Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2024

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1 Cats Eye Pottery Holiday Sale 12 AM (multiday) Help the Mitzvah Fund Care for Pets with Painful Teeth 12 AM (multiday) 12th Annual Old Labor Hall Craft Show! 9 AM (multiday) Plainfield Winter Market 11 AM - 3 PM Birch Bark Birds and Stars Workshop 1 - 5 PM “A Christmas Carol” Community Reading 2:30 - 4 PM Holiday Sing-Along at the Grange! 2:30 - 4:30 PM Holiday Sing-Along - Dec. 1 at The Montpelier Grange 2:30 - 4:30 PM Holiday Sing-Along at The Capital City Grange 2:30 - 4:30 PM Holiday Sing-Along - a Free, Family-Friendly Event 2:30 - 4:30 PM Christmas Caroling at Chandler 4 - 5 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Evening Meditation Circle-Barre UU 6 - 7 PM Zen Meditation Circle at Barre Universalist Church 6 - 7 PM +10 more see less	2 Dignity of Risk Training for Disability Professionals 10 - 11:30 AM Light Up the Library Opening! 3 - 5 PM East Valley Community Group Monthly Meeting 5:30 - 7:30 PM Plainfield Select Board Special and Budget Meeting 6 - 7:30 PM Plainfield Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7 - 8 PM +1 more see less	3 The Heart That Grew Three Sizes Bible Study Group All Day Free Veterinary Clinic for Older Adults All Day CVCOA and Mitzvah Fund Veterinary Clinic 9 AM - 4 PM Free Monthly Somatic Pop-Up Clinic 10 AM - 4 PM Strengthen Your Immunity with Eden Energy Medicine! 5 - 6 PM Meetup for Women, Trans and Non-Binary Tradespeople 5 - 7 PM “A Chance to Meet” 5:30 - 8 PM +3 more see less	4 Tai Chi & Qigong Classes – Fall Semester in Montpelier 10 AM - 1 PM Homeschool Meetup at Groton Library 11 AM - 12:30 PM Senior Day Dec. 4 1:30 - 2:30 PM Central VT Olli and Rick Winston Film Program 1:30 - 3 PM Rick Winston on Chinese Films 1:30 - 3:30 PM NCF Kids Club 3 - 5:15 PM Healing Arts Group 5 - 6:30 PM Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle Class 6:30 - 7:45 PM Summit School's Intermediate Old Time Fiddle Classes 6:30 - 7:45 PM MRPS School Board Meeting Dec. 4 6:30 - 8:30 PM Card and Game Night Dec. 4 7 - 8:30 PM +7 more see less	5 Giving Tree All Day Storytime & Playgroup at the Groton Library 11 AM - 12:30 PM Upcoming Vermont Land Trust Online Events 11 AM Come Join Us for French Conversation 12 - 1 PM Medicare Part D Open Enrollment Workshops 1 - 2:30 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM ✨Craft Night! North Branch Cafe✨ 4:30 - 7 PM Corinth Ukulele Meetup 6 - 7:30 PM Community Jam at the Montpelier Senior Center 6:15 - 8 PM Future Wild: Protecting Public Forests by Zack Porter 7 - 8 PM Future Wild:Protecting New England's Public Forests 7 - 9 PM Barre City Development Review Board Agenda Dec. 5 7 PM +8 more see less	6 Stowell Tree Farm Second Weekend of the 2024 Season 9 AM (multiday) Conflict Evolution Training Retreat in Plainfield 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Local Conflict Evolution Workshop 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM MSAC Chess Club & Lessons 3 - 5 