Calendar - Front Porch Forum

February 2015

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1 Music & Events This Week at Bagitos Cafe 6 PM (multiday) Village Medic Training This Weekend (multiday) Herbal First Aid Training, Jan. 31-Feb. 1 9 AM (multiday) Collab Facilitator Training: Delivering Collaborative Power in Action All Day Shrine Super Bingo Games at Champlain Valley Fair All Day Cabot Chili Cook-Off Contest Sun. All Day Concert at the United Church of Craftsbury 1 PM Concert at the United Church of Craftsbury 1 PM Green Mountain Club Moonlight Outing Feb. 1 7 PM +5 more see less	2 Free Kindermusick Class on Monday at Kellogg Hubbard Library! All Day Regular Meeting of HPES Board on Feb. 2 6 PM Marshfield and Plainfield Energy Committee Meeting Feb. 2 7 - 8:30 PM	3 Early Education Forum in the OSSU Community Tuesday, Feb. 3 All Day Small Farmer Discussion Group with Brown Bag Lunch 12 - 1 PM Planning Commission Meeting Agenda 7 - 9 PM	4 Doggie Play Group This Wednesday! All Day Ecstatic Dance Feb. 4 All Day First Osher (Olli) Program This Wednesday All Day Celebrate the Jewish New Year for the Trees All Day Osher Presentation All Day New Year for the Trees - Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder All Day Olli Program on History of Vermont Through Music All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center 8:30 AM - 12 PM Resnik and Morrissey Feb. 4 1:30 - 3 PM Book Discussion "Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics" 3:30 - 5 PM Celebrate the Jewish New Year for the Trees - Tu B'shavat 6 - 7:30 PM Book to Film Program at Jeudevine Library: 12 Years a Slave 7 - 9:30 PM A Hard Day's Night at the Jaquith Feb. 4 7 PM Cabot Selectboard Meeting Agenda 7 PM +10 more see less	5 Knitting Group All Day Special Mtng Calais Selectboard - Thurs. Feb 5 5 PM Corrected - Calais Selectboard Special Meeting 6 PM Solar Meeting Date Confusion 6:30 - 7:30 PM Solar Calais! Meeting Feb. 5 6:30 - 7:30 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Tonight, Feb. 5 at The Whammy Bar: All-Ages Music/Writing Slam! 7 - 8:30 PM Reading and Discussion Group on Climate Change 7 - 9 PM Cabot Roamers June Term Back Roads VT Tour Meeting 7 PM +5 more see less	6 Warm Up for Bob Dylan Contest at Whammy Bar! All Day Soldering Workshop at Library Feb. 6 All Day Another Photographic Event at Art Walk All Day Family Dance! All Day Montpelier Art Walk Show and Performance at North Branch Cafe All Day Naked in Norway Talk Feb. 6 All Day Coffee/Lunch with a Cop All Day Furnished Room for Rent in Log Cabin 2 PM Art Walk Downtown Montpelier: Art and Chocolate 4 - 8 PM Ray Brown at Gallery Six: Opening Reception for Art Walk 4 - 8 PM First Friday Feast Community Potluck, Presentation and Open Mic 5:30 - 8:30 PM Event; Family Dance in Worcester 6:30 - 8 PM +8 more see less	7 Indoor Yard Sale! All Day Capital City Farmers Market All Day Capital City Farmers Market is Back! All Day Montessori School of Central Vermont Open House Feb 7 All Day Warm Up for the Bob Dylan Contest at Nutty Stephs! All Day Earthwalk Winter Community Day - Feb. 7 All Day Earthwalk Winter Community Day Saturday All Day Jazz at the Whammy Bar Feb. 7 All Day Calling All Dads - Fun Times with Good Beginnings! All Day The Play's the Thing All Day Diane Tetrault at the Whammy Bar! All Day Indoor Yard Sale! All Day Smoking J's at Moogs All Day Bottle Drive & Bake Sale Feb 7 All Day Tricks for Ticks -- Kellogg Hubbard Library Saturday Feb. 7 All Day Tricks for Ticks -- Saturday, Feb. 7 All Day Bottle Drive & Bake Sale - Sat Feb 7 All Day Young Tradition Vermont Showcase All Day Tricks for Ticks All Day Free Movie Day for Dads and Kids All Day Earthwalk Winter Community Day Feb. 7 All Day Farmers Market Saturday All Day Bottle Drive February 7th 9 AM - 12 PM Montessori Open House 9 AM - 11 PM Singing and Felt Hat Making Workshop 9 AM (multiday) Capital City Farmers Market at Montpelier High School Feb. 7! 