Calendar - Front Porch Forum

February 2015

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1 Music & Events This Week at Bagitos Cafe 6 PM (multiday) Awakening Grace: an Experiential Retreat About Reiki and Dreams 5 PM (multiday) Village Medic Training This Weekend (multiday) Collab Facilitator Training: Delivering Collaborative Power in Action All Day Shrine Super Bingo Games at Champlain Valley Fair All Day Holistic Pet Care with Carol Weyland, DVM 1 - 2:30 PM Holistic Pet Care Presentation 1 - 2:30 PM Green Mountain Club Moonlight Outing Feb. 1 7 PM +4 more see less	2 Barre Town Recreation Meeting All Day Free Kindermusick Class on Monday at Kellogg Hubbard Library! All Day Knit 2gether Knitting Group 4 - 6 PM Knit 2gether Knitting Group 4 - 6 PM Feb. 2 Selectboard Agenda 6:30 - 8:30 PM Marshfield and Plainfield Energy Committee Meeting Feb. 2 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	3 Moretown Community Yoga! All Day All About Fruits and Nuts: Edible Landscape Management 6:30 PM	4 New Year for the Trees - Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder All Day Doggie Play Group This Wednesday! All Day Olli Program on History of Vermont Through Music All Day Osher Presentation All Day Celebrate the Jewish New Year for the Trees All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center 8:30 AM - 12 PM Aldrich Public Library Senior Day 1 - 3 PM Aldrich Library Senior Day Presents "Hidden Ireland" 1 - 3 PM Resnik and Morrissey Feb. 4 1:30 - 3 PM Wednesday Night Meal at the Canadian Club 5 - 6 PM Celebrate the Jewish New Year for the Trees - Tu B'shavat 6 - 7:30 PM Selectboard Meeting Postponed to Feb. 4 7 - 8:30 PM A Hard Day's Night at the Jaquith Feb. 4 7 PM +9 more see less	5 Gen. Sullivan Talk on Climate Change Impact & National Security All Day Knitting Group All Day Moretown Development Review Board Hearing Feb. 5 6:30 PM Reading and Discussion Group on Climate Change 7 - 9 PM	6 Montpelier Art Walk Show and Performance at North Branch Cafe All Day Scrabble at Brown Public Library Feb. 6 All Day Naked in Norway Talk Feb. 6 All Day Mid-Winter Warm-Up Dance with Native Tongue! All Day Another Photographic Event at Art Walk All Day Coffee/Lunch with a Cop All Day Furnished Room for Rent in Log Cabin 2 PM Ray Brown at Gallery Six: Opening Reception for Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Art Walk Downtown Montpelier: Art and Chocolate 4 - 8 PM First Friday Feast Community Potluck, Presentation and Open Mic 5:30 - 8:30 PM Family Movie Night 6 - 8 PM Event; Family Dance in Worcester 6:30 - 8 PM Salsa Dance Class in Montpelier! 7 - 8:30 PM Winter Dance Featuring Native Tongue 7:30 PM +10 more see less	7 Upcoming Workshop on Ticks at Kellogg Hubbard Library All Day Dance Showcase Feb. 7! All Day Free Movie Day for Dads and Kids All Day Bingo! All Day Calling All Dads - Fun Times with Good Beginnings! All Day Central Vermont UVM Extension Master Gardeners' Sponsored Workshop on Ticks All Day Earthwalk Winter Community Day - Feb. 7 All Day Warm Up for the Bob Dylan Contest at Nutty Stephs! All Day Barre Dabble Day Feb. 7 All Day Capital City Farmers Market is Back! All Day Farmers Market Saturday All Day Earthwalk Winter Community Day Feb. 7 All Day Montessori School of Central Vermont Open House Feb 7 All Day Capital City Farmers Market All Day The Play's the Thing All Day Tricks for Ticks -- Kellogg Hubbard Library Saturday Feb. 7 All Day Dabble Day Feb. 7 All Day Tricks for Ticks All Day Montessori Open House 9 AM - 11 PM Singing and Felt Hat Making Workshop 9 AM (multiday) Audition for 9th Annual A Kaleidoscope of Talent 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Calling All Artists and Art Lovers! 