Calendar - Front Porch Forum

April 2018

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1 Holy Week Worship Schedule (multiday) Heartless (Heart/Zeppelin Experience) at Rusty Nail 9:30 PM (multiday) Easter Festivities at Mad River Glen 7 AM - 3 PM Easter Services 10 - 11 AM Comedy Night at Sweet Melissa's 6 - 7 PM Next Montpelier Community Song Circle April 1! 6 - 8 PM +2 more see less	2 Waterbury Community Yoga Class 6:30 - 7:30 PM	3 Vermont Family Network Conference 8 AM - 5 PM Slow Jam for Acoustic Musicians Tuesday 5:30 - 6:45 PM Montpelier Gourmet Cooking - Japanese Potluck 6 - 7:30 PM Resilience: Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope 6 - 7:30 PM Live Storytelling Workshop 6 - 8 PM Cesarean Birth Support Meet Up 6 - 8 PM BCEMS PTO Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM College Fair at U-32 6:30 - 8:30 PM Kathline Carr Reading: "Miraculum Monstrum" 7 - 8 PM Fake News! and How to Spot It: News in the Print Age 7 - 8:30 PM Fake News! and How to Spot It: News in the Print Age 7 - 8:30 PM +7 more see less	4 Italian Study Group at IDEAS All Day Senior Day: Shockwave Arts Collective 1:30 - 2:30 PM Gathering to Honor Martin Luther King 6 - 6:30 PM Montpelier Shambhala Open House Talk 6 - 7:30 PM Aromatherapy 101 6 - 7:30 PM Barre Town School Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM +2 more see less	5 MOPS/Mops Next Moms' Group All Day Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM Spaulding High School Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Webinar on Development 7 - 8:30 PM Extempo Story Telling at Bridgeside Books 7:30 - 10 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 +4 more see less	6 Double Exposure 5 - 6:30 PM Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Friday in Burlington 5:30 PM Open Mic Contest! 6:30 - 10 PM	7 50% Off Sale at Paul's Antiques 8 AM - 3 PM Barre Republicans Gather 8 AM LEAP Energy Fair Saturday 9 AM - 3 PM 2018 Vermont Scholastic Chess Championships 9 AM - 3 PM Waterbury LEAP Energy Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Save the Date for the Largest Energy Fair in Vermont! 9 AM - 3 PM Estate Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Vintage Clothing Pop-Up Saturday! 10 AM - 2 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 Meet Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Pelkey at UVM 1 PM Vermonte Carlo Luau Party 7 - 11:30 PM Carmina Burana 7:30 - 9 PM Come Dance at the Grange Hall Saturday Evening! 7:30 - 11 PM Solaris Concert Saturday! 7:30 PM Contradance 8 - 11 PM Live Music April 7 9 PM (multiday) Saturday Yoga Dance! 10:30 - 11:30 PM +15 more see less
8 Program at Beth Jacob All Day 2nd Amendment March April 8 All Day Montpelier Antique Market 8 AM - 1 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 Green Mountain Youth Symphony Concert 2 - 5 PM Pasta with Pipsqueaks 3 - 5 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 "Timberdoodling" at North Branch Nature Center 7 - 8:30 PM Making Friends & Finding Community as an Adult 7 - 9 PM +10 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 Why and What is My Teen Vaping? 6 - 7:30 PM Waterbury Community Yoga Class 6:30 - 7:30 PM +1 more see less	10 Come and Join Our Book Group All Day Special Mountain Gardeners Presentation Open to Public 1 - 2:30 PM 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 Making the Most of Our Town Forest - Lessons Learned 6:30 - 8 PM Senior Center - Financial Foundations Workshop 7 - 8 PM Fake News and How to Spot It: in the Digital Age 7 - 8:30 PM Annual Open Poetry Reading 7 - 8:30 PM +5 more see less	11 Trinity Community Thrift Store Annual Spring Sale All Day Union Elementary School Kindergarten Registration 9 AM (multiday) Lularoe Moretown Mingle "Fundraiser" 3 - 5:30 PM 350VT Study Group on Nonviolence Starts April 18 5:30 - 7 PM Civil War, Gettysburg, and American Values Discussion 6 - 7:30 PM Cancer Support Group 6 - 8 PM "How Can My Investments Reflect My Values?" 6:30 - 7:30 PM Reggio Night at Spring Hill School 7 - 8:30 PM +4 more see less	12 Moretown Memorial Library Meeting All Day Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM Collective Goods Book Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Paul Foxman Speaking on Anxiety and "The Worried Child" 6 - 8 PM Dr. Paul Foxman – Anxiety in Children and Teens 6 - 8 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 Basketball Event April 12 - Free! Spaulding HS 6:30 - 9 PM Daniel Hecht Book Launch 7 - 8:30 PM Holocaust Film "No Place on Earth" with Special Guest 7 - 9 PM Funk Shui at Zenbarn April 12 9 PM +8 more see less	13 Reminder Gun Owners of Vermont All Day Vermont Commons School Hosts Open Classroom 9 - 11:30 AM Wood Fired Pizza! 