Calendar - Front Porch Forum

April 2018

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1 Heartless (Heart/Zeppelin Experience) at Rusty Nail 9:30 PM (multiday) Comedy Night at Sweet Melissa's 6 - 7 PM Next Montpelier Community Song Circle April 1! 6 - 8 PM Awakening, Dance Performance by Manhong Kang Sunday 7:30 - 8:30 PM	2 Monthly Energy Committee Meeting Monday 7 - 8:30 PM	3 Vermont Family Network Conference 8 AM - 5 PM Slow Jam for Acoustic Musicians Tuesday 5:30 - 6:45 PM Resilience: Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope 6 - 7:30 PM Montpelier Gourmet Cooking - Japanese Potluck 6 - 7:30 PM Live Storytelling Workshop 6 - 8 PM Building Flourishing Communities 6 - 8 PM BCEMS PTO Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM Kathline Carr Reading: "Miraculum Monstrum" 7 - 8 PM Decolonizing Our Hearts and Minds, with Sherri Mitchell 7 - 9 PM +5 more see less	4 Senior Day: Shockwave Arts Collective 1:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Presentation 1:30 - 3 PM OLLI This Week 1:30 - 3 PM Gathering to Honor Martin Luther King 6 - 6:30 PM Aromatherapy 101 6 - 7:30 PM Montpelier Shambhala Open House Talk 6 - 7:30 PM Barre Town School Board Meeting 6 - 8 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) Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing VT Thursday: Central Vt Internet &More 9 - 10:30 AM Dancing with the Cannibal Giant Film 2:45 - 4 PM Spaulding High School Board 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) The Sound of Music at Spaulding High School 7:30 PM +9 more see less	6 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Friday in Burlington 5:30 PM	7 Barre Republicans Gather 8 AM "Vodka and Pancakes" This Saturday! 9 AM - 2 PM 2018 Vermont Scholastic Chess Championships 9 AM - 3 PM LEAP Energy Fair Saturday 9 AM - 3 PM Vintage Clothing Pop-Up Saturday! 10 AM - 2 PM Adamant Community Campfire! 10 AM - 4 PM Stone Cabin Clinic Spa Day and Raffle Fundraiser! 12 - 4 PM Tea Class at the North Branch Cafe Saturday 1 - 2 PM Spaulding Softball Fundraising 1 - 5 PM Carmina Burana 7:30 - 9 PM Come Dance at the Grange Hall Saturday Evening! 7:30 - 11 PM Contradance April 7 8 - 11 PM Contradance 8 - 11 PM +9 more see less
8 Program at Beth Jacob All Day 2nd Amendment March April 8 All Day Montpelier Antique Market 8 AM - 1 PM Introduction to Tea 1 - 3 PM Apple and Blueberry Pruning Workshop 1 - 3:30 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Plays Sunday 2 - 3:30 PM Music for an April Afternoon 2 - 4 PM GMYS Presents the Spring Concert! 2 - 5 PM Screenagers: Growing Up in a Digital Age 4 - 6 PM Screenagers - Growing Up in a Digital World 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 Program at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 8:30 PM "Timberdoodling" at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 8:30 PM Making Friends & Finding Community as an Adult 7 - 9 PM +12 more see less	9 LGBT Film to Be Shown April 9 All Day Free Tobacco Cessation Workshop Begins April 9 at CVMC 5 - 6 PM Barre City School Board Meeting 5:30 - 7:30 PM 30's and Under Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM	10 Come and Join Our Book Group All Day Hearthstone Fireside Gathering 5 - 8 PM Public Hearing - Regional Approval of City Master Plan 5:30 PM Community Conversation on Resilience & Trauma 6 - 8 PM Senior Center - Financial Foundations Workshop 7 - 8 PM Annual Open Poetry Reading 7 - 8:30 PM Emerald Ash Borer 7 PM +3 more see less	11 Trinity Community Thrift Store Annual Spring Sale All Day Union Elementary School Kindergarten Registration 9 AM (multiday) OLLI Presentation 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Film Series Begins 12:30 - 2:30 PM 350VT Study Group on Nonviolence Starts April 18 5:30 - 7 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 Cancer Support Group 6 - 8 PM School Start Times Forum at U-32 6 - 8 PM "How Can My Investments Reflect My Values?" 