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2. “ICE Arrests Two More Immigration Advocates in Burlington” by Katie Jickling. During a traffic stop, officials detained two undocumented workers who work for Migrant Justice, prompting protests. 3. “ICE Arrests Immigrant Worker Outside Burlington Courthouse” by Mark Davis. Immigration officials arrested a Vermont dairy worker as he headed to a court hearing last week. 4. “Walters: Bernie Sanders Gets the RockStar Treatment” by John Walters. Sen. Bernie Sanders held four public events in Vermont last week, speaking to rooms packed with enthusiastic audiences. 5. “Hard Lesson: A UVM Econ Prof Fights to Keep His Job” by Molly Walsh. After he was informed that his contract would not be renewed, professor John Summa took his fight with the university public.

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A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY Patrick McGinley Jr. probably wishes he’d never gotten out of bed last Thursday. The 32-yearold Montpelier man was driving east on Route 2 in Middlesex when he lost control of his 2017 Subaru Forester and slid off the road. While McGinley waited inside his vehicle for a tow truck, a freight train barreled through and sideswiped his car. McGinley wasn’t injured but had been drinking, according to police, who arrested him for DUI.

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He’s a hitchhiker from hell. Cops in Berlin responded to a complaint late Saturday about a man, possibly armed with a knife, trying to break into homes. While en route, officers spotted their suspect — then hanging on for dear life atop the windshield of a passing car. According to police, 29-year-old Michael Perry tried to flag down the car, which was full of young women, and carjack them. Instead, the quick-thinking teens locked the doors while the driver tried, unsuccessfully, to shake him loose — but not before the Barre City transient smashed the windshield. “I realized that I needed to start driving because if I was driving, then he was more focused on holding on to the car than he was trying to get into the car,” 19-year-old Stacey Snyder told the Associated Press. After a brief tussle with police, Perry got a ride to jail, where he was booked on charges including assault, resisting arrest and heroin possession.

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont has nearly tripled its membership since the presidential election. Game on.

1. “New ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ Tackles the Ides of Trump” by Alison Bechdel. The Vermont cartoonist is back with a new episode of the longtime favorite comic strip.

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St. Johnsbury police popped Ryan Stimpson, 29, last week for allegedly borrowing his friend’s car — and the debit card she’d inadvertently left inside it. Police allege that Stimpson used the card to withdraw nearly $300 from his nowformer friend’s account at various ATMs before the victim caught on.

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another 500 or so watched remotely. Listeners in the hall “sat in rapt attention as Snowden, undeniably an engaging and charismatic speaker, expounded on the dark world of mass surveillance that he exposed in concert with several journalists,” Goldstein reported on our Off Message blog. “The problem we’re facing is, this has become easy for anyone with any sort of resources,” Snowden said. “Surveillance technology has outpaced democratic controls. Today, one guy sitting in front of a monitor can track an unimaginably large amount of people. And that was me, that was my position at the NSA.” He later added, “These programs were never about terrorism. They are about economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and social control. We should never permit them to say they are saving our lives if they can’t show evidence that they are.” Snowden lives in an undisclosed location in Russia, where he has been granted asylum. When a student asked how the college got in touch with Snowden, Stanger responded with a joke. “I had nothing to do with this, just like I had nothing to do with the Charles Murray event,” she said, drawing laughs. Read the full story at sevendaysvt.com.

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ast we heard, Allison Stanger was seeking medical treatment. The Middlebury College professor was injured more than three weeks ago as she escorted controversial speaker Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, to his car after students disrupted a planned public lecture at the college. Shouting protesters, some in masks, pushed and shoved her and Murray, according to a college spokesman. Stanger’s neck was injured, and she suffered a concussion as she tried to protect Murray, she said. Seven Days’ Sasha Goldstein got to see Stanger back on campus last week when she hosted a live-stream video talk with Edward Snowden, the notorious National Security Agency leaker who revealed the NSA’s global surveillance programs. She was wearing sunglasses and a neck brace and told Seven Days that her recovery has been slow. Security officers, one of whom shadowed Stanger, prowled Wilson Hall inside the McCullough Student Center. The professor of international politics and economics introduced Snowden and stayed at the lectern for two hours as MC. Unlike Murray’s speech, this one went off without a hitch. More than 200 people listened in the hall, and

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In “Size Wise: In Burlington, Upward Growth or ‘Vertical Sprawl’?” [February 22], Kevin J. Kelley did not go far enough into what is a very interesting dialogue happening nationally and internationally on the topic of mid-rise, human-scale cities. Not only are human-scale cities far more “livable,” they outperform environmentally, socially, and from economic innovation and resiliency standpoints. The myth that density must be achieved by building up is an old one, and a city like Paris is just as dense with buildings under six stories as Singapore with its skyscrapers. I’m disappointed that Kelley interviewed three people who are on the Mayor Miro Weinberger-Don Sinex payroll instead of innovators who are looking outside the tall box.

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Last week’s music feature, “One Man’s Trash,” misidentified the founder of Rat Pâté Records. Andrew Wilson is the man. March 8’s Side Dishes item “Momos on the Map” misstated that the RGS Nepali Market would be a state liquor store. The owners have applied for but not yet received a Second Class License, which, if granted, would allow them to sell beer and wine.

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Lastly, I ask readers if a mere 55 affordable units out of a total of 270 units in the reported range of $950 per month for a studio and $1,000 per month for a onebedroom can really be called a boon for our affordability crisis? I notice that Kelley called them “below-market rate.” That may be a better way to describe them, yet the project was sold to voters as having 55 “affordable” units. The article only scratches the surface of multiple important concerns and issues. Readers would benefit from a more indepth exploration in subsequent articles. How about it, Seven Days? Amey Radcliffe

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It’s gratifying to see that Vermont activists are “ignited” by President Donald Trump’s election [“Resistance Is Fertile: How Trump’s Election Has Ignited Vermont Activists,” February 22]. Any hope we have of minimizing the damage this administration will do to our nation and the world depends on building a strong and vocal resistance. But true reform of our political and social institutions depends on sustaining this activism long into the future. All the baser inclinations of many of Trump’s supporters — racism, nationalism, misogyny, oppression of minority groups and the rest — have always been present in American society. The man with the bully pulpit is emboldening speech and actions

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that, not long ago, were considered unacceptable in our democracy, at least in public. Now they are commonplace. These attitudes can’t be turned around in the first 100 days of this administration. And they won’t be changed by reading the news and voting. People who have been aroused to public activism by this election need to be prepared to stay actively involved for the rest of their lives. Spencer Putnam

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[Re Off Message: “Middlebury Students Shut Down Lecture by Charles Murray,” March 2; “‘Mob’ Attacks Middlebury Prof and Controversial Speaker Charles Murray,” March 3; “Middlebury, Police to Investigate Violent Protest of Murray Lecture,” March 6]: I don’t condone violence, but if Charles Murray wants to spread hate, he ought to be prepared to get it back. As for all you white nationalists out there, when you’re complaining about how bad you’ve got it, remember who’s been in charge the last 241 years: white men. Tom Grocki

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[Re “Life Sentence,” March 8]: I swam next to Ed Cashman at Saint Michael’s College — my nickname for him was “Crash” because of his propensity for accidentally running into other swimmers — and I saw how good he was with my own kids. I was also a sixth grade teacher to the offender in the article, and we knew back then that he needed help. In other words, I am in a unique position to state that Cashman did exactly what a great judge would do to get help for the person in question, while not ignoring the need to keep the community safe.

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It was great to read the article about June Tierney in the March 8 edition of Seven Days [“Former Soldier Set to Marshal Gov. Scott’s Energy Policy”]. But does the U.S. Army have a new rank of “lesbian”? Or is this just poor sentence construction? “Tierney’s own true grit was tested when she served in the Army as a lesbian...” That she was a lesbian when she served in the Army is different than serving as a lesbian — or as a heterosexual, for that matter. The article, about Tierney serving in Gov. Phil Scott’s administration on energy issues, has nothing to do with her being a lesbian — nor did her serving in the Army. Otherwise, good article. Next time, if you want to weave into the context some piece of extraneous information, weave a little better.

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Up in Arms: Bill Would Let Cops Take Guns in Domestic Violence Cases

Follow the Leader? Stakes Are High for Vermont Pols on Social Media

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Shen Yun: Entertaining Family Fare, Political Propaganda — or Both?

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History: For three decades, a collective in Huntington has offered sanctuary for women BY RACHEL ELIZABETH JONES

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Culture: A former railroad chef comes home to cook — at the Statehouse BY SALLY POLLAK

Eye Witness

Theater review: Grounded, Northern Stage BY ALEX BROWN

Zen and the Art of Bar Food

Food: In Waterbury Center, a new restaurant seeks to build community “from soil to soul”

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Food: Research and recipes for an early-start sugaring season

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Music: Four (more) local albums you (probably) haven’t heard BY JORDAN ADAMS & DAN BOLLES

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Well Versed Last year, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Area writers fête the folkster with “Words and Voices — Bob Dylan: Lyrics as Poetry,” a reading of selected works emceed by Vermont Public Radio’s Reuben Jackson. Admission to this Shelburne Museum event includes access to the exhibition “Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography.”

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UNDER THE SEA If the first thing you picture when you think “shark” is a giant mechanical marine animal terrorizing Richard Dreyfuss, biologist Lindsay Graff (pictured) would like a word. Graff delivers the talk “Taking a Bite Out of Alternative Facts: From Jaws to Shark Week” during Sharks & Brews, where folks can sip suds while viewing photos and videos from the speaker’s underwater research. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 57

Woodchuck Theatre has the cure for cabin fever with its quirky Ground Hog Opry. Grown-ups and young’uns alike have a hoot when George Woodard, Nancy MacDowell, Colin McCaffrey and other local talents take the Hyde Park Opera House stage for two nights of songs, skits and plenty of laughs — Vermont-style. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 53

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A Winning Combo The Burlington Chamber Orchestra welcomes a celebrated guest performer for its Latin Jazz Night program at the University of Vermont Recital Hall. Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and UVM lecturer Ray Vega, who has played with everyone from Tito Puente to Sheila E., and his quintet perform Vega’s newly arranged original compositions alongside the Queen City classical music ensemble. SEE STORY ON PAGE 25

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n his way out of the St. Johnsbury Academy gymnasium last Thursday, Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) stopped in the hallway and faced the media. For all of two minutes. He answered three short questions and hustled on to his next engagement. Little did I know that this would be my one and only opportunity to ask Sanders a question. I attended five www.essexoutlets.com facebook.com/pages/essexvt Sanders events in four Vermont towns 21 Essex Way, Essex Junction, VT | 802.878.2851 last week without ever getting another chance. But that’s just par for the course. Untitled-20 1 2/23/17 10:34 AM Sanders rarely interacts with Vermont news media. He’s a constant presence in national newspapers and on cable news — the very “corporate media” he rails against at every opportunity — but not in this state’s media, most of it locally owned. I guess if you’re looking for the biggest possible audience, well, principle be damned. It needs to be said that Sanders has ac1 large, 1-topping pizza, 12 boneless wings, complished historic things. He captured 2 liter Coke product the imaginations (and dollars and votes) of millions of Americans. And, although he fell short of winning the Democratic 2 large, 1-topping pizzas & 2-liter Coke product presidential nomination last year, he sparked a political movement that may have a lasting impact on the nation. Plus tax. Pick-up or delivery only. Expires 3/31/17. Limit: 1 offer per customer per day. That’s damn impressive. In the process, Sanders has become Check us out on Facebook & Instagram! a national figure, effectively transcend973 Roosevelt Highway Colchester • 655-5550 ing his status as the junior senator from www.threebrotherspizzavt.com Vermont. And that’s the problem. He remains the junior senator from Vermont. But he 12v-threebros030817.indd 1 3/3/17 4:49 PM Vermont Book, rarely acts like it. Postcard & Sanders did spend two days in the Ephemera Fair Green Mountain State last week, and bully for him. He attracted loud, boisterous, adoring crowds wherever he went. He held 12 events in seven communities. But he, or his staff, chose not to make Saturday, time for his home-state media. April 8th, Just one event was billed as a press 10am-4pm conference, at the Latchis Theatre in FREE ADMISSION Brattleboro. Though the entire point of such an engagement is to answer questions from the press, he did not take a single one and departed before the Hilton Burlington 60 Battery Street event was over. Burlington, VT “Bernie has a history of being quite available to us,” says DAVE GRAM, who spent more than 31 years covering Vermont for the Associated Press before departing in Presented by the Vermont Antiquarian January. “You went from that to almost Booksellers Association a cold shutdown during his presidential books@theEloquentPage.com | 802-527-7243 VermontisBookCountry.com campaign. I expected that, once the

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campaign was over, you’d see a reopening with the Vermont media.” Hasn’t happened yet. The last time Sanders spoke to anyone from Seven Days was April 30, 2015 — the day he announced he would seek the presidency. That’s right. It’s been 692 days. Since then, the state’s largest newspaper has traveled to eight states to cover his presidential campaign and made dozens and dozens of interview requests, without result. The closest we came was on July 4, 2015, when Seven Days political editor PAUL HEINTZ approached Sanders during a parade in the rural town of Creston, Iowa. The senator started to answer a question, according to Heintz, but stopped

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mid-sentence when he realized who was asking it — and then continued marching. We often call on our congressional delegation. Frequently we score an interview with Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) or Congressman PETER WELCH (D-Vt.). At the very least, we get a thorough response from their spokespeople. In my two and a half months in this job, I’ve interviewed Welch three times, Leahy twice and Sanders not at all. More often than not, I don’t even get a response from the junior senator’s staff. And, look, I don’t care if I ever speak with Sanders — as long as he talks to somebody around here. It’s not about me; it’s about communicating with his constituents through the established conduit of local media. If all he does is national interviews, then when does he address questions that uniquely concern his home state? For instance, in the salad days of Jay Peak Resort development, Sanders was happy to show up for a groundbreaking and photo op. But he has never commented on the collapse of the Northeast Kingdom projects caused by the state’s massive EB-5 scandal. He hasn’t said boo about the proposed sale of the shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. And he has never sufficiently addressed his consistent support for basing F-35 jets at Burlington

International Airport, which many of his voters staunchly oppose. Only local media will raise those questions. If we ever get the chance. “Our access to Sen. Sanders has been zero since he entered the presidential campaign,” says MARK JOHNSON, senior reporter and editor at the nonprofit VTDigger.org. Johnson’s OK with that; what really gets his goat is the attitude of Sanders’ staff. “We’ve had a reporter in Washington since early January,” Johnson notes, referring to political writer JASPER CRAVEN. “He has gotten literally no help or support from Sanders or his staff. It’s one thing when Bernie won’t speak to us, but when his staff won’t respond to our reporter, it’s totally outrageous.” Craven can’t even finagle an answer in the U.S. Capitol. “When I ask Sanders a question in a Senate hallway, he blows me off,” the reporter says. “Neither of his two press people return my emails. Staffers point out that Sanders is very busy. But not only do I get no Bernie time, I haven’t been able to speak to any Sanders staffer on background. I’ve asked for information on various Vermont issues, from the Veterans Administration to the budget cuts, and have received no help.” Just as a reminder: These staffers’ salaries come courtesy of taxpayers. Another nonprofit news outlet, Vermont Public Radio, has had a similar experience. “Bernie Sanders’ last live appearance on VPR’s ‘Vermont Edition’ was March 13, 2015,” says PATTI DANIELS, the show’s executive producer. “Listeners have heard taped comments ... since then, but he hasn’t been live on ‘Vermont Edition’ to answer questions from a journalist or his constituents in two years.” According to Daniels, VPR puts in a request “every four to six weeks or so.” She continues: “I have asked his office to choose any day and any location that works for them, to plan as far in advance as they need to, and I’ve offered to cancel segments we’ve already booked in order to accommodate his availability.” No soap. “The last interview we had with Bernie on-air was in 2013,” echoes CHRIS LENOIS, morning host on Brattleboro’s WKVT Radio. Meanwhile, Sanders spends a full hour every week on the nationally syndicated “THOM HARTMANN Program.”

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wanted to get back into a regular appearance schedule on ‘Vermont Edition,’ but he hasn’t made it happen,” Daniels says. “Bernie,” she continues, “if you’re reading this, the invitation is always open — just pick a date.” I want to be fair to a man who has a lot on his plate. We’re not asking for the world; just a little piece would do. So here’s some media-relations advice for Team Bernie. I think it’s reasonable. First, make the time to hold one press conference a month specifically for Vermont media. In person if possible — by phone if not. Second, if the office staff is too damn busy to answer media inquiries, then hire somebody else. You can’t offer much time with the senator, but you can respond in a timely way, provide information, point to sources and help us out with the big federal maze. Third, get back on a regular schedule with “Vermont Edition.” I’d suggest four times a year. If that’s too much, make it twice. “Vermont Edition” reaches all corners of the state — and offers a platform for questions from both reporters and listeners. I can hear the distant screams from other media outlets. OK, fine: twice a year on VPR and two other interview opportunities — at least 30 minutes apiece — for the rest of us. And if Seven Days doesn’t make the cut, that’s fine with me. Fourth, check your attitude at the door. The Vermont press corps is not your enemy. The vast majority of our coverage is positive. Indeed, the occasional negative is noticeable because it’s so rare. “Man Bites Dog,” don’t you know. If you can’t take the infrequent negative piece in stride, well, you shouldn’t be in this business. I’ve written plenty of tough stories about Gov. PHIL SCOTT, but his media operation remains helpful and accessible. The governor himself treats me with professionalism and grace. Is this too much to ask? I don’t think so. Would it take too much time away from Sanders’ national crusade? No, not really. Would it better serve his constituents? You betcha. We would’ve asked the senator himself what he thought of our proposal. But — wait for it — neither he nor his staff responded to our request for comment. m

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“He just doesn’t need us,” concludes Johnson of VTDigger. Gram agrees. “He’s in a pretty unique position because he has such powerful backing in the state,” Gram says. “If he decides to start talking to Vermont media more, it’s going to be just maybe out of the goodness of his heart.” And if you ask the average Sanders supporter, they’d probably be fine with what he’s doing. They want him spreading the message nationwide. Still, he is one of only three Vermonters serving in Congress. It’d be nice, once in a while, to hear directly from him. Part of the problem, to be honest, is that Sanders seems to expect positive coverage from his home-state press. “He’s never taken well to criticism,” notes Gram. Johnson knows that from experience. “My last conversation with Bernie Sanders, I was holding the phone a foot from my ear because he was shouting at me,” says Johnson. He got that call last August, after VTDigger covered Sanders’ purchase of a $575,000 lakefront home in North Hero — the third property in his real estate portfolio. If I’d had the chance last week, I would have asked the same thing that’s been on Gram’s mind: “I think it’s a legitimate question for us to ask, if we do get him: ‘Hey, Senator, if you do run for reelection in 2018, are you actually going to be a senator from Vermont or are you immediately going to morph into a presidential candidate again, and we’re never going to see you for another two years?’” Running for president doesn’t merely keep Sanders away from Vermont. It also keeps him away from, you know, his job: U.S. senator. For a full year, Sanders missed nearly 60 percent of the Senate’s roll-call votes, according to GovTrack.us. In the first half of 2016, he missed more than 90 percent. That’s a greater absentee rate than for any other senator who ran for president last year. Is that acceptable? To most of his supporters, it probably is. But it would be nice to hear from Sanders directly about why he didn’t show up for his day job. Despite his disappearance, media organizations still light a candle in the window every night in hopes of an encounter, however brief, with their beau ideal. Seven Days won’t stop asking Sanders’ office for interviews and information; neither will VTDigger or any other media outlet. VPR would desperately love to get Sanders back in rotation. “During his book tour, Sanders himself told one of our reporters that he

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tella Gravel sat before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month and told her daughter’s tragic story: Early one morning in August 2013, Rhonda Gray’s estranged husband, Troy, shot and killed her in her Fairlee home. He then killed himself with the same rifle. Troy Gray had been facing a court date to answer to his second domestic violence charge. “He told everybody they would never see him in court,” Gravel, an East Hardwick resident, told the House committee. “I truly believe if the cops had taken the firearms and stored them somewhere that maybe my daughter would still be here today.” Moved by such stories, Rep. Maxine Grad (D-Moretown) set out this year to ensure that weapons are removed from homes during domestic violence arrests. The logic seemed unassailable to Grad. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, she made such legislation a personal priority. “My goal is to provide victims with protection during that immediate and most dangerous time when the violence has escalated,” she said. Grad quickly ran into resistance, however. As other Vermont lawmakers have discovered, any proposed limits on gun ownership provoke determined opposition from gunrights and sportsmen’s groups. They have successfully halted virtually all efforts to change Vermont’s gun laws, seeing them as an erosion of their constitutional rights. By last week, when Grad’s committee voted 7-4 to take action, she had agreed to weaken and more narrowly tailor her legislation. The full House started debating the bill this Tuesday. A preliminary vote was relatively close, with members supporting it 78-67. “This is just the latest gun grab, is what it is,” said Bob DePino, vice president of Gun Owners of Vermont. DePino was among half a dozen gunrights activists who hunkered down in Grad’s committee last week. They had

waited more than two hours during the March 14 snowstorm for the committee to resume discussion. DePino said he wasn’t worried about the snowy 100-mile trip home to Windham County. “We’ll stay as long as we need to,” he said. His organization, meanwhile, mobilized members to call legislators and ask them to defeat the bill. Between hearings, Grad bemoaned the standoff that quickly develops over

any legislation that can be perceived as interfering with the Second Amendment right to bear arms. “It’s a difficult conversation. I’ve been getting some disturbing emails and Facebook posts,” Grad said of the vehement response from gun-rights activists. But, she argued, the bill is the best way to address the threat hanging over domestic violence victims: “Unfortunately, firearms are used in these situations.” That’s the point prevention advocates are trying to hammer home — that guns and domestic violence are a deadly mix. “We cannot impress upon you enough the strong correlation between domestic violence, homicides and firearms in Vermont,” Auburn Watersong, associate policy director for the Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, told Grad’s committee. “That is why we believe that it is imperative to require the removal of firearms at the scene of a domestic violence offense.”

“When a gun is present in a domestic violence situation, it increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent,” Watersong said, citing a 2003 national study. Six of the 16 homicides reported by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in 2015 were domestic violencerelated, said Carolyn Hanson, an assistant attorney general who focuses on domestic violence cases and supports the legislation. All six were committed with a firearm, she said.

Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel, president of the Vermont Police Association, said he thinks such a law in Vermont would help, as long as it’s clearly written and doesn’t leave officers in ambiguous situations. Police in New Hampshire support the law. David Goldstein, police chief in Franklin, N.H., said it works to diffuse volatile domestic violence scenes, though the gun seizures are not without tension. “It would be silly to think this one thing would solve the problem, with domestic violence being as complex as it is,” Goldstein said. New Hampshire law requires police to remove guns that are in plain sight during a domestic violence arrest, but Goldstein said police quickly turn to a judge to make a longer-term ruling about a suspect’s guns. The law does create more paperwork and forces police to store guns, Goldstein said. “I have people coming to the door all the time saying, ‘I want my guns back,’” he said.

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Gun Owners of Vermont disputes those stats as not in line with Federal Bureau of Investigation data, which indicate that there were 10 homicides in 2015. Opponents turned to broader statistics to bolster their argument that Vermont is a safe state that doesn’t need new gun laws. “In 2004 and 2009, there were zero total firearm fatalities,” said Eddie Cutler, president of Gun Owners of Vermont. “Show me another state that has zero homicides by firearm over an entire year.” Prevention advocates argue that gun seizure laws work. Eighteen states permit police to remove firearms from a domestic violence scene where there is probable cause for an arrest, Watersong told the committee. Thirteen of those states, including live-free-or-die New Hampshire, require police to remove guns.

Vermont gun owners have no plans to relinquish their state’s reputation for gunfriendly laws. Evan Hughes, vice president of the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs, contended that the real issue is enforcement of existing domestic violence laws. If someone poses a threat while their case is pending, “That begs the question: Why is he out on pretrial release?” he said. As originally proposed, Grad’s legislation would have required police to confiscate any “dangerous weapons” within view when arresting someone for domestic violence, for a five-day period. Under current law, weapons may be confiscated

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person whom the agency reasonably believes is an owner of the firearm,” with exceptions spelled out in court orders and for offenders ineligible to possess guns. Constitutional questions arose throughout the committee’s debate. “Being arrested for something and being convicted of something are two very different things,” Darin Goens, Vermont state liaison for the National Rifle Association, told the committee. To seize guns belonging to someone who is charged with but not convicted of a crime is a constitutional violation, he argued. Assistant Attorney General John Treadwell and Hanson told Grad’s committee that the bill is constitutionally defensible, though they acknowledged it’s likely to draw a legal challenge. Hanson said they could find no court decisions directly on point. Goens said court challenges of such laws are uncommon. “You have to be accused of abuse and have the resources to fight it,” he said. “There hasn’t been a lot of litigation on this.” Rep. Chip Conquest (D-Newbury), committee vice chair and a gun owner, argued that the bill doesn’t infringe on rights. “I don’t want anybody taking my guns, and I’m not worried about this doing that — because I’m not going to hit my wife,” Conquest said. Questions persisted, however, as the bill headed to the House floor. Rep. Patrick Brennan (R-Colchester) said seizing firearms before a conviction “flies in the face” of constitutional rights. Grad’s legislation faces a difficult path in the Senate. “I have concerns about the bill,” said Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Sears (D-Bennington). “Particularly when it’s people that are cited, when it’s a he-said, she-said situation.” And yet that time period — between arrest and court appearance — is often the most volatile, victims’ advocates said. “The idea is, if you can just get those guns out of the home, you can get the victim some breathing room,” Hanson said. Gravel will never know if a five-day gun seizure would have helped her daughter, whose husband had been arrested for domestic assault three weeks before he killed her. But she believes the bill could save lives. “My main issue is that there’s some way to keep the guns out of his hands,” Gravel said. “I don’t want anybody else to go through that.”

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as evidence if used in a crime, but other weapons are off-limits without a search warrant. Cutler took aim at the definition of “dangerous weapons.” Police would have to remove not just guns, he said in written testimony, but “every kitchen knife, ax, hammer, scissors, trophy, chair, golf club, fork, pencil, chain, tire iron, can of gasoline, garden tool, family car, even the bed sheets and everything else that can possibly be used as a deadly weapon.” Grad conceded the point. The bill her committee voted out last week deleted the reference to deadly weapons and focused only on firearms. Gun-rights advocates quickly moved on to other concerns, including the requirement that police seize firearms, removing an officer’s discretion. Though that is how New Hampshire’s law is worded, Grad’s committee also gave ground there. Members altered the bill to say that police “may” remove firearms “if the removal is necessary for the protection of the officer or any other person.” Hanson said that change works. Having the option will mean that police would be trained to consider confiscating weapons. “The more there are things we can do that don’t depend on the victim saying, ‘Please do this,’ the better,” she said. However, a 2009 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research advised that laws that say police “shall” remove guns are preferable to those that say police “may,” because the requirement removes ambiguity. Other questions proved tougher for the House Judiciary Committee. Members struggled with what police should do with a seized gun after the five-day period that the bill establishes. Should it go back to the accused, to a family member or to someone else? “This is a tough, tough bill. The more we’re trying to get it right, the messier it is,” said Rep. Kiah Morris (D-Bennington), a committee member who declared herself a strong supporter of the proposal. “What do you suggest?” Grad asked her committee. “That we don’t take people’s guns,” replied Rep. Janssen Willhoit (R-St. Johnsbury), one of the committee’s four Republicans, who all voted against the bill. “This is way more complicated, regardless of which side you’re on, than people realize.” The committee finally decided that police should return a gun to “the person from whom it was removed or any other

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f you want to inspect Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman’s swollen toe, find out Gov. Phil Scott’s favorite Girl Scout cookie or see Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Sears (D-Bennington) cuddling with his golden retriever puppy, Facebook’s the place. The state’s elected officials are increasingly embracing social media to share policy positions, solicit feedback, tout positive press and offer an occasional glimpse into their personal lives. With President Donald Trump changing foreign policy in 140 characters or less and driving news cycles with earlymorning tweets, the power — and

women. Kirk apologized for “inappropriate social media posts.” By now, many lawmakers have some kind of online presence. The less prolific engage only when they’re up for reelection. Others, such as Zuckerman, might post several times a day. Facebook and Twitter are the preferred platforms, although some use Instagram, too. Even the highest-profile politicians have modest followings. The governor (who prefers Trefoil cookies when buying from Girl Scouts) has about 4,250 Twitter followers. Most Vermont pols operate their own accounts, though two interns now formulate former governor Peter Shumlin’s tweets. Zuckerman, who stubbed that toe while dancing barefoot, leaves little doubt as to who runs his. From selfies to photos of piglets on his farm, the lieutenant governor’s Facebook account is distinctly his own. Seven Days checked in with four state legislators whose social media use has earned attention.

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pitfalls — of social media in politics have never been so apparent. Social media brings significant benefits for local pols. Officials can communicate directly with constituents, controlling their message while demonstrating responsiveness. After federal immigration officers arrested three migrant farmworker activists last week, House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D-South Hero), Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden) and Zuckerman were among the leaders who took to Twitter to share their dismay. “The recent escalation of immigration enforcement is disturbing & I wholeheartedly denounce it,” Johnson tweeted on Saturday. Online forums also present opportunities to goad political opponents and galvanize supporters. Last Friday, Rep. Heidi Scheuermann (R-Stowe) voted against a paid family leave bill that the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs approved. Afterward, she tweeted, “Our committee passed a $79.4 m tax increase on all VT workers!” Politicking via social media is a high-risk endeavor, however. Impulsive tweeting can sink a campaign, and even social media savants contend with the trolls, gadflies and imposters who can have an outsize influence online. At least three Republican candidates for state House seats — Bill Lawrence of Underhill and Michael McGarghan of Burlington in 2016, and Scot Shumski of Burlington in 2014 — lost their bids following news reports about controversial social media posts. Last fall, Burlington School Board member David Kirk received public rebukes from the mayor, superintendent and his fellow board members for his Facebook dispatches, which were criticized as insensitive to minorities and

From Public to Private Efforts to unearth politicians’ incriminating social media posts are becoming more organized. Indivisible Montpelier, a local chapter of a national movement of liberal activists, has been combing through social media accounts looking for local politicians who espouse Trumpian views. The group’s first target: a Republican representative from Swanton. Marianna Gamache, 71, shared stories and graphics on Facebook promoting conservative conspiracy theories — that former president Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that liberal philanthropist George Soros is a Nazi — and call for bringing “God back into our schools.” In one post, she shared a Texas road sign declaring a “Sharia-free zone” and asked, “Will Vermont do the same? Or will the powers that be allow Sharia law to seep into our state judiciary system?” Recent University of Vermont grad Scott Pavek did the sleuthMarianna ing for Indivisible Montpelier. Gamache “We don’t want it to be a witch hunt. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs,” said Pavek, who has also independently publicized other conservative politicians’ social media activity. In addition to calling attention to Gamache’s posts on Facebook and Twitter, Indivisible Montpelier sent a collection of screenshots to local news outlets. Though none reported on the matter, word spread around the Statehouse.

“The goal with highlighting Gamache is, one, to spread this message to her constituents, and then to encourage other people across Vermont to conduct their own investigations of their legislators,” Pavek explained. Gamache, who said she stands by her posts, denounced the strategy: “If you object to a position that you think I hold, then face me, confront me about it … This, to me, is very cowardly.” She said she hasn’t heard from any offended voters, however: “My constituents know me, so I’m not concerned at this point.” The strategy spooked her enough that she blocked public access to her Facebook page by changing its settings to private. Should other lawmakers be bracing

themselves for the same? Seven Days asked Pavek if he was monitoring other accounts. “We’d rather not raise everyone’s alarms, so suddenly everyone’s profiles go private,” he said.

Triumph Over the Troll Rep. Kiah Morris (D-Bennington) keeps separate personal and social media accounts. Asked why, she has a two-word answer: “Personal safety.” After winning her primary last August, Morris, who is black, received a racist tweet. Bennington resident Max Misch tweeted a caricature of a black man to her with the caption: “Sheeeit, I be representin dem white muhfugguhz of Bennington, gnome sayin?” Morris, 41, posted his tweet to her Facebook page. “I felt it was important to highlight that there are individuals that hold hateful ideologies” in Vermont, she explained. Her post inspired a wave of outrage, including a statement from then-governor Shumlin. Social media, Morris said, provided opportunities for Misch’s comment “to gain greater visibility, for me to respond to it and for community members to have a crucial dialogue about: What does this mean?”

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one of the professionals involved in his case thinks that 90-year-old Emery Woodall Jr. should be in prison. Not the police who arrested him for a relatively minor infraction, the prosecutor who filed charges against him, the Department of Corrections — or the lawyers, nonprofits and government agencies that weave together Vermont’s social safety net. Woodall is a military veteran. He is believed to suffer from an early stage of dementia, which may have contributed to the violent outburst that led to his recent arrest. For the past seven weeks, Woodall has been held in Vermont’s largest and most secure prison, Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. Woodall has long been estranged from his three adult children, two of whom told Seven Days he was abusive. That leaves him in the hands of the state — specifically, the systems of criminal justice and social services. Prosecutors have pursued charges against Woodall and asked that he be held on $500 bail, they said, because he has no place else to go, and no one will take him in. Even if they were interested in prosecuting him, according to the same sources, his transgressions would not warrant a sentence that includes time behind bars. “The only reason he is in the criminal justice system is because if he were released tomorrow, he would freeze to death,” Windsor County State’s Attorney David Cahill said in an interview. “Were he not lodged in a correctional facility, he would literally be out in the street in the winter with no housing and no nursing home or assisted care facility willing to take care of him.” Woodall was arrested on February 1 after allegedly striking a nurse inside Brookwood Estate residential care facility in North Springfield, where he had been living. Officials said he is no longer welcome there. Over the course of several weeks, a smorgasbord of groups tasked with taking care of people such as Woodall — the Veterans Affairs Medical Center; the Department of Disabilities, Aging & Independent Living; the Vermont Veterans’ Home; and several Upper Valley eldercare facilities and nonprofits — has been alerted to his predicament. To date, their efforts have failed to change the circumstances of inmate No. 144711. “It’s absolutely horrifying,” said Kelly Green, an attorney from the Defender General’s Office who has represented Woodall. “It’s disgusting to think that this is what we, the people of Vermont, have

CORRECTIONS come to with respect to housing our elderly citizens.” Woodall had a room at Brookwood, which offers independent living options and daily support services, at the time of his alleged assault. When a nurse came in to deliver his medication, Woodall became upset, according to a police affidavit. He got out of bed and blocked the door, preventing her from leaving. He knocked the dishes she was carrying to the floor and hit and kicked her, according to the same document. Woodall told the police who were called to the assisted-living facility that the nurse had attacked him. When police asked him for identification, Woodall reached into a backpack, pulled out a lanyard attached to an ID and slung it around his neck, according to the affidavit. Officers tried to take it from him, so he kicked one in the knee. In the process of being handcuffed, he swung his fist at another. As officers escorted Woodall from the building, he yelled incoherently. Springfield Police Chief Doug Johnston said his officers had little choice but to arrest Woodall. “He’s obviously got … issues that need to be addressed, and is the prison the proper place for him? I don’t think so,” Johnston

said. “But we’ve got to look at the safety of others and his own safety.” A staffer who answered the phone at Brookwood hung up on Seven Days. Prosecutors charged Woodall in Windsor Superior Court with two misdemeanor counts of assaulting a police officer and a felony charge of unlawful restraint. Documents show they immediately started looking for a suitable place for Woodall. Progress has been slow. Green, who learned of Woodall’s case from a concerned DOC caseworker, said she tried to get the DOC to convince Woodall to sign a form so she could access his medical file and get him the services that he needs. Another attorney assigned to the case, Sandy Nelson, has asked for a psychiatrist to evaluate whether Woodall is competent to stand trial. The exam has not been scheduled, according to court records. DOC Commissioner Lisa Menard said she could not discuss Woodall. But she stressed that Vermont prisons are not well equipped to look after elderly residents with mental health troubles. “There are certainly mobility issues, issues of confusion a lot of the time, and those are obvious problems in a correctional facility,” she said.

Court records indicate the lawyers involved requested that Woodall be held in a prison medical unit. Menard declined to identify his exact location — only that he is not among the general population. For weeks, officials pondered where else Woodhall could go. The Vermont Veterans’ Home, in Bennington, has 130 skilled nursing beds and eight assisted living beds that provide around-the-clock care for veterans who, for whatever reason, can’t live at home. The facility currently has bed space and is operating at roughly 90 percent capacity. But it has apparently been ruled out. Administrator Melissa Jackson declined to discuss Woodall’s case, citing patient confidentiality. But she did say the home does not take all veterans; it can reject people who may be disruptive. The home has in recent years sought to hire an in-house psychiatrist to treat higher-needs patients, Jackson said, but has been unable to find anyone. “At the end of the day, I’d gladly take everybody,” Jackson said. “But there are some people, unfortunately, we can’t meet their needs, and it would be a disservice to bring them here and then have to send them to an ER.” The story is the same at the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, a mile

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Deputy commissioner Camille George declined to discuss Woodall. But she said that in cases such as his, the agency works diligently to have a patient placed with a community provider or with certified residents willing to open their homes to a patient. The state does not have its own nursing home. “We don’t want seniors to be inappropriately incarcerated or hospitalized,” George said. “Whatever their situation is, we take it very seriously. And our partners do, too.” But they may still choose to refuse someone. Woodall’s case is not unprecedented, according to Menard and the attorneys involved. Elderly people have occasionally become ensnared in the prison system, they said. But none could recall a nonagenarian languishing in a cell for so long. Prosecutors, who are willing to drop Woodall’s criminal case as soon as he has a place to live, are waiting in frustration. “His story is how easy it is to fall through the cracks even when you serve the country,” Cahill said. Woodall’s family members, including two of his three adult children, were unaware he was in prison. When informed, his only son had an unexpected reaction: “That’s a good place for him,” Emery Woodall III told Seven Days from his home in the state of Georgia. Woodall went on to say that his father had abused him during his grade-school years in the South Londonderry area. A sister who did not wish to be named gave

a similar account. Seven Days was not able to confirm their allegations. They said they hadn’t spoken to their father in decades. To outsiders, they said, Woodall appeared to be a charming, successful businessman. In the 1960s, he was the proprietor of a well-known ski shop in South Londonderry, Woody’s Cracker Barrel, where he taught the then-fledgling sport of Nordic skiing. An accomplished athlete, he spent much of his free time hiking and skiing, according to his children. He designed and got a patent for an improved ski pole. As they aged and moved away, his children had less and less to do with Woodall. They think he remarried once or twice and spent some time living in Europe. He wrote for ski magazines and did some carpentry work, they said. Officials involved in his case could find no previous criminal record. Woodall’s current predicament was the subject of a brief court hearing on Tuesday afternoon in Windsor Superior Court, nearly two months after he was arrested. “He’s still in the facility?” asked Judge Theresa DiMauro. “Ooof.” VA caseworker Owens, whom attorneys invited to the hearing, told DiMauro that 29 area nursing homes had been unwilling to take Woodall, for one reason or another. Then defense attorney Nelson and Deputy Windsor County State’s Attorney Glenn Barnes announced that a Calais couple had tentatively agreed to take him in. Woodall, who was not present for the hearing, could be freed in the next several days, they said. Nelson told the judge that she had visited Woodall in prison and found him in good health. “He was safe, and he did tell me everyone was very kind to him,” Nelson said. “He was clean and warm and well-kept and said he was OK being there for the time being.” After the hearing, Nelson declined to comment on the allegations made by Woodall’s family but said she was now aware of them. In an interview shortly before the hearing, Cahill acknowledged that in recent days, he, too, had learned of the alleged abuse. But since no charges had been filed and the statute of limitations would have long since expired, Cahill said, it did not change his desire to see Woodall freed. “The allegations that have been made against him are quite serious,” Cahill said. “But, ultimately, he presents as an ornery 90-year-old with some stage of dementia and the question for us is: What to do with him? That’s the immediate question.” m

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ermont’s three-member congressional delegation on Monday joined a chorus of lawyers, activists and politicians expressing “serious concerns” about recent arrests in Burlington carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) questioned ICE’s detention of three Migrant Justice activists and its potential impact on a crucial state industry. “Instead of focusing on removing those people who pose a threat to public safety or national security, the Trump administration is targeting all undocumented persons, including the people that help keep our dairy farms and rural economy afloat,” they said in a statement. “Instead of common sense reform, we now have a divisive and xenophobic executive order issued unilaterally by President Trump that is tearing families and communities apart, and endangering our dairy farms here in Vermont.” Activists took to Twitter and the streets Friday and Saturday to denounce the arrests of Enrique Balcazar, Zully Palacios and Cesar Alex Carrillo, who were all detained within a three-day period last week in Burlington. Matt Cameron, a Boston-based immigration attorney, has agreed to represent the trio pro bono. He called the arrests a “clear, simple case of retaliation” and painted a picture of ICE agents in Vermont as vindictive and overreaching. In a phone interview with Seven Days on Tuesday, Cameron called the Vermont office “over-resourced” and contended that the three arrests, coupled with last year’s detention of activists Victor Diaz and Miguel Alcudia, point to a broader trend. “Why are we wasting resources on thoroughly decent people like Zully and Enrique who are doing really important work for their communities?” he said. Balcazar and Palacios were arrested during a traffic stop in Burlington on Friday afternoon. In a statement released over the weekend, ICE said that Palacios had overstayed her visa by nearly a year and that Balcazar was “in violation of U.S. immigration laws.” Carrillo was on his way to a court hearing last Wednesday when he was arrested. According to an emailed ICE statement, he “claims to have unlawfully entered the United States in 2010.” ICE officials have not responded to multiple requests for further comment. The detainees, who are being held in a facility in Dover, N.H., will eventually go before a Boston judge for bail hearings. Court dates have not yet been scheduled, though Cameron said his clients are entitled to a hearing within 10 days of arrest. However, the deportation proceedings could take years, Cameron said. State Rep. Selene Colburn (P/DBurlington), who is also a city councilor, questioned ICE’s motives. “It seems like such a clear targeting of people who have been real leaders,” she told Seven Days.

