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[Re “Milking It,” March 13]: My congratulations to Chelsea Edgar for her fine article on the intense collaboration of the thousand dairy cows of Vorsteveld Farm in Panton, together with the three cuss-a-plenty Vorsteveld brothers who work and manage the farm, as well as the 10 Mexican workers who reliably perform the cow-shit-spattered labor of the seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock milking chores. I’m not a regular reader of Seven Days, but within my limited contact with the paper, I think that Edgar’s article was exceptional for both its length and quality. Editors Paula Routly and Pamela Polston share a nice bundle of discernment for having given Edgar the means — seven pages, eight photos and a week down on the farm — that she needed to produce such a fine piece of journalism. Throughout my 50 years as a Vermonter, I’ve lived within a mile and a half of dairy barns of the small, old kind housing 50 or so milkers and found myself both educated and shocked by Edgar’s report on the new style of 1,000-cow-plus dairy farming that now prevails in the state. The man-devouring, brave new world of farming... Jules Rabin

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Seven Days should be commended for calling attention to the difficult financial and labor issues facing dairy farms, but some statements in [“Milking It,” March 13] were sensational and unfair. The Vorsteveld Farm receives premiums for milk based on quality that they share with their employees. Undeniably, cows produce a lot of manure — about 120 pounds a day — but the farm would not be receiving quality premiums if their cows were truly living “in their own excrement.” Difficulty finding capable, reliable employees is not unique to farms. Nearly every business I see has a “Help wanted” sign or a “We’re hiring” banner. Like any business, farms need to adapt with the times, and the days of cows being milked by hand in little red barns have gone the way of the mom-and-pop grocery store. Is milking in a windowless parlor for 12 hours much different than producing computer chips in a windowless “clean

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room” or stocking shelves in a big-box store for a 12-hour shift? Farm owners work just as long hours as their employees and are probably making less per hour. The Vorstevelds are indeed “rough” and not representative of every dairy. Our farm has three non-family employees, all college-educated and born in America. I am sorry that the Vorstevelds’ employees were mistreated on other farms in the past. Abuse happens everywhere, and I am ashamed that it happened on a dairy farm. Instead of blaming these farmers, let’s pressure our government to fix this broken system. Mary Whitcomb

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Sight and Sound Concepts of queerness and masculinity thread through Out There, a concept video album and live performance piece by Princess. Composed of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill, the performance art duo combines live music with video projections to critique misogyny in modern-day society. Jordan Adams catches up with O’Neill ahead of Princess’ performance at Burlington’s BCA Center. SEE INTERVIEW ON PAGE 62

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Secretary SUSANNE YOUNG. “I didn’t think that was a fair assessment, but we did look at what engagement means to the legislature.” That resulted in a small adjustment: “We have the right people in committee to express our proposals at the right time,” Young said. Gibbs credited the legislature for creating a better atmosphere by giving administration proposals “a fair hearing.” In the past, Scott has often complained that lawmakers would rudely dismiss his plans. Ashe returned serve, asserting that the administration is providing workable proposals this year instead of the “vaguely described policy ideas” of the past.

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Even while they celebrate collaboration, they just can’t resist the temptation of relitigating past disputes. Both sides acknowledge — but seek to minimize — the impact of November’s election, which gave House Democrats and Progressives a supermajority coalition to go along with an overwhelming edge in the Senate. “It is certainly true that the legislature can do what it wants over the objection of the governor,” said Gibbs, “but we’re choosing areas of consensus instead of conflict.” Well, now. Sounds like if things go off the rails, those guys over there should get the blame. Legislative leaders also downplay the supermajority because they’ve got to manage the expectations of progressive lawmakers and the activist base. “I remind people that whatever concept they’re advocating, it has to be a priority to at least 100 [House] members to override a veto,” said Johnson. “It’s not easy to gather that level of support, nor should it be.” Despite their expanded political power, Johnson and Ashe are throwing cold water on activists’ hopes for an ambitious climate change agenda. “Vermont has been very proactive over the past two decades,” Ashe said. “The first thing is to take stock of what we’ve done and decide where we go from here.” Nice. But by a variety of measures, Vermont is falling far behind its renewableenergy and carbon-reduction goals. That

was the message carried to the Statehouse last Friday by hundreds of school kids who may well live to see a climate catastrophe — and want dramatic action immediately. Doesn’t sound like the bulked-up Dem/ Prog majorities are willing to risk a climate showdown with Scott. Will the détente continue through the rest of the session? “I’m optimistic,” said Young. “The first half is indicative of the spirit of moving forward in a collaborative fashion.” But the second half will include all of the hard stuff: potential passage of a minimum wage hike, a universal paid family leave program, full cannabis legalization, a bill to impose a waiting period for buying guns, and a funding mechanism for a federally mandated waterways cleanup — plus the budget, taxes, fees and capital spending. When asked which issues could produce conflict, Gibbs was circumspect. “I don’t want to say anything through the media that can be construed as argumentative or confrontational,” he said. “We’re not opposed to having a discussion. But it’s unlikely the governor could be persuaded to support a $100 million payroll tax.” That’s the generally accepted estimate of the cost for a universal paid family leave program. There’s another worry in the backs of lawmakers’ minds: the prospect of an April surprise. In each of his first two years, Scott delivered major reform proposals in late April, little more than two weeks before scheduled adjournment. Could it happen again, despite the current outbreak of warm fuzzies? “There’s no indication of an 11th hour surprise so far,” Johnson said, “but that’s what makes it a surprise.” In the meantime, the 2019 session is being brought to you by the letter C: consensus, compromise, cooperation, caution. It’s not exactly inspiring for progressive voters who turned out in surprising numbers last November and shifted the legislature leftward — or for those on the right who helped reelect the guy who drew a hard line on taxes and fees, only to see him erase parts of the line. But after a biennium marked by conflict and brinksmanship, maybe a lowdrama session is just what Vermont needs.

Bern Out?

Sen. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) is apparently going Beltway with his 2020 presidential campaign. According to a story last week in Politico, the Sanders campaign

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will be “co-located” in Burlington and Washington, D.C. His 2016 campaign was headquartered in Burlington, with just a small outpost in D.C. The shift makes some sense. Sanders’ first presidential run was led by his longtime allies, many of whom had roots in Vermont or deep ties to the senator. The new team includes political veterans from a variety of backgrounds — and a lot more diversity than the largely white male 2016 group. A group of hires announced Tuesday includes PakistaniAmerican campaign manager FAIZ SHAKIR; deputy campaign manager RENE SPELLMAN and national press secretary BRIAHNA JOY GRAY, both African Americans; and Latina national political director ANALILIA MEJIA. Another sign that Vermont is not top of mind for the Sanders camp: The senator has yet to hold a campaign event in his home state. According to documents obtained by VTDigger.org, he had planned a kickoff rally for late February on the Burlington waterfront but canceled it on the advice of the city’s parks department due to icy conditions. His team might have thought to reserve an indoor site as a backup, but nah. Does all of this signal a move away from Vermont for the man who’s now a big deal nationally? The Sanders camp only gave us one hint, and it had to do with the size of the two HQs. “I do not have information at the moment re: number of staff at each,” communications director ARIANNA JONES wrote in an email, “but DC will be larger.” I guess another big employer is moving jobs out of the Green Mountain State.

“watching porn, they’re watching TV, they’re watching women, they’re watching everything, but they’re not working.” Perhaps a little extreme for Vermont? “That’s not why she’s here,” said DEB BILLADO, chair of the Vermont Republican Party. “She’s here to tell her own rags to riches story and talk about her foundation. She’s not here to speak about social issues.” Still, it’s another sign of the distant relationship between the party and the socially moderate Gov. Scott. ‘He won’t be attending,” Scott spokesperson REBECCA KELLEY wrote in response to an email inquiry. Too bad. The one and only Republican who can win statewide ought to be a bit of a draw himself at a party fundraiser.

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Star of the Show

The Vermont Republican Party has lined up a real star for its April 5 fundraiser in South Burlington. STAR PARKER, in fact. She’s a black conservative writer and commentator. She’s also founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a right-wing policy shop that promotes “market-based strategies to fight poverty,” according to its website. Parker has some fringy views on social issues. She doesn’t believe in evolution and believes that birth control and divorce are contrary to the Bible. She equates abortion with slavery as “crimes against humanity,” said that the Confederate flag and the LGBTQ rainbow flag “represent the exact same thing,” and claimed that food stamp recipients are

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Now here’s a deal for you. Earlier this month, the Burlington Free Press raised its single-copy price from $2.00 daily and $2.50 on Sunday to $2.50/$3.00. Monday’s paper checked in at 24 pages. Such a deal. “I have not sold one yet today,” said Sen. DICK MAZZA (D-Grand Isle), owner of Dick Mazza’s General Store in Colchester, speaking Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. “I think I sold two dailies all last week. On Sunday, I sold six copies.” Mazza recalled selling 80 to 100 Sunday editions during the Free Press’ salad days. Now, he said, “If I dropped the paper, no one would miss it.” To add insult to injury, Mazza said the store’s take for each paper sold is a measly 10 cents. Ouch. Free Press executive editor EMILIE STIGLIANI said corporate parent Gannett mandated the price hike. She declined to speculate on how many people would be willing to pay $2.50 for a daily paper or whether Gannett’s endgame is to go entirely digital. It sure seems that way. m Disclosure: Tim Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula Routly. Find our conflictof-interest policy here: sevendaysvt.com/ disclosure.

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hristopher Hayden barraged a Burlington city councilor with messages to “go back to Senegal” and “watch your step.” He walked into Burlington City Hall and shouted for the “Jew” mayor to come face him. And he called the city’s police chief at all hours, leaving cackling voicemails on his cellphone that threatened, “I’m gonna get you, Jew boy.” Racists who verbally attack public figures can vex police and prosecutors, who must balance public safety with strong constitutional protections for free speech. Civil rights groups recently criticized Bennington police and Attorney General T.J. Donovan for not pursuing criminal charges against the white nationalist who racially harassed former state representative Kiah Morris online. In Hayden’s case, Burlington authorities haven’t hesitated to bring charges. For two decades, police have noted his grotesque dances upon the stage of free speech and arrested him at every misstep. Hayden, 50, has been prosecuted 40 times since the ’90s and faces seven more charges filed since October. He is accused of hate crimes against the mayor, the chief of police and a city councilor. The unusual charges point to Burlington’s aggressive approach to hate crimes — as well as limitations of the law. Hayden considers himself a contrarian social critic and a satirist whose free speech rights have been trammeled. But the public figures he’s harassed say his threats are no joke. Many mass shootings “took root in speech that was exactly like this,” Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo said. “People, I think, were becoming worried about that, that we have this person in our midst who is conforming to exactly such a pattern.” Hayden’s present troubles began October 9, when he walked into the Champlain Housing Trust lobby to pay his rent. He appeared drunk and was ranting about his property manager, according to a police affidavit. Hayden told a frightened receptionist he would “slit her throat” and drew his finger across his neck. Two hours later, Hayden walked to Burlington City Hall, where Mayor Miro Weinberger was meeting with high school students in his office. Hayden began shouting from the reception area to “send that Jew out here!” Staff locked their office doors and shuffled the students and chaperones out a side door.

Christopher Hayden at Vermont Superior Court in Burlington

At the police station, Hayden’s bloodalcohol content was found to be more than triple the legal limit for driving. Hayden was charged with criminal threatening, a law passed in 2016 partly to protect Department for Children and Families workers, for his actions at the housing trust. Prosecutors also charged him with aggravated disorderly conduct accompanied by a “hate crime enhancement” for his alleged “tumultuous” behavior directed toward Weinberger. Both are misdemeanors, but the hate crime enhancement, reserved for actions “maliciously motivated” by a victim’s race, religion or other protected class, increases the maximum disorderly conduct penalty from six months to two years in jail. Less than two weeks later, City Councilor Ali Dieng (D/P-Ward 7) complained to police about emails he’d been receiving from Hayden since being elected in 2017. Initially, Dieng said, he was merely included on messages Hayden emailed to groups of people. Hayden eventually began sending vicious messages only to Dieng, who is from Senegal, noting his race

and details about his family. One read only, “hey nigger you better watch your step.” “When he started to talk about my family, that’s when I really said something needed to happen here,” Dieng said. Hayden was charged with disturbing the peace by electronic means, also with a hate crime enhancement, and was released from jail with orders from a judge that he could not possess a computer, harass Dieng or drink alcohol. He continued his electronic tirades, court documents allege. During a December interview with WCAX about bias incidents, del Pozo named Hayden as the source of roughly 20 percent of complaints in Burlington. Hayden responded with a barrage of emails to the black reporter who had interviewed del Pozo in which he referred to himself as a “trained killer.” Hayden next decided to target del Pozo, as if daring the authorities not to arrest him again. He sent dozens of emails and left 18 phone messages, transcriptions in his court file show. “Jew boy! I’m gonna come get you personally I guess if you don’t step the fuck off,” Hayden said in one message.

The upshot: another count of misdemeanor disturbing the peace by phone with a hate crime enhancement. During that investigation, officers found Hayden cracking open a Natural Ice beer in his Grant Street apartment in Burlington — a violation of a judge’s order that he not drink alcohol. So he went back to jail until February 7, when a judge released him on still more conditions, including that he not visit the police station without legitimate business. Five days later, Hayden walked into the headquarters at 1 North Avenue and ripped a police department logo from the wall. He was arrested and is being held in lieu of $1,000 bail. Hayden has sent hundreds, if not thousands, of emails to Vermont public officials and media, including Seven Days, over the years. A few of his charges have been for violent acts, as when Hayden pushed and threw a brick at someone staying at the Ho Hum Motel in South Burlington. In 2012, mayor-elect Weinberger first encountered Hayden at outgoing mayor Bob Kiss’s office.

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CRIME “He gave a Heil Hitler salute and said some pretty anti-Semitic things,” Weinberger recalled. “He stormed out of the office and broke a water cooler on the way out.” Del Pozo said officers are accustomed to abusive language. But Hayden’s repetitive, targeted messages stand out. Del Pozo also said he felt a duty to come forward personally. “It’s my job to protect these people, and when I became a target, I was going to act on their behalf,” he said. The new charges are merely the latest turn in Hayden’s cycle through state custody — which generally concludes with a mental health commitment. Court records indicate that Hayden did a stint in the former Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury in spring 2011. He’s also been through mental health and drug treatment courts, but the cycle persists. The last one began in 2015, when Hayden was alleged to have threatened black men on Church Street while holding a screwdriver. More charges accumulated, including for harassing a Burlington Free Press writer who reported on the incident. His treatment court process fell apart in June 2017, shortly after Hayden sent a series of anti-Muslim, vaguely threatening emails to then-interim Vermont Democratic Party chair Faisal Gill, who is Pakistani American. Hayden also spammed Vermont media and public officials with a poem that began “It’s time to kill Fat Faisil [sic] Gill” and described acts of mutilation. Two court-ordered doctor’s evaluations determined that Hayden was mentally fit to stand trial. But three public defenders in a row withdrew, because Hayden believed they were undermining

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his rights. After Hayden’s third attorney begged off, a third competency exam found him unfit to stand trial. So, in July 2018, the state resolved Hayden’s pending cases by agreeing to a 90-day order of nonhospitalization, which put him in the care of the state Department of Mental Health for community-based treatment. Three months later, Hayden threatened his property managers, and the cycle started anew. During a brief interview last Saturday at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton, Hayden appeared slighter than in his emailed selfies, and he did not

most-persecuted dissident,” but the rightwing fever swamps have not picked up his cause. Hayden has defended his actions on First Amendment grounds and has cited the AG’s words at the Bennington press conference about former representative Morris’ harassment. “The court tells us that where speech involves public officials or manners of public concern, the First Amendment tolerates a great deal of speech that is hateful and offensive,” Donovan said at the time, in a quote Hayden excerpted in one of his emails.

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voice the rage he expresses electronically. Rather than answer questions, Hayden gave only a short statement declaring himself a “satirist” and a “patriot.” He then told this reporter, “Don’t forget who you’re fucking with now,” and walked off. He looked dazed as a guard pointed him back toward the cellblock. Attempts to speak to Hayden’s family were unsuccessful. One apparent out-ofstate relative asked not to be contacted again, without confirming or denying the familial relationship. “I have nothing to tell you,” the person said. Hayden’s obscure blog makes reference to his mental health and alcohol issues, though his writings are often lucid and occasionally clever. He created a meme depicting himself as “Vermont’s

At a March 1 hearing, Hayden’s latest appointed attorney, Robert Katims, argued that his actions at city hall and emails to Councilor Dieng did not contain explicit threats or any physical component and were therefore constitutionally protected. The state, meanwhile, said the charges don’t require an explicit threat — or any threat at all. Hayden’s disruptive behavior in the mayor’s office qualifies as disorderly conduct, according to a legal memo from the State’s Attorney’s Office. The emails to Dieng were illegal because they were repetitive and purely malicious, the state says. The state also argues that Dieng’s status as a public figure isn’t relevant because Hayden’s speech “had nothing to do with his public role as a City of Burlington Councilor.”

Superior Court Judge Kevin Griffin has yet to rule on the arguments. Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George declined to discuss the pending cases but noted their “complicated” nature and said her office carefully considers constitutional questions when reviewing each charge. Weinberger commended police and prosecutors for their “aggressive actions.” “I think if Kiah Morris had been living within Burlington when these incidents [targeting her] took place, the Burlington Police Department would have been as aggressive as possible in protecting her,” Weinberger said. During his 117 recorded encounters with police and dozens of prosecutions since 2011, Hayden’s mental health has been called into question repeatedly. Del Pozo acknowledged as much but said the justice system’s “first goal” is to protect Vermonters. “The second goal is, if possible, to try to get him help that will make him less of a threat,” he said. Gill said he considered that mental health issues might have prompted Hayden’s missives. But he also noted that the man was persistent and methodical. “He knows what he’s doing, and he’s doing it very deliberately,” Gill said. Gill thinks Hayden should be in jail. Dieng said he isn’t sure where Hayden belongs. His concern is more immediate. “All I want is for him to stop contacting me and sending emails about my religion, my family, my race,” Dieng said. m Contact: derek@sevendaysvt.com

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hen Amelia Potasznik-Kriv and her wife, Caitlin, made up their minds last year to get the hell out of Dallas, they began their search exactly where one might expect. “I just started Googling ‘places to live that are progressive,’” the 34-year-old immigration attorney said. Potasznik-Kriv found plenty of references to Vermont’s liberal politics and livability. She found Burlington described as walkable, dog-friendly and culturally diverse, as well as close to Lake Champlain and the mountains — all characteristics that appealed to the couple and their two young children. Then Potasznik-Kriv saw something that really caught her eye: news coverage of the state’s offer of up to $10,000 in cost reimbursement for remote workers who move to the Green Mountains. “It was kind of like a sign from the universe that this was the right place for us,” said Potasznik-Kriv, who, thanks to the internet, can work for her Texas law firm while living nearly 2,000 miles away. The state’s much-hyped initiative to entice people to live in Vermont while working for employers in other states is beginning to show results, according to Gov. Phil Scott’s administration. The first batch of newcomers arrived in recent months from all over the country. While administration officials say the program is off to a great start and should be expanded, critics question whether the money is well spent. “They are not filling vacant jobs,” state Auditor Doug Hoffer said of the newcomers. “They brought their jobs with them. I would much rather be making an investment in the people of Vermont.” The $500,000 program was a centerpiece of Scott’s efforts last year to attract new residents. In his budget address this year, the governor called Vermont’s declining workforce “the root of every problem we face” and said more workers were needed to help spread the state’s tax burden more broadly. Thirty people have applied for reimbursement since January 1, and officials have approved 19 requests to date, according to Joan Goldstein, commissioner of the Department of Economic Development. Each applicant is eligible for up to $10,000 ($5,000 a year for two years) for moving costs and expenses such as

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broadband internet, rent for coworking spaces and some office equipment. If every applicant received the full $10,000, the program would have enough money to reimburse just 50 remote workers. But so far, according to Goldstein, eligible workers have requested an average of only $3,842, for a total of $73,000. Potasznik-Kriv said she requested $3,900, most of which was for a shipping container and movers, as well as smaller amounts for office supplies, such as a printer and phone accessories. Because it’s a reimbursement program, it’s impossible to predict exactly how

many people will benefit from it. State budget writers made $125,000 available this year, $250,000 next year and $125,000 the year after that. If the average of $3,842 per applicant holds, the program could reimburse 130 workers new to the state. The true number of transplants is likely to be significantly higher, however, because recipients typically bring families with them, Goldstein said. The 19 workers approved so far have been accompanied by 31 children, spouses and others, for a total of 50 new residents. Officials are pleased with the response,

even if those numbers are a far cry from the 3,000 inquiries the state received from potential applicants and the 2 billion “impressions” the program or stories about it notched online. “That’s 50 people that weren’t in the state two months ago,” Goldstein said. “I feel good about that.” If the applicant-to-household-size ratio holds, the state could expect to attract 338 new residents through the program over three years. Miguel Turner has already brought his growing family to the state. The 37-yearold cybersecurity expert had been living with his wife and two children in a Miami suburb in a home on a quarter of an acre of land. With another child on the way and family in the Pawlet area, they yearned for a little open space of their own, according to Turner. Now they’ve purchased a $450,000 post-and-beam style home on nine acres in Cambridge with views of Mount Mansfield — and they couldn’t be happier. “That part of the move has certainly been a huge benefit for us,” Turner said. Downsides so far include the schools, which his children love but which may not be as academically challenging as those in Miami, and the lack of broadband internet access in his area, he said. Whether the program can legitimately take credit for luring the five-member Turner family to the Green Mountain State is debatable. They had already decided to move to Vermont when local friends told them about the program. “The grant maybe helped us decide that now is the time,” Turner said. “I saw it as a little bit of providence.” The question of whether the reimbursements would really incentivize people to move or whether they would just go to those who had already decided to move troubled some legislators last year. Rep. Charlie Kimbell (D-Woodstock), who opposed the program, said he’d rather see the state address underlying problems that impede the state’s growth than engage in what he called gimmicks. Such longterm solutions include improving education, making childcare more available and addressing the high cost of housing, he argued. In response to criticism last year that the program wouldn’t do anything for those who already live in the state, economic development officials requested $1 million in next year’s budget to make the reimbursements available to newly

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hired employees of Vermont-based businesses, if the workers move to Vermont from out of state. With the state’s unemployment rate at a historic low, businesses struggle to recruit badly needed workers. These extra funds would help make such moves more manageable for new residents, according to Goldstein. The additional $1 million would be available in the first year — not spread over three years as was the initial appropriation. But that idea ran into opposition in the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development, of which Kimbell is the ranking member. He and other legislators who question

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igh school students commonly excuse themselves from class to use the bathroom, then use the trip to take furtive hits of nicotine-laced vapor from e-cigarettes. Some go a bolder route: They’ll take a hit of an e-cig, usually a Juul, while the teacher’s back is turned. By the time the teacher turns around again, the vapor has dissipated. “It’s infested our school community,” said Montia Peart, an Essex High School senior, echoing what students and employees from three Vermont schools told Seven Days. The sleek devices, which often resemble USB flash drives in size and style, are essentially cigarettes reimagined for the digital era, delivering hits of vapor from pods that have no tobacco but contain as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. Juuls are “pretty prevalent,” said Montpelier High School senior Willem Slade, so much so that the brand has become part of the teen lexicon. “Juuling in the bathroom, any free time you have; in the back of class because they’re so easy to conceal,” he said. The data support Slade’s observations. Nationally, 1.5 million teens picked up the habit last year, a near doubling of use by high school students since 2017, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The 2017 Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that one third of the state’s youths had used an e-cigarette, and one in five said they’d vaped during the previous month. The 2019 survey is currently under way, and health experts expect user rates to be dramatically higher. Last December, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams declared youth nicotine dependency an epidemic. To combat the problem, the FDA recently released a draft policy intended to limit the number of flavored e-cigarettes — which teens are more likely to use — on the market. The rules would also require stores to sell such products in areas off-limits to minors; online retailers, meanwhile, would need to use third-party age verification services. The changes would take effect in August 2021. In Vermont, lawmakers are considering three bills this session that proponents think could help curb youth use. “Sometimes it takes a crisis,” said Rep. George Till (D-Jericho), a physician and longtime advocate for stronger tobacco regulation who sponsored two of the bills. “The vaping thing has just totally turned this discussion around.” Seven Days spoke with several Vermont high schoolers to get their take on the proposed laws and what they think might work. One bill, S.86, would raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco products — and e-cigarettes — from 18 to 21. The Senate, which rejected similar legislation in 2016 and 2017, approved the measure on March 1, and the bill was sent to the House for consideration. Would that law discourage teens from vaping? The 2017 Vermont survey found that nearly half of the students who used e-cigarettes obtained them from other people, and teens confirmed that’s common. “Some

students at our school are 18 already, or students have friends who are 18, and it’s really easy to ask upperclassmen,” Slade said. Montpelier High School senior Nadia Scoppettone said the measure could effectively restrict students’ access to vape products. “There are some people who are 21 who might buy you a Juul, but a lot fewer,” she said. “And, like, a 15-year-old probably doesn’t know a 21-year-old that’s gonna buy you a Juul.” Slade and Scoppettone are both 18 themselves and have been asked by younger peers to buy them pods. “It’s just super uncomfortable,” said Slade, adding that he’d turned down the requests. Another bill, H.47, would extend the current 92 percent tax on cigarettes to all tobacco products, as well as e-cigarettes. In his January budget address, Gov. Phil Scott, who has generally opposed new taxes, called for a new levy on electronic nicotine products, citing the need to deter youth. The House passed H.47 in early February, and the Senate is considering it. Although higher prices would likely discourage teenagers who haven’t picked up vaping, many teens doubt that it would stop their peers who are already hooked. Among those is a 16-year-old New Haven boy who described himself as “quite addicted to vaping.”

“I usually go through a pod a day,” said the teen, who asked not to be identified and communicated with Seven Days via text. A new tax would be an annoyance, the boy said, but not a barrier. Vaping is already expensive, he noted, but he has ways of resupplying at a lower cost, such as getting vapor cartridges from friends. “There are knockoff brands that are cheap,” he texted. Still, several high schoolers told Seven Days a price increase would have some impact. “It’s not like teenagers have unlimited money,” Scoppettone said. One online Juul “starter kit” — which includes the device, a charger and four pods — sells for $29.99. The kits are currently subject only to Vermont’s 6 percent state sales tax, so expanding the cigarette tax to e-cigarettes would nearly double the price. But that likely wouldn’t stop youth use altogether. “Addiction overrides pricing for anything,” noted Brooke Jette, a prevention specialist at Middlebury Union High School. The third bill was sparked by concerns that e-cigarettes can be purchased online without rigorous age verification; it would restrict e-commerce to licensed vendors. The House passed H.26 on March 13, but many students don’t think the measure would have a large impact.

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The Vermont survey found that only want: “They don’t actually expect to be about 10 percent of young users obtained dependent on it their whole lives.” vaping supplies online. Several students Slade described students making noted that parents often disapprove offhand jokes about addiction “without of vaping and could easily intercept really giving it too much thought.” The New Haven boy who texted with packages. Any measure of deterrence is worth- Seven Days said he has been vaping for while, said Montpelier High School a year and grew worried as he watched principal Mike McRaith, who supports his use increase over time. He once sold all three proposals. “They’re not going to his Juul in an effort to quit, but he ended keep kids from vaping altogether,” he said. up using his friend’s so often that he just bought another one and grew resigned to “But it will help.” Justin Hoy, the director of prevention his habit. services at Essex CHIPS, a youth-focused Experts emphasize the importance of community health nonprofit, agreed. educating youth about the health risks “They’re all better than what we have and addictive qualities of nicotine. High right now, which is nothing,” he said. school students said a cultural shift is Alex Morano, who owns the Valley needed. Juuling isn’t only accessible, Vape Company in Essex Junction, said it’s cool. For anything to change, said she would like to see more “nuance” Ramona Bilodeau, a senior at Essex in the regulations. She does support High School, “teens need to realize it’s e-commerce limits and not normal.” restricting legal purchases Bilodeau, along with “to an age that doesn’t the other high schoolers in typically attend high Above the Influence, a peer school.” Morano, though, leadership group facilitated fears the tax proposal by Hoy at Essex CHIPS, is would harm businesses trying to make a difference. such as hers. Gas stations The group has given an RAMON A B ILODE AU educational presentation and convenience stores could survive the tax hike titled, “E-Cigs, Vaping, and because they sell other products, she said. Juul: What You Need to Know,” to every No research yet exists on the long- middle school class in the Essex Westford term health effects of vaping, but School District. nicotine is dangerous for teens. The Principal McRaith said he addresses surgeon general warns that it can harm the subject, too. “The angle that I’ve taken development of the regions of the brain with our students is … they’re being taken responsible for attention and learning, advantage of by for-profit companies increase the risk of mood disorders, and who understand that teenagers would permanently harm impulse control. Nico- be drawn to this kind of seemingly adult tine can “prime the adolescent brain for behavior and product,” he said. But unlike addiction” later in life, according to the other fads and trends, he tells them, this surgeon general’s website. one is addictive and hard to quit. Students find health warnings Health educators in schools across the unconvincing. state have updated their drug and illicit “We see people … who have smoked substances curriculum, adding coursecigarettes their whole life, and we see work on e-cigarettes and vaping. Rhonda how that’s a big impact on them, and we Williams, the chronic disease prevention don’t think it’s cool, or whatever,” Scop- chief for the Vermont Department of pettone said. “But with Juuling, there’s Health, said the state is taking “aggressive no cautionary tale.” action.” Some students don’t even realize they The New Haven youth who is addicted are addicted. “Kids never think they’re said that restricting e-cigs could have a going to have a problem,” said Remi perverse effect: “I just know that the Savard, another Montpelier High School harder they make it to get, the more I want senior. “And when they do, they don’t to get it, honestly, if that makes any sense.” really believe it.” He raised a point reminiscent of Most students lack awareness about Vermont’s emerging approach to another the potential consequences of addiction, addiction problem, the opioid crisis. In said Scoppettone, and “don’t talk about recent years, the response has shifted how that impacts your life or how that from law enforcement to public health. can impact your future.” She added, “They Simply making vape products harder don’t really consider it as, like, an addic- to obtain is not the answer, the teen said, tion to a drug. It doesn’t look like a drug.” telling Seven Days that “If adults want us Scoppettone believes that many are to stop vaping, they need to find ways to confident they can quit whenever they help addicted kids.”

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After a bitter debate last Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly approved a compromise bill proposed by Sen. Dick Sears (D-Bennington) that would require a 24-hour waiting period for handgun sales in Vermont. The full Senate is expected to consider the legislation this week. The measure is a scaled-back version of a bill introduced by Sen. Phil Baruth (D/P-Chittenden), who wanted a 48-hour waiting period for all gun sales. His proposal had support from the family of 23-year-old Andrew Black, an Essex man who shot and killed himself last December, hours after purchasing a gun. Baruth, who sits on the five-member Judiciary Committee, was unable to find two allies for his proposal. Instead, he signed on to Sears’ compromise, which still needed support from one more committee member in order to pass. Sears said he introduced his compromise proposal for a 24-hour ban after hearing testimony from a wide range of experts, including emergency room doctors and gun shop owners. He read an excerpt of a letter from one gun seller who wrote in opposition to waiting periods. “Many of our sales are impulse buys,” Sears read from the letter. “A 48-hour waiting period pretty much puts an end to the impulse buy.” Sears said the letter was convincing, but not in the way its author intended. “I realize he was trying to tell me not to vote for the bill, but by the same token, he’s saying many of his sales are impulse buys,” Sears said. The senator also pointed to testimony from Dr. Rebecca Bell, a pediatric critical care physician from the University of Vermont Medical Center. She told the committee that contrary to popular belief, people who are suicidal do not simply find any means necessary to kill themselves in the absence of a gun. Sens. Jeanette White (D-Windham), Joe Benning (R-Caledonia) and Alice Nitka (D-Windsor) questioned whether it’s the responsibility of state government to intervene if a person decides to end their own life. Benning, who said he’s lost multiple friends to suicide-by-handgun, compared suicide prevention efforts to government interference in a woman’s right to choose an abortion. “I know this may sound, at first blush, as if it’s coming out of left field, but the fundamental right of an individual to control their bodies and make decisions about their bodies is something I’m very attuned to,” Benning said. “And as crazy as this may sound, if I decide to commit suicide, what right does the State of Vermont have to try to intercede because somebody around this table feels, ‘Well, that’s tragic’?” Nitka agreed. Pointing to Vermont’s 2013 law that allows patients with terminal illnesses to receive a prescription for a fatal dose of drugs, she suggested those patients should have the same right to buy a gun and shoot themselves. Nitka said she knew multiple people with late-stage cancer who had shot and killed themselves.

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Both she and Benning voted against the bill. The deciding yes vote came from White, who admitted that she was conflicted about whether the state should intervene in cases of suicide. But her decision was influenced by the story of a friend’s son, whom she described as a “really happy kid.” “He went out that night, and it was slippery, and he wrecked his mom’s new car,” White said, “and he was really bummed out about that, and he thought she was going to yell at him. He went to his very favorite place … the top of a mountain right near my house.” After a morning of heated exchanges in which senators spoke over each other, White’s story brought a sense of quiet to the room. There were no side conversations or raised hands from other senators waiting to get a word in. “It was a beautiful January night. The moon was out. There was this little cabin there on the top of the hill. And there was a rope hanging there, and he hung himself,” White said. “I know that he had not thought about that before.” She said a waiting period for handgun purchases could prevent similarly impulsive suicides. “If we have a short waiting period, it might …” White said, trailing off. “I believe that if an owl had hooted right then, that he would have been jolted out of that. But I will never know that.”

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Sanders Institute to Suspend Operations as Namesake Seeks Presidency The Burlington-based Sanders Institute is winding down its operations as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ramps up his presidential campaign. The Associated Press first reported last Thursday that the nonprofit think tank founded by the senator’s wife, Jane O’Meara

Sanders, and her son, David Driscoll, would stop raising money immediately and close its doors by the end of May. In a press release issued later that evening, the institute said it was making the move in order to “avoid confusion or even the misperception of any overlap” between the institute and Sanders’ presidential campaign. As a 501c3 nonprofit, the institute is barred from certain lobbying and electoral activities. In an interview with the New York Times, O’Meara Sanders acknowledged that the situation “could become too mushy” if she remained active with the institute while campaigning for her husband. Founded in June 2017, the institute was one of a pair of organizations that sprouted out of Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. The other, a 501c4 called Our Revolution, has more legal leeway to engage in political activity. Though some of Our Revolution’s leaders have decamped for the 2020 campaign, that organization appears to remain active. The institute has been criticized for paying Driscoll, who had no previous nonprofit or political experience, a salary of $100,000 to serve as executive director. A July 2018 investigation by VTDigger.org found that the organization had accomplished little in its first year. Last November, it hosted a three-day conference on the Burlington waterfront featuring New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Dr. Cornel West and the actors Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon and John Cusack. According to the institute’s press release, its board of directors voted February 28 to suspend operations. It did not say whether the organization would resume its activities at a later date, but O’Meara Sanders suggested it would. “The work will definitely come back,” she told the Times.

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Some new residents arguably will quickly contribute more in taxes and other spending than the state reimbursements they have received. Po t a s z n i k- K r i v b o u g h t a $350,000 duplex and will pay Vermont income taxes, though her law firm is in Dallas. Her spouse is paying college tuition and fees in Vermont, and the couple’s 5-year-old son is in private school, Potasznik-Kriv said. The children’s biological father, photographer Arik Cardenas, has moved into the other half of the duplex the family purchased in Burlington’s Old North End and will be contributing to the local economy as well, Potasznik-Kriv noted. Turner, the new Cambridge resident, said he, too, feels the taxes he’s paying and the restaurants, wineries and other businesses his family plans to patronize as they explore their new home will more than make their clan a net contributor to the state’s economy. “I’d like to think that I’m the type of person they were looking for,” he said. Part of what state Auditor Hoffer dislikes about the program is the lack of policy analysis to justify the remote worker incentives, compared to other options that might help Vermonters on the employment sidelines get back into the workforce. The program seems to assume the new residents will stay forever, which is by no means assured. “They could leave two years later, and that money would have been completely wasted,” Hoffer said. As for how these formerly southern families are faring in the harsh northern climate, it depends whom you ask. “We talk to Vermonters who say they can’t wait for winter to be over, but we feel like it isn’t snowing enough!” Turner said. Potasznik-Kriv said she’s getting through by “wearing like 20 layers” and thinks arriving in the dead of a harsh winter with two kids “toughened them up.” “The first time it snowed, they were in heaven. They were like ‘What is this, magic?’” But, she added, “Three weeks later they were over it.” Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com

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1970-2019, BURLINGTON John Patrick Bowles (“Johnny Bowles”) moved on from this life on February 26, 2019. Although Burlington, Vt., was his longtime home, he was living outside of Portland, Ore., at the time of his passing. John was a true gentleman and was always there to celebrate life’s moments with his friends. He was well known for sharing his liberal political views, cheering on his beloved teams, and producing a song or meme perfect for the moment. John was born on February 5, 1970, and was raised in Somers, Conn. John moved to Burlington in 1988 to attend the University of Vermont, where he studied political science and English. He held a 10-year (1994 to 2004) gig as the assistant manager and barista at Uncommon Grounds, focusing

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on snowboarding and living the good life in BTV. During this time, he started his own business and contributed for many years to internationally recognized local action-sports brands as an editor and writer. He was the longtime copy editor at Snowboard Magazine. John loved the finer things in life, specifically watches and suits. He took a job at Macy’s and introduced his circle to the world of haberdashery. He also spent a few years as a leader on the packaging lines at Magic Hat Brewery. John lived in Burlington until August of 2013, when he ventured west and settled in Washington State for two years, in order to snowboard and experience the Pacific Northwest that he’d always loved. He returned to Burlington in the spring of 2015 and took a job with the United States Postal Service, where he worked until the spring of 2018. Although John struggled to love himself, he was incredibly talented at lifting up others and helping us see our strengths even when we could not see them ourselves. He will be greatly missed by the many of us who were fortunate enough to have known his presence in our lives. In remembrance of John, please donate to a charity of your choice, put on your best suit and take a stroll down Church Street, or give someone your smile when they don’t have one of their own. A celebration of John’s life will be held in Burlington, Vt., in summer 2019.

