Stone Valley Arts Literary Open Mic will be held Friday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. at Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill (stone church across from Poultney High School). Poets, Storytellers, Spoken Word Artists in all genres are invited to perform your own original poems, slam pieces, classics, or other favorites. Musicians and songwriters are also welcome! Looking forward to seeing your faces and hearing your voices! Please email or call to reserve a spot in the open mic: davidmook@aol.com, 802-884-8052
Please see covid protocol below. Thank you! David Mook

See the new gallery show too! Painters choose Painters is an exhibit of contemporary painting from southwest Vermont and eastern New York. Initially, Phil Whitman, Ruth Hamilton and Gabi Moore were invited to exhibit and were asked to invite a respected colleague with whom they wished to exhibit with them.The outcome is a beautiful and varied collections of work that is uplifting and soulful.

Each artist offers a unique approach toward painting as medium through technique, style and motivation. Each reveals a personal view of the world. This collection of work offers paintings that are inspired by farm life and paintings that explore memory and personal history, painting as fantasy vision and stylized landscape and painting to reflect the fleeting moment...paintings inspired by a man plummeting downward from space to the earth and painting as poetic peacemaking.

Protocol for SVA Open Mic Friday, October 23, 7:00 pm:
1. pre-registration to ensure that there is a total of 10 people or less
2. only people who are free of symptoms of respiratory illness may enter SVA
3. everyone stops at the hand sanitizing station on the way in or washes with soap and water in the bathrooms
4. everyone wears masks
5. everyone stays 6 feet apart
6. host/instructor collects the names and contact info for everyone who comes into SVA (for contact tracing if necessary) but avoid passing around a sign-in sheet as multiple people would be touching it one after another
7. the host/instructor needs to take the VOSHA training and fill out and save the certificate showing they've done that
8. the instructors and board members who attend sanitize all frequently touched surfaces at the end of the evening (doorknobs, light switches, etc., bathrooms included)*

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