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Activists including Bill McKibben alleged on Twitter that ICE was, in fact, going after people for their political engagement. Neither Palacios nor Balcazar has any criminal record, according to Migrant Justice spokesman Will Lambek. Carrillo had been arrested for DUI, but the charge was dropped during the court hearing he tried to attend last Wednesday. Even more unusual: The arrests aren’t in keeping with the Trump administration’s approach to undocumented immigrants. While the president initially said he would deport all 11 million in the country illegally, he has since scaled back his rhetoric to focus on those with criminal backgrounds. Still, Lambek said, the arrests of vocal immigrants aren’t unprecedented. Earlier this month, ICE detained Daniela Vargas, 22, in Jackson, Miss., after she spoke out against federal raids. Public protest led to her release. Diaz, a Vermont farmworker and Migrant Justice activist, was detained last May after he was convicted of a DUI charge. His case, too, generated demonstrations, and he eventually was sprung loose. Similarly, after the more recent arrests, Lambek and others quickly organized a response. Around 50 people picketed in front of the federal immigration building in St. Albans on Friday night, and hundreds — including Diaz — marched to and rallied for their release in front of the federal courthouse in Burlington on Saturday afternoon. “People are rightly and justifiably outraged by what they’re seeing,” Lambek said. Vermont’s congressional delegation noted that they had reached out to ICE officials to express their concerns about Vermont’s farmworkers. “We are seeing the result of the failure of Republican leaders in the House of Representatives to even consider comprehensive immigration reform, including provisions for undocumented agricultural workers,” their statement said. At the same time, though, political leaders have been reluctant to promise action. There’s little the state can do, said Attorney General T.J. Donovan. “The federal government is well within its legal purview, and what they’ve done is legally permissible,” Donovan said. Last week, the Vermont House passed a bill requiring the governor’s approval before local or state police could enter into a contract to assist with border or immigration enforcement. It also would prohibit sharing data on people’s religion, national origin or immigration status. The bill may not change much in situations like these, Donovan acknowledged. But, he added, “We have to work with our federal delegation, and we have to continue to lobby. These are Vermonters, regardless of who they are or where they’re from. It is in our collective interest for people to access our judicial system, for people to access emergency services, for people to access our health care system.” m John Walters contributed reporting.

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1960-2017, MONTPELIER/SUGARBUSH David Allan Wales, age 57, of Montpelier passed away suddenly Thursday morning, March 9. Born March 8, 1960, in Minneapolis, Minn., he is survived by his wife and best friend, Martha. They celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary on January 14, 2017. He designed and built their energy-efficient home in Montpelier in 1997. Dave was a professional gardener working for Mother Garden and running his own gardening business, Walrus Works. He created beautiful gardens for appreciative clients who each became a friend, and he happily filled his own land with vegetable gardens and flowering plants. Recently he and Martha purchased an electric car. Dave really enjoyed saving fossil fuel while talking back to the navigation system. Fittingly, the day Dave died, “Sparky’s” car radio was found to be tuned to the Laugh

USA Channel. Dave’s positive attitude and keen sense of humor were a joy to his friends and to strangers alike. Predeceased by his father, Neil Wales; nephew, Alex; and stepfather, Howard Swanlund, he is survived by Martha as well as his mother, Gertrude “Tolly” Swanlund; sisters Pat and Kris; brother, Steve; niece, Shelby; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Dave donated 13 gallons of blood over his lifetime and was a tissue donor after death. Born into a skiing family, he was raised on skis at Afton Alps in Minnesota. He celebrated the beginning of winter on the summer solstice each year. Dave was a professional ski instructor for 40 years, certified in Alpine and Telemark disciplines. Early in his career he worked for Otto Hollaus Snowsports Academy, a traveling ski school, in addition to working at Afton Alps for many years. In 1996 he and Martha moved to Vermont, and Dave joined the Sugarbush ski school. Dave’s love of skiing was legendary. One of his most

illustrative sayings was, “Ski like the river.” Those words embodied how he skied and how he wanted everyone to ski. He made lessons loads of fun while keeping everyone safe. He just loved to slide on snow and to free-ski with friends old and new. Everyone is encouraged to think of Dave when skiing Jester at Sugarbush, his favorite run. Dave loved to read, too, and was blessed with a remarkable memory. He often treated friends to passages from Tolkien, Freud, the Bible and Neil Gaiman, as well as The Princess Bride, “Mystery Science Theater” and the Onion. Martha and neighbors will complete a favorite project of his, launching the David A. Wales Memorial Little Free Library this summer. A celebration of Dave’s life will be held on April 9 at Sugarbush Resort in Warren at 5 p.m. His locker at Sugarbush will be retired, because no one can take his place. In lieu of flowers, we would appreciate donations to the Central Vermont Humane Society, P.O. Box 687, Montpelier, VT 05601, or to the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602. Online condolences may be sent to guareandsons.com.

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ave you heard that Shen Yun, the internationally acclaimed Chinese dance extravaganza, will perform two shows this weekend at Burlington’s FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS? If not, you must be living way off the grid. In recent weeks, the New York-based company behind the show has inundated the Green Mountain State with a full-blown marketing blitz: repeated commercials on local radio and television, glossy color inserts and newspaper ads (including eight weeks of the latter in Seven Days), web infomercials, Facebook ads, six-page direct mailers distributed throughout Chittenden County, pamphlets handed out on Church Street, even a banner spanning Shelburne Road in the city’s South End. The promotions for this lavish affair, which is part of a 30-country world tour, feature images of silk-draped dancers in traditional Chinese garb. Ads include gushing testimonials from international celebrities and dignitaries, some of whom claim to have seen the “once-ina-lifetime” performance multiple times. One print endorsement calls Shen Yun “absolutely the No. 1 show in the world.” JOHN KILLACKY, executive director and CEO of the Flynn Center, which is

hosting Shen Yun for the third time in two years, couldn’t put a dollar figure on the advertising campaign, as the Flynn doesn’t handle the show’s marketing. But he said he’s “amazed” by the “inordinate amount of money” behind it. Tickets aren’t cheap, either: The costliest go for $123. By comparison, the top ticket for the Broadway touring production of Annie is $75. If the over-the-top promotion feels somewhat cultish, there’s a reason for that. Shen Yun — which translates as “the beauty of heavenly beings dancing” — is promoted locally by the Falun Dafa Association of New England, which is affiliated with Falun Gong and its controversial founder and spiritual leader, Li Hongzhi. According to the show’s website, Shen Yun was founded in 2006 by Falun Gong members seeking to preserve traditional Chinese culture; it’s since grown to four different touring troupes. Shen Yun Performing Arts is headquartered at Dragon Springs, a 427-acre compound in Deerpark, N.Y., that includes residence halls, classrooms, meditation halls, gardens and a Tang Dynasty-style temple. Founded in 1992, Falun Gong claims 80 to 100 million followers worldwide, including more than 10,000 in North America. Whether it’s a religion, a

spiritual movement or a cult depends on whom you ask. In 1999, China’s Communist Party formally branded Falun Gong a cult and outlawed it. The official website for the Chinese embassy in the United States describes Li as “an evil figure” whose “fraudulent behavior” has been “seriously disrupting social order and sabotaging the hard-earned social stability of China.” He currently lives in exile in the United States. For their part, Falun Gong members accuse China of persecuting, jailing and executing thousands of the group’s adherents, then harvesting their organs for transplantation. International human rights activists who’ve investigated such

claims as recently as June 2016 allege that systematic organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners, including Falun Gong members, is widespread. The Chinese government vehemently denies those claims. Experts on cults in this country differ in their assessments of Falun Gong/Falun Dafa and its leader. Michael Langone, executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association in Bonita Springs, Fla., has been investigating cults and cultlike groups since 1978. He says any assessment of Falun Gong must take into account its long-standing war with China’s Communist Party, which he suggests only fuels the group’s cultlike tendencies. Langone, who’s never investigated Shen Yun itself, suggests that a large and decentralized organization such as Falun Gong may exhibit “cultic dynamics” of bullying and intimidation of some followers without being permeated by those dynamics. In 2001, Langone’s group tried to mediate a dialogue between Falun Gong and the Chinese government at the ICSA’s annual conference in Seattle. That dialogue broke down, but not before a representative from the Chinese consulate in San Francisco showed conference attendees an antiFalun Gong propaganda film. Langone describes it as “laughable … like Reefer Madness,” the 1936 film that grossly exaggerates the dangers of marijuana. “The Falun Gong members we met were passionately persuasive because of their concern of the persecution of their relatives,” Langone said. “They’re not talking about abstract strangers being thrown in jail. They’re talking about fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters. So I cut them a little slack, because they’re fighting a totalitarian government that’s hurting people they love.” By contrast, cult expert Rick Alan Ross cuts Falun Gong no slack whatsoever. Ross is founder of the Trenton, N.J.-based Cult Education Institute and author of the 2014 book Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out. He devotes two chapters to Falun Gong and his work in deprogramming its followers in the U.S. and Europe.

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The Fleming’s new Gallery of Asian Art features distinctive artistic traditions from a range of cultures and countries across Asia. In celebration of the new installation, Sarah Laursen introduces important works in the collection ranging from Chinese ritual funerary bronzes to lively Japanese woodblock prints to celadon ceramic wares from Korea. The talk is followed by a walk in the gallery.

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Internal Revenue Service in 2015, the group’s net assets were in the red for more than $221,000. As for content, the Shen Yun performance purports to cover 5,000 years of Chinese history. By all accounts, it’s a lush, breathtaking and mesmerizing production of storytelling dance. “You will be taken on a journey to magnificent eras in Chinese history, as well as to periods from China’s recent past,” Shen Yun’s website reads. “Ancient stories and legends, ethnic and folk traditions, villains and heroes will come to life on stage through classical Chinese dance, live music and stunning digital backdrops. You can expect an experience like no other, one that not only entertains, but also enriches and inspires.” Some reporters who’ve seen the show — this one has not — describe it as featuring blatant anti-Communist China propaganda that is occasionally over the top. As the Fresno Bee reported in December, the show depicts Chinese authorities brutalizing a mother who practices Falun Dafa meditation and forcibly separating her from her child. But others suggest that spectators can enjoy Shen Yun without feeling like they’re attending a political rally or tent revival. According to Killacky, the Flynn has never received a single complaint about the show’s content, nor did Shen Yun sell or distribute religious or political propaganda at previous shows. Efforts to seek comment from the Falun Dafa Association of New England and its Vermont contact went unanswered as of press time. m

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In a phone interview and email, Ross branded Falun Gong as “a destructive cult” whose leader, “Master Li,” he likened to Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. According to Ross, Li claims to possess supernatural powers and runs his group “like a dictator.” Ross, who’s never seen the show, characterizes it as the multimillion-dollar “marketing and recruitment arm” of Li’s financial empire. He says Li owns multiple homes in the United States, including one in Queens, another on Staten Island, a “country mansion” in New Jersey and a condominium in Chicago. “[Li] is a multimillionaire, that’s for sure,” added Ross, citing a February 24 story in the Los Angeles Times that valued Falun Gong’s net assets in the U.S. at more than $38 million. “Becoming an object of worship is a great way to make money.” Ross also highlighted some of the more controversial remarks that Li has made in his writings and in press interviews. They include expressions of abhorrence for miscegenation and mixed-race offspring, which Li said “confuses the gods.” Similarly, Li has described homosexuality as “filthy,” “deviant,” “repulsive” and “incestuous,” and predicted that gays will be “the gods’ first target for annihilation.” Over the years, Ross said, he has challenged Falun Gong members, whom he characterizes as “mostly Chinese expats and middle-aged Chinese women,” about such remarks, but none have refuted or qualified them. “The bottom line is, you can never get them to say that Master Li is wrong about anything,” Ross added. How effective is Shen Yun at “marketing and recruitment”? If the show is a fundraiser for the Falun Dafa Association of New England, it hasn’t filled that chapter’s coffers. According to the nonprofit’s 990 filing with the

A Surreal Puppet Musical Takes Aim at U.S.-China Relations B Y RA CHEL ELI ZA BET H JONES

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ccording to the New York Times, in 2011, an Oregon Goodwill manager named Julie Keith bought a package of Halloween decorations for $29.99 at her local Kmart. A year later, she opened it up — and discovered a handwritten SOS note from a man imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp. This improbable story of connection, consumerism and oppression in the globalized economy helped inspire — what else? — a new “musical satirical romantic puppet thriller.” From New York-based Wakka Wakka Productions,

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Made in China will be performed two nights this month at the HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Hanover, N.H. “I’ve never really encountered a company like [Wakka Wakka],” Hop programming director MARGARET LAWRENCE told Seven Days by phone. “They’re just so unusual, taking this brilliant puppet making [and] finding a way for you to really care about the characters — it’s extraordinary.” The Dartmouth College facility, a coproducer of the show, hosted the company for an early development residency in 2015. It’s one of only two

CHANT ENCOUNTERS At a prayer service at Romemu, a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Rabbi Andrew Hahn chants the Sh’ma, the most important prayer in Jewish daily worship. A video clip shows him holding each Hebrew word with a long, mournful resonance, the congregation echoing his chants in similar style. Ordinarily, the Sh’ma is brief, but Hahn often extends it as long as 20 minutes, as though it were an Eastern mantra.

venues outside New York City offering Made in China during its initial run; the other is Keene State College, also in New Hampshire. What can one expect to see at a “musical satirical romantic puppet thriller”? The show features 30 puppets of all sizes, controlled by seven puppeteers, as well as animated video components. Original songs by Chinese Canadian composer Yan Li provide the soundtrack. The surreal plot of Made in China follows the romance and exploits of two middle-aged neighbors, American Mary and Chinese expat Eddie, who travel to China through a magical portal (in a toilet!). In a phone conversation with Seven Days, core company member and show cowriter and codirector Gwendolyn Brooks described the show as an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-type adventure that focuses on “the darker aspects of what’s underlying the uneasy relationship between the [U.S. and China].” Humor is a vital element of the show, even as it addresses an economic and moral quagmire. The musical seeks to present “serious subject matter under a lens that sometimes can be very funny — even charming,” Brooks said. “The balance of exploring those two topics together has been the challenge of this piece.” Singing household products (all made in China, of course), baby pandas and fire-breathing dragons all contribute to the spectacle. Lawrence described the show as chock-full of “hundreds of cultural references, from manga characters

“To do it right,” he explains in a recent phone interview, “you have to be willing to dwell in the chant for as long as it wants to go.” Hahn, aka the “Kirtan Rabbi,” combines traditional Jewish liturgy with the Eastern call-and-refrain chants of a Bhakti yogic practice called Kirtan. This week, he comes to Burlington as the weekend scholar-in-residence at Ohavi Zedek Synagogue. There he’ll offer a free Saturday night Kirtan concert that’s open to the public, among other educational events and services. Sanskrit for “repeat,” Kirtan, or “ecstatic chanting,” originated

to Chinese opera to Chairman Mao and Ai Weiwei.” And, if you’ve never seen a puppet naked “in the flesh,” now’s your chance — the show is recommended for ages 16 and older, in part owing to puppet nudity. Like protagonist Mary, Brooks noted, Wakka Wakka company members have had their own experiences with the U.S./China “rabbit hole.” Most have traveled to that country. When asked how working on Made in China affected her consumer choices, Brooks offered: “To say you’re not going to buy stuff from China — it becomes a ridiculous effort. It’s almost impossible.” The more one pays attention, she said, “the more you see how interconnected our economies are on many, many levels.”

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The goal of the show is not solely a didactic one. “People don’t feel lectured,” said Brooks, “but they are walking away with more questions.” That such an experience might also be a riotous good time is the magic of Wakka Wakka. Contact: rachel@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Made in China, Friday, March 31, and Saturday, April 1, 8 p.m., Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $17-35. hop.dartmouth.edu.

in India as a way to heighten participation, communal feelings and ecstatic communion with the Divine, Hahn explains. Elsewhere in the video of Hahn’s service, worshippers seem upbeat, dancing and twirling in the aisles. They wave their arms and clap their hands with their eyes closed, as though they’re in a trance or at a Grateful Dead show. In these moments, Hahn accompanies his chanting on the harmonium, as robed musicians sit cross-legged at the altar and join him on bass guitar, tambourines and drums.

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testimonials he’s received came from a woman who approached him after an appearance at Maryland’s Lovelight Yoga + Arts Festival. Her terse review evokes a haiku: “Born Jewish. Never connected. Thirty years. This did it.” KEN PICARD Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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and brings Hebrew Kirtan to yoga festivals. There, he says, he often encounters people who were born and raised Jewish but pursued Eastern religions in adulthood. “Very often people say, ‘I’ve been chanting in the yoga world for 30 years and always felt that something was missing. With Kirtan, this is the first time that I connected,’” he recounts. OZ Rabbi Amy Small describes Kirtan as “enveloping and very heartconnecting. It isn’t about what you’re thinking. It’s about what you’re feeling.” Hahn says one of the best

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being sung and has many of the same “vibrational qualities” as Sanskrit. Hahn has since produced three Jewish Kirtan CDs and is working on his fourth. Although he isn’t the first rabbi to apply Kirtan to Jewish liturgy, he’s widely acknowledged as having popularized the practice among American Jews looking for another way to connect with the faith. With no congregation of his own, he serves as a “circuit rabbi,” traveling the country teaching Kirtan to different congregations. And he doesn’t limit his outreach to Jews. Hahn frequently attends

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Then the quintet and chamber orchestra will join up to play five pieces by Vega. PATRICIA JULIEN and BRIAN MCCARTHY, Vega’s colleagues in the UVM music department, created the arrangements. Says Vega, “I instructed Patricia and Brian to take liberties and to deconstruct if necessary. The strings add some extra color flavoring.” Vega is adept at bridging the two worlds of classical and jazz. That’s partly because his survival as a New York City musician required it. On a typical Saturday night, he would play a jazz gig in the evening, a salsa gig until 2 a.m. and a church service of classical music in the morning, he says.

Vega attended a specialized New York City high school now called Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, studying with teachers who played in the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Later, he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and others, and taught in the music department of Purchase College. Between those jobs, he traveled constantly with his city-based band, the New York Latin Jazz All Stars, with which he still performs. The UVM faculty position brought Vega to Vermont. BCO artistic director YUTAKA KONO, who is also a UVM music professor, says he couldn’t resist inviting his colleague down the hall to collaborate on a concert. “The department of music and dance has some great faculty. They need to be highlighted more,” Kono declares. A tuba player, Kono has performed with Vega at the BURLINGTON DISCOVER JAZZ FESTIVAL. While Kono and Vega aren’t strangers to crossover, most of the 30-odd BCO players are. “The string players were concerned about whether they’d have to improvise. Classical players get really nervous about that,” says Vega. “But I told Yutaka everything is written.” The program is accessible for audiences, too, Vega promises. And he plans to “get the room loaded up with a bunch of rowdy jazz fans” to help the audience adjust its applause techniques. “I think it’s important in these times to play music that makes people feel good,” Vega declares. “I believe in beautiful sounds, beautiful melodies. Everyone should walk away feeling they have had a detour from the news.” m

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Hahn, 58, is a Pittsburgh, Pa., native who was raised in a classical Reform Jewish congregation — what he calls “high-church Judaism, with the choir and the pipes.” Trained in classical guitar at Carnegie Mellon University, he later became a rabbi and earned a PhD in Jewish philosophy. In 2004, while visiting his brother in Boulder, Colo., Hahn listened to Indian Kirtan for the first time. “The moment I heard that CD I thought, Wow! This would work really well with Hebrew,” he recalls. As he explains, the Hebrew language lends itself to

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azz and classical music seem inimical. One calls for improvisation every time a piece is played; the other involves reverent adherence to the written score. Jazz audiences know to applaud solos while a tune is being played. Classical audiences frown on early clapping, often holding their applause until a violin’s last reverberation has reached their ears. But if you ask trumpet player and University of Vermont senior lecturer RAY VEGA, there is no gulf between the genres. “I think the great divide is between the two ears of all the musicians who choose to believe that there is a great divide,” says the South Burlington resident. (His native South Bronx, N.Y., accent has mellowed little since he and his family moved to Vermont in 2008.) “The real problem is when one thinks the other is of no validity.” Vega will validate both traditions in an unusual crossover concert when he joins the BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA this Saturday, March 25, at UVM’s Recital Hall for “Latin Jazz Night.” The trumpeter can play the solos in George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and jam with equal proficiency; he was in Tito Puente’s trumpet section for the last seven years of the Latin-jazz great’s life. Saturday’s program, however, won’t feature Johann Sebastian Bach, George Philipp Telemann or any other traditional chamber works for trumpet. And, notes Vega, “We’re not playing a program of love songs from Latin America.” Instead, the BCO will open with arrangements for strings of works by Astor Piazzolla and Heitor VillaLobos, composers from Argentina and Brazil, respectively, who each found early inspiration in European classical music and training. A third piece, “Steel City Strut” by Danny Seidenberg, is a rhythm-andblues-influenced work for strings that evokes George Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Vega himself wrote the rest of the program. The RAY VEGA QUINTET will perform three of the trumpeter’s compositions — works the group would normally play in more casual Burlington venues such as the Hotel Vermont lobby and the Skinny Pancake.

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When and why did humans start wiping or manually cleaning themselves post-defecation, since animals generally don’t do this? — Roger

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grooming trick, and the rest of us, I’d imagine, aren’t generally envious. Nor does it seem appealing to follow the lead of those species that occasionally drag their rumps along the ground to tidy up down below. (If you notice your dog engaging in such behavior, that’s more likely an attempt to relieve fluid buildup in the anal glands than some canine stab at hygiene.) Our pressing need to wipe is the result of a significant anatomical difference separating us from the rest of creation. You and I may be so used to having them that we don’t think of our uniquely fatty, muscular posteriors as an evolutionary development that makes us stand out as humans — or, more precisely, stand up. Considered strictly as an adaptation, the glutes certainly don’t get all the good press that, say, the opposable thumb does. Nonetheless, the development of a stronger set of gluteal muscles was a major leap forward in enabling us to become an exclusively bipedal species.

It didn’t happen all at once — Australopithecus was strolling around upright nearly 4 million years ago with a body more akin to an ape’s than to ours. But eventually, between 1 and 2 million years ago, those of us who had sturdier hips and stronger muscles supporting them began to outrace our peers and our predators. The evolutionary advantage of the thickened layers of fat that cushion the glutes is less evident — some scientists speculate they offered a reserve that could be burned off for energy when food grew scarce. Essential as they proved to be, butts came with issues. Our anal cavity was now tucked away within two mounds of flesh. From our present-day acculturated vantage point, this might seem like an obvious improvement, helping to keep the anus out of sight and mind. But for prehistoric folks it created a hazard that our animal friends, what with their exposed bungholes, rarely faced: Fecal residue might linger in there, and the accumulation of bacteria in so moist a locale could cause infection. Women were especially vulnerable, given

the picture — though, as I mentioned in a TP column way back in 1986, folks were ripping pages out of the Sears Roebuck catalog before softer tissue became more widely available. Even today, many cultures prefer the gentle cleansing of the bidet, as we discussed at some length last year when someone wondered if wiping was necessary at all. Bear in mind that our ancestors might not have needed to wipe as vigorously or diligently as we do. Their diet, however omnivorous and haphazard, lacked the modern poisons that gunk up our GI tracts — Cheetos and Twinkies were hard to come by in paleolithic times, you know. And toilet use hadn’t yet trained them to relieve their bowels in an unnatural seated position. Squatting in the woods not only puts less strain on the system (possibly making squatters less prone to hemorrhoids) but allows smoother fecal passage, alleviating some of the need to wipe. Homo erectus had more to teach us, it seems, if we’d only been wise enough to listen.

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any of humanity’s greatest pioneers — Newton, Edison, Rubik — have been fortunate enough to achieve household-name status for their groundbreaking work. Others, unluckier but no less visionary, must necessarily remain unknown. Sadly, we’ll never ID the first human to slide a digit or foreign object between the buttocks after doing No. 2, just as we’ll never locate the first person who decided it was a good idea to wash up afterward. But we can figure out roughly when evolution would have made it necessary for our ancestors to develop a species-appropriate method of anal cleansing. As you say, animals in general don’t make a habit of wiping after defecation — limbwise, few are up to the task anyway. Birds and fish would seem to lack means, motive or both. Some mammals, it’s true, do clean themselves when necessary — think of your cat licking itself. (Maybe don’t think about it too long, though.) Only the most flexible hominids would be able to pull off that

the proximity of the exposed vagina and urethra. So one of these buttockequipped humans — named by science Homo erectus, after their default posture — was probably the first wiper. Some rectal discomfort must have inspired this innovator to impulsively run a finger or two through the crevice and (ideally) wipe the accumulated crud off somewhere. H. erectus didn’t stand on formalities, after all. Perhaps over time those who engaged in the habit prospered and taught their offspring to do likewise. Nobody said evolution was pretty. As human culture progressed, of course, taboos and rituals developed around our eliminatory regimens, some apparently rooted in prudence, others in disgust. By the time of Deuteronomy, divinely ordained pooping instructions had been set forth, enjoining the Israelites to scoot out of camp before doing their business and bring a little shovel along to cover up the evidence. At length, toilet paper enters

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Little Vera, the Artist Her perspective made me smile. If this woman and her friends are over the hill, then my peers and I are over the Himalayas. I honestly might have a couple of shirts that are 30 years old. “So, are you a Vermont girl?” I asked. “I am,” she replied. “In fact, you’re taking me to my childhood home in Essex. We’re visiting my parents for a

“Don’t think I haven’t fantasized about that,” she said, chuckling. “But the truth is, even with the financial means, I don’t think I could ever give up teaching.” “I get that,” I said. “You strike me as one of those lucky people who have truly found their calling in life. Passionate teachers like you are real jewels — no, I mean that — even though you’re barely

YOU STRIKE ME AS ONE OF THOSE LUCKY PEOPLE WHO HAVE TRULY FOUND THEIR CALLING IN LIFE. few days. My husband and I moved to Maine a few years ago. Jeff grew up in Essex, too. We have a little girl, one and a half years old. We’re working on moving back here — I mean, we’d love to — but the real estate prices have grown a little steep for us. I know we’ll figure something out, though.” “Are you working in Maine?” “I sure am. I’m a middle school art teacher.” “Oh, my goodness — middle school!” “Oh, yeah — the emotions are flying. But I love my job. That moment when a kid has made something and the light bulb goes on, and they realize they have the power to express themselves creatively — I’ll tell you, there’s nothing better.” “Do you pursue art outside of the teaching?” “Not as much as I’d like to. Mostly, these days, it’s graphic design. I’m also loving pottery.” “Well, maybe you or Jeff will strike it rich one day, and you can devote yourself full time to your art and pottery.”

paid the medium bucks, let alone the big bucks you deserve.” We passed St. Mike’s, hooked the left at Susie Wilson and rolled onto the Circumferential Highway. This road is totally not circumferential, it occurred to me — not yet, and not by a long shot. They should rechristen it the “Dogleg Highway,” I decided, until such time as it’s ever completed, an outcome that seems dubious. My thoughts drifted to the woman’s toddler at home with the grandparents. “Your little one, is she making words yet?” I asked. “A few. Mostly she talks in her own made-up language that probably only Jeff and I can translate. Her big thing is pointing at stuff and asking, ‘What that?’” “Well, she’s trying to figure out her world. I can dig it. I’m still working on that myself. Has she begun painting yet?” “Oh, I’ve been encouraging her, and just recently she made her first — well, we’ll call it a painting. I was like, ‘Jeff, we’ve got to frame it!’ He’s a little concerned that I

All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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may be smothering her with all the art stuff, and he might not be wrong.” “Hey, that kind of smothering doesn’t sound too bad. What’d you name her, if I may ask?” “We named her Vera.” “Oh, what a great old-fashiony name! Was it an ancestral family thing?” “Yes, from a great-aunt. My mom comes from an enormous family, and she had two aunts who never married — Natalie and Vera. They were both great ladies and always encouraged and mentored me in my creative pursuits. The toughest thing was choosing between the two of them, because I loved them both so much.” “Well, Vera was a great choice, and that name pays tribute to both the aunts. I’m sure they’re smiling down from above and looking after their great-grandniece. Jeez, do I got the family terminology right?” “Gosh, I’m not sure myself,” she replied with a laugh. “But I love the image and the sentiment.” As we turned onto Old Stage Road, my customer asked, “What about you? Did you grow up here?” I had to laugh because, driving cab, I’m asked this multiple times each shift by locals and visitors alike. “Alas, I did not,” I replied. “I arrived here in 1979. In my heart and soul, I feel like a Vermonter, but I was mistakenly born elsewhere.” “Oh, tsk-tsk,” she said, smiling at me from the shotgun seat. “You’re a Vermonter now. Take it from me.” Coming from this Essex girl, I did take it, and it felt like a benediction. m

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reading a newspaper, while larger-than-life photographs illuminate the screen behind him. He looks up and addresses the audience: “This is the legend of Muhammad Ali, the greatest fighter there ever will be.” Two men appear under spotlights, dancing to the rhythmic repetition of a looping voice-over: “Cassius Clay, Cassius Clay ... Cassius Clay.” Grounded by the steady pulse of a lone cowbell, they move effortlessly from floor toward sky, pulling energy down with their fists, rolling their spines in supplication to an imaginary deity, taking long steps to claim space. These scenes entice audiences into The Opulence of Integrity, Integrity choreographer Christal Brown’s multimedia work, which INSPIRIT dance company will perform on April 6 and 7 at the FlynnSpace in Burlington. Premiered at Middlebury College in 2013 and now on its fifth tour, the show is a collage of theater, dance, photography and music that celebrates Ali’s life and legacy as a professional boxer and activist. The dancers — six African American men — are professionals based in New York City. Zimbabwean American musician/composer Farai Malianga created the sound score. Founding director of INSPIRIT, Brown, 38, is an accomplished dancer who has graced the stage for more than 20 years with companies such as the African American Dance Ensemble, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company, the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Urban Bush Women and the Bebe Miller Company. At Middlebury College, she is assistant professor of dance, chair of the dance program and the newly appointed faculty director of MiddCORE, a mentor-driven experiential-learning program for college-age students from the U.S. and around the world. The current turmoil surrounding race relations in America gives a special timeliness to a piece celebrating Muhammad Ali. But the origins of Opulence go back to 2011, when Brown began working on it at the request of a friend battling cancer, jazz musician and composer Fred Ho. He had found courage in the prizefighter’s story. “When he contacted me out of the blue and asked me to choreograph a piece about Ali,” said Brown, “I felt honored and intrigued.” Born in 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Ky., Ali won Olympic gold in the light heavyweight boxing division at the age of 18. By 22, he had won three heavyweight titles and changed his name to Muhammad Ali to reflect his conversion to Islam and affirm his identify as a free man. A symbol of racial pride for African Americans during the civil rights movement, Ali would remain wellknown and beloved by Americans of all backgrounds for decades afterward. He died in June 2016 from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. “Everybody loved Ali,” said Steve MacQueen, artistic director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. “My memories of him were of one of the great athletes of the time, someone who had as much personality as he had talent. He captured the imagination of the entire country.”

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Brown didn’t plan to become a professional dancer. Born and raised in Kinston, N.C., she majored in dance and minored in business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her goal was to form a business partnership with her father and run a dance studio in her hometown.

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While The Opulence of Integrity has become one of Brown’s most significant works, its existence rests on a twist of fate. In 2011, the year after her son was born, the dancer decided to shift gears professionally and personally. “I had decided I was done with INSPIRIT,” she said, and recalled thinking, “This company can no longer be my child; I have a real child.”

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Then jazz musician Ho, whom Brown hadn’t seen in eight years, invited her to create a dance piece for what he suspected would be his last composition: “The Sweet Science Suite.” In a brief respite from his five-year battle with cancer, he had composed it as a tribute to Ali. “During the darkest hours of my cancer war, when I was undergoing massive chemotherapy, I was watching films of Muhammad Ali,” Ho says in a video produced by Works & Process at the Guggenheim and viewable on YouTube. “I took great inspiration and strength from his courage, his determination, his fortitude against formidable odds. It … kept me focused on staying alive.” Composed for Ho’s 18-piece orchestra, the Green Monster Big Band, “Suite” was always envisioned as a stage production with dance. “The dancing had to be very special,” he says in the video. “It had to include elements of boxing, martial arts; it had to be urban and also very global.” After considering many choreographers, Ho approached Brown. She couldn’t decline. “The turning point,” said Brown, “was someone asking you to bring to life the last thing they’re ever going to work on.” Before Ho died in 2015, he gave Brown reason to revive her choreographic life. “The process re-enlivened my creativity in a way that I hadn’t felt since before I started the company,” she said. INSPIRIT had been an all-woman troupe, and Brown’s previous choreography had expressed her own ideas. Now Ho was asking her to build a work around his concept with an all-male cast. In making a vision “that’s not necessarily my own come to life,” she said, “I had to create a bridge between what vision is and what purpose is.” As it happened, Ali himself had demonstrated how to build such a bridge. He became “a figure for solidarity, for masculinity and for African Americans at a very crucial time,” said Brown. “He bridged all of his parts — humility, arrogance, bravado, life, love — into one purpose that he felt was God-led and purpose-filled.” Likewise, Brown said, she felt called to live a purposeful life by creating a work that was meaningful for herself and for Ho in honor of Ali. For Brown, thriving on challenges is nothing new.

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Flynn management is making efforts to showcase more local and regional artists, MacQueen said. So when programming manager Madeline Bell saw excerpts from Opulence and “was knocked out by it,” MacQueen booked the show for the current performing arts season. Opulence has “serious things to say about an athletic figure that people are familiar with, and it does so through dance,” MacQueen said. Noting the work’s current relevance, he added, “The conversation about race is an ongoing part of life in America.” Lindsay Pontius, education director of Middlebury Town Hall Theater, saw the show in 2016. “The performance is pretty riveting,” she said. During the 2015-16 school year, Pontius hired Brown as the theater’s resident dance instructor for children in grades 4 through 6, and the two created a special module around Opulence. “The students unpacked some of Ali’s life through movement and gestures,” said Pontius, “both to learn about Ali and about dance as a tool for expressing ideas.” When students saw a matinée performance of Opulence, she continued, they recognized those movements and gestures. “They felt ownership of the story, and one kid liked the show so much,” Pontius said, “that he made his parents [take him] in the evening so he could see it again.” How did Brown approach teaching a primarily white student body about the life of a legendary black man? Pontius remarked, “What I appreciate about Christal is her willingness to wade through that with us here in white Middlebury.” Brown was generous and open to questions, Pontius noted. She recalled the choreographerteacher saying things such as, “We’re all human beings, and this is how we work together.” As a result, “the kids walked away with a real sense of ‘Yeah, Muhammad Ali could be my idol, too,’” said Pontius. Brown remembers what it was like to experience something completely new as a child. “I was intrigued by not knowing,” she said. “Some of my peers were frightened and therefore never attempted to go beyond the boundaries of our small town.” In working with Middlebury kids, she said, “I wanted them to catch a glimpse of something bigger, intriguing and attainable.” A few years ago, Brown’s friend did much the same thing for her.

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Moved by the Spirit « P.31 But her father, a double-amputee Vietnam vet, died a year before she graduated. And UNCG dance faculty encouraged her down a different path. “They pushed me out the door, lovingly,” said Brown, “with a performance concentration rather than a teaching certification. They basically just looked at me and said, ‘We think you can do this.’” Chuck Davis, founder and artistic director of the African American Dance Ensemble, saw the same potential. Although Brown had taken only one college class in West African dance, he hired her to tour with his Durham-based company in 2000. Brown was incredulous. “He gave me the job on the credential of ‘She’s going to work hard’?” His trust in her and the opportunity to learn from him profoundly shaped her career. “Chuck is always going to be the root of my existence in this field,” said Brown, who performed and taught with the ensemble for four years. From Davis, she learned how to tour on a bare-bones budget, how to teach in schools and how to “get dance to the people, which probably has stuck with me more than anything.” Brown stopped working with AADE in 2004. Since then, she has performed with some of the most gifted dancers in the world. “I was challenged by many great women to bring my physicality and technique up to another level,” said Brown. But to train at that level, she had to set aside some of her favorite movement vernacular. Before and during college, Brown had studied acrobatics, jazz, kung fu and capoeira, practices peripheral to the modern dance canon. Later, even in her own dance company, she felt limited, she recalled. Her inclination toward athletic, energy-driven work “died out a little bit,” Brown conceded. “It was more about the details and the stories we were telling.”

But in 2003, when they first collaborated, Ho had seen something in Brown that was buried, she said. “He had met this kind of raw Christal before Christal had been refined, in a way, by the field,” Brown recalled. “He probably had met a Christal that was more authentic than what I had become viscerally.”

With that encouragement, Brown decided to build on what she had created for Ho. The choreography for “Suite” became the first of four movements that now make up Opulence. “The whole 55 minutes [of choreography] got made in two weeks,” she said. During a residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,

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Later, Brown said, working with the all-male cast of “Suite” helped her reclaim some of the athletic movement vernacular she feared she’d lost. “The first time we showed it at the Guggenheim,” recalled Brown, “a lot of people were like, ‘So, you can do all that? You taught all these men to do that?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I did!’”

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The mix of athleticism, martial arts and contemporary dance that Brown brought to Ho’s piece — along with soulful intelligence and global savvy — was intoxicating. Brown recalled Toni Renee Johnson, her rehearsal director at the time and a former member of INSPIRIT, saying that it was some of the best work she had ever made.

Brown recalled, “the movement just kept pouring out of me.” Once the choreography was complete, Brown added projection elements. She hired Malianga to create a completely new sound score, which blends Ali’s speeches, historical narratives, percussion solos, and references to the Black Panther Party, black Muslims and the black power movement. The score is pulsing and hypnotic yet elegant and subtle, tying together the theater, dance and photography components. To audience members schooled in movement arts, the dancing of Opulence feels both accessibly familiar and entirely new. A boxer’s evasion of a punch becomes a deep backward lean. Spins with fully flexed feet and hands echo urban dance and martial arts. Pedestrian and stylized contemporary dance

movements flow seamlessly in time to a highly rhythmic score. For the dancers, Opulence is physically demanding. All six company members are onstage for most of the 55 minutes. “It’s a fight throughout,” said INSPIRIT dancer Tyrone Bevans, speaking via Skype from a rehearsal in New York City. “Learning how to find that confidence and those different stages of strength and your place in space onstage [helps] you become a fuller self as you do the work.” The dancers figuratively embody Ali’s spirit to help themselves literally keep dancing. “The people in the piece have to be self-actualizing as the work is coming to fruition,” said Brown. “Otherwise, the process doesn’t fulfill my artistic mojo.” The dancers say they value her mentorship and the experience of performing in an all-male, all-black company. “Through The Opulence of Integrity, I’ve been able to tap into my own greatness as a man of color in this country,” said INSPIRIT’s Ricarrdo Valentine. “That’s the beautiful thing about this work,” added Orlando Hunter, also an INSPIRIT dancer. “It’s exploring all realms of male masculinity and black masculinity to the point where we also are open to the feminine and more vulnerable parts of our masculinity — not this fragile masculinity that is trying to prove its machismo characteristics.” Opulence explores the power and beauty of the feminine, as well. The only woman in the piece, Brown appears onstage briefly in the second movement in an explosion of physical prowess. She distracts and derails the men from boxing practice with boundless leaps, sultry gyrations, come-hither gestures and queenly strides. For one and a half minutes, she owns the stage. Then she disappears, leaving the men in tatters. “We describe her as the kryptonite,” said Brown of this female figure. “We

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When she became chair of Middlebury’s dance program in 2013, Brown stepped into some large shoes. From 1983 to 2013, Penny Campbell, Andrea Olsen and Peter Schmitz ran the program with a strong commitment to making dance and movement an integral part of the liberal arts experience. Dance filled arts requirements for some students; for others, it led to successful dance careers. But Campbell’s goals for the program shifted in 2005. “I had a reawakening after Hurricane Katrina,” she said in a phone conversation. Treatment of African Americans in New Orleans during and after the storm evoked “a third-world country,” Campbell said. Witnessing it made her acutely aware that something essential was missing from the Middlebury dance program. While occasional shortterm guest artists represented the African American experience, it wasn’t an integral part of the curriculum.