Marcia L. Mason 1932-2019

“You wake up in the morning with an emotional and physical bank account. Ask yourself, ‘How do I want to spend it?’” This is the wise advice of Marcia L. Mason, 86, who passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 6, 2019, having fully engaged with life — including dance, travel, education, groundbreaking social action, art and adventure. She was a supportive, encouraging and loving mother and friend. Marcia was born in Salem, Mass., at the crack of midnight, the daughter of Albena (LeBlanc) of Québec and Philip Klippel Mason of Salem. She and her older brother, Ken, grew up in Lynn, raised by their mother. Marcia was a tomboy, an avid dancer and a reader. She raised her daughter, Deborah, while earning her BS in elementary education. In 1987 Marcia earned her master’s in higher education, moving to Burlington in 1989 to assist with the

formation of OVUM PACIS: The Women’s International Peace University. While the university did not come to fruition, Marcia fell in love with Burlington, became active in the Burlington Friends Meeting and worked with Garry Davis, founder of World Government of World Citizens, where she was well known for her newsletter column, “Women in the World.” She was a founding board member and original resident of Flynn Ave Co-op, where she lived for 25 years with her beloved cats, Angel, Tinker and Belle. Marcia retired in 1998 but didn’t slow down. In addition to skydiving and a glider ride over Stowe with her daughter, Marcia also enjoyed a hot air balloon ride — all in her sixties and seventies. She continued her active involvement in the co-op and Burlington Friends Meeting, volunteered as an usher at the Flynn Center, was president of the Green Mountain Chapter of O.W.L. (Older Women’s League) and on the board of the League of Women Voters, and served as inspector of elections for Burlington’s Ward 5. At the Champlain Senior Center, Marcia was known for the warm welcome she gave everyone. She took art classes to hone her skills, especially painting and drawing, and went on many sightseeing and museum excursions. At Ethan Allen Residence in the New North End, Marcia enjoyed art, flower arranging, music, bocce ball and cards — any occasion to spend meaningful time with fellow residents, staff and friends. It was Marcia’s nature to learn, to grow, to share, to express, to be present for everyone and take something away from everything she participated in. Her essence was in finding the joy, not waiting for the joy to come to

her (such as wearing brightly colored socks to match her outfit). It was seeing things through to the end; it was her smile that said: “I am happy to be with you.” Marcia had the ability to take advantage of life’s opportunities, overcoming the adversities of life with faith and the belief that each day is a new beginning. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Avey Wenger of New Jersey, as well as Deborah’s “Vermont sister,” Bonnie Campono of Burlington. Marcia was predeceased by her parents and brother. There will be a memorial service at Burlington Friends Meeting, 173 N. Prospect St., Burlington, at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 31. The family thanks everyone at Ethan Allen Residence for the loving and joyful care and friendship they gave Mom for the past year and Bayada Hospice for the gentle attention and comfort they provided in her last few weeks. Memorial contributions may be made to Ethan Allen Residence for the continuation of the bird garden, Burlington Friends Meeting, Champlain Senior Center or the Humane Society of Chittenden County. Arrangements are in the care of the Ready Funeral & Cremation Service. To send online condolences to her family, please visit readyfuneral.com.

Susan Green

1943-2019, BURLINGTON Susan L. Green, age 76, passed away at her home in Burlington, Vt., on Friday, March 1. She was born in 1943 in Manhattan to Alfred and Esther (Kaplan) Zuckerman. She grew up in Valley Stream, Long Island, where she graduated from Valley Stream South High School.

She attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., and Simmons School of Social Work in Boston. Susan was passionate about her writing craft, the arts, film and social justice. An award-winning journalist, she wrote for numerous print and online publications including the Burlington Free Press, Seven Days, VTDigger. org, the Hollywood Reporter and Box Office, among many others. Her articles appeared in Rolling Stone, USA Today and other national periodicals. She coauthored three books: Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion, and Bread and Puppet: Stories of Struggle and Faith From Central America. Susan served as director of Burlington City Arts from 1985 to 1993. She was a lifelong political activist who struggled against racism, sexism, war and the destruction of the environment. Susan is survived by her daughter, Jennifer (Peter); her brother Steven (Sylvia); her sister Ryki; nieces Lynn (Eric) and Rachel (Daniel) and their children; her former husband Bob (Bill); many beloved cousins; a wide community of devoted friends and colleagues; and her beloved cat, Isabella. A celebration of Susan’s life is planned for Sunday, April 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center at 60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT 05401. In Susan’s words, please send “donations, if any, to saving the environment.” Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County, a division of the Ready Funeral Home. Please visit creamtion societycc.com to place online condolences.

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In his February 27 Fair Game, John Walters refers to Venezuela in summarizing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) foreign policy. Unfortunately, Walters uses the same lazy, one-sided, decontextualized approach seen across the mainstream media to infer that all Venezuelans are being held hostage by a “dictator” who tyrannically refuses international “aid” rather than sovereign people — in an independent country with a much better election record than that of the U.S. — being undermined by sanctions and embargoes. Further, Sanders is “at risk of being depicted as a socialist appeaser.” Racism, greed, hubris and fearmongering have produced our “fraught history” in Latin AmerBrad Braddon, general manager of ica, the Middle East and technology for Tekni-Plex, which Southeast Asia under manufactures plastic containers the guise of democratic “intentions.” Democrats and Republicans alike still deviously concoct the Red Scare, and far too many reporters willingly dose the public. I am withholding my vote for Bernie until he challenges the militaryindustrial-espionage complex that consumes our national budget and inflames global conflict. Walters should withhold his international reporting until any more positive, issue-oriented approach to historical “skepticism” allows for more campaigning. That’s why it’s always won than a trite summary of a real, present- my vote. If you do even minimal research, day crisis. Continue with the solid, local no doubt it’ll win yours, as well. journalism. Russ Weis

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[Re Off Message: “Vermont Senate Bill Would Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags,” March 13]: As Vermont legislators dither about banning single-use plastic bags, stores could take the positive step of charging for all bags, plastic or paper. In Germany more than 50 years ago, I learned that without my own bag, the grocery store would charge me about 25 cents for each bag I needed to carry off my purchase. If our markets charged accordingly, people would soon remember to bring in reusable bags — and our environment would benefit. Susan Ohanian

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n eagle-eyed imbiber of Foam Brewing beer might notice a sly message on each of its 16-ounce cans: “Time Kills Art.” In the case of an IPA, this postmodern manifesto is an exhortation to drink while fresh. On Saturday, March 23, the Lake Street suds factory in Burlington will host a reception of the same name to showcase the work of 17 artists. The event will also christen a 2,000-square-foot expansion in its building across from Waterfront Park. In January, Foam leased the adjacent first-floor space, formerly a warren of law offices and therapy practices. During the week leading up to the reception, the artists — all of whom have previously collaborated with the brewery on can-label art, graphic design and multimedia content — will paint murals on false interior walls. “Most of the artists will likely finish their murals before the event, but there’ll probably be some live painting going on, too,” said Foam marketing and administrative coordinator ADAM KARAS. Then, a week or two after the show, those murals will be demolished to prepare for renovations. Hence, time kills art. The participating artists hail mostly from Vermont and New England. Burlington-based artists include New Yorker-published illustrator SARAH LETTENY, who has lent her whimsical goth aesthetic to ¡Duino! (Duende) and Maglianero Café; and Burton Snowboards designer JACKSON TUPPER.

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Painter Charlie Hudson, a University of Vermont grad now living and working in New York City, will also be part of the show. He has previously created murals for Burlington International Airport, the Skinny Pancake and Stowe Mountain Resort. Photographer and music video producer KAYHL COOPER of NOISE ORDINANCE will project some of his videos. Each artist will have work for sale, ranging from photos and prints to illustrations and paintings. Karas said the event is meant to feel like an art opening, with a rotating cast of DJs spinning throughout the evening and small plates provided by GUTHRIE GALILEO of Nightshade Kitchen. For drinks: Foam beer, of course, plus Citizen Cider and wine from Shelburne Vineyard. “Our goal is to bring the art community together,” said Karas. “This is less about beer than about getting people to appreciate the incredible talent of these folks.” When Foam first acquired the new space, said Karas, it had “a very ’90s ‘Law and Order’ vibe, with all these funny wood fixtures that served no purpose.” Now, in its pre-construction state, it’s clean and bright — a 2,000-square-foot blank canvas. m C HE L S E A E D G A R

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INFO “Time Kills Art,” Saturday, March 23, 5-11 p.m., Foam Brewers, 112 Lake Street in Burlington. foambrewers.com

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t’s fine to experience opera without preparation — Julia Roberts did it in Pretty Woman and was moved to tears — but a little insight beforehand can be enormously helpful. With that in mind, SPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER now offers a free 45-minute talk by an actual opera singer before each of its Metropolitan Opera Live in HD encore broadcasts. The Stowe venue just began offering the broadcasts this season, and the talks are part of its equally new ArtSmart program. The educational series also brings in musicians to introduce live Spruce Peak Chamber Music Society concerts, and a dancer will preview an upcoming Bolshoi Ballet broadcast. Bass ERIK KRONCKE of Montpelier and tenor KEVIN GINTER of Underhill are splitting

the opera talks between them. Both singers performed as soloists in the GREEN MOUNTAIN MAHLER FESTIVAL’s ninth annual New Year’s Day production of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at SPPAC, noted marketing and education manager JULIANNE NICKERSON, who invited them. Seven Days attended Kroncke’s introduction to George Bizet’s Carmen last Wednesday, curious to see what the professional singer would say about an opera that consistently ranks in the top three most performed worldwide, according to Operabase Statistics. Kroncke will also introduce Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre on April 10 and Guiseppe Verdi’s Aida on May 7. Ginter previewed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute in December and will take on Francis

Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites on June 26. The talks are intended to “delve into the story and help you understand it before you see it,” Nickerson told a noontime audience of 11, who were seated at tables onstage and had brought brownbag lunches. But Kroncke began by saying that the Met has that part covered, pointing to a detailed plot summary included in SPPAC’s program. Instead, he wanted to talk about Carmen from the “point of view of an opera fanatic,” he said. “To me, this stuff is fascinating.” Kroncke, 49, performs around the country, and in Italy every summer; locally, he’s sung with the OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY and will play Le Roi in the company’s upcoming production of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon. He sang the part of police chief Zuniga in a 2011 production of Carmen by the now-defunct Green Mountain Opera Festival. His start in opera, Kroncke said, came when he sang in the chorus of a Colorado production of Carmen at age 13.

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The singer described the oddity of Carmen within Bizet’s brief oeuvre. Calling the opera the composer’s only “flawless” work, Kroncke said it was panned at its 1875 premiere in Paris. Bizet died three months later at age 36, unaware that his masterpiece would become one of the most popular in the opera repertoire. The Frenchman wrote the work as a light operetta with comic moments and spoken dialogue between set pieces instead of sung lines (or recitative ones). He and two librettists based it on a dark novella but changed the title character so she was no longer a murderer. Bizet, Kroncke explained, hoped to lighten subject matter that he knew wouldn’t appeal to the bourgeoisie: Spanish soldiers and gypsy women who work as cigarette makers. “He never allows it to get dark and heavy,” said Kroncke, singing a snatch of melody to illustrate how the music balances several emotions at once. Ironically, he continued, the opera’s fame grew as a result of productions outside France, including ones in Italy, where it was gradually co-opted by “grand opera.” The dialogue was recast as recitative, and the music slowed down, among many changes — all cataloged in a definitive German-produced score. Holding up his thick, worn copy to the audience, Kroncke joked, “The Germans love doing this.”

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Kroncke, who’d already heard a radio broadcast of the production that audience members were about to see, said that, in his opinion, it brought back the lightness and speed Bizet intended. “It’s not what I’m used to,” he said, chalking up the Met production’s “Frenchness” to the French conductor (Louis Langrée) and two French leads, Clémentine Margaine as the seductive Carmen and Roberto Alagna as Don José, her increasingly possessive and crazed lover. (Alagna’s Poland-born wife, Aleksandra Kurzak, sang the other female lead.) “I’ve heard Germans and Italians conduct it, but never French,” Kroncke observed. Kroncke also talked about the Metropolitan Opera House, the world’s largest opera house (3,800 seats) with the biggest budget. Its current aesthetic, he said, is “very Eastern European” — a function of general manager Peter Gelb and his talent scouts, he opined. “Americans rarely sing leads at the Met now,” Kroncke said. “We don’t have a farm system like in Europe, where singers move from D houses to C to B and then A houses.” After a few more nuggets of behindthe-curtain talk, Kroncke wished the audience a pleasant viewing experience. He left them with a reminder of what opera is all about: “The drama is in the music. Always, the theater part is second.” m Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com

INFO ArtSmart talks at noon, Metropolitan Opera HD Live Encore broadcasts at 1 p.m., Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe. Find the schedule at sprucepeakarts.org.

Harold Weston, Sunrise from Marcy (detail), 1922. Oil on canvas, 16 x 22 in. Private Collection. © Harold Weston Foundation. Photography by Andy Duback.

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Montpelier Chamber Orchestra Premieres Original Film Scores at Green Mountain Film Festival

great film score can transform a movie. Just consider John Williams’ triumphant opening fanfare for Star Wars or his dread-inducing string work on Jaws, or Danny Elfman’s zany orchestral contributions to films such as Beetlejuice and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. That music can underscore and heighten the action on the screen was especially true at the dawn of cinema, when silent films were often presented with musicians performing scores live in the theater. This weekend, the MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA will perform new original scores to a trio of classic silent films as part of the annual GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL. The works were penned by locals, including professional composer ERIK NIELSEN and two student composers, ANNA HALLADAY of Burlington and DREW FRANKENBERG of West Rutland. Titled New Music at the Movies, the concerts happen on Friday, March 22, at ESSEX CINEMAS and Saturday, March 23, at College Hall Chapel, VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, in Montpelier. The project is a collaboration of the MCO, the GMFF and MUSIC-COMP, a nonprofit music-mentoring program that works with student composers all over Vermont. The three-pronged endeavor is the brainchild of MCO music director and conductor ANNE DECKER. “I’m always looking for ways to make the concert music that I work with relevant to the community that we’re in,” says Decker, who cofounded TURNMUSIC, a chamber ensemble that specializes in contemporary music. “Who doesn’t love movies?” she adds. Frankenberg, a homeschooled ninth grader, composed a new score to a section of Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi drama Metropolis.

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that opens with workers trudging to their jobs underground. “I think that’s just brilliant,” Decker says, noting that members of the orchestra consider the piece tiring to perform. “He didn’t just tie together the aural and visual experience; he created a similar experience, physically, for the players.” “It took a lot of time and effort,” says Frankenberg. “But it’s a lot of fun composing for a film.” The multi-instrumentalist credits his Music-COMP mentor, MATT

LAROCCA, with helping him navigate the composition process. “He was an amazing influence,” says Frankenberg. Halladay, a senior at Burlington High School and cellist with the VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION, composed for the 1907 short “La Glu,” a comedy about a young boy and his sticky misadventures with glue. “It’s supposed to be funny, so I wanted the mood to match what was going on in the film,” says Halladay, explaining that

she used a variety of compositional and articulation techniques to lighten up the piece. According to Decker, she succeeded. “It’s just really comical,” the conductor says of Halladay’s score, which reminds her of circus music. “It’s funny and lighthearted, which is exactly what the film is.” Nielsen’s commission, for acts IV and V of the 1926 animated fantasy film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, was supported by a grant from the VERMONT ARTS COUNCIL. “The music is very dramatic,” says Decker of Nielsen’s score, which, at 25 minutes, is the most substantial of the three pieces. “He has these big swells in moments that tie into the film, which are very stereotypical dramatic beats.” “There’s a fine balance between enhancing the action and working subliminally to let the audience know something is coming, and hitting them over the head with a sledgehammer,” says Nielsen. “This is fairy tale, an adventure story,” he continues. “It’s got Aladdin and his magic lamp, flying horses, demons, and an evil magician. There’s a lot of action, so I had to find fairly simple ways of highlighting it without getting too fancy.” To do that, Nielsen says, he actively avoided listening to the film’s original 1926 score. He also tried to acknowledge the story’s cultural roots by employing Middle Eastern modes. “I’m trying to make music that sounds like it’s of a place,” Nielsen explains. “But I’m also trying to take cues from the action on the screen, so, if Achmed shoots an arrow, you get that, too.” Writing for the MCO, he says, put an almost unlimited array of musical tools at his disposal. “When you’re working with an orchestra, you’ve got a Rolls-Royce to work with,” Nielsen says. m Contact: dan@sevendaysvt.com

INFO New Music at the Movies, Friday March 22, 7 p.m., at the T-Rex Theater at Essex Cinemas; and Saturday, March 23, 7 p.m., at College Hall Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, in Montpelier. $12-15, free for kids under 12. Green Mountain Film Festival, March 22 to 24 in Essex Junction and March 28 to 31 in Montpelier. Visit gmffestival.org for a complete list of films, theaters and showtimes.

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Major Arcana Filmed at locations around northeastern Vermont, this film by New York City- and Barnard-based writer/ director JOSH MELROD centers on a troubled carpenter who returns to his rural hometown to build a log cabin and get his life back together. It stars Tara Summers (“Boston Legal”) and first-time actor and native Vermonter Ujon Tokarski.

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A VERMONT CABBIE’S REAR VIEW BY JERNIGAN PONTIAC

Meet Your Heroes

ravis Kennedy was a burly man: 6-foot-3 if he was an inch, and probably 230 pounds. He was handsome, too, with a mop of curly, salt-and-pepper hair and a classic profile reminiscent of a Greco-Roman bust. So it was poignant to watch this rugged specimen being rolled out to my taxi in a wheelchair, one leg fully extended and seriously wrapped in what looked like layers of bandaging. Travis’ pushers were two friends of his, a middle-aged couple who — as I had been told when the fare was booked — looked after him during his six-week hospital stay. Something about this twosome struck me as they gently helped him into the back seat of my vehicle — no small job, as he could put no weight whatsoever on the bad leg. The pained manner of his movements suggested some problem with his torso, as well. Just from the way the pair moved and talked — with Travis and to one another — you could tell they were a team. I bet they’ve been together many years, probably two or three decades, I postulated, because this depth of mutual love and respect doesn’t develop overnight. “You sure you’re OK?” the woman asked Travis as she fluffed up the pillow, which sat on one of his bags to support his leg. The thing was already well fluffed, so this was tender overkill. “Andrea, I’m fine,” he responded, chuckling with appreciative exasperation. “You guys have been awesome, and you know how grateful I am.” I walked around to the curbside of the cab to introduce myself to the couple. I wanted to assure them that I’d take good care of their friend, whom I would be driving back to his home in eastern

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Connecticut, within hailing distance of Little Rhody. “I’m Andrea and this is my husband, Rich,” the woman said, beating me to the punch while smiling warmly. “I’m Jernigan,” I said, shaking hands with each of them. “You folks are locals, I take it?” “Yup, we’re from Underhill,” Rich replied, smiling like his wife. “Originally from Massachusetts, but we’ve been up here quite a while.”

ALL THE FAME AND MONEY DIDN’T CHANGE HIM ONE BIT.

“Well, I’ll get Travis home safe and sound, folks,” I promised. “You can count on it.” Once underway, I asked Travis what had landed him in the hospital. “I was in a snowmobile accident in what I guess you folks call the ‘Kingdom.’ I fractured my leg in three places and busted six ribs. And, on top of that, I picked up a wicked infection that they had to treat.” “Oh, shit!” I burst out. “Don’t tell me you’re the guy who got wiped out by the pickup in Eden? That was all over the news.” “Yeah, I’m afraid that was me. I was snowmobiling with a group of friends, including Rich. The trail came to a state route crossing, and I could have sworn I looked both ways, but the bright sun was in my eyes, and the snow was swirling in a stiff wind. I never knew what hit me. They had to helicopter me to the hospital in Burlington. I wasn’t conscious for that, though.”

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ment, the program was canceled — budget cuts, I guess — so I took what I thought would be a temporary job as a correctional officer. That turned into a 25-year position.” “Talk about two ends of the spectrum — from working in a prison to giving massages,” I observed, chuckling. “That’s head-spinning, man.” “That’s my life,” he summed up pithily. “Boy, those friends of yours seemed awesome,” I said, changing the subject. “Have you known them for years?” “Yeah, for about 30 years. It was a college connection through the wives. So, tell me, did you recognize Rich?” “Now that you mention it, I thought I might have but couldn’t place him.” “Did you see the Tom Hanks movie, Captain Phillips? That was him, Rich Phillips.” “Well, knock me over with a feather,” I said with a laugh. “He seems like a great guy, and Andrea is a great lady. I didn’t pick up any egotism at all.”

“You’re exactly right. Rich was a humble, down-to-earth guy before the hijacking incident, and all the fame and money didn’t change him one bit.” “Didn’t I read that Tom Hanks came up here to visit with him before they shot the movie?” “Yeah, for about five days, Rich told me. Apparently, Tom wanted to study his voice and mannerisms in order to play him accurately. The SEAL rescue team came up for a visit, too, and Rich has attended some SEAL events. I guess they consider him a member of the SEAL family, which, if you know the SEALs, is no small honor.” “Well, I am just tickled pink to have met Rich and Andrea. You know the meme ‘never meet your heroes’? I guess the notion is that you’ll be seriously let down when they inevitably don’t live up to your expectations. Well, I just met a hero and I couldn’t be happier.” When I made it home late that night, I watched Captain Phillips for the third time. I had enjoyed it the first two times, but now, knowing that in real life Richard Phillips was the real deal seriously upped my viewing pleasure. And when I googled the man and discovered that he had driven cab in Boston in his college days, that truly put me over the moon.  All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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black-and-white photo of John and Doug Casella in the entryway of Casella Waste Systems headquarters in Rutland projects an appealing image. The brothers, with youthful smiles and unlined faces, stand in front of a trash truck they acquired shortly after launching their partnership in the mid-1970s. John sports a V-neck with the distinctive block-letter Casella logo that the company still uses today. Doug wears a fleece-lined jacket and a Cat Diesel Power trucker hat, as if he’s about to climb into the cab and take the wheel. The artifact is a quaint reminder of the company’s history but doesn’t hint that the brothers were on their way to building a regional trash empire — a publicly traded company with 100 facilities in six states and 2018 revenues of $671 million. Casella-emblazoned trucks long ago became a ubiquitous presence in Vermont, picking up trash from households and businesses. Today, the company’s reach extends from Maine to Pennsylvania. It runs nine landfills, 49 waste and recycling transfer stations, 18 recycling processing facilities and four landfill gas-to-energy systems. Casella has 90,000 dumpsters, 200,000 wheeled trash bins and a 1,400truck fleet. Along the way, the company has been penalized for environmental problems and anticompetitive business practices. And it has gained significant control — some say too much — over Vermont’s waste stream. It’s looking to get bigger still. Casella owns a precious resource in Vermont: the state’s only open landfill, located in the Northeast Kingdom town of Coventry. As the company has done with its landfills in other states, it’s seeking regulators’ permission to expand the disposal operation and keep it running for years. Citizens groups and environmentalists accuse the company of putting profits before clean air, land and water. The looming decision will determine the future of solid waste disposal in Vermont for years to come.

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work and other jobs on the side. When his sons were teenagers, they helped their father during summer breaks from Mount St. Joseph Academy, the Roman Catholic school they attended in Rutland. “We grew up mixing cement, carrying bricks,” John recalled during an interview at Casella Waste Systems headquarters last week. His father “was a taskmaster, to say the least.” John credited both of his parents with instilling a work ethic in their children. After high school, John made his way to what is now Castleton University and upon graduation got two job offers: a $5,000-a-year teaching position at Burr & Burton Academy in Manchester, and an $11,000 job selling real estate at Killington ski area. He took the latter. “Hell, even a Vermonter can do that math,” John said. Meanwhile, in 1975, Doug had started a small trash-hauling business with a single truck. After a year, Doug recruited his older brother, saying, ‘“You should leave that job at Killington and come be my partner,”’ John recalled. The two brothers took their trash to a Danby landfill that their father purchased the same year Doug Casella launched his business. Their company never owned their dad’s now-closed landfill, but the arrangement boosted their young operation and foreshadowed what would become Casella’s key strategy: to gain economies of scale through control of substantial parts of the waste stream, giving the company a leg up against competitors who owned only one part of it. While they quickly recognized the profits that could be made hauling trash, the brothers also jumped into the nascent recycling industry. They built Vermont’s first recycling sorting facility in 1977 in Rutland using a $3,000 baler they bought from an old mill in Maine. They expanded their trash routes in Vermont, in some cases buying out haulers who wanted to retire. They put in many double shifts. “I spent a lot of years picking up trash during the day and doing the bills and permits by night,” John recalled. At times, he said, he had to borrow from his wife Susan’s income as a teacher to make payroll. She taught for 19 years, through the births of five of their six children. As the number of routes grew, John left the garbage truck driving to others. “I was demoted,” he joked. He focused on growing assets — including landfills. As the company would later explain in reports to stockholders, Casella launched an acquisition strategy in 1993. The goal

They are the 800-pound gorilla in the Vermont trash business. J OE SINA GR A

was to take advantage of anticipated reductions in landfill capacity in Vermont and surrounding states as tightening environmental regulations made the disposal operations more expensive to run, driving consolidation. The company purchased a 50-acre landfill in Bethlehem, N.H., in 1994 and the landfill in Coventry in 1995. More purchases and leases followed in the 1990s, including landfills in Maine and New York State. Cash infusions helped fund the deals — first from private investors and then from

the sale of stock when the company went public in 1997. That was a pivotal moment and a way for a hungry company to “have fuel” for that growth, recalled Joseph Fusco, a Casella vice president and media spokesperson. On the heels of going public, between 1998 and 2000, company revenue grew from $143 million to $337 million. And the double shifts in the early years paid off. John, the 68-year-old CEO, earned a compensation package worth nearly $2.9 million in 2017, the company reported in a statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Doug, 62, serves as vice chair of Casella’s board but is not involved in the day-to-day operation. Doug is president of Casella Construction, which peeled off from Casella Waste Systems in 1989 to stand on its own. He declined to be interviewed. The construction business does site work and excavation for big road projects as well as for landfills, including Casella Waste projects. In the national $85 billion waste industry, Casella’s piece of the pie is a small one compared to trash kings such as

Houston-based Waste Management, which posted revenue of $14.9 billion for 2018. Still, Casella is the fifth largest publicly traded waste company in the U.S. and in its regional footprint makes it “a big fish,” according to Michael Hoffman, a Baltimore-based industry analyst at Stifel Financial, a firm that has provided investment banking services to Casella. Hoffman believes Casella has the potential to grow its revenue to $1 billion a year over the next five years. Its decision to integrate the business through ownership of both hauling and landfills is smart, especially in a region where capacity is tightening, he said. As a hauler, “you don’t want to find yourself squeezed” by who controls the landfill, Hoffman said. Today, the brothers no longer own a controlling 51 percent stake in the waste enterprise. Could it be gobbled up, as many homegrown Vermont companies have been? “We’re not looking to sell the business,” John said. But he added, “It’s a public company. It’s a board decision, not necessarily our decision.” Casella Waste Systems is one of Vermont’s largest companies in both revenue and number of employees. It has 2,300 people on payroll, about 500 of whom work in Vermont. The business is one of only two publicly traded companies headquartered in the state, according to InvestSnips, and the undisputed leader in the state’s waste industry. Casella’s trucks prowl neighborhoods in the early morning hours, emptying Casella trash bins and Casella dumpsters and transporting refuse, along with waste from Casella-run transfer stations, to Casella’s landfill in Coventry. “They are the 800-pound gorilla in the Vermont trash business,” said Joe Sinagra, sustainability director at Myers Container Service, a competitor based in Colchester. “They are the biggest.” The two companies have a solid relationship, he said. “The Vermont way is to be competitors but also to be friends. We learn from them, and I would like to think maybe we taught them something.”

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BY THE NUMBERS 2018 Revenues:

$660.7 million

2,300 Employees: 500 are professionals in management,

information technology and administration

1,800 work in waste collection

and disposal operations (Areas of operation: Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Pennsylvania) Casella owns or operates:

37 waste collection operations 49 transfer stations 18 recycling facilities 8 solid waste landfills: Coventry, Vt.;

Angelica, N.Y., Stanley, N.Y., West Old Town, Maine; Morrisonville, N.Y.; Elmira, N.Y.; Bethlehem, N.H., Mt. Jewett, Pa.

construction and demolition landfill Campbell, N.Y. Recyclables processed per year:

500,000 tons

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The contracts required customers to notify Casella Waste Systems of any offers from competing haulers. The company agreed to drop that mandate in a settlement with the state. But it did not fully comply and nine years later agreed to pay the state $1 million for issuing more than 2,400 contracts that contained terms barred under the 2002 agreement. The company said the language was inserted by mistake and that the problems were isolated. But similar allegations surfaced in upstate New York in 2014 involving Casella’s dumpster contracts. The company agreed to pay $100,000 to the state to settle what then-New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman described

Their business model is about taking more and more trash and dumping it into the ground. S HA I N A K A S P ER

as “concerns that Casella’s restrictive contracting practices, combined with its market dominance and pattern of acquisitions of smaller competitors, unlawfully restrained competition in the North Country and Southern Tier.” Among the restrictive practices cited: Customers had to pay the hauler an amount equal to six times their monthly bill if they wanted to end a contract early. The company has also had to pay millions in environmental remediation at properties it owns or leases. It listed liabilities including $5.6 million for cleanup of a scrapyard and solid waste transfer station in Potsdam, N.Y., and $5.2 million at the Southbridge landfill in Massachusetts, according to the company’s 2018 annual report. Casella attempted to expand the Southbridge landfill but failed after residents and regulators raised concerns about groundwater pollution. Many of the alleged problems predated the company’s stake in the old landfill, but critics say it ignored the problems, and would have made them worse with expansion. Casella denies that,

Then-lieutenant governor Phil Scott in August 2016, when Casella sponsored his racecar

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but it dropped the expansion plan and agreed last year to close the landfill. In 2012, the Toxics Action Center, a nonprofit environmental watchdog based in Boston, put Casella Waste Systems on its Dirty Dozen list of New England’s worst polluters, alleging the company was pushing to expand a landfill in Maine against the interest of public health and the environment. Casella’s 2018 annual report notes that over the last three years, the company has won permits to take in more trash at five landfills. The space crunch at Northeast landfills has made available space a hot commodity. Casella increased its landfill disposal fees by an average price per ton of 6.4 percent last year. And the company’s strategic plan calls for “driving pricing in advance of inflation.” The same report also notes that alternatives to landfilling waste are being developed that could reduce its future disposal fees. John defends the company’s business practices and its environmental record. He’s proud of every “facility that we have touched, bar none,” he said. But he acknowledged, with a sigh, “We’re in a very controversial business.” He defended the company’s competitive nature, too. “I don’t think we’re any more aggressive than anyone else,” he said, adding that growth brings more scrutiny. He insists that it’s easy to break into the business — all it takes, he said, is a truck.

‘AS NASTY AS HE WAS NICE’

For a decade, the Casella moniker was plastered on Phil Scott’s race car at Thunder Road Speedbowl in Barre. When Scott ascended from lieutenant governor to governor, he stopped accepting for-profit racing sponsors, he said.

But Casella Waste Systems has shown support in other ways: It has donated to Scott’s campaigns, including $2,000 last year and $4,000 in 2016. Other Casellarelated companies and family members also made donations, for an additional $4,250 in 2018 and $3,682 in 2016. Critics say the relationship helps build Casella’s clout in the Statehouse and with the Scott administration. “It appears that Casella is very close to the governor,” said Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. “I can’t think of a situation where the Scott administration has taken a position that is not in line with what Casella wants, recently.” Despite environmental opposition to the Coventry expansion, the governor supports it. “I’m not sure what choice we have,” Scott told Seven Days last week. Vermont should keep working to recycle more waste, he said, but for now, “We need something. We need to have a landfill of some capacity to take care of our needs.” A Casella subsidiary, New England Waste Services of Vermont, has cleared many of the important hurdles in the extensive state review for the expansion. The District 7 Environmental Commission in St. Johnsbury is deliberating the matter. A decision could come anytime. Casella has maintained a regular presence in the Statehouse, said Burns, who has observed the legislature for 19 years. “VPIRG has done a lot of work in the area of solid waste and recycling, for decades really,” Burns said. “We’ve often been in the same room with somebody from Casella. I would say they are, for Vermont, a very big and pretty powerful corporate entity, and they wield significant influence in the Statehouse.” TWO MEN’S TRASH

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Casella spent $220,000 on lobbying from 2015 through March 15 of this year, according to disclosures filed with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office. John himself isn’t shy about weighing in about bills that affect the company, according to Tony Klein, a retired Democratic state representative who chaired the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee from 2007 to 2016. “John Casella used to come in, he could be as nasty as he was nice,” Klein said. “If you were doing something that he was just adamantly opposed to, he’d get in your face and you’d know it.” Still, Klein respects John and doesn’t think the company had any unusual sway. The governor, too, insisted Casella Waste Systems has no special influence. Others say the CEO was a notoriously tough negotiator but would deliver on contractually agreed service. “Push come to shove, they will perform,” said Tom Moreau, the retired general manager of the Chittenden Solid Waste District, who negotiated recycling and other contracts with Casella for many years. But Burns believes Casella has an outsize influence and pointed to an example. Vermont’s universal recycling law bans food scraps from landfills starting in 2020. It also requires that waste haulers offer to pick up food scraps from homes wherever they offer curbside trash pickup starting that same year. Casella and other haulers have balked at the pick-up mandate, saying composting requires special trucks and that being forced to add such routes in a rural state would be expensive and impractical. In January, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources proposed changing the law to exempt haulers from collecting food scraps at single-family homes and multi-residential buildings with fewer than four units. On Tuesday, Sen. John Rodgers (D-Essex/Orleans) introduced a bill that would repeal the provision that commercial haulers offer collection services for food residuals. Casella Waste Systems donated $300 to his 2018 senate campaign — which Rodgers said has no bearing on his decision to introduce the bill. It was driven more by the many small haulers in his district, Rodgers said. And while he does think Casella’s frequent lobbying in the Statehouse creates a certain sway over lawmakers, he insists it doesn’t affect him. “I’m not going to do something for them that hurts my constituents,” Rodgers said. For example, he opposes the Coventry landfill expansion for a host of reasons, he said. “There are days when the whole

Workers sorting recycling

area smells foul,” he said. And except for residents of Coventry, which benefits from taxes and fees from Casella, not a single constituent has told Rodgers they support the expansion, he said. Environmentalists say a hauling rollback such as what Rodgers has proposed would stall the progress Vermont is making on composting food scraps under the universal recycling law. Vermont needs to fully implement the law before it authorizes expansion of the 51-acre Coventry landfill, said Jen Duggan, Vermont director of the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston-based environmental group. “Until we do that work, we really don’t know what the waste capacity needs for Vermonters will be,” she said. “If there is a hole, it will be filled.” CLF is among several environmental groups that oppose the Coventry expansion. Without it, the landfill will run out

of space for trash in roughly three years. The landfill takes in about 70 percent of Vermont’s trash, tonnage that would have to go to out-of-state dumps. That might cost more in fees and transportation and create disruption. This scenario prompts some opponents to worry that the state would have trouble saying no to the expansion. “I don’t believe that’s the case,” said Vermont Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore. “We have regulatory standards, and we review the applications we receive in comparison to those standards.” On the influence question, she said, “We certainly solicit feedback from all stakeholders, and Casella is a stakeholder. But I wouldn’t say their voice is given disproportionate weight. We’ve held them to the same standard we’ve held everyone else to.” John disputed the notion that the company has political influence with Scott that could help the landfill expansion.

“There’s absolutely no truth to that,” he said. “It’s nonsense spread by people who don’t know Casella.” The company has been seeking to expand the landfill since October 2017, when it applied for a state Act 250 permit amendment. Critics say the landfill could leak harmful leachate into nearby Lake Memphremagog and threaten drinking water supplies on both sides of the Canadian border, which the company maintains would not happen. If Casella obtains the permit, it would be a big victory. The company still might face obstacles to construction, though. Opponents continue to try to block the project on multiple fronts. In December, members of the citizen group Don’t Undermine Memphremagog’s Purity appealed the solid waste management certificate that state regulators issued for the expansion on October 12. “Why should the Northeast Kingdom be the garbage dumping ground for Vermont?” the group asked in a public statement last year. Opponents are also working to block the expansion on the grounds that even after it’s been treated by wastewater plants, the leachate from the landfill contains harmful levels of a class of chemicals known as PFOAs, which come from a vast array of consumer and household products and are generating new environmental concerns. ANR disagrees and cited studies in December to back up its contention that there is no health threat. John maintains that the landfill is safe. If the District Commission denies the expansion under Act 250, he said, the company will appeal.

ZERO WASTE: FUTURE OR FANTASY?

Casella Waste System’s headquarters are in a two-story office building just west of downtown Rutland off Route 4. The material recovery facility that Casella operates for the Rutland County Solid Waste District is a short walk away. A three-story pile of unsorted plastic, paper, glass and cans formed a mountain in one side of the warehouse-like facility last week. Pigeons swooped in and out, and a stink hung in the air. Trucks dropped off loads. Employees shoveled material with forklifts. Workers stood over noisy conveyor belts to separate materials by hand, plucking nonrecyclable material from the stream of waste and tossing it down chutes to be landfilled. After recyclable material is sorted in the maze-like operation, it is pressed into 1,200-pound bales of paper, cardboard, plastic or aluminum. Trucks cart it away.

Casella recycling facility in Rutland

Some of it used to wind up in China. But that country decided last year to stop accepting most recyclables for processing because of environmental concerns, a move that has disrupted the recycling industry. Casella Waste Systems has subsequently increased fees it charges to accept recycling and now ships some paper to India and Thailand, as well as to domestic markets.

We’re in a very controversial business. J O H N CA SEL L A

The bill that Rodgers introduced Tuesday would also allow the natural resources secretary to suspend rules that ban dumping recyclables in landfills if “an economic market does not exist” — and would open the door to landfilling. Recycling is, of course, one way to reduce the stream of trash heading to landfills, and one that Casella Waste Systems adopted decades ago.

But environmental groups contend that Casella’s pledges to help reduce the waste stream ring hollow. “Their business model is about taking more and more trash and dumping it into

the ground. And then hoping it doesn’t become a bigger problem, and hoping that everyone can continue to just ignore the problem,” said Shaina Kasper, who is Toxics Action Center’s Vermont state director.