PM The Front: Group Show 64 for Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Art at Magpie & Tiger / Monica Digiovanni / Dec. 6 4 - 9 PM Holiday Art Sale at The Inky Dinky Oinkink Studio 4 PM (multiday) VNRC Presents "World Wide Wend" by Paul Richardson 4:30 - 7:30 PM Holiday Jam at Monteverdi for Art Walk! 5 - 6:30 PM Holiday Fair - Unitarian Church of Montpelier 5 - 7 PM A Christmas Carol 7 - 8 PM Ecstatic Dance Vermont 7 - 9 PM Theatre Presentation of Dickens's a Christmas Carol 7 PM (multiday) Green Mountain Swing! Live Music! Dance! Dec. 6, ArtsRiot 7:30 - 10 PM +11 more see less	7 Contra Dance Again Saturday: Montpelier Contra Dance! All Day Barre Town Republican Committee Monthly Meeting 8:30 - 9:30 AM Blood Drive Dec. 7 9 AM - 12:45 PM Brookfield Bees at Randolph Elementary Dec. 7 9 AM - 1 PM Holiday Fair - Unitarian Church of Montpelier 9 AM - 2 PM Crafts & Conversations 9:30 AM - 12 PM Montpelier Farmers Market 10 AM - 1 PM Tunbridge Grange Holiday Craft Market 10 AM - 3 PM Montpelier Cocoa Crawl - Music & Chocolate!! 10 AM - 5 PM Several Programs at North Branch Nature Center 10 AM (multiday) Growing Resilience Course Practice/Q&A Call 10:30 - 11:15 AM Storytime with Local Author Zoe Tilley Poster 11 AM - 12 PM Meet with District 3 Council Members 12 - 1 PM Onion River Journal Staff Meeting Saturday 12 - 1:30 PM Real Talk About Coyotes and the Wolf 1 - 2 PM Real Talk About Coyotes and the Wolf 1 - 2 PM Holiday Concert! 2 - 2 PM December Forum at The Old Labor Hall 2 - 3 PM Holiday Concert Green Mountain and Barre Tones Choruses 2 - 3:30 PM December Forum at the Old Labor Hall 2 - 4 PM Encouraging Women to Run for Office 2 PM Glean Up Your Act at the Grange - Dec. 7! 4:30 - 7 PM Slaphappy Santa Christmas Spectacular 6:30 - 10 PM A Christmas Carol 7 - 8 PM Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Winter Concert 7 - 8:30 PM 🌹The Flower Haus Fundraiser - Late Night Sober Lounge 7 - 10 PM Contra Dance Again at the Grange - Dec. 7! 7:30 - 11 PM Montpelier Contra Dance! 7:45 - 11 PM Resounding Joy Dance Party 8 - 11:55 PM +25 more see less
8 Antique Market at The Canadian Club 8 AM - 1 PM Worcester Craft Fair 10 AM - 4 PM Holiday Bazaar and Book Signing at Bohemian Bakery 2 - 6 PM Dance, Sing, and Jump Around 3 - 4:30 PM Sunday Family Dance! Dance, Sing & Jump Around! 3 - 4:30 PM Family Dance at Grange This Sunday 3 - 4:30 PM VT Sierra Club Winter Gathering 4 - 7 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Zen Meditation Circle at Barre Universalist Church 6 - 7 PM Evening Meditation Circle-Barre UU 6 - 7 PM A Christmas Carol 7 - 8 PM +7 more see less	9 Vermont Maple Conference All Day Barre City Republican Committee 6 - 7:30 PM CVCCSD Board Meeting 6 - 8 PM Town of Plainfield Select Board and Budget Meeting 6 - 8 PM Forest Management 7 - 8 PM An Evening with Orange Co. Forester David Paganelli 7 PM +2 more see less	10 Vermont Maple Conference All Day The Heart That Grew Three Sizes Bible Study Group All Day Ceasefire Vigil 7:30 - 8:15 AM Chelsea Food Shelf 11 AM - 12 