Calendar - Front Porch Forum

March 2016

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28 Randolph Community Solar Meeting 6:30 - 7:30 PM	29 This Changes Everything - Free Screening and Discussion Feb. 29 All Day This Changes Everything: Free Public Viewing at Goddard Feb. 29 All Day	1 Town Meeting & Presidential Primary All Day Town Meeting Day Tuesday, March 1 All Day EMES ECO Pie Auction Mar. 1 All Day March 1 Town Meeting Potluck Lunch 9 AM - 1:30 PM Girl Scout Cookies for Sale 4 - 5:30 PM +1 more see less	2 OLLI Presentation All Day Singer/Songwriter Rick Redington Returns to Three Bean Cafe All Day Meditation Open House March 2 All Day Dr. Robert Hamill, M.D., on Brain Research All Day Next OLLI Program March 2 1:30 - 3 PM Stretch and Sip - Yoga and Wine 6 - 7 PM How to Ask for What You Want by Cecile Green March 2 6:30 - 7:30 PM Building and Restoring Stone Walls 6:30 PM Readers Group Book In 7 - 8 PM +5 more see less	3 Community Waste Management Project Discussion All Day Summit School Classes Start Next Week! All Day Summit School Spring Classes Registration Open! All Day Summit School Spring Classes Registration Open! All Day Relocalizing VT March 4: Can Progressive 3rd Parties Gain Power? 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT March 4: Can Progressive 3rd Parties Gain Power? 9 - 10:30 AM Cooling the Earth, One Bucket at a Time 11:30 AM - 2 PM Down Home Thursday's with Boffa 3 - 5 PM Summit School Classes Start Next Week! 6:30 PM +5 more see less	4 Celebrate Vermont's 225th Birthday! All Day Friday Night Grill at the American Legion All Day Sip Coffee and Make a Difference! 5 - 6:30 PM Happy Birthday Vermont! 5 - 8 PM Happy Birthday Vermont! March 4 5 - 8 PM Enlightening Conference: How Boys Become Men Mar.4 7 PM (multiday) U-32 Play "Baggage" 7 PM Free! Doo-Wop Dance Party! 7:30 - 10:30 PM EagleMania at Chandler Performing Arts! 7:30 PM EagleMania at Chandler Performing Arts! 7:30 PM EagleMania at Chandler Performing Arts! 7:30 PM EagleMania at Chandler Performing Arts! 7:30 PM +8 more see less	5 The Whiffenpoofs of Yale March 5 & 6 (multiday) Free Movie Night: Captive March 5 All Day Hot Comedy on a Cold Night Mar. 5 All Day Residential Energy Conservation Discussion All Day Spring Music Fest with Radio Flyer & Rehab Roadhouse March 5 All Day Mardi Gras Event to Benefit Vermont Foodbank All Day Navigating Life's Seasons: Women in Transition All Day Poetry Workshop March 5 All Day PRE-K Parent Forum March 5 All Day Library Winter Banquet Tickets Now on Sale All Day Sip 'n Paint at Brown Public Library Mar. 5 All Day Library Winter Banquet Tickets Now on Sale All Day Open House and Kitten Shower All Day Capital City Concerts Presents the Whiffenpoofs All Day Central Vermont Humane Society Open House and Kitten Shower All Day Spring Fling Music Fest All Day Monthly Teaching Series: Wisdom from the Elders 1 - 5 PM Overwhelmed? Be Uplifted and Unshakable: Workshop with Hannah Dubé Mar. 5 3 - 5:30 PM Capital City Concerts March 5 & 6 3 PM (multiday) Best Ways to Conserve Energy at Your House 5:30 - 6:30 PM Residential Energy Conservation 5:30 - 7 PM Stage 32 Presents 'Baggage' 7 - 7 PM Mayfly and Heidi Wilson Concert at Plainfield Town Hall! Mar. 5 7 - 8:30 PM Mayfly and Heidi Wilson Concert at Plainfield Town Hall! Mar. 5 7 - 8:30 PM Great Music at the Opera House Saturday Night 7 - 8:30 PM March Music Series at Plainfield Opera House 7 - 8:30 PM Mayfly and Heidi Wilson Perform at Plainfield Town Hall! Mar. 5 7 - 8:30 PM Mayfly and Heidi Wilson Perform at Plainfield Town Hall! Mar. 5 7 - 8:30 PM Comedy Fundraiser for People's Health and Wellness March 5 7 PM Madaila/The Limes (Concert/Pizza/Ciderflight Deal) 7:30 - 10:30 PM Kamikaze Comedy Invades Central VT! 8 - 9:30 PM Hot Comedy on Cold Night Mar. 5 8 - 10 PM Improvisational Comedy 8 PM +29 more see less