“All of us in the dance program were middle-class white people, and had been for years,” Campbell said. “It was time to actively change that. Our students needed more diverse role models.” In aiming for that goal, Campbell said, she had support from the college administration, which recognized faculty diversity as a priority and was committed to hiring exceptional people, regardless of current openings. In 2007, Brown was hired for a parttime teaching position. In 2011, with Campbell and Olsen about to retire, “The administration fast-tracked Christal into a full-time tenure-track position, which was perfectly appropriate,” Campbell said. “The administration loves Christal,” she continued. “She clicked for any number of reasons, including her charisma, personal power and gifts.” Among those gifts is Brown’s reported positive effect on students. “She’s one of those teachers who fosters tremendous enthusiasm in her students,” Campbell observed. Brown has gathered a core of dedicated instructors and is “really working hard for Middlebury College broadly,” Campbell said, both on and beyond campus. “Christal is a magnet and role model for students of color on campus, engaging them both academically and socially, and drawing them into the dance program.” By all accounts, Brown gracefully navigates Middlebury, historically a white, upper-class bastion. “She is fearless,” Campbell said. “She speaks truth to power from her perspective, but she speaks it with love.” From Brown’s perspective, her faculty role at Middlebury “brings my first idea about myself full circle,” she said. “I wanted to be a teacher, and now I get to teach at a really wonderful institution. But I also get to shape what dance looks like

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always see this [dynamic] in these largerthan-life characters — they have a tragic flaw. Ali’s tragic flaw was women, but they were also his greatest inspiration.” Brown inhabits this female archetype with the grace and confidence of a master. One second she’s leaning on a man flirtatiously; the next she’s challenging him to an athletic duel, and winning. “She’s strong; she’s smart; she’s very talented,” said Paul Besaw of Brown. A professor and the dance program director at the University of Vermont, he has performed several times with Brown and is currently reworking a Korean-danceinspired piece in which she will solo. “Not only is Christal a consummate artist, but also a devoted educator,” Besaw added. “She’s just really straightforward, and she’s tough. She’s a great role model for female students and students of color.”

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Moved by the Spirit « P.33 for many people who don’t know dance at all.” Brown estimated that half of the students who major in dance at Middlebury did not study it before college. Some will become professionals and “the people who really run the world,” she said, “and in this program, we have a chance to influence their humanity.” That includes “redesign[ing] how we think about dance,” Brown said. Western culture and conservatory-style dance programs have separated dance from the people, deeming only certain individuals gifted enough to practice the art. “So,” Brown explained, “in this liberal arts context, it’s very important for me to debunk the notion that talent is what makes dancers or makes movement a primary source of communication.” Regardless of one’s natural ability for reading or writing or dancing, practice and training can turn talent into proficiency or even mastery. Just as students train the mind for intelligence through study, Brown argued, so they can train the body. “Your body speaks before you do, whether you’re trained or not,” she said. “Dance is really about challenging people to take the body seriously as a tool for intelligence.”

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Being a Disciple

What is not visible onstage, in the studio or in the classroom is the spiritual bedrock underlying Brown’s work and life. “I had an artistic director in high school who used to say, ‘Christal, you do all of these things, but do you do any of them well?’” she recalled. When her son, Gabriel, was born, Brown realized that the director’s words were always on her mind, prompting her to ask, “Am I doing my best?” After studying Buddhism and Taoism for about 10 years, Brown returned to Christianity. “I grew up in the South, where everybody goes to Bible study and everybody goes to church,” she said. “But do you actually do any of the things you learn about? It’s like being a cultural Christian.” She decided to recommit to the faith through deliberate practice. “I realized I wanted to do my faith really well,” Brown said. “That was going to make my life a little bit simpler, because if I was doing my faith well, I would be able to make clear decisions about the other things I was going to put my energy toward.” One way to understand Brown’s spiritual practice is to consider those she admires, such as the late Blondell Cummings. An award-wining American dancer, choreographer and founding member of Meredith Monk’s company the House, Cummings is remembered among dancers

that build trust and get them talking. “We’re asking, ‘What do you want to be?’” said Brown. “‘Who do you want to be? What’s important to you, and how can we help get you there?’” Through such projects, she passes on the support and encouragement she has received.

as a generous mentor and a leveling force, said Brown. Known for attending countless dance performances, this icon valued all that was happening in the field of dance — in schools, in community centers and on the streets. Brown strives to be a similar force. During her sabbatical last semester, she said, “I tried really hard not to be a dance snob.” She taught in public high schools, at other colleges and in dance studios. Her goal was to learn about the wider field of dance and how she might have become separate from it. “I think that’s something that Blondell would think is valuable: to understand the spectrum of the reality of dance,” said Brown, “and how it presents itself to people, not just to other artists.” In her professional life, Brown’s spiritual practice has three parts, she said:

cultivating inclusion, respect and openness in the world of dance; striving to do her best; and being of service to others. Those practices take many forms outside the dance studio, one of which is Project: BECOMING. Begun in 2005 as a community engagement project of INSPIRIT, it is now a nonprofit that has helped some 300 teenage girls in multiple states east of the Mississippi to identify and pursue their dreams. “We want to be that conduit between reality and aspiration,” said Brown, “because if there’s no connection between the two, or realistic bridges built, then girls are going to give up on their aspirations and just do whatever people tell them they’re good at.” INSPIRIT company members join community leaders in guiding girls through dance and other performing arts activities

According to his official website, Ali once said, “I know where I’m going, and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” In many ways, Brown is a disciple of Ali, encouraging children, teen girls, college students and dancers to make similar declarations. She does so by walking the walk, said Pontius of Town Hall Theater. “Everything Christal does is her own personal opulence of integrity,” the education director explained. “I think that’s her thing; that’s what she wants to embody. She is who she says she is. It’s pretty amazing.” Brown’s desire to inspire extends to audience members, as well. She understands that viewers can have difficulty understanding dance performances, so she included narrative elements in Opulence: theater and photography. “Even when a person doesn’t understand the dancing,” she said, “they can still lean into something that they do find interesting.” Brown and company join the audience after every performance of Opulence for a question-and-answer session. They also offer children’s workshops and matinées with pre- and post-performance discussions. “It is really rewarding to use the piece for social dialogue,” Brown said. “In bringing Ali’s voice to light, we want the audience’s voices heard, as well. We are giving life to voice, voice to action and action to community.” In the final few seconds of Opulence, one dancer splits off from the group, while the others keep up their highenergy spins and jumps to the sound of relentless percussion. The lone dancer repeatedly kicks his right leg high in front of him like a South African gumboot dancer, then spins to the ground, pounds his fist and yells, “Noooo!” Finally, he reconnects with the others. As they dance their way offstage, the young man in the suit who introduced Opulence says: “And the legend continues.” Contact: elizabeth@sevendaysvt.com

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Land With Herstory For three decades, a collective in Huntington has offered sanctuary for women

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n 1974, Carol “Crow” Cohen moved to Richmond with her husband and small daughter. That year, shortly after giving birth to her second daughter, she dialed the local “Women’s Switchboard.” A hybrid rape crisis hotline and general women’s network, it was listed in the phone book. “Because Vermont is so small,” Cohen wrote in her 2010 memoir Small Town Revolution, “I asked if there were any feminists in Richmond.” Cohen was in luck: She was directed to the doorstep of “Raven,” a woman well connected with the burgeoning lesbian scene and feminist community that congregated in Burlington. Thus began Cohen’s process of coming out and selfdiscovery, one narrative among many that define the women’s movement of the era. In many ways, the intimate social and political context that Cohen recounts in her book feels like a closed chapter of history. But one of its local legacies remains, 20 miles from Burlington: Huntington Open Women’s Land. Commonly called HOWL, the property is more or less hidden in the woods that surround Camel’s Hump State Park. The 50-acre parcel spans pastures, woodlands and streams and connects to the Catamount Trail. The farmhouse, barn and gardens that make up the HOWL “headquarters” mark the terminus of both the dirt road leading there and the power lines snaking through the hills.

What is “open women’s land”? While it means different things to different people, the bottom line is that anyone who identifies as a woman is welcome to visit the land and spend time living there — provided they have the guiding collective’s blessing, show a collaborative spirit and adhere to certain parameters. Drugs, alcohol and tobacco, for example, are not permitted. HOWL’s website describes it as land “held in perpetuity for all women, guided by a collective, nurtured by residents and rejuvenated by visitors, all the while striving to form an intentional community on the land.” “HOWL’s very precious because it still exists,” said Stephie Smith in an interview with Seven Days. Smith, 73, is a registered nurse and rehabilitation consultant living in Colchester, and one of the five current members of the HOWL collective. She was recruited four or five years ago, she said, by fellow collective member Lani Ravin, 57, who works as a campus planner for the University of Vermont. Ravin became involved with HOWL more than a decade ago through Cohen. The other three current collective members are Glo Daley, 76, of Burlington; Cynthia Feltch, 61, of Jericho; and Michele Grimm, 49, of Colchester. The small volunteer group is tasked with maintaining the HOWL grounds, finding resident caretakers to live in

the farmhouse and greet guests, and, more broadly, ensuring HOWL’s future through outreach and fundraising. Of the current collective members, only Daley witnessed the birth of HOWL. She lived on the land for about two decades. In an interview at her South End apartment, Daley noted that she missed the most recent collective meeting because she and her partner were visiting Sugarloaf Women’s Village in Florida. That community has served as a model for HOWL in many ways. In the mid-1980s, a loose amalgam of Vermont women began to organize and fundraise under the moniker Help Open Women’s Land. Formally, the group operated through Commonwoman, a micropublishing company that distributed a feminist newspaper at the time. HOWL was originally envisioned as a co-op where women could build their own homesteads as part of an intentional community. But that “cost more money than anybody wanted to kick in,” Daley said. According to a grant proposal prepared for the Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund, an anonymous supporter purchased a 195-acre parcel of land in 1985, “holding” it for HOWL while the collective’s members raised money. The women initially hoped to generate $150,000 to purchase the full parcel. They held phone-a-thons, danceathons, movie nights and pesto dinners,

according to a spring 1989 HOWL newsletter. Ben & Jerry’s kicked in $4,000. Ultimately, the lengthy proposal was rejected, though it included letters of endorsement from the Burlington Community Land Trust, the Burlington Women’s Council, the Women’s Rape Crisis Center and others. “It was very rough at the start,” said Daley. She wasn’t just referring to the inherent struggles of consensus decision making or raising large sums of money for a utopian project. At one point, Daley recalled, squatters took up residence at the farmhouse. They refused to leave when confronted and threw things at the HOWL women. No one called the sheriff: “We were all pretty anarchistic in those days,” Daley explained. But they did threaten to, and the interlopers were gone the next day. Despite myriad challenges, HOWL was able to purchase 50 acres of the original parcel in winter 1988 to ’89. A spring 1989 newsletter declares, “This is the beginning for us, and the culmination of almost four years of intensive fundraising, negotiation, arguing, crying, howling (feminist process, in other words).” Ravin said the deed claims the land “for women.” “We never called it ‘lesbian land,’” said Daley. “We never wanted heterosexual women to feel bad or stay away.” When Daley’s Jonesville home burned down that year, she became HOWL’s first resident caretaker. “That early time was like heaven,” she recalled. “I had birds flying over my bed. It was divine.” Indeed, collective members frequently note the natural beauty of the land. For Grimm, HOWL is a space to hold ceremonies for solstices and equinoxes. Over the years, it has hosted snowshoeing parties, nature walks, cross-country skiing excursions, herds of grazing sheep, wilderness skills training and writing retreats. Ravin recalled an icy cold spring mikvah — a traditional ritual bath for Jewish women — in the pond. Anya Schwartz, 46, is an academic coordinator at the Community College of Vermont. She lived at HOWL twice, first in the mid-1990s and again from 2009 to 2011.

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“Just living there was so beautiful,” women’s space can be “a limiting factor she said in a phone conversation. “The that’s increasingly anachronistic.” She land is unbelievable. Women would recalls conversations with Cohen about come and stay for a day; sometimes whether discouraging men was still it was a few days. There were several necessary and desirable. Though the land remains a space women who came and stayed for a primarily designated couple of months for women, in recent each. Being able to years HOWL has support them in findhosted all-gender ing [the] peaceful events. Women’s male refuge that they were friends and partners seeking felt like really may visit with prior important work.” approval. “We’ve Currently, tried to make the defiSchwartz is compiling nition of ‘woman’ as a 30th-anniversary anflexible as possible,” thology of stories from said Ravin, meaning women who have been HOWL logo individuals are free to involved with HOWL. define themselves. “If “It’s kind of this gem that flies under the radar, even to our- you’re a living organism,” she continselves,” she said. “A lot of intentional ued, “you’ve got to adjust to the reality communities [and] women’s lands around you.” Nonetheless, Ravin wrote in an sprung up, and then they died. HOWL is email, “we’ve found that many women, still here, and still pretty amazing.” Will HOWL outlive its founders, young and old, still appreciate, want and reflecting a passing of the feminist don’t often get [to experience] women’s torch? As cultural understandings of space and women’s land.” “I’d love to see HOWL stay alive,” feminism continue to morph and grow in the 21st century — fueled in part by said Daley. “I’m 76, and I feel like somea “pussy-grabbing” U.S. president — body else should be taking this on.” Other collective members share a new generations have found renewed interest in the groundbreaking work of strong sense of intergenerational relationships and exchange. earlier ones. The now“This place was founded ubiquitous “The Future by the generation that Is Female” T-shirt came before us,” said slogan is a reproduction Feltch. “We in turn have of a design for Labyris paved the way for the Books, the first women’s generation to come after bookstore in New York us. [We’ve] straddled City, which opened in those two times in 1972. Documentaries ANYA SCHWARTZ history.” such as 2014’s She’s For women interBeautiful When She’s ested in becoming inAngry recount the excitement and turmoil of what is broadly volved with HOWL, it would seem the cast as second-wave feminism. Another sky’s the limit. “Want to see or lead a documentary in this vein, Lesbiana: specific event at HOWL?” asks the webA Parallel Revolution, features both site. “Have a skill to share or a topic to discuss? ... We welcome your leadership Cohen and Daley. But, while earlier women’s move- and ideas.” “This collective of five people is holdments decidedly influence present-day feminist politics, they also exhibit sig- ing [the land] for future generations,” nificant differences. And for HOWL, said Grimm. “We’re just a blip on the those shifts translate into a question radar.” Whatever the future of HOWL mark. “We live in a world where we looks like, it will likely share a key don’t divide things up into male and characteristic with the collective’s past: female [as strictly],” said Ravin, “and Above all else, this is a labor of love. m that [gender equity is] what feminists Contact: rachel@sevendaysvt.com fought for.” Ravin acknowledged that it has proved difficult to find resident care- INFO takers on the Huntington land, and Learn more at howlvt.org or by emailing that its foundational designation as a howlvt@gmail.com.

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haun Murphy is up before sunrise at her house in Plainfield, and in the kitchen at 4:20. The coffee is all but ready for her, set up the night before by her mother. Murphy just has to hit the “on” button, and coffee starts to drip. Then she arranges her hair in two tight braids that fall to the front and dresses for work in chef’s blacks. By 5:20, Murphy is “driving like a granny,” as she puts it, to Montpelier, where she’s a cook at Capitol Food Court in the Statehouse. “No breakfast,” Murphy says. “That would slow me down.” She will crack many eggs (about 120) and take many steps (roughly 13,000) as part of her daily routine at the Statehouse grill, filling meal orders for legislators and lobbyists who talk turkey over her omelettes. “This is perfect for me, because I start super-early,” Murphy says one afternoon in the cafeteria at the end of her shift. “I didn’t want to work late nights. I didn’t want to work in a place with a bar. That’s not my scene.” Murphy, 53, moved back home to Plainfield a year ago after a life spent on the road — or, more precisely, the railroad. For 22 years, she worked as a private chef for travelers who toured the country in vintage restored railroad cars. Riding the rails from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, B.C. to Jasper National Park in Alberta; Montréal, Qué, to

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On one occasion, she found herself with- of his primary interests was gamelan, the out salt. So, at a station stop, she stepped off Javanese percussion instrument. the train and dashed down the track into “My parents stuck it out at Goddard,” the Amtrak train pulling her car. There Murphy says. She attended culinary school she made her way to the dining car and got in New York before embarking on her packets of salt. At the next stop, Murphy chef’s life. repeated her trip in reverse, rushing down Murphy started work at the Statehouse the platform into the private rail car. cafeteria last December, hired by executive “Your life is not your own,” Murphy says chef Ray Wood. “For all the years I’ve been of those days. “You need a firm sense of a chef, I can honestly just get a vibe by talkurgency and flexibility. I can’t even express ing to a person,” he says. “I get the vibe with how intense that work is. I love that kind Shaun of someone who loves cooking. If you of pressure. It’s about creating have a passion talking about it, you systems that work. The quicker tend to have a passion doing it.” and better you do your job, the He appreciates her ability to more time you have to look out connect with customers in an the window.” “intimate” way, just as she did on In those still moments, the train. Statehouse eaters are watching the scenery pass by, she regulars — lawmakers and others thought of her home state. “I’m who work in the capital. “We’re big on the coasts, having grown kind of like a family in here,” up in Vermont,” Murphy says. Wood says. “You’re face-to-face “Green looks like home to me.” with the person you’re cooking Murphy spent much of her for, under the microscope.” S H AUN downtime reading. She filled half Murphy takes orders from MUR P H Y her suitcase with books and read people at the grill, working from about one a day, leaving finished memory, chitchatting with cuspaperbacks, often mysteries, in train sta- tomers and holding about six orders in her tions for the next traveler. head at a time. At the LA station, Murphy met the “It’s kind of like an Easy Bake oven,” man she would marry — a switchman for Murphy says. “As soon as things come in Amtrak. When the marriage ended after one end, they go out the other.” seven and a half years, she moved home. At 12:15 on a Friday in early March, the “I’m so glad to be back in Vermont,” line is long at Murphy’s grill station. Two Murphy says. “I’ve been trying to get back baskets of French fries sizzle, a cheesehere for a long while. I had to leave to really burger is ablaze on the grill, and a pile of appreciate it.” mushrooms and onions is sautéing for a Murphy now lives with her 81-year-old veggie burger. Murphy is ready for another mother, Pat Murphy, in the 200-year-old order. farmhouse near the base of Spruce Peak “Chicken cordon bleu,” the customer where she grew up. requests. Murphy puts two slices of ham on Pat is retired from her job in the library the grill to start the meal. at Goddard College. Murphy’s late father, “Grilled hot dogs with fries,” the next Dennis Murphy, was an ethnomusicologist man orders. “If you grill it so it’s a little and composer who taught at Goddard. One crispy, that’s all right, too.”

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Rep. Barbara Murphy (I-Franklin) — no relation — is up next, ordering for eight during this Friday lunch rush. It’s school vacation week, and she’s hosting visitors at the Statehouse. “My rule for when constituents visit is, I buy them lunch with my per diem,” Barbara Murphy says. “It’s their tax dollars, not mine.” Her order includes two grilled-cheese sandwiches. “Bread and cheese?” Murphy the cook asks Murphy the politico. “It’s for two little boys,” the Fairfax lawmaker replies. That’s enough information for Shaun Murphy: She slaps together a pair of whitebread sandwiches with American cheese. This is a woman accustomed to meeting the needs of her clientele, whether they’re country kids or passengers on the Scottish Thistle returning to the train sloshed after a night in New Orleans. “A midnight snack should be grilled or gooey,” Murphy says of the latter scenario. “Stoner food.” Among the private train passengers she accommodated was a celebrity known for his luxurious tastes: Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine. Hef liked baby peas from a silver can, warmed up, Murphy says. He requested seven varieties of potato chips, so she stocked her kitchen with 13 bags to cover “all potato chip eventualities.” “My greatest skill is having no opinion,” Murphy says, meaning she accepts diners’ desires with neutrality. “I don’t have [opinions] with the guests.” Still, having catered to vacationers’ dining desires for more than two decades, Murphy has acquired tastes of her own. “My favorite food is something that I haven’t had to make,” she says. “I’ve thought about it, made it, touched it, plated it, washed the dishes. Don’t make me eat it, too.” m

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Montpelier, Murphy prepared and served three meals a day for guests. She rose before dawn to make coffee in her cramped mobile kitchen, then set to work on a breakfast frittata while her diners slept and the train rolled on. The private railroad car was hitched to an Amtrak passenger train — but not accessible from it. “It’s a land cruise,” Murphy says. “It’s the most amazing way to travel. You sit in the lounge or on the porch out back and watch the track going away. Going away from you.” During her years cooking on chartered train cars, Murphy’s home base was LA. She’d go out for weeks at a time, living and working most often in a train car called the Scottish Thistle. Built in 1959 for Canadian business executives, it has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a dining room and an observation deck. Murphy folded her bed into a bench when she got up, and her sleeping area became a bar. “I chose to have an adventure,” she says. “I didn’t even know what state I was in most of the time.” Murphy earned $275 to $350 a day on the train. Her role was to prepare the meals and clean up, to put roses on guests’ pillows and pick up specks of lint, to scope out a grocery store in an unknown city and stock up when the train pulled into a station. Locavore cooking by train meant buying salmon in Seattle and beef in Chicago. Murphy rationed water for cooking and washing up from a 300-gallon tank. She could whip up a meal when the train was 11 hours late and people were hungry, inventing the “derailment special”: phyllo dough pockets stuffed with cheese, veggies and chicken, with tomato sauce on top. “Deep frying is something you never do on a moving vehicle,” Murphy says. “That’s a rule. Even boiling water is interesting on a train.”

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conceals her boasts, then settles deep inside the character to let what wrenches the pilot wrench her. The creative team has built a magnificent physical realization of the character’s internal story. Set designer Luciana Stecconi fills the theater’s back wall with rectangles of varying sizes; projections span this grid or align with individual tiles. In addition, two sets of monitors sit left and right, each a group of nine screens mortised together. Projection designer Jared Mezzocchi uses images almost musically as harmonics for Anderson’s performance. Eric Shimelonis composed original music and integrates sound effects to produce the artificial world the pilot inhabits. The lighting by Harold F. Burgess II complements the projections and seems to release the character’s thoughts. Ivania Stack’s perfect flight suit is the last word in costume as character. When the pilot speaks to the audience, it’s an interior commentary made external, not a dialogue or an exhortation. Until the very end, that is, when she talks to the people watching her. That group is both her Air Force superiors and, unambiguously, the audience. In a world of surveillance, responsibility and individual identity grow diffuse. The pilot loses her way and cautions us not to lose ours. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

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Grounded isn’t policy analysis but rather a portrait of one woman whose wartime trauma is experienced in an ergonomic chair in an air-conditioned trailer. At first, she feels the same exhilaration she had hunting an enemy from her lonely cockpit. But after hours using her flying skills to make the Reaper “linger” in endless, omnipotent surveillance, she experiences cracks in her sense of the world, and of what’s real and what’s right. Fearless in the blue of the sky, she’s destroyed by the gray of a screen. Playwright George Brant takes us into the mind of a pilot who loses the armor of her mental toughness as she’s deadened by balancing life and death on her trigger finger. Brant’s character speaks with an unselfconscious clarity that approaches poetry. The play is constructed with almost choral repetition to build each emotional plateau. Director Derek Goldman’s blocking defines the character’s two worlds: She describes her pilot’s life on the right, the empty desert drive home running through the center, and home life on the left. The delineation is crisply conveyed, but when her mental lines start to blur, the way she uses space does, too. A single-character show is typically built through an intense partnership between director and actor, and Goldman created conditions in which Anderson could take emotional risks. Anderson’s physical and vocal strength is utterly commanding. She doesn’t demand attention with showy energy but draws it from the viewer by presenting her character with forthright power. The performance is the essence of an actor inhabiting a character. Anderson presents all the external details, from the head tilt of military bearing to a little laugh that

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enjoys what the role reversal means. “I’ve got my little woman at home, know who I’m fighting for,” she says. “All that true corn, true cheese.” Then she’s yanked out of the sky. The Air Force grounds her when she becomes pregnant. Worried her pregnancy will dissipate “whatever fly-girl fantasy he’s got going,” she discovers Eric is happy about the child; they marry and start raising a daughter. And she begins a new job, piloting a Reaper drone that allows her to go to war each morning and come home to her family at night. It’s an exile from the sky she calls the “chair force.” She doesn’t want to give up the freedom and solitude of real flying for a job that requires a parking space and sticks her in a small trailer for 12-hour shifts. But she takes it, and at first it’s the ultimate “having it all” scheme: She’s part of her daughter’s childhood, and America puts none of its troops at risk when it kills its enemies. “The threat of death is eliminated,” she notes. But she never wanted safety. And soon she discovers that a soldier doesn’t want to come home from war each night. Searching for the shapes of “military-aged males” on the ground in Afghanistan or Iraq — the theater of war is never named — she flies a plane that’s a camera with missiles, an eye that kills after a 1.2-second satellite delay. Now the pilot is no longer a lonewolf warrior but an employee who’s scrutinized at her console. And when she takes her daughter to a mall, the surveillance camera in a dressing room doesn’t look so harmless to her. An eye in the sky is as close to God as man can become, she thinks, with the power to judge a person guilty from observation alone, and then to annihilate.

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he applause at a curtain call congratulates the actors and also signals that an imaginary world must yield to a real one. At Thursday night’s preview of Grounded at Northern Stage, the curtain call was the only shaky moment in a haunting solo performance. Megan Anderson stood drained and briefly uncertain of how to connect to an audience she’d carried in the palm of her hand for 75 intense minutes. She had to let go of her character, but tears and sweat still marked her. And she likely left a mark on many audience members, who won’t soon forget her character’s emotional journey. The staging is exquisitely simple: wide platform, one chair, one costume, one actor. Yet the production is high tech, augmented by lighting, music, projections and sound that extend the character’s presence. Anderson plays a nameless F-16 fighter pilot, a major in the Air Force. She’s a woman so alive to her own ability that her shit-kicking confidence is earned, not insolent. Her strut is assertive but economical, feet planted squarely, head back and eyes looking bravely outward. The pilot is happiest when she’s in flight, in “the blue.” She loves the danger and the speed, and never wants to take off the flight suit that signifies her membership in an elite, mostly male group. She can’t mask her pride and doesn’t need to in her world of fighter jocks. But relationships aren’t simple. “I take the guy spot, and they don’t know where they belong,” she remarks. When our pilot meets civilian Eric during a leave, she’s pleased to find a man who is not threatened by a tough-as-nails woman. They hook up, and it means enough that she misses him when leave is over. She’s careful not to call it love but

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aterbury, last Thursday evening: A local strummer sat by the stairs at Zenbarn, twanging homespun folk tunes and gifting warm smiles to all passersby. At the end of the bar, the chef from another of the town’s restaurants lounged on a barstool sipping bourbon. At a high top nearby, two girls in their early twenties played tabletop word games, sipping pilsner from trumpet-shaped glasses. Behind them on a big-screen TV, the University of Vermont men’s basketball team lost a withering March Madness match to Purdue University. Even with the music and chatter of a full house, the room was not too loud to prevent civilized conversation. Zenbarn opened in Waterbury Center last November. In 1989, long before the new restaurant/ wellness hub was even a flicker of an idea, Diane and Carl Huber transformed the old dairy barn on Guptil Road into Tanglewoods Restaurant. For the next 25 years, they served pastas, steaks and seafood, before closing for retirement in October 2014. A year later, Ari and Noah Fishman, who grew up across the road, enlisted an investor to help them purchase the property over time. The brothers and their family spent most of 2016 renovating and laying plans. They wainscoted the dining room with graying barn wood, installed foosball and shuffleboard tables, and hung incandescent glass pendants on wooden

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pulleys above the bar, bathing the space in gentle champagne light. Upstairs, there’s an open studio for yoga, Pilates, craft workshops and mindfulness classes, as well as quarters for overnight lodging. This summer, Noah Fishman’s one-acre home farm, along with a plot on the Zenbarn property, will supply the restaurant with fresh produce. All of these amenities are available for weddings, conferences and other group functions. But, as usual, I was just there for the food. In December, team Fishman hired chef Scott Collins, whose past includes time at the Dining Room at Edson Hill, A Single Pebble and, long ago, the Waiting Room in Burlington. Early versions of his menu offered dishes such as spice-laced goat kafte, but goat didn’t sell well among the local crowd, so it has since given way to more predictable Vermont-y fare. Namely: Brussels sprouts crisped with pancetta and finished with a poached egg, arugula with beets and chèvre, and seared half chicken. You might preface such things with a cocktail — behind the bar, Vermontmade vodka, gin, rum, tequila and whiskey stand in neat, illuminated rows. Bartenders mix them into drinks such as

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going to have live music,” Isabell said. “Mostly acoustic acts, smaller acts, bluesy and folk.” If all goes well, El Toro will open in its new location, with 50 seats instead of its current eight, on April 4. “I wasn’t exactly looking to expand,” said Isabell. “But this came up, and it was a good opportunity to make a move. People are like, ‘You’re gonna kill it!’” Hot Tamale, which takes a similarly handmade approach, will open on April 1 and offer tostadas, chile rellenos, tacos, and savory and sweet tamales.

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Over the past few months, the dining scene in Morrisville has been a bit of a revolving door. Thai Kitchen, which had taken over the former Bee’s Knees spot at 82 Lower Main Street, closed. So did the short-lived Nichè, which, for just three months, offered cocktails and comfort food at 74 Portland Street, former home of the Rogue Artisans Café. Now, new businesses are moving into both buildings, and both of them serve Mexican food. HOT TAMALE, which has been a staple at farmers markets and festivals, will make its niche at the former Nichè. And EL TORO, which opened on Pleasant Street in 2015, will buzz on over to the spot on Lower Main. Currently, El Toro serves local, madefrom-scratch versions of Mexican dishes such as enchiladas and tacos. Fusion options include green-chile poutine and a tortilla-wrapped burger. In the new location, said El Toro owner JENNIFER ISABELL, she’ll be able to offer more menu items, such as combo plates, taco and guacamole salads, and breakfast specials. Also in the works is a liquor license, with which Isabell plans to serve beer, wine and cocktails. “We definitely want to specialize in margaritas,” she noted, with creative versions in addition to the classic drink. Patrons will be able to sing as they sip: “We’re

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To celebrate its move from a farmhouse basement in Barnard village to expansive new digs on the Royalton Turnpike, Fable Farm Fermentory invites friends and cider fans for an afternoon tasting. Sample apple wines — some blended, others steeped in herbs or cellared since 2014 — along with brick-oven flatbreads, crostini, prosciutto and cheeses. All are composed with ingredients from partner farms in the historic Clark Farm basin. If you’re still hungry after flights and snacks, wander downstairs to the lower hall for a suppertime feast of organic meats, winter vegetables and more ferments. Ciders available in retail bottles and cases.

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INTRODUCTION TO SOURDOUGH: Learn to make naturally leavened loaves using a fermented culture with Brotbakery’s Heike Meyer. Wednesday, March 22, 6-7:30 p.m., City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington. $5-10; preregister. Info, citymarket.coop

PRANZI IN FATTORIA: Farm-fresh flavors shine in a farmhouse lunch modeled in the traditional Italian style. Sunday, March 26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Agricola Farm, Panton. $39. Info, agricolavermont.com.

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218 of the land records of the Town of Hinesburg, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 117 Davis Road, Monkton, Vermont (property is located in towns of Monkton and Hinesburg) on April 12, 2017 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Gary P. French by Warranty Deed of Alan D. Blaise and Laura J. Blaise dated January 20, 2009 and recorded on January 22, 2009 in Volume 121, Page 193 of the Monkton Land Records and recorded on February 5, 2009 in Volume 202, Page 2 of the Hinesburg Land Records. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Alan D. Blaise and Laura J. Blaise by Warranty Deed of Philip R. and Paula K. Fortin dated May 17, 1983 and recorded on June 3, 1983 in Volume 37, Page 361 of the Monkton Land Records, and recorded on September 17, 1986 in Volume 59, Page 525

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The property contains 14.1 acres, more or less, and is commonly known and designated as 117 Davis Road, Monkton, Vermont.

entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

DATED: 2/15/2017 By: /s/ Bozena Wysocki Bozena Wysocki, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

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TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY IN RE: E.J. VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FAMILY DIVISION

DOCKET NO. 79-2-16 CNJV Notice of Hearing TO: Jason Elder, father of E.J., you are hereby notified that a hearing to consider the termination of all your parental rights to E.J. will be held on April 6. 2017 at 8:30 am., at the Superior Court of Vermont, Family Division, Chittenden County, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry St. Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. If you do not respond and fail to appear on the above date, all rights to your child may be terminated without further notice. /s/ A Arms Superior Court Judge Date: 3/15/2017 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 1088-1115 CNCV U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v. RICANE CROSSMAN, EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD A. MCGRATH AND RICANE CROSSMAN OCCUPANTS OF 132 RIVERMOUNT TERRACE, BURLINGTON, VT

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MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered December 15, 2016, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by the late Richard A. McGrath to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for Merrimack Mortgage Company, Inc., dated October 22, 2010 and recorded in Volume 1118 Page 569 of the land records of the City of Burlington, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Merrimack Mortgage Company, Inc. to U.S. Bank National Association dated March 18, 2015 and recorded March 24, 2015 in Book 1271 Page 410 of the land records of the City of Burlington, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 132

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The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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DATED: March 1, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC Rivermount Terrace, Being all and the same City of Burlington Land recorded in Volume made to the above 270 Farmington Ave., Burlington, Vermont land and premises Records. 615 instruments and 2/1/17 to the 2:31 PM 1 at Page 234 of the hw-Heritage2-020117.indd 1 2/1/17hw-Heritage1-020117.indd 2:32 PM Ste. 151 on April 4, 2017 at 1:00 conveyed to Richard A. City of Burlington Land records and references Farmington, CT 06032 PM all and singular the McGrath by Warranty Being a lot of land said to Records. contained therein in premises described in Deed of Ernest E. Lowder contain .37 acres, more further aid of this deNOTICE: THE LAW FIRM said mortgage, and Mary M. Lowder or less, together with the The post office box adscription. OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, dated February 19, 1999 duplex situated thereon, dress of the Property is PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR To wit: and recorded in Volume and formerly known as 132 Rivermount Terrace, Terms of sale: Said AND IS ATTEMPTING A certain piece or parcel 615 at Page 236 of the 132 Rivermount Terrace Burlington, Vermont. premises will be sold TO COLLECT A DEBT. of land, with the imCity of Burlington Land Condominium, Units 1 and conveyed subject to ANY INFORMATION WE provements thereon and Records, and also all and and 2. Reference is hereby all liens, encumbrances, OBTAIN WILL BE USED appurtenances thereto, the same land and premmade to the above-men- unpaid taxes, tax titles, FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF located in the City of ises conveyed to Richard Reference is made to the tioned instruments, the municipal liens and asYOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY Burlington, County of A. McGrath by Warranty Dissolution, Terminarecords thereof and the sessments, if any, which RECEIVED A DISCHARGE Chittenden, State of Deed of Katherine Vose tion and Revocation of references made therein take precedence over Vermont, and more dated February 19, 1999 132 Rivermount Terrace contained in further aid the said mortgage above IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, particularly described as and recorded in Volume Condominium Pursuant of this description. described. THIS CORRESPONDENCE follows: 615 at Page 239 of the to 27 V.S.A. §1316 dated IS NOT AND SHOULD February 1999 and Reference is hereby TEN THOUSAND Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill19, the grid Complete the following puzzle by using the

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Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 304.32 feet to an iron pin in the ground; Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 107 feet to an unmarked point in the center of the Lamoille River; Thence turning and proceeding along the centerline of Lamoille River in a general southwesterly direction a distance of 243 feet along the centerline of the Lamoille River to an unmarked point; Thence turning and proceeding S 390 02’ 55” E a distance of 114 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to a point marked by an iron pin set in the ground; Thence turning and proceeding 8.39 02’ 55” E a distance of 240.43 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to a point marked by an iron pin set in the ground on. the easterly boundary of the right of way to Lots 2 and 3; Thence turning and running S 39 02’ 55” East a distance of 232.00 feet along the boundary line of Lot 2 and Lot 3 to point marked by an iron pin set in the ground, which point marks the

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In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 16, 2006 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Donna Lynn Pellegrini to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated April 27, 2006 and recorded in Book 111 Page 482 of the land records of the Town of Johnson, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to The Bank of New York Mellon fka Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 2006-OC6 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-OC6 dated June 20, 2007 and recorded in Book 116 Page 387 of the land records of the Town of Johnson for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 301 Sleepy Hollow Road, Johnson, Vermont on April 19, 2017 at 2:30 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

Thence proceeding along the boundary line of Lot 1 and Lot N 38° 31’ 58” W a distance of 290.05 feet to an iron pin in the ground;

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Lot 2 Being a parcel of land consisting of 3.28 acres of land, or less, and beginning at a point marked by an iron pin, which point marks the northeastern most corner of the property herein conveyed and the southeasterumost corner of Lot 1;

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STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 159-6-07 LECV THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006OC6 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OC6 v. DONNA LYNN PELLEGRINI, WALKER CONSTRUCTION, INC. AND OCCUPANTS OF 301 SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD, JOHNSON, VT OCCUPANTS OF 301 SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD, JOHNSON, VT

same land and premises conveyed to Marquis E. Houle by warranty deed of Ted Stepanek and Sharron Stepanek Mason, dated September 20, 1995 and recorded in Book 74, Pages 402-403 of the Johnson Land Records. Said land and premises are depicted on a certain survey map entitled “A Theodolite & E.D.M. Survey and Subdivision of Lands Belonging to Marquis S. Houle, Johnson, Vermont, Scale 1”=50’” prepared by Gove Land Surveyors, Inc. as follows:

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[CONTINUED] southeasternmost corner of the property herein conveyed and the northeasternmost corner of Lot 3; Thence turning and proceeding N 59 25’ 54” E a distance of 141.82 feet to an iron pin found in the ground on the northerly boundary of a 50’ right of way in favor of Edigio; Thence proceeding N 59 24’ 15” W a distance of 82.10 feet to the point and place of beginning. Menaing and intending to mortgage Lot 2 of the same premises conveyed to the herein named mortgagor(s) by deed recorded with Johnson Town OfficeLand Records in Book 121, Page 96.