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State programs continue to aim to reduce the amount of waste that Vermonters produce, natural resources Secretary Moore noted. “But ultimately we’re not going to be a garbage-free society, at least in my lifetime,” she said. “So we will need to continue to look at disposal options.” Landfills will be necessary for a long time, John said, and his company will provide the best-engineered sites possible. “There’s a perspective that no landfill should be expanded from some environmental groups,” John said, “which is not practical.” The company’s annual report stressed that enlarging its landfills, from New York to Maine, remains a key strategy. Over the past three years, the company has won permission to expand landfills that have, cumulatively, added 33.3 million cubic yards of space — enough to accommodate 462,000 tons of trash per year. Environmentalists may not think landfills are the future. But Casella Waste System’s stockholders are, quite literally, banking on it. m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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Splitting Hairs Two salons share “head” space in a Burlington South End building B Y E R IK ESCKIL SEN PHOTOS: LUKE AWTRY

Algenis Garcia

Cindy Parker

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ommercial development in Burlington’s South End is a study in consumer choice. If you like pizza with your beer, walk the west side of Pine Street (Pizza 44 and Queen City Brewery). If you’d prefer a sausage with your pint, cross the street (Zero Gravity Craft Brewery). A fan of New York-style bagels? East side of Pine at the Lakeside intersection (Feldman’s Bagels). Prefer the Montréal mode? West side and a little further north (Myer’s Bagel Bakery). The latest South End locale to offer options mere footsteps apart is at the southwest corner of Howard and St. Paul streets. For motorists hustling through the five-way intersection there, the modest duplex at 463-465 St. Paul might be a blink-and-you’ll-miss it scenario. But a double take reveals a new business — a barbershop called simply the Shop — right next door to South End Style hair salon. “We’re the hair Mecca” of the neighborhood, says South End Style owner Cindy Parker. Two salons in the same duplex might appear too close for competitive comfort in a city as small as Burlington. Not so in this case, say all parties involved, including 38

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the Shop owner Algenis Garcia and landlords Al and Pam Longe. Before giving Garcia the keys to the storefront that Tomgirl Juice vacated last November, the Longes made sure that their 20-plus-year tenant Parker was open to having another hair cutter as a neighbor. “Pam came in and said, ‘I just wanted

to talk to you about how you feel about him even coming in,’” Parker recalls. After meeting Garcia and seeing pictures of the work he does, she was reassured. “He does his own thing. I do my own thing. He has very nice customers. I’m glad he’s here,” she says. “I hope everything works out.” Hidden in Parker’s welcome is a keen

insight that she and Garcia share about the hair trade: A loyal clientele is the best hedge against competition. Visiting the salons makes clear that their customers are unlikely to overlap. Parker, a 1976 graduate of the Sanford Beauty Academy in Florida, made her way to Vermont three years later and worked at area salons before opening South End Style in 1998. It was initially on the side of the building where Garcia’s shop is located. Parker describes her services as “traditional” — haircuts, permanents and coloring. Though a small barber’s pole is near her front door, only about half of her customers are male. Garcia, a former bartender and baseball player in the Dominican Republic, started cutting hair on the side. After immigrating to the U.S., he apprenticed at Aras Hair Salon in Burlington from 2010 to 2011 and has since earned a reputation for his skill at cutting fades, line-ups, designs, Afros and flat tops. Garcia’s clients are mainly — but not exclusively — people of color, mostly men and boys. Parker’s salon is a cozy, tranquil space where classical music plays on the radio and flowers, plants and wicker furniture conjure the ambience of a Sunbelt

sunroom. Three vintage hair dryers, photos of her kids and grandkids, and art and craftwork by customers Cristina Mazzoni and Jill Kleinman enhance the homey effect. By contrast, Garcia’s studio is open, airy, brightly lit and sparsely decorated. White walls hold reminders of his journey — small paintings of beach scenes framing a banner that reads “Blessed,” a poster showing popular hairstyles, flags of the U.S.A. and the Dominican Republic. Sometimes Spanish-language hip-hop scores Garcia’s clipper work; sometimes it’s the sound of an action flick playing on the wall-mounted TV. A couch and coffee table near the front window invite customers to sit and thumb through the pages of Men in Motion: 500 Styles or watch the comings and goings at Shy Guy Gelato across the street. As the more established of the two entrepreneurs, Parker draws a healthy number of customers from the neighborhood, making them feel like “family,” she says. That’s certainly the sense one gets listening to her book an appointment with Pete Charbonneau, who lives nearby, as she asks him if “Mom” wants to come in. Charbonneau says he referred his mother, Marion Charbonneau, to Parker. The elder Charbonneau, in turn, referred another customer. “She does a really good job,” Pete Charbonneau adds. “She has a great reputation.” Parker rattles off a quick list of other regular clients — artists, a judge, musicians, an innkeeper. Some are august names to townies of a certain generation. She notes she’s been cutting some of her customers’ hair since they were born. Though Garcia is the newcomer on the block, the initial months in his first self-owned business confirm the power of customer loyalty. He cuts hair by appointment only, but trade has been brisk. Clients

from his previous gigs at Diversity Hair own shop within a couple of years. In his Salon and Metro Hair haven’t hesitated to characteristic manner of letting his hands seek him out, he says. do most of the talking, he gestures to his “I followed him everywhere,” says bare arm and says, “When you’re black,” customer Precious Jagun, who is booked with a light shake of his head. for a cut and a beard and eyebrow trim. Garcia’s former spouse, Sara Sudol, Jagun’s dreadlocks are someone else’s owns Aras Salon, now located in Williston. handiwork — they’re not in Garcia’s reper- She puts Garcia’s situation more sharply: toire — but the barber has earned Jagun’s “It was just a bunch of baloney,” she says business, and trust, for the monthly visit. about being turned away from prospec“I have to feel comfortable with who tive sites. “We know what we’re looking at is cutting my hair,” he says. “He makes here. We got ‘the feeling.’ It was difficult.” everything easier.” Sudol, a Burlington local, had an inside Customers compliment Garcia for his track on the five-corners spot through pleasant, soft-spoken demeanor and for family connections to the Longes, whom taking his time, making them feel valued. she calls “good people.” Though he’s too modest to boast, he Even so, Garcia and the Shop had to concedes, “I’m always busy everywhere wait for a bit. According to Al Longe, a I go.” high-end bakery was all ready to set up Garcia’s approach seems to work with in the storefront. When the baker nixed clients of all ages. the deal at the last On a recent visit, minute, Garcia got he cuts a fade and the call. flattop for a 3-yearN o w, L o n g e old boy to replicate sees bright proshis father’s hair. pects for Garcia’s After the expected venture. He notes initial tears, the boy that the location’s calms down. Some two most recent reassuring words, tenants, Lunaroma a lollipop and a Aromatic ApothC IND Y PAR K E R ecary and Tomgirl kids’ video on Dad’s phone help. Juice, thrived there On a different afternoon, Garcia cuts before expanding into what he calls the a teenager’s hair but has to turn away Pine Street “Renaissance district.” Longe another adolescent who’s not on the thinks hair salons are a good fit with the schedule. For every two clients he serves, it neighborhood; parking is tight at the seems, the barber has to tell one to call for corner, but salons are “destination” busian appointment. “Sounds like he picked a nesses that don’t generate a high rate of good spot,” Jagun suggests. traffic. And when customers arrive, they That old maxim about location, loca- settle in for a while. tion, location holds special meaning for Longe would know. For more than half Garcia, who suspects that race compli- a century, his family name was associated cated his quest to hang his own barber’s with a grocery store and butcher shop pole. He was interviewed for a Seven Days — Longe Brothers Market — in the spot story on the Diversity salon in 2015. At next to Shy Guy. Neighborhood Market the time, Garcia said he hoped to open his operates there now. Longe’s father, Ed,

HE DOES HIS OWN THING. I DO MY OWN THING.

HE HAS VERY NICE CUSTOMERS. I’M GLAD HE’S HERE.

purchased the 463-465 St. Paul building in the 1960s, and Al Longe knows its history well — well enough to know that history is repeating itself. He recalls another small grocery at 463, the Farm Store, where the proprietor made homemade ice cream. The address was also home to a barbershop called Walt and Dick’s. As for the future, Longe and Garcia may be thinking along similar lines. Longe sees plenty of elbowroom at 463 if Garcia wants to expand. The barber already has a second chair in place; on a recent afternoon, his younger brother Adonis was taking care of a walk-in. Garcia would like his brother to apprentice with him and hopes to bring him more fully into the business. That day could come in about a year, he estimates. In the meantime, Garcia’s clientele keeps growing. His friend Fernando DeOleo, who stops by for a chat, suggests that Garcia is not only highly skilled in specialized hairstyles but also relatable to local people of color, particularly immigrants. “It’s his personality. He’s real friendly, approachable. People like his story,” DeOleo says. He adds that Garcia’s taste in music and interest in sports also helps him connect with customers. Sudol agrees and regards Garcia as a positive role model in the community. “It’s good for men of color to be running businesses,” she says. “He’s breaking the barrier on his own.” Whether or not one views a haircut through a racial, ethnic or cultural lens, hair remains a potent signifier of identity for almost everyone. As DeOleo observes, “A haircut is a personal matter as much as it is a business matter.” m

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ive students in a dance rehearsal simultaneously reached their arms wide and twisted their torsos like synchronized miniature windmills. Moments later, they walked in angled trajectories, crouched while clapping hypnotic rhythms, and hovered above the floor on toes and forearms. On a recent Sunday afternoon, these dancers were rehearsing a piece for the Dancing Uphill 2019 concert at the University of Vermont. Choreographed by UVM sophomore Chloe Schafer, the work is one of nine that will be presented Wednesday through Saturday, March 20 through 23, in Mann Hall on the Trinity Campus by students in the UVM Department of Music and Dance. Created by students, faculty members and guest artist Alexander Hille, a former principal dancer with Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, the concert’s works demonstrate how far UVM’s academic dance program has come in the past 13 years. The 40

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show also highlights two recent achievements. Despite the College of Arts and Sciences’ significant financial struggles, as reported last year by Seven Days, the UVM Board of Trustees just approved a new bachelor’s degree in dance, available to students in September. The other development: the opening last fall of a sprung-floor dance studio in Cohen Hall, on the west side of campus. While many faculty and staff members helped reach these milestones, they credited dance professor Paul Besaw with providing the foresight and leadership to bring the new degree to fruition. “This is all thanks to Paul’s vision and unrelenting hard work in course planning and dance faculty hiring,” wrote UVM music professor Patricia Julien by email. Since coming to UVM in 2006, she wrote, “he has accomplished a tremendous amount.” Besaw became chair of the music and dance department last fall. Collaborative and humble by nature, he attributes

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the dance program’s growth and success to students and faculty. For example, in his first year at UVM, he was surprised by students’ “openness and readiness” to participate in the American College Dance Association New England Regional Conference, an annual event where students showcase new pieces. “Without even trying,” said Besaw, “I had seven students who wanted to go, and we figured out a way to share some work.” Every year since, UVM students have performed at the conference, where they also interact with students and faculty from other dance programs. Since 2008, four UVM student choreographers’ works have been selected for juried performances at the biennial ACDA regional gala concert. Early in his tenure, Besaw forged collaborations with faculty in music and other university departments. He credits theater professor John Forbes, for example, with providing lighting equipment

and design for the Dancing Uphill 2008 student concert, and many since. Besaw also lauds fellow dance faculty who have expanded the curriculum and helped create an inclusive culture. Clare Byrne, who taught contemporary, improvisation, site-specific dance and other courses for 10 years, until she moved to Connecticut in May 2018, “shored up this focus on students, on student work,” said Besaw. He and Byrne agreed to “let them do what they wanted to do while guiding them in certain ways.” The artistic differences between Byrne and Besaw enriched student learning. “She and I became a mutual admiration society,” and students noticed it, said Besaw. “We were doing different kinds of work but very much respecting and rooting for each other. It built an environment that I think works at UVM.” He also appreciated Byrne’s support for his leadership: “She helped me feel confident about every one of my inklings.”

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swoopy,” she said, “and watch each other for unison and timing.” Schafer, a double minor in anthropology and dance (currently a self-designed major), brings extensive dance performance experience to the task, but this is the first time she has choreographed a piece for as many as five dancers. She created the work for three during a fall dance composition course; Besaw and Higa challenged her to add more dancers and develop it further. “It’s not that we want them to create a masterpiece; it’s about the process,” said Higa. In addition to teaching UVM students about dance, culture and history, faculty help rookie choreographers learn the craft. “How do you talk to your dancers? How do you get more from your dancers?” Higa said, elaborating on that process. “Every year, there’s PAUL A a maturity shift, where [students] are ready for what it is to revise something,” said Besaw. The newest instructor in the program believes the BA will flourish both because of its proximity to dance communities in Montréal, Boston and New York City and because of its unique design. Students are “not locked into a pathway,” said choreographer and performer Julian Barnett, the current dance artistin-residence. Unlike other dance BAs with specific sequences of study, the UVM major will allow students to build their own focus, “because they are the ones who are going to understand how ballet and hip-hop go together,” suggested Besaw. Students can take courses in everything from African forms to capoeira, contemporary dance to site performance, world dance to dance history. Two courses — musical-theater dance and Asian theater

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and dance — are cross-listed with the theater department. “The goal of the program is to welcome all students regardless of identity, race, gender, body type, accent,” said Higa. “We are here to welcome everyone who enjoys the art of dance.” Barnett, who has taught at Princeton University, the Juilliard School and, most recently, Middlebury College, believes that the UVM dance program’s relatively small size — currently 40 minors at a time — confers an additional benefit. “It maintains this intimacy between faculty and students, which I feel is pretty special and unique,” he said. “You really do get to build relationships with students, more so than in a large conservatory.” Besaw anticipates that five to eight students will declare a dance major per year, maintaining the program’s modest size. H IGA Approximately 50 students will major or minor in dance at any given time. Besaw mentioned another unique factor: UVM’s dance BA will be the first one offered at a Vermont public college or university. Five student choreographers will present new works this week at Dancing Uphill. Among them is sophomore Zoey November, a natural resources major soon to add a second major in dance. Her duet with Schafer includes “detailed geometric projections [that] cover the dancers and the stage, obscuring reality and bringing shadows to the forefront,” she wrote by email. Senior Abby Enders, a psychology major and dance minor, said that her jazzinspired piece for seven dancers expresses three key things she has learned through the dance program: “confidence, fortitude and stage presence.”

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The feeling was mutual. When interacting with fellow faculty, “He doesn’t want the spotlight,” Byrne said of Besaw. “He wants to be your fan club.” Besaw consistently championed Byrne’s creative work and new courses she designed and offered. “He wants you to do your thing, and he really supports you doing your thing,” she said. “He’s empowering you and maybe shaping it just a little bit.” Paula Higa, a third faculty member, who joined the program in 2011, expanded course offerings and cultural diversity by teaching ballet and Brazilian dance. When she became a full-time lecturer a few years ago, Besaw said, “We had built the curriculum that could support a bachelor of arts.” Acquiring a designated dance space was the final component of such a program. Michele and Martin Cohen made a multimillion-dollar donation to the university to repurpose a former elementary school on the corner of Williams and Pearl streets as a multidisciplinary arts facility. Its former gym now has a sprung dance floor and will eventually become a black-box theater for dance, theater and other departments to use. “Part of the sell was that we weren’t asking for any more resources,” said Besaw. “It didn’t cost the university anything to create the major.” On that afternoon in Cohen Hall, choreographer Schafer received feedback from Besaw and Higa after the day’s first run-through of her piece. “The more energy you build there, the better,” said Besaw of a climax in the work. “It’s captivating, so anything unique stands out,” said Higa, encouraging movement that was more complete and precise. Based on this feedback and her own observations, Schafer asked her dancers to make changes in blocking, focus and the quality of their movement. “Try to be less

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Senior Anna Gibson, an English major, will perform a solo work inspired by her great-aunt. Moving to music by John Cage, she uses breath as a vehicle for circular movement. Students will also perform three faculty pieces. Higa’s work draws on the Brazilian traditional dance baião. Barnett’s infant daughter inspired his piece on beauty and dreams. And the piece by part-time instructor Lynn Ellen Schimoler is an ode to the joy of pairing food and music. The work by guest choreographer Hille “is very challenging” for the students, said Higa. “There are lots of movements going on at different tempos.” UVM music students will also contribute to Dancing Uphill, as they have in many previous years. Bella and the Notables will play what the group calls “jazz standards with a twist” before each evening’s show. And theater students and staff will help set up equipment and seating. For senior dance students such as Enders, the upcoming performances reflect a poignant awareness. “Growing up, dance was really the thing that I felt the best at,” she said. “It gave me meaning … some kind of sense of self. I’m so grateful for the UVM dance department for giving me the support I need and believing in me and pushing me to get here.” m Disclosure: Elizabeth M. Seyler was a part-time instructor in the University of Vermont’s Department of Music and Dance until 2017. Contact: elizabeth@sevendaysvt.com

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n unlikely addition to the retail landscape sits sandwiched between Kohl’s department store and Maurices women’s clothing at the south end of University Mall in South Burlington. From the outside, the 2,800-square-foot Antiques at Vermont History and Health looks like a typical secondhand shop. But displayed among the old Buddha figurines, table lamps and dining room sets is an unusually themed collection of Vermont antiques: 19th-century medicine bottles, elixir and cure-all posters and advertisements, metal syringes, a Benzedrine inhaler. These and other curios, most of which aren’t for sale, date from an age when Vermonters treated their ailments with over-the- counter remedies that boldly promised rapid cures. Routinely given to children, the elderly and the mentally disabled, many of these products contained dangerous and addictive ingredients such as alcohol, opium, morphine, laudanum and cocaine. The still-rough and largely uncurated exhibit, announced in early February, is part of a larger museum that is tentatively slated to open in Enosburg Falls this autumn to chronicle the history of Vermont’s patent medicines. The goal, said the founders of the newly minted nonprofit, is to trace today’s substanceabuse crisis to its roots in Vermont’s thriving 19th-century pharmaceutical industry. As Seven Days first reported in a February 2018 story (“Poppy Culture: Is Vermont ready for a museum devoted to its history of opiate abuse?”), the museum is a passion project of longtime business partners Tim Camisa and Mike Rooney. In addition to businesses such the Lovermont 802 stores in the U-Mall and Burlington Town Center, Ethan Allen Coachworks in Williston, and Vermont Organics Reclamation in St. Albans, the pair own the Spavin Cure Building, a long-vacant historic

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structure on North Main Street in Enosburg Falls. Built in 1880, the threestory warehouse served for decades as the headquarters of the B.J. Kendall Company, founded by Enosburgh physician and NE W TO N R O S E drug maker Burney James Kendall (1845-1922). Among the company’s numerous patent museum devoted to recounting the history medicines was a hugely successful veteri- of substance abuse could attract unsanary product called Kendall’s Spavin Cure. vory characters, while also painting the Originally used to treat joint ailments in town’s past in a negative light. Though the horses, it was later marketed and sold for Enosburg Business Association voted to human consumption. Many of Kendall’s endorse the museum, the Enosburg Initiaproducts, like other patent medicines tive, an ongoing downtown revitalization manufactured in Vermont in those years, effort, has declined to provide a letter of support to the museum’s founders on four contained alcohol and opium. Since the Seven Days story was occasions. published last year, Camisa and Rooney As news spread about the plans for have backed away from calling their proj- the museum, the Spavin Cure Building ect a “museum of addiction,” choosing was targeted by vandals who repeatinstead the more generic name Vermont edly smashed newly replaced windows, History and Health. The decision wasn’t Camisa said. On a reporter’s recent visit, made to mollify critics, Camisa said. he pointed out several freshly made bullet But the project does have those. Some holes in third-floor windows. Whether the neighbors and business owners in Enos- destruction was the work of bored teenagburg Falls have expressed concern that a ers or something more sinister aimed at

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the museum’s creators, Camisa couldn’t say. But inside the U-Mall store, no one seemed especially shocked by the antiquated drugs on display — or didn’t even notice them. The father of one family of four, who’d just come in after shoe shopping at Kohl’s, clearly hadn’t noticed the medical items until a reporter pointed them out. “Interesting,” he said with a half-hearted shrug. If last year’s press drew criticism to the museum, it also helped the owners find a curator: Newton Rose, a 24-year-old historian and 2016 graduate of the University of Vermont. The Ludlow native read about the proposed museum just after returning home from his seasonal work at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. He reached out to Camisa and Rooney, who hired him in March 2018. Since then, Rose has been developing the museum’s first exhibit, some of which will appear in the U-Mall store in the coming months. Rose’s first task, he explained, was to research artifacts recovered from the Spavin Cure Building during its renovation, some of which had been stuffed into the walls as insulation decades earlier. They include 19th-century marketing posters, newspaper ads, medicine labels, a business ledger and Kendall’s original logbook from 1873. Rose is working with a paper conservator to ensure that these and other fragile artifacts are properly preserved, stored and displayed. His other big task is to interpret these objects and help connect them with the larger stories they tell. “This [museum] is about the history, ultimately, but you have to contextualize it,” he said. “Then it makes today’s issue [of substance abuse] more approachable. You understand that addiction has a history and isn’t a moral failing.” The museum’s exhibits will draw heavily on Gary Shattuck’s 2017 book Green Mountain Opium Eaters: A History of Early Addiction in Vermont. In it, the Shrewsbury author, a former Vermont State Police commander, assistant U.S. attorney and assistant Vermont attorney general, chronicled the widespread availability and consumption of opium, morphine, laudanum, alcohol and cocaine in 19thand early-20th-century Vermont. Many of the museum’s exhibits in

Enosburg Falls, including a planned re-creation of a 19th-century Vermont apothecary, will feature B.J. Kendall Company products, given their abundance on-site. But, as Rose pointed out, the Enosburgh company wasn’t the only one in Vermont that peddled addictive wares. Vermont history buffs will recognize the name of William Wells, the Union Army general and Battle of Gettysburg war hero whose statue now stands in Burlington’s Battery Park. After the Civil War, Wells and his brother, Edward, took over their father’s business, the Wells, Richardson & Company of Burlington. (The Wells Richardson Building still stands on College Street, as does Edward Wells’ residence, which now serves as the UVM Alumni House.) One of the products they manufactured, Paine’s Celery Compound, is thought to have contained cocaine, according to resources at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology. Vermont History and Health’s inaugural exhibit will focus on how these products were marketed beginning in the mid-1800s, Rose noted, an era that saw the rise of American consumer culture. Elixirs, drugs and other home remedies were some of the first products marketed to Vermont consumers. Camisa pointed out that B.J. Kendall had state-of-the-art printing presses on-site for producing its own marketing materials. No federal laws governed the contents, safety or advertising of its products until the passage of the U.S. Food and Drug Act of 1906. Consider one promotional item on display in the U-Mall store for B.J. Kendall’s Blackberry Balsam. “Warranted to cure cholera, cholera morbus, dysentery and all summer complaints,” the product is touted as “the most wonderful remedy of the age” and “perfectly safe in all cases and specially adapted for children.” As Rose confirmed through his research, Blackberry Balsam actually contained narcotics such as opiates. “What these companies were trying to do was be memorable. But they’re also trying to instill confidence,” Rose said. “This was a time when some doctors were still doing bloodletting and leeches … So there wasn’t the same trust in medicine that there is today.” The irony of placing a history exhibit dedicated to the perils of consumer culture inside a shopping mall isn’t lost on Rose. But then, the whole point of the museum is to draw connections between then and now. As an example, Camisa pointed to the glad-handing of the modern pharmaceutical industry. As recently as the 1990s, he said, the limousine service he and Rooney operate often transported Vermont physicians and their spouses

to New Hampshire resorts for medical conferences, where industry reps handed out free drug samples. While making such connections, though, the museum’s creators hope to be sensitive to those whose lives have been touched by today’s opioid crisis. To that end, Camisa and Rooney reached out to Gary De Carolis, executive director of the Turning Point Center of Chittenden County, which helps people in drug and alcohol recovery. De Carolis — himself a history buff who runs Burlington History Tours as a side business — agreed to review the museum’s exhibits and offer his feedback. “I think it’s a great idea,” De Carolis said of the museum. While he’s not sure how many Vermonters will make the trip to Enosburg Falls to visit a history museum about 19th-century patent medicines, he hopes some of its exhibits will eventually travel to schools and communities throughout the state. Camisa confirmed that now that the museum has secured its 501c3 status the partners will apply for grants to do just that. In the meantime, Camisa and Rooney expect their U-Mall exhibit to attract incidental foot traffic; the mall receives 2.8 million shoppers annually, according to its management, KeyPoint Partners. Heather Tremblay, KeyPoint’s vice president of property and asset management, wrote by email: “Offering customers entertaining and educational experiences at the mall is an emerging national trend and we are pleased that Tim has opened his museum at University Mall.” As for the larger museum in Enosburg Falls, which the partners hope to open in time for fall foliage, Camisa thinks it could attract the “dark tourism” contingent — visitors who gravitate to sites that highlight the grittier and less savory aspects of history. He’s not worried that the museum could inadvertently glorify substance abuse — a phenomenon by which he’s also been touched. Camisa admitted that, when he was interviewed for the 2018 Seven Days story, he “wasn’t forthcoming” about his own history of substance abuse. This time, he revealed that for several years in his late teens and early twenties he was addicted to cocaine. “I know what I went through. And I’ve done well for myself,” Camisa said. “I’m going to tell the truth here — I can’t present pretty Victorian times … If we don’t do that here, how do we keep from repeating this problem?” m

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rub, both served with something described as a blue cheese mousse. The general heading is “crispy wings,” and the dry-rubbed version I selected did meet that description, though in a savory, crisp-crumbed way, not a sticky, crisp-skinned way. They were different and good, once I adjusted my expectations. The restaurant’s general manager, Seth Dunne, later explained that the wings are baked first, then finished in a fryer and tossed in dry rub. (There was, it should be noted, no mousse-like aspect to the serviceable blue cheese dip.) Most of the bar guests were indulging in typical après-ski beverages, including Vermont beers and hard cider from the 10-tap system. There was also ample

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Tea Time TEA AND DIM SUM COMING TO BURLINGTON

From biker bar to teahouse. No, it’s not the name of a new sitcom. It’s the trajectory of the storefront at 41 King Street in Burlington. Thirty-plus years ago, the Sheik — a hangout that attracted the Harley-Davidson crowd — occupied the building at the corner of King and South Champlain streets. Most recently, the space was home to King’s Corner Deli, a sandwich shop that closed in December. Up next will be LION TURTLE TEA, a 25-seat café that will specialize in loose-leaf tea and Asian food, co-owner TIM WILLIAMS said. Lion Turtle will pair seasonal teas with dim sum plates that likewise change with the seasons. The space is currently under renovation, and Williams expects the teahouse to open in July. “The concept for this comes from my love of South Asian food — and tea,” he said. “I’ve been drinking tea since I was 11 or 12.” Williams, 28, is opening the Lion Turtle with JACE JAMASON, who will manage the front of the house while he runs the kitchen. Williams, who grew up in St. George, works as a catering chef with RICHARD WITTING of FIREFLY CATERING. His past

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experience includes cooking at CITY MARKET, ONION RIVER CO-OP, Williston Central School and GROENNFELL MEADERY. Jamason is a program assistant in the Department of English at the University of Vermont, Williams said. If renovation proceeds apace and the teahouse opens on schedule, it will be the season for green teas, Williams noted. These include Longjing, which he described as super light and sweet, possessed of a “melony grassiness that screams” warm weather. Dim sum dishes to accompany such teas will include lightly fried tempura squash blossoms, Williams said. “You’ve got some really green fresh tea; let’s explore some fresh and bright flavors.” Fall will be just right for roasted oolong tea, Williams said. He likes to complement that with “something slightly greasy and filling,” such as steamed pork buns or a vegetarian bun filled with squash and roasted nuts. Those who are curious to taste Williams’ dim sum can do so at a pop-up event on Wednesday, March 20, at DELI 126 in Burlington. Lion Turtle will serve veggie bao, pork bao and Sichuan-style pickles. When the café opens, its hours will be Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sally Pollak

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WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT GALA Chefs and bakers from the Four Columns Inn, Wild Flour Bakery, the Porch Café, Dosa Kitchen, and Cai’s Dim Sum Teahouse and Catering, among others, put on a pre-film feast, then sit for a screening of The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution. Friday, March 22, 7-10 p.m., Women’s Freedom Center at New England Youth Theatre, Brattleboro. $40. Info, 257-7364, womensfilmfestival.org.

MUSHROOM MEDICINE Over cups of wild mushroom chai, students learn about the ecology, ethical harvesting, processing, health benefits and cultivation of medicinal mushrooms including shiitake, chaga, reishi, lion’s mane, maitake and turkey tail. Sunday, March 24, 10 a.m.-noon, Valhalla VT, Charlotte. $20, preregister. Info, mycoevolve.net/2019. html.

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Liquid Lessons Going without, and within, on a detox cleanse S TO RY & IL L UST R ATION BY DAVID HOLU B

’m a skeptic in most areas, but perhaps especially when it comes to detoxification cleanses, in which people purposely go for varying periods of time without solid foods. Instead, they drink juice or other potions, usually in an effort to detoxify. Meaning: a process by which a renegade ragtag of toxins, uh, get expelled from your system. Or something like that. Being married to a doctor of clinical nutrition only fuels my skepticism, as I am often privy to her passionate critiques of food fads. As the clinical nutrition manager at the University of Vermont Medical Center, my wife, Stephanie Gall, is on top of every diet trend and topic. Still, I’d been curious; after seeing many a friend emerge from cleanses claiming to feel super-energized, I thought, Why not try one? And so I, a man rocking a decadeslong streak of not missing a meal, entered a

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three-day juice cleanse wherein six bottles of juice would be my calorie count for the day. Meanwhile, Stephanie would stand by, gathering ammunition, er, data to discuss post-cleanse. For my detox, I went the convenient route, ordering a kit online complete with 18 bottles of juice and a ginger shot to start each day. Each bottle contained a multi-juice cocktail, some heavy on citrus, others on beet, kale and apple. I say “juice” though they were about 80 percent water. Despite somehow being the highest-rated juice cleanse on Amazon, the program shall not be named, because its bottles and printed materials were riddled with spelling errors and other inaccuracies. (Though their “lemom” juice was wondrous.) After a day of pre-cleansing — no alcohol, processed foods or animal products — I awoke the next morning and, by 8 a.m., had consumed a cup of warm lemon water,

1.5 cups of black coffee, a 1.5-ounce ginger shot and my first 16-ounce juice. At 8:15, I urinated for six and a half hours. By 9:30, I felt groggy and tired, and at 9:51 my stomach bellowed its first major growl. Later, during a phone call with my brother, I gave an extended, delirious treatise on Doritos. At 12:32 p.m., after I told a friend about my cleanse, she texted, “You’re going to shit your pants.” At 2:21, Stephanie texted, asking if my urine was red. Red? What the holy hell? Not to worry, she assured. Sometimes beets can, you know, tint things. By midafternoon, my hunger was consuming me like I normally consume cheese. I spent the rest of the day thinking about food, muttering about food, writing mental love letters to food, and feeling the lack of food in every cell of my body. At one point, I thought about the taste and viscosity of egg yolks for an embarrassing number of minutes.

Topping off Day 1, I awoke around midnight apparently having broken a fever: My side of the bed looked like it had been dunked in a river. I awoke on Day 2 feeling fluish. Perhaps it was the toxins being ushered from my system or, as some websites purport, a dieoff of bacteria starved of the normal junk with which I assault my body. Detoxification, I reasoned, is war. There’s just one problem with this theory. As Stephanie later told me: Detoxifying isn’t even a thing. This process of building up toxins and flushing them out, as is widely pitched in the cleanse world, isn’t real. “A common theme of a lot of cleanses or fasts is to detoxify something, and that’s really a misconception, that we need to detoxify our body in any way,” she said. Gulp. As my juice-cleanse company states on its product description: “Every molecule of food that is absorbed through the intestinal wall … moves into the liver for detoxification and preparation before being allowed to enter the rest of the body.” OK so far, but it continues: “Problem is, there are too many toxins for our liver to handle, so many end up passing through and wrecking [sic] havoc on our cells,” a claim Stephanie likened to the excrement of a male cow. Our bodies already have ways to deal with things that aren’t good for us, she said. “So, in general, the principle of a cleanse for the purpose of detoxification is not achieving that goal, because your body doesn’t need to have that as a goal.” Even the simple notion of a “toxin” is nebulous, apparently. “What is a toxin?” Stephanie wondered aloud. “Is it a free radical? Is it undigested food? Is it gluten? A toxin can be so many different things. It’s not defined by any of these cleanses. You’re just under the assumption that there’s some kind of toxin in me and I gotta get it out.” Sure, our bodies accumulate free radicals from environmental exposure to things such as the sun, smoking, chemicals and alcohol. But we rid ourselves of them naturally through a balanced diet that includes essential vitamins and minerals, according to my in-house expert. Most people, especially those hawking juice cleanses, can’t always agree on what a toxin is or define it in a specific sense. “It’s like the term ‘superfood,’” Stepha-

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nie said. “It’s just a buzzword that’s out there. It can be bent to whatever you want it to be. [Cleanse] products, like many supplements, are not tested by the FDA for their potency, their claims. It’s using buzzwords to get people to buy it.”

“It’s cheaper, you have more control over the ingredients, and you can make sure they’re washed first,” she said. “You could make all [the juices] yourself and have better control over the taste, the flavor, the quality, what goes in it.”

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I SIMPLY FELT LIKE I HADN’T EATEN IN THREE DAYS. By midmorning on Day 2, I felt like I’d been cleansing for two weeks. More juice, more urination — I had numero uno’ed 49 times in the 45 waking hours of my cleanse. All the while, not a minute passed when I didn’t feel hungry. But being hungry wasn’t horrible. The worst part was knowing that I’d be starving in a few hours and still be unable to eat solid food. And when I went to bed hungry — one ferocious stomach growl actually wakened Stephanie — knowing that there would be little sustenance for breakfast was crushing. By Day 3, a realization began to form: What I missed most wasn’t really food or even eating and feeling satiated; I missed even more the activity and culture of food. As the cook in the family, I love planning for dinner, figuring out whether we have sufficient ingredients or whether I’ll improvise something imaginative. I love cooking for others, especially Stephanie. I love the dual mental spaces you can occupy while cooking, in which your mind is able to wade into deep, meditative thought. I love conversations over food. The loss of these activities was palpable. This discovery, Stephanie agreed, is a healthy reason to do a cleanse: reconsidering food and gaining motivation to improve your diet. “It’s a good way of clearing your mind out and just looking at food in a different way, and your relationship to food, and then saying, Here’s where I need to change,” she advised. In fact, if I were to cleanse again, I would forgo the bottled juices in lieu of making my own, retaining some of the elements of food preparation that I missed. For that reason, and because the juices I had ordered were raw and unpasteurized, which can invite food-borne illness, Stephanie recommended a homemade approach, too.

Another healthy, science-based reason to do a short cleanse? A jumpstart on weight loss. By the end of my cleanse I’d dropped eight pounds, though I gained a few back in the following days. “If that’s a good motivation — to jumpstart a weight-loss routine or just better, healthy eating with a focus on fruits and veggies and proteins,” Stephanie said, “then [a cleanse] is probably a good decision.” Beyond dropping some pounds, I didn’t experience any other physiological changes, unless you count post-cleanse bloating and volcanic gurgles of my innards. I was not energized; I was not focused; I was not brimming with anything. I simply felt like I hadn’t eaten in three days. Even if many purported health benefits of detoxifying aren’t real, I don’t doubt that people can feel better after doing one. I realize that my experience, even coupled with Stephanie’s evidence-based expertise, likely won’t change someone dead set on their detoxification beliefs. “Food is hard. People don’t want to be talked out of their food philosophies or the stuff they believe,” she said. “It’s my job to try to ask the questions that get them thinking about it. Why do you believe that? Who told you that? “People are really into, and have their minds made up [about] what benefits their diet brings them, whether that diet is a cleanse or vegetarian,” she went on, “or the diet is high-fat, the ketogenic diet. My goal is to provide education at every opportunity I have and not to tell people what they’re doing is wrong, even though I may think that.” My thought? There is plenty to be gained from a cleanse without needing to believe in the pseudoscience of detoxification. I was motivated to be more mindful about food and lost a few pounds to boot. That was good enough for me. m

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‘THE HUMAN ELEMENT’ Friday, March 22, 7 p.m., at Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, in Burlington. Free. Info, 999-9365, thehumanelementmovie.com.

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“When I became a photographer, I wanted to celebrate the elegance and beauty of nature,” says shutterbug James Balog in a trailer for the film The Human Element. “But I soon realized there was a more complex story going on in the world about the collision between people and nature.” In this hard-hitting 2018 documentary, Balog visits various American locales, including Kentucky coal country and Virginia’s Tangier Island, highlighting residents as they face challenges related to climate change. 350Vermont presents the film’s first Green Mountain State screening.

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MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: Those living with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners convene for casual social time. Refreshments are provided. Vermont History Center, Barre, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-2681.

ZINE CLUB: Creative types explore various writing styles and art techniques as they craft simple, printed forms of expression. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

‘THE SOIL SERIES: GRASSROOTS FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’: Katherine Oaks, Maddie Kempner, Cheryl Herrick and Sha’an Mouliert investigate “Connections Through Stories” as part of a six-installment series. Bethany United Church of Christ, Randolph, social, 6:30 p.m.; presentation, 7 p.m.; discussion, 7:45 p.m. Free. Info, info@vermonthealthysoil scoalition.org.

VERMONT BENCH & BAR LISTENING TOUR: Vermont Supreme Court chief justice Paul Reiber, Vermont Bar Association president Gary Franklin and others field community feedback on the state’s legal system. Grand Isle County Sheriff’s Department, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2020.

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KNITTER’S GROUP: Needles in tow, crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m., at Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy. $15-44. Info, 748-2600, catamountarts.org.

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STARTUP SERIES: Taught by Gwen Pokalo of the Center for Women & Enterprise Vermont, this six-session course provides participants with foundational knowledge for getting a business off the ground. Hazen Union School, Hardwick, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 391-4870.

FIBER RIOT!: Creative types get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-7746.

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MOVEMENT MATTERS SPOTLIGHT WITH SHAKIA JOHNSON: An accomplished performer and educator, the Massachusetts-based choreographer draws on the history of hip-hop for her master classes. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

MIKE LIZOTTE: Green thumbs join the author of Mini Meadows: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere Around Your Yard for a talk on cultivating low-cost, lowmaintenance flower-filled plots. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

MOSAIC COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: Students and alumni of color convene for a day and a half of happenings, including a community breakfast and networking opportunity, a career fair, and an open house at the Mosaic Center for Students of Color. University of Vermont Alumni House, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2010.

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‘DANCING UPHILL’: Paula Higa directs UVM students in a program of new works by students, faculty and special guests. Mann Hall, University of Vermont Trinity Campus, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 656-2094.

TOXIC WHITENESS DISCUSSION GROUP: Peace & Justice Center representatives facilitate a conversation on the harmful effects of white supremacy on communities and individuals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

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VERMONT FARMERS MARKET CONFERENCE: Learning and networking opportunities engage market managers, board members and organizers. Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 8:30 a.m. $21.5052.25. Info, 434-4122, ext. 21.

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Author Mary Shelley’s debut novel Frankenstein was first published in 1818. More than 200 years later, the story still evokes chills and thrills — and raises critical ethical questions — in its original form, on screen and on stage. Aquila Theatre presents a theatrical interpretation of the classic tale of a Swiss scientist who builds an artificial human with unexpected and terrifying results. The New York Citybased touring company, which offers bold reinterpretations of classical plays for contemporary audiences, takes the stage as part of the KCP Presents Performing Arts Series.

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eorge Dawes Green spent long nights swapping stories with friends on a porch in his native Georgia. Inspired by the insects swarming around the porch light, the narrators dubbed themselves “the Moths.” When Green relocated to New York City, he took the name with him and founded the Moth, a nonprofit group committed to the art of telling true stories, live. Far from the modest front-porch gatherings of its origin, the organization now encompasses a weekly podcast, a national public radio show, and performances across the United States and beyond. Ten winning raconteurs from past competitions approach the mic for the Burlington Moth GrandSLAM with tales on the theme “Occasional Magic.”

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BURLINGTON MOTH GRANDSLAM Thursday, March 21, 8 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $29.25-39.25. Info, 863-5966, flynntix.org.

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE Spring Has Sprung Are you ready to say good riddance to winter? Northeast Kingdom revelers ring in the season of rebirth and renewal with a celebration of the spring equinox inspired by ancient rituals. Greensboro’s Cate Hill Orchard & Sheep Dairy hosts this pre-summer bash, featuring a battle between winter and spring, the burning of an effigy of the sun, and other reimagined ceremonies of yore. Attendees may come in costume and bring noisemakers for a procession of bears and lambs. Russian sourdough pancakes called blini, served with maple syrup and fresh sheep cheese, fill bellies.

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SPRING EQUINOX: A CELEBRATION OF LAMBS, LACTATING EWES & SUN Sunday, March 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Cate Hill Orchard & Sheep Dairy in Greensboro. Donations. Info, 586-2059. SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

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BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: The best of Ireland comes to the Queen City and surrounding areas via music, dance, workshops and presentations. See burlingtonirishheritage.org for details. Various Chittenden County locations. Prices vary; most events are free. Info, admin @burlingtonirishheritage.org. TURKISH CULTURAL DAY: Vermonters get a taste of Turkish culture with calligraphy, Sufi whirling, an art display and more. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, info@tccvt.org.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘AT ETERNITY’S GATE’: Willem Dafoe portrays the painter Vincent Van Gogh during his time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 6 p.m. $5. Info, 533-2000. ‘CARAVAGGIO: THE SOUL AND THE BLOOD’: Art hounds embark on an immersive journey through the life, works and struggles of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-15. Info, 748-2600.

‘MILTON GLASER: TO INFORM AND DELIGHT’: America’s foremost graphic designer comes into focus in this 2008 documentary shown as part of the Architecture + Design Film Series. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, reception, 6 p.m.; screening, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, adfilmseries@gmail.com. MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular film. Call for details. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: An awe-inspiring picture reveals phenomena that can’t be seen with the naked eye. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch. 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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COMMUNITY SUPPER: A scrumptious spread connects friends and neighbors. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300.