6 Downton Abbey Finale Event All Day Dance, Sing and Jump Around in Plainfield March 6 All Day English Tea in Bethany Church Chapel March 6 All Day Weaving Class All Day Northfield Farmers' Market 11 AM - 2 PM Norwich University Competitive Dance Team to Perform 11 AM Red Cross Shelter Volunteer Training March 6 1 - 2:30 PM Fun Dancing & Music for the Family 3 - 4:30 PM Dancing & Music - Free Fun for the Kids 3 - 4:30 PM Music for a March Afternoon 3 - 4:30 PM Family Dance 3 - 4:30 PM Monteverdi Music School Presents - Music for a March Afternoon 3 PM House Concert Invite: Dana and Susan Robinson 4 - 6:30 PM +9 more see less	7 Gettysburg College Choir in Northfield March 7 All Day Legislative Breakfast with Govenor Peter Shumlin 7:30 - 9 AM Radio Interview Re: Vaccine Choice 9 - 10:30 AM 30's and Under Meditation Night! March 7 6:30 - 8:30 PM 30's and Under Meditation Night! March 7 6:30 - 8:30 PM Monthly Marshfield and Plainfield Energy Committee Meeting March 7 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	8 Public Forum on Local Opiate and Heroin Crisis All Day Forum on Regional Heroin Crisis: Introduction to "Project Safe Catch" All Day Two Free Classes to Uplift This Week w/ Hannah Dubé 12 - 1 PM Randolph Dream Group Tuesday 6 - 8 PM Community Forum on Local Opiate and Heroin Crisis March 8 6:30 PM Tai Chi Class for Beginners 7:30 - 9 PM Tai Chi Class Starting Tuesday March 8 7:30 - 9 PM Tai Chi Classes Begin March 8 7:30 - 9 PM +4 more see less	9 OLLI Presentation All Day Next OLLI (Osher) Program March 9 1:30 - 3 PM Barre Heritage Festival Volunteer Event 6 - 7 PM Exploring Your Dreams at Bethel University! 6 - 8 PM Cancer Support Group 6 - 8 PM Young Adult Book Discussion at Kellogg-Hubbard Library March 9 6:30 - 7:30 PM Harwood Faculty vs. Students Basketball Game March 9 6:30 - 8:30 PM Keeping Track Presentation: Animals of the North 6:30 - 8:30 PM Harwood Faculty/Student Basketball Game 6:30 PM River Rock School Open House March 9 7 - 8:30 PM +6 more see less	10 Relocalizing Vermont: Organic Artist; NEK Food Plan March 10 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Organic Artist; NEK Food Plan March 10 9 - 10:30 AM New Mothers' Dream Circle 10 - 11:30 AM Free Movie on the Battle Waged for Women to Get the Vote 6 - 8 PM Rabies Clinic for Dogs and Cats March 10 6 - 8 PM Free Movie on the Battle Waged for Women to Get the Vote 6 - 8 PM Methodist Church Free Community Meal 6 PM +3 more see less	11 "Fly by Night" Concert to Benefit Food Program All Day St. Monica-St. Michael School Lenten Fish Dinners All Day Teen Open Mic Night on Friday! All Day poeMUSEic March 11 All Day "Fly by Night" Benefit Concert in Barre All Day Arioso Zoologica 7:30 - 9 PM +2 more see less	12 Cvatv Annual Spaghetti Dinner All Day Public Forum on Fracked Gas Pipeline All Day Community Forum on Fracked Gas Pipeline All Day Food and Bottle Drop All Day Pasta Dinner at Unitarian Church of Montpelier March 12 All Day Barre Town Fire Department Rabies Clinic Mar. 12 All Day Blood Drawing at Twin Valley March 12 All Day Kids Trade and Play, Children's Clothing Exchange All Day Community Forum on Fracked Gas Pipeline All Day Randolph Rabies Clinic 9 AM - 12 PM Food and Bottle Drop 9 AM - 2 PM Mother Nurture Donation Yoga Class Saturday 9:30 AM - 10:30 PM FCWC Family Fun Day 10 AM - 1 PM Family Center of Washington County Family Fun Day! 10 AM - 1 PM Free Living Supply Closet and Lunch 11 AM - 1 PM Blissful Back and Shoulders Workshop 1:30 - 3:30 PM 'Them, Us & You' Exhibit Opening at SPA 4 - 6 PM Glow Night Pasta Dinner Fundraiser at Unitarian Church Montpelier 5:30 - 7 PM Community Forum on the Fracked Gas Pipeline 6 - 7:30 PM Community Forum on the Fracked Gas Pipeline 6 PM Benefit Concert at RUHS 7 - 10 PM Chiara String Quartet at Chandler! 7:30 PM Chiara String Quartet at Chandler Saturday! 7:30 PM Chiara String Quartet at Chandler! 7:30 PM Chiara String Quartet at Chandler! 7:30 PM Chiara String Quartet at Chandler! 7:30 PM Advanced (And Regular) Contra Dance Saturday! 8 - 11:45 PM +23 more see less