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Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED : March 17, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151

NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 237-1215 LECV U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST v. JAMES MERLI AND TINA MERLI OCCUPANTS OF 399 CODY WOODS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered June 16, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by James Merli and Tina Merli to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated November 19, 2007 and recorded November 26, 2007 in Book 324 Page 426 of the land records of the Town of Cambridge, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. dated September 29, 2008 and recorded in Book 339 Page 13, (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP dated December 24, 2008 and recorded in Book 340 Page 302; (3) Corrective Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing,

LP, f/k/a Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP to Christiana Trust, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but as Trustee of ARLP Trust 3 dated September 22, 2014 and recorded in Book 403 Page 210, and (4) Christiana Trust, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but as Trustee of ARLP Trust 3 to U.S. Bank National Association as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust dated September 6, 2016 and recorded in Book 424 Page 169, all of the land records in the Town of Cambridge, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 399 Cody Woods Road, Cambridge, Vermont on April 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel Scott Lemire by Warranty Deed of Lamoille River Development, LLC which deed is dated June 18, 2001 and recorded in Book 203 at Pages 451453 of the Cambridge Land Records. Being all of Lot No. 3 depicted on a survey entitles “M. Page Marsh. Jr. and Roberta S. Marsh. Town of Cambridge. Vermont”, dated December 15, 2000, prepared by Harold N. Marsh, Licensed Land Surveyor, and recorded in Map Slide 170A of the Cambridge Map Records which survey shall govern this description in the event of any question or ambiguity. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to James M. Merli and Tina Merli by Warranty Deed of Daniel Scott Lemire which deed is dated on or about even date herewith and to be recorded herewith in the Cambridge Land Records. This conveyance is made subject to and with the benefit of highway easements, utility easements, easements for ingress and egress, water and pipeline rights, if any, and rights incident to each of the same as may appear more particularly of record, provided that this paragraph shall not reinstate any such encumbrance previously extinguished by the Marketable Record Title

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Act, Subchapter 7, Title 27, Vermont Statutes Annotated. Reference is hereby made to the abovementioned deed and its records, and to the reference therein contained, in further aid of this description. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: March 17, 2017 By: /s/ Rachel K. Jones Rachel Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 NOTICE: THE LAW FIRM OF BENDETT & MCHUGH, PC IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY WHICH DISCHARGED THIS DEBT, THIS CORRESPONDENCE IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED TO BE AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, BUT ONLY ENFORCEMENT OF A LIEN AGAINST PROPERTY STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

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DOCKET NO: 243-1215 LECV NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC v. ANTHONY L. PULCASTRO OCCUPANTS OF 1966 STEBBINS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, VT

premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 29, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Anthony L. Pulcastro to Bank of America N.A., dated March 9, 2010 and recorded in Book 360 Page 329 of the land records of the Town of Cambridge, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America N.A. to Nationstar Mortgage, LLC dated August 29, 2013 and recorded in Book 394 Page 277of the land records of the Town of Cambridge for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1966 Stebbins Road, Cambridge, Vermont on April 12, 2017 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: All that certain parcel of land situated in the Town of Cambridge, County of Lamoille, State of Vermont, described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed by Warranty Deed of Catherine Urban to Anthony L. Pulcastro dated 09/21/2007, recorded on 10/01/2007 at Book 323, Pages 100 to 101, Cambridge Land Records; being 1.95 acres with dwelling and improvements located thereon at 1966 Stebbins Road, Cambridge, Vermont. Being the same property as more fully described in Deed Book 323 Pages 100-101, Dated 09/21/2007 Recorded 10/01/2007 in Lamoille County records. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED : March 6, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 76-2-16 CNCV Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff v. Douglas E. Olsaver, Heather N. Olsaver, United States of America Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Occupants residing at 14 Chrisemily Lane, Milton, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Douglas E. Olsaver and Heather N. Olsaver to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Mortgage Financial, Inc. dated October 16, 2009 and recorded in Volume 383, Page 497 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, which mortgage was assigned to Green Tree Servicing LLC by an instrument dated June 9, 2015 and recorded on June 24, 2015 in Volume 456, Page 540 of the Land Records of the Town of

Milton. Effective August 31, 2015 Green Tree Servicing LLC merged with Ditech Mortgage Corp. and DT Holdings LLC and the name of the surviving limited liability company is Ditech Financial LLC. Of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:30 A.M. on April 11, 2017, at 14 Chrisemily Lane, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Heather N. Olsaver and Douglas E. Olsaver by Deed of Shane Reeves and AnneMarie Reeves dated October 16, 2009 and recorded October 20, 2009 in Volume 383, Page 494 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton. The sale is also subject to post-sale redemption rights of the United States of America Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Rees & Hayes, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 6609000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice. Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 6th day of March, 2017. Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Rees & Hayes, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 Attorney for Plaintiff WARNING POLICY ADOPTION CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT The Board of School Directors gives public

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notice of its intent to adopt local district policies dealing with the following at its regular meeting scheduled April 4, 2017: D1 – Personnel Recruitment, Selection, Appointment and Required Background Checks D2 – Professional Development D3 – Job Descriptions & Staffing D4 – Personnel Files D5 – Substitute Teachers D6 – Volunteers D7 – Alcohol and DrugFree Workplace D8 – Resignations D9 – Public Complaints About Personnel D10 – Mandatory Drug & Alcohol Testing: Transportation Employees D11 – Job Sharing D12 – Family Medical Leave Act Policy D13 – Harassment of Employees D14 – Subpoenas D15 – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Compliance D16 – Employee Conflict of Interest E1 - Fiscal Management E2 – Budgeting E3 – Financial Reports and Statements E4 – Risk Management E5 – Emergency Closings E6 – Safety and Security E7 – School Crisis Prevention & Response E8 – Public Bidding/ Contracts E9 – Petty Cash E10 – Travel and Related Expenses E11 – Sale of Property other than Real Estate/ Building E12 – Motor Vehicle Idling E13 – Fund Balance Policy E14 – Food Service Operations Copies of the above policies may be obtained for public review at the Office of the Human Resources Dept. in Shelburne, VT. WARNING POLICY ADOPTION CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT The Board of School Directors gives public notice of its intent to adopt local district policies dealing with the following at its regular meeting scheduled April 4, 2017: F1 - Student Conduct and Discipline F2 - Bus Discipline F2WSD - Bus Discipline F3 – Tobacco Prohibition F4 – Search, Seizure, and Interrogation of Students by School Personnel F4WSD - Search, Seizure, and Interrogation of Students by School Personnel F5 - Search, Seizure, and Interrogation of Stu-

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DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify. 989-3234, 425-3612. DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org. DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Middlebury for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Art For Healing. Six-week support group for people who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Childcare provided. Please call our hotline, 388-4205, or email am@womensafe.net for more information. GRIEF & RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Wed. of every mo., 7-8 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Cir., St. Albans. 527-7531. HEARING VOICES GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are. Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

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ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., Methodist Church at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Brenda, 338-1170.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 3rd Wed. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 128, Williston. Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping

ALATEEN GROUP New Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. For more information please call Carol, 324-4457.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE & DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Held the last Tue. of every mo., 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Birchwood Terr., Burlington. Info, Kim, 863-6384.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALTERNATIVES TO SUICIDE Alternatives to Suicide is a safe space where the subject of suicide can be discussed freely, without judgment or stigma. The group is facilitated by individuals who have themselves experienced suicidal thoughts/ feelings. Fletcher Free Library, 235 College St., Burlington. Group meets weekly on Thursdays, 1-2:30 p.m. Info: makenzy@ pathwaysvermont.org, 888-492-8218 x300.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800272-3900 for more information.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings. If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County Home Health Agency, 527-7531.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS Join our floating support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport & its health-giving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Penni or Linda at 999-5478, info@ dragonheartvermont. org, dragonheartvermont.org.

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ALL CANCER SURVIVORS Join the wellness classes at Survivorship NOW, created by cancer survivors for survivors of all cancers. Benefi ts from lively programs designed to engage and empower cancer survivors in our community. Email: info@ survivorshipnowvt.org. Call Chantal, 777-1126, survivorshipnowvt.org.

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The Windjammer Restaurant is seeking an experienced Restaurant Manager. 3+ years of hospitality experience is desired and the ability to work a flexible schedule is required. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes: medical/dental insurance, 401(k), paid time off and many company discounts. To join our team, please apply to: The Windjammer Hospitality Group, Attn: Human Resources, 1076 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT 05403, selena@ windjammergroup.com, or fax 802-651-0640

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Grocery Manager Do you want a professional leadership position with great people, great food, and an excellent benefit package? We are seeking a Grocery Manager to grow with us. As manager of a whole department you are instrumental to the entire operation. You know the products, have strong relationships with vendors, and an eye for natural foods trends. The Grocery Manager is a great communicator, embraces a servant leadership style, and knows how to lead a high quality natural foods grocery department. You are in this role because you were looking for a challenge with a company full of dedicated staff who do awesome things. You are passionate in going above and beyond to offer great customer service. To lead our grocery team, we want you to have · 5 or more years of a leadership role in retail and natural foods · 2 or more years of recent management experience To apply for this exciting opportunity please submit a resume, cover letter and Co-op application to Search Committee at Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op 1 Washington Street Middlebury, VT 05753.

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Providing innovative mental health and educational services to Vermont’s children and families. “Make a difference in the life of a child!”- NFI Vermont, a leader in specialized trauma and adolescent development, is looking to expand our team of innovators. Full time and part time positions available. Competitive wages, training opportunities, flexible work schedules and family oriented culture. Excellent benefits with tuition reimbursement offered for 30 or more hour employees.

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The Arlington School in St. Johnsbury, VT is an approved independent school that serves students in grade 8-12 who need an alternative setting to traditional high school and may require therapeutic supports. The Arlington School is managed by Northeastern Family Institute of Vermont (www.nfivermont.org). We are seeking a collaborative and compassionate leader for our program. The Director is responsible for leading the program, partnering with LEAs, community providers and overseeing the daily management and operations of the school, which includes clinical and educational services. We are looking for a candidate who would enjoy working in a collaborative and community oriented environment. Candidates will ideally have experience in clinical and/or education settings, working with families, collaborating with community based teams, and supervising staff. Experience working with systems like PBIS is a plus. Bachelor’s degree in Counseling or Education required, Master’s preferred. This is an 11 month position with a full-time, full year salary. To apply please send your resume, a letter of interest and the names of three references to: Suzanne Masland, Regional Director, – suzannemasland@nafi.com. Deadline: March 31, 2017

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We invite you to learn more about the environment that is often referred to as “nursing’s best kept secret” — Correctional Nursing. We are currently seeking a Registered Nurse and Licensed Nursing Assistant at our Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington, VT. The LNA position is full time NIGHTS and the Registered Nurse position is full time DAY and EVENING SHIFTS! For the LNA position, we are looking for someone that is willing to do, four (4) 10 hour shifts, 6pm-4:30 am or 8pm-6:30 am!!!! For the RN position, we are looking for someone to work 6am-2:30 pm for days and 2pm-10:30 pm for evenings!! The Registered Nurse (RN) will work in a fast paced environment providing nursing care to offenders in the medical unit/infirmary. The Licensed Nursing Assistant provides basic offender healthcare under the direction of nursing staff. The LNA performs offender care by assisting offenders with performance of activities of daily living, vital sign monitoring and documenting and reporting changes to healthcare team. Requirements for RN: • Current RN license in VT • Experience in med/surg or correctional environment preferred • Must be able to pass background investigation and obtain agency security clearance Requirements for LNA: • Must be a graduate of a Licensed Nursing Assistant program and have an active VT Nursing Assistant License • One (1) year of clinical experience preferred, willing to train • CPR certification • Must be able to pass and maintain security background clearance We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package for FULL TIME including: • Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance • Health savings account with matching employer contributions • 20 paid days off plus 8 paid holidays • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Career development benefit • Flexible spending accounts for health and dependent care • Wellness activity subsidy • Access to corporate discount programs Interested candidates, please email resumes to

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Dynapower Company in South Burlington, VT is a leading manufacturer of large custom power supplies and energy conversion systems. Our staff is dedicated to providing quality workmanship and the highest level of customer service. We offer an extensive benefits package and a pleasant working environment, as well as an opportunity for personal and professional growth. We are currently accepting resumes and applications for the following positions:

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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. This opening and others are updated daily. Staff Counselor - Counseling and Psychiatry Services - #S1025PO -The University of Vermont is seeking a strong clinician to join our dynamic Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS) team. The ideal candidate exhibits flexibility in both their therapeutic and collegial style and thrives in the fast paced and cyclical nature of a college counseling center. This is primarily a clinically focused position that requires the ability to juggle various responsibilities including managing a heavy caseload comprised of students with a wide range of clinical severity within a brief treatment frame. Counseling and Psychiatry Services is staffed by a collaborative multidisciplinary team of clinical professionals in two campus offices. CAPS is a department within the integrated Center for Health and Wellbeing. Primary Responsibilities: Individual, couples, and group counseling with students Secondary Responsibilities: Supervision of Master’s and Doctoral level students; crisis intervention and consultation with faculty and staff; campus outreach and program development. Qualifications: Minimum of a Master’s in Clinical, Counseling Psychology or Social work or equivalent by anticipated start date. Vermont licensed or eligible for licensure required within two years of start. Demonstrated professional commitment to diversity and inclusiveness is essential. This is a 2 year funded position with continuance based on future available funding. This is a 10 month term full-time position. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience, and includes a generous benefit package. For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802-656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily. The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications, from women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Duties include working with architects, engineers, and other design professionals to develop construction documents, including performing a detailed review of all documents to assure that Norwich’s needs are being met; inspecting all construction drawings and specifications to help ensure accuracy and addressing of program requirements; and assisting in pre-construction project planning and development.

Philanthropic Advisor for Community Engagement We are seeking a Philanthropic Advisor for Community Engagement to support and advance the Foundation’s grants and community investments throughout the state. This individual is responsible for facilitating, promoting, and ensuring that the Foundation’s efforts to strengthen communities are successful at the local level. This person is part of a team that helps put the Foundation’s charitable capital (grants, equity, debt, etc.) to work in local communities. S/he will spend significant time in local communities to gain a strong sense of where focused support from the Foundation can make a difference. S/he will provide outreach, education, and technical assistance to the entities that seek and receive funding from the Foundation and will work with nonprofits, citizen groups and committees, state and local officials, businesses, and other grantmakers to achieve the Foundation’s goals. Visit vermontcf.org/jobs for a complete job description. To apply, please send cover letter and resume April 7th to: humanresource@vermontcf.org. Or mail to:

The Vermont Community Foundation 3 Court Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. The Vermont Community Foundation is an equal employment opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits.

ITS PROJECT COORDINATOR

Responsible for coordinating and organizing project activities to ensure projects are well communicated and effectively tracked/updated, and on schedule. S/he will coordinate/assist with project planning and implementation, including assessing needs and setting goals and objectives.

TRANSFER CREDIT SPECIALIST

Assist in the composition of unofficial evaluations for recruiting purposes; create degree plans for incoming bachelor’s degree completion students; and track documentation and data of transfer credit reviews, approvals, and critical updates at the graduate and undergraduate levels for online programming.

ALTERATIONS SPECIALIST

Full-time seamstress work available including fitting, sewing, and alterations. Minimum three years’ sewing experience preferred; ability to learn all current regulations concerning military uniforms including those pertaining to Norwich University Corps of Cadets and all U.S. armed forces, state and local law enforcement agencies, and firefighters.

For more information and to apply for these and other great jobs: norwich.interviewexchange.com All candidates must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. A post-offer, pre-employment background check will be required of the successful candidate. Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a positive education and work environment that recognizes and respects the dignity of all students, faculty and staff. Reasonable accommodations will be made for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant. Please contact the Office of Human Resources at nuhr@norwich.edu for assistance. Norwich University offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, group life and long term disability insurance, flexible-spending accounts for health and dependent care, 403(b) retirement plan with employer match, employee assistance program, paid time off including parental leave, and tuition scholarships for eligible employees and their family members. 9v-Norwich032217.indd 1

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Program Director

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The Vermont Superintendents Association seeks a Program Director for the School Energy Management Program (SEMP); a program supporting energy efficiency in schools. The Director conducts energy audits of school buildings, provides information and training, and manages the program budget. The Director also monitors public policy related to energy efficiency and renewables for applicability to schools. Work is performed in cooperation with school facility personnel, Efficiency Vermont and other organizations.

We’re seeking an energetic,

Customer Service Representative

compassionate and deeply committed applicant who seeks to grow their career in a place they’ll love.

Full Time position for a customer service representative in a fast paced office. Detail oriented individual wanted for credit card processing customer service office. Casual dress. Benefits include competitive compensation, health insurance, paid vacation and 401(k). We are looking for a team player that can remain calm in a sometimes stressful environment. Find out more about our company at Transactionresources.com.

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Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. Minimum 3 years experience in energy engineering and management or equivalent. Knowledge of commercial building energy audit methodology including HVAC, envelope and electrical systems. Ability to inspect school buildings, including roofs, attics and crawl spaces. Ability to work independently. Exceptional communication skills. Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office.

Salary commensurate with experience plus excellent benefits Please submit letter of application and resume with 3 references to: ktate@vtvsa.org, subject: SEMP Director Deadline to apply: April 7, 2017 Detailed description: vtvsa.org

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DISTRIBUTION CENTER:

Catamount Industrial Park 947 Route 7 South, Milton, VT 05468 Job Hotline: 660-3JOB

Please respond with a resume and brief cover letter to: accounting@ transactionresources.com.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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At Copley Hospital, taking care of our patients starts with taking care of our employees.

Shelburne Recreation Dept. is seeking lifeguards to fill several seasonal positions at our Town Beach located on Lake Champlain. Lifeguard responsibilities include waterfront supervision, gatekeeper duties, light custodial and maintenance work. Current certifications in CPR for the Professional Rescuer and Lifeguard Training and First Aid are required. Apply to: Betsy Cieplicki, Recreation Director, P.O. Box 88, Shelburne, VT 05482 or email: bcieplicki@shelburnevt.org. Full job posting and description available on our website: www.shelburnevt.org. Application deadline: March 31st. EOE. 3h-ShelburneRecDept032217.indd 1

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Construction Superintendent D.E.W. Construction and our affiliate MacMillin Co. is a prominent construction manager in Northern New England who is seeking an experienced Superintendent. We are looking for dedicated individuals who want to work for a company committed to their people and passionate about providing the best construction services in the marketplace. Our current annual volume for 2017 and 2018 is projected to be $140 to $170MM; this includes work in NH, VT and NY which is managed out of our Williston, VT and Keene, NH offices. We are looking to add motivated individuals in your area who will support our continued growth. We offer a flexible environment which values work/ life balance and a great overall compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, 401K plan, generous paid time off including sick/ personal leave, wellness programming, and community service opportunities.

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EXPERIENCED COOK/CHEF Do you love to cook but are tired of working restaurant schedules? The Converse Home, a small assisted living community in downtown Burlington, VT is looking for a skilled cook/chef to join our established team of fun and caring people.

DEW is defined by its 100+ individuals and our success is a direct result of their hard work and commitment. If you would like to become a valued member of our dynamic team, you may fax, email or send your resume to the address below.

The right person for this job will: • • •

Attn: Human Resources Department DEW Construction Corp. 277 Blair Park Road, Suite 130 Williston, VT 05495 Email: careers@dewcorp.com Fax: 802-872-0707

Enjoy cooking from scratch Be organized Maintain high standards for health and food safety We offer a regular schedule, competitive salary and excellent benefits including medical, dental and paid vacation time. If you take pride in your cooking skills and like to create good food for good people, send your resume to kellie@conversehome.com.

WE ARE AN EOE. ALL QUALIFIED APPLICATIONS WILL RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR EMPLOYMENT WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER, IDENTITY, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.

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Visit www.copleyvt.org/careers or apply in person: Human Resources Office Health Center Building 2nd Floor 528 Washington Highway Morrisville, VT 05661

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PRESCHOOL TEACHER

2/26/16

VENDING ROUTE DRIVERS Burlington

and Brandon

We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals. Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 pounds and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with benefits. Apply in person or online at Farrell Vending Services 405 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 farrellvending.com.

Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children, and help parents address family needs and goals.

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field and VT educator’s license with Early Childhood Education Endorsement, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs required. Ability to demonstrate excellent teacher-child interactions as reflected in CLASS scores (to be conducted). 40 hours per week, 12:03 PM approx. 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $21.38 per hour. Health plan and excellent benefits.

EARLY HEAD START INFANT/TODDLER EARLY CARE ADVOCATE (YMCA St. Albans)

Provide or support center-based care of infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development; provide social service visits for families to support parents in the care, nurturing and coordination of health services for their infants and toddlers; and help parents address family needs and goals. QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field and relevant work experience including training in infant and toddler development or a bachelor’s degree in social work, human services, family services, counseling or related field, and relevant work experience including training in infant and toddler development. Also preferred are experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. 40 hours per week, full year. Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $18.32–21.38 per hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

EARLY CARE ADVOCATE POSITIONS (Sustainability Academy, Burlington and Milton Elementary)

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field or bachelor’s degree in social work, human services, family services, counseling or related field. Also required are classroom experience, experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Ability to demonstrate excellent teacher-child interactions as reflected in CLASS scores (to be conducted). 30 hours per week, approx. 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $18.32–21.38 per hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

ASSISTANT TEACHER POSITIONS (One position in St. Albans, one position in Swanton)

Assist the classroom team in planning and implementing a developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom. QUALIFICATIONS: Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related field and relevant work experience. Ability to demonstrate excellent teacher-child interactions as reflected in CLASS scores (to be conducted). 40 hours per week, approx. 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $17.73–21.38 per hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST POSITIONS

(One position in St. Albans, one position in Swanton) Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children. Provide social service support and home visits for families and help parents address family needs and goals. Assist the classroom team in providing a developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom. QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s Degree in social work, human services, family services, counseling or a related field. Experience in early care and education settings preferred. Knowledge of local agencies and services available to address the needs of families, and knowledge of early care and education services. 40 hours per week, approx. 42 weeks per year (summer layoff). Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day period: $18.32–21.38 per hour, depending upon qualifications. Health plan and excellent benefits.

Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in Microsoft Word, e-mail and internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. Please specify position and location, and submit resume and cover letter with three work references via email to: pirish@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please. CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER 14t-ChamplainValleyHeadStart032217.indd 1

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Best Western Windjammer Inn & Conference Center Attn: Human Resources 1076 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403 Fax: 802-651-0640 EOE

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HOTEL FRONT DESK REPRESENTATIVES Candidates must have previous customer service experience and possess a clean driving record. Our competitive benefits package includes: medical/ dental, 401(k), company discounts and paid time off.

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MEDICAL PROFESSIONS CO-TEACHER STARTING 2017-2018 SCHOOL YEAR

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TRAIN CONDUCTOR Vermont Railway, Inc. (VTR), a long established and growing Northeast Short Line rail carrier, is accepting applications for a full time train Conductor at its Burlington terminal. VTR is primarily a freight railroad. A train Conductor is responsible for safe switching and movement of trains. The candidate must be at least eighteen (18) years of age. The candidate must be able to lift, bend, climb and work on and around heavy and moving machinery, stand and sit for extended periods of time and work primarily outside and in inclement weather. VTR trains operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Employees are required to work nights, holidays and weekends. This position is a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) covered position subject to random drug and alcohol testing. VTR offers competitive pay and benefits and is an equal opportunity employer and will provide training. Applications are available at Vermont Rail System 1 Railway Lane Burlington VT 05401 or on our website at vrs.us.com; click on VRS Emp.

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Sales Professional

PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team member to join ourPayData Client Service Department a Payroll Workforce Solutionsas is seeking anProcessor/Client ambitious sales Service Representative. professional who is a goal driven, detail oriented, and a

Crisis Assessment Clinician First Call for Chittenden County

career minded self-starter. We are offering an outstanding

*New positions* Interested in challenging and rewarding work? Join this well-supported, growing team of professionals. Provide high quality assessment to children and adults experiencing a mental health emergency. Clinicians are mobile throughout Chittenden County responding to homes, schools, the hospital, police departments and other community locations. Master’s in a Mental Health Field required, license or licensure track strongly preferred. This is a full time position with alternative hours – inquire for details. $41,008.50 plus additional $2000 for licensure. Job ID# 3648, 3725 & 3726

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long-term where you are a key member ourclients team. to produce Our Client Servicecareer Representatives work closely withofour accurate payrolls utilizing various import methods including data entry, Use your proven prospecting and networking skills to drive Excel worksheets, and time clock imports. The ability to perform your success and contribute to PayData’s continued growth multiple tasks efficiently and manage is necessary. Attention to as the region’s premierongoing providerprojects of outsourced payroll and detail isHR a must. services. Harness our CRMprior and payroll other technology to manage Candidates must have experiencetools as well as customer service your pipeline, log activities, develop relationships, prepare skills. experience and possess strong communication and organizational proposals, sales, and launch new accounts. Candidates shouldgenerate also have proven troubleshooting skills and be able to college andtechnology. at least 2 years of Client successful B2B adapt toA new anddegree changing Our Service prospecting experience preferred. Familiarity withoffice Payroll, Representatives work in a teamis environment and cubicle setting. HRIS Applications, and Accounting would be beneficial.

Outside travel atolarge our regional as well as toas well as having Experience handling volume territory of telephone calls, Chamberskills events, tradepayroll shows,experience and networking functions strong number or prior is required; working is important facets of this position, requiring reliable Experience with knowledge of the “Evolution” payroll software is desirable. transportation. Windows including Word, Excel, and Outlook is required as well as strong keyboarding skills. Compensation includes Salary plus Commission, and PayData’s benefit plan.

Apply on line at https://paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx

Clinical Director & Clinician

Preference will be given to candidates who effectively demonstrate that they possess the skills and attributes listed below, and whose work history illustrates the related sales experiences we seek.

The Park Street Program is a residential program in Rutland offering high quality treatment to males who have engaged in sexually harmful behaviors. We currently have openings for:

Prospecting & Sales Skills Required • Telephone Prospecting & Cold Calling Strategies • Product Service & Software Demonstration • Referral Relationship Building and Network Development • Ability to Generate Opportunities & Close Sales • Committed to Using & Leveraging CRM Tools

A Clinician to coordinate mental health services and deliver individual/group therapy. Master’s Degree req. Job ID# 3788 A Clinical Director to oversee clinical programming, deliver individual/group therapy and provide supervision. License req. Job ID# 3739

Howard Center offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental and life insurance, as well as generous paid time off for all regular positions scheduled 20-plus hours per week. For more information and to apply, please visit our website howardcentercareers.org. Howard Center is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application should feel free to contact Human Resources at 4886950 or hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.

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Organizational Skills Required • Sales Territory Development & Sustaining Sales Strategies • Facility for Managing Multiple Tasks • Time Management • Prospect & Account Administration Personal Attributes for Success • Energetic, Self-Motivated, Attention to Detail, & Disciplined Work Ethic • Driven to Reach and Exceed Assigned Goals • Confident, Persistent, and Constantly Learning and Developing • Possess an Understanding of Business Needs • Effective Communicator – Verbal and Written • Professional Appearance If you have enthusiasm, a drive to succeed, and above all, enjoy selling, then a career with PayData Workforce Solutions might be the right fit for you. Apply on line at paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx

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DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S PROGRAMS

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Vermont Works for Women, a non-profit organization helping women and girls recognize their potential and explore, pursue, and excel in work that leads to economic independence is seeking to hire a Director of Women’s Programs. The position will be based out of our headquarters in Winooski, with occasional statewide travel. The Director will provide leadership and strategic vision for our workforce development training programs in the community and the women’s correctional facility. Our ideal candidate will have superb programmatic design, grant management, partnership development, and supervisory experience. For a job description and instructions to apply: vtworksforwomen.org/jobs-at-vww.

Professional Cook Full Time Position Available Wake Robin, Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community, is adding members to our team of Cooks. Wake Robin provides a fine dining experience with a focus on farm to plate freshness, and a work environment that is hard to find in the restaurant industry. •

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Our cook will have experience producing high quality soups, sauces and entrees from scratch, demonstrate experience in all aspects of cooking from grilling to sautéing, and strong attention to the quality of food consistency quality and delivery. Interested candidates please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146. WAKE ROBIN IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

▪ The Line Chef is responsible for the preparation of cold and hot food items in quantity for patients, employees, visitors and catering requisitions. Must have knowledge of weight and measures conversion, cooking and baking vocabulary and food prep techniques.

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LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

wage, excellent benefits including health insurance, paid time off, retirement plans and tuition reimbursement.

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Are you a Professional Cook who wants a regular schedule? Join our Team!

We work from scratch, not from a box

Line Chef

▪ Full-time and per diem positions available. We offer a competitive

VWW is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity of the organization and deliver programs to a broad audience. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. VWW is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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tion and a high school diploma or GED. Culinary degree preferred as well as experience in a lead role.

Applications will be accepted until March 27. No calls or faxes, please.

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Are you interested in joining our fantastic medical team? We are now hiring nurses (RNs and LPNs) at our Berlin, Vermont location. We also have opportunities at our St. Johnsbury, Vermont location. We offer competitive pay, benefits, and have positions open per diem, part time, and full time. To apply please visit: baymark.com/careers

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Experienced/Apprentice Glazier Burlington Glass in South Burlington is seeking an Experienced or Apprentice Glazier to join their team. • Handle and install a wide range of products including shower & tub enclosures, mirror, replacement windows, storefront, tablework, and auto glass. • Have the ability to work with hand tools, have the willingness and aptitude to learn new skills in a fast paced business, and work within a team dynamic. A valid driver’s license, the ability to lift 50+ lbs, and a great attitude are required. Those candidates with previous glazing, construction or carpentry experience are encouraged to apply. • Competitive hourly wage, health and dental availability, 401(k) savings availability, vacations and holidays. Apply in person or send resume/application to: info@burlingtonglass.com. Burlington Glass, 1860 Williston Road, S. Burlington Serving VT for nearly 30 years 4t-BurlingtonGlass032217.indd 1

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Lab duties include extracting blood & marrow fractions under a clean room hood. We will train you but it is high precision work! Office duties include educating patients regarding our interventional procedures, handling lab and patient logs, etc. Excellent communication skills a must. PHLEBOTOMY SKILLS A PLUS! If not we will train you to draw blood. Full-time 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pay commensurate with experience, minimum $15 per hour. Full benefits after 90 days. Starting ASAP for training. Send resume and references to: karen@vermont regenerativemedicine.com

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Charlotte Central School

Daytime Maintenance/ Custodial position

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Citizen Cider is looking to hire a full-time Cellar Operator on the cider making floor. Previous experience with basic brewery, CIP and lab equipment preferred. We are looking for job candidates that want to be part of a young, energetic, fast-growing company where quality, hard work, mutual respect, and community are among our core values. This position requires the ability to work quickly and efficiently, stand for 8-10 hours per day, and lift up to 50 pounds. Weekend shifts required.

We are looking for someone who has basic maintenance skills that can also perform custodial skills as needed. Shift is mostly a daytime position, but candidate must be able to cover evening shifts if needed. As this position is a daytime position in a K-8 school setting, a positive child friendly disposition is desired. This is a full time, full year position with top pay and full benefits.

Think you would be the perfect Citizen? Please send a resume and cover letter to colleen@citizencider.com with the heading “Cellar Operator.”

Please send a letter of interest and resume to: Charlotte Central School, Attn: Dave LeBlanc, 408 Hinesburg Road, Charlotte, VT 05445 or email dleblanc@cssu.org or apply online to schoolspring.com.

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DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) has an exciting opportunity for an outgoing person who wants to have a significant impact on the future of Vermont. We are looking for a motivated individual with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in communications and marketing to serve as Director of Communications. VNRC is Vermont’s oldest independent environmental advocacy organization. VNRC works from the grassroots to the Legislature to advance policies, programs and practices that strengthen the foundation upon which Vermont’s economy thrives — vibrant communities and healthy downtowns, clean and abundant fresh water, working farms and forests, wild places, and clean energy. The successful candidate must be outgoing, self-directed and have excellent writing skills, including experience writing articles, opinion pieces, press releases, and social media campaigns; have the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, including the general public, advocates, and policy makers; have the ability to work collaboratively in a busy work-environment; have experience in strategic use of digital advocacy tools, online and social media to increase visibility and encourage advocacy action; and be committed to working on behalf of Vermont’s citizens, environment and communities. Experience with membership development and fundraising is a plus. Applicants should have a minimum of a B.A. or B.S. in a relevant field and, preferably, experience with an advocacy organization. Starting salary is commensurate with experience. Email a letter of interest, resume, salary requirements and three references to bshupe@vnrc.org, no later than Friday, April 8th. Letters should be addressed to Brian Shupe, Executive Director, VNRC, 9 Bailey Ave., Montpelier, VT 05602.

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Renewable Energy Business Manager VERA – Waterbury, Vermont

Vermont Environmental Research Associates (VERA) is a small consultancy providing renewable energy development services throughout New England. Our mission is to be an integral part of the renewable energy resource transformation of the electric utility system. We have a full-time management opening for an experienced individual to join our team managing the firm’s small business functions and participate in development of commercial-scale wind and solar generation projects. This position will be responsible for functions which require a broad working knowledge of finance and accounting. Skills in effective communication with clients, regulatory authorities and a variety of stakeholders are required. At the project level, this position will evaluate the feasibility of renewable energy project investment opportunities and be familiar with local, state, and federal rules and political pressures influencing renewable energy development in New England. The applicant that will succeed in this position will be a self-starting, energetic, motivated team player that has a strong, proven track record of business administration and project financing of renewable energy projects in New England’s regulatory environments.

For a full job description please visit: jobs.sevendaysvt.com/job/uncat/renewable-energy-business-manager/#/ WNAIpRIrLjB Minimum of three years experience in project finance and small business management Qualified applicants that meet the position requirements should email their work experience, salary requirements, and qualifications to Human Resources at emmaa@verarenewables.com

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We are Age Well -- the leading experts and advocates for the aging population of Northwestern Vermont. Committed to employee wellness and work-life balance, we offer competitive pay and afforable, comprehensive benefits!

Job Opening - Case Manager As part of Age Well’s Case Management team, this person provides hands-on, comprehensive care and resource coordination services for clients aged 60+ (and their caregivers) to ensure a continuum of care. Bachelor’s degree required.

Visit agewellvt.org/about/careers to learn more and apply. Since 1974, we have provided Northwestern Vermonters with essential services to help them age well. Meals on Wheels | Care Coordination | Helpline: 1-800-642-5119 Our nonprofit mission is to provide the support and guidance that insprires our community to embrace aging with confidence. Age Well is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Teachers and Substitutes Ascension Childcare, a 5 STAR child care center with a strong connection to children and families of all abilities and backgrounds, is looking to add teachers and substitutes to our team of early educators. We have a strong commitment to play; learning in beautiful indoor spaces, outdoor classrooms and trails as a part of everyday learning. Candidates must be reliable, respectful, caring, patient and have a great sense of humor. Ability to lift 50 pounds and diaper changing are a must. Previous experience is desirable, we will train the right candidate. We offer competitive wages, generous time off and are committed to staff development and professional growth through coaching and mentoring. Interested candidates should email resume, cover letter and 3 letters of reference to aschildcar@myfairpoint.net or mail to Ascension Childcare, 2386 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT 05482.

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DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE

Medical Front Office Manager Permanent, full-time position in a beautiful, burgeoning naturopathic primary care clinic. Salary depends on experience. Paid vacation, retirement and wellness benefits offered. Send resumes and CV to llschoenbeck@comcast.net. mountainviewnaturalmedicine.com

DIRECTOR FOR THE STATEWIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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Green Mountain Transit has an outstanding opening on our Executive Leadership Team. The Director of Maintenance serves as leader of the Maintenance Department for the entire organization, providing direction and oversight for both fleet and facilities, while working closely with all departments to ensure the safe and efficient operation of maintenance functions.

The Washington County Youth Service Bureau (WCYSB) is seeking a Director for the Vermont Youth Development Program. Join a dynamic team overseeing Vermont’s transition and aftercare program for youth ages 15-22 aging out of the foster care system.The Director is responsible for developing and maintaining supportive relationships with an existent provider system operating statewide. The program is part of the WCYSB’s statewide youth services enhancement mission and the position plays a key role in efforts to develop the framework for youth care in Vermont. Key elements of the job include:

A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent experience is required. A minimum of five years of transit maintenance management experience, proven ability to manage staff and fleet maintenance programs is required. Experience managing in a union environment and working as a mechanic is preferred. Responsibilities include: • Forecasts, anticipates, and responds to changes in the public transportation industry and within GMT’s organization. • Set the vision of the Maintenance departments in alignment with GMT’s mission • Responsible for labor relations, in conjunction with other staff • Prepares the monthly reports for GMT Board meetings • Responsible for the management, evaluation and direction of all maintenance personnel • Continuously measures and analyzes fleet operations to insure optimum performance • Responsible for maintenance purchasing • Manages maintenance budget

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Providing routine support to Youth Development Program professionals including ongoing communications, facilitation of provider meetings, training opportunities, and program monitoring Engaging in broad program development efforts Collecting, analyzing and reporting on program data Acting as liaison to the VT Department for Children and Families on matters pertaining to YDP

The ideal candidate will have a rich history working with youth and young adults, a comprehensive knowledge of positive youth development, and will hold a valid clinical license with the ability to approve plans of care in the State of Vermont.

Benefits: GMT offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 100% employer-paid premiums for all family members, substantial paid time off, and a generous retirement package. To apply for this position, please download an application from www.ridegmt.com. Submit the application, along with a cover letter and resume, in one of the following ways:

For a complete job description or to apply, contact Christine Hartman: WCYSB Office Manager at chartman@wcysb.org. Applications should include a cover letter, resume and at least three references.

Via email to predalieu@ridegmt.com Via fax to (802)864-5564 or

Background check required. Position open until filled. WCYSB IS AN EOE.

Via mail to: GMT, 15 Industrial Parkway, Burlington, VT, 05401 Attn: Trish Redalieu, Human Resources Director For more information about this exciting opportunity and Green Mountain Transit, please visit our website ridegmt.com.

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New England’s Premier special event company is seeking hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join our team. We are currently accepting applications for the following positions starting late April/early May through November 1.

Tent Installers Event Division Driver/Warehouse Event Division Crew 2nd Shift Truck Loading

ATTORNEY PRIMMER PIPER EGGLESTON & CRAMER PC, a full service law firm with offices in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Washington, DC, seeks an experienced attorney to join our busy captive insurance practice. This position is based in our Burlington, Vermont, office and will focus on a wide range of services associated with the planning, formation, operation and dissolution of single parent and group captive insurance companies. Candidates with at least three years of corporate, financial and/or regulatory experience are preferred. Ideal candidates will possess excellent academic and legal credentials.

Case aide needed for Franklin County Public Defender’s Office, St. Albans, VT. Must be able to work independently and as part of a legal team. Full-time permanent PG15 position with State benefits. Starting pay: $14.75/hr. Previous office and direct client service experience (or appropriate coursework) required. Full job description available under Employee Resources at: http://defgen.vermont.gov. EOE. Email resume and cover letter by Friday, April 17th to mary.deaett@vermont.gov.

Please submit letter of interest and resume to careers@primmer.com.

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IT Support Specialist

Warehouse Chair Cleaner For detailed job descriptions please visit vttent.com/employment. Stop by our ofﬁce to ﬁll out an application or email resume to jobs@vttent.com. EOE. 14 Berard Drive, South Burlington, VT 05403

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CONTROLLER US OPERATIONS

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This position will support the global operations in developing planning, forecasting and value creation models to drive the business forward. The remuneration will be highly competitive and commensurate with experience. We are looking for the best and brightest Vermonters who want to make a difference on a global scale.

Please email resume and cover letter to annie@bigtreefarms.com This local multi-national company is a leading mission-driven food company. It is also dedicated to building sustainable livelihoods for their farming partners as well as leading the charge as the best environmental stewards on a global scale. The company is a champion for a brighter future in food and it's an ethos that starts right here in Vermont.

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Howard Center is looking for a compassionate, reliable and adaptable family, couple or individual to provide full time therapeutic foster care. This family would reside in a Howard Center owned home, in a quiet cul-de-sac in Col4t-MansfieldHall021517.indd chester. This spacious four bedroom house will care for two children full time. This home has a beautiful backyard and is less than a half a mile from Niquette Bay State Park. Children living in this home will be receiving wrap around services through the Enhanced Family Treatment program.

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Ambulatory LPNs ▪ We are looking for a few great LPNs who are passionate about providing care that puts the patient first. We are offering a $1000 sign-on bonus.

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▪ We have full-time openings in Burlington, Hinesburg and Williston. We have a per diem opening in Berlin.

▪ Must be a LPN, currently licensed in Vermont. Experience in Primary Care strongly preferred.

▪ Competitive pay, flexible day schedule and great benefits. UVMHealth.org/MedCenterJobs Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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Commercial Loan Officer

VEDA has an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join its commercial lending staff. The Commercial Loan Officer will analyze loan applications and prepare loan writeups and recommendations for presentation to management and the VEDA Board; work with borrowers, other lenders and various agencies to structure projects using VEDA’s many loan programs; prepare commitment letters; service and manage ongoing relationships with borrowers; and represent the Authority at various functions. Requirements include strong written and verbal skills, proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, comfort learning and using various financial software applications and electronic information systems; and an excellent customer service attitude. Minimum seven years’ previous commercial lending experience preferred and a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, business administration or a related field required. Salary will be commensurate with experience and ability. VEDA has a competitive benefits package and is an equal opportunity employer. To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to:

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Tom Porter Vermont Economic Development Authority 58 East State Street, Suite 5 Montpelier, VT 05602-3044

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DIRECTOR, BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Join our Green Economy Development Team! VSJF seeks a program director to advance entrepreneurial success and job growth within Vermont’s green economy. The position manages engagements with business owners and their management teams in the business sectors of sustainable agriculture and forest products, waste systems, renewable energy, and the climate economy. The Director will also develop and advance a Climate Economy business accelerator program and statewide Network. Full job descriptions available at vsjf.org. Send resume and cover letter by 3/31/17 to lydia@vsjf.org.

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For further information on this position (#0041263) and to apply with electronic application, resume, cover letter and reference contact information, visit our website at www.uvmjobs.com.

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Humanities Council, a statewide non-profit headquartered in Montpelier, wants to talk to you. We are seeking an energetic, full-time Program Assistant to administer the day-to-day operations of the Council’s public programs. We are looking for someone with excellent writing and overall communications skills who is attentive to detail and proficient in Word and Excel. Experience with Quickbooks and databases is a plus. We require a a love of learning and ideas, and offer in return a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. See website for full description. Please send cover letter and resume by April 5, 2017 to: lwinter@vermonthumanities.org.