PM Hunger Mountain Coop Council Meeting 5:30 - 8 PM Irish Bronze Age Tuath Dé Danann - a Vibrant Culture 6:30 - 8 PM Plainfield Arts Potluck 6:30 PM Anti-Racism Book Discussion Group 7 PM +4 more see less	11 Vermont Maple Conference All Day Two for Christmas (multiday) Warmth (multiday) Rick Winston on Chinese Films: Coming Home All Day Tai Chi & Qigong Classes – Fall Semester in Montpelier 10 AM - 1 PM Northeast Kingdom Community Action at GFPL 11 AM - 1 PM Central VT OLLI and Chinese Film 1:30 - 3 PM NCF Kids Club 3 - 5:15 PM Healing Arts Group 5 - 6:30 PM Kindness & Respect: Community Supper & Conversation 5 - 6:30 PM Summit School's Intermediate Old Time Fiddle Classes 6:30 - 7:45 PM Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle Class 6:30 - 7:45 PM Homeless Camping on Public Property 7 - 8:30 PM Homeless Camping on Public Property 7 - 8:30 PM "Two for Christmas" at Lost Nation Theater 7 PM (multiday) Barre Unified Union School District Special Board Mtg 7 PM Live Band Karaoke at Bent Nails, Dec. 11 8 - 11 PM +13 more see less	12 Vermont Maple Conference All Day The Civic Standard's Christmas Carol at HCA (multiday) Storytime & Playgroup at the Groton Library 11 AM - 12:30 PM Come Join Us for French Conversation 12 - 1 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Spaulding HS Theatre Group Presents Dracula 7:30 - 9:30 PM +2 more see less	13 Vermont Maple Conference All Day Groton Library Homemade Cookie Sale! (multiday) Estate Sale 9 AM - 3 PM LH Stowell Tree Farm Third Weekend of the 2024 Season 9 AM (multiday) MSAC Chess Club & Lessons 3 - 5 PM Camp Meade Winter Bazaar! (Art, Food, Drink, Music!) 4 PM (multiday) "Good Eats" at Good Shepherd 5 - 6 PM Yoga & Journaling for Grief 5 - 6:30 PM New Intentional Community Forming in Montpelier 5 - 7 PM Winter Lights at the Groton Free Public Library 5 - 7 PM Community Meal in Plainfield 6 - 7 PM VT Foodbank & Street Cats Burlington Charity Event 6 - 11 PM Free Community Meal 6 PM Sound Bath Meditation 6:30 - 7:30 PM Ecstatic Dance Vermont 7 - 9 PM Cabot Community Contra Dance - Friday 7 - 9:30 PM Spaulding HS Theatre Group Presents Dracula 7:30 - 9:30 PM EDM Night: Genre Smash at Despacito 8 PM (multiday) +14 more see less	14 Vermont Maple Conference All Day Christmas Events at The Old Brick Church in 2024 All Day Randolph Farmers Holiday Market Dec. 14 9 AM - 2 PM Estate Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Last Minute Christmas Shopping 🎄🎁 9 AM - 3 PM 31st Annual Solidarity Craft Fair 9 AM - 3 PM Kids Trade & Play – Saturday, Holiday Special! 9:30 - 11:30 AM Kids Trade and Play- A Family Resource! Dec. 14 9:30 - 11:30 AM Crafts & Conversations 9:30 AM - 12 PM Holiday Babysitting Event 9:30 AM - 4 PM Holiday Babysitting Saturday 9:30 AM - 4 PM Holiday Babysitting Event 9:30 AM - 4 PM Twins Meet-Up Hosted by Good Beginnings 10 AM - 12 PM Twin Babies & Kids Meetup This Saturday 10 AM - 12 PM Come to Our Twin Babies Meetup! 