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BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game. Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: Longtime players and neophytes alike aim for a value of 15 or 31 in this competitive card game. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: Card sharks engage in friendly competition. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: Viewers visit a living city beneath the sea by way of an immersive film. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

ACROYOGA CLASS: The mindfulness and breath of yoga meet the playful aspects of acrobatics in a partner practice. No partners or experience required. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7-8:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGION SOCIAL HOUR: Francophones fine-tune their French-language conversation skills over cocktails. Juniper, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@aflcr.org.

GAYME NIGHT: Friends bond over contests such as Cards Against Humanity, Jenga Giant and Scrabble. Bring or borrow a game. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: Audience members embark on a virtual hunt for fossilized clues revealing the behavior and world of extinct reptiles. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘MADE IN ABYSS: JOURNEY’S DAWN’: Japanese animated adventure follows explorer Riko on her journey to uncover the truth about her mother’s fate. Shown on Wednesday with subtitles and Monday with English dubbing. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 660-9300.

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RETRO VIDEO GAME TOURNAMENT: Contestants battle it out in throwback competitions. Prizes reward the top four players. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $10. Info, 540-0406.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: Folks of all ages ward off osteoporosis in an exercise and prevention class. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 7:30, 9 & 10:40 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 11 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. YOGA4CANCER: Meant for patients and survivors, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

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‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: Centaur Theatre presents Morris Panych’s examination of doing bad things for the right reasons. Centaur Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $18-55. Info, 514-288-3161.

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Find club dates in the music section. DATA STREAM: LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IMPROVISATION: Longtime collaborators Sandy Nordahl, Scot Schwestka and Peter Hamlin explore technology’s possibilities for performance and sound. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. FARMERS NIGHT CONCERT SERIES: Devoted to small-group choral music, Upper Valley ensemble Wrensong present vocal treasures of the renaissance. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228. RICK NORCROSS: Drawing from his memoir Riding My Guitar: The Rick Norcross Story, the music man serves up songs and tales from his decades-long career in Western music. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes. Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

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FULL MOON SNOWSHOE HIKE: Nature lovers explore Montpelier’s hillsides by lunar light. Snowshoes and hot chocolate are provided. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 229-6206.

talks

CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 878-4918. KATHERINE BROWN: “Afghanistan: Storytelling of America’s Longest War” captivates listeners as part of the Vermont Council on World Affairs Speaker Series. Champlain College, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, vcwa@vermont.org. TEDX BROWNELL LIBRARY: Lifelong learners watch TED Talk videos centered on the topic “Getting Duped.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS: Let’s get technical! Students learn to use the mouse, keyboard and operating system components. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217. 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.

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‘THE ROOMMATE’: A recently divorced Iowa woman discovers that the woman living in her house has a few secrets in this comedy put on by Vermont Stage. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29.7038.50. Info, 862-1497.

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OPEN-MIC POETRY READING: Bards gear up for PoemTown St. Johnsbury by testing out material in front of a crowd. Listeners are welcome. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1393. WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a low-pressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MARCH MIXER: Friends and colleagues catch up in the Main Street hotspot’s lounge area. Jeff’s Maine Seafood, St. Albans, 5:307:30 p.m. $5-8; preregister. Info, 524-2444. PARTNERS IN PROGRESS: A BUSINESS GROWTH WORKSHOP: Leading industry experts share their knowledge on topics ranging from financials to marketing trends. Hilton Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-3105.

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WHAT’S ALL THE HYPE ABOUT CBD?: A workshop with Michele Wildflower of Nature’s Mysteries Apothecary demystifies the history and uses of cannabidiol. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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POC IN VT AFFINITY GROUP: People of color come together in the name of sharing stories and building community in a predominately white state. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

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MOSAIC COMMUNITY CELEBRATION: See WED.20, 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

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HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. MOUNT MANSFIELD SCALE MODELERS: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniature construction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765.

dance

‘DANCING UPHILL’: See WED.20.

education

COLLEGE & CAREER PATHWAYS: Barriers to education and career success come down as participants connect with local colleges and tech centers. Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 888-943-7301.

environment

WORLD WATER DAY: A viewing of student art sets the stage for a talk by Danielle Garneau on “Plastics in Lake Champlain: How You Can Help.” Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1414.

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NIGHTSHADE KITCHEN: A unique meal made up of regional cuisine pairs perfectly with intimate performances by Josh Gachette, Chazzy Lake and Pen Palindrome. North End Studios, Burlington, 8:30-11 p.m. $5; additional cost for food. Info, guthriestoltzfus@ gmail.com. TAX HELP: Low- and middleincome taxpayers, especially seniors, get help filing their taxes. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15, 10:15, 11:15 a.m. & 12:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-6955.

fairs & festivals

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See WED.20.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘GIDEON’S ARMY: This 2013 film follows three young public defenders who work for low pay and with long hours and intense caseloads. A panel discussion follows. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, info@wrif.org. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MARY SHELLEY’: Elle Fanning takes on the role of the Frankenstein author in this 2017 biopic. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE PROVIDERS’: A 2018 documentary follows three health care workers as they tend to rural patients. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘THE QUIET FORCE’: A new documentary focuses on the impact of Hispanic immigrants living in western ski towns. Enter from the west side of the building. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3056. ‘RAY BROWN: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST’: This film by Nat Winthrop provides a portrait of a Vermont painter who learned to create with his nondominant arm following a stroke. A discussion with the artist and filmmaker follows. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 262-6035.

food & drink

COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309. SOUP SUPPER: Savory broths and salads make way for dessert at this palate-pleasing benefit for the Sara Holbrook Community Center. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. $35; free for kids under 14 with a paying adult; preregister. Info, 862-6342.

games

CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Players make strategic moves and vie for the opposing king. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5403.

health & fitness

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. SHAPE Fitness Center, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, noon-5 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, krista. swahn@northernvermont.edu. BEGINNERS TAI CHI: Students get a feel for the ancient Chinese practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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BONE BUILDERS: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength. Barre Area Senior Center, 8:309:30 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512. CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161. FALLS PREVENTION TAI CHI: Students improve their ability to stay steady on their feet. Barre Area Senior Center, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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LGBTQ+ CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: From constructing characters to crafting dialogue, this class gives wordsmiths ages 16 and up the tools to start their stories and then polish their work. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, aurora@pridecentervt.org.

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‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: See WED.20, Through 8 p.m. SHORT WORKS FEMINIST THEATRE & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: Intersectional feminists share and perform original works exploring power, vulnerability and ownership of female and nonbinary bodies in a safe and nourishing space. MainLine Theatre, Montréal, 8 p.m. $12-18. Info, 514-849-3378.

RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: Folks meet for a Zen Buddhist spiritual practice including meditation and liturgy. Email for more info before attending. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 7:15-7:45 a.m. Donations. Info, ryohad@ comcast.net.

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YANG 24 TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Great Room, Wright House, Harrington Village, Shelburne, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

‘THE HUB OF THE WHEEL’: Alanna J. Smith and Carl Recchia are among the performers to take part in a benefit cabaret for Wheels of Women, an organization dedicated to supporting victims of domestic violence in India. Bread & Butter Farm, Shelburne, 6:30-7:30 & 8:309:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, bread andbutterfarm@gmail.com.

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.

language

FRENCH CONVERSATION: Speakers improve their linguistic dexterity in the Romantic tongue. Bradford Public Library, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

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Find club dates in the music section. ALL-DISTRICT CHORAL CONCERT: Lebanon School District singers lift their voices. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 603-448-0400.

LENTEN RECITAL SERIES: Bag lunches in hand, music lovers convene for a midday performance. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Green, Middlebury, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7200.

talks

LAURIE RISTINO & BETH PERERA: Two area authorities on sustainable food and nutrition present as part of the Women in Conservation speaker series. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, khamilton@thesca.org. LINDA RADTKE: Accompanied by pianist Arthur Zorn, the singer and researcher presents “Enlarged Housekeeping: Stories and Songs From Vermont Women.” Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-8500. LUNCH & LEARN: South Burlington’s director of planning and zoning, Paul Conner, lets locals in on “Building a Downtown: South Burlington’s Emerging Town Center.” Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, noon. $6. Info, 863-4214.

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‘ON GOLDEN POND’: A longtime couple return to their summer home in Maine in a Poor Lost Circus Performers production of Earnest Thompson’s comic love story. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30-10 p.m. $15-20. Info, 382-9222.

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‘THE ROOMMATE’: See WED.20.

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JESSICA CARE MOORE: Based in Detroit, the Moore Black Press CEO stirs listeners with a spokenword performance. Stearns Performance Space, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. SOUNDCHECK: Slam poet Rajnii Eddins leads teen wordsmiths in a writing workshop followed by an open mic. Pizza fuels the fun. BCA Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

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THU 28 MOLLY MILLWOOD: 6:30PM TO HAVE AND TO HOLD

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269.

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‘DANCING UPHILL’: See WED.20. ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com. SUN DOWN GET DOWN: Trophies and prizes reward revelers at this after-work dance party. Merchants Hall, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. $5: BYOB. Info, moonshine shorey@yahoo.com. TRIP DANCE COMPANY: Thirtyseven competitive young dancers interpret ballet, jazz, lyrical, modern and hip-hop styles. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $20-30. Info, 760-4634.

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community

JOB HUNT HELPER: Employment seekers get assistance with everything from writing a résumé to completing online applications. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

Secret Sisters

Seeking women with Type II Diabetes who are between the ages of 45 and 55 for a one-visit research study (approximately 2 hours in length). The study will consist of questionnaires and memory tests.

BURLINGTON MOTH GRANDSLAM: Sticking to the theme of “Occasional Magic,” champions of the live storytelling series duke it out in a battle of wit and words. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $29.25-39.25. Info, 863-5966.

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BEYOND BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Childcare and dinner are provided for an evening of conversation, education and reflection with students and staff. Burlington High School, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5342. DESTINATION BTV: ALL THAT WE SHARE: A reception brimming with refreshments from near and far gives way to live entertainment from around the globe. Funds raised benefit USCRI Vermont. Burlington International Airport, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $50. Info, 863-5966. NEW MUSIC AT THE MOVIES: The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, Music-COMP and Green Mountain Film Festival present brand-new orchestral compositions as live soundtracks for classic films. Essex Cinemas & T-Rex Theater, 7-9 p.m. $12-15; free for ages 12 and under. Info, janevboxall@ gmail.com. VERMONT SHOP HOP: Quilters collect passport stamps while exploring 15 participating shops offering free patterns and door prizes. Various locations statewide, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $7 for passport. Info, vermontshophop.com.

fairs & festivals

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See WED.20.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘FRANKENSTEIN’: Dr. Frankenstein creates a living monster from the parts of posthumous donors. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘THE HUMAN ELEMENT’: 350Vermont presents a screening of a 2018 documentary in which environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. See calendar spotlight. Livak Ballroom, Dudley H. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 999-9365. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE RESURRECTION OF VICTOR JARA’: A Q&A follows a screening of this documentary on the Chilean activist and musician known as the Woody Guthrie of South America. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 7-10 p.m. $12-15. Info, 479-5600. WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: More than 50 pictures shown over three weekends tell compelling stories about sports, art, activism and more. See womensfilmfestival.org for details. New England Youth Theatre, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. $40 for five-movie pass; $40 for opening gala. Info, 257-7364.

food & drink

MAPLE MADNESS: Locals celebrate Vermont’s sweetest season with hot chocolate, maple confections and Boyden Valley Winery samples. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roastery’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641. SUGAR ON SNOW: Families indulge in Vermont’s sweet and frosty tradition of syrup drizzled over snow. Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks, Montpelier, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2740.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.20, 9:15 a.m. CRIBBAGE TEAMS: See WED.20. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.20. WHEELZ OF STEEL: A MUSICAL GAME SHOW: Fifteen Vermont musicians collaborate and compete to win the Ultimate Chalice of Indisputable Glory. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $8. Info, 540-0406.

health & fitness

ADVANCED SUN TAI CHI 73: Participants keep active with a sequence of slow, controlled movements. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322. BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.20, 7:30 & 10:40 a.m. CARDIO CHI MOVEMENT SERIES: A light cardio workout with music paves the way for qigong variations for all levels and ages. Waterbury Public Library, 11 a.m.noon. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 244-7036. GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050. LIVING RECOVERY: Folks overcoming substance abuse move, breathe and make positive change in a moderately paced flow yoga class. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262. RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.21. TAI CHI STUDIO: Beginners and experienced practitioners alike perfect their steps with limited guidance. Barre Area Senior Center, 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512. TAI CHI YANG 24: Students get an introduction to a gentle form of exercise said to benefit internal organs. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

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SHORT WORKS FEMINIST THEATRE & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: See THU.21.

SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

music

Find club dates in the music section. HERMITAGE PIANO TRIO: A performance of works by Schubert, Beethoven and Alexander Alyabyev carries on the Russian musical tradition. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $5-30. Info, 656-4455. THE ROSE ENSEMBLE: “American Roots — Harmonies That Shaped a Nation” includes song, story and plenty of foot stomping. Stowe Community Church, 8-9:30 p.m. $12-25. Info, 253-7792. WINTER WINE DOWN MUSIC SERIES: Oenophiles let loose with live music by Jon Sochin, awardwinning wine and mouthwatering eats. Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, wine service begins, 5 p.m.; music, 6-8 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 372-9463.

talks

EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Known locally as the Bird Diva, Bridget Butler spreads her wings in “Owls of Vermont.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5. Info, 658-6554. NATURALIST JOURNEYS LECTURE SERIES: Expert Cynthia Shelton describes harnessing the predator-prey relationship between raptors and pest birds in “The Flipside of Falconry.” North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 229-6206.

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SAT.23 activism

FAIR TRADE VS. FREE TRADE: Locals learn the basics of globalization and how certain policies pave the way for companies to profit at the expense of people and the planet. Stick around after to learn about PJC volunteer opportunities. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. FEED YOUR SOUL SOCIAL: Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington welcomes locals for an afternoon of food, friends and conversation. Childcare is provided. New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, em.schoenberg@gmail.com.

agriculture

PRESEASON OPEN HOUSE: Green thumbs wander through warm greenhouses, where herbs, pansies, house plants and succulents offer a glimpse of spring. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 482-4060.

bazaars

BADWILL 3: Upcycled clothing and art by local makers catch browsers’ eyes during this pop-up shopping experience. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 540-0406. BECAUSE CRAFT SHOW: Local artists and vendors proffer handmade wares. Proceeds benefit charities and nonprofit organizations. Ross Sports Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $3. Info, 879-2489.

AN EVENING OF PROVOCATIVE THEATER: Audience members take in two one-act plays by Stacy Harshman, The Portraits of Vivian and Ghosting and the Sex Pillow. The Sparkle Barn, Wallingford, 7-9 p.m. $15. Info, 446-2044.

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‘KRAPP’S LAST TAPE’ & ‘DANIEL FORLANO AT HOME’: Presented as part of the One and Only Series, a double bill of solo performances thrills theater lovers. Grange Hall Cultural Center, Waterbury Center, 7:30-9 p.m. $15. Info, grangehallcc@gmail.com.

dance

MUD SEASON VARIETY SHOW: From skits to stories to piano solos, acts by group and solo performers put smiles on audience members’ faces at this community talent showcase. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7 p.m. $6-16. Info, 728-6464.

‘DANCING UPHILL’: See WED.20.

‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See THU.21. ‘THE ROOMMATE’: See WED.20. ‘TICK, TICK... BOOM!’: Artistry Community Theatre stages an autobiographical musical by Rent composer Jonathan Larson. Plattsburgh City Hall, N.Y., 7 p.m. $15. Info, 518-802-0400.

words

WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

STITCHING SESSION: Fiber arts enthusiasts share ideas, questions, tips and conversation. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

CONTRA & SQUARE DANCE: Lively music by fiddler Dave Carpenter and pianist April Werner propel a social dance called by Lausanne Allen. Richmond Free Library, 7-10 p.m. $5-20. Info, 453-2199. SWING DANCE: Live tunes by the Champlain Valley Union High School Jazz Ensemble keep the dance floor full. Champlain Club, Burlington, beginner lesson, 7:30 p.m.; live music, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 864-8382. TRIP DANCE COMPANY: See FRI.22, 3 p.m.

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THE GRATEFUL FED: SHARING OUR ABUNDANCE: Local singers, instrumentalists, dancers and others donate their talents in support of the Plattsburgh Interfaith Food Shelf. VFW Post 125, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1-5 p.m. Donations. Info, 518-572-7879. LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 383-2118.

NEW MUSIC AT THE MOVIES: See FRI.22, Chapel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier. OPEN MUSIC JAM: Anything goes in an independent community meeting group where folks can share hobbies, play music and discuss current events — without using online social sites. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-0030. PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY WEEK: Folks work their mental muscles during nine days of readings, discussions, tastings and lectures. Various Vermont locations, noon-8 p.m. Free. Info, publicphilosophyweek@ gmail.com. VERMONT SHOP HOP: See FRI.22.

fairs & festivals

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See WED.20. MAPLE FEST: Imbibers celebrate spring with the launch of Tree Tapper, Citizen Cider’s seasonal maple beverage. A pancake breakfast, a sap-boiling demonstration and live tunes by Adventure Dog and Danny and the Parts complete the party. Citizen Cider Press House, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3278. MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL: Locals celebrate Vermont’s liquid gold with sugar on snow, wood-fired sugaring demos, maple milkshakes and cocktails and more. Boyden Valley Winery & Spirits, Cambridge, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; additional cost for food and tastings. Info, 644-8151. VERMONT BREWERS FESTIVAL: Cheers! An abundance of craft beer makes for an outdoor sipping soirée to remember. Killington Mountain, noon-3 p.m. & 4-7 p.m. $44-123. Info, 448-3045.

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See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN’: A raging thunderstorm sets the tone for this morbid tale about the fate of Frankenstein’s mate. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘CAMERAPERSON’: Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson examines the role of filmmaker in this flick shown as part of the Woodstock Film Series. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 & 5:30 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-5303. ‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.22, noon.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: Let’s go bar hopping! With the help of a tasting guide, chocoholics discover the flavor profiles of varieties such as toffee almond crunch and salted caramel latte. Lake Champlain Chocolates Factory Store & Café, Burlington, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807.

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090. JUNCTION VENISON DINNER: A multicourse meal pairs perfectly with a carefully selected beer from one of the restaurant’s 33 taps. The Essex Resort & Spa, 5:30-10 p.m. $98 includes a beer journal and tasting glass. Info, 578-4035. MAPLE ICE CREAM FLOAT WEEKEND: Scoops of vanilla Lake Champlain Chocolates ice cream top glasses of Switchback Ale. Don’t forget the maple syrup drizzle! The Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Cost of drinks. Info, 651-4114. SUGAR ON SNOW: See FRI.22. SUGAR-ON-SNOW PARTY: Folks follow sap from tap to syrup at this flavorful fête. 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 MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND: ‘Tis the season for syrup! Folks explore sugaring operations throughout the state and watch sap turn into the sweet stuff. Hours vary by location. See vermontmaple.org for details. Various locations statewide. Free. Info, amandav@vermontmaple.org.

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GRAND OPENING & OPEN HOUSE: Community members learn about the health benefits of herbs, reiki, crystals and essential oils. Door prizes, demos, samples and refreshments round out this family-friendly gathering. Owl Moon Reiki Center, Northfield, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, owlmoon reikir@gmail.com.

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

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NEWBIE NOON CLASS: Firsttimers feel the heat as they get their stretch on. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

language

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

lgbtq

PRIDE HIKES: SUCKER BROOK HOLLOW TRAIL: Clad in weatherappropriate clothing, LGBTQA+ hikers carpool to their destination for a short, sweet trek with eye-catching views. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, gcauser@audubon.org. PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

montréal

‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: See WED.20, 2 & 8 p.m. SHORT WORKS FEMINIST THEATRE & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: See THU.21.

music

Find club dates in the music section. THE BLACK FEATHERS: Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler serve up folk, roots and alternative country sounds. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 533-2000. CABIN FEVER SERIES: An annual concert series continues with an intimate performance by pianist Annemieke McLane and cellist Emily Taubl. Walkover Gallery and Concert Room, Bristol, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 453-3188, ext. 2. CATAMOUNT ARTS BLUEGRASS NIGHT: The Stockwell Brothers and Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing are the featured performers during an evening chock-full of traditional tunes. Masonic Hall, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 748-2600. ED GERHARD: The Grammy Award-winning guitarist showcases his mastery of the sixstring instrument. Brandon Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, info@ pittsfordvillagefarm.org. JOE DAVIDIAN TRIO: It’s a musical homecoming when the Vermont native returns with original works and unique takes on the classic American jazz songbook. Weston Playhouse Second Stage at Walker Farm, 7-9 p.m. $15-20; free for kids 12 and under. Info, 824-5288. NEW BLACK EAGLE JAZZ BAND: Cool cats can’t help but boogie to selections by Jelly Roll Morton, Cole Porter and Louis Armstrong. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $12-28. Info, 728-6464.

PRINCESS: ‘OUT THERE’: Live music meets visual projections in a performance critiquing misogyny in society. BCA Center, Burlington, 8-9 p.m. $5; free for members. Info, 865-7166. THE SECRET SISTERS: Hailing from Muscle Shoals, Ala., the siblings infuse their vintage Nashville sound with sisterly harmonies. Barre Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $23-30.50. Info, 476-8188.

outdoors

BIRD MONITORING WALK: Joined by environmental educator Juli Tyson, citizen scientists spot winged species. Delta Park, Colchester, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-5744.

politics

JOHN HICKENLOOPER: VTDigger hosts the 2020 presidential candidate and former Colorado governor for a conversation on economic development. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 225-6224.

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. $10. Info, 310-9285.

talks

DON WICKMAN: The Green Mountain State specialist dives into “Lake Champlain Over the Years: A Visual and Historical Narrative.” Milton Historical Museum, 2 p.m. Free. Info, miltonhistorical@yahoo.com. JIM ANTAL: The internationally renowned activist and author captivates listeners with “Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change,” the first annual William Sloane Coffin Address. United Church of Strafford, 1:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 765-4585.

theater

AN EVENING OF PROVOCATIVE THEATER: See FRI.22. GREEN MOUNTAIN CABARET: Local performers bring sass and class to “Forbidden Fruits: A Legendary Cabaret.” FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20-30; for ages 18 and up. Info, 863-5966. ‘KRAPP’S LAST TAPE’ & ‘DANIEL FORLANO AT HOME’: See FRI.22, 1-2:30 & 7:30-9 p.m. ‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See THU.21, 2-4:30 & 7:30-10 p.m. ‘THE ROOMMATE’: See WED.20. RUTLAND’S GOT TALENT: Amateur and professional performers step into the spotlight for an eclectic evening of entertainment. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 775-0903.

“Best music hall in New England.” —Yankee presents The First Family of Singer-Songwriting

words

IN TRANSLATION BOOK DISCUSSION: Fiction fans read into Learning English by Rashid Al-Daif. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors, both published and aspiring, meet monthly to share what they have written in a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

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

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing. Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, newleafsangha@ gmail.com. TINY TWILIGHT CAFÉ: Families refuel for the week with a light supper and the chance to connect with other parents and caregivers of kids ages 3 and under. Older siblings are welcome. Downstreet Housing & Community Development, Barre, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 595-7953.

dance

ISRAELI FOLK DANCING: No partner is required for a beginner-friendly session of circle and line dances. Call to confirm if the weather is questionable. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $2. Info, 864-0218.

environment

CLIMATE CHANGE CONVERSATION: Inspired by the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming folks engage in discussions on how people — individually and collectively — impact the environment. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 895-3999.

etc.

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY WEEK: See SAT.23. VERMONT SHOP HOP: See FRI.22.

fairs & festivals

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See WED.20.

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SPRING EQUINOX: A CELEBRATION OF LAMBS, LACTATING EWES & THE SUN: Dressed as bears and bringing noisemakers and eggs, participants perform reinvented ancient spring equinox rituals. See calendar spotlight. Cate Hill Orchard & Sheep Dairy, Greensboro, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Donations. Info, 586-2059.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘CONSCIOUS LIGHT’: An awardwinning 2018 documentary offers an in-depth look at the life and teachings of spiritual realizer Avatar Adi Da. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, dacom2000@gmail.com. ‘THE DESCENDANTS’: Portrayed by George Clooney, a wealthy man attempts to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘SAFETY LAST!’: A young man played by Harold Lloyd attempts a death-defying stunt in this silent comedy from 1923. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $8-10. Info, 533-2000. WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL: See FRI.22, noon.

food & drink

CHOCOLATE TASTING IN BURLINGTON: See SAT.23. CHOCOLATE TASTING IN MIDDLESEX: See SAT.23. MAPLE ICE CREAM FLOAT WEEKEND: See SAT.23, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. SUGAR ON SNOW: See FRI.22. SUGAR-ON-SNOW PARTY: See SAT.23. VERMONT MAPLE OPEN HOUSE WEEKEND: See SAT.23.

health & fitness

MOVING MEDITATION WUJI GONG: Jeanne Plo leads pupils in an easy-to-learn form of qigong known as “tai chi for enlightenment.” Burlington Friends Meeting House, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-6377. RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.21, 5:30 p.m.

holidays

SUGAR SCHMOOZE: Games, comedy, tree tapping and sap tasting honor the Jewish festival of Purim. Living Tree Alliance, Moretown, 2-4 p.m. $18; preregister. Info, info@livingtreealliance. com.

language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners alike chat en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, stevenorman@fastmail.fm.

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.

montréal

‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: See WED.20, 2 p.m. SHORT WORKS FEMINIST THEATRE & PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: See THU.21.

music

Find club dates in the music section. BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: “American Soundscape” showcases works by Bach, as well as a new oboe concerto by Green Mountain State composer T.L. Read. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 4 p.m. $10-30. Info, 863-5966. HINESBURG ARTIST SERIES: Renowned vocalist and steel drummer Becky Bass joins the South County Chorus and HAS Orchestra in John Rutter’s “Feel the Spirit” and selections from Handel’s “Messiah.” Hinesburg St. Jude Catholic Church, 4:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 863-5966.

MON.25 business

STEPS TO START A BUSINESS: Entrepreneurs learn what it takes to get a new enterprise off the ground. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

JOB HUNT HELPER: See FRI.22, 3-6 p.m. VERMONT BENCH & BAR LISTENING TOUR: See WED.20, River Arts, Morrisville.

conferences

GERONTOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: “Navigating End of Life Care and Transitions” drives a daylong conference for professionals and family caregivers. Hilton Burlington, 7:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. $20-35. Info, jnunziat@uvm.edu.

dance

VERMONT DANCE ALLIANCE MEETUP: All are welcome to mix, mingle, network and discuss grant writing for dance makers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, joymadden@yahoo.com.

environment

FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER PRESENTATION: Environmentally conscious community members learn what they can do to promote the health of this vital waterway. Jericho Community Center, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 829-8168.

SARAH CANTOR & CHRIS RUA: Laurie Rabut and Lisa Willems join the duo on gamba and harpsichord, respectively, for a concert of early music. Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, 4 p.m. $15-20. Info, chrisrua.rua@gmail.com.

etc.

THE SEYMOUR SISTERS & THE BAKERS: Refreshments and a reception follow an acoustic concert benefiting the Historic Green Spaces Project. Old Stone House Museum, Brownington, 3-6 p.m. $10-75. Info, 754-2022.

fairs & festivals

UKULELE MÊLÉE: Fingers fly at a group lesson on the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. BYO uke. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

talks

DEATH TALKS: Open dialogues on topics such as grief and mortality destigmatize the end of life. Wishbone Collective, Winooski, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, hello@wish bonecollectivevt.com.

theater

‘ON GOLDEN POND’: See THU.21, 2-4:30 p.m. ‘THE ROOMMATE’: See WED.20, 2 p.m. ‘TICK, TICK... BOOM!’: See FRI.22, 5 p.m.

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY WEEK: See SAT.23. TAX HELP: See THU.21. VERMONT SHOP HOP: See FRI.22.

BURLINGTON IRISH HERITAGE FESTIVAL: See WED.20.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MADE IN ABYSS: JOURNEY’S DAWN’: See WED.20. ‘MURIEL’S WEDDING’: Toni Collette stars in a 1994 comedy about a social outcast who seeks happiness and love while on vacation. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘SILVER SCREEN ROADSHOW’: Filmmaker David Metzger fields questions following a screening of his movie about a pair of sisters searching for a theater with a working projector. RETN & VCAM Media Factory, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660–2600.

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.20, 6:30 p.m. SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

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. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.20. PITCH: Players compete in a tricktaking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.20.

music

Find club dates in the music section. ‘IRISH AND COLLEGE’: From fiddlers to harpists to guitar players, some of Vermont’s finest college-age traditional musicians show their chops. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m. Donations. Info, mark.sustic@ gmail.com. SAMBATUCADA! OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s samba street band welcomes new drummers. Neither experience nor instruments are required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:45-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

talks

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs. Info, 224-7100.

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.20.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion. Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

language

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH GROUP: Speakers brush up on their language skills en español. Starbucks, Burlington Town Center, 6 p.m. $15. Info, maigomez1@hotmail.com. ENGLISH CONVERSATION: Language learners make strides — and new friends — in an ongoing discussion group. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, noon-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

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DEATH TALKS: See SUN.24, noon1 p.m.

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MONTHLY BOOK GROUP FOR ADULTS: Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry sparks conversation. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. RICK WINSTON: Forgotten history comes to the fore in a discussion of Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. YENNA YI: Excerpts of the memoir Ring of Fire captivate nonfiction fans. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

TUE.26 activism

POSTCARDS TO VOTERS: Engaged citizens get creative while crafting friendly reminders to send to Democratic voters. E1 Studio Collective, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Donations. Info, e1studiocollective@gmail.com.

agriculture

MARK STARRETT: A University of Vermont associate professor of horticulture gets to the root of plant propagation. Hosted by the Burlington Garden Club. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 238-4213.

community

COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

crafts

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:309:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

etc.

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY WEEK: See SAT.23. VERMONT SHOP HOP: See FRI.22.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section. ‘DINOSAURS ALIVE 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE LAST REEF 3D’: See WED.20. ‘MAKE HUMMUS NOT WAR’: This 2012 picture tells the story of a real-life 10-year-old girl determined to turn her dreams into reality. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. ‘MORE THAN HONEY’: Shown as part of the Sustainable Woodstock Climate Change and Sustainability Film Series, the 2012 documentary gets to the bottom of the world’s honeybee colonies. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6 p.m. $10. Info, 457-3981. ‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THIS IS SPINAL TAP’: The classic 1984 mockumentary about one of England’s loudest bands comes to the big screen. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-3018. ‘THE WAY WAY BACK’: Fourteenyear-old Duncan finds an unexpected friend in a water park manager in this comedy featuring Steve Carell and Toni Collette. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

health & fitness

BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE SUN-STYLE TAI CHI, LONG-FORM: Improved mood, greater muscle strength and increased energy are a few of the benefits of this gentle exercise. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 735-5467. BEGINNERS TAI CHI: See THU.21. BONE BUILDERS: See THU.21. COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.25, 4-8 p.m. REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister. Info, 860-6203. RUTLAND ZEN SANGHA MEDITATION: See THU.21. TAI CHI TUESDAYS: Friends old and new share a healthy pastime. Barre Area Senior Center, advanced, 1 p.m.; intermediate, 2 p.m.; beginner, 3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

language

‘LA CAUSERIE’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Native speakers and learners 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. Burlington Bay Market & Café, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

montréal

‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section. MAL MAIZ: Listeners can’t help but groove to Latin dance music by the Burlington-based band. Stearns Performance Space, Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. SOUND OF CERES: Performed by members of Candy Claws, Apples in Stereo and the Drums, “Explorations in Sound and Vision” is an audio/visual experience featuring light projection and hypnotizing sound. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 649-2200.

sports

FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-8900.

talks

DEATH TALKS: See SUN.24, 6-7 p.m. ELIZABETH ‘WIZ’ DOW & LUCINDA COCKRELL: Pack rats take notes on “How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk Without Destroying History.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095. ERIC ALVA: The decorated Iraq war veteran and LGBTQ rights activist issues a call to action in favor of diversity and inclusion in business, as well as intersectional equality in society. Norwich University, Northfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2144.

TIM WILMOT: Hobbyists follow the tracks to the talk “The Appeal of Model Railroading.” Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, noon. Regular admission, $3-10; free for members, faculty, staff, students and kids 6 and under. Info, 656-0750.

tech

INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT WORD: Toolbars, menus and icons, oh my! A computer whiz teaches techniques such as copying, pasting and formatting text and pictures. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 865-7217.

theater

‘WHO’S THERE?’, ‘FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON’ & ‘CURSE YOU, JACK DALTON’: Students from Poultney High School, Fair Haven Union High School and Rutland High School take the stage with one-act plays. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, theatremama2005@yahoo. com.

words

FAITH EXAMINED: Scott W. Alexander’s Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life is at the center of a faith-based discussion. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10:15-11:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. MADELEINE KUNIN: The former Vermont governor presents passages from her memoir, Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties. A book signing and refreshments complete the evening. The Residence at Otter Creek, Middlebury, 3-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-1220. SEARCH FOR MEANING ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP: Readers reflect on Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-6920. ‘STORIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS: YESTERDAY AND TODAY’: A community storytelling event is inspired by the graphic novel March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. Fairfax Community Library, 6:308 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

WED.27 activism

SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: LIVING ROOM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACISM: Community members delve into “Free Speech in the Time of Charlottesville.” Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:308:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

business

BUSINESS PLAN BASICS: Burgeoning entrepreneurs learn the how-tos of creating a document laying out their objectives and strategies for reaching them. Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

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FIRST QUARTER WOMENPRENEURS’ DRINKS NIGHT: Hardworking women forge connections over cocktails and light fare. Bring your business cards. Wild Hart Distillery, Shelburne, 6-8:30 p.m. $20. Info, 999-4449.

cannabis

EDIBLE WELLNESS: A Q&A demystifies the benefits of consuming cannabidiol. Attendees treat themselves to sweet CBD delights. Nutty Steph’s Granola & Chocolate Factory, Middlesex, Last Wednesday of every month, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2090.

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COMMUNITY DINNER: Friends and neighbors forge connections over a shared meal hosted by the Winooski Partnership for Prevention. Local comedy group Boom City Improv perform. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30 p.m. $1-5. Info, 655-4565.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.20. KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.20.

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HEALTHY HOMES WORKSHOP: Efficiency Vermont introduces its Healthy Homes Vermont pilot collaboration with hospitals, meant to pinpoint and remedy unhealthy residential air conditions. Craftsbury Public Library, Craftsbury Common, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, craftsburyenergy committee@gmail.com. ‘THE SOIL SERIES: GRASSROOTS FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’: Juan Alvez, Jess Rubin and Cat Buxton investigate “Building the Soil From the Ground Up” as part of a six-installment series. Social, 6:30 p.m.; presentation, 7 p.m.; discussion, 7:45 p.m. Bethany United Church of Christ, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, info@vermonthealthysoils coalition.org.

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DEATH CAFÉ: Folks meet for a thought-provoking and respectful conversation about death, aimed at accessing a fuller life. Pyramid Holistic Wellness Center, Rutland, 7-9 p.m. Free; donations accepted. Info, 353-6991. NURSING BEYOND A YEAR MEET-UP: Breastfeeding parents connect over toddler topics such as weaning and healthy eating habits. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-8228. PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY WEEK: See SAT.23. WED.27

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The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program and The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Vermont Present

The 15th ANNUAL RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDENT CONFERENCE March 28, 2019

12:30– 4:15 pm Livak Ballroom UVM Dudley H. Davis Center 6:00 –730 pm 400 Pine Street Burlington, Vermont UVM Alums:

Guillermo Gómez-Peña:

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with cameos by Balitrónica Gómez aka: “The Phantom Mariachi” Guillermo Gómez-Peña (US/Mexico) is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the legendary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 12 books have contributed to the debates on cultural & gender diversity, border culture and US/Mexico relations. His artwork has been presented at over a thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe, a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU/MIT) and the Live Art Almanac (Live Art Development Agency-UK). Gómez-Peña is also a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, He was named “Samuel Hoi Fellow” by USA Artists in 2012 and received a “Eureka Fellowship” from the Fleishhacker Foundation in 2013. He is currently preparing two new books for Routledge Press, and a documentary portrait of his beloved troupe.

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MAH JONGG: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. PINOCHLE & RUMMY: See WED.20.

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ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.20. BONE BUILDERS EXERCISE CLASSES: See WED.20. CHAIR YOGA: See WED.20.

LUNAFEST: Short films by, for and about women are shown as part of a national event. Proceeds benefit Vermont Works for Women. The Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $15-25. Info, 655-8900.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.20.

‘MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD 3D’: See WED.20. ‘THE S WORD’: The Howard Center’s Spring Community Education Series kicks off with a documentary film on suicide followed by a moderated panel discussion. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6910.

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BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.20. LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.20.

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‘THE SHOPLIFTERS’: See WED.20, 1 & 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section. FARMERS NIGHT CONCERT SERIES: Former governor Madeleine Kunin reads poignant poetry and prose from her latest book. Vermont singersongwriter Patti Casey sings and strums original strains. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2228.

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UNITED STATES ARMY FIELD BAND & SOLDIERS’ CHORUS: An elite ensemble entertains listeners with a diverse program of marches, overtures and pop selections. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.

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‘WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?’: A discussion follows a screening of this 2018 documentary about children’s TV host Fred Rogers. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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COOK THE BOOK: Foodies bring a dish from Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gatherings by Joanna Gaines to a palate-pleasing potluck. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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‘CARAVAGGIO: THE SOUL AND THE BLOOD’: See WED.20.

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NOW-TO-NEXT CAREER FAIR: Students and alumni discover a wide range of professional opportunities while networking with more than 70 employers. Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 3-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2071.

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AMPHIBIAN ECOLOGY & AMPHIBIAN ROAD RESCUE TRAINING: Nature lovers emerge from hibernation for an informational session on helping Vermont’s amphibians cross the road during their spring migration. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

talks

DEATH TALKS: See SUN.24, 4-5 p.m.

DENNIS WARING: “The Estey Organ Company: An Ethnomusicologist’s View” reveals fascinating details about the beginnings of American popular culture, Victorianism and the Industrial Revolution through the examination of a reed organ. A light lunch is provided. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, Northfield, noon. Free. Info, 485-2183. GREAT DECISIONS: ‘THE RISE OF POPULISM IN EUROPE’: Is an increase in anti-American, antiNATO and pro-Kremlin sentiment a threat to U.S. national security? Participants examine this and other questions during a discussion of world affairs. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. JESS ROBINSON: The Vermont State archaeologist digs into Williston’s Paleo-Indian sites. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. LINDA JOHNSTON: Speaking as part of the Vinspire: Informing and Inspiring the North Country series, the certified nurse midwife discusses “Sex in the City (of Plattsburgh).” Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

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TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.20.

theater

‘FRANKENSTEIN’: Aquila Theatre performers bring Mary Shelley’s classic story to life on stage. See calendar spotlight. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $15-44. Info, 748-2600.

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BILL TORREY: The Vermont raconteur spins true tales in his presentation “Stories Told Behind the Barn.” Waterbury Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 244-7036. BYOB: BRING YOUR OWN BOOK DISCUSSION: In honor of Women’s History Month, bibliophiles read Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine by Pendred E. Noyce — or a book of their choice about women in science. Bring a bag dinner or snacks. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 745-1391. EXECUTIVE SPELLING BEE: Competitors duke it out in a syllable showdown benefiting the Imagination Library. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $75-2,000; preregister. Info, 598-9582. WRITING CIRCLE: See WED.20. m

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ALLA PRIMA PORTRAITS: Learn how to create portraits in your wet media of choice: acrylic, pastels, gouache or watercolor. Each day participants will create a portrait of a new figure model. All levels welcome. Materials list provided. Instructor: Karen Winslow. Wed.-Fri., Apr. 17-19, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Cost: $375/person; $350/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

ADULT CLIMBING CLINICS: Did you know that climbing is going to be in the Olympics in 2020? Better get training! Or at least introduce yourself to the sport that encourages fun and both physical and mental challenges. Beginners and those with experience will learn and advance with Petra Cliffs’ expert climbing instructors. Weekly classes start Mar. 26. Cost: $105/3 2-hour sessions, gear, & 3 additional visits. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Andrea Charest, 657-3872, andrea@petracliffs.com, petracliffs.com.