10 AM - 2 PM Save Your Bottles! 10 AM (multiday) "Tricks for Ticks" Talk at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Montpelier 10:30 - 11:30 AM Creating a Sustainable Community 10:30 - 11:45 AM Conversations from the Working Landscape Continues 10:30 - 11:45 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 Grow Your Own Gathering 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Earthwalk Winter Community Day Feb. 7! 1 - 5 PM Reception for Bram Towbin's Photo Show 4 - 6 PM Young Tradition Showcase in Burlington! 6 PM A Room with a View Next in Classic Film Series 7 - 9 PM Community Coffeehouse Feb. 7 7 - 9 PM In Honor of Black History Month: Free at the Unitarian Universalist 7:30 - 8:30 PM "Dream Deferred" Feb. 7 7:30 PM +36 more see less
8 Upcoming Family Dance All Day Family Dance in Plainfield All Day Family Dance in Plainfield Feb 8 All Day Dance, Sing, and Jump Around Feb. 8 All Day Lacto-Fermentation Workshop at the Four Corners Schoolhouse All Day Michael Arnowitt - Beethoven Sonata Concert Feb 8 All Day Fun Family Event at Plainfield Town Hall All Day Family Dance All Day Family Dance at Plainfield Town Hall All Day Family Dance in Plainfield Sunday Feb. 8 All Day Free Lacto-Fermentation Workshop This Sunday All Day Second Beethoven/Arnowitt Show Has Been Added! All Day Montpelier Antiques Market Feb. 8 8 AM - 1:30 PM Huntington Open Women's Land to Present at Sterling College Feb. 8 1 - 2:30 PM Michael Arnowitt Presents Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Montpelier 3 - 5:30 PM +11 more see less	9 Kindermusick Class Tomorrow! All Day Water/Wastewater Meeting Notice All Day Making Paper Snow Flakes All Day Warning - Town Garage Working Group Meeting Feb. 9 All Day Mark Schapiro: Carbon Shock All Day Carbon Shock: a Tale of Risk and Calculus 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 Selectboard Meeting Feb. 9 7 PM +5 more see less	10 Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Feb. 10 All Day Collage Workshop at the North Branch Cafe All Day Small Farmer Discussion Group with Brown Bag Lunch 12 - 1 PM OSSU School Board Info Session - Feb. 10 6 - 8 PM Slide Show: Travel to Cuba 6:30 - 7:30 PM +1 more see less	11 Cabot Chronicle Public Forum All Day Genealogy Workshop for Kids and Their Parents All Day HPES Future Educational Options Committee Meeting Feb. 11 All Day Armchair Travel Series: Botswana with John Snell All Day OLLI Program on Photography All Day "Cookie's Hot Club" Fun Gypsy Jazz at Sweet Melissa's All Day Community Health Talk Series w/Lanpher Library and Copley Hospital! All Day Osher(Olli) Program Feb. 11 All Day Around the World Tea Series at the North Branch Cafe All Day Song Circle Community Sing-A-Long at the Jaquith All Day Osher (OLLI) Presentation All Day Osher Presentation 1:30 - 2:30 PM OLLI Presents Photographer Craig Line Feb. 11 1:30 - 2:30 PM Family Tree After-School Workshp at Woodbury Comunity Library 3 - 4 PM Marshfield Historical Society Meeting 6:30 - 8 PM Cabot Creamery Cookbook - Talk & Tasting 7 - 8 PM Cabot Chronicle Public Forum 7 - 8:30 PM Delivering Power in Action: Introducing Collab Process for Change 7 - 9 PM +14 more see less	12 Sustaining Food and Farms in Your Community All Day Relocalizing VT: Heating and Traveling in a Low-Carbon World All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop and Pizza! All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Calais Energy Group + Nearby Zero Energy Home Workshop (And Pizza) All Day 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 Adult Human Sexuality Class Begins Feb. 12 All Day Zero Energy Home Workshop All Day Sustaining Food and Farms in Your Community All Day Knitting4peace Meets Weekly 6 - 7:30 PM Hardwick Elementary School Family Art