Calendar - Front Porch Forum

December 2015

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29 26th Annual Women's Festival of Crafts 10 AM (multiday) 26th Annual Women's Festival of Crafts 10 AM (multiday) 26th Annual Women's Festival of Crafts 10 AM (multiday) Climate March All Day Northfield Artists Holiday Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Short Film & Discussion: Responding to Hate Crimes 6 - 7:30 PM +2 more see less	30 Montpelier Senior Activity Center Open House, Nov. 30 All Day Senior Center Open House All Day Music, Food, All Free of Charge All Day Senior Center Open House All Day Randolph Center Design Review District 6:30 - 9 PM Brookfield Draft Revised Town Plan & Hearing 7 PM +2 more see less	1 Xmas Wreath Making Class All Day World AIDS Day Event All Day Need a Time Out? 5 AM - 6 PM Randolph Dream Group Dec. 1 6 - 8 PM Local Business Forum 6:30 - 7:30 PM +1 more see less	2 It's a Wonderful Life - Radio Style, Onstage at LNT Dec. 2 & 3 (multiday) Econ Dev: NBPA Meeting Dec. 2 All Day Open House at the Montpelier Shambhala Center All Day OLLI (Osher Presentation) All Day Jaquith's Classic Film Night Dec. 2 All Day Senior Citizen Holiday Dinner Hosted by the Northfield Rotary Club All Day Middlesex Energy Team Meeting at Town Hall! All Day Econ Dev: NBPA Meeting Dec. 2 All Day The Ceremony Cards Event Dec. 2 All Day Senior Holiday Dinner 5:30 PM River Rock School Open House 7 - 8:30 PM It's a Wonderful Life - a Live Radio Play - Dec 2 & 3 7 - 9 PM +8 more see less	3 Public Hearing Dec. 3 All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Climate & Energy in Paris & Vermont All Day CVSWMD Planning Meeting Re: Possible Land Purchase in E. Montp. Dec. 3 All Day Carbon Pollution Tax Debate All Day Education: How to Spark the Love of Learning All Day Montpelier School Board Conversations 5 - 6 PM Interested in Having Your Voice Heard About the School Budget? 5 - 6 PM Come Out Tonight for Illumination Night at VCFA! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Public Hearing: December 3, 2015 @ 5:30 Pm at Barre City Hall 5:30 PM Sparking the Love of Learning 6:30 - 7:30 PM Carbon Pollution Tax Debate 6:30 - 9 PM Pacem School Community Event 6:30 PM Carbon Pollution Tax Debate 7 - 9 PM +9 more see less	4 Holiday Fair This Weekend! 12 AM (multiday) Our Lady of the Angels Christmas Bazaar (multiday) Montpelier Art Walk All Day Barre Holiday Farmers Market All Day Barre Farmers and Crafters Holiday Market All Day African and Reggae Music at La Puerta Negra All Day Barre Holiday Market 3 - 7 PM Free Wine Tasting / Art Walk This Friday at North Branch Cafe! 4 - 8 PM Montpelier Art Walk 4 - 8 PM Holiday Tree Lighting 5:30 - 8:30 PM Handel's Messiah Change in Venue 7:30 PM +7 more see less	5 Moving Sale (multiday) Annual "Not Your Mother's Church Bazaar" Dec 5 & 6 (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Montpelier Community Gospel Choir in Concert (multiday) Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Singing and Potluck-Free & Open to the Public All Day Maple Corner Craft Fair! All Day Montpelier Unitarian Church Holiday Fair All Day Twinfield Craft/Vendor Fair All Day Holiday Shopping Event All Day Annual "Not Your Mother's Church Bazaar" All Day Northfield Farmers' Market All Day Owl Totem Medicine Dec. 5 All Day Northfield Masonic Craft, Vendor, and Food Fair All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine with Linda River Valente All Day Lantern Parade! All Day Northfield Artists Holiday Art Sale at the Gray Building All Day Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around"! All Day Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day 51st Annual Christmas Bazaar All Day Jewelry Show in Plainfield! All Day Tony Trischka, "Glory Shone Around," Coming to the Haybarn! All Day Twinfield Craft and Artisan Fair All Day Northfield Masonic Craft, Vendor, and Food Fair All Day Jewelry Show Plainfield All Day Holiday Market at Randolph Elementary Dec. 5! All Day Night Queen: Owl Totem Medicine All Day Montpelier's Indoor Farmers Market Starts Dec. 5 All Day How to Stop Bullying, Cyber Bullying and Social Aggression 8:30 AM - 12 PM Annual Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 2 PM Home Jewelry Show Extravaganza! 