10 - 11:30 AM Dabble Day 10 AM - 12:30 PM Barre Dabble Day 10 AM - 12:30 PM "Tricks for Ticks" Talk at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Montpelier 10:30 - 11:30 AM Katherine Roy - Neighborhood Sharks & Visual Learning 11 AM - 12 PM Lantern-Making Workshops Celebrating the 75th Birthday of Union Elem 11 AM - 3 PM Earthwalk Winter Community Day Feb. 7! 1 - 5 PM Reception for Bram Towbin's Photo Show 4 - 6 PM Bingo! 5:30 PM Young Tradition Showcase in Burlington! 6 PM Young Tradition Showcase in Burlington! 6 PM His & Her Dinner at the Canadian Club 7 - 11:30 PM In Honor of Black History Month: Free at the Unitarian Universalist 7:30 - 8:30 PM +30 more see less
8 Second Beethoven/Arnowitt Show Has Been Added! All Day Lacto-Fermentation Workshop at the Four Corners Schoolhouse All Day Open House at Vermont Commons School This Sunday All Day Fun Family Event at Plainfield Town Hall All Day Upcoming Family Dance All Day Family Dance at Plainfield Town Hall All Day Open House at Vermont Commons School All Day Michael Arnowitt - Beethoven Sonata Concert Feb 8 All Day Free Lacto-Fermentation Workshop This Sunday All Day Dance, Sing, and Jump Around Feb. 8 All Day Montpelier Antiques Market Feb. 8 8 AM - 1:30 PM Beginner Beekeeping Class 9 AM - 4 PM Open House at Vermont Commons School 1 - 3 PM Dance, Sing & Jump Around with Kids 3 - 4:30 PM Michael Arnowitt Presents Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Montpelier 3 - 5:30 PM +11 more see less	9 Making Paper Snow Flakes All Day Water/Wastewater Meeting Notice All Day Carbon Shock: a Tale of Risk and Calculus All Day Kindermusick Class Tomorrow! All Day Carbon Shock: a Tale of Risk and Calculus 6:30 - 8:30 PM Agenda, Plainfield Select Board Feb 9 7 - 8:30 PM Feb. 9 Moretown School Board Meeting Begins 7PM 7 PM +3 more see less	10 Public Hearing on Firearms Legislation All Day Collage Workshop at the North Branch Cafe All Day Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Feb. 10 All Day Make Your Own Valentine's Day Cards at the Library! 1 - 6 PM Randolph Ukulele Players Feb. 10 6:30 - 8 PM +1 more see less	11 Around the World Tea Series at the North Branch Cafe All Day Song Circle Community Sing-A-Long at the Jaquith All Day Central Vermont Olli Presentation: Photographer Craig Line All Day Osher (OLLI) Presentation All Day Armchair Travel Series: Botswana with John Snell All Day "Cookie's Hot Club" Fun Gypsy Jazz at Sweet Melissa's All Day Osher(Olli) Program Feb. 11 All Day OLLI Program on Photography All Day OLLI Presents Photographer Craig Line Feb. 11 1:30 - 2:30 PM Osher Presentation 1:30 - 2:30 PM Wednesday Night Dinner at the Canadian Club 5 - 6 PM Native Vermont Seed Crops Lecture 5:30 - 7:30 PM Marshfield Historical Society Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Cabot Creamery Cookbook - Talk & Tasting 7 - 8 PM Delivering Power in Action: Introducing Collab Process for Change 7 - 9 PM +11 more see less	12 Reading and Discussion Group on Climate Change at the Jaquith All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Relocalizing VT: Heating and Traveling in a Low-Carbon World All Day Adult Human Sexuality Class Begins Feb. 12 All Day Sustaining Food and Farms in Your Community All Day AMORE at SPA All Day Moretown Development Review Board Hearings All Day Sustaining Food and Farms in Your Community All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Learn About Local Food Systems All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Writing Workshop with Jo Knowles - New Date and Time! 3:15 - 4:15 PM New to Northfield? Save the Date! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Learn About Local Food Systems Feb. 12 5:30 - 7:30 PM Welcome Home Northfield! Community Event 5:30 - 7:30 PM Knitting4peace Meets Weekly 6 - 7:30 PM New Technologies for Home Heating 7 - 8:30 PM International Dinner at Harwood Union High School 7 PM +18 more see less	13 Local Luv Pizza (multiday) I Love East Montpelier Day at EMES - Feb. 13 All Day I Love East Montpelier Day at EMES - Feb. 13 All Day Kick Em Jenny Old-Time Music at Espresso Bueno Friday Feb. 13! All Day The Great Backyard Bird Count All Day Love at Bagitos All Day Baroque Concert at Church of the Good Shepherd All Day Kick Em Jenny Old-Time Music at Espresso Bueno Friday Feb. 13! All Day Freelancers at Sweet Melissa's All Day Singing Valentines All Day RehabGYM Barre Wellness Day! 11 AM - 5 PM Blooms & Perfumes Valentine's Pop Up 11 AM (multiday) Wine with Friends Game Night 5 - 8 PM Love Your Senior Center Dinner 6 - 9 PM Salsa Dance Class in Montpelier! 7 - 8:30 PM The Food of Love - Baroque Music with Chocolate, Feb. 13 7 - 9 PM Concert by Cameo Baroque - Feb. 13 7 PM Baroque Music 7 PM +14 more see less	14 Wine and Chocolate Weekend (multiday) Sky Blue Boys: Banjo Dan and Will Lindner at the Adamant Church All Day Winter Carnival Celebration for 2015 All Day Montpelier Memory Cafe - Feb. 14 All Day Pie for Breakfast All Day Spaghetti Dinner/Car Raffle Feb. 14 All Day Craft Fair/Vendor Show at Berlin Fire Department All Day Northfield's 2nd Annual Winter Carnival! All Day Craft Fair/Vendor Show at Berlin Fire Department All Day For the Love of Creation: Barre Prays for Climate Action All Day Wine and Chocolate at Fresh Tracks Farm Winery All Day Homemade Spaghetti and Meatball Supper All Day Montpelier Memory Cafe Feb. 14 All Day Plainfield World Music Chorus Continues Saturday! All Day Montpelier Memory Cafe with Geof Hewitt Feb. 14 10 - 11:30 AM Lantern-Making Workshops Celebrating 75th Birthday of Union Elem 10 AM - 3 PM Wine and Chocolate Weekend 12 PM (multiday) For the Love of Creation: Barre Prays for Climate Action Feb. 14 12 PM Tracking the Wild Workshop - Feb. 14 And/Or Feb. 28 1 - 4 PM Berlin Fire Department 100 Ball Raffle and Valentines Banquet 5:30 - 11 PM Berlin Fire Department 100 Ball Raffle & Valentines Day Banquet 5:30 - 11:30 PM Music in Adamant 5:30 PM Valentine's Day Dinner/Dance 7 - 11 PM +19 more see less
15 Feb.15 Rainbow Ice Sculptures Community Event! All Day Empty Bowl Benefit All Day Iaian Macharg Playing Scottish Bagpipes - Feb. 15 All Day Benefit for VT Foodbank! All Day Tiferet Trails Wilderness Girls Series Workshop: Tend the Hearth 1 - 5 PM Second Annual Central Vermont “Empty Bowl Benefit" 4:30 - 7:30 PM Community Singalong 6 - 8 PM +3 more see less	16 Summit School Adult Music Classes Start Feb. 16! All Day Yoga at Old Schoolhouse Common! All Day Legislative Breakfast Feb. 16 7:30 - 9 AM	17 Lunch and Learn at the North Branch Cafe All Day Pre-Town Meeting Feb. 17 All Day Another Public Hearing for the New Sidewalks All Day Celebrate Mardi Gras at Christ Episcopal Church! All Day Pre-Town Meeting Forum, Tues. Feb 17 All Day Natural Marshfield Series Presents: Bees - Feb. 17 All Day Plainfield Opera House: Community Potluck and Family Movie Night! 5:30 - 8:30 PM East Montpelier Calais Historical Society 6 PM African Dance Class 6:30 - 8 PM +5 more see less	18 Pacem School Open House All Day Agenda, Plainfield Conservation Commission Feb. 18 All Day Olli Lecture on Disappearing Alphabets All Day Lantern Procession Celebrates 75th Birthday of Union Elementary School All Day Union Elementary School's 75th Anniversary/ Lantern Parade and Winter Carnival All Day Union Elementary School - Lantern Parade All Day Olli Presents Tim Brookes at MSAC 1:30 - 3 PM Osher (Olli) Program for Wednesday 1:30 - 3 PM Pacem School Open House 5 - 6:30 PM Tonight's Movie at Rumney Library! 