6:30 - 7:30 PM +7 more see less	12 Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Against Rights for Nature 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT Thu 9 am: Against Rights for Nature 9 - 10:30 AM Collective Goods Book Fair 9 AM - 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 Open House, Waldorf School Grades Prek - Grade 8 6:30 - 8 PM Learn Why OVWS Students Are So Happy to Come to School! 6:30 - 8 PM Orchard Valley Open House 6:30 - 8 PM Basketball Event April 12 - Free! Spaulding HS 6:30 - 9 PM Daniel Hecht Book Launch 7 - 8:30 PM Award Winning Film "No Place on Earth" in Montpelier 7 - 9 PM Holocaust Film "No Place on Earth" with Special Guest 7 - 9 PM Northern Forest Canoe Trail Film Fest in Burlington 7:30 PM +10 more see less	13 Wood Fired Pizza! 4 - 8 PM Greater Barre Democrats Annual Fundraiser 5:30 - 8:30 PM Yoga & Wine 6 - 8 PM	14 Amazing Moving Out Sale at 82 East Hill Road (multiday) Green Mountain Comic Exposition All Day Square & Contra Dance for All 7:30 - 10 AM Seeking Judges for 4-H Public Speaking Event! 8:30 AM - 12 PM Garage Sale Saturday 9 AM - 2 PM Garage Sale Saturday 9 AM - 2 PM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade and Play Saturday 9:30 - 11:30 AM Senator Sanders Holds Senior Town Meeting 9:30 AM Landscape Design for Pollinators with Jane Sorenson 10 AM - 12 PM Movies with Your Dog at Savoy 10:30 - 11:30 AM Knife Sharpening 12 - 4 PM Hands on Health the Maya Way with Kayla Becker 12 - 7 PM Nonviolent Direct Action Training 1 - 4 PM OMH Muddy Gras Variety Show! 7 - 9 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert 7 - 9 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert Saturday! 7 PM Square and Contra Dance 7:30 - 10:30 PM +14 more see less
15 Canceled: E. Montpelier Community Singalong April 15 All Day April 15 Living Room Conversation on Black Lives Matter 3 - 5 PM Showing Up for Racial Justice: Living Room Conversation 3 - 5 PM Community Singalong April 15, East Montpelier 6 - 8 PM	16 Chair Yoga in Berlin 10 - 11 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 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 Shambhala Cafe 5:30 - 7:30 PM EconoGirlfriends Conversation Group 6 - 8 PM Aging Successfully Conversation 6:30 - 8:30 PM Alison Prine and Bianca Stone: Poetry Reading 7 - 8 PM +4 more see less	18 Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting All Day OLLI Film This Week 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Presentation 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 +1 more see less	19 Steering Committee for Zoning All Day Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM 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 Third Thursday Talk 12 - 1 PM Powerful Tools for Caregivers at CVCOA Begins April 19! 1:30 - 3:30 PM Montpelier Death Cafe April Meeting 5:30 - 7 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 Life Drawing 7 - 9 PM Silent Sky Opens Lost Nation Theater's 2018 Season 7:30 PM Blue Fox and the Rockin Daddys at Mingle Nightclub 8 - 11 PM +10 more see less	20 Aldrich Library Book Sale and Raffle (multiday) Edward Curtis: a Man of Vision & Focus by Marna Murray 3 - 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 6 PM Spaghetti Dinner April 20 6 PM BASH (Big Arty Spa Happening) 7 - 9 PM Shambhala Meditation Center: Training Level IV Weekend 7 PM (multiday) Umlaut to Rock Plainfield PPie 8 - 10 PM +6 more see less	21 Green Mountain Mahler Performance! (multiday) WNRCD 2018 Annual Tree/Trout & Art Sale All Day Basic Obedience (Canine Variety) All Day Free Running Clinic April 21 - Berlin 8 AM - 12 PM