Calendar - Front Porch Forum

May 2016

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1 North Country Chorus Concerts 7:30 PM (multiday) Last Hurrah @ Sterling College Sunday 4:30 AM Mothers Day Pottery Sale 9 AM - 5 PM Mother's Day Pottery Sale 10 AM - 5 PM North Country Chorus: Schubert and Forrest May 1 2 - 3:30 PM North Country Chorus Spring Concert 2 PM Fun Event 3 - 5 PM Community Conversation 3 - 5 PM Woodwind Concert May 1 3 PM Gamelan Concert in Plainfield 4 - 6 PM Javanese Gamelan Performance 4 - 6 PM Gamelan Concert 4 PM Gamelan Concert 4 PM +9 more see less	2 Payment of Wastewater and Water Fees 9 AM - 5 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! 6:30 - 8:30 PM Monthly Marshfield and Plainfield Energy Committee Meeting May 2 7 - 9 PM	3 "Just Eat It" Documentary May 3 6 - 8 PM Coloring Club for Adults and High School Students 6 - 8 PM Writers for Recovery Public Reading 7 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting May 3 7 - 9 PM Planning Commission Meeting and Agenda Tuesday, May 3 7 PM +1 more see less	4 Classic Film Night All Day Resilience Awareness and Action Project Kick-Off Meeting All Day Workshop: Traditional Herbalism in a Globalized World: Study of Cuba 6 - 8 PM Lamoille River Paddlers' Trail Community Social 6 PM Handwork.. in Hardwick This Month 6:30 - 8 PM Resilience Awareness and Action Project Kick-Off Meeting 6:30 PM Meeting for East Calais Church Roof 7 PM +3 more see less	5 Relocalizing Vermont: Yin & Yang of Climate Change; Bees 9 - 10:30 AM Osher(Olli) Lecture Series 1:30 - 3 PM Interfaith Devotional Gathering at NVRH Chapel 5:15 - 6:15 PM Free Screening of 'Dirt! the Movie' May 5 6 - 8:30 PM Free Screening of Dirt! the Movie 6 - 8:30 PM Hogbash at Onion River Campground 6 - 11 PM Re-Wilding Our Bodies - Somatic Movement Class This Thursday 6:30 - 8 PM Tolle Communty Solar Array 6:30 - 8:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Wood Turtle Conservation and Water Ecology 7 PM Wood Turtles in Vermont: Ecology and Conservation 7 PM +7 more see less	6 Wine Tasting Supports Cabot 8th Grade DC Trip May 6 All Day Working Landscape Network Gathering 5:30 - 7:30 PM Come to Greater Cabot Working Landscape Gathering Friday, May 6 5:30 - 7:30 PM Invitation to Greater Cabot Working Landscape Gathering 5:30 - 7:30 PM Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Come to the Gathering Friday and Network 5:30 - 7:30 PM Areal View of Cabot - a Working Landscape 5:30 - 7:30 PM Free Screening of the Film "Disobedience" 7 - 8:30 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers and Windrose Concert in St. Johnsbury May 6 7:30 PM +4 more see less	7 Cash Prize Bingo! Morrisville VFW Saturday, May 7 All Day Northeast Kingdom Wellness Expo All Day Iain Macharg Fundraiser Concert All Day Sue Minter at the Adamant Community Club All Day Browns Beautiful Blueberries Annual Mulching Party May 7 All Day GreenUp Day May 7 All Day Northeast Kingdom Wellness Expo (4th Annual) All Day Green Up Day All Day Climate Action Potluck & Movie at Maple Corner Community Center All Day Green Up Day May 7 All Day TVSC Plant and Yard Sale All Day Orchard Valley Waldorf School's Sweet 'N Savory Pie Breakfast 8:30 AM - 12 PM Barnet Celebrates Green Up Day 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM Boy Scout Bottle Drop 9 - 11 AM Green Up Day and Returnable Bottles & Cans 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day Plainfield! 