7 - 9 PM Selectboard Agenda (& Vacancy Announcement) 7 - 9 PM Citizen's Police Academy 7 - 10 PM All in the Family Film Series at Jaquith Library - Feb. 18 7 PM +9 more see less	19 Meet Your Candidates with the Bridge All Day Happy New Year All Day Square Dance All Day Lecture on "Throughput" at Kellogg-Hubbard Thursday Feb. 19 All Day Service Opportunity - the Veterans Place Inc 10 AM - 4 PM Third Thursday: the Lost Shul Mural 12 - 1 PM Square Dance in Montpelier with Kick 'Em Jenny! 7:30 PM Square Dance in Montpelier with Kick 'Em Jenny! 7:30 PM Square Dance in Montpelier with Kick 'Em Jenny! 7:30 PM +5 more see less	20 The Write Stuff (multiday) Violin Concert (multiday) Turnmusic Shows Feb. 20 & 21 (multiday) Mardi Gras Party at Charlios Friday Feb. 20 All Day Family Dance at Christ Church Feb. 20 All Day Bingo All Day Solar Wine Tasting at Fresh Tracks Farm Friday! All Day Scrabble This Friday Night at Brown Public Library All Day Solar Wine Tasting at Fresh Tracks Farm Tomorrow! All Day Benefit Contra Dance for Arts Bus in Randolph Feb. 20 All Day Making Paper Snowflakes at MSAC Feb. 20 1:30 PM Stroke Yer Joke! Comedy Open Mic 8 - 9:30 PM +8 more see less	21 Live Streaming of Nordic World Championships (multiday) Chinese New Year Benefit Dinner Feb. 21 All Day Farmers Market All Day Clarke Lecture and Dinner Event All Day Great Green Mountain Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest All Day Chinese New Year Benefit Dinner Feb. 21 All Day Central Vermont Humane Society Adoption Center Birthday Party All Day 2 Chances to Contradance - Sat., Feb. 21 All Day Capital City Farmers Market All Day Don't Miss This Year's Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest All Day CC Farmers Market All Day Clarke Lecture and Dinner Event All Day Clark Lecture and Dinner Event All Day Budget Tour 8 AM - 1 PM Inroduction to Meditation - Starting Feb. 21 8:30 - 9:30 AM "This Changes Everything" Book Group in East Montpelier 1 - 3:30 PM Kid's Movie Afternoon 1:30 - 4 PM Benefit Dinner - Celebrate Chinese New Year 6 - 8 PM +14 more see less
22 Take Out or Eat in Sunday Dinner at TVSC All Day Venison Cookery Class with Lisa Mase All Day Last Sunday of the Month Dinner for Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Tin Man in Yoga Class?! Find Fascial Freedom Feb. 22 All Day Support Twin Valley Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program All Day Montpelier Antiques Market, Sunday, Feb. 22 8 AM - 1:30 PM Community Pot Luck Dinner 4 PM +3 more see less	23 Theater Camp for Kids over Winter Break (multiday) Theater Camp for Kids over Winter Break (multiday) School to Prison Pipeline Public Forum All Day February Vacation Day Camp - Heroes of WinterBreak 9 AM (multiday) Pirates, the Musical! Calling All Actors Ages 7-14 1 PM (multiday) Knit 2gether Knitting Group 4 - 6 PM Get Your Taxes Done for Free with Vita! 5:30 - 8 PM Public Hearing on Proposed Solid Waste Ordinance 6:30 - 7 PM Public Forum: Unfair & Unequal Student Discipline in VT's Public Schools 6:30 - 8:30 PM Twinfield Union School Budget Information Meeting Feb. 23 7 - 8 PM Plainfield Select Board Meeting Feb. 23 7 - 9 PM Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Feb. 23 8 - 9 PM +8 more see less	24 Moretown Community Yoga All Day Militarization of Police Depts, Focus on VT All Day Rescheduled February