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1 12-ounce package thick-cut bacon 1 cup rolled oats 1 cup maple syrup 1/2 cup organic light corn syrup 1/2 cup organic sugar 1 stick unsalted butter 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla

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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Divide the bacon into four piles and cut the slices in half lengthwise. Then cut slices horizontally to make onequarter-inch strips (called lardons). Cook the bacon over medium heat until crispy, stirring regularly. Pour off any fat that accumulates as you cook. When the bacon is done, drain it on paper towels. Pour the oats onto a cookie sheet and bake, stirring every five minutes, until toasty brown (12 to 15 minutes). Remove oats and turn off the oven. To make syrup, in a mediumsize, high-walled pot, combine the sweeteners and butter. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring regularly and monitoring the temperature with a candy thermometer. While you wait for the syrup to reach temperature, the bacon will cool. Toss it with the oats in a small mixing bowl. Place a sheet of parchment on the oat cookie sheet and butter the parchment. Don’t forget to stir the sugar mixture regularly. When the sugar mixture reaches 300 degrees (the hard-crack stage), move quickly! Remove the pot from the burner and immediately add the baking soda. Stir to start a chemical reaction that will cause the mixture to foam. Immediately stir in the salt, vanilla, and bacon-and-oat mixture. As soon as it’s mixed, dump the candy onto the parchment-covered cookie sheet. Use a wooden spoon to spread it so it covers the whole surface. Set aside. Put hot water in the pot you used for the sugar mixture, and throw all of your candied utensils into it so they don’t become permanently encrusted. When the candy has set completely, around 30 minutes, break into pieces and serve.

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ost Vermonters know that maple sap runs when temperatures are above freezing during the day and below at night, and that the season ends when the trees “bud out.” But for the past two winters, we’ve had patches of unseasonably warm weather, raising a question: When it’s 60 degrees in February, what happens to the sugaring season? Furthermore, how does the increasing use of newer tapping technologies factor into the long-term health of Vermont’s sugarbushes? To learn more about the current state of the state’s sugaring operations, we called Mark Isselhardt, a maple specialist at the Proctor Maple Research Center of the University of Vermont Extension. The center publishes papers on all manner of issues that are important to maple producers, including ones titled “When to Stop,” “Tapping Depth” and “Do Not Use IPA as Sanitizer” (that abbreviation refers to isopropyl alcohol, not to beer). Here’s what Isselhardt had to say, along with some sweet recipes.

[the hole]. When people talk about tap holes drying up, they’re talking about that plug: The plumbing is no longer conducive. The earlier you tap, the earlier you introduce that wound to the tree, and it’s really hard to predict where the bulk of the flow will come in the season. [By tapping early,] it could be you capture the best runs of the season and everything’s fine, or you might miss the end. SD: A lot of producers are using vacuum systems instead of gravity-based systems these days. How does that impact production? MI: With all other things being equal, it’s easily double.

SD: How does the vacuum affect the trees? MI: It’s just the best question — also the hardest to answer. You’re talking about a perennial plant, and you’re talking about a really robust plant. Sugar maples can grow for 200 to 300 years, and they’re really well adapted to this climate. There are trees that have SEVEN DAYS: How has 2017 been for MAR K IS S E L H AR D T been tapped for generations that show sap production thus far? no signs of stress from the tapping. But, MARK ISSELHARDT: All seasons with modern technology, we can easily are sort of unique. The season started fairly early. There are take two to three times as much sap, and you can’t cut them people who produced syrup in January who never produced down to try to determine the [amount of ] stress [it’s causing]. syrup in January before. SD: Is anyone trying to figure that out? SD: Is that a good thing for producers? MI: We’re in the fourth year of an experiment looking at MI: There’s nothing inherently wrong with it ... They can the long-term impacts on trees that had never been tapped choose to tap, or they can wait. Early-season sap usually has before: a portion not tapped, a portion tapped with traditional less sugar, so people without reverse osmosis [equipment] will gravity, and another with vacuum. We’ll follow those for 10 be burning more fuel and getting less syrup for it. years. The anecdotal evidence is that technology has changed dramatically over 25 to 30 years, and there haven’t been SD: Does a longer season impact the taps? widespread die-offs of trees. MI: There’s a limited amount of time you can collect sap from a tap hole. It’s based on the tree’s response to the wound. [And], SD: Does any damage from tapping pale in comparison to when you open the tree up to the atmosphere, even if it’s only the effects of climate change? for a few seconds, omnipresent yeast and bacteria start to infect MI: It does appear that the climate that sugar maple is so that tap hole. As the season progresses, those populations tend well adapted to is [shrinking], so it will be a competitive to multiply, developing a gummy, snotty material that plugs up disadvantage.

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2-3 large carrots 2 apples 2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour 1/2 cup organic cane sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon powdered ginger 4 eggs 1 cup sunflower oil 1 cup maple syrup 1 1/2 teaspoons salt FROSTING:

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In a medium mixing bowl, combine the wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger. Stir with a fork. In a small mixing bowl, combine the eggs, oil, syrup and salt. Beat with a fork or whisk until uniform. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and stir as little as possible to combine. (Stirring develops chewy strands of gluten, and you don’t want that in your cake.) Add the grated carrots and apples and stir briefly. Divide the batter into your pans. If you’re making cupcakes, fill the cups only two-thirds full. (Seriously. Otherwise it’ll be messy.) Same goes for the cake tins. Bake until a sharp, pointy object inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Start checking cupcakes after 25 minutes. Check 8-inch cakes after 40 minutes. If the cake isn’t done, check every five minutes until it is. Let cool on a rack if you have one. Make the frosting. In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter with a wooden spoon or beaters until uniform. Stir in syrup, cardamom and salt. Taste and add more syrup, spice or salt as desired. When the cakes are cool, turn them out of the pans and frost them gently.

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NONVIOLENT ACTIVISM 101: Community members explore strategies for addressing oppression without the use of physical force. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $15-20; free for people under 25; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-2345. WATER IS LIFE MARCH: Demonstrators march down College Street to show their solidarity with the water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. University of Vermont Waterman Building, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, contact@waterislifemovement.com.

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‘THE CURIOUS WORLD OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH’: Art hounds get a close-up look at the unconventional Dutch painter through this documentary from 2016. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $5-10. Info, 382-9222.

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SOCIAL MEDIA MADE SIMPLE: Business owners learn to parlay posts on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms into money in the bank. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 391-4872.

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BURLINGTON BIKE BABES OPEN SHOP NIGHT: Those who identify as female or nonbinary come first at a drop-in bicycle repair session with seasoned mechanics. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-4475.

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COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. Bring a dessert to share. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

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DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: Beginners are welcome at a groove session inspired by infectious beats. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 540-8300.

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WORLD WATER DAY: Student art sets the stage for a visual presentation on green technology by Lake Champlain Sea Grant Green Infrastructure Collaboration’s Rebecca Tharp. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1414.

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such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-8228. RUTLAND DEATH CAFÉ: Men and women discuss issues related to the end of life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991.

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‘FALLINGWATER: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S MASTERWORK’: Shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series, this 2011 documentary opens the door to the house considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, adfilmseries@gmail.com. GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: An annual cinematic celebration delights moviegoers with a diverse lineup of films and presentations. See gmffestival.org for details. Various Montpelier locations. $7-10; 10-punch card, $90; unlimited pass, $175. Info, 223-5000. MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular flick. Call for details. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. TAP INTO FILM: 48-HOUR STUDENT FILM SLAM INFORMATION SESSION: Folks ages 21 and up interested in overseeing student filmmakers during a two-day competition learn the lay of the land from experienced team leaders. Kingdom Taproom, St. Johnsbury, 5:45 p.m. Free. Info, 800-718-2787. ‘UNBROKEN GROUND’: Food production is a main ingredient in climate change, according to a 2016 documentary. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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COMMUNITY MEAL: Diners dig into a hot lunch. United Church of Johnson, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356. AN EVENING WITH TEUTONIC WINE COMPANY: Carefully selected wines are in sync with a scrumptious spread. The Kitchen Table Bistro, Richmond, reception, 6 p.m.; dinner, 6:30 p.m. $110; preregister; limited space. Info, 434-8686. INTRODUCTION TO SOURDOUGH: Brotbakery’s Heike Meyer breaks down the steps of making naturally leavened loaves with a fermented culture. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753. VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: Local products — think veggies, breads, pastries, cheeses, wines, syrups, jewelry, crafts and beauty supplies — draw shoppers to a diversified bazaar. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 342-4727.

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‘THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND’ Saturday, March 25, 7-8 p.m., at Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, in Burlington. $5-20; free for UVM students. Info, 656-2076.uvm.edu

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For its spring-semester Mainstage Production, the Saint Michael’s College Fine Arts Department presents a darkly comic play that asks some serious questions. Penned in the 1950s by Swiss playwright Max Frisch, The Arsonists is centered on Gottlieb Biedermann, a wellto-do man who has built his wealth by exploiting the talents of others. Amid a citywide rash of arson, Biedermann takes in two strangers who begin filling his attic with barrels of gasoline. Inspired by historical events of his day, such as the rise of the Nazi party and Switzerland’s neutrality during World War II, Frisch’s comedy calls the concept of the innocent bystander into question.

What does a lifetime of working in a coal mine sound like? What noises does a California mud pot make? The National Public Radio show “The World According to Sound” provides a gateway into these and other phenomena via 90-second, audioheavy episodes. Each installment features a unique sound — ranging from blood pulsing through a human brain to a disco track supposedly used by U.S. interrogators to torture detainees — and a snippet of the story behind it. Producers Sam Harnett, who attended Middlebury College, and Chris Hoff bring a live version of the program to the University of Vermont, where they turn off the lights and ask listeners to lend their ears for a purely auditory experience.

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Embarking on a cross-country road trip after college isn’t uncommon. Doing it with 16 wild horses in tow is a different story — one that plays out in the 2015 documentary Unbranded. This award-winning film follows four recent Texas A&M University graduates who adopt, train and ride more than a dozen mustangs from Mexico to Canada, hoofing it up over 3,000 gnarly miles of the American West. The guys brave unruly animals, personal discord and sometimes-treacherous terrain on their epic adventure, during which the men — and the horses — show their true grit.

‘UNBRANDED’ Saturday, March 25, 3 and 5 p.m., at Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock. $5-11; preregister. Info, 457-2355. billingsfarm.org

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Friday, March 24, 8 p.m., at Barre Opera House. $19-33. Info, 476-8188. barreoperahouse.org. Saturday, March 25, 8 p.m., at Paramount Theatre in Rutland. $42. Info, 775-0903. paramountvt.org

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LEGO FUN: Creative types in grades K and up build unique structures with brightly colored pieces. Kids under 5 require adult supervision. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

BONE BUILDERS: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in this exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30-8:30 & 9:15-10:15 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. EMBODYING PRACTICE: Robert Kest dives into the role of the physical form in meditation and mindfulness. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop. EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: Guided practice and group conversation with Yushin Sola cultivate well-being. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $14. Info, 299-9531. EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: Beginners and longtime practitioners alike improve balance, posture and coordination through the Chinese martial art. Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations. Info, 862-8866. GENTLE TAI CHI: Madeleine Piat-Landolt guides students in a sequence of poses with an emphasis on relaxation and alignment. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Students get pumped with an interval-style workout that boosts muscle strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility, balance and coordination. Middlebury Municipal Gym, 7-8 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160. INSIGHT MEDITATION: Attendees absorb Buddhist principles and practices. Wellspring Mental Health and Wellness Center, Hardwick, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6694.

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INTRODUCTORY FELDENKRAIS CLASS: This exercise therapy method improves students’ mental state and mobility. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 249-0861.

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‘INTO THE WOODS JR.’: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale characters appear in Stephen Sondheim’s mashup of childhood stories presented by Shelburne Middle School. Costumes are encouraged. Shelburne Town Offices, 7-8 p.m. $5. Info, 825-1182. LEGO CHALLENGE: Kids tackle construction tasks with colorful blocks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391.

BRIDGE CLUB: Strategic players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

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NIA WITH LINDA: Eclectic music and movements drawn from healing, martial and dance arts propel an animated barefoot workout. South End Studio, Burlington, 8:30-9:30 a.m. $14; free for first-timers. Info, 372-1721. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: Physical and mental strength improve as the result of a stretching session for all ability levels. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: Presentations on different types of healthy lifestyles promote well-being. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585. WEDNESDAY NIGHT SOUND BATH: Draw in the good vibrations of gongs, bowls and didgeridoos — a relaxing sonic massage to get you through the week. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, 510-697-7790. WORKSHOP ON LIVING HEALTHIER: Community members ages 18 and up who are living with ongoing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease or anxiety learn to better manage their well-being in a six-week seminar. United Way of the Adirondack Region, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1:30-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 518-564-3371. YOGA NIDRA: THE YOGA OF DEEP RELAXATION: Savitri Devi Dasi leads students into a state of deep meditation, which brings profound calmness, quietness and relaxation. Bring a blanket and something comfortable to lie on. Cavendish Gallery, Burlington, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 206-557-9850.

control. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 662-4923. I CHING: Instructor Baylen demonstrates the ancient Chinese oracle used for insight and guidance in a five-part series. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. MAKING AN HERBAL FIRST AID KIT: BASIC WOUND CARE: Cuts, burns and bites, be gone. The first class in a three-part series covers the basics of healing bodily tissue after an injury. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. $25; additional cost for first-aid kit supplies if desired. Info, railyardapothecarybtv@gmail.com.

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WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: Ladies dribble up and down the court during an evening of friendly competition. Lyman C. Hunt Middle School, Burlington, 8:15-9:30 p.m. $3; preregister at meetup.com. Info, carmengeorgevt@ gmail.com.

RICHMOND STORY TIME: Lit lovers ages 2 through 5 are introduced to the wonderful world of reading. Richmond Free Library, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: Engrossing plots unfold into fun activities for tots up to age 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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DON HOLLY: Java lovers perk up for “Dark, Bitter, Sweet and Aromatic — A Social History of TODDLER TIME: With Coffee.” A brief tasting activities ranging from follows. Fleming Museum Legos and Play-Doh to stories of Art, University of Vermont, L F R I.24 and snacks, little ones and their E Burlington, noon. Regular | MUSIC | ETH caregivers find plenty of ways to play. admission, $3-10; free for members, St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m.-noon. faculty, staff, students, and kids 6 and under. Info, Free. Info, 745-1391. 656-0750. YOGA FOR KIDS: Yogis ages 2 through 5 strike a EVERY WOMAN HAS A STORY: Fierce females of pose to improve balance and flexibility. Fletcher Castleton University share 15-minute personal Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, stories in honor of Women’s History Month. Alumni 865-7216. Room, Huden Dining Hall, Castleton University, noon. Free; $4 for lunch. Info, 800-639-8521. YOUNG WRITERS & STORYTELLERS: Kindergartners through fifth graders practice JEREMY DESILVA: The associate professor crafting narratives. Burnham Memorial Library, unearths elements of the past in “The Complete Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, Evolutionary History of Bipedalism: What New 264-5660. Fossils From South Africa Are Revealing.” Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, language Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: Students THE SPARK OF CREATIVITY: CONVERSATION build a foundation in reading, speaking and writing. SERIES: Fran Stoddard moderates a discussion Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. between Michael Metz, Cairn Cross and Seven Days’ Info, 865-7211. Pamela Polston, who consider the topic “Fearless Entrepreneurism.” All Souls Interfaith Gathering, INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Pupils Shelburne, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, improve their speaking and grammar mastery. 985-8686. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757. ‘WOMEN & THE COUNTERCULTURE’: 1970s feminists and their challenges and experiences are at INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE the center of a roundtable discussion. Vermont CLASS: Learners take communication to the next History Center, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500. level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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AN EVENING OF WORDS & MUSIC: The Farmers Night Concert Series continues with compelling melodies and readings by Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni artists. House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228. THE JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE SHOW: Musicians channel the Man in Black through renditions of his iconic songs. Chaplain Mark Fay’s presentation “The Real Story of How Johnny Cash Overcame His Addiction” complements the concert. Community Bible Church, South Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, thejohnnycashtributeshowvt@gmail.com.

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DIVORCE WORKSHOP: Those experiencing the end of marriage build self-confidence and gain financial

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955. WEB DEVELOPMENT FOR SENIORS: A seminar serves up basic information about internet sites and tools with the aim of creating web applications for area nonprofits. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 985-5124.

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‘BLACKBERRY WINTER’: A woman comes to terms with her mother’s degenerative dementia in a Vermont Stage production. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $28.80-37.50. Info, 863-5966. ‘BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON’: A lively musical presented by the Castleton University Department of Theater Arts follows America’s seventh president from his early days as a child on the wild frontier to his controversial reign in the White House. Casella Theater, Castleton University, 7-9 p.m. $10-15. Info, 468-1373.

‘GROUNDED’: Northern Stage presents a onewoman examination of America’s transition to drone warfare. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. $15-55. Info, 296-7000.

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BOOK DISCUSSION: Franklin County Home Health Agency’s Nancy Dulude facilitates a conversation on Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Enosburg Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 393-6721. BOOK SALE: Readers of all ages bag bargain titles. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. SLAM!: SPOKEN WORD POETRY: An open mic paves the way for a juried set at this word fest featuring female poets. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP: CHAPTER FOCUS: Folks give feedback on selections of up to 40 pages penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. WRITING CIRCLE: Prompts lead into a 30-minute free write and sharing opportunities without judgment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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DISRUPTING VIOLENCE DISCUSSION & PRACTICE GROUP: Participants pick up tips for engaging in conflict without the use of violence. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 6.

art

LIFE DRAWING: Easels in tow, artists capture the poses of a live model. Karma Bird House Gallery, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, beukwin@ gmail.com. OPEN STUDIO: Friends new and old convene for a creative session. Expressive Arts Burlington, 12:302:30 p.m. $15. Info, 343-8172.

bazaars

NEWBERRY MARKET: Shoppers browse specialty foods, clothing, pottery, décor, collectibles and more at a weekly indoor bazaar. Newberry Market, White River Junction, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 299-0212.

comedy

SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO: Over-the-top humor and hyper-exaggerated body language have audience members laughing until they cry during the hit show “Why Would You Do That?” Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. $44.25-261.50. Info, 863-5966.

community

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Area residents chew the fat over the values of space and community growth. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-4928218, ext. 303.

conferences

JANE AUSTEN & THE ARTS: A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE: Fans of the famed writer find a weekend of talks, music, tours and English country dance. SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 a.m. $75; $5 for country dance; preregister. Info, 518-564-2429.

dance

FOR REAL WOMEN SERIES WITH BELINDA: GIT UR FREAK ON: R&B and calypso-dancehall music is the soundtrack to an empowering sensual dance session aimed at confronting body shaming. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $15. Info, bestirredfitness@ gmail.com.

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education

OPEN HOUSE: Parents and potential students see if the learning community for 10- through 18-yearolds makes the grade. Pacem School, Montpelier, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1010.

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AMP NIGHT: Painter Ted Zilius, songster Ben Cosgrove and wordsmith Chard deNiord are the special guests at an evening highlighting artists, musicians and poets. River Arts, Morrisville, 6-8 p.m. $10. Info, 802-888-1261. DANCE, PAINT, WRITE: DROP-IN: Teens and adults create, connect, heal and grow through self-guided movement and art set to music. Expressive Arts Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $20; free for first-timers. Info, 343-8172. POSTNATAL SELF-EMPOWERMENT: Mothers and babes-in-arms circle up for a reflective session centered on embracing one’s self and family amid the chaos of daily life. Prenatal Method Studio, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $10-20. Info, 829-0211. VERMONT NONPROFIT LEGISLATIVE DAY: Colleagues from charitable organizations join forces with legislators to tackle issues of equity, efficiency and improved service to local communities. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $25. Info, 862-1645. WORN WEAR COLLEGE TOUR: Outdoor athletes hit up Patagonia’s mobile repair shop, learn how to fix their own gear and hear about opportunities to get in on the zero-waste movement. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-1204.

film

‘BEING MORTAL’: A panel discussion on advancecare planning follows a screening of this 2015 episode of PBS’ “Frontline,” which delves into doctor-patient relationships near the end of life. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912. GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.22.

food & drink

MAPLE SUGARING TRIP: Sweets lovers meet at the senior center, then travel to Dakin Farm’s flagship store in Ferrisburgh to experience syrup season. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

TEUTONIC WINE DINNER: Winemaker Barnaby Tuttle pairs palate-pleasing vinos with a familystyle supper. Hotel Vermont, Burlington, 6 p.m. $74.25; preregister; for ages 21 and up. Info, 863-5966.

WHITE BURGUNDY VALUES: Oenophiles open their minds to new flavors at an in-store wine tasting. Dedalus Wine Shop, Market & Wine Bar, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368. WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Faith United

CHAIR YOGA: Yogis limber up with modified poses. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 316-1510. COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

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CORNWALL FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Interval training helps participants improve strength, agility, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, 9-10 a.m. $12. Info, 343-7160. FORZA: THE SAMURAI SWORD WORKOUT: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when using wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: A peaceful, guided meditation helps participants achieve a sense of stability and calm. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-8602. PLACE-BASED HERBAL MEDICINE: Herbalists in this workshop consider the potential for deepening the local food movement by incorporating nature-based local medicine into a resilient food system. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, railyardapothecarybtv@gmail.com. TAI CHI: Personal trainer Denise Ricker leads seniors in meditative movements. All ages are welcome, though this class is geared toward an older population. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, pdricker@ comcast.net. TAI CHI BEGINNER CLASS: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

kids

BABY & TODDLER PLAYGROUP: Parents connect while kids up to age 3 enjoy toys, stories, challah and juice. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, grace@ ohavizedek.org. ‘INTO THE WOODS JR.’: See WED.22. LEGO CLUB: Brightly colored interlocking blocks inspire developing minds. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. MAC BARNETT & JON KLASSEN: The best-selling picture-book duo delights youngsters with a presentation of its new collaboration, Triangle. Shelburne Town Hall, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: Captivating narratives pave the way for crafts and activities for youngsters ages 3 through 6. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660. READ TO A DOG: Book hounds ages 5 through 10 curl up with a good story and a furry friend. Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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UVM MEDICAL CENTER FARMERS MARKET: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Davis Concourse, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 2:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 847-5823.

POKÉMON LEAGUE: I choose you, Pikachu! Players of the trading-card game earn weekly and monthly prizes in a fun, friendly environment where newbies can be coached by league leaders. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0498.

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SOUP SUPPER: Diners dig into savory broth, salad and dessert to support the Sara Holbrook Community Center. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $30; free for kids under 14 with an adult; preregister. Info, 862-6342.

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MAKING BRUNCH WITH ST. PATRICK’S DAY LEFTOVERS: Home cooks take the saying “waste not, want not” to heart by transforming Irish soda bread, corned beef and cabbage into French toast and Reuben sandwiches. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753.

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BEGINNER-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Basic communication skills are on the agenda at a guided lesson. Private residence, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: FRENCH: Bag lunches in hand, attendees brush up on their linguistic abilities. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

music

HOMESHAKE: Mellow grooves from 2017’s Fresh Air set the mood. Ryan Power and Bleach Day open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12-14. Info, 540-0406. NOONDAY LENTEN RECITAL: George Matthew Jr. accompanies flutist Betsy Killorin in a program of baroque music. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Green, Middlebury, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7200.

seminars

DIVORCE WORKSHOP: See WED.22, Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, noon-1 p.m. PARENTING WORKSHOP SERIES: Moms, dads and guardians listen up for “Healthy Kids,” presented by nutritionist Mallory James. Fairfax Community Library, 6:15-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

sports

MAD DASHES GOLDSPRINTS INDOOR BICYCLE RACE SERIES: Pedal pushers break a sweat while going head-to-head in stationary cycling competitions. The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Donations; $25-99 for the season. Info, 508-246-4315.

talks

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JONATHAN MARKS: The author of What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People and Their Genes shares his expertise in the talk “Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution.” Main Reading Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. VINCENT STANLEY: Patagonia’s director of philosophy keynotes a stop on the company’s Worn Wear College Tour with “Better Than New: Patagonia’s Journey Towards Responsibility.” Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2060. WOMEN IN ATHLETICS & BUSINESS PANEL: Female graduates of Castleton University reflect on their experiences as student-athletes and their current roles in sports business. Networking follows. 1787 Room, Campus Center, Castleton University, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-8521.

theater

‘BLACKBERRY WINTER’: See WED.22. SEVEN DAYS

‘BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON’: See WED.22. AN EVENING OF SENIOR SCENES & MONOLOGUES & ‘GOODBYE MARIANNE’: Rutland High School’s Encore Theatre stages Irene Kirstein Watts’ play about her childhood experiences in Germany during the days following the Night of the Broken Glass. Rutland High School, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 770-1134.

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‘GROUNDED’: See WED.22, 2 & 7:30 p.m. ‘RABBIT HOLE’: A tragic event turns a couple’s world upside down in David Lindsay-Abaire’s emotional drama, presented by the Montpelier High School Masque Club. Adult language is used. Smilie Auditorium, Montpelier High School, 7-9 p.m. $5-10. Info, 860-424-7711. STAGE RUSSIA HD: ‘ANNA KARENINA’: In an on-screen event, Vakhtangov Theatre presents a

‘SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET’: Madness and mayhem in 19th-century London drive Stephen Sondheim’s chilling musical, staged by Main Street Arts. Bellows Falls Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5-100. Info, 869-2960. ‘THE ARSONISTS’: Saint Michael’s College students take the stage with Max Frisch’s explosive comedy exploring the idea of the innocent bystander. See calendar spotlight. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

words

BOOK SALE: See WED.22, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. JAN MAHER: The author regales readers with a talk on her book, Earth As It Is, which follows a Texan struggling with gender identity. Phoenix Books Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $3; limited space. Info, 448-3350. POETRY GROUP: Monica Stillman, coeditor of Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, facilitates a meeting for writers of verse. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, mstillman123@gmail.com.

connections. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 505-8011. TRIP DANCE FUNDRAISER: Competitive dancers ages 9 through 18 interpret ballet, jazz, lyrical and modern styles. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $20-25. Info, 760-4634.

activism

PEACE VIGIL: Friends and neighbors come together, bringing along their signs and their hearts. Top of Church St., Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-1731. RAISE YOUR VOICE!: Vermont Public Radio’s Reuben Jackson and Bread & Puppet Theater’s Maura Gahan are a few of the featured performers at an evening of poetry, music, stories and dance benefiting Stand Up for Social Justice. Heartbeet Lifesharing, Hardwick, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 586-2200.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: Senior citizens and their guests catch up over a shared meal. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, noon-1 p.m. $7-9; preregister. Info, 262-6288.

conferences

JANE AUSTEN & THE ARTS: A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE: See THU.23, 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE: Leaders in the environmental justice movement join activists, scholars and lawyers to address the topic “Bridging the Gap Between the Promise and the Reality of Environmental Justice.” Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 831-1228.

crafts

FIBER ARTS FRIDAY: Grown-up yarn lovers get together for tea and casual project time. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Learn new moves with Ballroom Nights, then join others in a dance social featuring the waltz, tango and more. Singles, couples and beginners are welcome. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance social, 8-9:30 p.m. $10-14; $8 for dance only. Info, 862-2269. BEING IN MOVEMENT: ENHANCING POTENTIAL & EXPRESSION: Sara McMahon guides dancers in a monthly workshop aimed at facilitating a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity. Chase Dance Studio, Flynn Center, Burlington, 6 p.m. $25; preregister; limited space. Info, 652-4537. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Jubilant motions with the Green Mountain Druid Order inspire divine

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AARP TAX HELP: Professionals offer advice and answer questions as Tax Day approaches. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 658-3585.

ANIME CLUB: Konnichiwa! Fans of the Japanese cartoon style geek out over shows, kawaii crafts and tasty treats. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

SINGLE ADULT VOLLEYBALL/CHILI COOK-OFF/ GAME NIGHT: Social butterflies serve, set, spike and snack at a fun-filled gathering. Essex Alliance Church, 6-9 p.m. $4; preregister. Info, 899-4160.

BIG & MESSY — ART SPACE: Process, not product, is the focus of this parent-child creative session with open-ended art stations. River Arts, Morrisville, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-1261.

fairs & festivals

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Imaginative gamers in grades 6 and up exercise their problemsolving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: The best of Ireland comes to the Queen City and surrounding areas with music, dance, workshops and presentations. See burlingtonirishheritage.org for details. Various locations statewide, 7-9 p.m. Prices vary. Info, info@burlingtonirishheritage.org.

film

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TAI CHI ADVANCED CLASSES: Attendees keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

ACORN CLUB STORY TIME: Little ones up to age 4 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

‘LA PASSION D’AUGUSTINE’: A music teacher in a Québec convent school finds that the institution’s future is at stake in this 2015 drama shown in French with English subtitles. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

food & drink

FRIDAY PERCH FRY: Plates of crispy, golden-brown fish satisfy seafood lovers. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 5-8 p.m. $10. Info, 518-643-2309. LENTEN FISH FRY: Neighbors rub elbows over helpings of haddock, French fries, coleslaw, beverages and dessert. Bristol St. Ambrose Parish, 5-7 p.m. $6-12.50; $37 per immediate family of five. Info, 453-2488. WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22.

games

EARLY-BIRD MATH STORY TIME: Books, songs and games put a creative twist on mathematics. Community Room, Richmond Free Library, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. PLAY GROUP: Crafts and snacks amuse young’uns up to age 5. Doty Memorial Elementary School, Worcester, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, moonsong148@ hotmail.com. SONGS & STORIES WITH MATTHEW: Matthew Witten helps children start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. STORY TIME: Babies, toddlers and preschoolers drop in for books, rhymes, songs and activities. Winooski Memorial Library, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

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ADRIAN CARR: The faculty pianist tickles the ivories to songs from his 2014 solo album, 11, alongside other original compositions. Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2243. ARIOSO: Central Vermont’s acclaimed chamber music ensemble hits all the right notes in a program for piano, voice, viola and cello. First Light Studios, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $1520; free for kids under 18. Info, 485-6924.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.22, 9:15 a.m. TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER: Brain busters stump locals at a benefit for the Champlain Elementary School PTO. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-9:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 540-0406.

DENNIS DEYOUNG & THE MUSIC OF STYX: Top 10 hits OM such as “Lady,” “Come Sail Away” TI M ED health & fitness Y|C OF OL LE ES Y and “Mr. Roboto” transport classicN DOYLE | COURT ACUDETOX: Attendees in recovery rock lovers to days gone by. Paramount undergo acupuncture to the ear to propel Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $46-66. Info, 775-0903. detoxification. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 3 ETHEL: The New York City-based contemporary mup.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. sic quartet fêtes females in music with “Blue Dress: BONE BUILDERS: See WED.22, 7:30 & 9:15 a.m. A Celebration of Women Composers.” University of FELDENKRAIS AWARENESS THROUGH Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 MOVEMENT: Prepared with loose-fitting clothp.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $5-30. Info, 656-4455. ing and open minds, participants find new ways FRIDAY NIGHT KARAOKE: Amateur singers belt of looking at the body in motion. The Wellness out their favorite hits. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 8-11 Collective, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $10. Info, p.m. Free. Info, 518-643-2309. 655-0950. STEEP CANYON RANGERS: Nimble instrumentaFITNESS FLOW YOGA: All types of athletes can tion and tight vocal harmonies anchor the Grammy build strength, increase flexibility and prevent Award winners’ take on bluegrass. See calendar injuries with a moderate-to-vigorous vinyasa flow. spotlight. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $19-33. Info, Colchester Health & Fitness, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $15; 476-8188. free for members. Info, 860-1010. WINTER WINE DOWN MUSIC SERIES: Locals FREESTYLE DANCE FITNESS: Jumps, flips, spins, welcome the weekend with live music by John kicks and squats set to high-energy music help stuGibbons, award-winning wine and mouthwatering dents shake awake their chi. Railyard Apothecary eats. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, 6-9 p.m. and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $14. Info, Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463. railyardyoga@gmail.com. T SA

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BURLINGTON GEOGRAPHIC: Field naturalist Alicia Daniel and Burlington VT Mammal Tracking Project founder Sophie Mazowita share the whereabouts of the Queen City’s animal inhabitants in “Where the Wild Things Are: On the Trail of Fox and Fisher in Burlington.” Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, place@uvm.edu.

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RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.22. REIKI: Touch activates the body’s natural healing abilities, aiding people in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

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AARON DRAPLIN: From the contracts to the pagination, the graphic designer reflects on putting together his debut title, Draplin Design Co.: Pretty

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Much Everything. Billings-Ira Allen Lecture Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, brandon.j.sauer@gmail.com. DAN ROCKHILL: Hailing from the University of Kansas, the architecture professor outlines his experiences, projects and teaching mechanisms. Chaplin Hall Gallery, Northfield, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2620. EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Music and painting find common ground in Vermont Public Radio Classical host James Stewart’s “Art Influencing Art: Impressionism and Expressionism — Monet and Munch; Debussy, Ravel and Schoenberg.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

tech

TECH TUTOR: Techies answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one help sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

theater

‘BLACKBERRY WINTER’: See WED.22. ‘BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON’: See WED.22. AN EVENING OF SENIOR SCENES & MONOLOGUES & ‘GOODBYE MARIANNE’: See THU.23. ‘GROUND HOG OPRY’: Woodchuck Theatre Company cures cabin fever with a zany production full of Vermont flavor. Hyde Park Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $12. Info, 244-6150. ‘GROUNDED’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m. ‘RABBIT HOLE’: See THU.23. ‘SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET’: See THU.23. ‘THE ARSONISTS’: See THU.23.

words

BOOK SALE: See WED.22. FRIDAY MORNING WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths offer constructive criticism on works-in-progress by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

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PRUNING & GRAFTING FRUIT TREES: Mike Hebb helps orchard owners and home horticulturalists prep apple trees for spring. Justin Morrill Homestead, Strafford, 1-4 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 765-4288.

COLLEN DOYLE: The Vermont-raised standup comedian elicits big laughs. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 8 p.m. $10-15. Info, 457-3981.

community

RIVER WORKS PROJECT: Area residents get the facts and offer their two cents on an upcoming public art project aimed at increasing awareness of the

LIVE BAND SWING DANCE: Red Hot Juba fuel a lively shindig. Bring clean shoes. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 864-8382. TO THE MAX DANCE PARTY: DJ sets and prizes cap off a family-friendly bash benefiting the Boston Children’s Hospital. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 540-0406. TRIP DANCE FUNDRAISER: See FRI.24.

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INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE: Brainstorming leads to forming activity groups for hobbies such as flying stunt kites and playing music. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complementary consultations on a first-come, first-serve basis. Legal Services Law Line of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 863-7153. MAPLE BRUNCH: Folks pound the pavement in a 5K fun run, then refuel with a pancake breakfast. Rock Point School, Burlington, registration, 8:15 a.m.; run, 9 a.m.; brunch, 9:30-11:30 a.m. $5-10. Info, 863-1104. MUD SEASON AUCTION: Homemade baked goods fuel bidders who raise their paddles to support River Rock School. Unitarian Church of Montpelier, viewing and silent auction, 12:30 p.m.; live auction, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4700. PASSION 4 PAWS CELEBRATES CUSH’S BIRTHDAY: The Shelburne shop’s resident pooch marks another lap around the sun with a family-friendly soirée benefiting dogs in need. A Little Something, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; $30 includes a pearl and sterling necklace. Info, 985-9909. RABIES CLINIC: Pet owners safeguard furry friends against the viral disease. Old Mill Marketplace, Bridgewater, 12:30-2 p.m. $11. Info, 672-5302. ‘THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND’: Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett present a live version of their National Public Radio program, which encourages listeners to process the world using their ears instead of their eyes. See calendar spotlight. Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $5-20; free for UVM students. Info, 656-2076.

fairs & festivals

MAD RIVER VALLEY MAPLE FESTIVAL: From sap to syrup, Vermont’s famous flavor steals the show at this family-friendly fête complete with flatbread pizza. Hartshorn Farm, Waitsfield, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 922-1832. MAPLE FEST: A craft fair, a fun run, horse-drawn wagon rides, a pancake breakfast, sugarhouse tours and more celebrate Vermont’s liquid gold. Various Poultney locations. Prices vary. Info, 468-5370. MAPLE MADNESS: Locals celebrate Vermont’s sweetest season with tasty treats, music and kids’ activities. Woodstock Green, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555. NORTHEAST THEATRE ON ICE FESTIVAL: Regional teams exhibit their figure skating strength combined with creative team choreography. Gordon H. Paquette Ice Arena, Burlington, 12:45-1:45 & 3:30-9 p.m. $5; free for kids 5 and under. Info, cvsc_us@ yahoo.com.

film

‘BICENTENNIAL MAN’: Robin Williams stars as an android who develops human emotions. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: See WED.22. ‘UNBRANDED’: Four men mount mustangs and make tracks from Mexico to Canada in this 2015

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: A bustling indoor marketplace offers fresh and prepared foods alongside crafts, live music, lunch seating and face painting. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmersmarket.org@gmail.com.

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CHOCOLATE TASTING: With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics of all ages discover the flavor profiles of four different confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

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MAPLE MADNESS TASTE AROUND: Area chefs prepare specialty dishes showcasing Vermont’s sweet syrup. Live music and auctions round out the fun. Suicide Six Ski Area, South Pomfret, 6-8 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 457-3555. MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL: Folks celebrate Vermont’s liquid gold with sugar on snow, woodfired sugaring demos, maple libations and Smokin’ Butt’s Bar-B-Q fare. Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits, Cambridge, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; additional cost for some activities. Info, 644-8151. NEW YORK STATE MAPLE WEEKEND: Maple producers open their doors to the public for tastings, demos and more. See mapleweekend.com for details. Various New York locations, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Prices vary. Info, 518-846-3192. NORWICH FARMERS MARKET: Farmers and artisans offer meats, baked goods and produce alongside handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. OPEN MAPLE SUGARHOUSE: Curious minds see how maple syrup is made, from start to finish. Sugar on snow, doughnuts and other goodies are on hand. Silloway Maple, Randolph Center, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Free. Info, 272-6249.

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PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Diners pile their plates with stacks of flapjacks, sausage and fruit at an all-youcan-eat affair. Community Church of Huntington, 8-11 a.m. $3-7. Info, 434-2690. SUGAR-ON-SNOW PARTY: Folks follow sap from tap to syrup at this seasonal soirée. Meet at the sugarhouse. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; cost of food and syrup. Info, 434-3068. VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. VERMONT MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND: ’Tis the season for syrup! Folks explore sugaring operations throughout the state and watch sap turn into the sweet stuff. See vermontmaple.org for details. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, 858-9444. WINE & DESSERT NIGHT: Local vinos and decadent eats tempt taste buds. Funds raised benefit the library. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 7-9 p.m. $10 includes dessert and one glass of wine; $5 per additional glass. Info, 899-4962. WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22.

health & fitness

GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.22, 8-9 a.m. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.22, 10:45 a.m. REFLEXOLOGY FOR SELF-CARE: A workshop with Melanie Giangreco covers points for relieving common complaints such as headaches, back pain and nausea. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 265-0446.

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INFORMATIONAL MEETING: Locals learn about summer plans for preservation in Burlington’s Greenmount Cemetery. Snacks are provided. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3180.

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JANE AUSTEN & THE ARTS: A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE: See THU.23, 9 a.m.

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UNDERSTANDING FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION: Citizens gain an understanding of the effects of U.S. trade policies on the Global South. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, new volunteer orientation, 3 p.m.; presentation, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

conferences

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‘WORDS AND VOICES —BOB DYLAN: LYRICS AS POETRY’: Community members read works by the Nobel Prize-winning “Mr. Tambourine Man” songwriter. Vermont Public Radio’s Reuben Jackson hosts. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum, 7-8 p.m. $5 includes access to the exhibit. Info, 985-3346.

Lamoille River’s impact on Morristown. River Arts, Morrisville, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1261.

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kids

BOOK SIGNING: Author Jessie Haas autographs copies of her children’s story Sugaring, which brings the beauty of a Vermont farm in spring vividly to live. The Vermont Country Store, Weston, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 362-5900. ‘DEAR EDWINA JR.’: Northern Stage’s Youth Ensemble Studio takes theater lovers ages 3 though 8 on an adventure with a plucky neighborhood girl who is eager to give advice. Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. $15. Info, 296-7000. HOPSTOP FAMILY SHOW: NO STRINGS MARIONETTE COMPANY: Using 11 handcrafted marionettes, performers bring traditional puppetry to a modern fairy tale about a spunky princess in Wasabi, A Dragon’s Tale. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘MINI MUD’: Talented tots and teens take the stage at an event showcasing up-and-coming performing artists. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $5-15. Info, 728-6464. SATURDAY DROP-IN STORY TIME: A weekly selection of books and music engages all ages. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. STORY TIME SATURDAY: Tykes sit tight for Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, then get their fill of themed healthy foods. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 861-9753. WHOLE-BOOK APPROACH STORY TIME: Tots learn how words, pictures and book design work together to complete a narrative. Phoenix Books Essex, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

lgbtq

CENTRAL VERMONT DRAG BALL: A “We Are Family” theme informs live performances and dance-worthy DJ sets. Proceeds benefit area organizations. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 8 p.m.-midnight. $10; cash bar. Info, sharrow32@yahoo.com. PAINT: A DRAG CABARET: Members of an allprofessional drag troupe take on each other’s looks and performances in the sassy and classy show “Snatched.” ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. $10-15; for ages 18 and up. Info, 540-0406.