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day This Saturday May 7 9 AM - 12 PM Green Up Day 9 AM - 1 PM Burke Bike Swap 9 AM - 1 PM Green Up Day Marshfield May 7 9 AM - 1 PM Green Up Day May 7 - Bags Available 9 AM - 2 PM Moving Sale 9 AM Yoga on State St 10 AM - 12 PM Spring into Sports! 10 AM - 2 PM Spring into Sports! 10 AM - 2 PM Adamant 20 Miler Run or Relay May 7 10 AM - 2 PM HitchFestVT Wedding Show May 7 10 AM - 3 PM Plant Spirit Yoga Series 10:30 AM - 12 PM 10th Annual People's Health & Wellness Clinic Bowl-A-Thon 1 - 3 PM Open House at Grange Hall 3 - 6 PM Sue Minter at Adamant Community Club May 7 4:30 - 5:30 PM Celebrate Green Up Day with Potluck and Movie 6 PM Pumpkin Hill Singers and Windrose Concert in Danville May 7 7:30 PM Professor Fairbanks at the Music Box 8 - 10 PM Peter Miller Fiddlin' at Music Box Saturday 8 PM +31 more see less
8 Mother's Day Wildflower Walk All Day Yard Sale This Weekend Under the Big Tent! 8 AM - 2 PM 90th Birthday Open House for Joyce Bean May 8 1 - 4 PM	9 Vermont Community Garden Network Workshop 4 - 7 PM Vermont Community Garden Network Workshop 4 - 7 PM Paving Back Street Behind the East Calais Store? 5:30 - 6 PM Public Hearing on Back Street Improvements 5:30 PM Selectboard Special Meeting Agenda 5:30 PM Special Board Meeting - Act 46 6 - 8 PM Selectboard Meeting Agenda - Monday 7 PM +3 more see less	10 Twinfield Union School Board Meeting May 10 All Day Reminder: St. J Water & Sewer Bond Vote Tuesday 10 AM - 7 PM St. J Water and Sewer Bond Vote Tuesday 10 AM - 7 PM St. Johnsbury Bond Vote May 10 10 AM - 7 PM St. J Water and Sewer Bond Vote May 10 10 AM - 7 PM CES Spring Concert & Art Show 6 - 8 PM DART 2.0; Dealing with Substance Abuse 6 - 8 PM +3 more see less	11 Wonder & Wisdom Visits Birds of Vermont Museum 10 AM - 3:30 PM Pacem School Open House 4:30 - 6:30 PM Plant Walk Wednesday, May 11 5 - 6:30 PM WCSU Act 46 Study Committee Meeting 6 - 9 PM Restorative Justice: Concept and Application in Caledonia County 7 - 8:30 PM Planning Meeting for Sheffield Field Day 7 PM +2 more see less	12 Rock City! in Concert All Day Relocalizing: Humane Meat Eating; Vermonters as Tribe 9 - 10:30 AM Plainfield Area Business Alliance Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Plainfield Area Business Alliance Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Plainfield Area Business Alliance Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM International ME/CFS/Lyme Disease Awareness Day May 12 7 - 8 PM +2 more see less	13 "Cracking the Codes: the System of Racial Inequality" Film May 13 1 - 4 PM Maplehill School 3rd Annual Student Art Show 5 - 7 PM Climate Change: Compassionate Response 6:30 - 8:30 PM Tradd Cotter to Present at Sterling College on Fungal Solutions 7 - 9:30 PM Sara Grace at Whammy Bar Friday, May 13! 7:30 PM +1 more see less	14 Jimmy Kennedy Breakfast and Silent Auction Fundraiser May 14 8 - 10 AM Jimmy Kennedy Breakfast and Silent Auction Fundraiser May 14 8 - 10 AM East Calais Church Yard Sale 8 AM - 2 PM Boater Safety Course 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Solo Wilderness First Aid Class 8:30 AM (multiday) Porch Sale - Lots of Good Items 9 AM - 2 PM Clay Class May 14 2 - 4 PM Dinner, Movie & Wine Tasting This Saturday in Maple Corner 4:30 PM "Big Night" Italian Dinner & Movie 5 - 7 PM Italian Dinner in Maple Corner 5:30 - 7:30 PM Cabot Contra and Square Dance This Saturday! 7:30 PM Jory Nash at House Concert in Plainfield, Saturday! 7:30 PM Funky Jams May 14! 9 PM Cabot Contra Dance 11:30 PM +10 more see less