Night Feb. 12 6 - 7:30 PM New Technologies for Home Heating 7 - 8:30 PM Bee Talk! Feb. 12 7:30 - 9 PM +14 more see less	13 Local Luv Pizza (multiday) 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 Freelancers at Sweet Melissa's All Day Kick Em Jenny Old-Time Music at Espresso Bueno Friday Feb. 13! All Day Fundraiser! All Day Tax Clinics Offered All Day Love at Bagitos All Day Kava Express This Friday at the Whammy Bar! All Day I Love East Montpelier Day at EMES - Feb. 13 All Day Singing Valentines Fundraiser Shared with COTS 9 AM (multiday) Blooms & Perfumes Valentine's Pop Up 11 AM (multiday) Love Your Senior Center Dinner 6 - 9 PM Frozen - Screening in Woodbury 7 - 9 PM Annual Valentine's Calcutta Raffle Feb. 13 7 PM (multiday) Concert by Cameo Baroque - Feb. 13 7 PM +12 more see less	14 Wine and Chocolate Weekend (multiday) Moving Sale Feb. 14 & 15 (multiday) Plainfield World Music Chorus Continues Saturday! All Day Morrisville Rotary's Lake Elmore Polar Splash All Day 7th Annual Lake Elmore Polar Splash! All Day Live Music by Matt Szlachetka All Day Sky Blue Boys: Banjo Dan and Will Lindner at the Adamant Church All Day Wine and Chocolate at Fresh Tracks Farm Winery All Day Freezin' for a Reason! All Day Brrrrrrrr! Morrisville Rotary's Lake Elmore Polar Spash All Day Polar Splash All Day Skating Party Feb. 14 All Day Concert 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) Skating Party 1 - 3 PM Tracking the Wild Workshop - Feb. 14 And/Or Feb. 28 1 - 4 PM Valentine's Day Snowshoeing Party 1:30 - 4 PM Valentine's Day Potluck and Contra Dance Saturday 5:30 - 10:30 PM Special Valentine's Day Potluck and Contra Dance in Cabot 5:30 - 10:30 PM Valentine's Day Contra Dance & Potluck Supper 5:30 PM Music in Adamant 5:30 PM Valentine's Day 6 - 9 PM Sky Blue Boys: Banjo Dan and Will Lindner at the Adamant Church 7 PM Shadyrill at the Music Box Valentine's Day: Feb 14 7:30 - 9:30 PM Shadyrill at the Music Box Valentine's Day: Feb 14 7:30 - 9:30 PM Come Sing with Red Lavendar on Valentine's Day! 7:30 - 9:30 PM +24 more see less
15 Empty Bowl Benefit All Day Benefit for VT Foodbank! All Day Cabot Arts Show & Tell Feb. 15 All Day Annual Sourdough Pancake Brunch Sunday Feb. 15 All Day Feb.15 Rainbow Ice Sculptures Community Event! All Day Meet Your Rep All Day Spaghetti Dinner and Bake Sale Fundraiser All Day Iaian Macharg Playing Scottish Bagpipes - Feb. 15 All Day Benefit for the VT Foodbank 4:30 - 7 AM Tiferet Trails Wilderness Girls Series Workshop: Tend the Hearth 1 - 5 PM Final Auditions for Summer Production of Merchant of Venice 1 - 5 PM Empty Bowl Fundraiser 4:30 - 6:30 PM Community Singalong 6 - 8 PM +9 more see less	16 FY16 School Budget Informational Meeting All Day Summit School Adult Music Classes Start Feb. 16! All Day Agenda for the Feb. 16 Meeting of the HPES Board All Day Yoga at Old Schoolhouse Common! All Day CCSU Open House Feb. 16 4 - 7 PM +1 more see less	17 Natural Marshfield Series Presents: Bees - Feb. 17 All Day Celebrate Mardi Gras at Christ Episcopal Church! All Day Tax Installment Due Feb. 17 All Day Lunch and Learn at the North Branch Cafe All Day Pre-Town Meeting Feb. 17 All Day Calais/E. Montpelier Historical Meeting Feb. 17 All Day Calais/E.M. Historical Soc. Meeting Feb. 17 All Day Pre-Town Meeting Forum, Tues. Feb 17 All Day Small Farmer Discussion Group with Brown Bag Lunch 12 - 1 PM Hyde Park Baseball & Softball Signups 5 - 7 PM Community Dinner Feb. 17 5 - 7 PM 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 Cabot Agricultural Network Meeting 7 - 8:30 PM Notice of Planning Commission Public Hearing 7 - 9 PM Notice of Planning Commission Public Hearing 7 - 9 PM +13 more see less	18 Calais Roads Advisory Committee Meeting All Day Union Elementary School's 75th Anniversary/ Lantern Parade and Winter Carnival All Day Lantern Procession Celebrates 75th Birthday