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ARIOSO: See FRI.24, United Church of Northfield, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $15-20; free for kids under 18. BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Acclaimed trumpeter Ray Vega sits in as featured guest artist for Latin Jazz Night. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-25. Info, 863-5966. CAMPUS INVASION CONCERT: Bands hailing from the Northeast, including the Up! Up! Ups, Shy Husky, the Red Summer Sun and the Bone Factory, get music fans on their feet. Tuttle Hall Theater,

CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC: “A Spring Celebration With the French Masters” features works by Bizet, Ravel, Fauré and Saint- Saëns. Ackley Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 782-4385. CHELSEA BERRY: Guitar in tow, the singer-songwriter evokes the likes of Janis Joplin and Paula Cole with her poetic lyrics and bold melodies. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

Access Orientation or equivalent, or instructor’s permission. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

sports

SPECIAL OLYMPICS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Teams shoot hoops to benefit Special Olympics Vermont. SHAPE Fitness Center, Johnson State College, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free for spectators. Info, 635-2356.

tech

JOHN BROWN’S BODY: Reggae lovers revel in heavy rhythms when the seasoned band serves up selections from Fireflies. The Big Takeover open. The Snow Barn, West Dover, 9 p.m.-midnight. $2025. Info, 464-4266.

INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS: Let’s get technical! Students learn to use the mouse, keyboard and operating system components. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Classical connoisseurs welcome spring with the program “Music of Old and New,” featuring pianist Adam Tendler. Waterbury Congregational Church, 7-9 p.m. $10-15. Info, mcovermont@gmail.com.

TECH HELP: Electronic novices bring their questions and devices to a hands-on help session with a trained troubleshooter. Fairfax Community Library, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

NORTHERN AGGRESSION: Peru thrash punks Executive Disorder and Plattsburgh hard-rock metal punks Model 97 melt faces. VFW Post 309, Peru, N.Y., 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 518-643-0821. STEEP CANYON RANGERS: See FRI.24, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $42. Info, 775-0903. VT CHRISTIAN ROCK ’N’ WORSHIP: Known for songs such as “Grace Like Rain” and “This Fragile Breath,” Todd Agnew leads a lineup of Christian musicians including local favorites Jason O’Brian and Jessie-Lynn. Community Bible Church, South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 233-9603.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Adults and older children don binoculars and keep an eye out for winged wonders. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 8-9 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 434-2167. BUCHANAN MOUNTAIN & BRUCE PEAK HIKE: Outdoor adventurers embark on a difficult snowshoe trek covering 7.8 miles of ground and gaining 3,000 miles in elevation. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 899-9982.

politics

BARRE TOWN DEMOCRATS REORGANIZATIONAL MEETING: Like-minded people discuss current issues and develop an action plan. Town of Barre Municipal Building, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 279-6378.

seminars

SCOTTISH GENEALOGY RESEARCH: Ancestor investigators learn to add branches to their family trees by using census records, maps and online resources. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285. VCAM’S DIGITAL EDITING CERTIFICATION: Adobe Premiere users get familiar with the most recent version of the editing software. Prerequisite: VCAM

theater

‘BLACKBERRY WINTER’: See WED.22. ‘BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON’: See WED.22, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. ‘THE FOREIGNER’: A staged reading of Larry Shue’s award-winning send-up of American nativism supports the Southern Poverty Law Center. Maple Corner Community Center, Calais, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-5290. ‘GROUND HOG OPRY’: See FRI.24. ‘GROUNDED’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m. METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘IDOMENEO’: Ancient Greek stories inspired Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece, which is now broadcast to the silver screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 12:55 p.m. $16-25. Info, 748-2600. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, preshow talk, 12:15 p.m.; show, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $29. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘PUNCH & JUDY: A MELODRAMA’: The perennial puppets and their handmade friends star in a gut-busting trilogy presented by Modern Times Theater. Prizes, popcorn, cider and coffee are on hand. Gohl Building, Hardwick, 2 p.m. $5. Info, moderntimestheater@gmail.com. SHEN YUN: Versatile performers weave music and dance into a visual and sonic tapestry influenced by 5,000 years of Chinese culture. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 2 & 7:30 p.m. $73-123. Info, 863-5966. ‘SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET’: See THU.23. ‘THE ARSONISTS’: See THU.23. VERMONT HAS TALENT: Singers, dancers, jugglers, tumblers and others vie for cash prizes. Vergennes Opera House, 3 p.m. $6-18. Info, 877-6737.

words

BOOK SALE: See WED.22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

WORDSHIPS: FINDING YOUR VOICE; FINDING YOUR COMMUNITY: Guided writing workshops for any and all genres provide an outlet for expression during challenging times. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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ANTIQUES MARKET: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, artwork, jewelry and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Canadian Club, Barre, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS WITH THE CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING: Peaceful people gather for guided meditation and interactive discussions. Burlington Friends Meeting House, 5-7 p.m. $10. Info, assistant@centerformindfullearning.org.

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AARP TAX AIDE PROGRAM: Low-to-moderateincome seniors get help filing their taxes. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 12:30, 2 & 3:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-3982. MIDDLEBURY BRIDAL SHOW: Brides-to-be listen to live music, scope out the latest styles and mingle with industry professionals. Courtyard Marriott Middlebury, 1-3 p.m. $6-7. Info, 459-2897.

fairs & festivals

MAD RIVER VALLEY MAPLE FESTIVAL: See SAT.25. MAPLE FEST: See SAT.25.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.25. MAPLE HAM DINNER: Families feast on a spread of baked ham, mashed potatoes, vegetables, coleslaw and maple-themed desserts, served family-style. Georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, noon. $7-14; $35 per family; free for kids under 5. Info, 524-3330. MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL: See SAT.25. NEW YORK STATE MAPLE WEEKEND: See SAT.25. OPEN MAPLE SUGARHOUSE: See SAT.25. PRANZI IN FATTORIA: Farm-fresh flavors shine in a traditional Italian lunch served in an 1850s farmhouse. Agricola Farm, Panton, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $39; preregister. Info, alerellini@gmail.com. SUGAR-ON-SNOW PARTY: See SAT.25. SUGARHOUSE BREAKFAST BUFFET: Home-cooked eggs, French toast, flapjacks and breakfast meats make for a mouthwatering morning meal in a sunsoaked sugarhouse. Limlaw Family Maple Farm, West Topsham. $13.99; preregister. Info, 439-5995. VERMONT MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND: See SAT.25.

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WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

games

BINGO FOR A CAUSE: Players fashion four in a row at this benefit for Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Eddie’s Lounge. Alliot Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 12:30-2 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. POKÉMON LEAGUE: See THU.23, noon-5 p.m.

health & fitness

BODY LOVE BUTI: Students let go, feel good and find clarity during a restorative flow followed by meditation and chanting. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, noon-2:30 p.m. $20-25. Info, 448-4262. #MINDFULMARCH MOVE & MEDITATE: Gentle yoga practice paves the way for guided meditation. All money raised benefits the LoveYourBrain Foundation. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $5-20. Info, 448-4262. NIA WITH SUZY: Drawing from martial, dance and healing arts, sensory-based movements push participants to their full potential. South End Studio, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $14. Info, 522-3691. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.22, 4:305:45 p.m. ZUMBA FITNESS: High-spirited students dance toward health in an easy-to-follow fitness program set to red-hot international music. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9 a.m. $8-10. Info, 777-7032.

kids

LOST NATION THEATER’S SUMMER THEATER FOR KIDS BY KIDS AUDITIONS: Actors, singers and dancers ages 9 and up give their all to secure slots in upcoming performance camps. See lostnationtheater.org for details. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0492. PEER-LED MINDFULNESS MEET-UP FOR TEENS: South Burlington High School junior Mika Holtz guides adolescents toward increased awareness through music, movement and other techniques. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 9-10:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 720-427-9340.

language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlezvous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

lgbtq

LGBTQ FIBER ARTS GROUP: A knitting, crocheting and weaving session welcomes all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations and skill levels. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC: See SAT.25, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 4 p.m. Info, 382-9222. FREVO: An eclectic repertoire ranging from world music to jazz to classical to pop enchants concertgoers. Plainfield Town Hall Opera House, 4-6 p.m. $5-15. Info, 498-3173. KEVIN MORBY: The singer-songwriter serves up selections from his 2016 LP, Singing Saw. Waxahatchee and Mary Lattimore open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 540-0406.

‘BLOODY, BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON’: See WED.22, 2-4 p.m. AN EVENING OF SENIOR SCENES & MONOLOGUES & ‘GOODBYE MARIANNE’: See THU.23, 2 p.m. ‘GROUNDED’: See WED.22, 5 p.m. METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘IDOMENEO’: See SAT.25, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 12:55 p.m. $23. Info, 775-0903. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1 p.m. $29. Info, 603-646-2422. STAGE RUSSIA HD: ‘ANNA KARENINA’: See THU.23, 2 p.m.

words

MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: See SAT.25, College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m.

SHORT STORY MEGAPHONE: Community members take turns reading acclaimed works of short fiction aloud in a weekly series. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2:15 p.m. Free. Info, shortstorymegaphone@gmail.com.

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, reference@burlingtonvt.gov.

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OPEN STUDIO: See THU.23, 3-5 p.m.

LITTLE RIVER STATE PARK CROSS-COUNTRY SKI: Winter-weather warriors hit the trails for a five-mile outing that’s just hilly enough to make it interesting. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, 660-2834. WINTER TREE ID: Nature lovers examine buds, bark and branches for clues to discern different species. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 1-2:30 p.m. $10; free for kids under 16. Info, 985-2827.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP SOCCER: Swift females of varying skill levels shoot for the goal. For ages 18 and up. Rain location: Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center. Soccer fields, Leddy Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free; $3 for rain location. Info, carmengeorgevt@gmail. com.

talks

SALSA MONDAYS: Dancers learn the techniques and patterns of salsa, merengue, bachata and chacha. North End Studio A, Burlington, fundamentals, 7 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 227-2572. WEST AFRICAN DANCE: Live djembe and dundun drumming drive a family-friendly class with teacher Seny Daffe of Guinea. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 5:30-7 p.m. $10-16; preregister. Info, studio@ zenbarnvt.com.

education

CAMPUS TOUR: From culinary arts to carpentry to office administration and beyond, prospective students ages 16 through 24 learn about trade training programs. Northlands Job Corps Center, Vergennes, 9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-0121.

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art

bazaars

BAG SALE: Patrons purchase preowned items by the boatload. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1151.

business

RUTLAND BUSINESS SHOW: Local professionals mingle with more than 90 exhibitors, who offer home services and products. Holiday Inn, Rutland, 4-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 773-2747.

conferences

DIVERSITY CONFERENCE: Keynoters Jonathan Jansen and Wally Amos address the refugee crisis and diversity in the workplace. Hilton Burlington, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $65. Info, 233-2404.

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ADULT AERIAL DANCE N CONDITIONING: With or without MO | MU AR DANIEL BENJAMIN: The former H L I SIC | C HA M PL AIN PH previous experience, folks forge U.S. Department of State coordinator strength, grace and confidence in the air. for counterterrorism shares his expertise in North End Studio B, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. $15. a conversation held in conjunction with Northern Info, 863-6713. Stage’s production of Grounded. Byrne Theater, CONTACT IMPROV DANCE: Movers engage in Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, weight sharing, play and meditation when explor3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 296-7000. ing this style influenced by aikido and other somatic practices. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, theater 7:30-9:30 p.m. $4. Info, 864-7306. ‘BLACKBERRY WINTER’: See WED.22, 2 p.m. SA T.2 5

RENEGADE PERFORMANCE GROUP: Movers and shakers of the Brooklyn-based dance company serve up steps from its Afrofuturism series exploring black culture. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356.

FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER’S ANNUAL DINNER: Eco-conscious community members fill their plates from a buffet-style spread and hear from Vermont Agency of Natural Resources’ Julie Moore, who looks at Gov. Phil Scott’s priorities and their potential impact on watershed work. Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25-35; preregister; cash bar. Info, info@winooskiriver.org.

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AARP TAX HELP: See FRI.24. CELEBRATING THE ABENAKI HERITAGE: Beth Champagne shares her native traditions through the making of maple syrup and stories of how the tribe survived a 1759 raid. Themed crafts and refreshments follow. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391. ECKANKAR: KEY TO SECRET WORLDS: Seekers connect with teachers who can guide them on their spiritual journeys. Rutland Free Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

film

‘EMBRASSE-MOI COMME TU M’AIMES’: A Frenchlanguage comedy about a young man who wrestles with his feelings for various females comes with English subtitles. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

food & drink

FORGET-ME-NOTS BROWN BAG LUNCH: Women ages 65 and up meet for a midday meal. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., noon. Free. Info, 518-561-6920.

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BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.22, 7 p.m. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 6:30-10 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0498. MAH JONGG: Longtime players and neophytes alike compete in the popular Chinese tile game. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

health & fitness

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy donors give the gift of life. Roy Room, Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, noon-5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 654-2674. BONE BUILDERS: See WED.22, 7:30-8:30 p.m. NIA WITH SUZY: See SUN.26, 7 p.m. RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.22. TAI CHI: See THU.23. TAI CHI ADVANCED CLASSES: See FRI.24. VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HERBALISM STUDENT HERBAL CLINIC: Third-year interns evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. Burlington Herb Clinic, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, info@vtherbcenter.org. ZUMBA: Lively Latin rhythms fuel this dancefitness phenomenon for all experience levels. Vergennes Opera House, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 349-0026.

kids

BABY LAP TIME: Babes up to 24 months experience color, sound and movement through stories, songs, bounces and rhymes. Richmond Free Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 434-3036. COMMON BOOKS: MYTHICAL & MAGICAL CREATURES: Teen readers review works of fiction currently on display in the library’s Young Adult section. There will be snacks! Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660.

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CRAFT FOR KIDS: Kiddos 5 and up stretch their imaginations with unique projects. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. KIDS’ AERIAL FABRIC DANCE CLASS: Adventurous youngsters ages 7 through 12 learn to hang, climb and spin on silks in a high-flying class for all experience levels. North End Studio B, Burlington, 3:15-4:15 p.m. $15. Info, 863-6713. OPEN GYM PLAY GROUP: Parents can socialize while tykes stay active with movement-centered recreation. River Arts, Morrisville, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 888-1261. PRESCHOOL STORY TIME: See THU.23.

MONDAY NIGHT POETRY WORKSHOP: Wordsmiths analyze creative works-in-progress penned by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104.

music

SHAPE & SHARE LIFE STORIES: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which participants craft into narratives. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

GUITAR CLASS: Notes ring out at a six-string lesson for folks in recovery. Instruments are available. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150. MONDAY NIGHT COMMUNITY KIRTAN: Instruments are welcome during call-and-response chanting of mostly Sanskrit mantras in the bhakti yoga tradition. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, bpatoine@aol.com. SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: Newbies are invited to help keep the beat as Burlington’s Brazilianstyle street-percussion band sharpens its sound. Instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

FAMILY-TO-FAMILY: The National Alliance on Mental Illness builds understanding between individuals struggling with psychological health and their loved ones. Call for details. 6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 876-7949.

talks

BETH MARTELL: “A New View on Discipline: Toddler to Teen” offers research and tips for nurturing cooperation and reducing conflict between parent and child. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. NEW TABLES, NEW TOOLS: FEMALE VISIONARIES ON LOVE, RESISTANCE, COMMUNITY & PEACE: An intentional space allows transformational women to share their hopes for the future. This installment features Candace Taylor of Conscious Homestead and yogi Briana Martin. Proceeds benefit area organizations. Railyard Apothecary and Yoga Studio, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5-15. Info, houseofbittersweet@ gmail.com.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos keep busy in an interactive class with Constancia Gómez. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

‘42ND STREET’: SOLD OUT. A chorus girl is thrust into the spotlight in the Broadway National Tour production of this 1933 musical comedy. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-70. Info, 863-5966.

TEENS’ & TWEENS’ AERIAL FABRIC DANCE CLASS: Adolescents use suspended silks to integrate ground and sky with seamless transitions. North End Studio B, Burlington, 4:15-5:15 p.m. $15. Info, 863-6713.

ADVANCED-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: Language learners perfect their pronunciation with guest speakers. Private residence, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757.

activism

BURLINGTON GARDEN CLUB MEETING: Green thumbs get down and dirty with Mike Anther, who digs into Vermont’s composting law. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5485. WOKE CLUB HUDDLE 2: Love warriors gather for an alt-book group aimed at taking action at a local and national level. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406.

DO IT BY BIKE: AFFORDABLE SOLUTIONS FOR MAKING YOUR BIKE MORE UTILITARIAN: business Pedal pushers prepare RENTAL INCOME SEMINAR: their two-wheeled vehicles Those seeking financial for carrying everything from SAT freedom and security get wise to RY computers to pets in all types .2 5 | M USIC | CH ELS EA BE R the ways of real estate investment. of weather. Bike Recycle Vermont, Preferred Properties, South Burlington, 6-7 Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. p.m. Free. Info, 318-7654. Info, 863-4475.

tech

STORY TIME & CRAFTS WITH CAITLIN: Creative projects complement themed narratives. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

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seminars

ROBIN’S NEST NATURE PLAYGROUP: Outdoor pursuits through fields and forests captivate little ones up to age 5 and their parents. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 229-6206.

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LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Bring a bag lunch to practice the system of communication using visual gestures. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.22.

theater

MONDAYS AT THE IMPROV: Emerging entertainers express themselves through theater games and acting techniques for onstage and off. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 999-7373.

words

AUTHOR READING: Richard Adams Carey excerpts his true-crime tale In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. BOOK GROUP FOR ADULTS: Safekeeping: Some True Stories From a Life by Abigail Thomas sparks conversation. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

comedy

TREVOR NOAH: The world-famous funnyman and host of “The Daily Show” inspires laughter via a live broadcast. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356.

in the aftermath of a mass shooting. Stearns Cinema, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356. ‘THE PLAYER’: Robert Altman directed this 1992 comedy in which a Hollywood bigwig starts receiving death threats from a rejected writer. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 540-3018. ‘SILENCED VOICES’: A 2010 documentary turns the lens toward Vermont’s migrant workers. A discussion with Migrant Justice and Central Vermont Showing Up for Racial Justice representatives follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

food & drink

BUILDING FLAVORS & SEASONING LIKE A MASTER: Simple foods become irresistibly delicious in a culinary class with chef Suzanne Podhaizer. McClure Multigenerational Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753. IDEAS ON TAP: ‘TASTES OF PLACES AND TASTES OF HOME: REFLECTIONS ON FOOD AND IDENTITY’: Three local scholars consider cuisine as a community builder. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0406. WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.22, 7 p.m. CHESS CLUB: Players of all ages put on their thinking caps in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. TUESDAY NIGHT BINGO: Participants cover squares and dip into refreshments. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 6 p.m. $5 per card. Info, 223-3322.

health & fitness

BRANDON FITNESS BOOT CAMP: Hop to it! Get fit with strength, endurance, agility and coordination exercises. Otter Valley North Campus Gym, Brandon, 5-6 p.m. $12. Info, 343-7160.

community

FEAST TOGETHER OR FEAST TO GO: See FRI.24.

DE-STRESS YOGA: A relaxing and challenging class lets healthy bodies unplug and unwind. Balance Yoga, Richmond, 5:45-7 p.m. $14. Info, 434-8401.

TUESDAY VOLUNTEER NIGHTS: Helping hands pitch in around the shop by organizing parts, moving bikes and tackling other projects. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687.

FELDENKRAIS: AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Whether you consider it relaxing exercise or active meditation, this experience can reduce pain and increase mobility. Sacred Mountain Studio, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. $15; free for first-timers; preregister. Info, 735-3770.

crafts

FITNESS FLOW YOGA: See FRI.24, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

dance

PEACEFUL WARRIOR KARATE: Martial-arts training promotes healthy living for those in recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 861-3150.

OPEN CRAFT NIGHT: Creative sparks fly in the studio as attendees whip out woven wall hangings and crochet, knitting and sewing projects. Nido Fabric & Yarn, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 881-0068.

BEGINNER WEST COAST SWING & FUSION DANCING: Pupils get schooled in the fundamentals of partner dance. North End Studio B, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com. INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WEST COAST SWING: Fun-loving folks learn the smooth, sexy stylings of modern swing dance. North End Studio A, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $11-16. Info, burlingtonwestie@gmail.com. SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC MOVIE CLUB: Cinema hounds view campy features at this ode to offbeat productions. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 356-2776. ‘NEWTOWN’: Filmed over three years, this 2016 documentary chronicles a Connecticut community

GETTING READY FOR AN ACTIVE SUMMER: Strength, agility, coordination and heart-healthy exercises are modified for folks of all ability levels. Charlotte Senior Center, 9:15-10 a.m. $10. Info, 343-7160.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See SAT.25, 6-7 p.m. STRETCH & SIP YOGA WITH LIVE MUSIC: Tunes by Ousmane energize participants for a flow yoga practice suitable for all levels. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 6-7:15 p.m. $15-20. Info, studio@zenbarnvt.com. TAI CHI BEGINNER CLASS: See THU.23. ZUMBA WITH ALLISON: Conditioning is disguised as a party at this rhythm-driven workout session. Swan Dojo, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. $10. Info, 227-7221.

kids

‘DEAR EDWINA JR.’: See SAT.25, 10 a.m. PRESCHOOL MUSIC: Melody makers ages 3 through 5 sing and dance into the afternoon. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 11:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 264-5660. PRESCHOOL STORY HOUR: COUNTING: Imaginations blossom when kids up to age 6 engage in themed tales and activities. Fairfax

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Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

Mountain Coop, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-4918.

Community Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

READ TO DAISY: Budding bookworms join a friendly canine for ear-catching narratives. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:15-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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community

STORY TIME & PLAYGROUP: See WED.22.

SPANISH MUSICAL KIDS: Amigos ages 1 through 5 learn Latin American songs and games with Constancia Gómez, a native Argentinian. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. STOP-MOTION CLAYMATION: Aspiring filmmakers use an iPad app and homemade clay to piece together a short movie. Waterbury Public Library, 3-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036. STORY TIME FOR BABIES & TODDLERS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of children and their caregivers. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. STORY TIME FOR PRESCHOOLERS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and early math tasks work youngsters’ mental muscles. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. STORYBOOK TEA TIME: Middle school students embody characters while reading books and performing a short play for tots in grades K through 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. TODDLER STORY TIME: Good listeners up to 3 years old have fun with music, rhymes, snacks and captivating tales. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10:30-11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 264-5660.

language

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers are welcome to pipe up at an unstructured conversational practice. El Gato Cantina, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. New Moon Café, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2431.

music

OPEN JAM SESSION: Musicians follow the flow and explore sound together. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

politics

seminars

FAMILY-TO-FAMILY: See MON.27.

MEDICARE & YOU: AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDICARE: Members of the Central Vermont Council on Aging clear up confusion about the application process and plan options. Central Vermont Council on Aging, Barre, 3-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-0531.

sports

BARRY ESTABROOK: The author of Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit provides food for thought on the agriculture industry and social justice issues. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1000.

dance

‘EXPRESSING EMOTION IN MUSIC AND MOVEMENT’: Listeners get a look at how people around the world convey thoughts and feelings through song and dance. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 649-2200. FAITH EXAMINED: A faith-based discussion of John Shelby Spong’s Jesus for the Non-Religious focuses on life’s big ideas. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 2:15 p.m. Free. Info, faithexamuufp@ gmail.com. WARREN STROBEL: The Reuters U.S. diplomatic correspondent reads between the lines in “Fake News? Behind the Story of Iraq’s Non-Existent Weapons of Mass Destruction.” FlynnSpace, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations; preregister; limited space; cash bar. Info, 863-5966.

words

ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION: Lit lovers read into The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5660. BOOK SIGNING: Three-time James Beard Awardwinning journalist Barry Estabrook autographs copies of his celebrated titles. Barrister’s Bookshop, South Royalton, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-7170. CREATIVE NONFICTION WORKSHOP: Folks give feedback on essays, poetry and journalism written by Burlington Writers Workshop members. 110 Main St., Suite 3C, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free; preregister at meetup.com; limited space. Info, 383-8104. MEMOIR WRITING GROUP FOR SENIORS: Wordsmiths write their way from childhood to present day, drawing on personal objects and photos for inspiration. Call for details. Cathedral Square, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 859-8849. SEARCH FOR MEANING DISCUSSION GROUP: Readers reflect on The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics and the Miracles of Forgiveness by Gary R. Renard. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. ‘ZIG ZAG LIT MAG’ RELEASE PARTY: Hot off the press, the second issue an Addison County arts and literature magazine debuts with a reading and a meet and greet. Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, litmag@bixbylibrary.org.

WED.29 activism

NONVIOLENT ACTIVISM 101: See WED.22.

agriculture

MAKE A FLORAL ARRANGEMENT: Springtime designs take shape with help from Sharon Niquette of Buds & Roses. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library,

HOMESHARE VERMONT INFORMATION SESSION: Folks who have a room to spare speak with staff and learn the ins and outs of the program. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 4-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

A CONTEMPORARY EVENING: Bolshoi Ballet principals, soloists and corps de ballet move to masterful choreography in a broadcast performance. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. DROP-IN HIP-HOP DANCE: See WED.22.

environment

CLEAN WATER DAY: Eco-minded folks advocate for improving water quality. A student musical performance and a press conference with legislators follow at the Statehouse Cedar Creek Room. Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 8:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-1414.

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‘ARTS AND CULTURE — WHAT IS YOUR STORY?’: Burlington playwright Joy Cohen leads an exploration into the ways in which humans use creativity to construct identity, community and social justice. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

film

‘DREAM, GIRL’: A documentary film showcasing ambitious female entrepreneurs inspires viewers to think big. A Q&A follows this screening benefiting the Vermont Women’s Fund. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 388-3355, ext. 301.

food & drink

THE ART & SCIENCE OF KOMBUCHA: Nutritionist Suzanna Bliss provides step-by-step instruction for making the beneficial fermented tea. Participants take home a starter culture. City Market/Onion River Co-op, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 861-9753. VERMONT FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22. WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET: See WED.22.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.22.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS: See WED.22. EPIC MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: See WED.22. EVERY WEDNESDAY, EVERYONE TAI CHI: See WED.22. GENTLE TAI CHI: See WED.22.

language

BEGINNER ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.22. INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL SPANISH CLASS: See WED.22. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: See WED.22. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.22.

music

HALF WAIF: Brooklyn’s Nandi Rose Plunkett cites Tori Amos as an influence behind her synthpop stylings. Hoan and Ivamae open. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 540-0406. SYMPHONY NH: A family-friendly concert titled “Picture This” sparks imaginations. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 10 a.m. $4-10. Info, 603-448-0400. VERMONT CHORAL UNION: The Farmers Night Concert Series continues with a repertoire inspired by centuries of classical a cappella choral music. House Chamber, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228.

seminars

BASIC ESTATE PLANNING: Lawyer Michael Caccavo elucidates the process of protecting personal property and providing for posterity. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. DIVORCE WORKSHOP: See WED.22, South Burlington Community Library.

sports

WOMEN’S PICKUP BASKETBALL: See WED.22.

talks

‘A FREE PRESS AND OUR DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF FAKE NEWS, ALTERNATIVE FACTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA’: Experts in journalism and political science sound off in a moderated forum presented by the League of Women Voters of the Northeast Kingdom and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393. LIAM MCKONE: The author presents on the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization for Civil War veterans. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. PATRICK DESBOIS: This year’s hard-hitting Rabbi Wall Lecture is titled “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews.” Roy Event Center, Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000. SHARKS & BREWS: Biologist Lindsay Graff takes a bite out of misconceptions about the sharptoothed marine species with photos, videos and stories while listeners tip back cold beverages. Funds raised support the Gills Club. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 229-9409.

RECOVERY COMMUNITY YOGA: See WED.22.

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: The naturalist and activist who as been published in the New Yorker and the New York Times speaks up for ecological consciousness and social change. Roy Event Center, Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING STUDENT VISITS: See WED.22.

tech

GINGER’S FITNESS BOOT CAMP: See WED.22. INSIGHT MEDITATION: See WED.22. NIA WITH LINDA: See WED.22.

WORKSHOP ON LIVING HEALTHIER: See WED.22. YOGA NIDRA: THE YOGA OF DEEP RELAXATION: See WED.22.

kids

LEGO CHALLENGE: See WED.22. RICHMOND STORY TIME: See WED.22. STEM CLUB: Inquisitive kids tackle challenges in science, technology, engineering and math. Fairfax

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.22. WEB DEVELOPMENT FOR SENIORS: See WED.22.

theater

‘GROUNDED’: See WED.22, 7:30 p.m.

words

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FROM SIDELINES TO START LINES: CREATING CONSISTENCY IN YOUR RUNNING PRACTICE: Certified running instructor Sarah Richardson helps on-again, off-again joggers make strides toward a steady routine. Community Room, Hunger

COMMUNITY SUPPER: See WED.22.

YOGA FOR KIDS: See WED.22.

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HOW TO SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY IN OUR TIMES: Eckankar hosts an open discussion that includes techniques to help participants face life’s challenges. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL: ‘GO WEST!’: Sally and David Armstrong use stunning photographs to illustrate the talk “How to See Glacier, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons on One Good Knee and in Questionable Weather!” Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

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LEGISLATOR MEET & GREET: JESSICA BRUMSTED & KATE WEBB: State representatives field questions and concerns over light refreshments. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE COMMUNITY LEADERS TALK: Area residents get the scoop on current CEDO issues and engage in a Q&A session. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

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SOCIAL GATHERING: Those who are deaf or hard of hearing or want to learn American Sign Language get together to break down communication barriers. The North Branch Café, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 595-4001.

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL: ‘PALESTINE: A TROUBLED LAND’: Photographs give attendees a glimpse of the West Bank, Golan Heights and other locales alongside local families and the annual olive harvest. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2518.

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agriculture CRAFT DISTILLING: This training brings students in direct contact with a variety of processes involved in building, operating and working in a distillery and the distilling industry. An emphasis is placed on production of highquality spirits from local ingredients and how to bring these successfully to market. May 15-20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. training. Location: Vermont Tech Ag Institute, 124 Admin Dr., Randolph Center. Info: 728-1525, mwillard2@vtc. edu, vtc.edu/ag-course/craftdistilling-profession-vermontexperience.

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SAUSAGE & BACON: This training will cover sausage making and smoking. Day one: participants will learn how to fabricate primals for production, trim for sausage, grind and stuff. Day two: participants will learn how to brine, dry-cure and smoke bacon, hams, pastrami and sausages. Participants will bring meat home with them each day! Apr. 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $375/ class & lab. Location: Vermont Tech & Mad River Food Hub, 151 Mad River Canoe Rd., Waitsfield, Vermont. Info: Vermont Tech Ag. Institute, 728-1525, mwillard2@ vtc.edu, vtc.edu/ag-course/ sausage-and-smoking-spring.

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ADULT: DRAWING: Instructor: Misoo Filan. Learn fundamental skills of observational drawing. Explore technical and conceptual foundation of drawing using a variety of drawing materials such as graphite, charcoal, pen and ink. Develop personal goals while examining creative concepts through demonstrations, including drawing from a model in the final class. Materials not included. Mon., Apr. 3-Jun. 5, 10 a.m.-noon, no class Apr. 24 or May 29. Cost: $258/person; member discount avail.

Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. BLACKSMITHING 1: Instructor: Robert Wetzel. Using a forge, you will learn basic blacksmith techniques from building and maintaining a fire to hammer control. Students will create hooks, pokers and small leaves during this two-day workshop. Sat. & Sun., May 27-May 28, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $235/person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. WORKSHOP: BRANCH TO SPOON: Instructor: Rob Palmer. Learn to carve spoons from locally sourced green wood using hand tools and traditional Swedish carving methods at Rokeby Museum. Learn to identify appropriate species of wood for carving spoons and other utensils. Learn about the anatomy of a spoon and carving safety and techniques. Sat. Jun. 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $160/ workshop; incl. materials and a set of carving tools to take home. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org. WORKSHOP: STAINED GLASS: Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This is a one-day stained glass workshop. Learn to select glass and colors, cut glass and apply copper foil, and solder as you work on a small colorful glass design for hanging in your window. All materials will be supplied. Bring a brown bag lunch. Sat., May 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $163.50/ person; member discount avail. Location: The Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: The Shelburne Craft School, 985-3648, info@ theshelburnecraftschool.org, theshelburnecraftschool.org.

cultural festival CULTURAL FESTIVAL: The Japan-America Society of Vermont (JASV) and Saint Michael’s College will present Matsuri ‘17, a Japanese cultural festival that includes arts, crafts, music, food, demos, performances, games, prizes and much more. This year is special: A Noh performer was invited from

Japan and will perform a solo traditional dance on stage. Sun., Mar. 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $10/ person; $5/students & seniors; $20/family; free/JASV members & kids under 5. Location: St. Michael’s College, Ross Sports Center, Colchester.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. DJ SMART LIVE DANCE CLASS: Amazing opportunity to dance with DJ Smart, a brilliant performer and one of today’s most versatile and gifted dancers. Interactive, large-screen class: Instructors and students see each other and communicate. Get big-city dance instruction without the travel, big-city costs and huge class size. Limit 25. Reserve now! 383-8468, arabesqueetcdance@gmail.com, arabesqueetc.com. Fri., Mar. 10, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: $25/1-hour interactive class. Location: Arabesque Etc. at Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge St., Richmond. Info: Martina Price, 383-8468, arabesqueetcdance@gmail.com, arabesqueetc.com. DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor. There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $12/1-hour class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Jon Bacon, 355-1818, crandalltyler@hotmail. com, dsantosvt.com. LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4week class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, firststepdance.com.

drumming DJEMBE & TAIKO: Classes in Burlington, Hyde Park and Montpelier. Drums provided. Classes for adults (also for kids with parents) Mon., Tue. & Wed. in Burlington. Wed. a.m. or Friday a.m. in Hyde Park. Thu. in Montpelier. Most classes are

in the evenings or after school. Conga classes, too! Visit our schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington; Capital City Grange, 6612 Rte. 12, Berlin; Moonlight Studios, 1670 Cleveland Corners Rd., Hyde Park. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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BEING IN MOVEMENT: ENHANCING POTENTIAL & EXPRESSION: These monthly workshops facilitate a lively interplay between inner connectivity and outer expressivity to enrich and embody your life and movement practice. April 7 session: Movement as Metaphor. Instructor: Sara McMahon. Fri., Apr. 7, 5:45-7:45 p.m. Cost: $25/ person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. IMPROVISATION LABORATORY: These intensives focus on improvisation skills and movement’s relationship to self, others and the elements of space and time. This series has received support from the University of Vermont Lattie F. Coor Endowment and the Humanities Center. Instructor: Lida Winfield. Sat., Apr. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $44/ one; $80/weekend. Location: UVM’s Mann Hall Gymnasium, 208 Colchester Ave., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. INTRO TO ACTING: Leave your inhibitions behind and join this supportive and freeing romp into your most spontaneous and truthful self. Learn theater exercises, improvisations, and an accessible way to approach theatrical text, in class, that can lead to greater confidence and ease of expression. Let’s begin to uncover the mysteries of the actor’s process and your own creative potential! Instructor: Alex Nicosia. Thu., Apr. 6-May 18, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $160/7 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. JUST MOVE! BODY, BREATH, & BEAT WITH SAKSHI KEETON: Just move! Inspired Dance is a free-form movement exploration unifying our innate body intelligence with beat, breath and space. Through this practice, participants are able to investigate who they are and how they move in the world, both literally and metaphorically as reflected through their spontaneous dance. No dance experience is necessary, just a desire to engage with yourself and just move! This two-week class can be taken individually or as a series. Fri., Mar. 24, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person. Location: Flynn

Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. LOOKING DEEPER: AN INTENSIVE FOR ADVANCED IMPROVISORS: These intensives at UVM are designed to support and strengthen the skills and community of practicing contemporary dancers and dance-makers. This series has received support from the University of Vermont Lattie F. Coor Endowment and the Humanities Center. Instructor: Susan Sgorbati. Sun., Apr. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: $44/one; $80/ weekend. Location: UVM’s Mann Hall Gymnasium, 208 Colchester Ave., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org. MUSIC TOGETHER WITH ALISON MOTT: Bring your babies to five-year olds and join Alison in singing, dancing and playing drums, bells, shakers and triangles. The whole family makes music together in these joyful classes, based on the recognition that all children are musical. Join a community of families sharing songs, instrument play, rhythm chants and movement in a relaxed, playful non-performance-oriented setting. Mon., Apr. 3-Jun. 12, 9:30-10:15 a.m. or 10:30-11:15 a.m. Cost: $136/10 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4548, flynnarts.org.

gardening HOW TO GROW MORE IN LESS: Gardening more efficiently in a smaller space makes sense not only to reduce your work, but also to grow more plants. Call or register online. Sat., Apr. 1, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $15/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply

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ABSTRACT PAINTING FOR TEXTILE ARTISTS: Instructor: Jane Davies. Become familiar with acrylic materials, techniques and composition in relation to how they may help in your textiles work. Tue.-Fri., Apr. 18-21, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $500/person; $475/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 2538358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com. MAKING YOUR BEST WORK: ABSTRACT PAINTING: Explore color relationships, composition and mark making with an eye towards making fresh, bold paintings that surprise and inspire us. Instructor: Galen Cheney. Sat., Mar. 25, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $125/person; $100/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com.

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ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children; they love it! Our 11th year. See our website or contact us for details. Starts Apr. 3-6. Cost: $225/10 weekly classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 5851025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, spanishwaterburycenter. com.

martial arts ACHIEVE YOUR POTENTIAL: Come to Wu Xing Chinese Martial Arts. Join other thoughtful, intelligent adults to learn and practice tai chi, kung fu, meditation and dynamic physical exercises. Maximize your mental tranquility and clarity, physical health and fitness, and self-confidence. For people who never thought this would be for them. Fri., 6-7 p.m. & 7-8 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-noon & noon-1 p.m.; Tue., 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $15/1-hour class; $50/mo. (incl. all classes offered); $5/trial class. Location: 303 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: 355-1301, info@ wxcma.com, wxcma.com. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a Martial Arts Combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy Seals, CIA, FBI, Military Police and Special Forces. No training experience required. Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid

them becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them thoroughout life. IBJJF & CBJJ Certified Black Belt 6th Degree Instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil! A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@ bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: This program teaches two forms of massage: amma and shiatsu. We will explore oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, yin yang and fiveelement theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. elementsofhealing.net. Begins Sep. 2017. Cost: $5,000/600-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@ elementsofhealing.net, elementsofhealing.net.

meditation 1/2-DAY MINDFULNESS MEDITATION RETREAT: A halfday meditation retreat led by Savitri Devi Dasi. The retreat will offer a guided somatic mindfulness practice to connect with the breath and physical body, walking meditations (inside and outside, weather permitting), and a special singing-drum offering by sound-healer Tim Danyliw of Vermont Singing Drum. Participants are asked to bring a cushion, blanket & something comfortable to lie on during their practice. All are most welcome regardless of their ability to donate for retreat cost. No experience necessary. Sat., Apr. 1, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $30/suggested donation. Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: 206-5579850, devi.dasi.savitri@gmail. com.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Shambhala Cafe (meditation and discussions) meets the first Saturday of each month, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house (intro to the center, short dharma talk and socializing) is held on the third Sunday of each month, noon-2 p.m. Instruction: Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Sessions: Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m., & Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org.

psychology INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK: Learn how to work with your dreams, connect to your inner life and empower yourself in a safe, supportive setting. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Apr. 4, 11& 25 & May 2, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org.

well-being HEALTHIER LIVING W/ PAIN: If you suffer from long-lasting (chronic) pain from an injury, surgery or health condition you are not alone. About 100 million Americans are living with chronic pain. That is more than are living with diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined! But there are many things you can do to manage your pain, and we can help. Learn ways to reduce pain, deal with related issues like having trouble sleeping and more. Family members and caregivers welcome, too. Six Wed., starts Apr. 26, 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. CD & Healthier Living w/ Pain book incl. Location: The Miller Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Court, Burlington. Info: UVM Medical Center, 847-2278, selfmanagement@uvmhealth. org.

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JUNG ON THE FATHER: Our experience of a father (or lack thereof) can color our whole lives, impact our careers, how we define success and how we relate to masculine energies. Learn why this is and how to work with your inner “father imago” in this course full of exercises, readings and discussions. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Apr. 12, 19, 26 & May 3; 7-9 p.m. Cost: $60/person. Location: Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 244-7909.

STRENGTH TRAINING AT UVM: Are you interested in strength and conditioning to gain overall physical fitness? UVM Campus Recreation’s Strength School offers professional coaching in a smaller, supportive group environment in our Women on Weights and our CatFit classes. They run in six-week sessions and meet twice a week. Schedule varies. Cost varies. One-hour classes meet twice a week for six weeks. Location: Athletic/Rec Complex at UVM, 97 Spear St., Burlington. Info: UVM Campus Recreation, 656-4485, campus.recreation@uvm.edu, go.uvm.edu/strengthschool.

