Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2015

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29 26th Annual Women's Festival of Crafts 10 AM (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 Montpelier Senior Activity Center Open House, Nov. 30 All Day Senior Center Open House All Day Music, Food, All Free of Charge All Day Senior Center Open House All Day	1 World AIDS Day Event All Day Local Business Forum 6:30 - 7:30 PM	2 It's a Wonderful Life - Radio Style, Onstage at LNT Dec. 2 & 3 (multiday) OLLI (Osher Presentation) All Day Open House at the Montpelier Shambhala Center All Day Jaquith's Classic Film Night Dec. 2 All Day The Ceremony Cards Event Dec. 2 All Day River Rock School Open House 7 - 8:30 PM It's a Wonderful Life - a Live Radio Play - Dec 2 & 3 7 - 9 PM +3 more see less	3 Carbon Pollution Tax Debate All Day CVSWMD Planning Meeting Re: Possible Land Purchase in E. Montp. Dec. 3 All Day Newbury Book Discussion Group All Day Public Hearing Dec. 3 All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Climate & Energy in Paris & Vermont All Day 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 Carbon Pollution Tax Debate 6:30 - 9 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 PM +8 more see less	4 Barre Farmers and Crafters Holiday Market All Day African and Reggae Music at La Puerta Negra All Day Montpelier Art Walk All Day Barre Holiday Farmers Market All Day Barre Holiday Market 3 - 7 PM Free Wine Tasting / Art Walk This Friday at North Branch Cafe! 4 - 8 PM Handel's Messiah Change in Venue 7:30 PM +3 more see less	5 Annual "Not Your Mother's Church Bazaar" Dec 5 & 6 (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Moving Sale (multiday) Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Montpelier Unitarian Church Holiday Fair All Day Holiday Shopping Event All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine with Linda River Valente All Day Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around," Coming to the Haybarn! All Day Annual "Not Your Mother's Church Bazaar" All Day Montpelier's Indoor Farmers Market Starts Dec. 5 All Day Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day Lantern Parade! All Day Jewelry Show Plainfield All Day Maple Corner Craft Fair! All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine All Day Twinfield Craft/Vendor Fair All Day Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around"! All Day Old-Fashioned New England Holiday Fair 9 AM - 2 PM Home Jewelry Show Extravaganza! 9 AM - 2 PM VT Community Energy Conference Dec. 5 9 AM - 4:30 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 International Boutique Benefits People Near and Far 10 AM - 8 PM The Science Behind Why Our Children Are So Sick 10 AM Soup Festival and Silent Auction 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon Dec. 5 12 - 2 PM In Miniature - a Happy Holiday Exhibit & Sale at Tenney Library! 3 - 5 PM Singing and Potluck- Free & Open to the Public 5:30 - 7:30 PM Singing and Eating - Free and Open to the Public 5:30 - 7:30 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Choir Concert in Barre 7 - 8:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM +31 more see less
6 Pancake Breakfast for Central Vermont Council on Aging All Day Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale All Day After the Crafts Fair in Plainfield Dec. 6 All Day Adamant Co-Op Annual Meeting & Village Potluck All Day Pancake Breakfast at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day Breakfast Buffet at Montpelier Elks All Day Rachmaninoff Concert All Day Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day Pancake Breakfast 8 - 10 AM Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Plainfield Holiday Farmers Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Make the Old Fashioned Holiday Fair a New Holiday Tradition 9 AM - 2 PM Dance, Sing & Jump Around 3 - 4:30 PM Save This Date: Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Fall Concert 4 PM Don't Miss the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert Dec. 6 4 PM +11 more see less	7 Options Tax Public Hearing 6:15 - 7 PM Selectboard Agenda 6:15 - 9 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 +1 more see less	8 E. Montpelier School Budget Forum All Day Art Build 5:30 - 7:30 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 Holiday Band Concert 7 PM +2 more see less	9 OLLI (Osher) Presentation All Day Community Remembrance Spiral Dec. 9 4:30 - 6:30 PM Young Adult Book Discussion at Kellogg-Hubbard Library 6:30 - 8 PM	10 Solar Information Events (multiday) Hour of Code! All Day Upcoming Events at the SunCommon Pop-Up Shop and Art Gallery! All Day Hour of Code! All Day BNI Presents Mike Lannen from Eternity Web 8 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: a Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM Public Menorah Lighting 4:30 - 5:30 PM Free Evening of Folk Dance Instruction 7 - 9 PM Christmas Carol the Musical 7 PM (multiday) +6 more see less	11 Vigil Against Hate and in Support of Our Moslem Neighbors 12 AM - 1 PM Upland