Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2022

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27 Correction to Closing of Town Clerk's Office 8 AM (multiday) Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Family Friendly Land Blessing Sunday After Thanksgiving 10 - 11:30 AM Buy One Pizza, Get a Pizza Half Off! 12 - 8 PM Artist's Talk at the Front 4 - 5 PM All-Vermont Meditation Circle 7:30 - 8:30 PM Canadian Labour International Film Festival 7:30 PM Free Labor Films 7:35 PM "A World Free of Crisis" 7:38 - 11 PM +6 more see less	28 NAMI Central Vermont Family Support Group All Day Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) November Book Discussion: Like Lesser Gods 9 - 11 AM Teen Writers Workshop: the Art of the Supernatural 4 - 5 PM Regular Cabot School Board Meeting Nov. 28 6 PM Selectboard Meeting Agenda for Nov. 28 6 PM Nov. 28 EM Selectboard Meeting 6:30 PM +3 more see less	29 Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Calendonia County Cornhole 12:30 PM Join Us for Giving Tuesday Next Week at MSAC! 2 PM Sing with the Green Mountain Chorus for the Holiday 7 - 8 PM Planning Commission Meeting 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	30 Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Red Cross Blood Drive This Wednesday at Moose Lodge 12 - 5 PM OLLI Fall Series Begins Sept. 21 1:30 - 3 PM Weekly OLLI Programs for Older Adults 1:30 - 3 PM Free Chair Yoga 5:30 - 6:15 PM Climate Conversation for Introverts, Empaths, & HSPS 6 - 7 PM Art at the Library - Holiday Paper Projects - Barnet 6:30 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	1 Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Relocalizing VT: Unions; Local Journalism 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Unions; Local Journalism 9 - 10:30 AM Oil Painting Class 10 AM - 12 PM Breath Session with Dunja Moeller Dec. 1 10 AM We're ALZ in This Together! 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Mystery Book Club Mtg 3 - 4:30 PM Twin Valley Senior Center Events 3 PM Mystery Readers Club 3 PM TVSC Mystery Book Club Next Meeting 3 PM PC Hearing on Village Center Designation 6 - 6:15 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting 6 - 7 PM Argentine Tango Lessons & Practice at St. J Welcome Ctr 6 - 8 PM Friends of Calais Monthly Meeting Thursday, Dec. 1 6 PM PC Meeting 6:15 - 7:15 PM NAMI Family to Family Classes 6:30 PM +12 more see less	2 Vermont Philharmonic Messiah Concerts (multiday) Next Mom & Baby Playgroup All Day Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) The Mitzvah Fund Mobile Clinic Moves for the Winter 10 AM - 4 PM Mom & Baby Yuletide Crafting and Playgroup 10:45 AM - 1:15 PM Fine Wooden Bowls at "Bowlfest" - Friday 4 - 6 PM Bookbinder Elissa Campbell at Artisans Hand for Art Walk 4 - 7 PM Art Walk Invitation! 4 - 7 PM Montpelier Alive Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Montpelier Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Group Show 52 at the Front 4 - 8 PM Travel Storytelling Gathering 5:30 - 8 PM Climate Impacts on Vermont 6:30 - 8:30 PM Elf the Musical, Jr 7 - 8:30 PM U-32 and Stage 16 Present: Elf the Musical, Jr 7 PM (multiday) +11 more see less	3 Peacham Library Holiday Auction is Open for Bidding 8 AM (multiday) Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 12 PM Fox Paw School's Tracking Club Meets This Saturday! 9 AM - 12:30 PM Fox Paw Tracking Club Meets This Saturday! 9 AM - 12:30 PM Needle Felted Holiday Ornaments Workshop 9 AM - 2 PM Dec. 3 - Ski & Skate Sale at Barre Auditorium 9 AM St Johnsbury Farmers' Market 10 AM - 1 PM Holiday Open Studio 10 AM - 4 PM Selectboard Special Meeting Agenda 10 AM Free Yoga Class 11 AM - 12 PM Winter in Walden 11 AM - 12 PM Herbal Gifts at Wintermarket! 11 AM - 3 PM Wintermarket at Highland Arts Center Dec. 3 11 AM - 3 PM Merry & Bright 11:30 AM - 5 PM Pop Up at Whirligig Brewery 12 - 5 PM Holiday Fair at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier 2 - 2 PM Concert 2 PM Former Hardwick Gazette Owner Book Launch! 3 - 5 PM Poetry at the Adamant Community Club 3:30 - 5 PM Bid to Build 6:30 - 9 PM "Bid to Build" - Habitat for Humanity Auction 6:30 - 9 PM North Country Chorus Holiday Concert 7:30 PM Montpelier Contra Dance Saturday! 8 - 11 PM +19 more see less