FIBER: MIXED-MEDIA EMBROIDERY: Using the simple tools of needle and thread adds texture, dimension and meaning to favorite prints, photographs and other unusual objects. Materials list provided. Instructor: Boston-based artist Jodi Colella. Sun.-Tue., Apr. 14-16, 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Cost: $375/person; $350/members. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, education@helenday.com, helenday.com.

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ayurveda WOMEN’S HEALTH & HORMONES WEEKEND WORKSHOP AND CLINICAL DAY: AN AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE: Instructor: Dr. Claudia Welch, DOM. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. & 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sat. & Sun. May 18-19. Optional clinical day for practitioners who would like to go deeper on Mon., May 20. Cost: $275/both days; $108 for Mon. add-on clinic day. Location: Burlington, Vermont. Info: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 8728898, ayurvedavermont.com/ classes/#claudia.

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BEGINNER TO MIXED-LEVEL CLAY: Are you new to wheel-throwing? Or have you just learned how to throw on the wheel and are looking for a way to practice and improve your skills? This course is for beginner- to intermediatelevel wheel throwers and offers guided instruction that nurtures and challenges beginner potters. Wed., 6-8 p.m., Mar. 27-May 22. Cost: $360/2-hour class. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@ shelburnecraftschool. org, shelburnecraft school.org. INTRO TO STAINED GLASS: Interested in learning how to work with stained glass but not sure how to get started? This course introduces students to the Tiffany Copper Foil method of making a small stained glass window. Students will begin with a small practice window, followed by a small, independently designed project. Sat. & Sun., May 18 & 19, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $350/person; materials incl. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648,

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info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org. LYRICAL PROSE: This creative writing course will center on writing beautiful prose, either fiction or nonfiction. Writer Frances Cannon will guide students through three phases: craft, create and critique. Students will build a small body of work, either fresh work generated during this course or recent work from students’ passion projects. Thu., 3-5 p.m., May 2-23. Cost: $100/2-hour class. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool. org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

IMPROVISATION LABORATORIES (DANCE & MOVEMENT): Morning for all levels with instructor Hannah Dennison. Afternoon for practiced improvisors with instructor Susan Sgorbati. Sat., Mar. 30 & Apr. 13. All levels: 9 a.m.-noon; practiced improvisers: 1-4 p.m. Cost: $30/one workshop; $50/two workshops. Location: UVM Cohen Building, 14 So. Williams St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

SUMMER CAMPS: Join us at our historic craft studios in the heart of Shelburne, Vermont, for Summer Camp! We offer a variety of camps for kids entering secnd grade and up. Camps in Clay, Wood-working, Fiber Arts and Mixed Media. Students get handson instruction learning about tools, craftsmanship and creative problem-solving. Mon.-Fri, Jul. 8-Aug. 2, 8:30-3 p.m Cost: $360/ person; class fee varies Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org. WOOD TURNING: Are you looking for an introduction to wood turning? Join us in our warm, lightfilled wood shop to learn the beautiful art of wood turning. Over the course of three weeks, students will learn how to turn a chunk of tree trunk into a wooden bowl or vessel. Mon., 6-9 p.m., Apr. 1-15. Cost: $270/3-hour class. Location: Shelburne Craft School, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 985-3648, info@shelburnecraftschool.org, shelburnecraftschool.org.

dance ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES: Welcome spring with friendly tango classes. Beginners: step into the basics. Adv. beginners and intermediates: polish your technique and learn something new. No partner required. LGBTQ+ friendly. Stay for the Queen City Tango Milonga (social tango dance), 7:45-10:30 p.m. Bring clean, smooth-soled shoes. Instructor Elizabeth Seyler PhDance leads a warm class. April 6 & 19, May 4 & 17; adv. beg/intermed., 7 p.m.; beginner, 7:45 p.m. Cost: $10/person; incl. free admission to the dance that follows. Location: Champlain Club, Crowley St., Burlington. Info: Queen City Tango, 999-1798, qct@queencity tango.org, queencitytango.org. 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 anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

design from several classic paddle shapes. You will learn the joy of shaping wood, primarily with hand tools. You will leave with a fully functional paddle, ready for the lake or river of your choosing. Thu., Mar. 21-Apr. 4, 6-9 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com. SKATE DECK: SKATEBOARD FAB 101: WOODSHOP 1 AND 2: You will construct your own shaped skateboard deck in Skateboard Fab 101, learn how to install trucks and wheels, and practice safe operation of the Generator woodshop in the process. You will receive training certifications 1 and 2 after demonstrating safe operations of a variety of woodshop tools, including sawstop table saw, radial arm saw, bandsaw, planer, joiner, drill press, stationary sander, and a series of powered and manual hand tools. We will create curved noses and tails in our decks using a hydraulic press so it will be easy to ride a manual all the way to the skate park! Mon., Apr. 22-May 13, 5:30-8 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 5400761, generatorvt.com.

drumming INCLUSION FUSION: This workshop is free, but registration is required. Inclusion Fusion offers the opportunity for people who are neuro-typical and neuro-divergent, people who are experienced and brand new to dance, people with disabilities and without disabilities (etc. etc.!) to unite through music and movement in this dance workshop for 10-year-olds to adults. Instructor: Rose Bedard. Sun., Mar. 31, 1-3 p.m. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

design/build INTRO TO VINYL: GALLERY TYPOGRAPHY: Ever wonder how galleries put those lengthy artist statements onto their walls? This class teaches vinyl cutting basics, basic typography skills and wallbased application techniques. You will learn how to use Generator’s Roland GX-24 vinyl cutter to import designs from vector graphic software and cut an adhesive vinyl sheet, as well as tips for weeding, transfer and apply vinyl. After the basics, the class will cover tips for applying vinyl on walls, using a grid and a level to keep designs square, and scaling designs for mural-size application. Sat., Apr. 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com. MAKE YOUR OWN PADDLE: In this class you will make a canoe paddle. You will choose your own

TAIKO AND DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: Open classes in September. New drumming sessions begin the weeks of 10/8, 11/26, 1/7, 2/4, 3/11, 5/6. Intermediate Taiko: Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults: Tue., 5:306:20 p.m., & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults: Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Taiko for Kids and Parents: Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. World Drumming for Kids and Parents: Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Conga classes, too! Visit schedule and register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

family CULTURAL FESTIVAL: The JapanAmerica Society of Vermont (JASV) and Saint Michael’s College will present Matsuri ‘19, a Japanese cultural festival that includes arts, crafts, music, food, demos, performances, games, prizes and much more. This year is special. It includes a tea ceremony, Kamishibai, Pachinko play and a silent auction. Sun., Mar. 31, 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.

fitness TRY THE Y!: Cardio and weight equipment. Spin, yoga, zumba and more group exercise classes. Lap pool, 88 degree Fahrenheit program pool, swim lessons and aquatic classes. All in a supportive community where everyone is welcome. Try us for a day for free! ongoing. Location: Greater Burlington YMCA, 266 College St., Burlington. Info: 862-9622, gbymca.org.

gardening COLOR YEAR ROUND: Learn to create maximum visual impact in your landscape with cold-hardy selections. Presenter: Charlotte Albers. Sat., Mar. 23, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $15/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupplystore.com. COMPOST 101: Learn how to make compost the right way. Your plants will thank you for it. Presenter: Mike Ather. Sat., Mar. 30, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $15/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: 660-3505, gardenerssupplystore.com.

kids KINDERMUSIK WITH RACHEL: For caregivers and children, ages 5-7. Instructor: Rachel Smith. Mar. 31, 10-11 a.m. Cost: $20/person; incl. materials. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

language ABSOLUMENT FRENCH CLASSES, WINGSPAN STUDIO: Spring Session gets underway soon! Join Madame Maggie for supportive, fun, inspiring classes. Options for pre-K, youth, adults. Summer camps online, too, combining the arts, nature, French. Adult French weekly on Thu., Apr. 4-May 23, $240; beginners: 5-6:30 p.m.; intermediate: 6:30-8 p.m. Youth FRART weekly on Mon., ongoing, $150/4 classes, ages 4-13. Pre-K FRART, weekly on Tue., Mar. 26-Apr. 30, 10-11 a.m. $150. Adults, learn with your littles. Register online! Location: Wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., Burlington. Info: 233-7676,

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maggiestandley@gmail.com, wingspanstudioeduc.com. SPANISH CLASSES STARTING SOON: Register now. Classes starting in March. Learn from a native speaker. Small classes or personal instruction. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers, lessons for young children; they love it! English as second language instruction online. Our 13th year. See our website or contact us for details. Starting week of March 25. Cost: $225/10 weekly classes of 90+ min. each. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-679.

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, and yin-yang and five-element theory. Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC non-degree grants are available. FSMTB approved program. elementsofhealing.net. Starts Sep. 2019. Cost: $6,000/625-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 2888160, scott@elementsofhealing. net, elementsofhealing.net.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public

music HEY MASTER DJ! WITH DJ CRAIG MITCHELL: Adults & teens 16+. Instructor: DJ cRAIG mITCHELL. Mon., Mar. 25-May 6 (no class 4/22), 5:15-6:45 p.m. Cost: $150/person for 6 weeks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org. MAGIC TREEHOUSE ADVENTURES: For children ages 6 to 8. Instructor: Mark Stein. Mon.-Fri., Apr. 22-26, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

martial arts VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required. Easy-tolearn 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 throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixth-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.

Location: Railyard Apothecary, 270 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Noyes School of Rhythm, Emily Mott, 617-872-4432, emilyarwenmott@ gmail.com, noyesrhythm.org.

MINDFULNESS: STRESS REDUCTION: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction meditative practices to relieve stress and improve wellness. Secular, researchbased, experiential, interactive, educational. MBSR is intended to build your capacity to be awake, alert and attentive to each moment and to improve your relationship to whatever arises. No prior experience meditating necessary. Wed., Apr. 3-May 22, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $420/person for 8 2.5-hour classes & one all-day retreat 5/11. Location: Stillpoint Center, 7 Kilburn St. Suite 305, Burlington. Info: About Being, Roni Donnenfeld, 793-5073, aboutbeing@ronidonnenfeld.com, ronidonnenfeld.com.

metals ENAMELING: Learn the basics of torch-fired enameling. You will learn which materials work best for enameling and several different techniques, including layering, stringers, using stencils and etching. Skills covered are sawing and enameling. Learn more about classes at generatorvt.com. Thu., Apr. 4-Apr. 11, 5:30-8 p.m. Location: Generator, 40 Sears Ln., Burlington. Info: 540-0761, generatorvt.com.

MUSICAL THEATER ADVENTURE CAMP: Ages 9-14. Instructor: Randal Pierce. Mon.-Fri., Apr. 22-26, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $350. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

performing arts COMMUNITY MOVEMENT AND PHYSICAL JAM SESSION: Instructor: Jena Necrason. Sun., Mar. 31, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $40/ workshop. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org. TIGER MONKEY DRAGON YOUTH IMPROV TROUPES: This class has already started, however, students are welcome to join late. Contact FlynnArts Manager at number below to sign up with prorated tuition. Fri., Jan. 18-Apr. 26 (no class Mar. 1 or Apr. 26), 3:30-4:30 p.m. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. Info: 652-4543, flynnarts.org.

photography SPRING IN VERMONT WORKSHOP: Spring in Vermont is one of the most magical times to be outdoors exploring the landscape with a camera. The streams are full, leaves are bursting and the fields are exploding with green. During this intensive weekend photography workshop, we’ll explore and photograph some of the most stunning Vermont landscapes. Thu., May 30, 6:30 -Sun., Jun. 2, 10:30 a.m. Cost: $995/weekend intensive photography workshop. Location: Comfort Inn & Suites, Montpelier. Info: Green Mountain Photographic Workshops, Kurt Budliger, 272-5328, info@ kurtbudligerphotography.com, greenmtnphotoworkshops.com.

spirituality HOW TO BE A SINNER: Lenten Seminar with Dr. Peter Bouteneff of St. Vladimir Eastern Orthodox Seminary in New York. We will consider: What does it mean to call myself a sinner? Is the term sinner helpful or harmful? Lunch will be served. Sat., Mar. 23, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (optional vesper service at 5 p.m.). Location: St. Jacob Eastern Orthodox Church, VT Route 12N, Northfield Falls. Info: Rev. Mark Korban, 673-4042, frmarkkorban@gmail.com, stjacobofalaska.org.

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SILVER SCREEN ROADSHOW: FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: An ex-filmmaker bonds with her estranged 9-year-old sister as they search for a movie theater with a working film projector in ‘Silver Screen Roadshow,’ a love-letter to the moviegoing experience. Filmmaker David Metzger will present and discuss the film and his experience creating this feature-length narrative. Mon., Mar. 25, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Location: The Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., #2G, Burlington. Info: 651-9692, bit.ly/btvmediafactory.

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tai chi

NATURE-BASED DANCE: Discover a restorative, joyful, intelligent movement practice developed 100 years ago by a radical woman: Florence Fleming Noyes. Flowing technique (for strengthening and alignment) and improvisation based on rich nature imagery and beautiful piano music. Deep work that inspires creative flow in all arts. No experience necessary; all bodies welcome. Sun., noon-1 p.m. Cost: $15/person; register on Railyard website or drop in.

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 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: 363-6890, snake-style.com.

NOON VINYASA IN WILLISTON: Join us on the “beach” in Williston for Noon Vinyasa! From Vinyasa to Core, we have a class to beat the midday slump, five days a week. Mon.-Fri., noon-1 p.m. Location: Yoga Roots Williston, 373 Blair Park Rd., Suite 205, Williston. Info: 985-0090, Info@yogarootsvt. com, yogarootsvt.com. SANGHA STUDIO | 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: 448-4262, Info@sanghastudio. org, sanghastudio.org.

sports BEGINNING FENCING CLASSES: Try an exciting Olympic sport that develops strength, agility and mental focus. The Vermont Fencing Alliance offers recreational fencing and competitive training for ages 9 through adult in a supportive and friendly environment. Olympic sports are not just for Olympians! Next 10-week beginner course starts soon in Charlotte and Middlebury. 6:30-9 pm, Tue. in Charlotte or Wed. in Middlebury. Cost: $140/person; incl. classes, equipment rental & club/association dues for 10-week course. Location: Charlotte Central School, Mary Hogan School (Middlebury), Charlotte, Middlebury. Info: Vermont Fencing Alliance, Viveka Fox, 759-2268, vfox@gmavt.net, vtfencingalliance.org.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. Daily drop-in classes include $5 Community, Vinyasa, Kripalu, Yin, Meditation, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics led by physical therapists. Dive deeper into your practice with Yoga for Life, a semesterbased program of unlimited yoga, weekend workshops and mentorship. Transform your career with our Yoga Teacher Training rooted in anatomy and physiology and taught by a faculty of healthcare providers who integrate yoga into their practices. $15/class; $140/10-class card; $5-10/community class. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

well-being MUSHROOM MEDICINE: Join Spoonful Herbals’ Katherine Elmer and MycoEvolve’s Jess Rubin to integrate folk wisdom and modern scientific understanding of some common wild and cultivated forest fungi. We will sip Wild Mushroom Chai and discuss the ecology, ethical harvesting, processing, medicinal benefits, and cultivation of shiitake, chaga, reishi, lion’s mane, maitake, and turkey tail. Sun., Mar. 24, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $20/ person. Location: Valhalla VT, 5507 Ethan Allen Dr., Charlotte. Info: 839-8286.

YOGA ROOTS: SHELBURNE, WILLISTON: Join us in our lightfilled, heart-centered studios in Shelburne and Williston. We love what we do and aim to spread and share the gifts of yoga with people of all ages, attitudes and abilities. We offer all types of classes, 7 days a week! Workshops, series, sound healing and teacher trainings, including 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training “Journey to the Heart,” September 2019. Informational meeting, May 9 at 7 p.m. in Shelburne. VSAC scholarships accepted. We look forward to welcoming you to Yoga Roots! 20 Graham Way, Suite 140, Shelburne; 373 Blair Park, Suite 205, Williston. Daily. Location: Yoga Roots , Shelburne and Williston. Info: 985-0090, Info@yogarootsvt.com, yogarootsvt.com.

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are [we] that. Is this this? Is this that? I think that question mark is what I am most interested in. To be comfortable not knowing is the key to acceptance. I think when people get fixated on pigeonholing or identifying or narrowing in on something just so they can understand it is sometimes where the problems can occur.

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Princess: Alexis Gideon (left) and Michael O’Neill

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Princess explore the Divine Feminine through their multimedia sci-fi rock opera B Y J O RD A N AD A M S

he science fiction genre lends itself to examining societal flaws and social issues — and how we might go about changing them if we only had the means. By viewing the world through a fantastical lens, certain truths can often be sifted out of the din of contemporary life. Princess, the Brooklyn-based avantgarde electro-rap duo of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill, explore some heady concepts in their audiovisual performance-art piece Out There. The sci-fi, feminist rock opera comprises an hourlong animated video paired with simultaneous live musical performance. It examines the mystical notion of the Divine Feminine, the intersections of masculinity and femininity, and the role that men ought to play in the current cultural reckoning. Princess collaborated on the rock opera with Brooklyn indie band TEEN and visual artist Jennifer Meridian, as well as JD Samson of Le Tigre and MEN. 62

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(O’Neill is also a member of MEN.) Through these partnerships, Gideon and O’Neill expanded the project’s narrative and execution far beyond what they had originally intended. Confused? That’s OK. Seven Days recently caught up with O’Neill by phone to find out more. Princess perform Out There on Saturday, March 23, at the BCA Center in Burlington. SEVEN DAYS: In your press release you write, “Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory.” Could you unpack that a little bit? MICHAEL O’NEILL: I think we can apply that to different things, [such as] music. Is this hip-hop or is this rock? Is this pop or avant-garde? In terms of our gender expression, why are [we] wearing women’s clothes? What’s that all about? Or even just this piece, in general. Is this a music project? Is this a video project? Is this an

art project? Things that don’t feel like they can go together are the places in which we try to make something new. SD: You also hint that you seek to occupy gay, straight, queer, masculine and feminine spaces. How do you do that effectively and sensitively? MO: I think just through our lives. I identify as queer because I think it’s the broadest and most encompassing of all the concepts or versions of sexuality. I also use [the term queer] because I don’t think it applies merely to sexuality. In my personal life, I’ve just been open to experiencing everything that is possible, whether that’s a specific relationship or being open to — or taking interest in — people of all walks of life. I think it’s just about being open. SD: Does that come through in the performance? MO: I think so. I think people will have a hard time pinpointing are [we] this or

SD: Talk a little bit about the contributions from your musical collaborators, TEEN and JD Samson. MO: When we were trying to find a female vocal representation for what we call the Divine Feminine in this piece, TEEN kind of stood out to us. Their harmonies are amazing. [Our] vision of the songs completely changed when they entered the studio. [TEEN and JD Samson] just brought whole new ideas or whole new vocal melodies that we hadn’t thought of. I tell that story because it exemplifies the process of making Out There, in the sense that the whole thing is about men learning to step aside in natural positions of power to allow women’s voices to emerge, and to make space for women to share that power. In the process itself, we’ve seen that by virtue of their voices and ideas taking the place of the ones we originally [had]. SD: Can you define the Divine Feminine as you see it? MO: In a nutshell, I think it’s feminine energy, or the feeling associated with feminine energy. That can mean a lot of different things. And I don’t necessarily think to be feminine is one thing or to be female is one thing, or that men can’t also possess feminine energy. I think that’s what we’re trying to get to here, for OUTER LIMITS

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The Music of The Rolling Stones for Kids

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Holy. Shit. In case you missed it, the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, along with Higher Ground Presents, recently unveiled the artist closing out this year’s festival: BRIAN WILSON. The legendary singer-songwriter and cofounder of the BEACH BOYS returns to the Queen City on Sunday, June 9 — specifically to the Flynn MainStage, where he and his band will perform the Beach Boys’ magnum opus, Pet Sounds. Wilson’s upcoming tour of the record is billed as “The Final Performances.” And I’m sure he means it. In the summer of 2016, Wilson brought his Pet Sounds show to both the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the Shelburne Museum. Needless to say, the pair of events sold out hella fast. And it’s pretty darn likely that the June show will sell out just as quickly. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 22. If you’re only going to see one show in Vermont this entire year, you should probably choose this one — assuming you can snag a ticket. As we hurtle forward into the future, the sad truth is that, one by one, all of the great masters of the golden era of recorded pop music are going to join DAVID BOWIE, WHITNEY HOUSTON, PRINCE, KAREN CARPENTER, GEORGE HARRISON, et al., in the great beyond. Frankly, it’s kind of a miracle that Wilson is still with us, given his ongoing struggles with mental health. I hate to be morbid about this, but I’m nothing

if not realistic. God only knows how many more chances you have to see this wonderfully gifted human perform some of the best pop ever written. The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival runs from Friday, May 31, through Sunday, June 9, at locations all around Burlington and Winooski. Visit discoverjazz.com to see more of the initial lineup.

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For your entertainment pleasure, a large group of Vermont musicians is putting on a special musical game show exhibition on Friday at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Dubbed Wheelz of Steel, the show is the brainchild of LONNY EDWARDS, who plays weekly as part of the Big Pick bluegrass jam down at Hatch 31 in Bristol. As Edwards puts it in an email to Seven Days, Wheelz of Steel “is a competition in the same way that Wiffle ball is a sport.” Here’s how the game works: A group of preselected musicians go head-tohead in a battle-of-the-bands-style bout. After the bands are chosen from the preselected group (more on that below), the audience will collectively pick five popular bands and/or artists, and also five musical genres. For instance, the crowd might respond with the ROLLING STONES, MADONNA, BOB DYLAN, the GO-GO’S and the BACKSTREET BOYS, as well as calypso, funk, metal, swing and punk. Next, the artists and genres are written on two large wheels — aka

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the Wheelz of Steel, or Random Awesomeness Generators, as Edwards calls them — which are then spun. The bands have to create a version of a song based on the mismatched combination, such as a metal version of Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” And so it goes for the rest of the evening. (I will be so happy if we get to hear a calypso version of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.” Here’s hoping.) Again, this is a competition — but the audience is the judge. Teams will be evaluated on how accurately they present the given genre, how awesome their rendition of the tune is and also on their team names. Edwards points out that, indeed, team names are a third of the final score. Musicians set to appear include RACHEL CAPOBIANCO, GABE CALVI, TOM SIEGFRIED, SIMEON CHAPIN, MELANIE SROKA, NATE GUSAKOV, WILL GUSAKOV, ORION LAZO, ADAM WOOD, ANDRIC SEVERANCE, CALEB BRONZ, EMMA BACK, CLINT BIERMAN and Edwards. Storyteller BOBBY STODDARD, whose work has been featured on “The Moth,” will serve as host.

Much Music

Once in a while, it’s good to pull back the curtain and dish a little bit about what’s going on behind the scenes in the Seven Days music department. In the last few weeks, I’ve received a number of emails from folks who’ve submitted albums for SOUNDBITES

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Burlington Blackout: Cirque de Neon ft. Reign One, DJ SPAGs, DJVU

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Shallou & Slow Magic

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MON 4.1

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SOJA

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CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.

RED SQUARE: DJ A-RA$ (open format), 6 p.m., free. D Jay Baron (mashup, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

DELI 126: Jazz Jam, 8 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (open format), 10 p.m., free.

rutland/killington

HALF LOUNGE: IANU (EDM, house), 10 p.m., free.

REVELRY THEATER: Open Mic, 6:45 p.m., free.

JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: FUNGKSHUI (funk), 9 p.m., $3.

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JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quartet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Dana Gould, Valerie Tosi (standup), 7 p.m., $15. Mainstage Show featuring TV Dinner (improv), 9 p.m., $5.

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Paul Asbell Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Radio Bean Spotlight Series featuring Nico Suave (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Trivia, 8 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 9 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Andy Frasco & the U.N., Wild Adriatic (blues-rock, pop), 7:30 p.m., $10. RADIO BEAN: Eben Schumacher (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Pen Palindrome (indie rock), 8:30 p.m., free. Midweek Mosaic (jam), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 9 p.m., free. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. March Madness: Round 3 (improv), 8:30 p.m., $5.

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CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: FUNGKSHUI (jam), 8 p.m., $3/8. 18+. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Trivia Night, 7:30 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Abby Sherman (folk), 8 p.m., free.

THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Jam Nation (open jam), 7:30 p.m., free.

Dream Team Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist band,

LOW MENTALITY,

MAGIC HAT BREWING COMPANY: Pints & Punchlines (standup), 5:30 p.m., free. NIKHIL P. YERAWADEKAR’s

is a genre-melding supergroup. Its members have played alongside

powerhouse acts such as LCD Soundsystem, Pimps of Joytime, Chin Chin and Twin Shadow. The quintet’s core is Afrobeat-influenced dance music. But given the varied backgrounds of its players, elements of electro-pop, old-school funk, reggae and indie rock are woven into the outfit’s hybrid sound. Beat-driven as well as melodically adventurous, the ensemble’s lively tunes are fresh and full of sparkling instrumentation. Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality perform on Friday, March 22, at Zenbarn in Waterbury. Locals NINA’S BREW open.

mad river valley/ waterbury

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NECTAR’S: Trivia Mania, 7 p.m., free. Huntertones, Zack DuPont & Matt Deluca (jazz, funk), 9:30 p.m., $5/8. 18+.

DRINK: Downstairs Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., free. FINNIGAN’S PUB: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Justin Sawyer (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Duo d’Accord (jazz, classical), 8:30 p.m., free. Taylor and the Apes (rock), 10:30 p.m., free.

ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free.

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

HATCH 31: Rough Cut Blues Jam, 7 p.m., free.

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

HALF LOUNGE: DJ SVPPLY & Bankz (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

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JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

MONOPOLE: Open Mic with Lucid, 10 p.m., free.

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review in the last six months or so. They ranged from friendly check-ins to, um, not-so-friendly check-ins. And I totally understand people’s curiosity and, to put it politely, impatience. Here’s where we’re at: Seven Days receives more albums than we can review, and we only publish two reviews per week. We’ve never been able to review everything that gets submitted, but the sheer volume of submissions landing on the music 64

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

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desk is more or less unprecedented. Many albums submitted in 2018 went un-reviewed, compared to only a handful from 2017. Lamentably, we’re outnumbered. Generally speaking, I think there’s something kind of amazing about this situation. It means Vermont is home to an active creative community producing a bumper crop. I’d hate to live in a place where that wasn’t the case. However, the amount of space on our album

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8:30 p.m., $5. Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase, 10:30 p.m., free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Anthill presents 3rd Thursdays featuring eyenine, PremRock, Fresh Kils, Colby Stiltz (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $3. THE OLD POST: Salsa Night with DJ JP, 7 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Jenni and the Jazz Junketeers, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Italian Session (traditional), 6 p.m., free.

HATCH 31: Karaoke, 7 p.m., free.

PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Hayley Jane and the Primates (Americana), 8 p.m., $12.72/15.90. THE WOBBLY BARN STEAKHOUSE: Bow Thayer (folk), 8 p.m., free.

northeast kingdom

HARDWICK STREET CAFÉ AT THE HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: The Toasters (rock), 6 p.m., free. HIGHLAND LODGE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. PARKER PIE CO.: Can-Am Jazz Band, 7 p.m., free.

randolph/royalton BABES BAR: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

OLIVE RIDLEY’S: Karaoke with DJ Jon Berry & DJ Coco, 9 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Out in the Valley Happy Hour, 6:30 p.m., free.

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burlington

ARTSRIOT: Wheelz of Steel (musical game show), 9 p.m., $8.

GUSTO’S: Cooie Sings (Americana), 5 p.m., free. DJ Bay 6 (hits), 8 p.m., free.

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Chris Peterman (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

BURLINGTON ST. JOHN’S CLUB: Karaoke, 8:30 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Open Mic Night, 8:30 p.m., free.

CLUB METRONOME: J.E.D.I. (jazz, electronic), 9 p.m., $20/25.

TAP 25: Jeff Shelley (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

FLYNNSPACE: Stand Up, Sit Down & Laugh (standup), 8 p.m., $12.

mad river valley/ waterbury

FOAM BREWERS: Willverine (electro-pop, R&B), 8 p.m., free.

LOCALFOLK SMOKEHOUSE: Open Mic with Alex Budney, 8:30 p.m., free.

HALF LOUNGE: Moochie (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. FRI.22

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JUNIPER: Eric George (folk, country), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: The Rhyme and Unreason Show (standup, hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., free. The Renegade Groove: March Madness Jock Jams, the New Motif (funk-rock), 9 p.m., $5. RADIO BEAN: Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music), 11 a.m., free. Box of Stars (folk, ambient), 6:30 p.m., free. Yestet (jazz), 8 p.m., free. Honey & Soul (soul, folk), 10 p.m., $5. Sad Turtle (post-rock), 11:30 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: Sweet William and Sugar Cone Rose (Americana), 4 p.m., free. The Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 7 p.m., $5. DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 11 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 10 p.m., $5. REVELRY THEATER: Please Laugh: Comedy for No Cause (standup), 8 p.m., $7. Insult and Injury: A Roast Battle, 9:30 p.m., $7. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Gordon Goldsmith (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. JFear (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): The Dimmer Twins: Mr. Charlie Frazier and Gary Wade (covers), 7 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Dana Gould, Valerie Tosi (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

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BACKSTAGE PUB & RESTAURANT: Karaoke with Jenny Red, 9 p.m., free. THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Mighty Loons (rock), 7 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND: Hyperglow5 Vermont (EDM), 8 p.m., $30/50. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Old Tone String Band (Americana), 6 p.m., free. MONKEY HOUSE: DJ Disco Phantom (open format), 9:30 p.m., free. THE OLD POST: MR FRENCH (covers), 8 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Dale and Darcy (rock), 5 p.m., free. The Rough Suspects (rock), 9 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: The Hubcats (folk, blues), 8 p.m., free. WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: DJ Capt. Dave (house, eclectic), 9 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Yuriy Kolosovskiu (folk), 11:30 a.m., free. DOG RIVER BREWERY: Laugh Local VT Comedy Open Mic (standup), 7 p.m., free.

CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.

ESPRESSO BUENO: Thomas Gunn (singer-songwriter), 7:30 p.m., free. Kathleen Kanz Comedy Hour (standup), 8:30 p.m., free.

Dystopia Rising Picking up where ’80s oddballs like Devo, Sparks and Oingo Boingo left off, New York

City’s FUTURE PUNX play fast-paced dance-punk with a retro-futurist bent. But the group’s wide-eyed gaze into the great

GUSTO’S: Chris Powers (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., free. Exit 23 (blues-rock), 9 p.m., $5.

beyond recently shifted. Its latest release, 2019’s The World Is a Mess, takes a harsh look at the here and now. The six-

SWEET MELISSA’S: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., free.

masculinity and an ever-changing cultural landscape. Catch Future Punx on Sunday, March 24, at the Monkey House in

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track EP, full of punchy hooks, staccato synths and metallic guitars, examines contemporary topics such as privilege, toxic Winooski. Locals FAMOUS LETTER WRITER and DJ DISCO PHANTOM add support.

EL TORO: Sergio Torres (Americana), 7 p.m., free. IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY: Alex Budney (rock, blues), 6 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: FUNGKSHUI (jam), 9 p.m., free. TAP 25: George Petit’s Groovy Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: BON/FIRE (AC/DC tribute), 9 p.m., $8/12.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality, Nina’s Brew (funk, Afrobeat), 9 p.m., $8/10.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: Victim of Metal, Untapped, Slightly Used, Old North End (metal), 9:30 p.m., free.

rutland/killington PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Good Noise (covers), 8 p.m., $10-20.

champlain islands/ northwest TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: Chris and Erica (rock), 7 p.m., free.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Empire Rooks (soul, reggae), 10 p.m., free. MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Happy Hour Tunes & Trivia with Gary Peacock, 5 p.m., free.

SAT.23

burlington

BLEU NORTHEAST SEAFOOD: Paul Asbell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. CLUB METRONOME: Soul Clap! with Moochie (soul), 10 p.m., free. HALF LOUNGE: OD3 and Friends (house), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: Cheney & Young (rock), 9 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Roan Yellowthorn, the Mountain Carol (pop), 7:30 p.m., $5. DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl), 11 p.m., $5. NECTAR’S: UVM Battle of the Bands Finale featuring Juice Box, Boys Cruise, Stumble Street, March Against (eclectic), 4 p.m., free. Revibe, Sacred Lakes (jam), 9 p.m., $7. RADIO BEAN: Phil Adams (jazzpop), 7 p.m., free. Vienna (indie), 8:30 p.m., free. Dan Blakeslee and the Casbah Club (folk), 10 p.m., $5. Kudu Stooge (jam), 11:30 p.m., $5.

SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

SUN.24 // FUTURE PUNX [POST-WAVE]

RED SQUARE: Left Eye Jump (blues), 3 p.m., free. Everyone’s Invited (rock), 7 p.m., $5. Mashtodon (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

MONKEY HOUSE: C-Low (hip-hop), 9 p.m., free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Raul (salsa, reggaeton), 6 p.m., free. DJ ATAK (open format), 11 p.m., $5.

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

REVELRY THEATER: Butterfly (storytelling), 8 p.m., $7. Sex with Jenna (improv), 9:30 p.m., $7. RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB & WHISKEY ROOM: DJ Craig Mitchell (open format), 10 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Masefield, Perkins and Bolles (jazz, folk), 8 p.m., $5. SMITTY’S PUB: Troy Millette (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Dana Gould, Valerie Tosi (standup), 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20/27.

chittenden county

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Music of the Rolling Stones for Kids, noon, $15. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Johnny A. (rock), 8 p.m., $25/30. JERICHO CAFÉ & TAVERN: Rushmore (rock), 6 p.m., free.

THE OLD POST: Saturday Night Mega Mix featuring DJ Colby Stiltz (open format), 9 p.m., free.

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Nathan Byrne (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Irish Session, 2 p.m., donation. Barry Bender (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., free. BUCH SPIELER RECORDS: Community DJ Series (vinyl DJs), 3 p.m., free. GUSTO’S: DJ LaFountaine (hits), 9:30 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

EL TORO: Sierra Polley and Trevor Contois (rock), 7 p.m., free. MOOGS PLACE: The Brevity Thing (folk, rock), 9 p.m., free. TAP 25: Colin and Chris (folk), 7 p.m., free. TRES AMIGOS & RUSTY NAIL STAGE: Night Protocol (synthwave, ’80s covers), 9 p.m., $10/15.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Root Shock, the Melting Nomads (rock, funk), 9 p.m., $7/10.

middlebury area

CITY LIMITS NIGHT CLUB: DJ Earl (hits), 9 p.m., free.

rutland/killington PICKLE BARREL NIGHTCLUB: Good Noise (covers), 8 p.m., $10-20.

champlain islands/ northwest 14TH STAR BREWING CO.: NightHawk (rock), 6 p.m., free. TWIGGS — AN AMERICAN GASTROPUB: AliT (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free.

upper valley

THE ENGINE ROOM: Shaker Bridge Theatre Gala (eclectic), 5:30 p.m., $85/600.

randolph/royalton BABES BAR: DJ Mike ‘Philly’ Fulton (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $5.

outside vermont

MONOPOLE: Lush Honey (soul, funk), 10 p.m., free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Fred Haas Organ Jam (organ music), 7 p.m., free.

SUN.24 burlington

ARTSRIOT: Jane Boxall Marimba (world, eclectic), 5:30 p.m., $5. HALF LOUNGE: Open Decks, 10 p.m., free. NECTAR’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog and Jahson, 9 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: JC Sutton & Sons (bluegrass), 1 p.m., free. Traditional Pub Sing-Along, 3:30 p.m., free. Old Sky and Friends (Americana), 6 p.m., free. Cup of Comedy: A Standup Showcase (standup), 9 p.m., free. RUBEN JAMES: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Bluegrass Brunch, noon, free. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: March Madness: Round 4 (improv), 7 p.m., $5.

chittenden county

MISERY LOVES CO.: Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell, 11 a.m., free. SUN.24

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REVIEW this D. Davis, Hopeful (SELF-RELEASED, CD, DIGITAL)

D. Davis is an unassuming fellow. Modest almost to a fault, he’s the kind of guy who doesn’t stand out in a crowd, even though he’s a good bet to be among the most talented people in any room. Davis is affable and generous, a thoughtful, pleasant man who’s easy to like. While he’s not exactly a wallflower, he tends to avoid the spotlight. Owing in part to his understated style, the Montpelier-based guitarist tends to be most comfortable within groups such as cosmic Americana outfit Red Hot Juba and rootssoul combo the Larkspurs, or backing any number of other local singers and players. To fully appreciate Davis’ considerable abilities, you have to pay attention. As his recently released, mostly instrumental solo album Hopeful reveals, the effort will be rewarded. Hopeful was recorded in 2012 but only unveiled this year. Considering Davis’

Thai BlueJeans Salesman, One Thousand Miles of Mud (SELF-RELEASED, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

It’s been almost three years since we’ve heard from Thai BlueJeans Salesman, the psychedelicfolk project of Poultneybased musician Tim Halteman. His 2016 LP, Isla Hormiga, was a sort of hodgepodge of textures that worked as often as it didn’t but displayed no shortage of creative bravery. On his latest release, One Thousand Miles of Mud, Halteman has found a way to harness his oddball compositions and sonic experimentations into a much more coherent final project — despite its scant 15-minute runtime. The EP is threaded with daring. But that audacity is tempered by a guiding hand, if not contained by the recording’s brevity. “@one” is a strange nugget of folk-pop. It begins with Halteman singing tremulously over a piano figure but winds down as a sort of early-1970s Pink Floyd cut, all sunny

humility and ambivalence towards attention, that he would sit on the album for seven years is at least somewhat unsurprising. It’s a nuanced work that succeeds in the same manner Davis typically does in his various endeavors: finely tuned, low-key grace that favors substance over flash. Almost without exception, the 11 tracks that comprise Hopeful ripple with a serene fluidity, both from song to song and within each composition. Davis will never blow the listener away with monster riffs, though he’s likely capable of doing so. Instead, he crafts soothing, impressionistic suites that gradually evoke emotion and build intrigue. “Homage,” for example, begins the record on a series of eddying acoustic guitar arpeggios that seem to echo and swirl around each other. As ringing harmonic pops ebb, Davis’ slippery composition flows around again and finds purchase in those repeated opening themes. The following cut, “Hope for the Flowers,” functions similarly but with slight gradations in form. Here, Davis

employs a more whimsical approach, CHANNEL 15 compelling the listener with pretty, blooming melodies. Davis is a master of guitar fundamentals. Because he’s able to rely on crystalline tone and immaculate precision, his acoustic SUNDAYS > 6:00 P.M. compositions sing despite their relative GET MORE INFO OR simplicity. Much like the best albums WATCH ONLINE AT of acoustic guitarist and Windham Hill VERMONTCAM.ORG Records founder Will Ackerman, it’s just as rewarding to get lost in the calming strains of Hopeful as it is to dissect it on its academic merits. 16t-vcam-weekly.indd 1 3/18/19 From the moonlit tones of “Nightowl” to the cozy rustic twang of “Being Home,” from the laid-back groove of “Fountain of Youth” to the rolling majesty of “Thunder and Lightning,” and from the cheery lilt THU 21 | FRI 22 | SAT 23 of “Meadowmeare” to the optimistic benediction that is the closing title track — the only song on which Davis sings — Hopeful is delicate, moving and masterful. Here’s hoping we hear more before another seven years passes. Hopeful is available at dsdavismusic.com. Catch Davis at his Wine Down Wednesday residency every week at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier.

jangle and laid-back percussion. His use of space on the track is as economical as it is inventive. The instrumentation on the new EP takes a step up from his earlier work. “FranticTongues Put Wants Into OneSky,” sounds like what might happen if King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard recorded in an abandoned shack in the woods. The cut features some delightfully odd percussive twists, not to mention a deranged melody of Halteman singing the words “sun worship” over and over in falsetto. Throughout the EP, snatches of low-key synths, distorted guitar lines and loops color these strange songs like little character details. Halteman offers a beautiful tribute to his dog on “YellowLight” — a song so dedicated that the songwriter takes his pooch’s side after she bites the mailman. “And in the morning when I’m all right / We walk together in the yellow light,” he sings just before a heavenly chorus beams down like a ray of sun. If Halteman has a defining trait as a vocalist, it’s a kind of detached melancholy, which he often uses to great effect. “LovingTimes ’neath the Shadows” plays out like a scene in a noir film.