Bethany Church Spring Auction 8 AM - 12 PM Celebrating Earth Day at the Co-Op! 8 AM - 8 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 Saturday Sale Indoors at First Presbyterian Church 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale Apr. 21 - W. County Road 9 AM - 2 PM Reiki Level One Certification Training 9 AM - 3:30 PM Open (Tea) House 11 AM (multiday) Choose Your Own Adventure Author Event (Barnes & Noble) 12 - 3 PM Dance with Fire: Yoga, Mediation and the Arts 3 - 6 PM Poetry Slam 3:30 - 5 PM Corn Hole Barre Elks 5 - 9 PM The Promise of Spring Saturday 7:30 - 9 PM Capital City Concert 7:30 - 9 PM Contradance Saturday-Adina Gordon & Cloud Ten! 7:30 - 11 PM Capital City Concert Saturday 7:30 PM Midori's Pianist Partner in Concert April 21! 7:30 PM Contradance 8 - 11 PM +19 more see less
22 Millstone Trails Association 1st Trail Day 2018 8 AM - 12 PM Open Studio - Imaginations in Metal 8 AM - 3 PM Young Adult Program at Shao Shan Temple 10 AM - 4 PM Tag Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Mutt Strutt Sunday: Calling All Dogs and Their Owners 10 AM Quarter Auction 12 - 4 PM Concert at Plainfield Opera House 4 PM Plainfield Opera House Presents: Many Faces of Mozart 4 PM The Many Faces of Mozart 4 PM +5 more see less	23 Plainfield Select Board Meeting April 23 All Day Not on Tobacco - Teen Quit Workshop 12:12 - 12:40 PM Free UVM Soccer Clinic 4 - 6 PM WCSU School Start Times Public Forum #3 5:30 - 7:30 PM Social Meditation in Montpelier 6:30 - 8:30 PM Capital Orchestra Presents a Spring Concert! 7:30 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	24 Free Backyard Compost Workshop 5:45 - 7:15 PM Gun Owners of Vermont Meeting 6 - 8 PM Latinite of Dancing in Bagitos: Tuesday! 7:30 - 9:30 PM	25 Sullivan Museum Presents "Sailor Almost Forgotten" 12 - 1:30 PM OLLI Film This Week 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Presentation 12:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Film: "The Edge of Heaven" 12:30 PM Sip & Solar at Three Penny 5 - 6:30 PM Sip and Solar at Three Penny 5 - 6:30 PM Williamstown Readers Group Discussion 6 - 7 PM Which Freedoms Are American, and Which Are Universal? 6 - 7:30 PM +4 more see less	26 Retribe Adult Healing Retreat in April (multiday) Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM 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 Come to "The Hobbit" 6:30 - 8 PM +5 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 MHS Debate Take-Out Dinner Fundraiser 3 - 7 PM Metaphysical Pop Up Shop 5 - 8 PM Keys to Kayaking 5:30 - 7:30 PM CBD Hemp 101 Cultivation Workshop 6 - 7:30 PM Program at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 9 PM Friday: Hidden Child of Holocaust to Speak 7 - 9 PM Holocaust Survivor to Speak of Hope, Friday 7 - 9 PM Hidden Child of Holocaust to Speak on Friday April 27 7 - 9 PM JJ Murphy Band Live at Stowe Cider 8 - 10 PM +9 more see less	28 Celebrate International Workers' Day (multiday) Don't Miss the Granite City Group Fitness 5K April 28 All Day World T'ai Chi Day April 28 All Day Tire Recycling Event 8 AM - 12 PM Yard Sale 8 AM - 2 PM Granite City Group Fitness 5K Run/Walk 9 AM - 12 PM Craft Show Hinesburg CVUHS 9 AM - 4 PM Introduction to Spinning 10 - 11 AM World T'ai Chi Day 10 - 11 AM Come & Play Open House at River Rock School 10 AM - 12 PM VSC Makes: Vermont State Colleges Craft and Hobby Fair 10 AM - 2 PM Spring Cleaning of Old Medications 10 AM - 2 PM National Prescription Drug Take Back Day 10 AM - 2 PM National Prescription Drug Take Back Day 10 AM - 2 PM Freeride Bike Sale April 28! 10 AM - 2 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 Vermont Virtuosi Presents Mainly Maurice 7:30 - 9 PM A Concert of Music from a Singing Country: Latvia 7:30 PM +18 more see less