9 AM - 2 PM Old-Fashioned New England Holiday Fair 9 AM - 2 PM Christmas Bazaar at United Church of Randolph 9 AM - 2 PM Christmas Bazaar 9 AM - 3 PM VT Community Energy Conference Dec. 5 9 AM - 4:30 PM Senior Class Bake Sale 9 AM (multiday) Home Share Now: Waived Fee and a Month of Events! 9:30 AM - 12 PM Twinfield and Plainfield Opera House 9:30 AM - 2 PM Preschool Ornament Sale This Weekend at Shaw's 10 AM - 2 PM Open Weaving Studio 10 AM - 3 PM Northfield Artists Holiday Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM International Boutique Benefits People Near and Far 10 AM - 8 PM The Science Behind Why Our Children Are So Sick 10 AM Soup Festival and Silent Auction 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM Old Brick Church Christmas Luncheon Dec. 5 12 - 2 PM Photos with Santa Saturday! 12 - 3 PM Singing and Potluck- Free & Open to the Public 5:30 - 7:30 PM Singing and Eating - Free and Open to the Public 5:30 - 7:30 PM Saturday Christmas Carol Sing, Dec. 5! 6:30 - 7:30 PM Evening of Christmas Carols 6:30 PM Montpelier Community Gospel Choir Concert in Barre 7 - 8:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM Pianist Simone Dinnerstein 7:30 PM +51 more see less
6 51st Annual Christmas Bazaar All Day Rachmaninoff Concert All Day Pancake Breakfast - Support Elders All Day Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale All Day Dance, Sing & Jump Around All Day Adamant Co-Op Annual Meeting & Village Potluck All Day Pancake Breakfast at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day Breakfast Buffet and Dance with Classic Rewind All Day Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at Morse Farm Dec. 6 All Day After the Crafts Fair in Plainfield Dec. 6 All Day 66th Annual Randolph Center Carol Sing All Day Indoor Winter Market Dec. 6 All Day Breakfast Buffet at Montpelier Elks All Day Pancake Breakfast for Central Vermont Council on Aging All Day Pancake Breakfast 8 - 10 AM Plainfield Holiday Farmers Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Plainfield Holiday Market and Trunk Sale 9 AM - 1 PM Make the Old Fashioned Holiday Fair a New Holiday Tradition 9 AM - 2 PM Farmers Market Dec. 6 11 AM - 2 PM Dance, Sing & Jump Around 3 - 4:30 PM The Randolph Singers Perform Rachmaninoff's Vespers 4 PM Save This Date: Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Fall Concert 4 PM Don't Miss the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Concert Dec. 6 4 PM Randolph Singers Holiday Concert 4 PM Women and Wellness Event 6 PM Dec. 6 Free Workshop Reading 7 - 9 PM Free Entertainment Option for Sunday Evening 7 - 9 PM +23 more see less	7 Options Tax Public Hearing 6:15 - 7 PM Selectboard Agenda 6:15 - 9 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! 6:30 - 8:30 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! 6:30 - 8:30 PM Marshfield & Plainfield Energy Committee Dec. 7 7 - 9 PM +1 more see less	8 E. Montpelier School Budget Forum All Day Art Build 5:30 - 7:30 PM Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Dec. 8 6:30 - 8:30 PM The Science Behind Why Our Children Are Sick 7 - 8 PM Author Event at Kimball Library 7 - 8:30 PM Poetry Book Launch Party 7 - 8:30 PM Symphony for the City of the Dead - Book Reading, Talk & Music 7 - 8:30 PM Holiday Band Concert 7 PM +4 more see less	9 OLLI (Osher) Presentation All Day House Concert Dec. 9 All Day Community Remembrance Spiral Dec. 9 4:30 - 6:30 PM Young Adult Book Discussion at Kellogg-Hubbard Library 6:30 - 8 PM	10 Solar Information Events (multiday) Hour of Code! All Day Hour of Code! All Day Upcoming Events at the SunCommon Pop-Up Shop and Art Gallery! All Day BNI Presents Mike Lannen from Eternity Web 8 - 9:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: a Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Carbon Pollution Tax for Vermont? 