School Board Meeting All Day Free Tax Preparation at Kellogg-Hubbard Library 4:30 AM - 8 PM Want More Hours in the Day? Lunch & Learn at North Branch Cafe 1 PM Alice in Wonderland Party in the Katherine Paterson Children's Room 1:30 - 4:30 PM Alice in Wonderland Party 1:30 - 4:30 PM Free Evening of International Folk Dance Instruction 6:30 - 8:30 PM Writing About Vermont History Presentation 7 - 8 PM +5 more see less	25 OLLI Program About Holyrood Palace Chairs All Day Osher (Olli) Presentation All Day Osher (Olli) Program Feb. 25 All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center Feb 25 All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Seven Times Salt Away the Winter Blues at Farmers' Night All Day Partner's Yoga W/Hannah Lynn All Day Therapy Dogs of Vermont Information Session All Day Farmers Night - "From Plimoth to Yorktown" with Seven Times Salt All Day Moretown Republicans to Meet Wednesday Feb. 25 All Day Story Hour and Crafts in the Katherine Paterson Children's Room 1:30 - 2:30 PM Story Hour and Crafts in the Katherine Paterson Children's Room 1:30 - 2:30 PM Canadian Club Wednesday Night Meal 5 - 6 PM Luxuriously Healthy Hair Workshop at VCIH 6 - 8 PM Therapy Dogs of Vermont - Information Session 6:30 - 7:30 PM Seven Times Salt Away the Winter Blues at Farmers' Night 7:30 - 9 PM +12 more see less	26 NASA Astronaut, to Speak at Norwich University All Day Moretown Development Review Board Hearing All Day Tell a Fairy Tale Day - Win a Gift Certificate to Bear Pond Books All Day Feb. 26 Gong Event All Day Upcoming Blood and Bone Marrow Drive at Norwich University All Day Story Hour and Crafts in the Katherine Paterson Children's Room 1:30 - 2:30 PM Story Hour and Crafts in the Katherine Paterson Children's Room 1:30 - 2:30 PM Orange School District Budget Forum - date change 6 - 8 PM College of Science & Mathematics, Norwich U. - NASA Speaker 26 Feb 7 - 8 PM Nasa Astronaut Col M. Fossum to Speak 7 PM +6 more see less	27 Swashbuckling Family Fun All Day Theater for Kids This Friday All Day Words Words Words! a Physical Comedy & Aerial Acrobatic Intensive All Day Vermont Flower Show is Coming - Chase Away Those Winter Blues! All Day Wine with Friends Game Night 5 - 8 PM Comedy! 8:30 - 10 PM Bueno Comedy Showcase! 8:30 - 10 PM Radio Flyer at Positive Pie II Montpelier 10 PM (multiday) +4 more see less	28 Earthwalk Field Institute: Tracking the Wild - Feb. 28 All Day Come to the Cabin Fever Fundraising Party! All Day Beat the Winter Blues All Day Heartbeat Live at Haybarn Theatre Feb. 28 All Day Rising Tide Vermont Cabin Fever Fundraising Party! All Day Saturday Night Dance at American Legion All Day Raffle, Auction, Food and Cabin Fever Dance Party Saturday! All Day Incorporating Essential Oils into Your Health Care Practice 9 AM - 1 PM Audition - Student Short Film "An Unkindness" 9 AM - 5 PM Central Vermont Seed Swap 10 AM - 1 PM Open House & Tours of Galusha Hill Farm & Lodge 10:30 AM - 3 PM Free Introduction to Ayurveda at River House Yoga Studio 1 - 2 PM Bitter Greens Reunion Show at Bagitos! 6 - 8 PM Rising Tide "Cabin Fever" Fundraiser Party Feb. 28 7 PM (multiday) Cabin Fever Fundraising Party 7 PM Abby and Rosie Newton and Lyn Hardy Play Benefit Performance in Cabot! 7:30 PM Abby and Rosie Newton and Lyn Hardy Play Benefit Performance in Cabot! 7:30 PM Abby and Rosie Newton and Lyn Hardy Play Benefit Performance in Cabot! 7:30 PM Onion River Jazz Band 7:30 PM Abby and Rosie Newton and Lyn Hardy Play Benefit Performance in Cabot! 7:30 PM The Green Mountain Playboys Mardi Gras Party! 8 PM The Green Mountain Playboys Mardi Gras Party! 8 PM +18 more see less