13 Tree Medicine Seasonal March 13 Williamstown 10 AM - 4 PM Tree Medicine Class 10 AM - 4 PM Tree Medicine Seasonal March 13 Williamstown 10 AM - 4 PM Irish Music with O'hAnleigh 2 - 4 PM Arioso Zoologica 3 - 4:30 PM +1 more see less	14 Community Spanish Class Meets Monday, March 14 All Day Plainfield Selectboard Meeting Agenda March 14 All Day Community Conversations on Inequality March 14 6 - 8 PM Book Discussion 6:30 - 8 PM	15 Kindergarten Registration at Union Elementary School (multiday) Dreaming into Earth: Integrative Experiential Dreamwork 5:45 - 8:30 PM Youth Activism Summit Art Party March 15 6 - 7:30 PM Selectboard to Discuss Proposed Changes to Stranahan Forest Mgt Plan 6 PM Stranahan Discussion March 15 6 PM Great Live Music at Opera House March 15 7 - 10 PM Music Event at Plainfield Opera House March 15! 7 - 10 PM +3 more see less	16 OLLI Lecture on Optimal Population All Day Next OLLI (Osher) Program March 16 1:30 - 3 PM Presentation: “What is an Optimal/Sustainable Population for Vermont?” 1:30 PM	17 Hazard Mitigation Committee Meets March 17 All Day Nick Neddo Wildcraft Your Artwork at KH Library All Day Chamber Mixer All Day St. Patrick's Day Dinner at Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Kindergarten Registration at Union Elementary School All Day St. Patrick's Day Dinner at Twin Valley Senior Center All Day “Let's Talk Kindergarten” Night at Union Elementary School All Day Barre Supervisory Union Act 46 Study Committee All Day “Let's Talk Kindergarten” Night at Union Elementary School All Day BNI Seeks Electricians, Physical Therapists, Contractors, and Media 8 - 9:30 AM Mental Health Advocacy Day March 17 8 AM - 12 PM Relocalizing Vermont: Unsustainable Presidency; NEK Food Plan 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Unsustainable Presidency; NEK Food Plan 9 - 10:30 AM Third Thursday: Connecticut River Petroglyph 12 - 1 PM Saint Patrick's Day Dinner - 50/50 Door Prize 4 - 7 PM Village Planning Discussion: Village Water Supply 7 - 8 PM +12 more see less	18 Mayo Healthcare's Taste of Maple All Day Comedy Night! All Day Mayo Healthcare's Taste of Maple All Day Story Time March 18! All Day Comedy Night! All Day Mayo Healthcare "Taste of Maple" Fundraising Event 6 - 9 PM Family Fun Night- Jazzercise 6:30 - 7:30 PM Free Evening of Folk Dance Instruction 7 - 9 PM +4 more see less	19 Nice Concert Saturday and Sunday! (multiday) Orchard Valley Waldorf School Open House March 19 All Day Randolph Farmer's Market All Day Randolph Farmer's Market - Annual Vendor's Meeting All Day Orchard Valley Waldorf School Open House All Day Berries for Backyard Garden March 19 - Free Presentation All Day Orchard Valley Waldorf School Open House March 19 All Day Sugar on Snow Montpelier Farmers Market Saturday All Day Randolph Farmer's Market - Annual Vendor's Meeting All Day Lights Off for Earth Hour All Day Bring Your Own Snow to Farmers Market – Sugar on Snow March 19 All Day Free "Unconference" for Educators March 19 All Day Open House Orchard Valley School Saturday, March 19 All Day Williamstown Freshman AAU Bottle Drive All Day 15th Annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, March 19 All Day VSAC Free College Planning Event! All Day Pancake Breakfast 8 - 11 AM Woodbury Pie Breakfast! March 19 8:30 - 10:30 AM 16th Annual Woodbury Pie Breakfast! 