10 AM - 12 PM Christmas Tea & Cookie Sale! 10 AM - 2 PM Open House: Healing Artists Using Nature 10 AM - 2 PM Squish Wrapped at the Berlin Mall 10 AM - 3 PM Singing Holiday Telegrams 10 AM - 3 PM Blackbird Pottery Studious Seconds & Student Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Holly Grams (Musical Holiday Greetings by Telephone) 10 AM - 3 PM Pop Up Sip & Shop, Dec. 14 10 AM - 3 PM 3rd Annual Holly Jolly Holiday Craft Fair Event 10 AM - 4 PM DVAS Soup Fest! 10:30 AM - 4 PM Holiday Market at the Space on Main Dec. 14 11 AM - 12 PM Would You Like to Talk to District 2 City Councilors? 12 - 1 PM Make Music with Your Neighbors! 1 - 3 PM Community Gift Wrapping Opportunity 1 - 3 PM Christmas at Kinneys 1 - 3 PM Pop-Up Sale at Bobolink Farm, Saturday 1 - 4 PM Public Debate for Speaker of the House 1 PM 3rd Annual Singing Bridge Christmas Lighting 🎄 2 - 4 PM Healing Workshop 2:30 - 4 PM Healing Workshop at Barre UU 2:30 - 4:30 PM Community Carol Sing 4:30 PM Free Christmas Caroling and Christmas Dinner Event 5 - 7 PM Caroling and Community Dinner 5 - 7 PM Community Dinner at Access Café 6 - 8 PM Music for a King 6 - 8:30 PM Just Getting by - Film Screening in Maple Corner, VT 7 - 9 PM Film Screening of 'Just Getting' by by Bess O'Brien 7 - 9 PM Spaulding HS Theatre Group Presents Dracula 7:30 - 9:30 PM BOH Presents: The John Denver Christmas 7:30 - 9:30 PM The VT Bluegrass Pioneers at Hugo's 7:30 - 9:30 PM +40 more see less
15 Join Me for Coffee Dec. 15 8 - 9 AM Pop Up Prenatal Strengthening Class Sunday! Dec. 15 9 - 10 AM Open House: Healing Time in Nature 10 AM - 2 PM Queer Craft Fair 12/15 at the Old Labor Hall, Barre 10 AM - 3 PM Blackbird Pottery Studious Seconds & Student Sale 10 AM - 3 PM Sourdough Baking Workshop 12 - 5 PM Sourdough Baking Workshop 12 - 5 PM 'Elf' at The Savoy! 1 - 3 PM Community Christmas Party 2 - 4 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Winter Concert 2 - 4 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Winter Concert 2 - 4 PM “A Christmas Carol: a Ghost Story” by Willem Lange 3 - 5 PM The Continued Adventures of King Wenceslas 4 - 6 PM "The Earth is Singing": An Advent Concert 4 - 6 PM The Continued Adventures of King Wenceslas 4 PM Community Carol Sing 4:30 PM Montpelier Community Carol Sing 4:30 - 5:30 PM Community Carol Sing in Montpelier! 4:30 - 6 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Montpelier Community Carol Sing 4:30 - 6 PM Opening Reception for Art Exhibit by Elizabeth Auer 5 - 6 PM Evening Meditation Circle-Barre UU 6 - 7 PM Zen Meditation Circle at Barre Universalist Church 6 - 7 PM Budget Forum with District 1 Councilors - Gil and Hierl 7 - 8 PM +20 more see less	16 How to Buy a Car for Beginners 12:30 - 2 PM West African Dance Workshop - Shidaa Projects 6 - 7:15 PM Plainfield Select Board Special and Budget Meeting 6 - 9 PM	17 The Heart That Grew Three Sizes Bible Study Group All Day Plainfield Cemetery Commission All Day Ceasefire Vigil 7:30 - 8:15 AM Chelsea Food Shelf 4 - 5 PM Tonight - Illumination Night! 