15 Miller's Thumb Gallery Opens for 6th Season in Greensboro! All Day Spring Bird Walk in Woodbury 8 - 10 AM Willow Moon Farm Open Farm Day 11 AM - 2 PM Kingdom Animal Shelter's Quince De Meow 1 - 3 PM Cabot Arts Show and Tell Sunday, May 15 3 PM Community Singalong Sunday, May 15 6 - 8 PM +2 more see less	16 Water/Wastewater Meeting Announcment and Agenda 5 - 6:30 PM Acoustic Music Night at Plainfield Opera House May 16 7 - 9 PM Acoustic Music Night at the Plainfield Opera House 7 - 9 PM Acoustic Music Night at Plainfield Opera House 7 - 9:30 PM	17 Choosing Bookkeeping System That's Right for Your Business 9 AM - 12 PM St. Johnsbury Walk to End Alzheimer's Kick-Off Event 5 PM Matt Dunne in Adamant Tuesday, May 17 7 - 8:30 PM Greater Cabot Working Landscape Network Meet Tuesday 7 - 8:30 PM Author of Organic Revolutionary at Jeudevine Library 7 - 8:30 PM +1 more see less	18 Presentation on Energy Eff. and Environmentally Compatible Buildings All Day Blood Drive at U32 8 AM - 1 PM Road Closing for Culvert Replacement - VT 215 South 9 AM - 1 PM Community Night Meal at Bluebird BBQ Supporting Vermont Midwives 4:30 - 10 PM Talk with Peter Gould! 5 - 6 PM U.S. Flag Presentation to Hazen Union High School 7 - 8:30 PM Energy Efficient and Environmentally Compatible Building Designs 7 - 8:30 PM Energy Committee Presentation by Patrick Kane 8:30 - 9:30 PM +4 more see less	19 Relocalizing VT May19: Carbon in Soil & Money; Faith and Resilience 9 - 10:30 AM CES Board Meeting May 19 6 - 8:30 PM 2016 Planning Commission Forum on Zoning and Rural Character 6 PM 2016 Forum on Zoning and Rural Character 6 PM Hazard Mitigation Committee - Plainfield - Thursday 6 PM +1 more see less	20 Limes at Goddard's Haybarn Theatre 7 - 9 AM Indoor Yard and Bake Sale at Wolcott United Methodist Church 9 AM - 4 PM Plant and Book Sale - Friends of Cutler Memorial Library 9 AM (multiday) Plainfield Clothing Drop and Swap 9 AM Bingo Night! 6 - 8 PM "Bird Conservation in the Working Landscape" at Sterling College 7 - 8:30 PM Limes at Goddard Haybarn 7 - 10 PM The Limes in Concert May 20 7 - 10 PM Friday Night Concert Northern Harmony Back from Europe 7:30 - 9 PM Harmonies of Home Concert May 20 7:30 - 10 PM +6 more see less	21 Dinner and Show! All Day Yard Sale 8 AM - 4 PM Trails Committee Meeting & Walk 9 - 11 AM Boy Scout Bottle Drop 9 - 11 AM Got Plants? Annual Library Plant Sale is Coming! 9 AM - 1 PM Library Sale Saturday May 21 9 AM - 1 PM Car Seat Recycling & ARCC Open House May 21 9 AM - 1 PM Camp Ta Kum Ta Fund Raiser 9 AM - 3 PM Trunk Show Sale May 21 9 AM - 5 PM Work Party Weekend at Circus Smirkus 9 AM (multiday) Smirkus Camp Work Party Weekend - Volunteers Needed! 9 AM (multiday) Circus Smirkus: Work Party Weekend! 9 AM (multiday) Free Personal Divestment Workshop 10 AM - 12 PM Car Wash Fundraiser 10 AM - 1 PM Free Event - Twig Furniture and Picture Frame 10 AM - 1 PM Community Garden Day Saturday at Maplehill Community Farm 10 AM - 1 PM Mentoring Program Car Wash Fundraiser This Saturday! 10 AM - 1 PM Trustees Having a Book Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Friends and Neighbors Organic Farm-Plant Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Clay Class Saturday 2 - 4 PM Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugees in Vermont 3 PM Chicken Barbecue Dinner Saturday, May 21 5:30 - 7 PM Chicken Barbecue Dinner Saturday, May 21 5:30 - 7 PM Free Community Dinner Featuring Mark Shelton 5:30 PM Free Community Casserole Dinner May 21 5:30 PM Garden Pro Henry Homeyer Visits Davies Library 6:30 - 8 PM Michael Arnowitt Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugees May 21, 22 7:30 PM Bob & Sarah Amos Concert 7:30 PM Electrolads Performing at Goddard College 8 PM (multiday) +25 more see less