Tension-filled xylophone pings back and forth with the keys, making a seedy melody that evokes skulking through JOYELLE alleyways and staring through peepholes. Instrumental tracks like this make one wonder what Halteman might do if given a film to score. MARCH MADNESS One Thousand Miles of Mud wraps up IMPROV TOURNAMENT with the quirky, drugged-out “Smell of MARCH 24 | 7PM | $5 ALL AGES AchingWater.” At just under four minutes, it’s by far the most fleshed out of the EP’s five songs. And all of Halteman’s weapons are on display. He sings in a conversational tone, urging the listener to stop being afraid (802) 859-0100 | WWW.VTCOMEDY.COM of the forest and to stop being presumptuous 101 main street, BurlingtoN about what might happen. Perhaps due to the song’s dirge-like nature, it’s a meandering lesson that somehow still plays Untitled-16 1 3/18/19 out as wisdom. “Stop being afraid of the dark / It’s just a lack of the sun,” he sings. The EP ends in a lovely piece of music that almost sounds like a prayer — or maybe a lost Grizzly Bear song. Once again Halteman, as Thai BlueJeans Salesman, has delivered a healthy cut of weird. What’s new is that his weirdness carries added subtext, buoyed by clever arrangements, which creates a unique musical experience. Download One Thousand Miles of Mud at thaibluejeanssalesman.bandcamp.com.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Future Punx, Famous Letter Writer, DJ Disco Phantom (post-wave), 8:30 p.m., $6/8.

barre/montpelier

BAGITOS BAGEL AND BURRITO CAFÉ: Southern Old Time Music Jam, 10 a.m., free. SWEET MELISSA’S: Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m., donation.

stowe/smuggs

MOOGS PLACE: Beg, Steal or Borrow (bluegrass), 5 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

ZENBARN: Vermont Jazz Ensemble featuring Joe Davidian, 4:30 p.m., $7/10.

MON.25 burlington

HALF LOUNGE: Partners in Grime: Saint Nick and Jack Bandit (house, trap), 10 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Lamp Shop Lit Club (open reading), 7 p.m., free. MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free. RADIO BEAN: The Love Sprockets (folk), 7 p.m., free. Juice Box (rap), 10:30 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free. Family Night (open jam), 9 p.m., free.

CLUB DATES NA: NOT AVAILABLE. AA: ALL AGES.

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stowe/smuggs

HALF LOUNGE: Trap House Tuesday (trap, hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

middlebury area

burlington

LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: George Petit Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Dan Bishop Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free. Gavin Denison (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., free. LINCOLNS: Laugh Shack with Carmen Lagala (standup), 8:30 p.m., free. MAGLIANERO CAFÉ: Secret Drum Band, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Jo Bled & Gahlord Dewald (experimental), 7:30 p.m., donation.

northeast kingdom

HARDWICK STREET CAFÉ AT THE HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Trivia Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., free.

outside vermont

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (HANOVER): Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

NECTAR’S: Rainbow Full of Sound Dead Set Takeover (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5.

DELI 126: Bluegrass Jam, 8 p.m., free.

SIDEBAR: Erica B (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., free. Ron Stoppable (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird (sing-along), 9:30 a.m., free.

chittenden county

MONKEY HOUSE: Literary Trivia, 7 p.m., $10. Raised By Hippies (blues, rock), 9 p.m., free. ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free.

stowe/smuggs

WATERWORKS FOOD + DRINK: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

barre/montpelier

CHARLIE-O’S WORLD FAMOUS: Karaoke with DJ Vociferous, 9:30 p.m., free.

Outer Limits « P.62 men to really embrace femininity and the energy that we associate to be feminine because they’ve been so separated within the patriarchal society we live in. But if we think of them grander and more as bigger, energetic entities, masculine and feminine are two worlds in which any person of any gender or body can possess. SD: OK. Author Suzanne Kingsbury, who is a major name in the study of the Divine Feminine, defines it using qualities like creation, intuition and community. How is it not reductive to view things through this sort of traditional binary? MO: We live within the confines of the reality that has been bestowed upon us. SD: Yes, I 100 percent agree with you there. MO: This is how we understand it at this point. But I agree with you. Breaking free from all of that would probably be 68

HATCH 31: Kelly Ravin and Friends (country), 7 p.m., free.

WED.27

THE SKINNY PANCAKE (BURLINGTON): Comedy & Crêpes (standup), 7 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Seth Yacovone, 7 p.m. Cal Stanton (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., free.

MOOGS PLACE: Hayley Jane (Americana), 7:30 p.m., free.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Joey & John (acoustic), 9:30 p.m., free.

RADIO BEAN: Kirsti Blow (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., free. Max Rose (folk), 8:30 p.m., free. Honky Tonk Tuesday with Ponyhustle, 10 p.m., $5.

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WED.27 // SODOWN [EDM]

burlington

HALF LOUNGE: Chromatic (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free. JP’S PUB: Karaoke, 10 p.m., free. JUNIPER: The Ray Vega Quintet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. LEUNIG’S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., free.

Shape Shifter Boulder, Colo., electronic musician

SODOWN plays three kinds

of music: SoChill, SoGroovy and SoHeavy, which he respectively denotes using circle, triangle and diamond shapes in the artwork for his singles. Therefore, you should be able to anticipate whether a track will make you bob your head, shake your hips, or jump up and down before you press play. Though the intensity varies between his triad of styles, they all land squarely in the realm of effervescent, bass-heavy EDM. More than just a knob-twisting electronic producer, the artist plays saxophone in his live sets. Get down with SoDown on Wednesday, March 27, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington. DORFEX

LIGHT CLUB LAMP SHOP: Irish Sessions (traditional), 7 p.m., free. Radio Bean Spotlight Series featuring Samara Lark (singersongwriter), 9:30 p.m., free.

BOS and TRUFEELZ add support. VERMONT COMEDY CLUB: Open Mic, 7 p.m., free.

STONE CORRAL BREWERY: Open Mic Night, 8 p.m., free.

(Grateful Dead tribute), 8 p.m., $12/15.

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

chittenden county

barre/montpelier

middlebury area

stowe/smuggs

northeast kingdom

NECTAR’S: Space Oddity: A David Bowie Dance Party with DJ Craig Mitchell and Loving the Alien, 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+. RADIO BEAN: Danny & the Parts (Americana), 6:30 p.m., free. The Notables (jazz), 8 p.m., free. Midweek Mosaic (jam), 10 p.m., $5. RED SQUARE: DJ KermiTT (eclectic), 9 p.m., free. DJ SVPPLY (hip-hop), 11 p.m., free. SIDEBAR: Godfather Karaoke, 10 p.m., free.

CITY SPORTS GRILLE: Interactive Video Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7:30 p.m., free. THE DOUBLE E LOUNGE AT ESSEX EXPERIENCE: Burlington Songwriters (singer-songwriter), 6:30 p.m., free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: SoDown, Dorfex Bos, TruFeelz (EDM), 8 p.m., $15/18. THE OLD POST: Karaoke with D Jay Baron, 8 p.m., free.

the ultimate end goal. But to make sense of it, we have to look at the cards in front of us and kind of sort them out. SD: I don’t want you to spoil the whole performance, but can you give an example of how that is visualized or expressed? MO: The whole thing is kind of a farce, in which the heroes — which are fictitious versions of ourselves — proclaim Earth to be this misogynistic dystopia. We think we’re gonna get on a rocket ship and find a better world and bring it back to Earth. We’re gonna be the ones to save the day. But in the end, what happens to Princess is that they realize the change they’re trying to bring forth isn’t something that they can actively bestow upon everybody else. It’s something that they have to find within themselves. By letting go of their own egos, they create this space for the Divine Feminine to take more of a powerful role on Earth. SD: But isn’t there a paradox when two men set out to create art that, on the one hand, is about

SWEET MELISSA’S: D. Davis (acoustic), 5:30 p.m., donation.

MOOGS PLACE: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., free. Johnny Hathaway (Neil Young tribute), 8 p.m., free.

mad river valley/ waterbury

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

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

outside vermont

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ZENBARN: Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute), 7 p.m., free. Rainbow Full of Sound

examining masculinity and misogyny, but also is about stepping back and being supportive of women? Because it’s still you on the stage. Or is the paradox the point? MO: I think that is the point. There are these title cards that come in at each of the four chapters. The very first title card says, “Proclaiming Earth to be a misogynistic dystopia, Princess build a rocket ship to find a better world — as only two white men could.” We are two white men who don’t always say the right thing. It’s a process of learning and listening that this piece is really about. SD: So it’s all very self-aware. MO: Exactly. m Contact: jordan@sevendaysvt.com

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“Pangs: Ali Palin, Misoo, Susan Smereka” B Y AMY LI LLY

oseph Pensak, who founded and directs New City Galerie, doesn’t always curate its fascinating shows, but he did create the current one, “Pangs.” In it, he brings together work by Susan Smereka, the gallery’s head art handler and assistant curator; Ali Palin; and Misoo (formerly Misoo Filan). Pensak’s curator’s statement, consisting of a couplet from a poem in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Sonnets to Orpheus, suggests

that all three artists operate “among the waning” and “in the realm of decline,” in Rilke’s words. Indeed, each artist’s work expresses personal pain or loss. While this theme isn’t obvious from the artworks themselves — though their muted (Palin), pale (Smereka), and black-on-white (Misoo) palettes might evoke the underworld through which Orpheus travels — it emerges from the artists’ statements and their previous shows. Palin’s contribution to “Pangs” is a

group of 45 small paintings depicting remembered corners and rooms in the northern Vermont dairy farm that was her home until age 11. Each image is indistinct, softened in focus, in keeping with the dimness of memory. But because the panels are the size of 4-by-6-inch snapshots, a sense of documentation hovers. A barn interior, with its rows of slanted-roof windows, might owe its haze to dust motes catching the light or to memory. As documents, these images convey

solo show at the University of Vermont’s Living/Learning Center Gallery. In that show, she first revealed that her subject was a traumatic memory of sustained sexual abuse, the hair a visual synecdoche for the Asian female victim. Misoo’s more recent work at New City, “Weeping Willow,” appears to signal even more violence with its chaotic networks of tangles and knots in spilled ink. These overlie tree-trunk-like shapes, as if attempting to graft onto and overpower

“Outer Gate” by Susan Smereka

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sadness: The farm’s buildings were burned for firefighter practice while Palin’s elderly grandfather looked on, the artist writes. Misoo offers two abstract works in black ink and pencil on large sheets of white Yupo paper. Each is 60 inches wide and so long — 15 feet — that they scroll onto the floor. Hung this way, they suggest a person standing with her back to the wall who has slid down to a sitting position, legs extended. One of these works is “Bartholomew,” with its spilled ink and flowing pencil work resembling hair, which local gallerygoers might remember from Misoo’s 2017

them. But the trunks remain rooted and upright — perhaps a reference to resilience. Art New England magazine selected Misoo as one of 10 “emerging New England artists” to watch in its March-April issue. Eleven works by Smereka, sewn together from old book pages, make up most of “Pangs.” Smereka was an artist-inresidence at New City Galerie in 2015 and co-curated a show at the end of that year called “Bookbody,” which emphasized the parallels between book bodies and human bodies. During the residency, her brother committed suicide, a trauma reflected in actual books Smereka made for that show.

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Seven Days reviewer Rachel Elizabeth Jones called it “a show about text.” In the current show, Smereka pursues that interest with new complexity. Her artist statement consists of a pun-filled poem that connects death with dismantled books and coping and rebuilding with making her art. Yet the works themselves almost entirely hide or exclude printed text. That sets her apart from, say, Vermont a r t i s t Ma t t h e w Monk, who makes collages of vintage book pages and discarded scraps of pages that often include printed text, marginalia and the like. Instead, what viewers see here are blank book pages, yellowed with age, cut into thin strips and sewn together.

Another uncut page, which spans painted and unpainted areas, reads “The End.” Bits of dust and hair have caught in all the seams between the strips of paper. If the artist is emphasizing the materiality of the body here, it’s with deliberate opacity. The gridlike construction of the paper strips vies with the biomorphic shapes created by the white paint; there are layers to get through, gates to pass, only to reach “the end.” Smereka’s severe minimalism favors the incomplete. “Vortex Arm” bears a monoprinted shape cut off by the work’s left side. Its installation, flush with a corner made by two walls, nearly integrates it into the gallery itself. “Now It Can Be Told” and “The Guiding Hand,”

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Machine stitching is visible around each strip in some works. Surfaces are minimally printed with patterns, not text, in black ink, and occasionally augmented with collage or zigzag stitches in an accent color. These works clearly require a different approach to reading. “Outer Gate” is a rare piece by Smereka that includes print. The 42-by-30inch work is made from narrow strips of old book pages arranged horizontally and overpainted with translucent white except for two large half-lozenge shapes. A vintage half-title page turned on its side bears the words “The Outer Gate.”

both 42 by 28 inches, are hung as a pair so that the monoprint on one — a truncated, horizontal dumbbell shape — appears to find completion in the other. Up close, the impression dissolves: The pattern of lines in one monoprint is turned 90 degrees from the other’s. It is the sparest way imaginable to communicate pain. Contact: lilly@sevendaysvt.com

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f DEVON TSUNO: “Watershed,” an installation

of paintings and prints by the Los Angeles-based artist that examine water issues and the native and non-native plants competing for space in Southern California. Artist talk and reception: Wednesday, March 27, 5:15 p.m. in 301 Williams Hall. March 25-April 5. Info, 656-2014. Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont in Burlington.

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HAROLD WESTON: Works by the modernist painter and social activist (1894-1972) dubbed “the Thoreau of the Adirondacks.” March 23-August 25. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

f LIAM RADEMACHER: “Xendor,” artworks by the SMC student. Reception: Friday, March 29, 5-6 p.m. March 25-April 6. Info, 654-2851. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College in Colchester.

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Edgewater Gallery in Stowe offers a taste

‘AGE OF DINOSAURS’: Visitors of all ages can travel back to the Mesozoic Era and experience life-size animatronic dinosaurs in immersive habitats. Through May 12. Info, 864-1848. ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington.

of contemporary art in Canada through an exhibit of paintings, photography, sculpture and mixed-media works curated by Kelly Holt. Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa is a sculptor, filmmaker, bookmaker and photographer who spends time in both Montréal and Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom; she has been a professor and dean at Concordia University and exhibits her work internationally. “The land itself is a central catalyst for much of my artwork,” Vigesaa writes in an artist statement. Montréal-born Claire Desjardins, who now resides in the Laurentians, creates colorful abstractions that are, she writes, “an attempt to decipher the chatter in my head …

‘JOY’: An exhibition exploring spontaneous delight with paintings by Carol O’Malia and Leslie Graff, mixed-media compositions by John Joseph Hanright, low-relief sculptural pieces and paper installations by Kim Radochia, and glass sculpture by Claire Kelly. Gala opening reception: Saturday, March 23, 6-8 p.m. March 23-April 27. Info, 253-8943. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe.

to navigate through my everyday chaos toward calm.” Desjardins’ work has appeared in

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writes of her studio practice: “I’m back in the moment with the wind, the sounds and the

f ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL DESIGN COMPETITION: Work by teams from schools around Vermont that create a poster to promote next year’s design contest, judged by NVU-Lyndon students. Awards ceremony and reception: Friday, March 22, 4 p.m. March 22-25. Info, Barclay.Tucker@NorthernVermont.edu. f LINDA BRYAN: “Deeper than Blue: Cyanotypes and Printmaking,” works by the artist and owner of Red House Studio in Newbury. Reception: Tuesday, March 26, 6 p.m. March 27-April 24. Info, Barclay.Tucker@ NorthernVermont.edu. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in Lyndonville.

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f PETER FRIED: “Figure in the Landscape,” paintings by the Vermont artist. f RICK SKOGSBERG: Works on paper, ceramics and painted shoes by the visionary artist and poet. Reception: Saturday, March 23, 3-5 p.m. March 20-May 4. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

ART EVENTS 2ND ANNUAL VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS GALA: Put on by the South Burlington Friends of the Arts and hosted by WCAX Channel 3’s Galen Ettlin, the program showcases both professional and student artists. Proceeds will go toward the SBVPA scholarship. More info on Facebook page. Trader Duke’s Hotel, South Burlington, Saturday, March 23, 6-9 p.m. $20 adults, $10 students. Info, 598-4246. ART PRAXIS: A SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL PRACTICE: PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND POLITICAL HISTORIES: UVM’s Department of Art and Art History Mollie Ruprecht Fund for Visual Art presents visual artists and cultural practitioners Chloe Bass, Miguel Luicano, Devon Tsuno, who will discuss their work. Followed by a panel discussion led by Dr. Ujju Aggarwal and Laura Raicovich, and a reception. Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Monday, March 25, noon-3 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014. DEMO DAY: ‘CLOSE TO THE CLOTH’: Skye Livingston and Kate Ruddle share techniques in natural dyeing and fabric manipulation, respectively, in conjunction with their current exhibit. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, Saturday, March 23, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 262-6035. DID YOU KNOW? SERIES: AMY OXFORD: The artist and teacher gives a talk titled “Punch Needle Rug Hooking and Its Vermont Roots,” discussing 72 SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

films and television series, and she has launched a collection of women’s apparel. Carol Kapuscinsky, from Ajax, Ontario, has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Ontario and Québec, taught students of all ages, and juried exhibitions across the country. A contemporary realist, she uses minimalist imagery to paint landscapes in oil. Kapuscinsky exquisite beauty of nature. I find it an enormous responsibility to paint a field, a stream, a place, and do it justice.” Through March 31. Pictured: “Study for Standing in the Moment” by Kapuscinsky. the craft’s 19th-century origins, its decline and revival. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, March 20, 1:30 p.m. $20, $10 for museum members. Info, 388-2117. DID YOU KNOW? SERIES: EVA GARCELON-HART & LUCINDA COCKRELL: The archivist and ephemera collector give a talk titled “Never Meant to Last: Everyday Treasures of Ephemera From the Archival Collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Friday, March 22, 1:30 p.m. $20, $10 for museum members. Info, 388-2117. DID YOU KNOW? SERIES: WARREN KIMBLE: The internationally renowned folk artist and museum trustee gives a talk titled “Cheerleading the Arts,” discussing his experiences in promoting the arts in his hometown of Brandon and fundraising for arts nonprofits. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Wednesday, March 27, 1:30 p.m. $20, $10 for museum members. Info, 388-2117. FIGURE DRAWING SOCIAL: All skill levels welcome at this live-model drawing session. BYO supplies. Wishbone Collective, Winooski, Wednesday, March 27, 6-8 p.m. Donations. Info, hello@wishbonecollectivevt.com. OPEN STUDIO PAINT FOR FUN: Spend two hours painting, drawing or collaging. No experience needed. Many materials provided. Closed during school holidays. Expressive Arts Burlington, Tuesdays, 9-11 a.m., and Thursdays, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 343-8172. PHOTO CO-OP: Lens lovers gather to share their experience and knowledge of their craft. Gallery at River Arts, Morrisville, Thursday, March 21, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 888-1261. STUDIO FEVER EXHIBIT CLOSING RECEPTION: Come see the newly painted walls throughout the gallery. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, South Pomfret, Friday, March 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 457-3500.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

TALK: ‘CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE ARAB WORLD: ACTS OF RESISTANCE AND URBAN INTERVENTIONS’: Sarah Rogers is a recognized scholar in the field of contemporary Arab art. Talk sponsored by Molly Ruprecht Fund, the departments of anthropology, art and art history, global studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Center. Williams Hall, University of Vermont, Burlington, Thursday, March 21, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2014. TALK: MOHAMAD HAFEZ: “Homeland inSecurity,” a discussion by the Damascus-born artist and architect about his history, the Syrian civil war, and his work in the current exhibit, “Small Worlds.” Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Wednesday, March 20, 5:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. Info, 656-0750. TALK: ‘THE APPEAL OF MODEL RAILROADING’: Tim Wilmot, a retired maple researcher and member of the Northwestern Vermont Model Railroad Association, discusses his hobby and shows samples, in conjunction with a current exhibit. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, Tue., March 26, noon. Info, 656-0750. TALK: ‘THE ART OF STONE’: As part of the school’s speaker series, stone mason Thea Alvin explores the art of assembling individual stones into sculptures, including arches, walls, labyrinths, gateways and circles. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, Thursday, March 21, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545. ‘TIME KILLS ART’: More than 15 artists paint murals in a 2,000-square-foot space, to be demolished at the end of the month for an expansion. Prints and paintings for sale; DJs, food and beverages. Foam Brewers, Burlington, Saturday, March 23, 5-11 p.m. Info, 508-272-1130.

ART LISTINGS AND SPOTLIGHTS ARE WRITTEN BY PAMELA POLSTON. LISTINGS ARE RESTRICTED TO ART SHOWS IN TRULY PUBLIC PLACES.

‘IMPERFECT SOCIETIES’: Film and photography by Kiluanji Kia Henda and Tuan Andrew Nguyen that addresses history, trauma and nationhood within the trope of science fiction. ALM@ PÉREZ: “Robopoems: Quadruped@s,” robotic sculptures, large-scale photographs and bilingual poetry that explore the intersection of robotics and humanity. BARBARA ZUCKER: “Adorned (Hairstyles of an Ancient Dynasty),” black-and-white paintings and acrylic abstractions that examine how hair has been used to signify cultural meanings worldwide. REBECCA WEISMAN: “Skin Ego,” a large-scale, immersive installation including video, sound, sculpture and photography that examines ‘subconscious and psychological spaces of identity.’ Through June 9. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington. ART SHOW 16: Artworks in a variety of mediums that respond to an open call. Through March 22. RL Photo Studio in Burlington. ARTIST AWARD GRANTEES EXHIBITION: A display of works by both emerging and professional artists. Through March 31. Info, 863-6458. Frog Hollow Vermont Craft Gallery in Burlington. ASHLEY ROARK: “On the Dotted Line,” a solo show of abstract screen-print, mixed-media and collage works by the Vermont artist. Through March 30. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. ‘COPING MECHANISMS’: Twelve painted and illustrated skateboards by street artists SPEAK and Downward Coyote that represent “the cathartic nature of skating and creating.” Through March 30. Info, joe.prasit@gmail.com. Half Lounge in Burlington.

f EMILY MITCHELL: “What Brings Me Joy,” acrylic paintings. Reception: Friday, April 5, 5-8 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 540-3018. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. ‘FROM NATURAL TO ABSTRACTION’: A group show that represents beauty as seen in the eyes of a variety of Vermont artists. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. RETN & VCAM Media Factory in Burlington. ‘GLOBAL MINIATURES’: Tiny objects from the permanent collection that explore the seemingly universal fascination with the familiar writ small. ‘SMALL WORLDS: MINIATURES IN CONTEMPORARY ART’: A group exhibition in which artists variously use tiny creations to inspire awe, create a sense of dread, or address real-world traumas, including violence, displacement and environmental disaster. Through May 10. Info, 656-2090. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont in Burlington. GROUP SHOW OF VERMONT ARTISTS: Works by Dennis McCarthy, Evan Greenwald, Frank DeAngelis, Janet Bonneau, Janie McKenzie, Jordan Holstein, Kara Torres, Lynne Reed, Marilyn Barry, Mike Reilly, Rae Harrell, Robert Gold, Stephen Beattie, Tatiana Zelazo, Terry Mercy and Travis Alford on a rotating basis. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. The Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington. KRISTEN M. WATSON: Installations and intuitive mixed-media painting by the Vermont artist. Through March 31. Info, 540-3018. KRISTEN M. WATSON: Installation and mixed-media works based on manipulating and fabricating digital designs and internet-based ephemera and collecting discarded personal effects. Through April 30. Info, 859-9222. Art’s Alive Gallery in Burlington. MISHA KORCH: Botanical illustrations in ink and watercolor. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31. Info, 859-9222. Speeder & Earl’s Coffee in Burlington.

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‘PANGS’: Ali Palin, Misoo and Susan Smereka process personal trauma via works on paper and canvas. Through April 17. Info, 395-1923. New City Galerie in Burlington.

f PETER CURTIS AND ROGER COLEMAN: “Intervals,” photographs of Cuba; and “Shadows on the Moon Pool,” abstracted nature paintings,’ respectively. Reception: Thursday, April 11, 5-8 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 371-7158. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington. PIXIE TWINE: One-of-a-kind hand-embroidered scenes and symbols by Jenn Carusone. Through March 31. Info, 338-7441. Thirty-odd in Burlington. ROBERT W. BRUNELLE JR.: “The Old Neighborhood,” acrylic paintings based upon vintage photographs, many belonging to the Rutland Historical Society, by the Vermont artist and cartoonist. Through March 31. Info, 899-1106. Feldman’s Bagels in Burlington. SCOTT LENHARDT, JACKSON TUPPER & KEVIN CYR: Original paintings and limited-edition high-quality prints. Open by appointment. Through April 12. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

f ‘A SHOW OF HANDS’: One hundred artistdecorated wooden hands, to benefit HANDS (Helping and Nurturing Diverse Seniors), a Burlington nonprofit that provides food to elders. Silent auction and closing celebration: Thursday, March 28, 6-8 p.m. Through March 28. Penny Cluse Café in Burlington.

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CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS: Landscape and cityscape paintings by Carolyn Walton, Athenia Schinto, Helen Nagel and Ken Russack. Through March 24. Info, 985-8223. Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne. ‘HEART SHOW’: Heart artworks by more than 90 local artists in a variety of mediums. Through March 31. Info, 865-9677. Rustic Roots in Shelburne. ‘JOHNNY SWING: DESIGN SENSE’: The first in a series exploring the processes of innovative regional artists, this exhibition provides a glimpse into the philosophy and practice of the Vermont lighting and furniture maker, whose works are based on welded coins. Curated by Kory Rogers. Through June 2. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum. MARILYN MADDISON: “Portals: A Journey into Your Imagination,” abstract photography. Call ahead to visit. Through March 30. Info, 985-3819. All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. ROBERT GOLD: “Bob’s Show,” digital photography printed on museum etching paper, and giclée prints on canvas, both finished with acrylic and ink. Through March 31. Info, 425-2700. Davis Studio in South Burlington.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield. ANN YOUNG: “Fellow Travelers,” large-scale oil paintings that address the human condition and environments by the Northeast Kingdom artist. Through March 28. Info, 525-4705. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier. ‘ANYTHING FOR SPEED: AUTOMOBILE RACING IN VERMONT’: A yearlong exhibition exploring more than a century of the history and evolution of racing in Vermont through the objects, photographs and recollections that comprise this unique story. Through March 30. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Center in Barre. ‘CLOSE TO THE CLOTH’: Fiber works by Barbara Bendix, Karen Henderson, Stephanie Krauss, Skye Livingston, Kate Ruddle and Neysa Russo. Through March 29. RAY BROWN AND TOBY BARTLES: “Steps on a Journey: An Exhibit of Two Vermont Painters,” works in oil and mixed media, informed by abstract expressionism. Through April 26. $10 suggested

donation. THOMAS WATERMAN WOOD: THE MASTER COPIES: The 19th-century Vermont painter and gallery namesake copied paintings seen on European trips to learn from masters such as Rembrandt and Turner, and brought the paintings back to Montpelier. Through June 1. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

f ‘DEEP BLUE’: A group show of 26 artists featuring 2D and 3D artworks, real and imagined, that are inspired by oceanic life forms. f TERESA CELEMIN: Works on paper combining figure drawing, abstract marks, words, symbols and fantastical creatures. BASH fundraiser & reception: Friday, April 12, 7-9 p.m. Through May 4. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

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DIANNE SHULLENBERGER & JOHN SNELL: Fabric collage and photography, respectively, that show the artists’ fascination with rocks. Through March 28. Info, 229-6206. North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier. ‘LOOKING NORTH: CATAMOUNT ARTISTS CONNECT’: Works by 19 Northeast Kingdom artists who are members of Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. Through April 26. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

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LYDIA GATZOW: “Divide,” emotionally rendered landscape paintings that explore how humans are cut off from wilderness. Through April 14. Info, 595-4866. The Hive in Middlesex. MARK HEITZMAN: “Scrap Yard,” 10 large-scale graphite or charcoal drawings of tools and other objects. Through March 31. Info, 479-7069. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre. ‘A PEOPLE’S HISTORY’: A solo exhibition by Vanessa Compton featuring 23 collages on the birth, development and destiny of our nation, created following a monthlong artist residency during the government shutdown on the Navajo Nation, the largest reservation in the U.S. Through April 9. Info, 928-797-1121. Barre Opera House. ‘SEEDS OF RENEWAL’: An exploration of Abenaki agricultural history, cuisine and ceremony. Through April 30. Info, 828-2291. ‘VERMONT MUSIC FAR AND WIDE’: An interactive exhibit of artifacts that tell the story of Vermont popular music history in recent decades, compiled by Big Heavy World. Through July 27. Info, 479-8500. Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. SHOW 31: Recent works by members of the collective art gallery. Through April 28. Info, 552-0877. The Front in Montpelier. SUSAN BULL RILEY: “Illuminating Wonder,” watercolor landscapes by the East Montpelier artist. Through April 26. Info, moetown52@comcast. net. Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

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‘COASTAL PAINTINGS’: A selection of themed works by Mary and Alden Bryan, part of the gallery’s 35th anniversary. 2018-19 LEGACY COLLECTION: Paintings of 20 living artists whose works continue the legacy of Alden and Mary Bryan. Through March 31. Info, 644-5100. Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. ‘ELEVATION 4393’: Works that address curatorial prompts such as influences on climate, how and where people live, elevation as a physical or emotional state, and others: paintings and mixedmedia works by Trevor Corp; paintings, sculptures and prints by Jackson Tupper; and photography by Daniel Schechner. Through March 31. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort. ‘LOOKING NORTH’: Photography, paintings, sculpture and mixed-media work by artists who have had studios in Montréal, Kathryn Lipke Vigasaa and Claire Desjardins, and Ontario artist Carol Kapuscinsky. Through March 31. Info, 760-6785. Edgewater Gallery in Stowe. ‘NOTWEED’: A multimedia exhibit with Sean Clute, dancer Pauline Jennings and composer Otto Muller that features 500 hanging stalks of Japanese knotweed and soundscapes, and explores the concept of STOWE/SMUGGS SHOWS

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Ashley Roark The artist introduces a new body of work, and new direc-

invasiveness. Through April 5. Info, 635-1469. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University in Johnson.

tion, in her solo show titled “On the Dotted Line” at Burlington’s S.P.A.C.E. Gallery. Known

‘PAINT VERMONT’: Landscape works by Lisa Forster Beach and John Clarke Olson. Through April 30. Info, 253-1818. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe.

minimalist palette, she has incorpo-

‘PEAK TO PEAK: 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION THEN AND NOW’: An exhibition of photographs and artifacts to highlight the evolution of the division’s equipment and training since its beginning in 1943. Through October 31. Info, 253-9911. Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe. RYAN GEARY: “Ascent (Part One: Eulogy),” 2D and 3D collages that tell the story of multiple Americas. Through March 28. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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for her collaged assemblages and rated monoprinting and painting to produce more complex mixed-media work. “Roark sought out to learn way to broaden her knowledge of processes, with the goal of finding a hand,” explains gallery owner Chris-

MAD RIVER RUG HOOKERS: The statewide artists’ group shows rugs in numerous styles and techniques. Demonstrations on Saturdays, 1-4 p.m., except April 20. Through April 27. Info, 496-6682. Festival Gallery in Waitsfield.

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‘50 X 50: COLLECTING FOR THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART’: An exhibit that marks 50 years of acquiring art by bringing together one work from each year. Included are paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photography, from antiquity to the present and from diverse cultures. Through August 11. Info, 443-3168. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. 9TH ANNUAL MT. ABE EMERGING ARTISTS SHOW: More than 20 students in grades 9 through 12 show their work, in celebration of Youth and Art Month. Through March 27. Info, 453-4032. Art on Main in Bristol. ‘AT HOME’: Work from 12 of the gallery’s artists alongside furniture from Stone Block Antiques, intended to exhibit how we can live with artwork in our homes. Through March 31. Info, 877-2173. Northern Daughters in Vergennes. ‘ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE’: An exhibition of large-format photographs featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing by Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo. Includes audio reflections from shanty owners

PENNY BENNETT: A retrospective of prints by the internationally known artist. Through March 31. Info, 295-5901. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction.

new way of mark-making in her own ty Mitchell. The exhibit also includes

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STUDIO FEVER KICKOFF POTLUCK: Break out of the winter blues and help decorate the gallery walls with painting or drawing, Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Through March 22. Free. Info, 457-3500. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery in South Pomfret.

drawn from interviews by VFC. Through August 31. Info, 388-4964. Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

‘UNCOMMON ART’: Paintings by James McGarrell and Robin Roberts and photographs by Jane Booth. Through March 31. Info, 866-5366. Tenney Memorial Library in Newbury.

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‘THE LIGHT SHOW’: Unique lamps and lanterns by Vermont artists Clay Mohrman, Kristian Brevik and Cindi Duff, and York Hill Pottery artisans Elizabeth Saslaw and Susan Kuehnl. Through March 24. Info, 382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. ‘NATURE IN FLIGHT’: A group exhibition that considers the birds and bees, as well as acknowledges those working to save Vermont’s species from environmental damage. Through May 11. Info, 877-3850. Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

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‘ART OF THE EARTH’: The first of a series of themed exhibits honoring our planet and celebrating the gallery’s 20th anniversary, featuring artwork by members. Through April 30. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild. ‘BARBIE, BRAINS & PINK HATS’: An exhibition of works in multiple mediums by 15 local artists, primarily women; a testament to female working artists in the area. Fifteen percent of sales will benefit the New

CALL TO ARTISTS ‘2020: SEEING THE WORLD THROUGH TECHNOLOGY’: For exhibition in 2020, artists are invited to consider the important ways in which technology has impacted our personal lives and the world, and its potential. Exhibitions run for about three months, with an opening reception and opportunity to give an artist’s talk. Send artist’s statement or proposal; a CV; five high-quality images including description, title, size and medium; and a link to website or social media. Electronic submissions only to gallery@RiverArtsVT.org. River Arts, Morrisville, Through April 17. Info, gallery@RiverArtsVT.org.

Story Center, a Rutland women’s shelter. Through March 22. Info, 558-0874. B&G Gallery in Rutland. DEBO MOULOUDJI: Portraits of local artists painted by the visiting, Milwaukee-based artist last August, alongside some of their own works. The artists include Christine Osgood Holzschuh, Marilyn Lucey, Richard D. Weis, Oliver Schemm, Ben Leber, Jamaal Clarke, Whitney Ramage and Bill Ramage. Through March 22. Info, info.77art@gmail.com. 77 Gallery in Rutland. ‘PIECES OF THE PAST’: Visual art, clothing and accessories, baskets, musical instruments, and more by past and current members of the Abenaki and Mohawk tribes. Through April 26. Info, 775-0356. Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

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AMY HOOK-THERRIEN: Watercolors by the Windsorbased artist. Through March 31. Info, 359-5000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee. DARYL BURTNETT: Abstractions in mixed media by the local artist. Proceeds of sales will benefit

CALL TO ARTISTS: PROMISE HEARTS: Just as our heart beats to support our lives, so must we beat on to support and heal our nation, environment, society and world. Use your artistic side to create a promise in 2D or 3D that helps to set our world back on the right beat. Silent auction proceeds benefit artist-chosen nonprofits. More info at grandisleartworks.com. Deadline: June 10. Grand Isle Art Works. $15. Info, 378-4591. CITY MARKET CALL TO ARTISTS: If you’re an artist and a member of the co-op, we’d like to feature your work for a two-month exhibit at either the downtown or South End store. Find application at citymarket.coop. City Market, Onion River Co-op (downtown Burlington), Through April 10.

‘ALL THE WATERS’: Established and emerging artists are invited to submit one or two pieces of 2D art work in any medium for an exhibition May through August. More info and registration materials at jerichovt.gov or catherine.mcmains@gmail.com. Deadline: April 22. Jericho Town Hall.

DOWNTOWN ARTISAN MARKET AT WAKING WINDOWS: Now accepting applications for local artisan vendors selling hand-crafted products or unique, high-quality vintage goods. Deadline: March 20. Apply at goo.gl/forms/O9TWfYwS3bum7dmU2. Waking Windows Main Stage, Winooski. $25 nonrefundable vending fee. Info, 339-227-0683.

ANTHOLOGY CALL TO ARTISTS: Seeking writing and art centered on the theme of “disillusionment” for a new anthology. Email bennyz331@ gmail.com for details and to submit. Each contributor will receive a copy of the final product and retain all rights to work submitted. Deadline: April 15. Info, bennyz331@gmail.com.

‘FAULT LINES’: Whether derived from “real news” or “fake news,” the fractures in our world threaten political discontinuity at many levels and potential explosive energy. Artists are urged to consider myriad current topics in traditional and nontraditional media. Exhibit dates: May 14 to June 29. Deadline: March 29. More info at studioplacearts. com. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10 submission, free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069.

‘ART OF CREATIVE AGING’: Seeking artwork for a May exhibit from older visual artists who reside in central Vermont. More info: jkern@ cvcoa.org. Deadline: April 11. Barre Opera House. Free. Info, 476-2671. CALL TO ARTISTS: GALLERY COOPERATIVE: Seeking local artists to display their work in monthlong shows. The new rotation schedule begins June 2019. Learn more at strandcenter.org. Deadline: June 1. Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604.