of Union Elementary School All Day Worcester Neighborhood Watch Meeting All Day Union Elementary School - Lantern Parade All Day Pacem School Open House All Day Worcester Neighborhood Watch All Day Free Community Supper All Day Agenda, Plainfield Conservation Commission Feb. 18 All Day Selectboard Special Meeting Agenda - Zoning Work Sesson All Day Agenda - Selectboard Meeting - Feb. 18 All Day Olli Lecture on Disappearing Alphabets All Day Free Tax Preparation at Craftsbury Library Feb. 18 All Day LEDC Workshop on Mobile Marketing & Digital Update 9 AM - 12 PM LEDC Workshop on Mobile Marketing & Digital Update 9 AM - 12 PM 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 Pacem School Open House 5 - 6:30 PM Lamoille Valley Rail Trail Meeting Feb 18 5:30 PM Lamoille Valley Rail Trail Meeting Feb 18 5:30 PM Board Meeting: Cabot Community Association Feb.18 7 - 8:30 PM Tonight's Movie at Rumney Library! 7 - 9 PM Upper Black River Stabilization Presentation 7 - 9 PM All in the Family Film Series at Jaquith Library - Feb. 18 7 PM Upper Black River Presentation Feb. 18 7 PM +22 more see less	19 Square Dance All Day Lecture on "Throughput" at Kellogg-Hubbard Thursday Feb. 19 All Day Meet Your Candidates with the Bridge All Day "Mo-Co" Mixer Thursday All Day Peacham School - Community Talent Show Feb. 19 All Day Fully-Funded Tuition at BJAMS: Now - June 9 - 10:30 AM Mystery Book Club 2:30 - 3:30 PM Morrisville Co-Op Mixer ("Mo-Co") 5 - 7 PM Southeast Asian Cooking Class 6 - 9 PM Planning Commission Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 PM Square Dance in Montpelier with Kick 'Em Jenny! 7:30 PM Square Dance in Montpelier with Kick 'Em Jenny! 7:30 PM +8 more see less	20 The Write Stuff (multiday) Turnmusic Shows Feb. 20 & 21 (multiday) Solar Wine Tasting at Fresh Tracks Farm Tomorrow! All Day Family Dance at Christ Church Feb. 20 All Day Mardi Gras Party at Charlios Friday Feb. 20 All Day Solar Wine Tasting at Fresh Tracks Farm Friday! All Day Making Paper Snowflakes at MSAC Feb. 20 1:30 PM +3 more see less	21 Snow Sculptures! (multiday) Live Streaming of Nordic World Championships (multiday) Central Vermont Humane Society Adoption Center Birthday Party All Day Don't Miss This Year's Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest All Day Don't Miss This Year's Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest All Day Great Green Mountain Bob Dylan Wannabe Contest All Day Sneak Preview of New Documentary Film on Senegalese Women All Day CC Farmers Market All Day Chinese New Year Benefit Dinner Feb. 21 All Day Clarke Lecture and Dinner Event All Day Chinese New Year Benefit Dinner Feb. 21 All Day Clarke Lecture and Dinner Event All Day 2 Chances to Contradance - Sat., Feb. 21 All Day Computer Class This Saturday All Day Maple Corner Mardi Gras and Winter Carnival Feb 21 All Day Clark Lecture and Dinner Event All Day Farmers Market All Day Capital City Farmers Market All Day Montpelier Farmers' Market 10 AM - 2 PM Conversations from the Working Landscape Continues 10:30 AM - 12 PM "This Changes Everything" Book Group in East Montpelier 1 - 3:30 PM Senegal Film Saturday 7 PM +18 more see less
22 Take Out or Eat in Sunday Dinner at TVSC All Day Venison Cookery Class with Lisa Mase All Day Tin Man in Yoga Class?! Find Fascial Freedom Feb. 22 All Day Venison Cookery Class with Lisa Mase All Day Cabot Arts Show and Tell All Day Craftsbury Winter Farmer's Market All Day Last Sunday of the Month Dinner for Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Support Twin Valley Senior Center Meals on Wheels Program All Day Twin Valley Senior Center Dinner Feb. 22 All Day Venison Cookery Class with Lisa Mase All Day Montpelier Antiques Market, Sunday, Feb. 22 8 AM - 1:30 PM NEK Vermont Permaculture Group Pruning Meetup 12 - 4 PM Last Sunday of the Month Dinner 4 - 6 PM Classic Film