4 Wintermarket at Highland Center for the Arts 11 AM - 3 PM Wintermarket at Highland Center for the Arts 11 AM - 3 PM HCA Wintermarket - New Date: Sunday, Dec. 4 11 AM - 3 PM Dec. 4 Rain Date for Highland Center Wintermarket 11 AM - 3 PM Author & Illustrator Jason Chin at Bear Pond Books 11 AM Worcester Craft Fair! - 1st Edition 12 - 12 PM Dungeons & Dragons 12 - 2 PM Buy One Pizza, Get a Pizza Half Off! 12 - 8 PM North Country Chorus Holiday Concert 3 PM "You Were Strangers" Musical Performance and Discussion 4 - 5 PM Plainfield Opera House Variety Show and Meeting 4 - 6 PM Adamant Co-op Annual Meeting 4 - 6 PM Christmas Concert Extravaganza 6 - 8 PM +9 more see less	5 One Day Only - Monday - Bohemian Holiday Bazaar 12 - 5 PM SB On-Site Visit of Reclassification of Roads 1 - 3:30 PM CVCCSD Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Dec. 5 EM Selectboard Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Monthly Energy Committee Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	6 Calendonia County Cornhole 12:30 PM SB Budget Meeting 4:30 - 5:45 PM Illumination Night 5:30 - 7 PM Reminder - Live Music at VCFA's Illumination Night! 5:30 - 7 PM Hearing on Village Center Designation 6 - 6:15 PM Brain Club: Free Ongoing Community Education Series 6 - 7 PM SB Meeting 6:15 - 7:30 PM Revised Agenda for Selectboard Meeting 6:15 - 7:30 PM Main Street Middle School Community Alliance Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Planning Commission Meeting 7 - 9 PM +6 more see less	7 OLLI Fall Series Begins Sept. 21 1:30 - 3 PM Weekly OLLI Programs for Older Adults 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Presents Rick Winston Film Series 1:30 - 3:30 PM Henry James Films Hosted by Rick Winston 1:30 - 3:30 PM Free Chair Yoga 5:30 - 6:15 PM Movie Time with Dr Pete 6 PM MRPS School Board Meeting: Wednesday 6:30 - 8:30 PM Calais Shade Tree Preservation Plan Comment Period 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	8 Oil Painting Class 10 AM - 12 PM CCIF Meeting 12 PM End of Life Series (Understanding Dementia) on Dec. 8 1 - 2 PM Plainfield Special Select Board Mtg 2 PM Treasure Island Chicken Dinner 5 PM Transfer to NVU Virtual Information Session Coming Up! 5:30 - 6:30 PM Transfer to NVU Virtual Information Session Coming Up! 5:30 - 6:30 PM Birth Healing Workshop 6:30 - 7:30 PM Cabot Library - Holiday Baking with Brock Miller 6:30 - 8:30 PM Winter Spiral and Birth Healing Workshop 6:30 PM (multiday) St. J Sparkles! Holiday Weekend 7 PM (multiday) Selectboard Special Mtng. Agenda Dec. 8 7 PM +8 more see less	9 The Mitzvah Fund Mobile Clinic Moves for the Winter 10 AM - 4 PM Mom & Baby Playgroups 10:45 AM - 1 PM Winter "Seed-Sowing" Workshop 1 PM (multiday) Winter "Seed-Sowing" Workshop 1 PM (multiday) Walk-In Covid-19 Booster and Flu Vaccination Clinic 2 - 5 PM Plainfield WWW Agenda Dec. 9 Meeting 3 PM Drive Up Dinner to Support Shares Corporation 4 - 6 PM United Community Handbell Ensemble at St. J. Sparkles 5:30 - 7 PM Santa is Coming to Lamoille Health Family Dentistry! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Blossom Studio Grand Opening Celebration 5:30 PM (multiday) Sound Journey into Gaia's Heartbeat 6 - 7:30 PM Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal: a Film Screening 6 - 8 PM Movie Premiere: Time-Traveling Serial Killer 7 - 8 PM +9 more see less	10 The Mud Studio Holiday Sale Dec. 10-11 (multiday) Book Distribution for VT Reads 2022 9 AM - 1 PM Woodbury Community Library Indoor Market 9 AM - 1 PM Solidarity Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM 29th Annual Solidarity Craft Fair on Dec. 10 9 AM - 3 PM 29th Annual Solidarity Craft Fair & Silent Auction! 9 AM - 3 PM Solidarity Craft Fair on Dec. 10 in Montpelier 9 AM - 3 PM Holiday Market - Lyndonville Agway 9 AM - 4 PM Kids Trade & Play: Saturday - Clothing/Item Exchange 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade & Play: Saturday - Clothing/Item Exchange 9:30 - 11:30 AM Holiday Cheer and Mini Maple Corner Craft Show 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Glass Ornament Making Last Hurrah! 10 AM - 4 PM Authentic Movement Workshop with Jan Sandman 10 AM - 4:30 PM St. J Sparkles at Dog Mountain This Saturday, Too! 10 AM - 5 PM Holiday Shop Open! 10 AM - 5 PM Mud Studio Annual Holiday Sale 10 AM (multiday) Selectboard Special Mtng. Agenda Dec. 10 10 AM Annual Pottery Holiday Sale 10:30 AM (multiday) Free Yoga Class 11 AM - 12 PM CFM Craftsbury Holiday Market 11 AM - 2 PM Love 11 AM - 2 PM CFM Holiday Artisan Market in Craftsbury 11 AM - 2 PM Energy Savings Info at Craftsbury Holiday Market Dec. 10 11 AM - 2 PM Energy Savings Info at Craftsbury Holiday Market Dec. 10 11 AM - 2 PM Holiday Open Studio 11 AM (multiday) Evergreen Wreath Workshop & Cocoa 1 - 4 PM Surprise Your Kids with a Visit from Santa! 2 - 5 PM New Community Workshop: Kids in the Kitchen! 3 - 4:30 PM Nutcracker Family Dance Party! 3 - 5 PM A Christmas Carol Reading 3 PM Free Live Nativity and Candlelight Hymn Sing 4 - 6 PM Free Live Nativity and Hymn Sing 4 - 6 PM Love Light Tree Ceremony 4:30 - 6 PM VTeen 4-H Science Pathways Café 5 - 7 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Winter Concert 7 - 8:30 PM Great Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert 7 - 9 PM Together: a Holiday Concert for Ukraine 7 PM Together: a Holiday Concert for Ukraine 7 PM The Bluegrass Pioneers at the Adamant Community Club 7:30 - 8:30 PM Bluegrass in Adamant This Saturday Night! 7:30 - 9:30 PM The Bluegrass Pioneers at the Adamant Community Club! 7:30 - 9:30 PM The Bluegrass Pioneers in Adamant This Saturday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Bluegrass Pioneers in Adamant on Saturday 7:30 - 10 PM Bluegrass Pioneers in Adamant 7:30 PM +40 more see less
11 Green Mountain Club Event All Day Today: World Renowned Bear Expert Ben Kilham 2:30 AM - 4 PM Sharpening Sunday Dec. 11 at Capital Kitchen 10 AM - 1 PM Pottery Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Holiday Craft Market at Grist Mill Studios! 10 AM - 3 PM Holiday Gift Market Dec. 11 10 AM - 3:30 PM Holiday Craft Market at Grist Mill Studios 10 AM - 3:30 PM Holiday Market at Grist Mill Studios! 10 AM - 3:30 PM Plainfield Winter Market 11 AM - 3 PM Holiday Market at Horn of the Moon Apothecary 12 - 5 PM Buy One Pizza, Get a Pizza Half Off! 12 - 8 PM Cookie Exchange Party 3 - 4:30 PM Dance Sing & Jump Around 3 - 4:30 PM Contact Improv Class and Jam This Sunday! 3 - 5:30 PM Second Sunday Potluck Supper 5:30 - 7 PM Cabot Community Memorial Tree Lighting on the Common 6 - 6:30 PM All-Vermont Meditation Circle 7:30 - 8:30 PM +13 more see less	12 Talking Back! Self Esteem Building for Kids 3 - 4 PM CVCCSD Budget Forum 6 - 7 PM Selectboard Mtng. Agenda 12-12-2022 6:30 PM Conservation Committee Meeting - Dec. 12 7 - 8:30 PM Cabot Library Board of Trustees Regular Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	13 Pinbox 3000/Cardboard Teck Open House! All Day Danville Budget Committee Meeting 10 - 11 AM Calendonia County Cornhole 12:30 PM SB Budget Meeting 4 - 5 PM