Calendar - Front Porch Forum

April 2018

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1 Easter Sunrise Service 6:10 AM Easter Egg Hunt 11 AM Awakening, Dance Performance by Manhong Kang Sunday 7:30 - 8:30 PM	2 Selectboard Special Mtg - Site Visit Apr. 2 6:30 PM Monthly Energy Committee Meeting Monday 7 - 8:30 PM Selectboard Special Mtg Apr. 2 7:15 PM	3 Resilience: Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope 6 - 7:30 PM Selectboard Meeting Apr. 3 6 - 8 PM Building Flourishing Communities 6 - 8 PM BCEMS PTO Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM Reading and Q&A with YA Fantasy Author Robin Kristoff 6:30 - 8 PM Decolonizing Our Hearts and Minds, with Sherri Mitchell 7 - 9 PM +2 more see less	4 Community Seed Swap All Day Observing the Passing of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche 9 AM - 4 PM Senior Day: Shockwave Arts Collective 1:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI This Week 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI Presentation 1:30 - 3 PM Barre Town School Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Jaquith Public Library - Program Wednesday 7 PM +3 more see less	5 Relocalizing VT Thursday: Central VT Internet & More Until 10:30 AM Lyric Theatre Co. Presents: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! (multiday) Relocalizing VT Thursday: Central Vt Internet &More 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vt Thu 9 Am: Central Vt Internet &More 9 - 10:30 AM First Annual Spring Sale 2018! 9 AM (multiday) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lecture 1:30 - 3 PM Dancing with the Cannibal Giant Film 2:45 - 4 PM Planning Commission Meeting 5 - 7 PM Enliven! Your Body. Your Life. Now 5:30 - 7:30 PM Summerville Neighborhood Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Spaulding High School Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting 6 - 8 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 - 8 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 - 8 PM Webinar on Development 7 - 8:30 PM Is Growth Always Good? 7 PM The Hills Are Alive! 7:30 PM (multiday) The Hills Are Alive! 7:30 PM (multiday) +14 more see less	6 A-Term at LI: Pizza-Making Workshop & Local Beer Tasting 6 - 8 PM Cemetery Committee Meeting 7 - 8 PM	7 Barre Republicans Gather 8 AM "Vodka and Pancakes" This Saturday! 9 AM - 2 PM Vodka & Pancakes at Caledonia Spirits 9 AM - 2 PM 2018 LEAP Energy Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Meditation Day at Milarepa Center 9 AM - 3 PM Wellspring Insight Day-Long Retreat 9 AM - 4 PM Mega Spring Meltdown - 15 Hour Tabletop Game Day 9 AM - 11:59 PM Coupon & Savings Class - Danville Community Room 10 AM - 1 PM A-Term at LI: Sugar on Snow and Open House 10 AM - 2 PM Adamant Community Campfire! 10 AM - 4 PM Lamb Day at Socks Family Farm 1 - 3 PM Spaulding Softball Fundraising 1 - 5 PM Home Schoolers Meet-Up 4:30 - 5:30 PM Dancing in the Northeast Kingdom 6:30 - 10:30 PM Carmina Burana 7:30 - 9 PM Contradance April 7 8 - 11 PM +12 more see less
8 Introduction to Tea 1 - 3 PM Open Sugarhouse 1 - 5 PM GMYS Presents the Spring Concert! 2 - 5 PM Old Time Music Jam 3 PM Screenagers: Growing Up in a Digital Age 4 - 6 PM Film Screening Screenagers: Growing Up in a Digital Age 4 - 6 PM Screenagers: Growing Up in a Digital Age 4 - 6 PM Author Reading and Discussion: Hedy's Journey 6 - 7:30 PM "Timberdoodling" at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 8:30 PM Program at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 8:30 PM +6 more see less	9 Free Tobacco Cessation Workshop Begins April 9 at CVMC 5 - 6 PM Barre City School Board Meeting 5:30 - 7:30 PM PTNO Meeting April 9 at CES 6 - 7 PM 30's and Under Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Selectboard Special & Regular Meeting Agenda April 9 6:30 PM +1 more see less	10 Health & Wellness Event 5 - 7 PM DART Meeting: Addressing Substance Use Disorder 6 - 8 PM Community Conversation on Resilience & Trauma 6 - 8 PM Queer Mountain Meditators - LGBTQQIA Meditators 6:30 - 8 PM Calais Conservation Commission Meeting Agenda 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	11 Jeff Pratt Author Talk All Day Trinity Community Thrift Store Annual Spring Sale All Day OLLI Presentation 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Film