29 Belsher and Wood Concert All Day Yard Sale Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM 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 Fiddlers Concert 3 - 6 PM Yoga for Spring Renewal and Gong Sound Bath 4 - 6 PM +3 more see less	30 Financial Fitness 4-Part Series Begins April 30 6 - 7:30 PM	1 Holocaust Educators' Workshop 8:30 AM - 4 PM Workers Rights Day May 1 10 AM - 6 PM Hearthstone Fireside Gathering 5 - 8 PM Indian Cuisine Potluck 6 - 7:45 PM BCEMS PTO May 1 2018 Agenda, Annual Meeting & Officers 6:30 - 7:30 PM Mudra Space Awareness: Practice of Going Beyond 6:30 - 8 PM Screwnomics Hometown Book Launch 7 - 8 PM +3 more see less	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 Waldorf School 8:30 - 10:30 AM Montpelier Shambhala Open House Talk 6 - 7:30 PM 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 +3 more see less	3 Open Ears at Capitol Grounds 8:30 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Money - Local Money! 9 - 10:30 AM Senior Medicare Patrol Program - Medicare Fraud 1:15 - 2:30 PM Campfire Sing-Along with Dov + Pizza! 5 - 7 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshops 6 - 7:30 PM Ven. Amy Miller Program 6 - 7:30 PM Crafters Edge Dinner Theater 6 - 9 PM Forum on Simple, Sustainable Living 6:30 - 8:30 PM Simple, Sustainable Living in Harmony with the Earth 6:30 - 8:30 PM Newbury Book Discussion Group 7 - 8 PM Self-Organization, Co-Evolution, Resiliency & Stability 7 - 8:30 PM Local Jazz at Parker Pie! 7:30 - 10:30 PM You Have the Touch of a Love-Starved Cobra! 7:30 PM (multiday) +10 more see less	4 Mayfest May 4-6 (multiday) Coffee with Co-op Council & General Manager 9 - 10 AM Fresh Start - Tobacco Quit Group 10:30 - 11:30 AM Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM The Front: Show 25 for Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Show 25 Opens at The Front During Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Art Opening at Montpelier Community Acupuncture! 4 - 8 PM Artsy Open House: Introducing the Workshop at Local 64! 5 - 8 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 Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 9 PM Date Correction: Literary Open Mic at Cafe Anna 7:30 - 9:30 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA at Barre Opera House 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 +14 more see less	5 Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Barn Sale All Day Twin Valley Senior Center Open House Art Show All Day Montpelier Kiwanis Club All You Can Eat Breakfast 7 - 11 AM Montpelier Kiwanis Club All You Can Eat Breakfast 7 - 11 AM Barre Republicans Meet 8:30 AM Montpelier Bike Swap is On! 9 AM - 12 PM Reminder: Green Up Day Marshfield 9 AM - 12 PM Capital City Farmers Market - Opening Day 9 AM - 1 PM Super Large Warehouse Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Day May 5 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Day, Save the Date 9 AM - 3 PM Green Up Montpelier 9 AM - 5 PM Barre City Cow Pasture Green Up Day 9:30 AM - 11:30 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza 10 AM - 4 PM Vermont Granite Museum Opening Day Extravaganza 10 AM - 4 PM Opening Day Extravaganza at the Vermont Granite Museum! 10 AM - 4 PM Tea Class at North Branch Cafe Saturday 1 - 2 PM 12th Annual People's Health & Wellness Bowl-A-Thon 1 - 3 PM 12th Annual Bowl-A-Thon! May 5! 1 - 3 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 Swing Dance Fundraiser for GMYS 6:45 - 9:30 PM Gospel Concerts 7 PM (multiday) Support Those with Cancer at the Vermont Comedy Club! 7 PM North Country Chorus Spring Concerts 7:30 PM (multiday) Contradance Saturday 8 - 8 PM Contradance 8 - 11 PM A Night of Comedy for a Cause! Make Lemonade! 8 PM Madman & Me Performs Saturday Night 9 PM (multiday) +27 more see less