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SURVIVE SPIRITUALLY IN OUR TIMES: As we face the many challenges in our lives today, how can we stay uplifted and keep a spiritual focus? This onehour workshop will explore how to keep a balanced perspective in stressful situations and learn simple spiritual exercises that can help us thrive spiritually in a changing world. Hosted by Eckankar. Tue., Mar. 28, 6:307:30 p.m. Location: Fletcher Free Library, 235 College Street, Burlington. Info: Eckankar of Vermont, 800-772-9390, eck. vermont@gmail.com, eckankarvt.org.

tai chi SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases

EVOLUTION YOGA: Evolution Yoga and Physical Therapy offers yoga classes for everyone from beginner to expert. Choose from a wide variety of drop-in classes, series and workshops in Vinyasa, Kripalu, Core, Gentle, Vigorous, Yoga on the Lake, Yoga Wall, Therapeutics and Alignment. Become part of our yoga community. You are welcome here. Cost: $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/ community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. HONEST YOGA: Honest yoga offers practices for all levels. We just expanded to have two practice spaces! Your children can practice in one room while you practice in the other. No need for childcare. Yoga and dance classes ages 3 months and up. Brand-new beginners’ course: This includes two specialty classes per week for four

weeks plus unlimited access to all classes. We have daily heated and alignment classes kids classes in yoga and dance, pre- and postnatal yoga. We hold yoga teacher trainings at the 200- and 500-hour levels, as well as children and dance teacher training courses. Daily classes & workshops. $50/new student (1 month unlimited); $18/class; $140/10-class card; $15/class for student or senior; or $110/10-class punch card; $135/mo. adult memberships; $99/mo. kid memberships. Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Hana, South Burlington. Info: 497-0136, honestyogastudio@ gmail.com, honestyogacenter. com. NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages. Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/ month and practice as often as you like! Daily. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. and 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Caitlin Pascucci, 448-4262, sanghastudiovt@gmail.com, info@sanghastudio.org. RAILYARD YOGA STUDIO: We are a studio committed to teaching the classical traditions of Kundalini Yoga and Dharma Yoga. Clearing Subconscious Kundalini Yoga Series with Sukhpran: Tue. in Mar., 7:15-8:45 p.m. Women’s

Teachings for Radiance, Health and Invincibility Workshop with Sukhpran: Sat., Apr. 15, 4-6 p.m. Kundalini Yoga (new time!): Thu., 7 p.m., with Mansukh. Dharma Yoga: Tue., 5:30 p.m., with Amy. Life Force Dance: Fri., 6-7 p.m., with Silvia. See website for schedule. Location: Railyard Yoga Studio, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: 318-6050, railyardyoga@gmail.com, railyardapothecary.com. WE RISE SERIES: The We Rise Series is designed to extract the roots of oppression from our hearts, minds, bodies and culture. Through a yogic lens, recognize how the forces of oppression manifest within us and begin the work to dismantle them. Together, let us move toward the liberation of all beings. Sun., Feb. 19, Mar. 12, Apr. 16, 9 a.m.-noon. Cost: $45/series; scholarships & sliding fees avail.; all are welcome. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Suite 126, Chace Mill, Burlington. Info: Emily Garrett, 343-8119, emily@laughingriveryoga.com, laughingriveryoga.com. YOGA TRAINING: VT, COSTA RICA: First, see the good. 200hour yoga teacher trainings. We offer both on-campus and international immersion trainings that are open to the community. Complete your training one weekend per month over a ninemonth period at UVM, OR enjoy two weeks in Costa Rica and two weeks in Vermont. Unveil your greatness. See website for schedule and details. Burlington location: Athletic/Rec Complex at UVM, 97 Spear St., Burlington. Info: UVM Campus Recreation, 656-4485, campus.recreation@ uvm.edu, go.uvm.edu/yoga.

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Once a cowboy, always a cowboy. Rick Norcross is Vermont’s go-to guy for the thigh-slapping sounds of Western swing. The Academy of Western Artists has nominated Norcross and his sextet, the All Star Ramblers Western Swing Band, multiple times at its annual awards. Norcross even took home the prize for Best Western Swing Song in 2015 for “You Can’t Make It Up.” Green Mountain Standard Time is his latest collection of Vermont-via-Lone-Star-State tunes. Traditional Western swing blends hillbilly country, Dixieland jazz and even polka with traditional swing. Norcross and co. are the local masters of tight, three-part harmonies, whirling organs, plucky accordion, bouncing bass lines and lots o’ strings. Included on the album’s nearly 40 minutes are both covers and originals. Norcross takes on Hank Williams’ novelty song “Fly Trouble” as well as fiddler contemporary Larry Franklin’s “Texoma Bound.” On the original songs, Norcross’ signature Western style melds seamlessly with iconic Vermont, often making hyper-local references that only a Vermonter would get. “Shelburne Yesterday” is an example. Norcross yearns for the days of yesteryear when his beloved Chittenden County life was simpler. Well, maybe not simpler, but more familiar. He recalls eating pickled eggs at the Shelburne Inn and Halloween shenanigans involving outhouse tipping on the Shelburne Green. “They Say You Can’t Take It With You (When You Go)” is a gospel-inspired number that turns the similarly phrased colloquialism on its head. According to Norcross, he can take it all with him, and he delivers a silly litany of items with which he plans to cross over. He sings, “I’m gonna take your burger flipper / I’m gonna take your rowboat skipper / I’m gonna take it with me when I go.”

Daniel Murphy is a Waterbury-based musician and producer. He’s a guitarist and vocalist for the world-beat, funk-centric band ONEoverZERO. He also recently opened the Logic Base, a brand-new recording studio in Waterbury. As his first project in the new digs, Murphy wrote, tracked and produced his first solo record, Feng Shui Croquet, which he released under the name Daniel Waterhouse. Throughout the album’s six tracks, Murphy delivers a blend of alternative rock that yearns for grunge’s heyday. A fondness for the Seattle sound echoes through every chunky guitar riff and languid hook. Vocally, he even recalls Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell. At other times, Murphy veers away from the flannelclad set, conjuring up a little bit of Beck in his delivery. “Oversoul,” the album’s flagship song, takes its name from the Ralph Waldo Emerson essay “The Over-Soul.” Conceptually, it’s about an omnipresent spirit that’s essentially the impetus of all creation. The song thumps by like a pep rally for existential enlightenment. A vocal ensemble rallies behind Murphy as it cries out over a slinky, unified guitar and bass line, “Light! Love! Grace! One! Might! Right! Truth!” Murphy pays tribute to a cavalcade of musicians, writers and philosophers on “My Friends (That I’ll Never Know).” He namedrops Bob Marley, Henry David Thoreau, Chuck D, the Dalai Lama and Kurt Cobain — just to name a few. He plays around with an unflashy, basic four-chord song structure, allowing his idols and their various ideals to take center stage. The opening cut, “Melt Away,” is all mood and atmosphere. It’s as sparsely composed as it is eerily produced. Heavily plucked guitar and bass underscore Murphy’s lament, “Don’t live what I dream / Don’t think what I say / Can’t help but feel / My essence is betrayed.”

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Feng Shui Croquet (Self-released, CD, digital download)

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in the middle of making, say, scrambled eggs, when you took a look at your whisk and thought, I bet I could make a pretty rad noise album with this. We’re not sure if that was the train of thought that led Subversive Intentions’ maestro Nick Dentico to begin experimenting with kitchen utensils. But it’s our working theory for now. Dentico, a musical nomad who called Maine home before recently settling in Middlesex, has been experimenting with “bowed whisk” since at least 2013. On his latest release, Every Sound Is a Drone, he scrambles found sound with stainless steel kitchenware, resulting in an eerie, ethereal half hour of ambient noise. It’s a fascinating, if challenging, listen. Released on the boutique Brooklyn, N.Y., cassette label Zero Sum Recordings, the tape consists of two side-length movements. Each totals precisely 14 minutes and 54 seconds. Side A, “giving in to our autocratic robot masters,” opens on three minutes of an unidentifiable circular noise that resembles marbles rolling around on an uneven floor. Eventually, this hypnotic sound is joined by a resonant, synth-like swell and what might be loon calls. Dentico’s alternately soft and steely textures vie for space, ebbing and flowing with a curious synchronicity, though the inorganic sounds — our robot masters, presumably — ultimately dominate the soundscape. Side B, “the branches that fell in the shrubs,” continues the push and pull between natural and unnatural clamor. It’s a darker, more ominous composition, flecked with almost inaudible crowd noises that ripple beneath a sheen of warped sirens and alarms. It’s unsettling, as much for the vagueness of its opaque sounds as the vagueness of the shifting emotions it evokes.

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Every Sound Is a Drone (Zero Sum Recordings, cassette, digital download)

Green Mountain Standard Time (Airflyte Records, CD, digital download)

ONE OF THE BLESSINGS OF OUR LOCAL MUSIC SCENE is its sheer magnitude and bounty. It’s also a curse. Seven Days receives so many album submissions that we often don’t find space to review everything that crosses our path in a timely fashion. But our mission is to get through everything that comes across the music desk. No matter what. Here are four local albums that maybe flew under your radar. Some represent the outermost boundaries of local music. Others simply slipped through the cracks. All are worthy of your attention.

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DEAR LORD, PHASE US (Self-released, digital download) Since 2014, Plattsburgh’s Our Holy Orgasmic Cosmic Rays have been building to … something. Each of the band’s first three albums suggested that a larger diabolical plan for world domination was afoot. The deliciously fucked-up Phase One fired the first warning shot. Phase Two and Phase Three followed, naturally, ratcheting up the intensity — and volume — in increasingly unhinged measures. The anti-supergroup’s latest and most brazenly bizarre release, DEAR LORD, PHASE US, represents the band’s long-awaited, full-frontal assault on humanity. And ears. And sanity. As with OHOCR’s previous works, DEAR LORD is not a particularly pleasant or easy listen. But, like a bad 1950s sci-fi flick, it has certain undeniable charms. Front man Christopher “Tex Rex” Ribzbee preaches degenerate poetry with frightening derangement — imagine Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs leading a noise band. His bandmates indulge his mania with a gleeful frenzy of their own, often evoking lowbudget sci-fi sound effects amid the lunatic stomp and crunch of guitars, drums and the occasional death ray. DEAR LORD diverges from OHOCR’s earlier works in that it doesn’t solely rely on punishing noise to enslave listeners — though there is plenty of teeth-rattling cacophony, such as in “Sand in His Butthole.” Instead, the band takes a softer, almost nuanced approach on cuts such as the oddly serene “Mosquito Requiem” and the goofily robotic “GO!” This suggests OHOCR has achieved something close to artistic sentience, which might be the most terrifying thing of all.

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With a music community as tightly knit as Burlington’s, it’s not absurd to think that any long-established artists who populate the same musical solar system would’ve performed together at one point or another. But that is not always the case. Take pianist TOM CLEARY and mandolin virtuoso JAMIE MASEFIELD. Both are longstanding heavy hitters in Vermont’s music scene. Yet they have never played

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punks TEENCAT, New Hampshire-based transgender alt-punkers CHODUS, and a buttload of others. Also rallying for Planned Parenthood this week are the house and techno DJs of Burlington-based collective MITTELTÖNER. On Saturday, March 25, DJs VETICA, SIR ALEC JEFFRIES and OD3 hold latenight court at Radio Bean with a benefit called “For Your Health! A Benefit in Support of Planned Parenthood.” Along with special guest DJs MFNELSON and AIR, they join forces with Light Club Lamp Shop resident DJ TAKA for a complete takeover. They’ve even given the two venues fancy designations. LCLS becomes the Disco Lounge, while the Bean takes the title of the Groove Room. And make sure to pop in between the venues at ¡Duino! (Duende) for raffles, games and swag.

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Ever since the current presidential administration took office — that is, when our nation began its descent into Mad Max-style chaos — we’ve seen an outpouring of benefit concerts for various causes under threat of defunding and even extinction. Planned Parenthood continues to be a popular beneficiary, as it’s one of the most publically embattled organizations in the nation. With that in mind, you might consider hopping on Bandcamp and downloading the new compilation record We Stand With Each Other. Vermont expat SARA JEAN LARSSON GREENBERG (WASH YOUR HANDS) spearheaded and organized the comp. The 18-track collection is bursting with regional artists, several of whom are Vermont based or familiar in the local scene. The album is an eclectic mix of sounds and styles, ranging from lo-fi folk to experimental pop to hardcore. All proceeds go to support Planned Parenthood.

Repping Vermont is Windsor-based rock band the PILGRIMS, who contribute “Barely Alive” from their most recent record, No Focus. DEREK AND THE DEMONS, who also hail from Windsor, add their bluesy, laid-back rock number “Crack in the Cosmic Egg” from 2016’s Rite of Passage. Then there’s Ludlow-based artist MAXWELL DYSOBEY, the “one-human band” JAGWEED. He provides an ultra-timely, eerily appropriate cover of YIP HARBURG and JAY GORNEY’s Depressionera anthem, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” He turns the classic tune into a freak-folk slow burn, which comes from his EP, Sing for Yr Supper. Bradford punks BE AGGRESSIVE! add “Ca$ual Fa$ci$m,” their brisk and scathing indictment of, well, everybody’s most hated form of government. The track stems from their most recent EP, WHOA! It…Is What It Is. Also included are tracks from BICHAEL NO and BEASTMEATS, two side projects from members of CARTON and the Pilgrims. Other regional contributors include upstate New York rockers ASA MORRIS AND THE MESS and indie

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free. Riles Smiles (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., free. Charming Disaster (folk-noir), 8 p.m., free. Jen Kearney (soul, funk), 9 p.m., free. OSteel (soca, calypso), 10 p.m., $5-10. Grumpus (rock), midnight, free.

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CITIZEN CIDER: Brett Hughes (country), 6 p.m., free. THE DAILY PLANET: Tim McKenzie (folk), 8 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE: Zach Rhoads (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., free. Dave Grippo’s Funktet (funk), 7 p.m., $5. Craig Mitchell (house, hits), 11 p.m., $5.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Ciarra Fragale (indie folk), 9:30 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (hits), 10 p.m., $5. RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Josh Dobbs (experimental), 7 p.m., free. DJ Dakota (hits), 10 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free. Soule Indomitable, Soule Monde (funk, jazz), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Steady Betty (reggae, rocksteady), 9 p.m., $5. THE TAP ROOM AT SWITCHBACK BREWING: Troy Millette and Dylan Gomas (folk), 6 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The County Down (traditional Irish), 7:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Todd Barry (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

RADIO BEAN: Sophie Patenaude (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Emma Cook & the Beat (folkrock), 8 p.m., free. Cooper Smith, Comrade Nixon, Eric George (punk, folk), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (hits), 8 p.m., free. DJ David Chief, 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: AliT (folk), 7 p.m., free. Good Morning Gils (indie), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Laughter for Learning: Stern Center Benefit (improv), 7 & 8:30 p.m., $10-25.

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things grisly and ghoulish. Their songs tell tales of dastardly secretaries, paranormal romances and creepy carnival performers, with frequent references to murder, mayhem and the supernatural — albeit with a whimsical, lighthearted attitude. The pair keeps things simple with just ukulele and guitar, though their performances are known for theatrical panache. A 2014 episode of the oddball podcast “Welcome to Night Vale” featured their darkly sweet love song, “Ghost Story.” Their new album, Cautionary Tales, is out in April. Charming Disaster perform on Friday, March 24, at Radio Bean in Burlington.

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JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Bluegrass Jam Session, 7 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation. WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

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MOOGS PLACE: Christine Malcolm (folk), 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bow Thayer (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Homeshake, Ryan Power, Bleach Day (indie), 8 p.m., $12/14. THE DAILY PLANET: Cooper & Lavoie (folk), 8 p.m., free. DRINK: BLiNDoG Records Acoustic Sessions, 5 p.m., free. Art Herttua and Ray Carroll (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: David Johnston (blues, jazz), 8 p.m., free. Navytrain (neo-Americana), 10:30 p.m., $5-10. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: The Original Q (rock, funk), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Primate Fiasco (jam), 9:30 p.m., $2/5. 18+.

Band (rock, soul), 7 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Folks up in Tree Tops (funk), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Matt Flinner Trio (acoustic), 8 p.m., $5. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Short Jam (improv), 6 p.m., free. Laughter for Learning: Stern Center Benefit (improv), 7 & 8:30 p.m., $10-25.

chittenden county BACKSTAGE PUB: Trivia, 9:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Third Shift (rock, jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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PHO NGUYEN: Karaoke with DJ Walker, 8 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: John Lackard Solo Blues, 6 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: Rob Benton (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Miss Jubilee’s Curious Bingo Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: The Green Mountain Boys (folk), 6:30 p.m., free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. The Dan Ryan Express (jazz), 11 p.m., $5-10.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Dave Langevine (ragtime), 6 p.m., donation.

RED SQUARE: Robin Gottfried

WHAMMY BAR: Friedland and Richard (blues, classic rock), 7 p.m., free.

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MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: Dale & Darcy Cahill (folk, bluegrass), 7 p.m., free. Open Mic & Jam Session, 9 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic with Allen Church, 8:30 p.m., free.

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BIG PICTURE THEATER AND CAFÉ: Bruce Sklar and Jeremy Hill (jazz), 7 p.m., free. GREEN MOUNTAIN LOUNGE AT MOUNT ELLEN: Seth Yacovone and Alex Budney (blues, rock), 2:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Off the Rails (bluegrass), 7 p.m., free.

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BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: James Harvey (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: The Medallions (disco, funk), 9 p.m., $10. FOAM BREWERS: ONE over ZERO (funk, hip-hop), 8 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Soule Monde (funk), 9 p.m., free.

JUNIPER: Eric George (folk), 9 p.m., free.

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lauren Dabkowski (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Famous Letter Writer (rock, New Wave), 9:30 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Throttle Thursdays with DJ Gold (hits), 9 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: DJ Stevie B (hits), 9 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom PARKER PIE CO.: Ira Friedman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

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OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry, 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Mal Maiz (Cumbia), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: Supersounds DJ (top 40), 10 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m.,

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Johnny A. (instrumental rock, blues), 8 p.m., $25/30. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Coon Hill John (folk, rock), 7 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Shane’s Apothecary (rock), 5 p.m., free. The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Red Hot Juba (jazz, blues), 7:30 p.m., free.

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CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Julia Kate Davis (folk), 6 p.m., free. Parakeets (doo-wop, pysch-rock), 9 p.m., free. ESPRESSO BUENO: Bueno Comedy Showcase (standup), 8:30 p.m., free. LA PUERTA NEGRA: Joe Moore (jazz), 6 p.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., donation. WHAMMY BAR: Big Hat No Cattle (Western swing), 7 p.m., free.

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MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: Dr. No (funk, rock), 9 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: Chris Lyon (solo acoustic), 6 p.m., free. John Lackard Blues Band, 9 p.m., free. RUSTY NAIL: After Work Jam with DJ Pablo (dance), 8 p.m., $5.

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ZENBARN: Cricket Blue, Gillian Grogan (folk), 8 p.m., $10 donation.

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CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Amanda Rock (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

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Speaking of Waking Windows, did y’all see the full lineup announcement? Holy crap! If you weren’t already sold, you will be. Unless you’re a music-hating monster. You know how festival lineup posters have the artists separated into particular groupings that designate some kind of hierarchy? And you know how music blogs like to dissect said groupings and speculate about the politics surrounding where a given band winds up on the poster? Well, I think that’s kind of dumb, so I won’t subject you to it. I will, however, point out a few key additions that weren’t part of the initial lineup earlier this year. One of the newly added artists that I’m personally excited about is New York City’s TEEN, an all-female band consisting of three sisters, TEENY, LIZZIE and KATHERINE LIEBERSON, as well as BOSHRA ALSAADI. This synth-heavy pop quartet was meant to play Burlington in early 2016, but the show was unfortunately canceled. Anyone who’s keen about TEEN should be psyched at getting another chance to see them. The WW crew also revealed the remainder of the fest’s special showcases, which now includes Metal Monday, AF Tapes, No Chill with ANNIE RUSSELL Live, comedy featuring DAVE HILL, New Americans Music, a college

Battle of the Bands, local hip-hop and a showcase featuring artists from Portland, Maine. This was, of course, in addition to showcases from NNA Tapes, Blue Skies Turn Black, Dull Tools, Friends + Family and Signals. Untitled-4 Once WW announces day-by-day lineups and daily schedules, I’ll be taking a fine-tooth comb to the fest. You know how music blogs like to point out tough choices festivalgoers will have to make when two bands with similar appeal are scheduled at the same time? I actually like it when they do that, so I’ll take a stab as the festival draws nearer.

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We’d like to bid adieu to local experimental music maker KEVIN BLOOM. He recently announced on Facebook that he’s making the move in May to Portland, Maine. Bloom is known for his analog tape/ experimental psychedelic project, KEVIN BLOOM & THE STATIC CIRCUS, as well as for being a champion of Burlington’s DIY scene. He recently unveiled his newest project, the DEAD SHAKERS, which also features NINA CIFFOLILLO. Though Bloom’s time in Burlington has come to an end, I have a feeling he’ll be making

appearances in the Green Mountains from time to time. For instance, about a week after he moves to Maine. The Dead Shakers play the AF Tapes showcase at this year’s Waking Windows.

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together, despite having known each other for 25 years. The two recently discovered they were both part of a “mutual admiration society,” so they’re teaming up for “The Tom and Jamie Show,” a special concert experience on Saturday, March 25, at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington. The duo promises to “take piano and mandolin to places yet to be discovered,” according to a press release. They plan to play new originals by both artists, as well as some deep cuts from their respective back catalogs. Also, expect a bunch of cool covers from artists such as NEIL YOUNG, BRIAN WILSON and RALPH TOWNER. Cleary’s wife, jazz vocalist AMBER DELAURENTIS, makes a special appearance. PS: Masefield also plays the Light Club Lamp Shop on Thursday, March 30, with his trio, MASEFIELD, PERKINS & BOLLES.

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PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Steal the Sky (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee, Mary Lattimore (indie), 8 p.m., $15. FOAM BREWERS: Jack Schroeder and Friends (folk), noon, free. THE GRYPHON: Linda Oats and Shane Hardiman (jazz), 6:30 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9:30 p.m., free/$3. 18+.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Supernatural (rock), 9 p.m., free. FARNHAM ALE & LAGER: Coon Hill John (folk, rock), 6 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Welterweights, Ellen Degenerates (rock), 8 p.m., $10/12. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Old Tone String Band (Americana), 7 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: Carraway (rock, pop-punk), 8:30 p.m., $3/8. 18+.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Ted Crosby (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: The Duo (rock), 5 p.m., free. Last Kid Picked (rock), 9 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Paint: A Drag Cabaret Presents ‘Snatched’, 9 p.m., $10/15.

CLUB METRONOME: Green Mountain Cabaret Presents: A Sequined Menagerie (burlesque), 7 p.m., $15/20. Retronome With DJ Fattie B (’80s dance party), 9 p.m., free/$5.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): The Fantastic Partnerz (rock), 8:30 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ellen Siberian Tiger, Cricket Blue (indie rock), 8 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Todd Barry (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

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prolific musicians find time to form a new band? They’re rock stars, duh. Known as the WELTERWEIGHTS, this rock-and-roll quartet features

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Steve Hartman (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free.

singer-songwriters Kelly Ravin, Lowell Thompson and Erin Cassels-

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Willoughby Morse. The band operates as a co-op and collectively

JUNIPER: Lowell Thompson (altcountry), 9 p.m., free.

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Ghost Guest (indie folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Zetizen (world fusion), 9:30 p.m., free. Taka (vinyl DJ), 11 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Light Crusher (metal), 9 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Ronald Reggae (rock, soul), 10 p.m., free.

MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX: 66 City Band (’60s rock), 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: UVM Battle of the Bands (rock), 4 p.m., free. Naughty Professor, Rumblecat (future-funk, blues), 9 p.m., $7.

MOOGS PLACE: Run for the Roses (rock, jam), 9 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Sarah Griffin (singersongwriter), 11 a.m., free. Paddy Reagan (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Footings (blues, folk), 6 p.m., free. Rose Street Collective (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. Soggy Po’ Boys (jazz), 10 p.m., $5-10.

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RUSTY NAIL: The Full Cleveland (yacht rock), 8 p.m., $8.

GREEN MOUNTAIN LOUNGE AT MOUNT ELLEN: Womack’s Friends (blues), 3 p.m., free.

Brown, as well as Future Fields producer and Madaila guitarist interprets each of its three songwriters’ material with a burly, lovelorn sound. For a sneak peek, check out the band’s performance on Vermont Public Radio’s in-studio music series, “Live From the Fort.” Catch the Welterweights on Saturday, March 25, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington. Locals ELLEN DEGENERATES open.

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE: In the Pocket (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free. CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: City Limits Dance Party with DJ Earl (top 40), 9:30 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Jam Man Entertainment (hits), 9 p.m., free.

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PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Steal the Sky (rock), 8 p.m., free.

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RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free. Old Sky Country Band with Andrew Stearns and Shay Gestal (Americana, bluegrass), 4 p.m., free. Acorns Are YUM, Juliet K, Sabine Hollar (lounge, groove), 6 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Comedy Showcase, 8:30 p.m., free. Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters (Americana), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Golden Pousset and Organic Mommy Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, $5-10 donation. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Hi Mom! (improv), 6:30 p.m., $5. Slinky Says Relax (improv), 8 p.m., free.

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HEALTHY LIVING MARKET & CAFÉ: Guitar Jazz Brunch, 11 a.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: The Districts, Eric Slick (of Dr. Dog), Rosu Lup (indie rock), 8 p.m., $13/15.

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SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 7 p.m., donation.

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MOOGS PLACE: Dan Hatheway (solo acoustic), 6 p.m., free.

TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Chris and Erica (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., free.

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MONOPOLE: Lord Electro (live electronica), 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Troy Millette and Dylan Gombas (folk), 7 p.m., free. Dave Villa (hits), 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

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RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (hits), 6 p.m., $5. DJ Reign One (EDM), 11 p.m., $5.

SMITTY’S PUB: The Hubcats (rock, folk), 8 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Matt Flinner Trio (acoustic), 8 p.m., $10/12.

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RED SQUARE: Shrimptunes (rock), 5 p.m., free. Radio Flamingo (rock covers), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (hip-hop), 11 p.m., $5.

MONOPOLE: Electric Love Machine (psychedelic), 10 p.m., free.

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: All Request Night with DJ Skippy (hits), 10 p.m., free.

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The discovery of a loose tooth is cause for celebration — if you’re 5 years old and it’s a baby tooth. But a wiggly permanent tooth is quite the opposite. It’s like something out of a nightmare, and a fairly common one at that. A quick perusal of any of those dubious dream analysis websites yields the same answer: If you’re dreaming of loose teeth, it’s indicative of insecurity, guilt or a general sense of instability. And for Burlington’s Clever Girls, any of those feelings could be culled from their heartbreaking debut EP, Loose Tooth. Clever Girls, a countrified rock band, pepper their sound with elements of gritty garage rock and even a little grunge. It’s only been a year since they played their first show, making them relatively

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impressive drum work from Slater. He deftly reinvents the song’s percussive palette several times throughout the song’s two and a half minutes. The EP’s opening cut, “Tell Me No,” is a twangy, moderately paced stomper. Holt’s lead guitar line rumbles and roils between Jean’s depiction of nearobsessive fixation on a sweetheart: “You’re every movie that I’ve seen / And my eyes are still glued right to your screen / Oh, babe / I’m at the edge of my seat.” Holt’s low and steady bass line introduces “45,” a stark slow jam that detonates into a surging chorus and nearly obliterates Jean’s cries. During a moment of respite from what sounds like a tense domestic situation, she wisely notes, “Nothing’s forgiving like time.” Loose Tooth is a promising start for Clever Girls, though, at roughly 15 minutes, it’s a tease. But here’s some good news: The band already has plans to head back into the studio later this spring. We’ll be waiting patiently. Loose Tooth is available at clevergirlsmusic.bandcamp.com.

The second track, “Perfect Crime,” is a slow, atmospheric space jam from DJ Hakal and an album highlight. Eyedos scales down the volume but maintains energy, and the result is compelling. It also sets the bar for a project full of surprises. The rapper hasn’t toned down the content. But this is a much more mature — and musical — album than expected. The cover and title are a nod to Sean Price’s 2005 album, Monkey Barz. But the influences and references don’t stop there. Eyedos draws from Outkast as much as Wu-Tang Clan, and his chopping delivery — and limbhacking imagery — owe a lot to Brotha Lynch Hung and Tech N9ne’s speed-rap nightmares. Mostly self-recorded, Guerrilla Bars is both an artistic statement and a professional product. Eyedos builds from a classic blueprint for a proper rap LP. There’s a killer posse cut, a ballad about the past, a political manifesto, even a lyrical club anthem. This could have come out on Rawkus Records in ’99.

The high-profile guest appearances hail from that same era, including C-Rayz Walz and Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples. To top it off, there’s even a track with Kool G Rap, “Gun Smoke,” which is a radio-ready banger about … well, exactly what you think. No surprises there. For all his newfound subtlety, Eyedos spends most of Guerrilla Bars snarling detailed threats over huge, loud beats. Yet shock rap in 2017 has become a flat circle, a subculture where notorious cannibals and famous atrocities are referenced alongside Drew Carey and Skeletor. (Skeletor actually comes up a lot.) So, the real news is the melodic creativity and budding studio savvy Eyedos brings to bear. His polished hooks — especially on “Gun Smoke,” “American Angster” and “Something to Say” — are a world apart from his previous work with Jynx Inc. Are those touches enough to keep Guerrilla Bars interesting? Your mileage may vary. There is much to offend here, and it’s an understatement to say the album isn’t for everyone. It is a solid debut effort, though, and establishes Eyedos as a major new local voice — severed heads and all. Guerrilla Bars by Eyedos is available at eyedos.bandcamp.com.

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Serial killing, drug binges and death camps are not topics that come up when you think about Vermont hip-hop. Buckle up, though. All are touchstones on Guerrilla Bars, the debut album from Eyedos, a Burlington rapper keen to carve his own lane. Eyedos has been a longtime member of Jynx Inc., the local horror-core rap purists who honor the legacy of underground legends such as Jedi Mind Tricks and Non Phixion. These guys ain’t Juggalos, in other words. Guerrilla Bars is an earnestly traditional hip-hop project. But it presents a vibe that’s much more Fight Club mosh pit than Afrika Bambaataa block party. Throughout the album, Eyedos displays serious growth. He comes off as a much more confident, capable rapper than ever before. The difference is clear early on.

new on the Burlington scene. Singersongwriter Diane Jean fronts the trio and plays rhythm guitar. 1881’s Rob Slater and Winfield Holt round out the group, dividing drum, bass, keys and lead guitar between them. Jean is the group’s primary songwriter and sole lyricist. The EP chronicles her experiences of making poor decisions, as well as both inflicting and encountering pain. Her vocal confidence and quirky outlook buoy the record’s five tracks, never once slipping into diaristic monotony. “Crazy” is an ambling country waltz that finds Jean debating context and its effect on an array of stimuli. Her indelible belt occasionally quivers as she reaches the peak of her vocal range. She croons, “It ain’t autumn / Unless you see the leaves / It ain’t heartbreak unless we’re both a bit crazy.” Slater’s bed of organ ushers the song into a gentle fade. The title track is a hip-shaking alt-country number that features some

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THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free.

Whole-Hearted When she’s not contributing keys and vocals to the New

Jersey-based rock band Pinegrove, Nandi Rose Plunkett makes electronic music under the name HALF WAIF. Her most recent EP, form/a, is an assemblage of songs that combine elegant

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LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 8 p.m., free. Joey Pizza Slice Film Night ‘panned & scanned’, 11 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

vocal harmonies, ambient atmospherics and driving synths. Hints of Celtic melodies and a New Age sheen float atop a heavy R&B influence. Her music simultaneously positions her as an avant-garde enigma and a full-force pop star. Fans of Austra and Susanne Sundfør are advised to add Half Waif to their regular rotation. Half Waif takes the stage on Wednesday, March 29, at ArtsRiot in Burlington. HOAN and locals IVAMAE open.

NECTAR’S: The 2017 StrangeCreek Battle of the Bands Regional Finals, 8 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Beula Land Gospel Quartet, 7 p.m., free. Joe Adler (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Open Jazz Session with Rose Street Collective, 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Open Mic, 9:30 p.m., free.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Chicano Batman, 79.5, Sadgirl (rock, Tropicália), 7:30 p.m., $12/15. MONKEY HOUSE: Kelly Ravin (country), 6 p.m., free. Motown Mondays (Motown DJs), 8 p.m., free/5. 18+.

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LOUNGE: Bear Grillz, Terravita, Pogman, Wooli (EDM), 8 p.m., $12/15.

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free.

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PHAT KAT’S TAVERN: Jay Natola (solo guitar), 9 p.m., free.

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THE GRYPHON: P’tit Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Tamara Hansson (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: SONA (rock, soul), 9:30 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Troy Millette and Friends (folk), 7:30 p.m., free. Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 p.m., $3/5.18+. RADIO BEAN: Open Mic with Eric George, 7 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Eric George & Friends, 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 7 p.m., free. DJ Aras (dance), 8 p.m., free. Pop Rap Dance Party, 10 p.m., free.

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SIDEBAR: Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Tiki Tuesday with the Full Cleveland (yacht rock), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

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ARTSRIOT: Half Waif, Hoan, Ivamae (electronic), 8:30 p.m., $10/12.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Standup Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. The Best! (standup), 8:45 p.m., free.

CITIZEN CIDER: Brett Hughes (country), 6 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

THE DAILY PLANET: Chris Page and Collin Cope (blues, soul), 8 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: DJ Jessbro Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Mike Martin (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: Open Mic, 7 p.m., donation.

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Tom Pearo with Dave DeCristo and Shay Gestal (acoustic, ambient jazz), 9 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Cal Stanton (solo acoustic), 7:30 p.m., free.

middlebury area

HATCH 31: Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk), 6 p.m., free. Kelly Ravin and Lowell Thompson (country), 7 p.m., free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Karaoke with Roots Entertainment, 9 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Jazz & Fondue, 7 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Hannah Fair (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation. WHAMMY BAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Jeanne & Jim (Americana), 8 p.m., free.

middlebury area

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free.

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Vinyl Night with DJ Disco Phantom (vinyl DJs), 6 p.m., free. Soule Indomitable, Soule Monde (funk, jazz), 9:30 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free. Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., free.

RÍ RÁ THE IRISH LOCAL & WHISKEY ROOM: The County Down (traditional Irish), 7:30 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: NoMad Stories (tribal, jazz), 7 p.m., free. Melanie Sraka-Chaunce (of the Siren and the Waves) (jazz), 9 p.m., free. Who Loves You, Ouzkxqlzn, Teenage Halloween, Sleeping Ing (rock), 10:30 p.m., free. RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (hits), 8 p.m., free. DJ David Chief, 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Bison, Gutherie Galileo, Orange Julians (disco-punk), 10 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

PARKER PIE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Bow Thayer (folk-rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

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STOWE/SMUGGS AREA

CLAIRE’S RESTAURANT & BAR, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053 CORK WINE BAR & MARKET OF STOWE, 35 School St., Stowe, 760-6143 MARTELL’S AT THE RED FOX, 87 Edwards Rd., Jeffersonville, 644-5060 MATTERHORN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198 MOOGS PLACE, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225 PIECASSO PIZZERIA & LOUNGE, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411 RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593 THE RUSTY NAIL, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245 STOWEHOF INN, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722 SUSHI YOSHI, 1128 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4135

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51 MAIN AT THE BRIDGE, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 3888209 BAR ANTIDOTE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555 CITY LIMITS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919 HATCH 31, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774 TOURTERELLE, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy., New Haven, 453-6309 TWO BROTHERS TAVERN LOUNGE & STAGE, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002

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HOP’N MOOSE BREWERY CO., 41 Center St., Rutland 775-7063 PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB, Killington Rd., Killington, 4223035

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Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909 SNOW SHOE LODGE & PUB, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456 TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405

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BREAKING GROUNDS, 245 Main St., Bethel, 392-4222

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NORTHEAST KINGDOM

BIG JAY TAVERN, 3709 Mountain Rd., Montgomery, 326-6688 COLATINA EXIT, 164 Main St., Bradford, 222-9008 JASPER’S TAVERN, 71 Seymour La., Newport, 334-2224 MARTELL’S AT THE FOX, 87 Edwards Rd., Jeffersonville, 644-5060 MUSIC BOX, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533 PARKER PIE CO., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366 PHAT KATS TAVERN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064 THE PUB OUTBACK, 482 Vt. 114, East Burke, 626-1188 THE STAGE, 45 Broad St., Lyndonville, 427-3344 TAMARACK GRILL, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7390

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MONOPOLE, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222 NAKED TURTLE, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. OLIVE RIDLEY’S, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200 PALMER ST. COFFEE HOUSE, 4 Palmer St., Plattsburgh, N.Y. 518-561-6920 THE SKINNY PANCAKE, 3 Lebanon St., Hanover, N.H., 603-277-9115

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BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ, 28 Main St., Montpelier, 229-9212 CAPITAL GROUNDS CAFÉ, 27 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800 CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820 ESPRESSO BUENO, 248 N. Main St., Barre, 479-0896 GUSTO’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919 KISMET, 52 State St., Montpelier, 223-8646 LA PUERTA NEGRA, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 613-3172 MULLIGAN’S IRISH PUB, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545 NORTH BRANCH CAFÉ, 41 State St., Montpelier, 552-8105 POSITIVE PIE, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453 RED HEN BAKERY + CAFÉ, 961 US Route 2, Middlesex, 223-5200 THE SKINNY PANCAKE, 89 Main St., Montpelier, 262-2253 SWEET MELISSA’S, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 225-6012 THREE BEAN CAFÉ, 22 Pleasant St., Randolph, 728-3533 WHAMMY BAR, 31 W. County Rd., Calais, 229-4329

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omophobia: It sounds like a fear of not existing, of being “no more.” The term is actually an abbreviation for “no-mobile-phone-phobia” — that is, the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The condition was first recognized in 2010, but debate persists about whether nomophobia is more accurately considered a form of anxiety disorder. Meanwhile, the phenomenon can be witnessed everywhere in industrialized nations — and on the walls of Studio Place Arts in Barre. In “#nomophobia,” Montpelier artist James Secor undercuts the fear with his exhibit of 30 small paintings and 52 selfies, each of the latter the size and shape of a cellphone. In his world, the cellphone is ubiquitous but disarming — even charming. Like a punk rocker performing “unplugged,” Secor turns off his mobile phone and repurposes it for his process of “recording” himself with the simplest of tools: paper and pencil. Born in Kentucky, Secor graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., in 2010. He moved to Montpelier two years later and has been actively creating and showing his work ever since. Secor divides his exhibit in two sections: Documenting (“Selfie Series”) and Paintings. The “Selfie Series” needs no introduction as viewers enter

WHILE DOCUMENTING OUR CULTURAL FIXATION, SECOR IS BOTH PARTICIPANT AND OBSERVER,

CONNECTING TO THE LARGER PHENOMENON THROUGH HIS OWN PHONE AND HIS ART.

SPA’s second-floor gallery. Actually a series of short halls interrupted by doorways to artist studios, the space is less than ideal for an exhibit. But in this case, the small works benefit from close quarters. The series appears in two groups of two horizontal rows each. One contains 20 cellphone selfies, the other 32. Secor made these pencil drawings, mostly self-portraits, using his reflective cellphone screen as a mirror. Many of the drawings depict the phone’s external features — the on/off button, the tiny speaker at the top, the back button, etc. Secor’s understated humor is part and parcel of the tiny works’ appeal. These are by no means hyperrealistic drawings. They are thick, dark lines on pieces of paper — sometimes loose, sometimes more precise. They are scratchy scrawls. The lines create shadows under the self-portrait’s eyes, beside the nose, below the mouth. They are wonderful. Neither these pictures nor their inspiration are gimmicky, despite what the title might lead some viewers to expect. Secor uses the terminology of digital culture and examines the 21st-century reflex of looking down at phones. He doesn’t judge it; he simply captures it. While documenting our cultural fixation, he is both participant and observer, connecting to the larger phenomenon through his own phone and his art. Many of Secor’s paintings are derived from memory, such as

Images from the “Selfie Series”

recollections of playing baseball as a kid in his family’s backyard, and abstracted in acrylic on paper, board or canvas. Some of these are partially imagined, based on fleeting “memories of a city on a river or boats in a harbor,” as Secor notes in his artist statement. The two largest paintings on exhibit, “Great Lakes” and “Charles de Gaulle (Roissy)” (about 20 by 17 and 24 by 30 inches, respectively), are described as “compositions translated from internet-based maps.” Both of these works are acrylic on canvas; all but a few of Secor’s smaller acrylic works are on 9-by-12-inch paper. The works in Secor’s “Townscapes” series were conceived as aerial-view

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paintings in which “objects and people look convincing,” he writes in his artist statement. Sometimes done monochromatically, as in the case of “Greypelier,” the paintings are reminiscent of Gerhard Richter’s late-’60s “Townscapes.” The German artist sourced his images from aerial photographs and painted them in grayscale using inexpensive exterior paint. The resulting abstraction of Richter’s paintings hovers between evoking a fully realized city and the aftermath of a bombed one. Although a few of Secor’s paintings lean toward gray, his color palette hews

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‘THE COLOR OF LIGHT’: Seeking submissions of works in oil, acrylic and watercolor by emerging and established artists (ages 18 and older) from the New England states, plus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Works selected by jurors Claudia Fiks and Andrea Rosen will be included in a June exhibition. Works must be ready for professional display and ready to hang, and all accepted works must be for sale. Cash prizes will be awarded: $1,000 for best in show, $500 for second place and $250 for third. For details, guidelines and submission form, visit edgewatergallery-vt.com/juriedshow2017. Deadline: April 3. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, Middlebury. $20 per entry; up to three entries per artist. Info, 989-7419.