Series Begins 12:30 - 2:30 PM Cemetery Commission Meeting April 11 5:30 PM Civil War, Gettysburg, and American Values Discussion 6 - 7:30 PM Cancer Support Group 6 - 8 PM School Start Times Forum at U-32 6 - 8 PM Author Talk Series 7 - 8:30 PM +5 more see less	12 School Budget Revote 7 AM - 7 PM School Budget Revote Reminder 7 AM - 7 PM Relocalizing VT Thu 9 am: Against Rights for Nature 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Against Rights for Nature 9 - 10:30 AM Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lecture 1:30 - 3 PM Wellness Night at EMES - Please Come! 4:30 - 6 PM Learn Why OVWS Students Are So Happy to Come to School! 6:30 - 8 PM Orchard Valley Open House! 6:30 - 8 PM Orchard Valley Open House 6:30 - 8 PM Basketball Event April 12 - Free! Spaulding HS 6:30 - 9 PM Award Winning Film "No Place on Earth" in Montpelier 7 - 9 PM Selectboard Special Meeting Agenda 7 PM Mary Poppins Comes to Cabot in April! 7 PM Northern Forest Canoe Trail Film Fest in Burlington 7:30 PM +10 more see less	13 Wood Fired Pizza! 4 - 8 PM Yoga & Wine 6 - 8 PM Yoga & Wine 6 - 8 PM	14 Amazing Moving Out Sale at 82 East Hill Road (multiday) Cabot Family Contra and Square Dance April 14 All Day Green Mountain Comic Exposition All Day Empty Bowls - $10 Soup for a Good Cause All Day Square & Contra Dance for All 7:30 - 10 AM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM Senator Sanders Holds Senior Town Meeting 9:30 AM Cheese & Runamok Syrup Pairing at Cabot Creamery VC 11 AM - 3 PM Tropical Fish, Coral Frag and Reptile Swap Meet 11 AM - 3 PM Knife Sharpening 12 - 4 PM Hands on Health the Maya Way with Kayla Becker 12 - 7 PM Nonviolent Direct Action Training 1 - 4 PM Poor People's Campaign, a National Moral Revival 1 - 4 PM Chicken Saltimbocca Dinner 5:30 - 6:30 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Spring Concert 7 - 8:30 PM OMH Muddy Gras Variety Show! 7 - 9 PM Square and Contra Dance 7:30 - 10:30 PM +13 more see less
15 Canceled: E. Montpelier Community Singalong April 15 All Day Mary Poppins 2 PM Webcast Concert at the Schoolhouse in Lower Cabot 3 - 4:30 PM Showing Up for Racial Justice: Living Room Conversation 3 - 5 PM Community Singalong April 15, East Montpelier 6 - 8 PM Lasagna Dinner Library Fundraiser! 6 PM +2 more see less	16 Selectboard Special Mtng. Agenda 9 AM W/WW Commission Meeting Agenda April 16 5:15 - 7:05 PM Meeting of E. Montpelier & Calais Historical Societies 6 - 8:30 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting April 16 6:30 PM	17 Discussion on Fair Wage Bill All Day Cabot Public Library - Summer Home Gardening All Day Who's Your Person? What's Your Plan? 7 AM - 3 PM Free Diabetes Prevention Program Begins April 17 at CVMC 12 - 1 PM Oral Health During Cancer Treatment April 17 at CVMC 12:15 - 12:45 PM "Alice in Wonderland" Party for Kids at Aldrich Library 1:30 - 4:30 PM Braco - Seeds of Awakening - Gaze of Silence for Healing 4 - 5:45 PM CCIF Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Selectboard Meeting, April 17 6 - 8:30 PM Aging Successfully Conversation 6:30 - 8:30 PM +6 more see less	18 Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting All Day Job Fair - St. Johnsbury 9 AM - 2 PM OLLI Presentation 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Film This Week 12:30 - 2:30 PM Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM Meeting: Resilient Barnet Next Steps 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	19 Steering Committee for Zoning All Day Relocalizing VT Thursday: Rights for Humans Only 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT Thursday: Rights for Humans Only 9 - 10:30 AM Noon Concert This Thursday April 19, Montpelier 12 - 12:30 PM Noontime Concert Thursday, Montpelier 12 - 12:30 PM Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Lecture 1:30 - 3 PM Hazard Mitigation Meeting Inc. Dam Safety - April 19 6 - 7:30 PM Solar Workshop at Library Thursday 6 - 7:30 PM Barre Foreign Travel Club 2019 River Cruise to Holland 6 - 8 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting 6 - 8 PM +6 more see less	20 Aldrich Library Book Sale and Raffle (multiday) Are You a Landlord/Need Your Lead EMP Certification? 