4 - 8 PM American Flatbread Benefit Bake for Joslin Library 5 - 9:30 PM Greater Barre Democrats Annual Fundraiser 5:30 - 8:30 PM Sip n' Paint Friday 6:30 - 8:30 PM Shamanic Sound Bath 7 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	14 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 Intro to Greenhouse Design & Construction 9 AM (multiday) 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 Landscape Design for Pollinators with Jane Sorenson 10 AM - 12 PM Movies with Your Dog at Savoy 10:30 - 11:30 AM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert 7 - 9 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert Saturday! 7 PM +8 more see less
15 April 15 Living Room Conversation on Black Lives Matter 3 - 5 PM	16 Chair Yoga in Berlin 10 - 11 AM	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 Alison Prine and Bianca Stone: Poetry Reading 7 - 8 PM +3 more see less	18 Cocoa and Canvas for Kids Wednesday 9 AM - 12 PM Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM Public Welcome to Granite City Grocery Annual Meeting 5 - 8 PM	19 MOPS/Mops Next Moms' Group All Day Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM 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 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 +6 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 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) +4 more see less	21 Green Mountain Mahler Performance! (multiday) WNRCD 2018 Annual Tree/Trout & Art Sale All Day Zero Energy Modular Home Visiting Waitsfield All Day Saturday Breakfast - Harwood Scholarships Masons Lodge 8 - 11 AM 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 Moving Sale - April 21/22 at Lewis Farmhouse 8 AM (multiday) 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 Civil War Forum 10 AM - 3 PM Choose Your Own Adventure Author Event (Barnes & Noble) 12 - 3 PM 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 Midori's Pianist Partner in Concert April 21! 7:30 PM Contradance 8 - 11 PM +21 more see less
22 Millstone Trails Association 1st Trail Day 2018 8 AM - 12 PM Open Studio - Imaginations in Metal 8 AM - 3 PM Central Vermont Runners Mutt Strut Sunday 10 AM - 1 PM Young Adult Program at Shao Shan Temple 10 AM - 4 PM Tag Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Mutt Strutt: Sunday 10 AM Mutt Strutt Sunday: Calling All Dogs and Their Owners 10 AM Quarter Auction 12 - 4 PM Concert at Plainfield Opera House 4 PM The Many Faces of Mozart 4 PM +6 more see less	23 St Jordi's Day Celebration: Roses, Romance + Books 9:30 AM - 6 PM Not on Tobacco - Teen Quit Workshop 12:12 - 12:40 PM Free UVM Soccer Clinic 4 - 6 PM Capital Orchestra Presents a Spring Concert! 7:30 - 8:30 PM Science Evening at Ideas April 23 7:30 - 9:30 PM +1 more see less	24 Fayston Land Use Regulations Revisions - Urgent Meeting! All Day Let Your Yoga Dance Earth Day Dance! 12 - 1 PM 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 +1 more see less	25 Sullivan Museum Presents "Sailor Almost Forgotten" 12 - 1:30 PM OLLI Film: "The Edge of Heaven" 12:30 PM Solid Color Mingle Jingle at Moretown 3 - 5:30 PM Sip & 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 +2 more see less	26 Socrates Cafe & Celebration of Harwood Community All Day Open Ears at Open Hands 8:30 - 9:30 AM Grief and Loss Groups for Children and Teens April 26 4 - 5:30 PM Essential Oils and Your Family 5:30 - 6:30 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshop 6 - 7:30 PM Come to "The Hobbit" 6:30 - 8 PM +2 more see less	27 Poetry in Barre at Aldrich April 27 All Day Veggievango Mobile Food Pantry at Cvmc April 27 9 - 11 AM MHS Debate Take-Out Dinner Fundraiser 3 - 7 PM Metaphysical Pop Up Shop 5 - 8 PM Mad River Valley Ambulance Flatbread Benefit Bake 5 - 9:30 PM Keys to Kayaking 5:30 - 7:30 PM CBD Hemp 101 Cultivation Workshop 6 - 7:30 PM Holocaust Survivor to Speak of Hope, Friday 7 - 9 PM JJ Murphy Band Live at Stowe Cider 8 - 10 PM +5 more see less	28 Tent Sale and Wine Tasting at Warren Store This Weekend (multiday) Celebrate International Workers' Day (multiday) World T'ai Chi Day April 28 All Day Don't Miss the Granite City Group Fitness 5K April 28 All Day Yard Sale 8 AM - 2 PM Moving Sale 8 AM (multiday) Granite City Group Fitness 5K Run/Walk 9 AM - 12 PM 3rd Annual Blueberry Work Day 9 AM - 1 PM The Barn Gym Having Open House! 