5 - 6 PM Illumination Night 5:30 - 6:30 PM +2 more see less	18 Tai Chi & Qigong Classes – Fall Semester in Montpelier 10 AM - 1 PM Homeschool Meetup at Groton Library 11 AM - 12:30 PM Free Acupuncture and Massage 1 - 3 PM Rick Winston on Chinese Films: Coming Home 1:30 - 3:30 PM NCF Kids Club 3 - 5:15 PM Yoga for Flexibility, Strength & More, Wednesday at MSAC 5 - 6 PM Healing Arts Group 5 - 6:30 PM Brookfield Public Safety Meeting Agenda 5:30 - 7:15 PM Join the Dec. 18 Glow Walk to the 7 Bridges! 5:30 PM Christmas Caroling Sign-Ups 6 - 8 PM Next Paine Mtn School Board Meeting Dec. 18 6 PM Please Join Us at Our School Board Meeting 6:15 - 9 PM Please Join Us at Our WCUUSD Board Meeting, Dec. 18 6:15 - 9:15 PM Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle Class 6:30 - 7:45 PM Summit School's Intermediate Old Time Fiddle Classes 6:30 - 7:45 PM MRPS School Board Meeting Dec. 18 6:30 - 8:30 PM MRPS School Board Meeting Dec. 18 6:30 - 8:30 PM A Celebration of the Winter Solstice 7 - 8 PM Laugh Local VT Comedy Open Mic 7 - 9 PM +15 more see less	19 Storytime & Playgroup at the Groton Library 11 AM - 12:30 PM Come Join Us for French Conversation 12 - 1 PM Porchetta and Polenta Plated Dinner at Woodbelly Pizza 12 - 8 PM How to Use an AED--Free Training at the Grange! 12 PM (multiday) Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Santa is Heading for Washington! 5:30 - 6:30 PM Corinth Ukulele Meetup 6 - 7:30 PM Tarot on Tap - This Thursday! 6 - 8 PM Monteverdi's Deep Dive Lecture: Jazz in 1959 6:30 - 8 PM The Ethereal Church - Holiday Edition 7 - 8 PM +6 more see less	20 Holiday Open Studio 2 - 6 PM MSAC Chess Club & Lessons 3 - 5 PM Ecstatic Dance Vermont 7 - 9 PM Comedy Fundraiser for Granite City Blast Baseball 8 - 9 PM Comedy Show at the Den 8 - 11 PM 18+ Comedy Show for Granite City Blast 8 PM +2 more see less	21 Contra Dance on the Longest Night, at the Grange Hall! All Day Safe Sitters Class for Students Grades 6-8 8:30 AM - 3 PM Winter Solstice Gathering: Welcome the Light 9 - 11 AM Winter Solstice Gathering: Welcome the Light 9 - 11 AM Crafts & Conversations 9:30 AM - 12 PM Montpelier Farmers Market 10 AM - 1 PM Pottery Clearance & Giveaway Weekend 10 AM - 4 PM Montpelier Writing Group This Saturday at KHL 10 AM Holiday Fun at York Branch Library! 10:30 AM - 12 PM Holiday Cookie Party 11 AM - 1 PM Craft Fair 11 AM - 4 PM Procrastinators Delux Holiday Market 11 AM - 5 PM Friends of Topsham Holiday Luncheon Dec. 21 12 - 2 PM Holiday Open Studio 12 - 4 PM Battle for Playground 2000 2.0: the Ho-Ho Showdown 12 - 5 PM Stories for a Winter's Eve 3 - 5 PM Stories for a Winter's Eve at the Old Meeting House 3 - 9 PM Stories for a Winter's Eve 3 PM 3rd Annual Christmas Gala 5:30 - 9 PM Kat and Brett Holiday Show 7 PM The 18th Annual Green Mountain Nutcracker, Dec 21-22 7 PM (multiday) B&P's "Christmas Story" 7 PM Onion River Chorus Sings "Frostiana" 7:30 - 9 PM Solaris Vocal Ensemble Concert 7:30 PM Contra Dance on the Longest Night, at the Grange Hall! 8 - 11 PM +21 more see less