8:30 - 10:30 AM All You Can Eat Pie Breakfast! 9 - 11 AM Rumney's Annual Pie Breakfast Mar. 19 9 - 11 AM Lifeguard & Water Safety Instructor Courses Begin Mar. 19 9 AM - 4 PM Cabin-Fever Reliever Theatre Workshops! 9 AM - 5:30 PM Cabin-Fever Reliever Theatre Workshops at Chandler! 9 AM - 5:30 PM Cabin-Fever Reliever Theatre Workshops at Chandler! 9 AM - 5:30 PM Cabin-Fever Reliever Theatre Workshops at Chandler! 9 AM - 5:30 PM Cabin-Fever Reliever Theatre Workshops at Chandler! 9 AM - 5:30 PM “Berries for Backyard Garden" March 19 - Free Presentation 10 AM - 12 PM League of Women Voters Luncheon Address on Human Trafficking 11:30 AM - 2 PM Bryan Pfeiffer to Speak on Migration at Unitarian Church 6:30 - 9 PM Performance: "Duffy Gardner Live in Concert" at Espresso Bueno 7 PM +27 more see less
20 Auditions! Theater for Kids by Kids Summer Production Camps at LNT All Day Screening and Potluck: "Damnation All Day Tack and Craft Sale 9 AM - 4 PM Sunday Movie at Roxbury Free Library 2 - 4 PM Emerald Trio Sunday, Unitarian Montpelier 3 - 5 PM Rainbow Umbrella Invites All to Anniversary Dance 3 - 6 PM Flatlanders Play Vermont Music 3 PM Community Singalong Sunday, March 20 6 - 8 PM +4 more see less	21 East Montpelier Calais Historical Society Meeting All Day 056VT, Northfield's New Television Program! 7 - 7:30 PM Cabot Board Act 46 Community Forum 7 - 8:30 PM Berlin Selectboard Agenda for March 21 7 - 10 PM Act 46 Forum March 21 / U32 Forum March 23 7 PM +1 more see less	22 Middlesex Energy Team Meeting March 22 All Day Free Financial Peace University Preview Class This Tuesday 6 - 8 PM All You Can Eat Pizza & Softball Fundraiser 6 - 8 PM Informational Workshop on Comprehensive Efficiency Approach 6:30 PM	23 Rabies Clinic All Day Show Tonight! Sara Grace & Andy Suits at Sweet Melissa's All Day Final Community Forum This Year All Day Celebrate Spring at Lost Nation Theater's First Ever Indoor Egg Hunt! All Day Final Community Forum This Year All Day Act 46 Update March 23 All Day Lost Nation Theater Indoor Egg Hunt 5:30 - 6 PM Northfield Youth Sports Baseball Sign-Ups 6 - 8 PM Free Screening of Important Film: " This Changes Everything" 7 - 9:30 PM Wednesday: WCSU Act 46 Public Forum 7 PM +6 more see less	24 Relocalizing Vermont: Local Food Systems in ME and MN March 24 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing VT: Local Food Systems in ME and MN March 24 9 - 10:30 AM Open House at Pacem School 5 - 7 PM Methodist Church Free Community Meal 6 PM Maddog Chapter Trout Unlimited Fly Tying Class! 6:30 PM Green Mountain Girls: Women of Long Trail March 24 7 - 9 PM Green Mountain Girls: Women of Long Trail March 24 7 PM Maundy Thursday Service of Holy Communion 7 PM Maundy Thursday Service of Holy Communion at Methodist Church 7 PM +5 more see less	25 Good Friday Messiah Concert All Day Free Community Lunch Friday March 25 All Day Good Bernieday - an Organizing Rally 5:30 - 7 PM Methodist Church Good Friday Service 7 PM Good Friday Messiah Concert 8:30 PM +1 more see less	26 Please Come to Bake Sale All Day Community Clean Up Day! All Day Randolph Rabies Clinic All Day Twinfield Dinner Raffle March 26 All Day East Montpelier Democratic Caucus March 26 All Day 29th Annual Egg Hunt March 26 All Day Annual Easter Egg Hunt All Day Therapeutic Touch 8:30 AM (multiday) Brookfield Rabies Clinic 9 AM - 12 PM Community Clean Up Day! 9 AM - 12 PM Brookfield Rabies Clinic 9 AM - 12 PM Community Clean Up 9 AM - 12 PM Spring Comes Early, Green Up Comes Early 9 AM - 12 PM 2016 Northfield Rotary Club Easter Egg Hunt 10 - 11 AM Montpelier Egg Hunt 10 - 11:30 AM Events at Studio Place Arts 10 AM - 5 PM Community Easter Egg Hunt 10:30 AM Montpelier Democratic Caucus March 26 1 - 2 PM Chili Cook Off March 26 1 - 3 PM All Churches 1st Annual Chili Cook Off and Silent Auction 1 - 3 PM Featured Artist Reception Art of Vermont 4 - 7 PM Wine & Cheese Reception @ Art of Vermont 4 - 7 PM +18 more see less