22 Free Jazz Concert in Lyndonville All Day Orchard Valley Waldorf School's Spring Gala & Silent All Day Bird Walk with Dave Brown May 22 7 AM Moving Sale 9 AM - 4 PM High Ledge Farm Plant Sale 10 AM - 2 PM Presenting: Syrian Poet Osama Alomar 10:30 AM - 12 PM Furniture and Kitchen Wares 11 AM - 4 PM Free Jazz Concert Sunday! 2 - 4 PM Fresh Tea 2016 2 - 4 PM Wonderful Free Music Concert! 2 - 4 PM Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugees 3 PM Michael Arnowitt Benefit Concert for Syrian Refugees May 21 and 22 3 PM Blaze a Trail with Outdoors Writer Gary Moore 4 - 6 PM Orchard Valley Waldorf School's Spring Gala & Silent Auction 5 - 8 PM 2 Spring Concerts - Montpelier Community Gospel Choir 7 - 9 PM +11 more see less	23 School/Community Task Force Meeting All Day Peacham School-Community Spring Concert 6 PM Board of Civil Authority Meeting 6:45 PM Selectboard Meeting May 23 7 PM Street Sweeping - No Parking in Village Monday Evening, May 23 9 PM (multiday) +1 more see less	24 Meat Lasagna Dinner (Open to Public) Tuesday, May 24 5 - 7 PM Senior and Select Chorus Recital 6:30 - 8 PM Important Voice from Syria in St. Johnsbury 7 - 8:30 PM Ruth Reichl to Present My Kitchen Year at Sterling College 7 - 8:30 PM Genealogy Workshop with Alana Considine at Jeudevine Library 7 - 8:30 PM Rachel Ries at Plainfield Opera House May 24 7:30 PM +2 more see less	25 Passumpsic River All Day Special Joint Meeting Agenda - Selectboard and Conservation Commission 5 PM Marshfield Village State Designation? 5:45 PM Summersville Neighborhood Meeting - Preparing for Block Party 6 - 7:30 PM CES Board Meeting May 25 6 - 7:30 PM "Wolcott Follies" 6:30 PM Passumpsic River Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Calais Cemetery Commissioner's Meeting May 25 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	26 Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon All Day East Calais Village Revitalization Committee Meeting 6 - 7 PM Coloring Program Cancelled 6 - 8 PM "Colorama" May 26 6 - 8 PM "The Armor of Light" Let's Talk Film and Conversation 6:30 - 8:30 PM Peter Galbraith at Adamant Community Club This Thursday 7 - 8:30 PM Candidate Forum - Peter Galbraith in Adamant 7 - 8:30 PM Ray Walker Concert at Fuller Hall 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	27 Ice Cream Social May 27 3:30 - 4:30 PM Sue Minter in Craftsbury May 27 4 - 5:30 PM Didi Pershouse to Speak at Willey Building May 27 5:30 - 7:30 PM Ultimate Frisbee 6 - 8 PM Inaugural Biergarten at Onion River Campground! 6 - 9 PM +1 more see less	28 Greenwood Pottery Open May 28 and 29 (multiday) Muti Family Yard Sale/Moving Sale (multiday) Yard Sale All Day 'Put It on the Roof' at ECGS and Save Calais Church Roof 6 AM (multiday) 'Put It on the Roof' ECGS Event to Fix Church Roof 6 AM (multiday) John Larouche Jazz Quartet at East Calais Rec Center May 28 7 - 9:30 AM NBNC BirdFest Saturday, May 28 7 AM - 1:30 PM Yard Sale Saturday and Sunday 7 AM (multiday) Yard Sale to Benefit the Art House! 8 AM - 3 PM Hardwick Spring Festival Run Moves to the Trails! 