12 - 4 PM Wood-Fired Pizza Takeout 4 - 8 PM Pizza and Planning Party at the Library 6 - 8 PM Meat Bingo 6 - 9 PM Spaghetti Dinner April 20 6 PM Presentation on Climate Change 6:45 PM Umlaut to Rock Plainfield PPie 8 - 10 PM +4 more see less	21 Basic Obedience (Canine Variety) All Day Windscape Quintet All Day Free Running Clinic April 21 - Berlin 8 AM - 12 PM Vernal Pool Monitoring Project 9 AM - 12 PM CVSWMD Events; Compost Workshop April 21 9 AM - 1 PM Annual Indoor Flea Market at First Presbyterian Church 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale Apr. 21 - W. County Road 9 AM - 2 PM Saturday Sale Indoors at First Presbyterian Church 9 AM - 2 PM Reiki Level One Certification Training 9 AM - 3:30 PM Wisdom of the Herbs School 10 AM (multiday) Kick Your Sugar Cravings! 11 AM - 12 PM Open (Tea) House 11 AM (multiday) Border Board Games 5 - 11:30 PM Free Community Lasagna Dinner & Music 5:30 PM A-Term at LI: Paint It Forward Funraiser 6 - 8 PM Capital City Concert Saturday 7:30 PM Capitol City Concert's Season Finale! 7:30 PM +13 more see less
22 Millstone Trails Association 1st Trail Day 2018 8 AM - 12 PM Imaginations in Metal Open Studio - Danville 8 AM - 3 PM Mutt Strutt Sunday: Calling All Dogs and Their Owners 10 AM Quarter Auction 12 - 4 PM Plainfield Opera House Presents: Many Faces of Mozart 4 PM The Many Faces of Mozart 4 PM +2 more see less	23 Plainfield Select Board Meeting April 23 All Day WCSU School Start Times Public Forum #3 5:30 - 7:30 PM Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Selectboard Agenda April 23 6:30 PM +1 more see less	24 Willey Building Committee Mtg. April 24 7:30 - 8:30 AM Free Salary Negotiation Workshop for Women 8 - 9:30 AM Free Salary Negotiation Workshop for Women 8 - 9:30 AM Free Backyard Compost Workshop 5:45 - 7:15 PM Gun Owners of Vermont Meeting 6 - 8 PM Greater Cabot Working Landscape Network Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	25 OLLI Film This Week 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Presentation 12:30 - 2:30 PM Sip and Solar at Three Penny 5 - 6:30 PM Which Freedoms Are American, and Which Are Universal? 6 - 7:30 PM Calais Cemetery Commissioner Meeting April 25 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	26 Retribe Adult Healing Retreat in April (multiday) Screenagers - Growing Up in the Digital Age All Day Hiring Event April 26 - Lyndon Furniture 8 AM - 4:30 PM Relocalizing VT Thursday: Safer Roads; Better Farming 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT Thursday: Safer Roads; Better Farming 9 - 10:30 AM W/WW Commission Meeting Agenda April 26 1 - 3 PM Grief and Loss Groups for Children and Teens April 26 4 - 5:30 PM Reading Extravaganza & Free Family Dinner! 5:30 - 7 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshop 6 - 7:30 PM CES Board Meeting April 26 6 - 8 PM Fire Dept./Ambulance Working Group Thursday 6 - 8 PM Scottish Trio Cantrip in Cabot Concert April 26 7 - 10 PM +8 more see less	27 Poetry in Barre at Aldrich April 27 All Day Veggievango Mobile Food Pantry at Cvmc April 27 9 - 11 AM Policy and Advocacy Training at the Statehouse Friday! 10 AM - 2 PM Take-Out Thai Peanut Noodles for MHS Debate 3 - 6 PM Passumpsic Community Baptist Church Movie Night 6 - 8:30 PM Friday: Hidden Child of Holocaust to Speak 7 - 9 PM Program at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 9 PM Hidden Child of Holocaust to Speak on Friday April 27 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	28 11th Annual Indoor Flea Market All Day World Maple Festival All Day Tire Recycling Event 8 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale 8 AM - 2 PM Calais PTNO Pancake Breakfast 8:30 - 10 AM Granite City Group Fitness 5K Run/Walk 9 AM - 12 PM Day in the Dirt! Saturday 9 AM - 1 PM Craft Show Hinesburg CVUHS 9 AM - 4 PM World T'ai Chi Day 10 - 11 AM Introduction to Spinning 10 - 11 AM Spring Cleaning of Old Medications 10 AM - 2 PM VSC Makes: Vermont State Colleges Craft and Hobby Fair 10 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale, Summer Street St Johnsbury April 28 10 AM - 3 PM East Montpelier Rec Field and Park Clean Up Day! 10 AM Granite City Group Fitness 5k Saturday! 10 AM Hardwick Repair Cafe Still Seeking Fixers! 12 - 4 PM Cub Scout Pack 717 Cake Auction 1:30 - 2:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 717 Cake Auction 1:30 - 2:30 PM Northeast Kingdom Reiki Collective Free Reiki Clinic 2 - 4 PM Vermont Virtuosi Presents Mainly Maurice 7:30 - 9 PM A Concert of Music from a Singing Country: Latvia 7:30 PM Kava Express Storms Positive Pie Plainfield Saturday! 8 - 10 PM +18 more see less
