelier All Day Bottle and Can Drive Saturday All Day Grow Your Own Gathering All Day Bottle and Can Drive to Support Youth Soccer 9 - 11 AM Grow Your Own Gathering 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Relax, Renew and Awaken - Mindfulness Meditation Retreat 7:30 PM (multiday) Downtrodden by Prancer & Dancer? Fear You Won't Get a New Year's Kiss? 9 PM +4 more see less