Virtual Seniors Town Meeting with Sen. Sanders 5 PM Road Reclassification Hearing 5:30 - 6:15 PM Brain Club: Free Ongoing Community Education Series 6 - 7 PM Community Winter Spiral and Birthing Healing Class 6:30 - 7:30 PM Regular SB Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM Invitation to Community Winter Spiral 6:30 - 7:30 PM Community Winter Spiral 6:30 - 7:30 PM Community Winter Spiral at Orchard Valley 6:30 PM East Hardwick Fire District (Water Board) Monthly Meeting 7 PM +9 more see less	14 Twin Valley Senior Center Event All Day Creative Engagement with Older Adults: Workshop at TVSC All Day Pinbox 3000/Cardboard Teck Open House! All Day Timeslips Program at Twin Valley Senior Center 12 - 2 PM Lunch and Communication with Dementia Workshop 12 - 2:30 PM Somatics for the People! - a Pop-Up Somatics Clinic 12 - 4:30 PM Creative Engagement with Older Adults at TVSC 1 PM OLLI Fall Series Begins Sept. 21 1:30 - 3 PM Weekly OLLI Programs for Older Adults 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Film at the Savoy “The Bostonians” Dec. 14 1:30 - 3 PM Henry James Film: the Bostonians 1:30 - 3:30 PM Free Chair Yoga 5:30 - 6:15 PM An Exploration into Dreams and Psychodrama 6 - 7 PM Plainfield ARPA Funding Public Meeting 6 - 7 PM Movie Time with Dr Pete 6 - 8 PM Trails Committee Meeting - Dec. 14 6:30 - 8 PM The Impact of Climate Change on Vermont 7 - 8 PM The Impact of Climate Change on Vermont 7 - 8:30 PM Impact of Climate Change on Vermont Speaker Series 7 - 8:30 PM Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Ecology 7 - 8:30 PM The Impact of Climate Change on Vermont 7 PM Village of Marshfield Board of Trustees Meeting 7 PM +18 more see less	15 Pinbox 3000/Cardboard Teck Open House! All Day Chainsaw Safety Course 7:30 AM (multiday) Relocalizing VT: Economics Blocks Progress 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Economics Blocks Progress 9 - 10:30 AM Oil Painting Class 10 AM - 12 PM New In-Person Yoga Class at Bethany Church 12 - 1 PM Union Elementary School Caregivers Alliance Meeting 12 - 8 PM Holiday Jazz 5:30 - 7:30 PM Board Game Night Returns 5:30 - 8:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting Dec. 15 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forest Committee Meeting Thursday 6 - 8 PM Woodbury Community Library Trustees Meeting Dec. 15 6 - 8 PM St. J. BPW Celebration and Focus Group 6 - 8 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting 6 - 8 PM Cabot Recreation Meeting 6 PM Union Elementary School Caregivers Alliance Meeting 7 - 8 PM Little Women, a Live Musical Theatre Performance 7 PM (multiday) +13 more see less	16 The Mitzvah Fund Mobile Clinic Moves for the Winter 10 AM - 4 PM Open House (Snow Day Vibes) at Cardboard Teck! 1 - 5 PM 5/6th Grade Social at MSMS Volunteers 3 PM Santa is Coming to the Community Center! 5 - 6:30 PM	17 Onion River Concerts This Weekend! (multiday) Two Onion River Chorus Concerts in Barre (multiday) Get Your Local Elder Berry Syrup, Herbal Teas & More! All Day Green Mountain Youth Symphony Auditions 9 AM - 11 PM The Polar Express Movie at the Star Movie Theater 10 AM - 12 PM St Johnsbury Farmers' Market 10 AM - 1 PM Center Vermont Queer Craft Fair 10 AM - 4 PM Queer Craft Fair! 10 AM - 4 PM Queer Craft Fair in Barre - Dec. 17 10 AM - 4 PM Peacham Corner Guild Holiday Bake Sale 10 AM (multiday) Montpelier Farmers Market 10 AM Cancelled: Santa, Crafts and Cookies at Peacham Library 10:30 AM - 12 PM Free Yoga Class 11 AM - 12 PM Holiday Open Studio 11 AM (multiday) Littleton Food Community Holiday Sing-Along! 1 - 2 PM IXC Christmas Festival This Saturday! 2 - 4 PM Opera 101: a Day in the Life - Youth Opera Company of VT 2 PM (multiday) Christmas at Hogwarts 6 - 9 PM Christmas at Hogwarts 7 - 8:30 PM Green Mountain Nutcracker at BOH 7 - 9 PM The 16th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker Dec. 17-18 7 PM (multiday) The 16th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker 7 PM (multiday) +18 more see less