Bakers (multiday) Acoustic Duo at Old Meeting House Dec. 11! All Day The JSC World Music Ensemble and Concert Band in Concert All Day Bianchi Street Studio Holiday Pottery Sale All Day Italian Dancing at Old Labor Hall in Barre All Day Enjoy a Concert at the Old Meeting House All Day Montpelier Schools 8 - 9 AM Toys for Tots 4 PM (multiday) Montpelier Elks Dinner Specials 5:30 - 8:30 PM Holiday Music in Cabot Friday 7 - 8 PM +7 more see less	12 Huge Ski Sale (multiday) Toy Swap! All Day Montpelier Memory Cafe Meets Dec. 12 All Day Holiday Concert All Day Destination Imagination Creativity Fair for Kids All Day Silent Auction All Day Barretones A Capella Barbershop Group Xmas Concernt Dec. 12 All Day Breakfast with Santa All Day Miracle on Granite Street All Day Crafternoon at Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery All Day Upland Bakers at the Jaquith Dec. 12 All Day Breakfast with Santa All Day Earthwalk Craft Party and Online Auction All Day Michael Arnowitt Piano at Bagitos All Day 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 Huge Ski Sale 9 AM (multiday) Bianchi Street Studio Holiday Pottery Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Holiday Book Sale at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library 10 AM Annual Earthwalk Craft Party Saturday! 1 - 4 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 Norwich University Winter Band Concert 4 - 5 PM Christmas Benefit Concert 6:45 - 8:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM +23 more see less
13 Sugarbush Discounted Passes & Lessons Still Available 12 - 5 PM Central VT SUR (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Upcoming Meeting 2 - 5 PM	14 Italian Study Group Dec. 14 All Day SHS Union District #41 Policy Committee Meeting All Day Playground Design Open House Dec. 14 All Day Come Hear About Design Ideas for Union's Playground! 5:30 - 7 PM Winter Walkabout: Solstice Dreaming at Kellogg Hubbard Library 5:45 - 7:45 PM Plainfield Selectboard Agenda/ Traffic Hearing Monday 7 PM +2 more see less	15 Twinfield Union School Board Dec. 15 6:30 - 8:30 PM	16 "The Other Side of Cannabis" Documentary Screening All Day "The Other Side of Cannabis" 6 - 8 PM	17 Soup & Sandwich Dec. 17 All Day Montpelier School Conversation All Day Morse Farm Ski Touring Giving Away Day Passes at SunCommon Pop-Up All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Free Ski Passes, Rum and Creamery Samples All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Crossroads BNI Presents: Laura Manfred of Inspire Massage 8 - 9:30 AM 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 No Tickets to Star Wars? Come See a Yiddish Movie Instead! 6:30 - 8:30 PM +7 more see less	18 Holiday Mixer! All Day Holiday Mixer in Downtown Barre! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman This Sunday 2 - 4 PM Annual Holiday Party at Fresh Tracks Farm 5:30 - 8:30 PM	19 Stories for a Winter's Eve All Day Patti Casey in Concert at Old Meeting House All Day Contradance All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Santa at the Library! All Day Onion River Chorus Dec. 19-20 All Day Origami Ornaments for All Ages 1 - 3 PM 12th Annual Polar Express Party 6:30 - 7:30 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 +8 more see less
20 Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Annual Carol Singalong Dec. 20 All Day Children's Christmas Party at American Legion All Day Francis Brooks to Speak at Barre Universalist 10 - 11 AM Found Lost Dog in Lower Cabot - Yours? 12 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Skating with Frosty the Snowman Sunday 2 - 4 PM +6 more see less	21 Emes Budget Deliberations and Forum 6 - 7 PM	22 Kabbalah and Psychology (multiday) Water/Wastewater Meeting Announcment and Agenda All Day Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra Tuesday 6:30 - 10:30 PM	23	24 Candlelight Christmas Eve Service All Day Candlelight Christmas Eve Service 6:30 - 7:30 PM Christmas Eve: One Week from Tonight! 7 PM Christmas Eve: One Week from Tonight! 7 PM	25	26 Come Dance to African Music All Day
27	28 Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra 6:30 - 10:30 PM Agenda Plainfield Selectboard Meeting Monday 7 - 9 PM	29 Dolphins and Whales of Bangladesh at Tenney Library! 6:30 PM	30 Networking Coffee Hour All Day Singing Circle for Health, Healing, and Hope 6 PM	31 Mens New Milwaukee Motorcycle Boots for Sale 12 AM - 11:30 PM Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ All Day Fireworks, Music and Magic Happening New Year's Eve All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ 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 Family Friendly New Year's Eve Dinner 5:30 - 8:30 PM Family New Year's Celebration 5:30 - 9 PM +6 more see less	1 Skate for the Cure Friday Night! 7 - 9 PM	2 The Odd Wednesdays at Sweet Melissa's in Montpelier All Day Bottle and Can Drive Saturday All Day Bottle and Can Drive to Support Youth Soccer 9 - 11 AM Roller Derby Here?! 5 - 6:30 PM Downtrodden by Prancer & Dancer? Fear You Won't Get a New Year's Kiss? 9 PM +1 more see less