“#nomophobia” by James Secor, on view through April 15 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. studioplacearts.com

GREEN STATE GARDENER MURAL: Seeking artist proposals for an outdoor mural in Burlington’s South End. The selected artist will receive $8,500 for time, materials and installation costs. For details and to submit, visit burlingtoncityarts.org and look for “Green State Gardener RFP” in the Exhibitions tab. Deadline: March 31. Green State Gardener, Burlington. Info, 865-5356. ‘INTIMATE PORTRAITS’: Seeking portrait photography that reveals aspects of the subject that usually remain hidden, for an upcoming exhibition to be juried by Joyce Tenneson. All capture methods and processes are welcome. Deadline: March 27. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $35 for up to five images; $6 for each additional. Info, 388-4500. ‘LIGHTS! CAMERA! AUCTION!’: Seeking tax-deductible donations of art, beautiful and useful things, amusements, experiences, and events for this annual auction to benefit Town Hall Theater and its programming. To contribute, contact Magna Dodge at magnadodge@gmail.com. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. Through May 22. Info, 462-3898.

Green Mountain State. For details and to submit, visit vcgi.vermont.gov/blog/ artshow/call_for_submissions_2017. Deadline: April 3, 3 p.m. Vermont Statehouse Cafeteria, Montpelier. Info, leslie.pelch@vermont.gov. RUTLAND COUNTY AUDUBON WILDLIFE ART SHOW: Inviting visual artists working in any medium to submit up to three works to be included in an art show featuring nature and wildlife, May 26 to June 11. Scenic landscapes will not be considered. Works need not be for sale. For details and to submit, contact birding@ rutlandcountyaudubon.org. Deadline: May 22. Stone Valley Arts, Poultney. SOLO & SMALL GROUP SHOWS 2018: Inviting proposals for upcoming exhibitions. To submit, send a brief written statement about yourself or the artist group and what you want to accomplish with a show, as well as a CD or DVD with eight to 12 images of representative work. Label carefully with name, medium, size, price and date of your work. Mail submissions to 201 N. Main Street, Barre, VT 05641. Deadline: June 9. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069. SOUTH END ART HOP: Registration is now open for the 25th annual South End Art Hop, to take place September 8 to 10. For details, visit seaba.com/art-hop. Deadline: June 16. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

‘TEN’: Seeking submissions of artworks inspired by the old counting nursery rhyme, “One, two buckle my shoe…” For the full rhyme, details and to submit, visit studioplacearts.com. Deadline: June 2. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069. VART: Seeking contemporary visual art made in Vermont for a forthcoming print magazine. All work must be made in Vermont within the past seven years; all mediums welcome. To submit, send four portfolio samples, a one-paragraph artist bio and statement to armpriester@hotmail.com with Attn: Kenelle, “Vart submission” and artist name in the subject line. Label each image with artist’s name, title of work, date, medium, dimensions, editions (if applicable) and artist’s email. Include contact info in body of email. Deadline: April 15. ZEN CENTER ART SHOW: Seeking art submissions in any medium for the Zen Center’s third annual art exhibition to be held May 4 and 5. To submit, send a photograph or description of the work, accompanied by dimensions, price and artist’s statement, to uppervalleyzencenter@gmail.com. Deadline: April 10. Main Street Museum, White River Junction. Info, 603-448-4877.

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‘MAP/ART’: The Vermont Center for Geographic Information seeks submissions for an exhibition to be installed May 1 through 30. The show aims to highlight creative approaches to using maps to illustrate Vermont and to encourage understanding of place in the

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‘BELLS & WHISTLES’: Seeking artists and contributors for the museum’s upcoming 2017 exhibition consisting of or relating to all aspects of bells and whistles. May include bells for cows and sheep, bellhops, alarms and timekeepers, spiritual or musical instruments, jingle bells, etc. Contributions may

‘CHICKENS!’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit one or two pieces of 2D artwork in any medium for a May through August exhibition. Works must depict one or more chickens; roosters OK. Register by April 15; call 878-8887 or email blgreene@ myfairpoint.net. Jericho Town Hall.

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‘100 DAYS OF SPACE FOR CREATIVITY’: Inspired to act by the potential call to defund the arts on a federal level, Backspace Gallery offers a free and open space for artists to work while processing reactions to the current political climate. Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., through April 29, artists are invited to meet with gallery director Christy Mitchell to pitch ideas on using the venue for displaying, creating, speaking or performing work. Email ideas to spacegalleryvt@ gmail.com or show up during open gallery hours for more information. The Backspace Gallery, Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt@gmail.com.

be personal artifacts accompanied by individual narrative, raw ideas for displays, fully realized art objects, or theoretical writings and research. To contribute, or for more info, contact Clare Dolan via museumofeverydaylife. org. Deadline: May 5. The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover. Info, claredol@ sover.net.

an angel hovering overhead than, say, that of a drone or airplane. His expressive paintings signal connection rather than clinical observation, and rarely do they imply surveillance. Rather than interpret Vermont’s bucolic nature, Secor is content to burrow through its cities, travel its roads (“State and Main”) and sit beside its bridges. He may have grown up in Kentucky, but he’s got this state’s number.

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‘ART WORKS!’: Seeking submissions of art that invites viewers to engage and interact with the work, including manual interactive devices, electronic installations and kinetic sculpture. For details and to submit, visit studioplacearts. com. Deadline: April 28. Studio Place Arts, Barre. Free for members; $10 for nonmembers. Info, 479-7069.

closer to pink; these works are bright, bold and cheerful. A painting like “Pink Town” suggests waking up in a California motel on antidepressants. The sun may be out and the colors bright, but you know that’s still just a parking lot outside. Secor’s titles have a subtle dark wit that conveys optimism even when they appear to be merely descriptive, as in the case of “Enter Roundabout” or “Where Are My Friends?” At times the artist seems to channel Edward Hopper, even if his aerial views alter the perspective. Secor’s point of view is more like that of

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f ‘LAND MARKS: JANET FREDERICKS & MICHAELA

HARLOW’: The two Vermont artists explore abstract landscapes on macro and micro scales in a variety of mediums, pushing references to the natural environment behind graphic mark-making. f KRISTA HARRIS: “Retracing My Steps,” a solo exhibition of richly layered, gestural abstract paintings by the Colorado artist. Reception: Saturday, March 25, 6-8 p.m. March 25-May 30. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

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FORMS’: Glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley, hand-blown glass by Bud Shriner, and glass jewelry and objects by Micaela Wallace, as well as works by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Mary Ellen Jeffries, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli and Christie Witters. Reception: Friday, March 24, 5-8 p.m. March 24-May 7. Info, info@creativespacegallery.org. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

Ingo Günther Opening Friday, March 24,

at the Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H., “World Processor” presents more than 50 illuminated globes from the video-artist-turned-journalist’s ongoing series. For 25 years, Günther has combined “big data” with digital cartography to create more than 1,000 visual narrative objects. They offer accessible insights into the global distribution of myriad networks and entities, from television ownership to wetlands. Through May 28. Pictured: “TV Ownership.”

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AMY BALKIN AND LUIS DELGADO-QUALTROUGH: Works by two artists who use big data to inform their practice. San Francisco-based conceptual artist Balkin presents her poster essay “The Atmosphere: A Guide.” Delgado-Qualtrough’s “10 Carbon Conundrums” series of prints constructs a conversation across time between two fictional characters contemplating human impact on the Earth. March 24-May 28. Info, 603-646-2426. Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. INGO GÜNTHER: “World Processor,” more than 50 illuminated plastic globes featuring data mapped by the artist and journalist. March 24-May 28. Info, 603-646-2426. Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H.

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ART EVENTS AMP NIGHT: The first Artist, Musician and Poet Night features visual artist Ted Zilius, composer Ben Cosgrove and Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord. River Arts, Morrisville, Thursday, March 23, 6-8 p.m. Info, 888-1261. ‘ARTS AND CULTURE: WHAT’S YOUR STORY?’: Join community members to investigate personal cultural heritage and the ways in which we use the arts to create identity, community and social justice. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Wednesday, March 29, 6 p.m. Info, 865-7211. ‘FLUORESCENT LIGHT IN VACANT STOREFRONT’: Artist Chris Jeffrey welcomes visitors to view his installation from the inside. 13 E Allen St., Winooski, March 23, 7-9 p.m. Info, overnightprojects@gmail.com. RECEPTION AND WINE TASTING: An evening of fine art, company and wine, surrounded by works from more than 50 Vermont artists. Friday, March 24, 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 877-3850. TALK: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF COFFEE: Coffee industry expert Don Holly explores the social, political and economic influences that have shaped the consumption of coffee around the world, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, March 22, noon. Info, 656-0750. TALK: ‘FOCUS ON THE SHELDON’: Middlebury College professor Pieter Broucke moderates this panel discussion between the five artists who photographed objects in the Sheldon’s collection. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, March 22, noon. Info, 388-2117.

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TALK: ‘HIGHLIGHTS IN THE GALLERY OF ASIAN ART’: Middlebury College curator of Asian art discusses important works in the Fleming collection, ranging from Chinese ritual funerary bronzes to lively Japanese woodblock prints. The talk is followed by a walk in the gallery. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, March 29, noon. Info, 656-0750. TALK: ‘ROMAN FACES AT THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART’: Professor Pieter Broucke gives a gallery talk in conjunction with the museum’s “American Faces” exhibition, focusing on Roman art in the permanent collection. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Friday, March 24, 12:15 p.m. Info, 443-5258. TOUCH DRAWING: Registered expressive arts therapist Jennie Kristel leads this workshop in touch drawing, a form of printmaking on tissue paper using your fingertips. JourneyWorks, Burlington, Monday, March 27, 6-8 p.m. $20. Info, 860-6203.

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4TH ANNUAL OPEN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: Group exhibition of images by 44 Vermont photographers. Through March 31. Info, 490-6547. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. AARON SCOT INGHAM: The artist behind Bent Nails Studio shows his works and furniture made from found and salvaged materials. Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Info, 595-4148. Burlington Town Center. ‘ART OF WINTER’: A juried group exhibition of works by 26 artists addressing themes of winter, curated by Christy Mitchell and Ric Kasini Kadour. The show is accompanied by an “exhibition-in-print” of works by 19 artists in Vermont Art Guide #3. Through April 1. Info, 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

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‘ART-CADE’: The Cardboard Teck Instantute celebrates its 11-year anniversary with an exhibition featuring its award-winning cardboard pinball game system, the PinBox 3000, as well as playable versions customized by Vermont artists. Through March 30. Info, audrie@thekarmabirdhouse.com. Karma Bird House Gallery in Burlington. BELCATE SCHOOL, HOWARD CENTER ARTS COLLECTIVE & GUESTS: Works by the Vermont artists. Through April 1. Info, aforguites@howardcenter.org. Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. ‘IMBIBE: DRINKING IN CULTURE’: An exhibition using an eclectic selection of drinking vessels to investigate the complex social, physical and aesthetic experience of liquid consumption. CATHERINE JANSEN: “1008,” an exhibition of the photographer’s images of India, including digital prints and projections as well as ambient sound from field recordings. Through May 21. Info, 656-8582. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington. ‘FIBER EXPRESSIONS’: Textile and fiber artworks by 14 area artists. Through March 31. Info, 656-4200. Living/Learning Center, University of Vermont, in Burlington. ‘GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT’: Burlington artists Rose C. Hebert and Sarah Ingraham show new works. Through April 6. Info, 865-6223. Cavendish Gallery in Burlington. ‘IN THE DETAILS’: A group exhibition of works by 17 Vermont artists: David Ambrose, Emily Barletta, Mel Bernstine, Halsey Chait, Cathy Cone, Jonathan Cowan, Denise Driscoll, Lori Ellison, Patricia Fabricant, Jeanne Heifetz, Karen Henderson, Taney Roniger, Jessica Rosner, Gowri Savoor, Lynda Schlosberg, Oriane Stender and Carleen Zimbalatti. Through March 31. Info, 859-9222. SEABA Center in Burlington. JACQUES BURKE: Mixed-media works by the Vermont artist. Through April 30. Info, 859-9222. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

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JUDE DOMSKI: “The shape of water,” recent works by the Vermont photographer. Through April 1. Info, 917-399-7120. Brickwork Art Studios in Burlington. LYNN CUMMINGS: Paintings in a wide variety of styles by the local artist. Through March 31. Info, 651-9692. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington. LYNNE REED: “Interiors,” abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31. Info, 233-6811. Indigo in Burlington. MICHAEL METZ: A retrospective of 50 years of taking photographs. Through March 25. Info, cthompson@champlain.edu. Champlain College Art Gallery in Burlington. ‘MOMENSION’: A sculptural environment made primarily from glass, metal and clay by Vermont artists Bech Evans, Alissa Faber and Patrick O’Shea. Through April 25. Info, joseph@newcitygalerie.org. New City Galerie in Burlington. ‘THE PAST PRESENT’: Works by Molly Bosley and Athena Petra Tasiopoulos, who use metaphorical objects to explore humanity and unpack our relationship to the past. Through April 8. Info, 865-7166. Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. PETER KATZ: Mixed-media works by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through May 31. Info, 658-6016. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee, Pine Street, in Burlington. RIK CARLSON: “Celebrate Your Ride: The Passion & The Art,” photographs of automobiles and automobilia by the Vermont artist. Through March 31. Info, 881-3821. Noyes Auto & Tire Service in Burlington. SALLY LINDER: “White Magnetism,” an exhibition of paintings and drawings inspired by the artist’s visits to the Arctic. Through April 1. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington. SHANE LAVALETTE: “One Sun, One Shadow,” a photographic series of the American South by the Burlington native, informed by the rich history of southern music: bluegrass, old-time, gospel and blues. WYLIE SOFIA GARCIA: “With My Voice, I Am Calling You Home,” a new body of work featuring paintings and lenticular prints that embody themes of domesticity, meditation and personal place-making. Through April 8. Info, 865-7166. Burlington City Arts.

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f ‘A SHOW OF HANDS’: The fifth annual exhibition of 100 wooden hands, decorated by local artists and community members including Aaron Barton, Megan J. Humphrey, Liz LeServiget, Jess Polanshek and Jon Young. The works will be auctioned to raise funds for HANDS, a local nonprofit providing food for older adults in Vermont. Closing reception and auction: Thursday, March 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Through March 30. Info, 651–8834. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

‘IN PRAISE OF WATER’: Goddard College artists approach the theme of water from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, ecological, social, political, spiritual and contemplative. Artists include Richard Ambelang, Susan Buroker, Kate Egnaczak, Dan Goldman, Tom Hansell, Seitu Jones, Phillip Robertson, Cynthia Ross, Sharon Siskin, Ruth Wallen and Nanci Worthington. Through April 15. Info, 322-1604. Goddard Art Gallery, Pratt Center, Goddard College, in Plainfield.

WARREN KIMBLE: “Bits & Pieces: Assembled Antique Elements,” an exhibition of sculptural assemblage by the Vermont artist and collector. Through March 31. Info, 863- 6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington.

‘STATION TO STATION’: Paintings by Art2D2 Industries and Babelon Williams inspired by apophenia (perceiving patterns or connections in meaningless data), and which incorporate mixed media including antique text, childhood books, film stills and random materials from the artists’ youths. ‘UNDER CONSTRUCTION’: An exhibition of works made by joining two or more dissimilar mediums, such that one plus one equals more than two. Assembled by director Sue Higby and guest curator Mark Waskow. JAMES SECOR: ‘#nomophobia,’ paintings about phones, lives and memories by the Vermont artist. Through April 15. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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‘THE ART OF CARTOONING’: An exhibition organized by Vermont Comic Creators, which represents more than 100 cartoonists and illustrators. Through April 15. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. “BACKSTAGE PASS: ROCK & ROLL PHOTOGRAPHY”: An exhibition featuring more than 300 photographs, many rarely seen by the public, of famous rock-and-roll and jazz greats including Miles Davis, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, David Bowie, Prince and the Beastie Boys. Through May 7. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. ‘BLACK & WHITE (& BLUE)’: A group exhibition of 53 monochromatic images from 42 photographers, including five Vermonters. Through March 26. Info, 777-3686. Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction. GABRIELLE T. REGISTRE: “Down to Earth,” a travel-inspired exhibition of new paintings based on photos taken from an airplane. Curated by Burlington City Arts. Through April 6. Info, 865-7296. Burlington International Airport in South Burlington. ‘THE HEART SHOW’: More than 70 “artistinterpreted” hearts by local artists are on display and for sale to benefit Burlington’s Spectrum Youth & Family Services. Through March 26. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. ‘KALEIDOSCOPE’: A group exhibition of works by local artists. Through March 31. Info, ealexander22@ yahoo.com. Jericho Town Hall.

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‘SHOW 16’: An exhibition of recent works by the collective gallery’s Vermont contemporary artists. Fridays, 5-8 p.m., and Saturdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Through April 29. Info, 272-0908. The Front in Montpelier.

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KATHY STARK: “... and the journey continues...,” abstract collages from five distinct series spanning the artist’s career from the 1980s to the present. Through March 30. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. LARK UPSON: “Lark Upson Portraits and a Call to Action,” an exhibition of paintings featuring posed models and endangered species. Through March 31. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. LINDA MIRABILE: “Avian Inspired,” paintings of birds and bird life. Through March 31. Info, moetown52@comcast.net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. PRIA CAMBIO: “And Somewhere Else There’s a Beach,” beachscape paintings and drawings by the Vermont artist. Through April 8. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli in Barre. STEPHEN M. SCHAUB: “From Far Away,” works by the Pawlet artist that share narrative fragments through unique material combinations and customized photographic processes. Through March 31. Info, 828-5657. Governor’s Gallery in Montpelier.

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f HOPE SHARP: “Dance Improvisations,” a thesis exhibition by the graduating MFA student, who created her large-scale oil paintings while watching dancers perform live hip-hop, jazz, ballet and other movements. Reception and artist talk: Wednesday, March 29, 4 p.m. Through March 31. Info, 635-1247. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. LEGACY COLLECTION: An exhibition featuring 23 living and 12 deceased artists whose works continue the legacy of Alden and Mary Bryan, founder and namesake of the gallery. Through April 2. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: The artist, engineer and inventor exhibits a mixture of recent and past works that focus on activating the space through environmentally conscious projects, in conjunction with her Spruce Peak artist residency. Through April 8. Info, 253-8358. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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CAROLYN MECKLOSKY: “Women, Beasts and Dreams,” vibrant acrylic paintings by the Waterville artist and arts instructor. TED ZILIUS: “Jazz and Sad,” mixed-media works created through a process of collage and dance by the Vermont artist. Through May 9. Info, 888-1261. Gallery at River Arts in Morrisville. DOROTHY SIMPSON KRAUSE: “A Matter of Time,” an exhibition of mixed-media works and UV-cured flatbed prints that address the increasing threats to Earth’s ecosystems. Through April 29. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe.

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‘FREAKS, RADICALS & HIPPIES: COUNTERCULTURE IN 1970S VERMONT’: An exhibition that explores the influx of people and countercultural ideas to the state, from communes to organic agriculture, progressive politics to health care reform, alternative energy to women’s and gay rights. Through December 31. Info, 479-8500. Vermont Heritage Galleries in Barre.

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‘FOLLOWING THE RULES, BREAKING THE RULES’: A group exhibition of 25 works by 20 artists in pastel, acrylics, oils, photography and sculpture. Artists include Nitya Brighenti, Hasso Ewing, Cindy Griffith, Lysa Intrator, Joyce Kahn, Hannah Morris, Maggie Neale, Dan Neary, Jack Sabon, Sarah Spletzer and Ann Young. f NORTHERN VERMONT ART ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION: A group exhibition of works by NVAAE members. Reception: Thursday, March 23, 5-7 p.m. Through April 28. Info, 2626035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

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ELLIOT BURG: “Sunset Park, Brooklyn,” black-andwhite images by the Middlesex photographer. Through April 20. Info, 272-4920. Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

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KATE LONGMAID: “Freedom Speak,” an exhibition of portraits with graffiti-like phrases and slogans that merge the artist’s interest in capturing individual identities and political realities through image and voice. Through May 31. Info, 985-8222. Shelburne Vineyard.

JOELEN MULVANEY: “Piranha Bark,” an exhibition of recent paintings by the Barre artist. Through March 31. Info, 479-1931. Barre Opera House.

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PHOTOS BY MARIE LAPRÉ GRABON: Photographs by the Vermont artist. Through June 30. Info, 635-7423. Dream Café in Johnson. VERMONT LANDSCAPES: An exhibition of 38 artworks by 20 artists, featuring landscapes in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylics, curated by Bryan Memorial Gallery. Through June 30. Info, 644-5100. Lamoille County Courthouse in Hyde Park.

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AMY ROSS: “Butterfly Effect,” works in graphite, watercolor, walnut ink and collaged paper that envision hybrid flora and fauna. Through March 31. Info, 617-842-3332. Walker Contemporary in Waitsfield. BONNIE BARNES: “Travels,” selected photographs by the international traveler and photographer. Through March 25. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield. ‘THE BOOK AS ART’: Nine women artists explore the possibilities of the book as art. Cocurated by visual artist Marilyn Gillis. Through April 8. Info, 244-7801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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‘AMERICAN FACES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY’: An exhibit that brings together 90 portraits from more than 20 collections, exploring and explaining Americans’ 300-year fascination with images of themselves. Through April 30. Info, 443-6433. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. ‘THE COLOR OF LIGHT’: A group exhibition juried by Arthur Meyerson, displaying the work of 35 photographers from around the world. Through April 8. Info, 388-4500. PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury. DELSIE HOYT: “Re-imagine the Braided Rug,” an exhibition of innovative textiles by the West Fairlee artist. Through April 29. STANLEY HORACE LYNDES: “Family Traits: Art, Humor and Everyday Life,” an exhibition exploring family identity through the artist’s cartoons, caricatures, carved objects and fiber arts. Through May 12. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. EMERGING ARTISTS SHOW: The eighth annual exhibition of works by Mt. Abraham High School students, including photography, painting, drawing, jewelry, felting, comics and more. Through March 26. Info, 453-4032. Art on Main in Bristol.

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‘FOCUS ON THE SHELDON: FIVE-POINT PERSPECTIVE’: Photographs of objects from the Sheldon’s collection by local artists Suki Fredericks, Paul Gamba, Kate Gridley, Kirsten Hoving and Eric Nelson. Through May 13. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury. GRACE MELLOW: “Not for Show,” an exhibition of figurative drawings by the Rutland-born, New York City-based artist. Through April 9. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes.

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‘UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR’: Early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books and more that represent enduring fascination with the Acropolis. Through April 23. Info, 443-5007. Middlebury College Museum of Art.

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DICK KIRBY: “Metal Madness,” a solo exhibition of artist-designed steel works, including lamps, weathervanes, candleholders and coat racks. Through April 30. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. PHOEBE STONE: “Still Life With Universe,” an exhibition of recent large-format pastels and oils that address the subject of still life, the quotidian and our mysterious relationship with the universe. Through March 31. Info, 282-2396. Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University.

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‘PRELUDE TO SPRING: BOTANICAL ART IN VERMONT’: Works by Vermont artists Bobbi Angell, Susan Bull Riley and Stephanie Whitney-Payne. Through April 1. Info, 247-4295. Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

‘RELEASE & REACT’: Works by 16 artists from Brush Strokes Studio, East Mountain Mentoring Artists and the Vermont Abstract Connection. Through March 31. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. ‘THE SHE PROJECT – PART I’: An interactive exhibition exploring what women of all ages experience as they cope with the pressure to maintain a youthful appearance at any cost, by Vermont multidisciplinary artists Mary Admasian and Kristen M. Watson. Through June 24. Info, galleries@castleton.edu. Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

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DOUG MASURY: “As If — Weavings From Oz,” handwoven art objects including Indonesianinspired wall hangings, African-style headdresses and hand-dyed bamboo scarves. Through March 31. Info, 603-795-4909. Long River Gallery & Gifts in White River Junction. GLORIA KING MERRITT: “Take Flight,” photorealistic digital paintings on canvas that capture singular moments of birds in flight. Gallery open by appointment. Through May 1. Info, 436-2200. VermontArts.Gallery in Hartland. ‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition that explores the science behind making rhythms and harmonies heard. Through September 17. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. ‘SPIRIT OF ODANAKSIS’: Ten members of the 14-year-old art collective, named for the Abenaki term for “little village,” show works in oil, watercolor, pastel, multimedia, photography and prints. Artists: Gail Barton, Le Liu Browne, Becky Cook, Helen Elder, Anne Webster Grant, Linda Laundry, Anne Rose, Jonathan Rose, Susan Rump and Jo Tate. Through May 10. Info, 295-3118. Zollikofer Gallery at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction.

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KELLY DOYLE: “Improbable Surfaces,” an exhibition of mixed-media works that transform existing materials. Through April 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. KENT SHAW: New images by the Vermont photographer. Through April 10. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. MARIE LAPRE’ GRABON: Selected drawings and paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 3. Info, 578-8809. 3rd Floor Gallery in Hardwick. ‘MIRROR/MIRROR’: An exhibition reflecting upon the looking glass and all that it contains, from telescopes to magic tricks, disco balls to dentistry, fashion to psychotherapy, myth to superstition. Through May 1. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. ROSIE PREVOST: “Under the Surface,” nearly 30 sepia or selenium-toned, silver-gelatin prints that explore the idea of visual metaphor by using historic techniques. Through April 29. Info, 7482600. Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. ‘X-RAY VISION: FISH INSIDE OUT’: A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution featuring 40 large-scale digital prints of X-rays of several species of fish. Through June 1. Info, 748-2372. Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium in St. Johnsbury.

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‘GLASSTASTIC’: Glass sculptures inspired by children’s drawings of imaginary creatures. CLAIRE VAN VLIET: “Ghost Mesa,” lithographs of rock formations printed on a variety of handmade papers and collaged with pulp paintings and marbled papers. EDWARD KOREN: “Seriously Funny,” works by the Brookfield-based New Yorker cartoonist. MARY WELSH: “Appearances & Reality,” collages that use art-history and pop-culture sources, among others. PAUL SHORE: “Drawn Home,” drawings of every object in the artist’s home, inspired by Audubon’s project to draw all the birds of North America. SOO SUNNY PARK: “Luminous Muqarna,” an immersive sculptural installation based on muqarnas, ornamental vaults

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found in Islamic architecture, especially mosques. Through June 18. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

collages and pen-and-ink drawings by the Vermont artists. Through March 26. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library.

DIANNE SHULLENBERGER: “Personalities of Nature,” an exhibition of natural object collages, colored pencil drawings and fabric collages. Through April 6. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in West Brattleboro.

YOUTH ART MONTH: An exhibition of paintings, drawings and other artwork created by 50 South Royalton School elementary, middle and high school students. Through April 14. Info, 763-7094. Royalton Memorial Library in South Royalton.

‘SIGNS OF LIFE’: An exhibition featuring the works of married artists Roger Sandes and Mary Welsh. Through April 21. Info, 258-3992. The Great Hall in Springfield.

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‘ART FROM THE SCHOOLS’: Students from more than 20 local schools exhibit their artwork. Through April 2. Info, 362-1405. Yester House Galleries, Southern Vermont Arts Center, in Manchester. RENÉE BOUCHARD: “We the People,” new paintings and sculptures by the college artist-in-residence. Through April 7. Info, 447-4041. Southern Vermont College Gallery in Bennington.

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JASPER TOMKINS: “Expansions,” colorful acrylic paintings by the award-winning author and illustrator. Through April 30. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery at BALE in South Royalton. JEANNE MCMAHAN AND PETER NERI: “Two Perspectives of Rural Vermont,” an exhibition of

‘AMERICAN ARTISTS IN EUROPE: SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION’: An exhibition of works by American artists who were inspired by their travels, including Frank Duveneck, Leonard Freed, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer and Elihu Vedder. Through June 11. ALLEN BLAGDEN: “Marking the Moment,” an exhibition of 62 paintings by the contemporary realist, curated by Caroline Welsh. Through April 16. LORNA BIEBER: “Forces of Nature,” eight large-scale photo murals and montages made by manipulating stock media photography to reinterpret the natural world. Through May 14. Info, 518-792-1761. The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, N.Y. ‘CHAGALL: COLOR & MUSIC’: An exhibition exploring the importance of music to the Russian-French artist, presenting 400 works including paintings, sculptures, maquettes, gouaches, stained-glass windows, photographs, films, costumes and puppets. Through June 11. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m

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“Retracing My Steps,” an exhibition of abstract paintings by the Colorado artist. Harris combines mediums in her canvases to explore the contrasts and contradictions of the rigid versus the organic. The pieces represent a distinct departure from her earlier realist works. Despite this new direction, Harris notes, “Our roads seem to double back

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ell, what can a poor boy do / Except to sing for a rockand-roll band?” mused Mick Jagger in the classic “Street Fighting Man.” One possibility, he suggested, was to “kill the king.” Another: stage “a palace revolution.” The singer expresses extreme frustration that “where I live, the game to play is compromise solution.” As I watched Ti Laurent, a 2015 film directed by Champlain College assistant professor John Rasmussen, parallels between that track from Beggars Banquet and the movie popped into my consciousness constantly. Shot in the La Savane section of Les Cayes, the most impoverished region in southern Haiti, Ti Laurent tells the story of a poor boy (Pedro Bellabe) forced to fight for survival on the street. His father’s dead. His mother has abandoned him. The first in a series of strangers to offer him help is a blind beggar. The mendicant (Casumir Augustin) initially appears good-humored and happy to have the desperate urchin as his new partner. “You’re a little old,” he tells the boy before buying him a hot dog, “but beggars can’t be choosers.” Nice touch, I thought, and then watched the two literally enjoy a beggar’s banquet. A recurring pattern is established when the vagrant suddenly slams Laurent’s head

against the ground, wreaking bloody dental havoc. “There’s nothing sadder [translation: better for business] than a kid with broken teeth,” he says with a laugh. Soon the waif decides to try his luck elsewhere. Unfortunately, it only gets worse. Rasmussen’s movie is an inspired adaptation of a literary classic. Screenwriter Peter Teraberry took the premise of Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) and updated the setting to present-day Haiti. Published anonymously owing to its criticisms of the Catholic Church, the Spanish novella is credited with founding the genre of the picaresque novel and attained such prominence that Miguel de Cervantes name-checked it in Don Quixote. It also made the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition. Placed at the mercy of one master after another, Laurent meets with ever more devious mistreatment. The filmmakers do a commendable job of tweaking the source material while remaining faithful to its spirit. A preacher with a popular radio program, for example, puts the lost boy on the air to boost donations, pretending they’ll be used to help similarly destitute youths. He’s a cheeky creation, a Caribbean Jim Bakker minus his mascara-masked Tammy Faye. Other “benefactors” are every bit as ma-

PORT-AU-PRINCE AND THE PAUPER Rasmussen’s film cleverly updates a classic tale of an orphan’s fight for survival on the street.

nipulative and dripping with hypocrisy. Telemundo staple Roberto de Muga is particularly entertaining as a slimeball priest with plans to cage Laurent in the ultimate “compromise solution.” I’ll leave the rest for you to discover, along with the young drifter’s resourcefulness and resilience. The film has a rough, unpolished look that feels right for a story set against such a bleak backdrop. Rasmussen elicits colorful performances from the predominantly untrained cast, and the score, courtesy of the New York group the Tentacles, is a thing of bluesy, mysterious beauty. Carrying the

whole business on his inexperienced shoulders, Bellabe displays an instinctive gift and undeniable charisma in the role of the poor boy. Fun fact: He doesn’t sing for a rock-androll band, but, according to Rasmussen, he does have quite the reputation in the region as a rapper. RI C K KI S O N AK

The Vermont International Film Foundation will screen Ti Laurent on Thursday, March 30, 7 p.m., at Main Street Landing Film House in Burlington. $5-8. vtiff.org

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Beauty and the Beast ★★★★

ow many times can you retell a “tale as old as time”? Disney’s 1991 Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever to receive an Academy Awards Best Picture nomination; transformed into musical theater, it became one of Broadway’s longest-running shows. Now comes this live-action remake — or partially live-action, if one considers that, as in most fantasy blockbusters these days, a sizable portion of the characters and settings is digitally animated. Little that is actually new about this lavish production directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) rises to the level of the beloved original. Yet it’s impossible to go far wrong with the fairy-tale-derived plot and compulsively hummable songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and the result is still pretty magical. Having attained archetypal “brainy girl” status as Hermione in the Harry Potter movies, Emma Watson is an easy choice to play Belle, Disney’s most bookish heroine. This version doubles down on Belle’s pluck and initiative, making her an inventor like her father (Kevin Kline) and even giving her a backstory involving a proto-feminist mom. The promise of stability in a marriage to vain village muscle-head Gaston (Luke Evans) doesn’t remotely tempt her. So, when Belle volunteers to take her dad’s place as a prisoner of the mysterious Beast (Dan Stevens), the resulting romance feels less creepy than it might have with

MANS-FIEND PARK Watson and Stevens come off a lot like an Austen pair in Disney’s new version of the fairy tale.

a weaker heroine. Indeed, as Beauty and her captor bond over books, things become downright Jane Austen-esque. The film drags in these romantic, castlebound sections — which involve new childhood flashbacks for the Beast as well as Belle, and new songs by Menken and Tim Rice. The real energy of the production lies in its operetta-like ensemble numbers, fueled by the deliciously clever and cheeky lyrics of Ashman, who died before the original film’s release.

Though the stars of this version weren’t chosen for their singing prowess, “Belle,” “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest” remain exhilarating tours de force. The second number, presided over by Josh Gad as Gaston’s henchman/cheerleader LeFou, benefits from the decision to turn his obvious crush on his idol from subtext into text. The third number goes surreal with an animated swirl of Busby Berkeley-style chorus action.

The Beast’s castle is a pleasantly rococo creation. But when it comes to the enchanted creatures within, the jury is still out on whether it works to replace highly stylized hand-drawn characters with computer graphics in a live-action context. The servants now look more like inanimate objects, the Beast more human, a tendency that enhances the romance at the expense of the comic and sentimental subplots involving Lumière (Ewan McGregor), Cogsworth (Ian McKellen) and the rest. The new screenplay, by Stephen Chbosky (author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Evan Spiliotopoulos, makes vague gestures toward giving the story “mythology,” like a fantasy franchise. Despite those efforts, Beauty and the Beast remains at its heart the age-old exemplary tale of a woman deciding she’s going to “change” a man — and succeeding. Regardless of whether that’s a smart message to send to young girls, at least this version of the story gives Belle career fallbacks: She’s a teacher, too, promoting literacy among the benighted villagers. This pastel musical concoction isn’t a believable version of 18th-century France, but when was Beauty and the Beast ever? Condon’s version certainly won’t replace the animated film. But it provides just enough sappiness and sass to please a broad audience with fond memories of the “song as old as rhyme” — and, no doubt, to enchant a new generation. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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FIFTY SHADES DARKERH1/2 Supposedly sexy sadist Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) is back in the sequel to the hit erotic drama; now his beloved Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) must tangle with his creepy exes. James Foley (Perfect Stranger) directed. (115 min, R) GET OUTHHHH Writer-director Jordan Peele (“Key & Peele”) swerves from comedy to socially conscious horror with this thriller about a young African American (Daniel Kaluuya) who senses something very wrong at the home of his white girlfriend’s folks. With Allison Williams, Lakeith Stanfield and Bradley Whitford. (103 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 3/1)

CHIPS: Actor-director Dax Shepard (Hit and Run) wrote, helmed and starred in this comic riff on the 1970s beefcake TV action drama about California’s highway patrol. Michael Peña plays the Erik Estrada role. (100 min, R. Essex, Majestic) THE LAST WORD: A notorious curmudgeon (Shirley MacLaine) sets out to craft her own perfect obituary with the help of a reporter (Amanda Seyfried) in this comedy-drama from director Mark Pellington (I Melt With You). (108 min, R. Capitol, Palace) LIFE: Things go very wrong as a space station crew examines humanity’s first sample of Martian life in this sci-fi thriller from director Daniel Espinosa (Child 44). Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal star. (103 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) POWER RANGERS: The popular ’90s superpowered action series for kids gets a new filmic incarnation, directed by Dean Israelite (Project Almanac). Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott and RJ Cyler star, while grown-ups like Elizabeth Banks and Bryan Cranston make appearances. (124 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Welden) WILSON: In this adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel, Woody Harrelson plays a prickly loner trying to forge a relationship with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and daughter (Isabella Amara). Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins) directed the dark comedy. (94 min, R. Roxy)

HIDDEN FIGURESHHH1/2 The fact-based story of three math-minded African American women who helped get NASA’s space program off the ground features strong performances from Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Theodore Melfi directed. (127 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 1/11) JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2HHH1/2 In the sequel to the cult action hit, the tough-guy title character (Keanu Reeves) finds out he has an underworld bounty on his head. Chad Stahelski returns as director. With Ruby Rose, Bridget Moynahan and Ian McShane. (122 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 2/15) KEDIHHHH Cat lovers, prepare for cute overload! This documentary from director Ceyda Torun profiles the city of Istanbul through the unusual lens of its street cats and the people who love them. (80 min, NR) KONG: SKULL ISLANDHHH The folks who brought us the 2014 Godzilla take a shot at the story of the great ape, in which soldiers fresh from the Vietnam War explore the titular island in search of monsters. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson star. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer) directed. (120 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 3/15)

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A DOG’S PURPOSEHH In this adaptation of W. Bruce Cameron’s feel-good bestseller, a dog (voiced by Josh Gad) discovers his ultimate raison d’être via reincarnation. Lasse Hallström (The HundredFoot Journey) directed. (120 min, PG)

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LIONHHHHH Twenty-five years after being lost on the Calcutta streets, a young man (Dev Patel) tries to find the family he left behind. With Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. Garth Davis directed. (118 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 12/21) LOGANHHHH Hugh Jackman returns as the impregnable X-Man in a new take on the comicbook mythos, set in the near future and featuring Patrick Stewart as a decrepit Professor X. James Mangold (The Wolverine) cowrote and directed. (137 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 3/8) MOANAHHHH A young girl (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) who longs to escape her small island enlists the aid of the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in the latest Disney family animation. Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid) directed. (113 min, PG)

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THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIEHH A breakout star of The LEGO Movie gets his own animated showcase. With the voices of Will Arnett (as the Caped Crusader), Jenny Slate, Channing Tatum and Ralph Fiennes. Chris McKay directed. (104 min, PG; reviewed by R.K. 2/15)

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BEFORE I FALLHHH A high school mean girl (Zoey Deutch) finds herself reliving the day of her death over and over and solving the mystery of how to live it better in this adaptation of Lauren Oliver’s YA novel. Ry Russo-Young (Nobody Walks) directed. (99 min, PG-13)

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BEAUTY AND THE BEASTHHH1/2 Disney reworks the 1991 animated hit with this live-action musical featuring the original songs and Emma Watson as the book-loving girl forced into imprisonment in the castle of the dreaded Beast (Dan Stevens). Bill Condon (Mr. Holmes) directed. (129 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 3/22)

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190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, majestic10.com

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MARQUIS THEATRE Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

wednesday 22 — thursday 23 Beauty and the Beast Logan

friday 24 — thursday 30 Beauty and the Beast Get Out

MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMA

222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

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PALACE 9 CINEMAS

10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 8645610, palace9.com

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PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA

241 North Main St., Barre, 479-9621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 22 — thursday 30 Beauty and the Beast (2D & 3D) Logan

THE SAVOY THEATER 26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0598, savoytheater.com

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STOWE CINEMA 3 PLEX

Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678. stowecinema.com

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SUNSET DRIVE-IN

155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 8621800. sunsetdrivein.com

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104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888, weldentheatre.com

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once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to party hardy and rowdy and strong at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

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Of course you want to get the best of everything. But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind. And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were to pro-

vide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to party hardy and rowdy and strong and often! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late? Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): William Boyd writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much no becomes yes, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. PS: The reversals that you consciously cocreate may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was 24,

I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down back roads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pickup trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m not

suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The empty space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank. The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that, now and then, it’s restorative to just shut up and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think — or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you

won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real?” 3. “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects. (Ninety percent is better.)

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck will flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

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