27 Frackman All Day Easter Service All Day Easter Happenings 7 - 9 AM Easter Sunday Services at East Randolph Baptist Church 9 - 11:30 AM	28 Plainfield Democratic Town Caucus All Day Pirates & Fools Tour - Gilbert & Sullivan to Plainfield and Beyond 7 PM (multiday)	29 Film: "This Changes Everything” Tuesday, March 29 All Day Calling All Homeschoolers All Day Little League Sign Ups 5:30 - 7 PM Randolph Dream Group Meets March 29 6 - 8 PM Essential Heart of Kasungship: a 5-Part Class 6:30 PM (multiday) Explore Our Future in Space with Allen M. Steel & James Cambias 7 - 8:30 PM Community Workshops: Free and Open to Community 7:30 - 8:30 PM +3 more see less	30 GCG Meet Up at Alley Cat - Wednesday, March 30 All Day Next OLLI (Osher) Program 1:30 - 3 PM Granite City Grocery Meetup (Everyone Welcome) 5:30 - 7 PM Karaoke with Granite City Grocery March 30 5:30 - 7 PM Dinner and Music with Rick Redington! 5:30 - 8 PM Milk & Cookies Night 6 - 7 PM Milk & Cookies Night 6 - 7 PM Friends of Brown Public Library Reorganizational Meeting 6 - 8 PM +4 more see less	31 Public Hearing on Marijuana Bill March 31 All Day Marijuana Film and Panel at MHS March 31 All Day Relocalizing Vermont: Fruit Tree Prep, On-Farm Slaughter Law 9 - 10:30 AM Relocalizing Vermont: Fruit Tree Prep; On-Farm Slaughter Law 9 - 10:30 AM Pirates & Fools Pre-Gala Free Matinee March 31 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pirates & Fools Pre-Gala Tour Brings Gilbert & Sullivan to Plainfield 10:30 AM March 31 and April 8 Childcare Fundraiser 5:30 - 9 PM Randolph Dog Licensing and Property Taxes 6 PM Marijuana Film and Panel at Montpelier HS March 31 6:30 PM Woodlands for Wildlife Talk 7 - 8:30 PM Protecting Woodlands for Wildlife 7 PM +7 more see less	1 Bottle Drive for Northfield High School Girls Softball Team! 12 AM Project Independence Lucky Raffle Fundraiser April 1 All Day April 1 Art Show Opening at the Front Gallery All Day Kamikaze Comedy at Chandler in Randolph! All Day Kamikaze Comedy at Chandler 7:30 AM - 9:30 PM Vermont Bicycle Shop Grand Opening! 9:30 AM (multiday) New Exhibit Opening Friday at Front Gallery, Montpelier 4 - 8 PM Second Harvest Exhibition at Blinking Light Gallery 6 - 8 PM Free Heat Pump Workshop Open to Public 6:30 - 8:30 PM Mary Poppins at the Flynn 7:30 PM (multiday) +6 more see less	2 Randolph Democratic Caucus to Choose Delegates to the State Democratic All Day Help a Helping Church & Come to Great Auction April 2 All Day Refeathering the Empty Nest, Expressive Writing Arts Workshop 12 AM Democratic Post-Primary Presidential Town Caucus All Day Expanding Cancer Care: Exploring Choices in Complementary Integrative Medicine 8 AM - 4 PM Crayon and Papermaking Workshops! 8:15 AM (multiday) Republican Caucus 8:30 - 10 AM Pie for Brunch April 2 10 AM - 1 PM Tree Pruning Workshop 10 AM - 1 PM Free Tree Pruning Workshop 10 AM - 1 PM Capital City Indoor Farmers' Market April 2 10 AM - 2 PM Maple Open House 10 AM (multiday) Open Maple Sugarhouse 10 AM (multiday) Tree Pruning Workshop with Dave Wilcox April 2 All Day River Rock School Auction 12 PM River Rock School Auction - Only Few Days Left to Bid Online! 1 - 5:30 PM Learn How to Use the Sun! Solar Fair 2 - 4:30 PM Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder at Roxbury Free Library April 2 4 - 7 PM Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder at Roxbury Free Library April 2 4 - 7 PM Beyond Measure: Film Screening in Cabot 5 - 8 PM Contradance April 2 8 - 11 PM +17 more see less