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‘DESTINATION: SPACE!’: A series of exhibitions that highlights the art and science of space exploration and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission’s moon landing. Through August 4. ‘MAKING MUSIC: THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’: An exhibition exploring the science behind the instruments used to create music, from well-known classics to infectious pop tunes. Through May 13. Info, 649-2200. Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. JACK ROWELL: “Cultural Documentarian,” portraits of Vermont people and other wildlife by the Braintree photographer. Through April 1. Info, info@mainstreet museum.org. Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

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JOSEPH SALERNO: “At the Woods’ Edge,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 11. Info, 2447801. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Through March 31. Info, 295-0808. Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

‘INTENTIONAL SPACES’: Humans create spaces to serve many purposes: to make us feel safe, comforted, fearful, humbled, awestruck, or inspired. For this exhibition, we seek images of spaces that evoke a range of emotions. All capture methods and processes are welcome. More info at photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-

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‘BIRDS, BOATS AND A LITTLE BIT OF WOOD’: Photographs by Ross Connelly, a retired journalist who owned the Hardwick Gazette from 1986 to 2017. Through March 26. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. KATE EMLEN: “Precarious Magic,” paintings. Through April 7. Info, 533-9075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. ‘LENS & BRUSH’: Photographs of rural life by Richard W. Brown and paintings of still lifes and NEK scenes by Susan McClellan. Through April 13. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. ‘LOCKED DOWN! KEYED IN! LOCKED OUT! KEYED UP!’: An exhibition examining the long human relationship to the lock and key, its elegant design and philosophies and practices of securing, safeguarding, imprisoning, escaping and safecracking throughout the ages. Through April 30. Info, claredol@sover.net. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

shows/intentional-spaces. Deadline: April 29. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury. $39 for up to 5 images, $6 each additional image. Info, photos@photoplacegallery.com. ‘RE-CONSTRUCTING CLIMATE CHANGE’: At the Root is collaborating with 350VT to create a diorama exhibition. Make a diorama about the causes, effects or ways to remedy climate change in our world. Artworks can be any size up to four-by-four feet. Submission form at goo.gl/forms/TeYvu6j84pmFnIcI3. Deadline: April 1. Exhibition April 18. The Hive on Pine, Burlington. Info, attherootvt@gmail.com. SOUTH END ART HOP: Artists can register to show work or enter the juried exhibit, and businesses can register to show artists’ works for the 27th annual, three-day arts festival in Burlington’s South End. Deadline: July 4. Info: seaba.com. SEABA Center, Burlington. Info, 859-9222. SUMMER JURIED SHOW: Artists are invited to submit work for an exhibit to run July 2 to August 30. All artistic media will be considered. Submission form on gallery website. Deadline: May 19. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier. $25 for three pieces of art, $10 for each additional. Info, 262-6035. THIS IS VERMONT PRINT SERIES: The downtown Burlington retail store is hosting its annual print series for Vermont-based visual artists. Selected artists will receive a purchase contract worth $250 to $5,000 and have their art featured in the store. Artists should submit original work in any 2D medium celebrating what they love about Vermont or Burlington. Details at commondeer.com/pages/artists. Deadline: April 22. Common Deer, Burlington.

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PHILLIP ROBERTSON: Prints inspired by the natural landscape. Through March 31. Info, 334-4655. Contour Studios in Newport.

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‘THE GREAT ARTIST REMAKE’: A group show of reproduced art in classical art styles. Through March 31. Info, art@bmfc.coop. Buffalo Mountain Food Co-op & Café in Hardwick.

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‘HEALING — THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMAGERY OF ART’: Works exploring the connection between the arts, healing and health, including Mary Admasian, Natalie Blake, Robert Carsten, Karen Deets, Robert DuGrenier, Carolyn Enz Hack, Margaret Jacobs, Neomi Lauritsen, Pat Musick, Robert O’Brien, Priscilla Petraska and Cai Xi Silver. Through March 30. Info, lightson_mary@comcast.net. The Great Hall in Springfield. SANDY SOKOLOFF: “Emanations,” mystical, Kabbalah-inspired paintings by the Grand Isle artist, who is showing his work for the first time in 30 years. Through June 16. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

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‘THE BODY STOPS HERE’: Artists Keiko Narahashi and Sarah Peters continue a conversation about sculptural representations of bodies and parts of bodies — in particular, heads and faces — with an exhibition including bronze and ceramic sculpture and photography. Through March 31. Info, 442-5401. Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery in Bennington. ‘WORKS ON PAPER: A DECADE OF COLLECTING’: A variety of works from the museum’s permanent collection, historic to contemporary, self-taught to modernist artists. Artists include Gayleen Aiken, Milton Avery, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, Paul Feeley, Luigi Lucioni, Duane Michals and Norman Rockwell. Through May 5. PAUL KATZ: “The Mind’s Eye,” paintings, sculptures and books. Through May 27. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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BOW THAYER: “It’s What You Bring Back,” landscape paintings from the artist’s travels, and larger mixed-media studio works reflecting internal journeys. Through April 9. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery in South Royalton.

f MARCIA HAMMOND: “Promises of Spring,” watercolors by the local artist. Reception: Friday, March 29, 6-8 p.m. Through April 30. Info, 685-2188. Chelsea Public Library. ‘WOOD BURNING’: A solo show of paintings and wood-burned art by Tom Ball, an owner of Tatunka Tattoo in South Royalton. Through May 3. Info, 889-9404. Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. ‘YOUR ART, YOUR STORY’: Area students in grades pre-K through 12 tell visual stories about their experiences in 2D and 3D works. Through April 20. Info, 728-9878. Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

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ART SOUTERRAIN: A seven-kilometer art trail through Montreal’s underground roads. Discover visual art by walking the city on foot in the secret passages and deep underground, 7 a.m. to noon. Through March 25. Free. Info, 438-385-1955. Place des Festivals in Montréal, QC. ‘A MODEL IN THE STUDIO’: Artworks in a variety of mediums from 1880 to 1950 that show how artists worked from live subjects; many pieces never before displayed or new acquisitions. Through May 5. ‘OF INDIVIDUALS AND PLACES’: Nearly 100 Canadian and international photographs from the collection of Jack Lazare. Through April 28. ‘THIERRY MUGLER COUTURISSIME’: A retrospective of the French creator’s prêt-à-porter and haute couture creations, 1973-2001. Through September 8. Info, 514-285-2000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. m

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ev Patel clearly got Daniel Craig’s mail by mistake. Or Idris Elba’s. Maybe Jet Li’s. There’s no regulation requiring every member of the Screen Actors Guild to have the skill set necessary to carry an action film, of course. That’s good news for Patel. For moviegoers, not so much. He does an unconvincing Jason Statham in his genre debut. The Wedding Guest invites Patel to play a generic man of mystery who does generic things with semiautomatic weapons and globe trots generically from Britain to Pakistan to India while generically falling for the bride-to-be he kidnaps the night before her nuptials. He’s your standard Man With No Name. The bride is called Samira and is played by Radhika Apte. Are you sitting down? She’s not who she seems to be. Patel’s character has been hired by Samira’s boyfriend, Deepesh (Jim Sarbh), to save her from the fate of an arranged marriage. Why Patel was recruited for the mission and whether he’s done anything like this before are questions the script, from writer-director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip), never answers. All we know is that he’s being hand-

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somely compensated and that the relationship between Samira and Deepesh is not what it seems. This is the sort of movie in which nothing is. With one exception: From its opening scene, the narrative seems woefully short on compelling ideas. Once I made it to the closing credits after 97 minutes of waiting for something compelling to occur, it was clear that, yup, it was ho-hum from start to finish. A thriller without a thrill. An action film in which the action is mostly limited to Patel phoning shady contacts to place orders for fake passports, driving rental cars from one bustling, overcrowded locale to the next, and brooding. For a guy with pocketsful of dough and a comely travel companion who’s continually making moves on him, he sure spends a lot of time brooding. The plot, such as it is, turns on Patel being forced to kill a guard as he makes his escape with Samira on the night of the abduction. The guard’s murder and woman’s disappearance make news around the globe. They also make Deepesh less enthusiastic about reuniting with the love of his life. Despite the concerns Deepesh repeatedly raises about attracting unwanted attention from the authorities, however, there’s never any suggestion that the police are looking for Samira,

READY, AIM, MISFIRE Is there a movie pose more laughably lame at this point? Unbelievably, every frame of Winterbottom’s latest is just as generic.

much less closing in — a major miscalculation on the filmmaker’s part. Some cat-and-mouse suspense might’ve gone a long way toward injecting this inert, meandering slog with a much-needed emotional jolt. Instead, we wait patiently for some twist or surprise, only to watch Patel phone in orders for more fake passports, do business with even more car rental agencies and, it goes without saying, brood. I can’t imagine what anyone involved with The Wedding Guest could possibly have thought was the point. Don’t be duped by reviews that gush about the picture’s atmospheric locales. If

Climax ★★★★

o you like your dance laced with a bit of homicide? Is Black Swan your jam? Do you wish that the sinister ballet in The Red Shoes (1948) had been the entire film, or that the witchy gyrations in last year’s Suspiria remake had lasted longer? If you’re a fan of the micro-genre that I’ll call the dancing-to-death movie, then Gaspar Noé’s Climax is for you. There’s not much plot here — far less than in the French provocateur’s 2002 breakthrough Irreversible — and arguably not much point, either. Instead, there’s a phantasmagoria of virtuosic visuals and a whole lot of dancing under the influence. The movie opens with its closing credits, which is just the kind of waggish thing Noé likes to do; as for the opening credits, they’re embedded late in the first act. But the real opening is a series of video clips that introduce the dramatis personae: a diverse assortment of young people auditioning for a dance troupe. Next thing we know, we’re watching the 24-member troupe rehearse the piece they plan to tour in the U.S. The setting is a school that may or may not be haunted. Their electrifying run-through leaves them triumphant, sweaty, horny and eager to dance deep into the night to the tunes of genial DJ Daddy (Kiddy Smile). Happily, sangria is on hand. Unhappily, someone has spiked it with LSD, and what started as a harmless bacchanal turns into (for some) a rave to the grave. 76 SEVEN DAYS MARCH 20-27, 2019

TRIP HOP A dance rehearsal goes off the rails when someone spikes the punch in the latest from bad-boy director Gaspar Noé.

The opening/closing credits describe the film as based on events that happened in 1996. Viewed solely from that angle, Climax isn’t so different from Go Ask Alice, the hysterically over-the-top depiction of drug use that freaked out ’70s teens by masquerading as an actual diary. Noé has acknowledged in interviews that his factual inspiration didn’t

involve quite the degree of mayhem seen in the film. But if you watch Climax for verisimilitude or messaging, you’re missing the point — namely, the director’s ability to make it seem like his camera is tripping right along with the dancers, even as he pulls off long, complex takes that must have required intense

you’ve seen one bustling, overcrowded Indian city, you’ve pretty much seen them all. And pay no attention to critics who suggest the filmmaker is commenting on the culture’s outdated gender dynamics. Apart from the plot point involving arranged marriage, they’re not even on his radar. Winterbottom has done marvelous work in the past — but, dearly beloved, with leads who generate negative chemistry and a globe-trotting plot that goes nowhere, we are gathered here today to say, “Michael, WTF?” Believe me, you’ll wish you didn’t RSVP. RI C K KI S O N AK

planning. Sometimes the camera sits still and lets us watch the dancing, face on or from above. Sometimes it floats around the room, swirling from conversation to conversation like a restless spirit. Thanks to the incessant beat and mood lighting, even scenes without dancing feel choreographed. When the troupe leader, Selva (Sofia Boutella, the only pro actor in the cast), goes off alone to weather the effects of the drug, she seems to be doing a solo; the line between performing and writhing in agony becomes perilously thin. While all the performers are compelling, the film’s plot has little shape, and the early dialogue — mostly improvised — fails to pay off in any significant way. Before the drug kicks in, Selva’s latest fling (Romain Guillermic) comes off as a dangerous loose cannon, but he never detonates the way we expect. One plot point involving a child feels like gratuitous shock value, included to amp up the movie’s cred with horror fans. And the mystery of who spiked the sangria is more of a side note. For all these faults, though, the movie mesmerizes. You can read into the chaotic dissolution on screen anything you want — the fall of civility, the rise of anarchy, the violence always latent in art. More than anything, though, Climax is simply a hellishly hypnotic spectacle of youthful energies gone awry. Dancing with the devil never looked quite so good. MARGO T HARRI S O N

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GIANT LITTLE ONES: Two teens’ friendship is rocked by an incident at a party that raises questions about their sexuality in this drama from writer-director Keith Behrman. With Taylor Hickson and Maria Bello. (93 min, R. Roxy) GLORIA BELL: Julianne Moore plays a fiftysomething woman seeking love in Sebastián Lelio’s remake of his own film Gloria. With Alanna Ubach, Jeanne Tripplehorn and John Turturro. (102 min, R. Roxy) GREEN MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: Venues in Essex (March 22-24) and Montpelier (March 28-31) welcome a selection of 22 narrative films and documentaries, plus shorts and a New Music at the Movies event. (Essex, Savoy) THE HIGHWAYMEN: Vermonter John Fusco scripted this drama about the Texas Rangers who caught Bonnie and Clyde. Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson and Kim Dickens star. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) directed. (132 min, R. Roxy) A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL: Writer-director-star Tyler Perry puts the wig back on to play the disreputable family matriarch in a comedy about a backwoods reunion gone wrong. With Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely and Mike Tyson. (102 min, PG-13. Capitol) TO DUST: A Hasidic cantor (Géza Röhrig) becomes obsessed with the decomposition of his late wife’s body in this feature debut from director Shawn Snyder, also starring Matthew Broderick and Sammy Volt. (105 min, R. Savoy) US: Writer-director Jordan Peele (Get Out) brings us the creepy tale of a family who are terrorized by their own doppelgängers during a beach getaway. Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss and Winston Duke star. (116 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Paramount)

WOMAN AT WAR: An environmental activist (Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir) prepares to adopt an orphan in this unclassifiable Icelandic film from director Benedikt Erlingsson (Of Horses and Men). (101 min, NR. Savoy)

FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILYHHH1/2 World Wrestling Entertainment brings us the story of one of its stars, Saraya Knight (Florence Pugh), and her British wrestling family. With Nick Frost, Lena Headey and Dwayne Johnson. Stephen Merchant (“The Office”) directed. (108 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 2/27)

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FIVE FEET APARTHH1/2 Two teens (Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse) who have cystic fibrosis fall in love in the hospital in this romantic drama from director Justin Baldoni, making his narrative feature debut. (116 min, PG-13)

ALITA: BATTLE ANGELH This sci-fi action flick follows a cyborg’s quest for her identity. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) directed; James Cameron cowrote. With Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz and Jennifer Connelly. (122 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 2/20) APOLLO 11HHHHH This documentary directed by Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) uses never-beforeseen NASA footage to offer a new view of the historic moon landing. (93 min, G; reviewed by R.K. 3/13) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODYHH1/2 Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury in this chronicle of rock band Queen. With Lucy Boynton, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello and Mike Myers. Bryan Singer (X-Men: Apocalypse) directed. (134 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 11/7) CAPTAIN MARVELHHH Fighter pilot Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe in this superhero outing written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson). With Gemma Chan, Samuel L. Jackson and Lee Pace. (124 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 3/13) CAPTIVE STATEHH1/2 Humans live under long-term extraterrestrial occupation in this sci-fi thriller from director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Vera Farmiga, Machine Gun Kelly and John Goodman star. (109 min, PG-13) CLIMAXHHHH Provocateur director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) returns with the tale of a dance rehearsal that goes very awry. With Sofia Boutella. (97 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 3/20)

GREEN BOOKHHHHH In this comedy-drama, a refined African American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) and the low-brow white guy (Viggo Mortensen) find themselves bonding on a tour of the 1960s South. With Linda Cardellini. Peter Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber) directed. (129 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 12/12) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLDHHH1/2 Everybody’s growing up in the animated Viking-with-a-dragon saga. With the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Cate Blanchett. Dean DeBlois again directed. (104 min, PG) ISN’T IT ROMANTICHHH1/2 Rebel Wilson plays a cynical young woman trapped inside a romantic comedy in this meta rom com from director Todd Strauss-Schulson (The Final Girls). With Liam Hemsworth, Priyanka Chopra and Adam Devine. (88 min, PG-13; reviewed by M.H. 2/20) THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PARTHHH1/2 Alien Lego Duplo invaders threaten the awesomeness in this sequel to the hit animation. With the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks and Will Arnett. Mike Mitchell (Trolls) directed. (106 min, PG; reviewed by M.H. 2/13) A STAR IS BORNHHHH This update of the perennial tearjerker, set in the music world, stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (who also directed). With Sam Elliott and Dave Chappelle. (135 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/10)

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLDHHHH1/2 Peter Jackson’s documentary uses never-before-seen footage to tell the stories of soldiers in World War I. (99 min, R) THE UPSIDEHH1/2 A wealthy quadriplegic (Bryan Cranston) develops a life-affirming friendship with his street-wise helper (Kevin Hart) in this remake of French dramedy hit The Intouchables. Neil Burger directed. (125 min, PG-13) VICEHH Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney in this satirical portrait of the George W. Bush administration from writer-director Adam McKay (The Big Short). With Amy Adams, Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 1/9) THE WEDDING GUESTH1/2 Dev Patel plays an Englishman who makes his way to a lavish wedding in India in this scenic thriller from director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip to Spain). With Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh. (97 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 3/20) WONDER PARKHH1/2 A young girl must save a magical amusement park that exists only in her imagination in this family fantasy with the voice talents of Brianna Denski, Jennifer Garner and Matthew Broderick. The director is uncredited. (85 min, PG)

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BIG PICTURE THEATER

48 Carroll Rd. (off Route 100), Waitsfield, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info

wednesday 20 — thursday 28 Schedule not available at press time.

BIJOU CINEPLEX 4

Route 100, Morrisville, 888-3293, bijou4.com

wednesday 20 — tuesday 26 Captain Marvel Fighting With My Family How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Wonder Park

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE 93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Captive State Five Feet Apart How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World The Wedding Guest Wonder Park (2D & 3D) friday 22 — wednesday 27 Captive State (except Mon & Tue) Five Feet Apart How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World *A Madea Family Funeral The Wedding Guest (except Wed) Wonder Park (2D & 3D)

ESSEX CINEMAS & T-REX THEATER

21 Essex Way, Suite 300, Essex, 879-6543, essexcinemas.com

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Alita: Battle Angel Captain Marvel (2D & 3D) Captive State Five Feet Apart Green Book How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Isn’t It Romantic *Us (Thu only) Wonder Park (2D & 3D)

friday 22 — wednesday 27 Alita: Battle Angel (except Sat & Sun) Captain Marvel (2D & 3D) Captive State **Diana Ross: Her Life, Love, and Legacy (Tue only) Five Feet Apart **GMFF: Aga (Sat only) **GMFF: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (Sun only) **GMFF: The Biggest Little Farm (Sat only) **GMFF: Brewmaster (Sat only) **GMFF: Documentary Shorts (Sat only) **GMFF: The Experimental City (Sun only) **GMFF: Genesis 2.0 (Sun only) **GMFF: The Guardians (Sat only) **GMFF: Impulso (Sat only) **GMFF: In the Aisles (Sat only) **GMFF: Let Yourself Go (Sun only) **GMFF: Narrative Shorts (Sun only) **GMFF: Promise at Dawn (Sun only) **GMFF: Satan and Adam (Fri only) **GMFF: The Waldheim Waltz (Sat only) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World **Turner Classic Movies Presents: To Kill a Mockingbird (Sun & Wed only) *Us Wonder Park (2D & 3D)

MAJESTIC 10

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

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Alita: Battle Angel Captain Marvel Captive State Five Feet Apart Green Book How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Isn’t It Romantic The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part The Upside *Us (Thu only) Wonder Park friday 22 — wednesday 27 Captain Marvel Captive State Five Feet Apart Green Book How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Isn’t It Romantic The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part The Upside *Us Wonder Park

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21

**Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Wed only) Captain Marvel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Wed only) *Us (Thu only)

Bohemian Rhapsody Captive State Captain Marvel **Exhibition on Screen: Degas (Thu only) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Isn’t It Romantic The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part **Made in Abyss: Journey’s Dawn (subtitled: Wed only) A Star Is Born (encore presentation with added footage) They Shall Not Grow Old Wonder Park

Birds of Passage Everybody Knows

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65 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841, middleburymarquis.com

friday 22 — wednesday 27 Captain Marvel **A Dog’s Way Home (Wed only) *Us

MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456, merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Apollo 11 Captain Marvel Climax Everybody Knows The Favourite Green Book The Wedding Guest friday 22 — thursday 28 Apollo 11 Captain Marvel Climax *Giant Little Ones *Gloria Bell *The Highwaymen The Wedding Guest

10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, palace9.com

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PARAMOUNT TWIN CINEMA

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

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During the coming weeks, everything that needs to happen will indeed happen only if you surprise yourself on a regular basis. So I hope you will place yourself in unpredictable situations where you won’t be able to rely on well-rehearsed responses. I trust that you will regard innocence and curiosity and spontaneity as your superpowers. Your willingness to change your mind won’t be a mark of weakness but rather a sign of strength.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the animated kids’ film Over the Hedge, ten talking animals come upon a massive, towering hedge they’ve never seen. The friendly group consists of a skunk, a red squirrel, a box turtle, two opossums and five porcupines. The hedge perplexes and mystifies them. It makes them nervous. There’s nothing comparable to it in their previous experience. One of the porcupines says she would be less afraid of it if she just knew what it was called, whereupon the red squirrel suggests that from now on they refer to it as “Steve.” After that, they all feel better. I recommend that you borrow their strategy in the coming weeks. If a Big Unknown arrives in your vicinity, dub it “Steve” or “Betty.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I urge you to locate a metaphorical or very literal door that

(June 21-July 22): Musician Carole Kaye is the most famous bass guitarist you’ve never heard of. Over the course of five decades, she has plied her soulful talents on more than 10,000 recordings, including gems by Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beach Boys. Twenty-seven-time Grammy winner Quincy Jones has testified that Kaye has written “some of the most beautiful themes I’ve ever heard in my life” and that she “could do anything and leave men in the dust.” I trust this horoscope will expand the number of people who appreciate her. I also hope you’ll be inspired to become more active in spreading the word about the gifts that you have to offer the world. It’s high time to make sure that people know more of the beautiful truth about you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When you want happiness, what are you wanting?” asks aphorist Olivia Dresher. The repeat of an event that made you feel good in the past? A sweet adventure you’ve thought about but never actually experienced? Here’s a third possibility. Maybe happiness is a state you could feel no matter what your circumstances were; maybe you could learn how to relax into life exactly as it is, and feel glad about your destiny wherever it takes you. In my opinion, Leo, that third approach to happiness will be especially natural for you to foster in the coming weeks. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are old traditions in many cultures that pay special attention to the first brick or stone that is laid in the earth to initiate the construction of a future building. It’s called a cornerstone or foundation stone. All further work to create the

new structure refers back to this original building block and depends on it. I’m pleased to inform you that now is a favorable phase to put your own metaphorical cornerstone in place, Virgo. You’re ready to begin erecting a structure or system that will serve you for years to come. Be sure you select the right place for it, as well as the best building materials.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Born under the sign of Libra, Ivan Kharchenko (1918-1989) was a military officer and engineer for the Soviet army. His specialty was disarming explosive devices before they detonated. Over the course of his career, he defused an estimated 50,000 bombs and mines. Let’s make him your patron saint for the coming weeks. Why? Because I suspect you will be able to summon a metaphorical version of his power: an extraordinary capacity to keep volatile situations from blowing up. You’ll be a virtuoso at waging peace and preventing strife. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There was a time, less than a century ago, when pink was considered a masculine color and blue a feminine hue. In previous eras, many European men sported long hair, wore high heels and favored clothes with floral patterns. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of America’s most prominent twentieth-century presidents, sometimes wore skirts and feather-bedecked hats as a child. With these facts as your keystone, and in accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to experiment with your own gender expressions in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to have fun with the way you interpret what it means to be a man or woman — or any other gender you might consider yourself to be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Accord-

ing to estimates by population experts, about 109 billion humans have been born on planet Earth over the millennia. And yet I’m quite sure that not a single one of those other individuals has been anything like you. You are absolutely unique, an unmatched treasure, a one-of-a-kind creation with your own special blend of qualities. And in my prophetic view, you’re ready to fully acknowledge and celebrate these facts on a higher octave than ever before. It’s high time for you to own your

deepest authenticity, to work with extra devotion to express your soul’s code, to unabashedly claim your idiosyncratic genius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): We don’t know as much about European history between the sixth and ninth centuries as we do about other eras. Compared to the times that preceded and followed it, cultural and literary energies were low. Fewer records were kept. Governments were weaker and commerce was less vigorous. But historians don’t like to use the term “Dark Ages” to name that period because it brought many important developments and activities, such as improvements in farming techniques. So in some ways, “Lost Ages” might be a more apropos descriptor. Now let’s turn our attention to a metaphorically comparable phase of your own past, Capricorn: an era that’s a bit fuzzy in your memory, a phase about which your understanding is incomplete. I suspect that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to revisit that part of your life and see what new evidence and insights you can mine. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Why do some

American libraries ban certain books, ensuring that they’re unavailable to local readers? The reasons may be because they feature profanity or include references to sex, drug use, the occult, atheism and unusual political viewpoints. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is one of the most frequently censored books. Others are Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. In my astrological opinion, these are exactly the kinds of books you should especially seek out in the coming weeks. In fact, I suggest you commune with a variety of art and ideas and influences that are controversial, provocative and intriguing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): At the age of 97, Piscean cartoonist Al Jaffee is still creating new material for the satirical Mad magazine, where he has worked since 1964. There was one 63-year stretch when his comic stylings appeared in all but one of Mad’s monthly issues. I nominate him to be your role model during the next four weeks. It’s a favorable time for you to access and express a high degree of tenacity, stamina and consistency.

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NAVIGATION EXPERT When we adventure, we do it right! There are an infinite number of paths in life that lead to the same place. Whatever path I choose to take, I hope to find you by my side. P.S. Glenwood is definitely faster. When: Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Where: 287 South. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914678 3318! 365 — damn, girl — you still get me with those windshield-washer-fluid blue eyes, poodle doo and dimples! You complete my puzzle, fill my heart and put happiness into my world. I love you! Happy one whole year to us. Holy s*it, we made it! When: Sunday, March 3, 2019. Where: When don’t I see you? . You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914677 VTFISHGIRL1 You have now been spied. We need to watch that movie together on Saturday night. Tag, you’re it! When: Wednesday, February 20, 2019. Where: Seven Days. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914675 ICE CREAM MAN You used to push around an ice cream cart at the Montpelier Farmers Market and work at the co-op on the side. I worked for a grumpy old guy named Alan. I meant to get a drink with you, but I left for a year instead. I’m coming back in April, ice cream man. Is it too late for a drink? When: Saturday, February 16, 2019. Where: Montpelier Farmers Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914674 SNOWSTORM AT MANHATTANS You came in by yourself and sat at the pizza counter. Black T-shirt, beige beanie and a tattoo on your forearm. I think you’re super hot. Wanna make out? When: Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Where: Manhattan Pizza & Pub. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914671 YOU LOOKED IN MY EYES ...and liked what you saw at the time. There is so much to discuss. Will you talk to me? When: Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Where: in my dreams, a lot. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914670 HEY OUTDOORSYWOMAN You might want to check your email settings and messages. You might be missing your true love! When: Tuesday, February 12, 2019. Where: Personals. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914668

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I’m 19 years old, almost 20, and I’ve always been single, and I’m still a virgin. I have friends that are girls, but I have never been in a relationship. I find dating awkward because I’m really introverted, and I’ve screwed up all my chances of talking to my crushes. Is there any hope for me? Help!

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Good heavens! I’m surprised your penis hasn’t fallen off by now! Just kiddin’. I’m no doctor, but I’m 99 percent sure that doesn’t happen. You’re 19, for goodness’ sake. Of course there’s hope! You have loads of time for sexual escapades. I know plenty of people who didn’t have sex for the first time until they were well into their twenties, and beyond. It’s really no big deal. And I’ll let you in on a little secret: Sex isn’t as exciting as it’s cracked up to be, unless you actually feel good about yourself and care about the person you’re with. I’m not saying that because your mom told me to. It’s a fact, Jack. I had sex for the first time when I was 15 years old. Mostly because I wanted to get it over with and see what the all the hullaballoo

CARL, WAS THAT YOU? It’s been over 10 years so I couldn’t be sure, but you looked very familiar! Last I knew, you were moving to Kentucky to escape the cold, but that was when Bush 2 was president and we were neighbors. I had a purple hat, and we passed in the parking lot and said hi. When: Thursday, February 7, 2019. Where: Nutty Steph’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914665 SMOKY-EYED SMUGGLER Saw you shredding the trails in your black pants with red ember flecks. Although you where incognito, I managed to catch a glimpse of your smoky eyes at the pump house pickup. Let’s meet up and rip some turns. When: Saturday, February 2, 2019. Where: Jeffersonville. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914663 TATTOOED AT PENNY CLUSE I was enjoying breakfast this morning by the window with my dad and his redheaded girlfriend and couldn’t help but notice how good-looking you are. I was wearing mostly black, gray sweater and have brown hair. You were wearing all black, tattoo on your forearm, have short brown hair and a beard. If you’re interested, let’s meet up! When: Friday, January 25, 2019. Where: Penny Cluse Café. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914659 TOPS CHECKOUT I offered for you to go before me at the checkout. You weren’t finished shopping. You passed by and very kindly touched my shoulder. That touch was very firm but gentle, and the warmth of your hand was felt through my body. I felt your touch all night as it warmed my heart and eased my mind. Thank you! When: Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Where: Tops Market, Hardwick. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914648 YOU AND ME These rendezvous we experience are very special to me. I care deeply for you and am at a loss for what to do with these feelings. I think it’s mutual, but my vibes on that change day to day. I don’t understand. Are we “friends”? I believe our connection is more than friends. I need to know your thoughts of me. When: Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Where: around. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914645

was about. Sure, it was with the quarterback of my high school football team. And, sure, he wore a size 14 shoe — if you know what I’m sayin.’ But if I could go back in time, I wouldn’t go that route again. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t regret that it went down that way, but truth be told, it was uncomfortable, kinda weird and not particularly enjoyable. But it makes for a fun story on occasion! Are you really close with the girl pals you mention? You ever talk to them about this stuff? It might seem weird, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to get some input from your peers of the feminine persuasion. I bet you could find a way to casually get on

UNIFIRST DELIVERY MAN I smiled at you and commented on how busy you must be with wet rugs. You replied, and a nice smile followed. When: Tuesday, January 8, 2019. Where: Buffalo Wild Wings. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914638 WORCESTER RANGE SUSAN, LAST SUMMER We met last summer on either Worcester or Hunger Mountain. We were going in opposite directions but stopped to talk. We exchanged names. You: Susan, I think. I’m Carl. I felt the connection, and I know you did, too. You I-Spied me later, but at the time I couldn’t respond. I’d love to go for a winter hike with you sometime. When: Friday, July 20, 2018. Where: Worcester Mountain Trail. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914630 MIDWESTGRL, SEVEN DAYS PERSONALS Hey there, MIDWESTGRL. Saw your ad. You’re funny, witty and oh-so-pretty. You sent me a flirt. I have two tix: Higher Ground New Year’s Eve Bash tomorrow night. Let me know if you’re interested? I know this is a real long shot, but what the hell. And if it is affirmative, we can figure the rest out?! Mubiksski. When: Saturday, December 29, 2018. Where: Seven Days Personals. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914629 BEAUTY AT BTV AIRPORT! You were walking toward the terminal from the employee parking lot, I believe. 2 p.m., catching a flight to Florida. We exchanged smiles and a few words. I would love to get to know you over a pizza crêpe at the Skinny Pancake! When: Sunday, December 23, 2018. Where: BTV airport. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914628 HANS Heyo! I got your voicemail but not your new phone number. Would love to see you again. Text or call. Let’s hang out! —L. When: Saturday, September 8, 2018. Where: Burke. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914619

the subject sometime when you’re shootin’ the breeze. Here’s another little tidbit for you. I’ve found that the best romantic relationships start out as friendships. That’s also best when you don’t see it coming, so don’t even think about that too hard. Actually, forget I even said it. Just remember, you’re not going to be awkward and nervous forever. Chill out, enjoy the people you have fun with, and you’ll find your groove. And that will surely attract someone who wants to get their sexy groove on with you. Good luck and God bless,

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0255-7C 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On February 27, 2019, Southcreek at Essex Park Association, Inc., filed application #4C0255-7C for a project generally described as construction of new stormwater infrastructure. The project is located on Brickyard Road and Mansfield Avenue in Essex Junction, Vermont.

BASS, GUITAR, DRUMS, VOICE LESSONS & MORE! Learn bass, guitar, drums, voice, flute, sax, trumpet, production and beyond with some of Vermont’s best players and independent instructors in beautiful, spacious lesson studios at the Burlington Music Dojo on Pine St. All levels and styles are The District #4 Environwelcome, including mental Commission is absolute beginners! Gift reviewing this applicacertificates available. tion under Act 250 Rule Come share in theADVERTISEMENT EMAILED 51 — Minor Applications. music! burlingtonmuA copy of the application sicdojo.com, info@ and proposed permit are burlingtonmusicdojo. ADVERTISING INSERTION ORDER available for review at com, 540-0321. the office listed below.

Thomas Hirchak Th Company e application and a GUITAR INSTRUCTION FROM: Terra Keene draft permit may also be Berklee graduate w/ 30 viewed on the Natural Phone: years’ teaching800-634-7653 experiResources Board’s web enceAdvertising2@THCAuction.com offers lessons in site (http://nrb.vermont. guitar, music theory,

gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0255-7C”.

music technology, ear training. TO:Individualized, Logan step-by-step approach. COMPANY: Seven Days All ages, styles, levels. Rick PHONE: Belford, 864-7195, No hearing will be held 802-865-1020 x22 rickb@rickbelford.com. and a permit may be is-

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hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

The Project is located at 110 Thorpe Cove Road in Charlotte, Vermont.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before April 5, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by April 2, 2019. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 8th day of March 2019. By: _/s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel.Lomonaco@ vermont.gov

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0685-14 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On March 13, 2019, John & Alexa Beal, 110 Thorpe Cove Road, Charlotte, VT 05445 filed application #4C0685-14 for a project generally described as construction of a 672 square foot, one-story, detached garage on an existing residential lot. logan@sevendaysvt.com;

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If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by April 5, 2019. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 15th day of March, 2019. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0696-12E 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On March 4, 2019, New England Federal Credit Union, Attn: Tom Richards, Williston, VT 05495 filed application #4C0696-12E for a project generally described as construction of a 2,300 square foot, one-story addition to an existing 32,500 square foot, three-story building. The Project is located at 141 Harvest Lane in Williston, Vermont.

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0696-12E”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before April 5, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing,

please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by April 5, 2019. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected

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state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 8th day of March, 2019. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0723-1B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On March 7, 2019, David Quinlan and Kelly Rybicki, 172 Reynolds Road, Milton, VT 05468 and Michael Slingerland, 496 Route 7 South, Milton, VT 05468 filed application #4C0723-1B for a project generally described as construction of a 3,000 square foot prefab addition to an existing 2,000 square foot commercial building. The proposed use will be an autobody repair shop. No

mechanical repair work is proposed. The Project is located at 5 Chrisemily Lane in Milton, Vermont. The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below. The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb.vermont. gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C0723-1B”. No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before April 8, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interest-

Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. ed person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by April 8, 2019. Parties entitled to participate are the Mu-

nicipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5). Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 12th day of March, 2019. By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov NOTICE OF SELFSTORAGE LIEN SALE LYMAN STORAGE 10438 ROUTE 116 HINESBURG VT 05461 802-482-2379 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid at the Lyman Storage facility. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy

Extra! Extra! There’s no limit to ad length online. fees, charges and expenses of the sale. The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to be distributed to Lyman Storage for all accrued occupancy fees (rent charges), attorney’s fees, sale expenses, and all other expenses in relation to the unit and its sale. Any proceeds beyond the foregoing shall be returned to the unit holder. Contents of each unit may be viewed on Saturday 03/30/2019, commencing at 10:00 a.m. Sealed bids are to be submitted on the entire contents of each selfstorage unit. Bids will be opened one-quarter of an hour after the last unit has been viewed on Saturday 03/30/2019. The highest bidder on the storage unit must remove the entire contents of the unit within 48 hours after notification of their successful bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50.00 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Lyman

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[CONTINUED] Storage reserves the right to accept or reject bids. Unit 010 ~ Deborah L Spranofrancis 61 Maple Street Apt. B Essex Jct. VT 05452 Unit 011 ~ Keith M Parisella 1914 Prindle Rd Charlotte VT 05445 Unit 015 ~ Lynda J Moureau 2345 N Craycroft Rd. Apt. 323 Tucson AZ 85712 Unit 020 ~ Church J Tanner 2227 Spear Street Charlotte VT 05445 Unit 033 ~ Steven J Tilley 4025 Case Street Middlebury VT 05753 Unit 048 ~ Susan D Brace 1567 Hollow Road N Ferrisburgh VT 05473

Board of Tax Appeals Term Expires 6/30/19 One Opening Vehicle for Hire Board Term Expires 6/30/21 One Opening Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Lori NO later than Wednesday, April 24, 2019, by 4:30 pm. If you have any questions, please contact Lori at (802)865-7136 or via email lolberg@burlingtonvt.gov. City Council President Wright will plan for appointments to take place at the April 29, 2019 City Council/City Council With Mayor Presiding Meetings.

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STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 215-1013 LECV KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v. JOEL R. FOSTER, JENNIFER L. SMITH, BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE, INC., VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION AND MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC OCCUPANTS OF: 7289 Route 15, Jeffersonville 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 August 1 , 2018, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Joel R. Foster and Jennifer L. Smith to BancBoston Mortgage Corporation, dated August 17, 1994 and recorded in Book 142 Page 144 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 BancBoston Mortgage

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To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Joel R. Foster and Jennifer L. Smith by Warranty Deed of .Richard W. Brouillette and Karen A. Brouillette dated August 17, 1994 and recorded In Volume 128 at Page 409-411, of the Cambridge Land Records. Also being a portion of all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Richard W. Brouillette and Karen A. Brouillette by Warranty Deed of Margaret E. Mattison dated November 15, 1991 and recorded in Volume 108 at Page 350 of the Cambridge Land Records and being more particularly described as follows: “Being a portion all and the same land and

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Reference is hereby made to the abovereferenced instruments, the records thereof and references therein, 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

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Reference is hereby made to a survey entitled: “Plat of Survey Showing Land to be Conveyed by Perry F. and Joan M. Bebo in the Town of Cambridge, VT.”, which survey bears the signature and seal of John A. Marsh, Registered Land Surveyor, and which survey is dated 6/27/78 and is of record in Map Book Volume III at Page 51A of the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge.”

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EXCEPTING AND RESERVING from the operation of this deed so much of said land and premises located southerly of the aforesaid State Highway, said land and premises being more particularly described as a parcel of land approximately one hundred feet (100’) in width ad three hundred feet (300’) in depth located on the southerly side of Vermont State Highway Route 15, and is the same land and premises conveyed to Irving Mossey and Michelle Mossey, husband and wife, by deed of the herein Grantor, which deed is dated on or about even date herewith, and it to be recorded of the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge.

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premises conveyed to the herein Grantor by the Warranty Deed of the Franklin Lamoille Bank, which deed is dated the 29th day of April, 1986 and is of record in Volume 68 at Pages 557-558 of the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge; being more particularly described as 1.94 acres of land, more or less, together with all buildings thereon standing, located on the northerly side of Vermont State Highway Route 15.

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Corporation to KeyBank National Association, dated January 7, 1998 and recorded in Book 180 Page 371 of 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 7289 Route 15, Jeffersonville, Vermont on April 16, 2019 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

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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 sixty (60) 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 8, 2019 By: /S/Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 213-3-19 CNCV Falcon Property Management, Petitioner v. Robert K. Wheeler, Mary A. Wheeler, Respondents NOTICE OF HEARING To: Defendant(s): You are hereby notified that a hearing will be held on Falcon Property Management Partners, L.P. d/b/a Falcon Management Company, Inc.’s Verified Complaint for Abandonment and Sale on the 2nd day of April, 2019, at Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division, 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont, at 10:00 AM. Dated at Burlington, Vermont, this 7th day of March 2019. Electronically signed on March 07, 2019 at 02:18 PM pursuant to V.R.E.F. 7(d). /s/Michael Stobb Docket Clerk Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Civil Division STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO. 213-3-19 IN RE: ABANDONED MOBILE HOME OF ROBERT AND MARY WHEELER, 204 LOWER CIRCLE, RIVERVIEW COMMONS, RICHMOND, VERMONT.