9 - 10:30 AM Hour of Code Open House 9:45 - 11 AM Input into Required Agricultural Practices 2 - 4 PM Ten Thousand Villages Holiday Shopping Event 3 - 7 PM Public Menorah Lighting 4:30 - 5:30 PM Festival of Trees 6 - 8 PM Festival of Trees 6 - 8 PM Festival of Trees 6 - 8 PM Festival of Trees 6 - 8 PM Free Community Holiday Meal 6 PM Holiday Community Dinner at the Methodist Church 6 PM Free Evening of Folk Dance Instruction 7 - 9 PM Christmas Carol the Musical 7 PM (multiday) +15 more see less	11 Vigil Against Hate and in Support of Our Moslem Neighbors 12 AM - 1 PM Upland Bakers (multiday) Traditional Italian Dance Returns to the Old Labor Hall! All Day Acoustic Duo at Old Meeting House Dec. 11! All Day Italian Dancing at Old Labor Hall in Barre All Day Bianchi Street Studio Holiday Pottery Sale All Day The JSC World Music Ensemble and Concert Band in Concert All Day Enjoy a Concert at the Old Meeting House All Day Penguin Storytime All Day Montpelier Schools 8 - 9 AM Northfield Artists Holiday Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Toys for Tots 4 PM (multiday) Montpelier Elks Dinner Specials 5:30 - 8:30 PM Holiday Music in Cabot Friday 7 - 8 PM +10 more see less	12 Floating Bridge Coop Holiday Shop Dec. 12-13 (multiday) Huge Ski Sale (multiday) Floating Bridge Food & Farms Coop Holiday Market & Tree Cutting (multiday) Michael Arnowitt Piano at Bagitos All Day Free Movie Night All Day Earthwalk Craft Party and Online Auction All Day Barretones A Capella Barbershop Group Xmas Concernt Dec. 12 All Day Breakfast with Santa All Day Silent Auction All Day Breakfast with Santa All Day Toy Swap! All Day Miracle on Granite Street All Day Upland Bakers at the Jaquith Dec. 12 All Day Montpelier Memory Cafe Meets Dec. 12 All Day Free Santa Photo Booth at the Moretown Artisans Sale All Day Moretown Artisans Sale Dec. 12-13 All Day American Flatbread Truck Load Sale at Moretown School -This Weekend All Day Destination Imagination Creativity Fair for Kids All Day Holiday Concert All Day Crafternoon at Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery All Day 6th Grade Bottle Drive 9 AM - 1 PM Senior Center Tag/Food Sale 9 AM - 3 PM Touch of Vermont Holiday Gift Market on Saturday 9 AM - 4 PM 22nd Annual Solidarity Craft Fair & Silent Auction Dec.12 9 AM - 4 PM 22nd Annual Solidarity Craft Fair and Silent Auction 9 AM - 4 PM Huge Ski Sale 9 AM (multiday) Northfield Artists Holiday Art Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Bianchi Street Studio Holiday Pottery Sale 10 AM - 4 PM Floating Bridge Coop Holiday Market at VTC Red Schoolhouse Dec 12 & 13 10 AM (multiday) Call to Performers - Moretown Artisans Sale 10 AM (multiday) Holiday Book Sale at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library 10 AM Annual Earthwalk Craft Party Saturday! 1 - 4 PM Screenplay as Memoir: VCFA Faculty Talk/Reading 2 - 3 PM Christmas Band Concert to Benefit Waterbury Food Shelf 2:30 - 3:30 PM Holiday a Cappella Show Saturday 2:30 - 4:30 PM Children's Ornament and Holiday Crafts 3:30 - 5 PM Green Mountain Youth Symphony Concert Featuring Willem Lange! 3:30 - 5:30 PM Norwich University Winter Band Concert 4 - 5 PM Christmas Benefit Concert 6:45 - 8:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM The Glenn Miller Orchestra at Chandler Music Hall 7:30 PM +39 more see less
13 Let the Joy Ring Out! All Day Bishop Christopher Coyne at St. John the Evangelist and St. Edward 8:30 AM RCP Ornament Sale at LH Stowell Xmas Tree Farm Sunday 9 AM - 4 PM Sugarbush Discounted Passes & Lessons Still Available 12 - 5 PM Central VT SUR (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Upcoming Meeting 2 - 5 PM Brookfield Community Singers Dec. 13 3 PM +2 more see less	14 Pickleball Beginner Clinic - Jan. 14 All Day Playground Design Open House Dec. 14 All Day SHS Union District #41 Policy Committee Meeting All Day Come Hear About Design Ideas for Union's Playground! 5:30 - 7 PM Winter Walkabout: Solstice Dreaming at Kellogg Hubbard Library 5:45 - 7:45 PM Winter Walkabout: Solstice Dreaming Kellogg Hubbard Library 5:45 - 7:45 PM Plainfield Selectboard Agenda/ Traffic Hearing Monday 7 PM +3 more see less	15 Public Hearing All Day Randolph Dream Group All Day Kids Art Workshop at Rumney 3:35 - 5 PM Follow-Up on Mccullough Hill Rd 5 PM Randolph Community Solar Project 2 Presentation & Heat Pump Workshop 6:30 - 8:30 PM Twinfield Union School Board Dec. 15 6:30 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	16 "The Other Side of Cannabis" Documentary Screening Dec. 16 All Day "The Other Side of Cannabis" Documentary Screening All Day "The Other Side of Cannabis" 6 - 8 PM	17 Bedtime Stories, Songs, Hot Chocolate, More with Mrs. Claus! All Day La Leche League Meetings All Day Free Ski Passes, Rum and Creamery Samples All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Morse Farm Ski Touring Giving Away Day Passes at SunCommon Pop-Up All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Trash Talk - Zero-Sort Recycling? All Day Soup & Sandwich Dec. 17 All Day Montpelier School Conversation All Day Crossroads BNI Presents: Laura Manfred of Inspire Massage 8 - 9:30 AM Christmas Dinner at Randolph Senior Center 12 - 1 PM Table Tennis at Randolph Town Office 5 - 7 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market! 