8:30 - 11:30 AM Medicinal Plant Sale Saturday, May 28 8:30 AM - 3 PM Garage Sale Saturday, Rain or Shine 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Calais Garage Sale, Rain or Shine 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Hardwick Spring Festival Fun Run 8:30 AM Boy Scout Bottle Drop 9 - 11 AM Bake Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Plant Sale to Benefit Good Living Senior Center 9 AM - 12 PM Plant Sale: Perennials, Annuals, Vegie Starts 9 AM - 12 PM Food Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Plant Sale at Doty May 28 9 AM - 1 PM Jeudevine Library Book & Bake Sale - Spring Festival May 28 9 AM - 2 PM Yard Sale 294 Creek Road Craftsbury 9 AM - 3 PM Yard Sale May 28 9 AM - 3 PM Garage Sale Saturday, May 28 9 AM - 3 PM Garage Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Yard Sales This Weekend 9 AM (multiday) Yard Sale North Danville Village Memorial Day Weekend 9 AM (multiday) Lawn Sale 9 AM (multiday) Craftsbury Farmers' Market Opening Day May 28 10 AM - 1 PM Friends and Neighbors Organic Farm Plant Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Open Studio Visits 10 AM (multiday) Vermont Craft Council Open Studio Weekend 10 AM (multiday) Open Studio This Weekend - Artists at Work 10 AM (multiday) Buck Lake Camp Ribbon Cutting 10 AM Clay Class - Expression and Proportion 2 - 4 PM The Snow Queen Play 2 PM "The Ethnic Restaurateur" Presentation at Sterling College 7 - 8:30 PM "The Ethnic Restaurateur" at Sterling College 7 - 8:30 PM +34 more see less
29 Yard Sale - Moving (multiday) Volunteer Firemen Pancake Breakfast Sunday 7 - 11 AM Yard Sales 8 AM - 5 PM High Ledge Farm Plant Sale 9 AM - 2 PM	30 Book, Bake and Plant Sale 9 AM - 1 PM St. Johnsbury Memorial Day Observance 10 - 11 AM Labyrinth Sacred Sing 7:30 PM	31 Montpelier Gubernatorial Candidates Panel 6 - 8 PM Kummer and Severson: "The Long & the Short of It" at Sterling College 7 - 8:30 PM	1 Modern Times Theater to Perform at Library All Day Conservation Commission Meeting Agenda All Day Summer Bike Club Information Meeting 5 - 6:30 PM Woodbury Elementary School Celebration of Learning and Concert 5:30 PM Handwork in Greensboro Wednesday Evening 6:30 - 8 PM Plainfield Resilience Awareness Project Meeting Wednesday, June 1 6:30 PM +2 more see less	2 2016-2017 Incoming Kindergarten Meet & Greet 8 - 9:15 AM Relocalizing Vermont Thursday: Designing Abundance in Landscape 9 - 10:30 AM Book Signing and Reading June 2 11 AM - 1 PM TUS Community BBQ and Student Showcase 5 - 6:30 PM Interfaith Devotional Gathering at NVRH Chapel 5:15 - 6 PM Film & Discussion: Made in Dagenham, June 2 5:30 - 7:30 PM Bill "Spaceman" Lee at Headwaters 5:30 - 8 PM ECRC Meeting Thursday, June 2 6 PM Film and Discussion About Climate Change at Jaquith 7 PM +5 more see less	3 Aladdin Kids June 3 & 4 (multiday) Yard Sale Friday and Saturday (multiday) Rummage Sale Unitarian Church of Montpelier Friday and Saturday 9 AM - 6 PM “Environmental Stewardship and Food Writing” Panel at Sterling College 4 - 5:30 PM Rock & Roll Picture Show! 6 - 8 PM Rock & Roll Picture Show! New Paintings by Matt Bassett 6 - 8 PM Family Fun Movie Night 6:30 - 9 PM Family Fun Movie Night 6:30 - 9 PM +4 more see less	4 Northern Rivers Land Trust Hike All Day Adamant Blackfly Festival June 4 All Day Potluck at Grange All Day Bake Sale, Bottle Drive, and Household Items for Sale 9 AM - 12 PM Volunteer for National Trails Day on Town-Owned Railbed Trail 9 AM - 12 PM Paint, Batteries and Fluorescent Bulb Special Solid Waste Collection 9 AM - 1 PM Great Weather, Great Festival Saturday 9 AM - 4 PM Yard Sale Sat-Sun 9 AM - 5 PM Weekend Getaway, Apple Trees, More at Blackfly Festival Online Auction 9 AM - 5 PM Labor of Love at Dog Mountain! June 4 9 AM (multiday) CVHS Walk for Animals 2016 9:30 AM - 12 PM Last Weekend for Blackfly Auction On-Line Bidding 11 AM - 4 PM Clay Class - Hathor the Cow-Eared Goddess Saturday 2-4 pm 2 - 4 PM Beer, Brats & Bluegrass Festival Saturday, June 4 3 - 7 PM Beer, Brats and Bluegrass BBQ at Black Bear Biodiesel June 4 3 - 7 PM Beatles Night at Whammy Bar 7:30 PM +12 more see less