29 Community Event All Day Yard Sale Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM Sunday Brunch 10 AM Japanese Tea Ceremony 1 - 3 PM Plainfield Coop Annual Meeting 2:30 - 5:30 PM Wood and Belsher Return to Central Vermont Sunday 3 - 5 PM Richard Wood Fiddler 3 PM Concert at Cabot Town Hall: Bill Staines 4 - 6 PM 48hr Film Showcase and Award Ceremony at Fuller Hall 6:30 - 9 PM +5 more see less	30 Financial Fitness 4-Part Series Begins April 30 6 - 7:30 PM	1 Planning Commission Agenda May 1 All Day Selectboard Meeting May 1 6 - 8 PM BCEMS PTO May 1 2018 Agenda, Annual Meeting & Officers 6:30 - 7:30 PM Cabot Trails Working Group Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM	2 Barre Town Open Meeting May 2 All Day Walk-Through Wednesday at Orchard Valley Waldorf School 8:30 - 10:30 AM Walk-Through Wednesday at Orchard Valley 8:30 - 10:30 AM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM Sharps Community Forum - Rescheduled for May 2 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM Author Visit at North Danville Library 7 - 8:30 PM Volunteer to Raise the Campground Tents 7:30 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	3 Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Planning Commission Meeting 5 - 6:30 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshops 6 - 7:30 PM Danville Selectboard Meeting May 3 6 - 8 PM Forum on Simple, Sustainable Living 6:30 - 8:30 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 - 8 PM Self-Organization, Co-Evolution, Resiliency & Stability 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	4 Spring Clean Up at Buck Park, Summerville 10 AM - 12 PM Peacham Corner Guild Opening for Season 10 AM - 5 PM Fresh Start - Tobacco Quit Group 10:30 - 11:30 AM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Show 25 Opens at The Front During Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Indoor Labyrinth Walk 6 - 7 PM Presentation - Stewardship of the Willoughby Forest 6 PM Age Out Loud Comedic Storytelling Benefit for CVCOA 6:30 - 9:30 PM Johnson State College Concert Band and Choruses 7 - 7 PM Johnson State College Concert Band, Chorale & Chambers 7 - 8:30 PM Chaque Fois Live on WGDR 7 - 9 PM Nunsense Opens Friday 7:30 - 9:30 PM Age Out Loud Comedic Story Telling May 4 7:30 - 9:30 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 10 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 10:30 PM Age Out Loud at Barre Opera House 7:30 PM +12 more see less	5 Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Spring Fest May 5 All Day Green Up Day Bottle Drive All Day Twin Valley Senior Center Open House Art Show All Day Montpelier Kiwanis Club All You Can Eat Breakfast 7 - 11 AM Barnet Green Up Day May 5 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM Barre Republicans Meet 8:30 AM Reminder: Green Up Day Marshfield 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day - May 5th - Save the Date! 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day Picnic at Peacham School 9 AM - 1 PM Green Up Day, Save the Date 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Day May 5 9 AM - 3 PM Super Large Warehouse Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Moving Sale Saturday 9 AM Mindfulness Meditation Day at Milarepa Center 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Barre City Cow Pasture Green Up Day 9:30 AM - 11:30 PM Opening Day Extravaganza at the Vermont Granite Museum! 10 AM - 4 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza! 10 AM - 4 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza 10 AM - 4 PM Dog Mountain Labor of Love Weekend! 10 AM - 4 PM 12th Annual People's Health & Wellness Bowl-A-Thon 1 - 3 PM 12th Annual Bowl-A-Thon! May 5! 1 - 3 PM Wellness Expo Fund Raiser 1 - 4 PM Millstone Trails Calcutta Fundraiser! 5 - 10 PM Beatles Tribute Concert (1964 the Tribute) 6 - 9:30 PM Swing Dance Fundraiser for GMYS 6:45 - 9:30 PM North Country Chorus Spring Concerts 7:30 PM Cinco De Mayo Dance 8 PM A Night of Comedy for a Cause! Make Lemonade! 8 PM +25 more see less