9 AM - 1:30 PM Come to the Open House at the Barn Gym! 9 AM - 3:30 PM Craft Show Hinesburg CVUHS 9 AM - 4 PM Introduction to Spinning 10 - 11 AM World T'ai Chi Day 10 - 11 AM TEDxYouth: Harwood Union High School 10 AM - 12 PM Come & Play Open House at River Rock School 10 AM - 12 PM Freeride Bike Sale April 28! 10 AM - 2 PM National Prescription Drug Take Back Day 10 AM - 2 PM National Prescription Drug Take Back Day 10 AM - 2 PM VSC Makes: Vermont State Colleges Craft and Hobby Fair 10 AM - 2 PM Puppet Show This Weekend! 10:30 AM Cub Scout Pack 717 Cake Auction 1:30 - 2:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 717 Cake Auction 1:30 - 2:30 PM Maddog Chapter Trout Unlimited Annual Banquet 5 - 8:30 PM Vermont Virtuosi Presents Mainly Maurice 7:30 - 9 PM +20 more see less
29 Music Makes Miracles! All Day Belsher and Wood Concert All Day Yard Sale Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM Simplify Your Spring Cleaning and Eliminate Toxins! 2 - 3 PM Wood and Belsher Return to Central Vermont Sunday 3 - 5 PM Fiddlers Concert 3 - 6 PM Silent Auction and Media Showcase for Rwandan School 4 - 6 PM Yoga for Spring Renewal and Gong Sound Bath 4 - 6 PM Massage Class - Registration Now Open 6:30 - 8:30 PM +5 more see less	30 Blood Drive at Moretown School 11 AM - 4 PM 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 Sharps Community Forum - Rescheduled for May 2 6 - 7:30 PM Montpelier Shambhala Open House Talk 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on Safe Sharps Disposal 6 - 7:30 PM +3 more see less	3 MOPS/MomsNext Group All Day Open Ears at Capitol Grounds 8:30 - 9:30 AM Vermont Arbor Day Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Vermont Arbor Day Conference 8:30 AM - 4 PM Current Classes at Ideas 10 AM - 11 PM Senior Medicare Patrol Program - Medicare Fraud 1:15 - 2:30 PM Campfire Sing-Along with Dov + Pizza! 5 - 7 PM Meet the Author: Hannah Howard 6 - 7 PM Ven. Amy Miller Program 6 - 7:30 PM Free Business Building Blocks Workshops 6 - 7:30 PM Crafters Edge Dinner Theater 6 - 9 PM Simple, Sustainable Living in Harmony with the Earth 6:30 - 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 Moving Sale 9 AM - 5 PM Moving Sale 9 AM (multiday) Square Dance 2 - 3:30 PM Art Opening at Montpelier Community Acupuncture! 4 - 8 PM Show 25 Opens at The Front During Art Walk 4 - 8 PM The Front: Show 25 for Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Artsy Open House: Introducing the Workshop at Local 64! 5 - 8 PM Person of the Year Dinner - 1824 House 5:30 PM Sound Bath 6 - 7:30 PM Cider and Cheese 6 - 8 PM Johnson State College Concert Band, Chorale & Chambers 7 - 8:30 PM Age Out Loud 7 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA May 4 at the Barre Opera House 7:30 - 9 PM Funny Benefit for CVCOA at Barre Opera House 7:30 - 9:30 PM Date Correction: Literary Open Mic at Cafe Anna 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 +16 more see less	5 Green Up Day - Saturday, May 5 All Day Birding by Ear in Mad River Valley (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Authentic Ethiopian Pop Up Dinner All Day Barn Sale All Day Green Up May 5 All Day Montpelier Kiwanis Club All You Can Eat Breakfast 7 - 11 AM Mad River Chorale Spring Concert 7:30 AM - 9 PM Barre Republicans Meet 8:30 AM CPR Class Offered at MRVAS 9 AM - 12 PM Montpelier Bike Swap is On! 9 AM - 12 PM Capital City Farmers Market - Opening Day 9 AM - 1 PM Little League Opening Day Saturday 9 AM - 2:30 PM Green Up Montpelier 9 AM - 5 PM Green Up Day 9 AM - 6 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 Morefest Cinco De Mayo 12 - 6 PM Cinco De Mayo Dinner and Silent Auction 12 - 6 PM Tea Class at North Branch Cafe Saturday 1 - 2 PM Birding by Ear from the Library and the Mad Birders 4 - 5:30 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 Great Play at Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier 7:30 - 9:30 PM 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) +30 more see less