5:30 - 7:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Mayfly at Feast and Field Market and at Radio Bean! 5:30 PM Ruelle Boutique's Holiday Soiree 6 - 8 PM No Tickets to Star Wars? Come See a Yiddish Movie Instead! 6:30 - 8:30 PM Mrs. Claus at Moretown Memorial Library Dec. 17 6:30 PM Middlesex Christmas Celebration! 7 - 9 PM Christmas Party Middlesex United Methodist Church 7 - 9:30 PM +19 more see less	18 Holiday Mixer in Downtown Barre! All Day Middleground Family Day All Day Holiday Mixer! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman This Sunday 2 - 4 PM Shopping Local Has Some Perks This Holiday Season 3 - 6 PM Annual Holiday Party at Fresh Tracks Farm 5:30 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	19 Last Capital City Farmers' Market in 2015 All Day Stories for a Winter's Eve All Day Dance with "Classic Rewind" Dec. 19 All Day Patti Casey in Concert at Old Meeting House All Day Contradance All Day Onion River Chorus Dec. 19-20 All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Holiday Party at Central Vermont Humane Society All Day Santa at the Library! All Day Origami Ornaments for All Ages 1 - 3 PM Concert - Mad River Chorale 7:30 PM Light in the Night: an Evening of Stories and Songs for the Winter 8 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM Mayfly at Radio Bean in Burlington! 8:30 - 9:30 PM +12 more see less
20 Children's Christmas Party at American Legion All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Skating with Frosty the Snowman! All Day Methodist Church Cantata This Sunday All Day Annual Carol Singalong Dec. 20 All Day Francis Brooks to Speak at Barre Universalist 10 - 11 AM Customer Appreciation Day at Stowe Street Emporium 11 AM - 5 PM Found Lost Dog in Lower Cabot - Yours? 12 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Children's Christmas Party 1 - 4 PM Skating with Frosty the Snowman Sunday 2 - 4 PM +8 more see less	21 Emes Budget Deliberations and Forum 6 - 7 PM Randolph Area Homeless Memorial Day Candlelight Vigil 6 PM Monday Night Football Buffet 7 - 11:30 PM	22 Kabbalah and Psychology (multiday) Water/Wastewater Meeting Announcment and Agenda All Day Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra Tuesday 6:30 - 10:30 PM	23	24 Christmas Eve Service All Day Christmas Eve Service All Day Candle Light Service at the Methodist Church All Day Christmas Eve Service All Day Candlelight Christmas Eve Service All Day Merry Christmas - Service All Day Candlelight Christmas Eve Service 6:30 - 7:30 PM Christmas Eve: One Week from Tonight! 7 PM Christmas Eve: One Week from Tonight! 7 PM Christmas Services at Church of the Crucified One 10 - 11:30 PM +6 more see less	25	26 Come Dance to African Music All Day
27	28 Salsa Dance Classes at La Puerta Negra 6:30 - 10:30 PM Agenda Plainfield Selectboard Meeting Monday 7 - 9 PM	29	30 Networking Coffee Hour All Day Singing Circle for Health, Healing, and Hope 6 PM	31 Mens New Milwaukee Motorcycle Boots for Sale 12 AM - 11:30 PM Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ All Day Fireworks, Music and Magic Happening New Year's Eve All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Gene Logsdon on Dying; Scott Baker on $ All Day Hardwick Gazette's Mike Bielawski on Bellyfeelradio WGDR 2015 Recap 7 - 8 AM New Year's Eve Race in Montpelier 2 - 3 PM New Year's Eve 5k Road Race 2 PM See Marko the Magician on New Year's Eve! 4 - 11 PM Montpelier Alive New Years Eve Festivities 4 - 11 PM Family Friendly New Year's Eve Dinner 5:30 - 8:30 PM Family New Year's Celebration 5:30 - 9 PM +7 more see less	1 Skate for the Cure Friday Night! 7 - 9 PM	2 Bottle and Can Drive Saturday All Day The Odd Wednesdays at Sweet Melissa's in Montpelier All Day Bottle and Can Drive to Support Youth Soccer 9 - 11 AM Roller Derby Here?! 5 - 6:30 PM Downtrodden by Prancer & Dancer? Fear You Won't Get a New Year's Kiss? 9 PM +1 more see less