Series at MCCC Features the Band Wagon Sunday 7 - 9:30 PM +10 more see less	23 Lamoille River Paddlers Trail Info Meeting All Day School to Prison Pipeline Public Forum All Day Agricultural Energy Info Hosted by VECAN - VT Energy All Day February Vacation Day Camp - Heroes of WinterBreak 9 AM (multiday) 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 Selectboard Agenda Feb. 23 7 PM Twinfield Union School Board Meeting Feb. 23 8 - 9 PM +7 more see less	24 Militarization of Police Depts, Focus on VT 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 Free Evening of International Folk Dance Instruction 6:30 - 8:30 PM Writing About Vermont History Presentation 7 - 8 PM Community Solar Presentation in Peacham 7 - 8:30 PM +2 more see less	25 Partner's Yoga W/Hannah Lynn All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center Feb 25 All Day Osher (Olli) Presentation All Day Osher (Olli) Program Feb. 25 All Day OLLI Program About Holyrood Palace Chairs All Day Meet the Candidates Forum Feb. 25 All Day Foot Care Clinic at Twin Valley Senior Center All Day Farmers Night - "From Plimoth to Yorktown" with Seven Times Salt All Day Cabot Meet the Candidates Forum Feb. 25 5:30 PM Meet the Candidates for Cabot Town Clerk 6 - 7 PM Luxuriously Healthy Hair Workshop at VCIH 6 - 8 PM Agenda - Selectboard Special Meeting - Feb. 25 7 PM +8 more see less	26 Feb. 26 Gong Event All Day Net-Zero Energy, Passive House Construction Info Mtg All Day Tell a Fairy Tale Day - Win a Gift Certificate to Bear Pond Books All Day Net-Zero Energy, Passive House Construction Info. Mtg. Feb. 26 All Day Net-Zero Energy Passive House Construction Info. Mtg. Feb. 26 All Day Agenda - Selectboard Special Meeting - Tax Anticipation Note All Day Net-Zero Energy, Passive House Construction Info Mtg All Day Net-Zero Energy Passive House Construction Info. Mtg. Feb. 26 All Day NASA Astronaut, to Speak at Norwich University All Day Pre-Town Meeting Forum All Day Net-Zero Energy Passive House Construction Info. Mtg. Feb. 26 All Day Net-Zero Energy Passive House Construction Info. Mtg. Feb. 26 All Day Honeybee Time at Jeudevine 10 AM - 12 PM Workshops for Children 10 AM - 12 PM Craftsbury Energy Comm. Mtg. on Passive House Construction Feb. 26 6:30 PM Special Presentation on Karma at St. Johnsbury Shambhala Center 7 - 8:30 PM Hazen Union Drama Presents "The Spindlestone Wyrm." 7 PM (multiday) Want to Hear a Presentation from an Astronaut? 7 PM +14 more see less	27 Swashbuckling Family Fun All Day Words Words Words! a Physical Comedy & Aerial Acrobatic Intensive All Day Peacham Winter Carnival 7 PM (multiday) Comedy! 8:30 - 10 PM Radio Flyer at Positive Pie II Montpelier 10 PM (multiday) +1 more see less	28 Earthwalk Field Institute: Tracking the Wild - Feb. 28 All Day Rising Tide Vermont Cabin Fever Fundraising Party! All Day Cabot Connects Mentoring Program Benefit Concert All Day Cabot Connects Mentoring Program Benefit Concert All Day Rising Tide VT's Cabin Fever Fundraising Party! All Day Come to the Cabin Fever Fundraising Party! All Day Beat the Winter Blues All Day Knife Sharpening and Wooden Spoon Workshop, Scholarships! All Day Opening Our Hearts of Gaia Workshop Saturday! All Day Raffle, Auction, Food and Cabin Fever Dance Party Saturday! All Day Heartbeat Live at Haybarn Theatre Feb. 28 All Day Pancake Breakfast at Peacham Congregational Church All Day Pancake Breakfast at Peacham Congregational Church 8 - 10 AM Incorporating Essential Oils into Your Health Care Practice 9 AM - 1 PM Audition - Student Short Film "An Unkindness" 9 AM - 5 PM Workshops for Children 10 AM - 12 PM Third Annual Farmstead 5k to Benefit the VT Farm Share Program 10 AM Farmstead 5k Saturday 10 AM Ski-Orienteering in Craftsbury 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 The Green Mountain Playboys Mardi Gras Party! 8 PM +21 more see less