18 The Grinch! All Day Pancakes for the People at Woodbelly Pizza 8 - 11 AM World Cup Final, Sunday Morning at the Savoy! 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sourdough Baking 12 - 5:30 PM Sourdough Workshop at Rise Up Bakery 12 - 5:30 PM Bj's Annual Chanukah Brass Balagan Bash! 1 - 3 PM The Grinch - This Sunday! 2:30 - 6 PM Winter Solstice Circle 3 - 6 PM WUMC Christmas Candle Lighting Service - Dec. 18 5 - 6 PM +5 more see less	19 Dec. 19 EM Selectboard Meeting All Day Walk-In Covid/Flu Vaccine Clinic Dec. 19 12:30 - 4 PM Talking Back! Self Esteem Building for Kids 3 - 4 PM Free Community Dinner 6 PM Winter Sing for Menfolk 6:30 - 8:30 PM Selectboard Special Mtg. Agenda 7 PM +2 more see less	20 Tobacco and Our Rural Community 12 - 1 PM Calendonia County Cornhole 12:30 PM Northeast Prevention Coalition Meeting 3 - 4:30 PM Plainfield WWW Commission Agenda Dec. 20 Meeting 3 PM Brain Club: Free Ongoing Community Education Series 6 - 7 PM Planning Commission Meeting, Last One for 2022! 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	21 Gifts for Giving Returns to Doty! 9:30 AM - 12 PM CVFiber Construction Kick Press Conference 11 AM - 12 PM Christmas Sing Along 1 PM Movie Time with Dr Pete 6 - 8 PM Peacham Congreg. Church, Blue Christmas Gathering 6:30 - 7:40 PM MRPS School Board Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Lost Nation Theater Presents Stories for the Season 7 - 9 PM Come in for Some Holiday-Inspired Special Stories 7 PM +4 more see less	22 Storytime 10:30 - 11:30 AM Affordable Housing - Washington Cty: We Want Your Input 12 - 1 PM Town Clerk's Office Holiday Closing 3 PM (multiday) Clarification of Closing on Dec. 22 for Cabot Town Office 3 PM (multiday) Christmas Sing-A-Long 5 - 6:30 PM Woodbury Carol Sing Dec. 22 5 PM Hanukah Party in the NEK Dec. 22 5:30 - 7:30 PM Argentine Tango 6 - 8 PM Unhoused in Washington County – We Want Your Input 6:30 - 7:30 PM Stories for a Winter's Eve Returns to OMH 7 - 9 PM +6 more see less	23 Dog Mountain to Your Holiday Rescue! 10 AM (multiday) Mom & Baby Playgroups 10:45 AM - 1 PM	24 Green Mountain Youth Symphony Auditions 9 AM - 11 PM Invitation to Christmas Eve Service 4:30 - 5 PM Christmas Eve Service 5 - 6 PM Old West Church Christmas Eve Service 5 PM Children's Christmas Eve Pageant at Bethany Church 6 - 7 PM Christmas Eve Service at North Danville Baptist Church 6:30 - 7:30 PM Christmas Eve Service 6:30 - 7:30 PM Trinity United Methodist Church Christmas Eve Service 7 - 8 PM Christmas Eve Service 9 PM +5 more see less
25 Wolcott Transfer Station (multiday) Christmas Meal for the Community 11 AM - 2 PM All-Vermont Meditation Circle 7:30 - 8:30 PM	26 NAMI Central Vermont Family Support Group All Day	27 Calendonia County Cornhole 12:30 PM Postponed: Plainfield WWW Commission Agenda Dec. 27 Meeting 4 PM Brain Club: Free Ongoing Community Education Series 6 - 7 PM Woodbury Select Board Agenda Dec. 27 6 PM	28	29 Caroling by Lantern Light! 5 - 6 PM Argentine Tango 6 - 8 PM Trivia at the Village Restaurant 6 - 8 PM	30 Hardwick Academy "Purple and Gold Night" All Day	31 Green Mountain Youth Symphony Auditions 9 AM - 11 PM Trinity Thrift Sale Will Be Open Dec. 31 from 10-2 10 AM - 12 PM First Night North in St Jay - New Year's Eve 4 - 11:59 PM First Night North in St. Johnsbury! 4 PM (multiday) Virtual New Years Eve Celebration - All Brains Belong 5 - 7:30 PM All Brains Belong VT Virtual New Year's Eve Party! 5 - 7:30 PM All Brains Belong VT Virtual New Year's Eve Party! 5 - 7:30 PM New Year's Eve Contra Dance 8 PM (multiday) +4 more see less