22 Christmas Service at Good Shepherd 9:30 AM Pottery Clearance & Giveaway Weekend 10 AM - 4 PM Santa Claus is Coming To…East Barre! 4 - 5:30 PM Onion River Chorus Sings "Frostiana" 4 - 5:30 PM Tiny Black House Takeout Fall Series 4:30 - 6 PM Within Our Darkest Night Dec. 22 5 - 5:50 PM Zen Meditation Circle at Barre Universalist Church 6 - 7 PM Evening Meditation Circle-Barre UU 6 - 7 PM Free Intro to Women's Health Workshops! 7 - 9 PM +5 more see less	23 Town of Plainfield Select Board Meeting 6 - 6:30 PM	24 Bradford Ceasefire Vigil Cancelled Tuesday Dec. 24 All Day Ceasefire Vigil 7:30 - 8:15 AM Candlelight Christmas Eve Service 4 - 5 PM Christmas Eve Pageant – All Children Welcome! 4:30 - 6 PM Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 5 - 6 PM Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 5 - 6 PM Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 5 - 6 PM Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 6 - 7 PM Christmas Celebration 6 PM Christmas Eve Program at West Brookfield Meetinghouse 6:30 - 7:45 PM +6 more see less	25	26 Storytime & Playgroup 11 AM - 12:30 PM Come Join Us for French Conversation 12 - 1 PM	27 David Klein's Dance/Piano Concert Co-Op Benefit 2 - 3:30 PM Community Meal in Plainfield 6 - 7 PM Ecstatic Dance Vermont 7 - 9 PM	28
29	30	31 Ceasefire Vigil 7:30 - 8:15 AM The Beat Goes On! Dec. 31 12 - 6 PM All Brains Belong's Virtual New Year's Eve Celebration 5 - 7:45 PM Oshogatsu 108 Ringings of the New Year's Bell 5:45 - 7:30 PM NYE Dinner, Cacao, and Alcohol-Free Dance 6 - 11:55 PM New Year's Eve Party at Access Cafe in Montpelier! 8 PM (multiday) New Years' Eve Shindig 9 PM (multiday) +3 more see less	1 New Year's Day Somatic Movement w/ Amy Lepage 9:30 - 10:30 AM New Year's Day Somatic Movement w/ Amy Lepage 9:30am 9:30 - 10:30 AM Giving & Receiving: Somatic Presence & Connection Class 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Giving/Receiving: Somatic Presence & Connection 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM	2 Storytime & Playgroup 11 AM - 12:30 PM Come Join Us for French Conversation 12 - 1 PM Indoor Cornhole Games at MSAC 2:30 - 4 PM After Hours Letter Writing at Magpie & Tiger 6 - 7 PM Community Jam is on Tonight 6:15 - 8 PM Barre City Development Review Board Agenda Jan. 2, 2025 7 PM +2 more see less	3 Drop in Music Class for 1-6yr "Bears & Snowmen, Oh My!" All Day The Front: Diane Sophrin, Chaos and Catharsis 4 - 7 PM Winter Wildlands Backcountry Film Festival 6 - 9 PM Tunbridge Grange Friday Night Bingo 6:30 - 8:30 PM Ecstatic Dance Vermont 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	4 First Montpelier Contra Dance of 2025! All Day Troop 1 Christmas Tree Pickup in Barre 9 AM - 12 PM Washington Snowflyers 9th Annual Vintage Snowmobile Rally 9 AM - 2 PM Christmas Tree Pickup/Disposal by Scouts 9 AM Crafts & Conversations 9:30 AM - 12 PM Story Hour with Fiona Lee at Chelsea Public Library 11 AM - 12 PM Community Potluck at the Grange Saturday! 6 - 7 PM New Years(ish) Kirtan in Montpelier 6:30 - 9:30 PM First Montpelier Contra Dance of 2025! 7:30 - 11 PM First Montpelier Contra Dance of 2025! 7:45 - 11 PM +6 more see less