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ABANDONMENT AND SALE NOW COMES Falcon Property Management Partners, L.P. d/b/a Falcon Management Company, Inc. (Falcon), by and through its attorney, Brian P. Hehir, Esq., and hereby alleges and complains pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §6249(a) as follows: 1. Falcon is a Vermont corporation with its principal place of business at 29 Lower Circle, Richmond, Vermont. 2. Falcon is the owner and manager of Riverview Commons Mobile Home Park, located in Richmond, Vermont. 3. Robert K. Wheeler, Jr. and Mary A. Wheeler (Wheelers) are the record owners of the mobile home currently situated at Lot #38, 204 Lower Circle, Richmond, Vermont, and described as a 1980 Liberty model, serial number 4631. See attached Vermont Mobile Home Uniform Bill of Sale, Exhibit 1. 4. The Wheelers leased a lot in the Park from Falcon Management Co., Inc. pursuant to a lease executed by the Wheelers on September 9, 2011(Exhibit 2). The Wheelers vacated the mobile home on or about June, 2018. The Wheelers did not pay Falcon a security deposit. 5. The Wheelers’ last known mailing address is 109 Canada Street, Swanton, Vermont 05488. 6. Upon information and belief, the mobile home has been abandoned since June, 2018, and is structurally unsound, not weather-tight and contains trash and debris. The last known residents of the mobile home were Robert K. Wheeler, Jr. and Mary A. Wheeler. 7. Falcon has attempted to communicate with the Wheelers by telephone and mail to their last known address and has received no response from them. 8. The following security interests, mortgages, liens and encumbrances appear of record with respect to the mobile home: a. The Wheelers are in arrears to pay property taxes to the Town of Richmond, Vermont in the amount of $813.30 plus interest and penalties. The delinquent taxes for year 2017-2018

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS are now a lien on the property. b. The Wheelers owe Falcon Management Company, Inc. unpaid rent in the total amount of $6044.00. 9. Falcon sent written notice by certified mail to the Town of Richmond on January 16, 2019 of Falcon’s intent to commence this action. See attached receipt of this mailing by the Town of Richmond, Exhibit 3. 10. The mobile home is uninhabitable, as it is structurally unsound, not weathertight, and contains trash and debris. Jeff Bishop, property manager, will testify under oath as to the poor and unlivable condition of this mobile home at the abandonment hearing. WHEREFORE, Plaintiff requests that this Honorable Court enter an order as follows: 1. Declare that the mobile home has been abandoned; 2. Transfer the mobile home which is unfit for human habitation to the Park owner; Falcon Management Co., Inc., without a public auction so that it may be removed and disposed of accordingly; and 3. Order pursuant to 10 V.S.A. §6249(j) that the mobile home be conveyed to the Park Owner in “as is” condition, and free from all liens and other encumbrances of record. DATED at Burlington, Vermont this 7th day of March, 2019. By:/s/ Brian P. Hehir, Esq. Brian P. Hehir, Esq. Attorney for Falcon Management Company, Inc. and Falcon Property Managements Partners, L.P. 239 South Union Street / P.O. Box 1052 Burlington, VT 054021052 (802) 862-2006 DATED at Teaneck, Ne Jersey this 7 day of March, 2019. By: /s/ Mildred Schaum Mildred Schaum Duly Authorized Agent for Falcon Management Company, Inc. and Falcon Property Management Partners, L.P. VERIFICATION STATE OF NEW JERSEY BERGEN COUNTY, SS

At Teaneck, New Jersey, in said County, on this 7th day of March, 2019, Mildred Schaum, duly authorized agent of Falcon Management Company, Inc. and Falcon Property Management Partners, L.P., owner of the Riverview Commons Mobile Home Park in Richmond, Vermont, personally appeared and being first duly sworn, made oath that she has read the foregoing Complaint and that the facts contained therein are true to the best of her knowledge and belief. Before me, /s/ Marie-Laure Simhon Notary Public My commission expires 10/10/2023 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 733-8-18 CNCV STONEHEDGE NORTH CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. SAMANTHA SIMMS and ALL OCCUPANTS OF D-5 STONEHEDGE DRIVE, SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT, Defendants. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE By virtue and in execution of the power of judicial foreclosure sale contained in Title 12, V.S.A. Chapter 172, Subchapter 3, applicable to the undersigned as holder of liens for delinquent unit owners’-association assessments under Title 27A V.S.A. Section 3-116, and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the property at Stonehedge North Condominium in the City of South Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont described below will be sold at public auction at eleven o’clock AM, on the 17th day of April, 2019, at the address of the subject property, Unit D-5, Stonehedge Drive, South Burlington, Vermont. Property Description: Unit D-5 Stonehedge North Condominium, being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Samantha Simms by warranty deed of the Susan H. Simms Family Trust, dated June 19, 2012, recorded in Volume 1092, Page 191 of the South Burlington Land Records. Terms of Sale: The undersigned may bid up to the amount due it under its lien as found

by the Court, without depositing cash. All others wishing to bid shall deposit with the auctioneer, in advance of bidding, a minimum of $10,000.00, in cash, wire transfer or local bank check. The winning bidder shall sign a purchase and sales contract to close the purchase, with payment in full within ten (10) calendar days of the Court’s Confirmation Order. The record owner and all junior lienholders are entitled to redeem the property at any time before the sale by paying the full amount due as found by the Court, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lisman, Leckerling, Burlington, 802-864-5756. DATED at Burlington this 16th day of March, 2019. STONEHEDGE NORTH CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. By: Douglas K. Riley, its Attorney at Law Lisman, Leckerling, PC P.O. Box 728 Burlington, VT 05401 802-864-5756 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 141-2-19 CNPR In re estate of Wanda M. Lanpher. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Wanda M. Lanpher late of Burlington, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Date: March 11, 2019 /s/ Karen Emerson Signature of Fiduciary Karen Emerson Executor/Administrator: 20 Cardinal Circle St. Albans, VT 05478 802-310-4185 Name of publication Seven Days Publication Dates: March 20 and March 27, 2019

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Name and Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 THE BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FOOD SERVICE DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT (FDA) WILL RECEIVE SEALED BIDS FROM FULL SERVICE FOOD/ SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES, as well as distributors of bread, chemicals, and school supplies, on or before, but no later than, 10:00 AM, Monday, April 15, 2019 at the Burlington High School Food Service Office, 52 Institute Road, Burlington, VT 05408 The sealed proposals will be opened at the same time and address. Notification of the award, if any, will be made no later than 60 days from the date of opening. Please address proposals to the attention of Doug Davis and follow the submission directions in the Bid Packet. Anyone interested in receiving a full bid packet or more information, contact Doug Davis, Director of Food Service at 802 864 8416 or vermontfda@ gmail.com or ddavis@ bsdvt.org The Burlington School District in association with the Food Service Directors Association of Vermont, (FDA) will receive sealed bids on, or before, but no later than, 10:00 AM Monday, April 15th, 2019 at the Burlington School Food Project Office, 52 Institute Road, Burlington, VT 05408. This solicitation is for all food service products to include, but not limited to: food, supplies, bread, small equipment, and cleaning supplies. This is not a distribution contract, but is open to all manufacturers and producers of products necessary to operate a Child Nutrition Program. The sealed proposals will be opened at the same time and address. Notification of the award, if any, will be made no later than 60 days from the date of opening. Please address proposals to the attention of Doug Davis and follow the submission directions in the Bid Packet. Anyone interested in receiving a full bid packet or more information, contact Doug Davis at the ad-

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support groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS 802 QUITS TOBACCO CESSATION PROGRAM Ongoing workshops open to the community to provide tobacco cessation support and free nicotine replacement products with participation. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-noon, Rutland Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland. Tuesdays, 5-6 p.m., Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Mondays, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center (RRMC Physiatry Conference Room), 160 Allen St., Rutland. PEER LED Stay Quit Support Group, first Thursday of every month, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the CVPS/Leahy Community Health Education Center at RRMC. Info: 747-3768, scosgrove@rrmc.org. ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@ gmail.com. AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266. 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. 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.

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston. Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900. 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 800-272-3900 for more information. ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:307:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington. Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390. 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.

BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Mon. night, 6-7:30 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878. BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508. BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury. It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 877-856-1772. BURLINGTON AREA PARKINSON’S DISEASE OUTREACH GROUP People with Parkinson’s disease & their caregivers gather together to gain support & learn about living with

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Parkinson’s disease. Group meets 2nd Wed. of every mo., 1-2 p.m., continuing through Nov. 18, 2015. Shelburne Bay Senior Living Community, 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd., Shelburne. Info: 888-763-3366, parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org, parkinsonsvt.org. CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Newly diagnosed? Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213. CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way. We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change. Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com. CELIAC & GLUTEN-FREE GROUP Last Wed. of every month, 4:30-6 p.m., at Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@gmail.com. CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy

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HEARING VOICES SUPPORT 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. HEARTBEAT VERMONT Have you lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide? Some who call have experienced a recent loss and some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Call us at 446-3577 to meet with our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome. HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer & their caretakers convene for support. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/PAINFUL BLADDER SUPPORT GROUP Interstitial cystitis (IC) and painful bladder syndrome can result in recurring pelvic pain, pressure or discomfort in the bladder/pelvic region & urinary frequency/ urgency. These are often misdiagnosed & mistreated as a chronic bladder infection. If you have been diagnosed or have these symptoms, you are not alone. For Vermont-based support group, email bladderpainvt@gmail.com or call 899-4151 for more information. KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided with a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers. For further info, please contact info@vcsn.net.

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LGBTQ VETERANS GROUP This veterans group is a safe place for veterans to gather and discuss ways to help the community, have dinners, send packages and help the families of LGBTQ service people. Ideas on being helpful encouraged. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 6-8:30 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church (The Little Red Door), 64 State Street, Montpelier. RSVP, 802-825-2045.

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G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location. RSVP mkeasler3@gmail.com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

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FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental

FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church,

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.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships. Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Childcare is provided. Info: 658-1996.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one. FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. thdaub1@gmail.com.

Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming. We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are generally held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. For this month only, we are meeting on the third Thursday, 2/21. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

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EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle. Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

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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, 3998754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship, dating, emotional &/or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support. Support groups also provide survivors an opportunity to gain information on how to better cope with feelings & experiences that surface because of the trauma they have experienced. Please call SafeSpace 863-0003 if you are interested in joining. MALE SURVIVOR OF VIOLENCE GROUP A monthly, closed group for male identified survivors of violence including relationship, sexual assault, and discrimination. Open to all sexual orientations. Contact 863-0003 for more information or safespace@pridecenter vt.org. MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Wed. at 7 p.m. at Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski, Suite 301, Burlington. 861-3150. MYELOMA SUPPORT GROUP Area Myeloma Survivors, Families and Caregivers have come together to form a Multiple Myeloma Support Group. We provide emotional support, resources about treatment options, coping strategies and a support network by participating in the group experience with people that have been though similar situations. Third Tuesday of the month, 5-6 p.m. at the New Hope Lodge on East Avenue in Burlington. Info: Kay Cromie, 655-9136, kgcromey@aol.com. NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tue., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT Center, United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St.; Burlington, every Thu., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot); Berlin, second Thu. of the month, 4-5:30 p.m., CVMC Board Room, 130 Fisher Rd.; Rutland, every 1st and 3rd Sun.,

4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 S. Main St.; No. Concord, every Thu., 6-7:30 p.m., Loch Lomond, 700 Willson Rd. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, program@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges. NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Bellows Falls, 3rd Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., Compass School, 7892 US-5, Westminster; Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro; Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every mo., 7 p.m., HowardCenter, corner of Pine & Flynn Ave.; Berlin, 4th Mon. of every mo., 7 p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3; Georgia, 1st Tue. of every mo., 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89); Manchester, 4th Wed. of every mo., 6:30 p.m., Equinox Village, 2nd floor; Rutland, 1st Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr., room D; St. Johnsbury, 4th Wed. of every mo., 5:30 p.m., Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital Library, 1315 Hospital Dr.; Williston, 1st & 3rd Mon. of every mo., 6 p.m., NAMI Vermont Office, 600 Blair Park Rd. #301. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@namivt. org or 800-639-6480. Family Support Group meetings are for family & friends of individuals living mental illness. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516 or cvana.org. Held in Burlington, Barre and St. Johnsbury. NAR-ANON BURLINGTON GROUP Group meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington.

The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. Info: Amanda H. 338-8106. NEW (AND EXPECTING) MAMAS AND PAPAS! EVERY PRIMARY CAREGIVER TO A BABY! The Children’s Room invites you to join our weekly drop-in support group. Come unwind and discuss your experiences and questions around infant care and development, self-care and postpartum healing, and community resources for families with babies. Tea and snacks provided. Weekly on Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Bring your babies! (Newborn through crawling stage). Located within Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street, childrensroomonline. org. Contact childrensroom@wwsu.org or 244-5605. NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER & SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors & family members intended to comfort & support those who are currently suffering from the disease. 2nd Thu. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. 2nd Wed. of every mo., 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski. Info: hovermann4@comcast. net. OPEN EARS, OPEN MINDS A mutual support circle that focuses on connection and selfexploration. Fridays at 1 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) A 12-step program for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. No matter what your problem with food, we have a solution! All are welcome, meetings are open, and there are no dues or fees. See oavermont.org/ meeting-list/ for the current meeting list, meeting format and more; or call 802-8632655 any time! POTATO INTOLERANCE SUPPORT GROUP Anyone coping with potato intolerance and interested in joining a

support group, contact Jerry Fox, 48 Saybrook Rd., Essex Junction, VT 05452. QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ The Queen City Memory Café offers a social time & place for people with memory impairment & their fiends & family to laugh, learn & share concerns & celebrate feeling understood & connected. Enjoy coffee, tea & baked goods with entertainment & conversation. QCMC meets the 3rd Sat. of each mo., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thayer Building, 1197 North Ave., Burlington. 316-3839. QUEER CARE GROUP This support group is for adult family members and caregivers of queer, and/or questioning youth. It is held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at Outright Vermont, 241 North Winooski Ave. This group is for adults only. For more information, email info@outrightvt.org. QUIT TOBACCO GROUPS Are you ready to be tobacco free? Join our FREE five-week group classes facilitated by our Tobacco Treatment Specialists. We meet in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. You may qualify for a FREE 8-week supply of nicotine replacement therapy. Contact us at (802)-847-7333 or QuitTobaccoClass@ UVMHealth.org. SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND Support group meeting held 4th Tue. of the mo., 6:30-8:30 p.m. Williston Police Station. Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732. SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Shawn, 660-2645. Visit slaafws. org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you. SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence. Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process. Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 864-0555, ext. 19, or email our victim

advocate at advocate@ sover.net. STUTTERING SUPPORT GROUPS If you’re a person who stutters, you are not alone! Adults, teens & school-age kids who stutter & their families are welcome to join one of our three free National Stuttering Association (NSA) stuttering support groups at UVM. Adults: 5:30-6:30, 1st & 3rd Tue. monthly; teens (ages 13-17): 5:30-6:30, 1st Thu. monthly; schoolage children (ages 8-12) & parents (meeting separately): 4:15-5:15, 2nd Thu. monthly. Pomeroy Hall (489 Main St., UVM campus. Info: burlingtonstutters.org, burlingtonstutters@ gmail.com, 656-0250. Go Team Stuttering! SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo. SUICIDE HOTLINES IN VT Brattleboro, 257-7989; Montpelier (Washington County Mental Health Emergency Services), 229-0591; Randolph (Clara Martin Center Emergency Service), 800-639-6360. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 877-5439498 for more info. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE If you have lost someone to suicide and wish to have a safe place to talk, share and spend a little time with others who have had a similar experience, join us the 3rd Thu. at the Faith Lighthouse Church, Rte. 105, Newport (105 Alderbrook), 7-9 p.m. Please call before attending. Info: Mary Butler, 744-6284. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE, S. BURLINGTON Who: Persons experiencing the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When: first Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location: S. Burlington. This group is currently full and unable to accept new participants. Please call Linda Livendale at 802-272-6564 to learn about other groups within driving distance. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you!

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP The Compassionate Friends international support group for parents, siblings and families grieving the loss of a child meets every third Tuesday of the month, 7-9 p.m., at Kismet Place, 363 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Call/email Jay at 802-373-1263, compassionatefriendsvt@ gmail.com. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) chapter meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info, call David at 371-8929. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the greater Burlington area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 658-4991.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON PAYROLL MANAGER This position is responsible for management and continuous improvement of all aspects of the City’s payroll functions and provides technical services for payroll systemsintegrations and senior level accounting services, including supervision, in support of the City’s central accounting function. Position may also provide direct reporting for payroll projects and grants to City departments. Requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related field and five (5) years of relevant experience in accounting.

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ASSET MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST - BURLINGTON Reporting to the Director of Asset Management, the Asset Management Specialist will be responsible for ongoing assessment of the high performing portion of Housing Vermont’s portfolio of properties and compliance of Housing Vermont owned properties with LIHTC regulations. Key qualifications for the position include a minimum of 5 years’ property management experience, extensive knowledge of low income housing tax credits (LITHC), HUD, rural development (RD), HOME and section 8. Other desirable experience is negotiating legal contracts, financial statement analysis, and asset management. Bachelor’s degree (preferred), keen analytical skills, electronic data management, proven ability to readily recognize potential problems and develop and implement solutions. Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to Rewa Worthington, jobs@hvt.org. HOUSING VERMONT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Goddard College seeks an Education & Licensure Program Assistant to coordinate the licensure aspects of the Education and Licensure Program. This position will provide organizational and technical support to the Licensure Coordinator and Program Director to insure that the program, its students, and the faculty meet the Vermont DOE requirements for licensure; will assist with creating, updating, and maintaining licensure materials/student files/portfolios. Hours: 23 per week. Salary: $14 to $15.82 hourly; this part-time position is eligible for our generous benefits package. For position description & application instructions, please visit: www.goddard.edu/about-goddard/employment-opportunities/ 5h-GoddardCollege032019.indd 1 Untitled-9 1

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OPERATIONS MANAGER HEY, WE’RE HIRING!

Vermont Farm Table is a rapidly growing custom solid wood table manufacturer. We take pride in what we do, sourcing our materials responsibly, and then turning them into something that will last for generations. We are looking to hire an experienced Operations Manager to join our team.

We are seeking a passionate, relationship-driven Sales Manager to join our growing team! If you have 3+ years of directly relevant work experience in account management and sales development and if you love natural beauty, wellness, and skincare, we want to hear from you! Head to our website below to see the full job description and how to apply.

The Operations Manager oversees the company’s production of goods and services, including manufacturing and logistics. They lead our woodshop and delivery teams, manage production schedules, interface with vendors, and ensure that we meet or exceed clients’ expectations.

TRIPS DIRECTOR

Responsible for all logistics for wilderness trips from 1 to 3 days in length in the Green Mountains of VT and Adirondacks of NY. Knowledge of these areas a plus!

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Saint Anne’s Shrine is seeking an Administrator to oversee the operations of this historic attraction on Isle La Motte. Responsible for day to day management of the Shrine, in coordination with the Shrine’s Spiritual Director. With a yearround staff of seven, the Administrator provides leadership in developing mission-based programming, fundraising, organizational management, and financial planning with the Edmundite Fathers, the Society’s CFO, and Shrine Advisory Board. Significant experience managing staff and/or volunteers, managing business operations and meeting/event planning is required, as is a commitment to the mission of the Shrine. A bachelor’s degree is preferred and experience in fund raising, organizational planning or hospitality would be beneficial. The position is full-time year round. Some weekend work required. A competitive salary and generous benefits package supplement the beautiful surroundings and meaningful work. Please send resume and letter of interest to: Steve Karcher, Society of St. Edmund, One Winooski Park, Colchester, VT 05439 or to skarcher@smcvt.edu. Applications accepted until a new administrator is selected.

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Benefits include: an AmeriCorps living allowance of $17,000, paid in bi-weekly stipends; health insurance; child-care assistance; professional training and networking; studentloan forbearance; and a $6,095 AmeriCorps Education Award. Application deadline is March 30. Apply online, and learn more about ECO AmeriCorps at ecoamericorps.vermont.gov.

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Vermont’s premier continuing care retirement community seeks a dedicated nursing professional with a strong desire to work within a community of seniors. Wake Robin provides high quality nursing care in a fast-paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home.” Wake Robin offers an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

will acomplement wages earned. Typing skills and friendly personality must. Great resort benefits!

We continue to offer generous shift differentials: evenings $2.50/hour, nights $4.50/hour, and weekends $1.55.

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is accepting applications for the 2019-20 program year. We Mollie Farnham-Stratton are seeking highly motivated individuals with a background in Outdoor Education Director environmental conservation, natural or agricultural sciences, Mollie@Campdudley.org environmental studies, engineering, government/policy, communications or other related fields. Preference may be given to applicants with a college degree. ECO AmeriCorps members serve at host sites across Vermont with a focus on projects to 3v-CampDudleyINSTRUCTORS032019.indd 13/15/19 improve water quality and reduce waste in Vermont. Full-time: 40 hours per week, September 2019-August 2020.

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Join our team as the manager of the Aquatic Department. YouResort will lead a team of lifeguards Smugglers’ Notch is seeking a sales-minded Vacation Planner who possesses the skillsato sellaquatic vacation and complex supervisors to provide fun Smugglers’ Notch Resort is seeking a sales-minded reservation packages via inbound and outbound phone experience for our guests. Your primary duties Vacation Plannerweb who chats possesses the skills toand sell vacation calls, emails and online in a positive will be to overseepackages staff and facilities asoutbound well as reservation via inbound and professional sales office environment. The successfulphone calls,the emails and online web chats in a positive and to perform administrative functions of and the candidate should besales courteous, self-motivated professional office environment. The successful department. This can be a full-time year-round detail oriented. Full-time with a mix of day, candidate should beposition courteous, self-motivated and position or one with reduced hours in the evening and some weekend shifts. Sales commissions detail oriented. Full-time position with a mixFall, of day, will complement wages earned. skills and friendly evening and some weekend shifts. commissions Winter and Spring seasons – Typing we willSales work with you.

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Colchester law firm is currently seeking a well12:31 PM organized, efficient and multi-task oriented person to work with its litigation team. Duties include, but are not limited to, answering the phones, monitoring file flow, keeping track of deadlines, filing and a variety of other office duties. Applicant must have experience in an office environment. Please send cover letter and resume to bgfinfo@vtlawoffice.com or Bauer Gravel Farnham LLP; Attn: Human Resources, 401 Water Tower Circle, Suite 101, Colchester Vermont 05446.

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The Autosaver Group is hiring a Service Advisor for its growing Autosaver Max dealership in South Burlington. We offer excellent pay and benefits. Come see why over 500 people have launched their careers with the Autosaver Group!

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• Full-time, PG15 state position with benefits $15.28/hr. • Must be able to work independently and as part of a legal team in a fast-paced office environment. Email resume and cover letter by Friday, April 5th to: mary.deaett@vermont.gov EOE.

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Looking forStudent adventuresome educators for Affairs Facilitator Workshops (Offi ce/Program Support Senior) April 6& 7: Low Elements/Facilitation April 27Offi & 28: High Elements Dean of Students ce (www.uvm.edu/~saff airs) 9am-5pm (All sessions required)

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

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The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action maintenance team utilizes a variety of technical skills to repair and Employer. Applications from women and people from diverse racial, maintainand electrical, security, and air quality systems throughout ethnic, culturalplumbing, backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

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UVM ARC provides experiential learning opportunities to UVM and Th is position will provide executive-level support, coordination, the project surrounding community. Participants willoflearn howAff toairs facilitate and management for the Vice Provost Student and a Dean of Students. is position willtowelcome triage all questions challenge course Th program. Open all levelsand of facilitation and ropes Positions Available 2019 and requests received the work Officeopportunities of the Vice Provost andupon Deansuccessful of course experience. Per in diem available Students. The Assistant to the Vice Provost and will background interact withchecks. projects (Richmond, VT) completion of workshops, assessment, and communications that may be highly confidential and sensitive in • General Farm Crew, Email cover letter explaining interest coming toallthe workshops, nature. This position will also your organize and in implement Divisionalong with resume, to Megan Meinen (ropes@uvm.edu). FT (Poultry, Livestock, wide events for 250 staff members and planning meetings for Division Processing) Leadership. The Assistant to the Vice Provost will coordinate with other University community members and those relevant to the VPSA's • Poultry Processing participation in a 1variety of activities. 4t-UVMRopesCourse031319.indd 3/11/19 10:51 AM

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Year round, full time positions. Good wages & benefits. $16.50 per hour minimum; Pay negotiable with experience. EOE/M/F/VET/Disability Employer Apply in person at: A.C. Hathorne Co. 252 Avenue C Williston, VT 802-862-6473

GFC is a small and growing company specializing in problem-solving for the construction industry. We focus primarily on masonry, tree work, building structure and stabilization, and site work. After being in business for 37 years, the owner has carved out a niche in an area of high demand. We take pride in impeccable, efficient work and are looking to hire an Operations Manager with the same drive. As Operations Manager, you will be active in both the office and field. You will oversee the day-today operations of the company, analyzing and adjusting in order to promote efficiency, profitability, and success. You will be working directly with sales, administration, and crew leaders to ensure a smooth operation. Job duties include, but are not limited to: scheduling job production and maintaining a schedule board; communicating and meeting with clients; meeting with crew leaders and reviewing job progress; leading or joining field projects; maintaining an equipment maintenance schedule.

the facility and in resident homes. Qualified candidate will have well rounded maintenance skills and must have specific experience and/or training in HVAC systems, as well as a strong aptitude for computer-based operational systems. This is an opportunity to join a stable and talented team of individuals dedicated to doing good work, for great people, in a beautiful setting. Interested candidates can apply online at Wakerobin.com or email a resume with cover letter to: HR@wakerobin.com.

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Seasonal positions available starting in April running through the end of October. Full time and part time positions available, weekend availability desired. Summer job seekers encouraged to apply.

OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE: Event Crew Members Wash Bay Tent Installers Loading (2nd shift) Linen Assistant

We are looking for someone with field experience in the construction industry. Managerial and leadership skills will be necessary. Send resumes to: gfcenterprises@hotmail.com

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Operations & Safety Manager Rural Community Transportation, RCT, is a nonprofit rural community transportation provider servicing Caledonia, Orleans, Essex and Lamoille Counties. RCT is seeking a qualified Operations & Safety Manager to join our management team. The Operations & Safety Manager oversees the daily operations activity and safety programs of all RCT locations, including supervision of Bus Drivers and other operational staff. They ensure compliance with industry regulations, create and refine driver training programs, manage the maintenance of all transit vehicles, and collaborate on bus route planning. Requirements include leadership, managerial, interpersonal, and data management skills. Must have a Commercial Driver License (CDL), Class B with passenger endorsement, or the ability to obtain within 90 days of employment. Ability to meet FTA guidelines & testing parameters regarding persons employed in safety sensitive positions required. Bachelor’s degree or comparable experience, including 5 years’ direct supervisory experience required. Salary commensurate with experience.

House Advisors/Crew Leaders Spring Lake Ranch is a long-term residential program for adults with mental health and addiction issues. Residents find strength and hope through shared work and community. We are searching for House Advisors/Crew Leaders to provide residential support, structure, and guidance to residents through informal contact, house activities, participation in clinical teams, and work crew activities to create a positive environment and comfortable home-like atmosphere. Ideal candidates will have completed a bachelor’s degree, an interest in mental health and/ or substance abuse recovery work, and a desire to live in a diverse community setting. In addition to getting started on a mental health career path, you will have the opportunity to gain skills in farming, carpentry, woodworking, forestry, and gardening. This is a full time, residential position with free room and board, free health and dental insurance, and paid time off, all in a beautiful rural setting. See our website, www.springlakeranch.org, for the full job description and to learn more about Spring Lake Ranch. To apply send cover letter indicating your interest in Spring Lake Ranch and resume to: marym@springlakeranch.org, or fax to (802) 492-3331, or mail to SLR, 1169 Spring Lake Road, Cuttingsville, VT 05738.

Please submit resume and cover letter to: Executive Director Nickdagostino.rct@gmail.com No phone calls, please. RCT is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Masterson Excavation is looking for a Civil/ Environmental Engineer to join our expanding business and dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have 2 to 5 years of experience with civil and environmental engineering specifically as it relates to earthwork construction and environmental consulting. A background in construction, GPS, AutoCAD, surveying/layout, health & safety planning, environmental rules and regulations, soils and or geotechnical, contaminant characterization and evaluation, project management, organizational skills, and attention to detail is a must. 40-Hour HAZWOPER Training, VT Licensed Water Operator, or Licensed Wastewater Designer a plus. Masterson Excavation offers a competitive salary, an IRA plan, and health insurance. Salary will be commensurate with experience and background education. Send resumes to: dagan.murray@ mastersonexcavation.com

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We are seeking an ofﬁce manager for a busy Chinese medical practice in Hardwick, VT. Our business consists of 2 acupuncturists, a massage therapist, and an herbal pharmacy. Responsibilities include compounding herbal prescriptions, managing inventory, insurance billing, scheduling and welcoming our patients. We are looking for a self-directed, motivated individual who enjoys working with the public. Basic computer skills are required including ability to use Word, iCal, etc. Excellent beneﬁts including acupuncture, massage, and paid time off. Competitive wages based on experience. Full time, year round position 30 hrs+/per week. We have a wonderful clientele and get to see people feel better and get healthier every day! Please send resume and cover letter to:

PayData Workforce Solutions is looking for an additional team member to PayData Workforce Solutions lookingDepartment for an additional member to join our Client isService as ateam Payroll Processor/Client ServiceFarms is a nonprofit organization and a 1,400-acre working Shelburne join our ClientRepresentative. Service Department as a Payroll Processor/Client Service farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark in Shelburne, VT. Representative. If you have a strong worth ethic, can work under timeline We are hiring for the following seasonal positions: deadlines andOur enjoy working in a team environment (along with prior Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to produce accurate payrolls utilizing we various customer service and payroll experience), want import to hear methods from you. including data entry, Excel worksheets, and time clock imports. The ability to perform multiple DESIGNER FLORAL WE ARE ALSO Our Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to tasks efficiently and manage ongoing projects is necessary. Attention to ASSISTANT SEEKING: produce accurate payrolls utilizing various import methods including detail is a must. data entry, Excel worksheets, and time clock imports. The ability to Assist Inn Floral Designer with perform multiple tasks efficiently and manage ongoing projects isas well as customer • Farmyard Candidates must have prior payroll experience weekly service fresh flower arrangements necessary. Attention to detail critical to strong your success. experience andis possess communication and organizational for theskills. Inn public areas and Educators Candidates have proven troubleshooting skills and be able to Receiving and guest rooms. Candidates must have priorshould payrollalso experience as well as customer adapt to new and changing technology. Our Client Service conditioning flowers from Farm service experience and possess strong communication and • Tractor Drivers Representatives work in a team environment and cubicle office setting. Market Garden and maintaining organizational skills. fresh water and a clean work Experience handling a large volume skills of telephone as having • Housekeepers Candidates should also have proven troubleshooting and be calls, as wellenvironment. number skillstechnology. or prior payroll experience able to adapt strong to new and changing Our Client Serviceis required; working • Seasonal knowledge of theenvironment “Evolution” and payroll software is desirable. Experience with $11/$12 per hour Representatives work in a team cubicle office setting. • Grounds Windows including Word, Excel, and Outlook is required as well•asTuesday strong and Friday 6 Maintenance Experience handling a large volume of telephone calls, as well as having keyboarding skills. hours per day strong number skills or prior payroll experience is required; working Assistant knowledge ofApply the “Evolution” software is desirable. Experience • Cover for vacation leave on line atpayroll https://paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx with Windows including Word, Excel, and Outlook is required as well as • Welcome Center • Some Botanical knowledge strong keyboarding skills. This position is a mid-level position and is paid preferred and an interest in guest services/ on an hourly basis. what’s growing around us. sales associate PayData is a pet friendly environment…must love dogs! paydatapayroll.companycareersite.com/JobList.aspx

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Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on self-determination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.

CCS is seeking dedicated individuals or couples to provide home supports for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. The following positions include a generous tax-free stipend, ongoing supports, assistance with necessary home modifications, respite and a comprehensive training package.

The Vermont Conservation Voters (VCV), in partnership with 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 person to help advance policy initiatives related to protecting Vermont’s natural resources and the health of Vermonters, and combatting climate change. The position will also help VCV’s efforts to elect environmental champions to the Vermont legislature and statewide offices.

Support a personable man in your accessible home. The ideal candidate will support him with his social life, accessing the community and helping with activities of daily living. Support a humorous gentleman with autism who enjoys walking, crunching numbers, drawing and bowling. Contact Jennifer Wolcott at 655-0511 x 118 for more information.

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Job responsibilities include educating the public on our environmental campaigns, building the support we need to advance a pro-climate, pro-environment policy agenda, and elect environmental and climate champions to public office. The successful candidate will be selfdirected and have good writing skills; be able to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, including members and activists; be able to work collaboratively in a busy office environment; have experience in social media; and be committed to working on behalf of Vermont’s citizens, environment and communities. Political campaign experience is a significant plus. Applicants should have a B.A. or B.S. in a relevant field (although pertinent life experience may be substituted for education) and, preferably, experience with an advocacy organization. Starting salary is commensurate with experience. Email a letter of interest, resume, and three references to Kelsey Gibb, at kgibb@vermontconservationvoters.org, by Friday, April 19, 2019.

Seven Days is seeking a full-time Digital Sales Coordinator to join our team. If you love helping people – we want to learn more about you.

VNRC and VCV are Equal Opportunity Employers. Visit vermontconservationvoters.com for more information.

This position involves helping our readers during important times of their lives: announcing the birth of a baby; selling a home in the classifieds; finding love through our personals; memorializing a loved one in the obituaries; or simply selling a household item. The perfect candidate will be able to change gears often and quickly.

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Along with helping our valued readers, you’ll also be assisting the Seven Days sales team to manage digital ad services. Preference will be given to candidates with exceptional customer service skills, and those who can self manage and handle multiple deadlines. The ability to multitask and think outside the box is imperative. The main responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to: • Closely monitoring the classifieds and personals sites daily while assisting readers with their accounts. • Posting legal notices and obituaries online and in print. • Posting all banner ads on sevendaysvt.com and in various newsletters while supporting the sales staff with digital trafficking. • Directing callers to the appropriate Seven Days staff. Send cover letter and resume by Sunday, March 31 to colby@sevendaysvt.com. In your cover letter, please describe your experience in all the areas mentioned above and your current employment situation. Provide three professional references, daytime phone and email. No phone calls or drop-ins, please.

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The Vermont Judiciary is adding technical talent to build the next generation of IT solutions and systems.

TECHNICAL SPECIALIST I (Job code - 19008)

Help desk support to over 450 users in virtual and physical desktops in Windows OS, MS Office environment. Field installations and hardware & software trouble shooting. High School Degree and 3 years’ related experience. Starting rate $19.77 per hour with excellent medical, dental, paid leave and retirement benefits.

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TECHNICAL SPECIALIST II (Job code - 19007) Help desk support to over 450 users in virtual and physical desktops in Windows OS, MS Office environment. Hardware and software trouble shooting. Prefer at least 2 years of college and 4 years’ related experience. Starting rate upper 40s with excellent medical, dental, paid leave and retirement benefits. Go to www.vermontjudiciary.org/ employment-opportunities/staff-openings for further details and an application to apply. EOE.

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JOBS! Champlain Community Services is a growing developmental services provider agency with a strong emphasis on selfdetermination values and employee and consumer satisfaction.

Support Professional Seeking support staff for a dynamic young woman with a quick wit and energetic personality. She loves cars, horses, and a range of indoor and outdoor physical activities. The ideal candidate will have patience, clear communication skills, and the ability to set strong boundaries, and must also be able to pass a criminal background check. You will support her in her home and the community in 24-hour shifts. Private, furnished bedroom provided for overnight sleep. Multiple days are available and compensation is $250 per 24 hour shift. For more information or to apply, please contact Eva at egriffin@ccs-vt.org, or call 802-655-0511, x. 102.

Respite Opportunity Essex family is seeking respite for young adult who wants to get out in the community to explore his interests. Support in transportation to and from work may be needed, and transportation from a college campus in Williston two afternoons a week. This young adult is very articulate, has several hobbies and many interests. He would like to get out of the house more often and do a variety of things. This is a great position for someone looking for a few extra hours a week. Send your resume and letter of interest to mmccormick@ccs-vt.org.

Shared Living Provider CCS is seeking an individual or couple to provide residential supports to an individual with an intellectual disability in your home. A generous stipend, paid time off (respite), comprehensive training & supports are provided. We are currently offering a variety of opportunities. For more information contact Jennifer Wolcott, jwolcott@ccs-vt.org or 655-0511 ext. 118.

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Outpatient Mental Health Billing Specialist

SERVICE MANAGER A Boston Globe Top Place to Work

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Resident & Community Services Coordinator

Application Deadline: 04-01-2019 Conduct electronic billing and related services for mental health clinic. Knowledge of mental health coding, resolve denials/client questions, insurance credentialing, QuickBooks. Position Requirements: Minimum 2 years of billing experience, Associate’s degree preferred, experience with mental health billing and QuickBooks. Position requires clerical skills including Word & Excel and the ability to work independently and as a team player.

We are seeking an experienced Services Coordinator to serve the residents of a large multi-family neighborhood located in Barre, VT. This integral, full-time position provides the dynamic, motivated and skilled individual an opportunity to do meaningful work directly with residents within a multigenerational community. The Services Coordinator is responsible for planning and implementing a full schedule of activities and programs for families, teens, and seniors. The coordinator also acts as a resource referral for residents to services/programs in the wider community. Successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in social work, psychology, community relations, recreation, or related specialty, or three years of comparable work experience. Must have strong verbal and written communication skills, be customer-service oriented and have a proven track record of working positively with diverse groups. If you are looking to join a dynamic team dedicated to excellence, hard work, and collaboration, apply now:

Apply online via: www.maloneyproperties.com EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Application Email: vps@uvm.edu

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In shop service and repair of machines and equipment Field service and repair of machines and equipment New and used equipment preparation Warranty repairs Rental ﬂeet maintenance and repairs

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5+ years’ experience with heavy construction equipment Ability to build rapport with customers Ability to prioritize and multitask Positive and professional demeanor Excellent written and verbal communication skills Good computer and systems knowledge

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DIGITAL MARKETING & DESIGN SPECIALIST VERMONT FOODBANK is hiring a Digital Marketing & Design Specialist – Full Time. This position is responsible for developing creative, compelling content, including graphics, video, and printed materials, and implementing marketing plans to inspire all Vermonters to take action to eliminate hunger and poverty. They will be responsible for managing our website, blog, and social media presence. They will work cross-departmentally to implement tactics to meet the communications goals of the organization. A complete job description is available upon request. Please submit application online at: www.vtfoodbank.org/ employment; be sure to include a cover letter & resume, attention: Human Resources Department. The Vermont Foodbank is an EEO.

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Wood's CRW Corp., a second generation family owned Construction Equipment Distributor, is seeking a qualified, experienced Service Manager to join our team at our headquarters in Williston, VT. The successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of equipment operations and mechanical functions of heavy construction equipment. CRW offers a safe, enjoyable work environment with competitive salary and benefits. Benefits include medical insurance upon hire, vacation and sick time, technical training, paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, and 401(k) plan/profit sharing. Applicants offered a position with CRW are required to submit to a job-related pre-employment physical examination.

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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. Retail Associate - UVM Bookstore (Catamount Store) #S1955PO - The UVM Bookstore is seeking a Retail Associate to join the team at UVM’s Catamount Store on Church Street. The Catamount Store Retail Associate will open and close the store, operate a cash register, stock merchandise to create appealing displays, promote the Catamount Store through various social media platforms, and provide excellent customer service. Candidates for this position must have a High School diploma, familiarity with retail sales, and knowledge of computer operations and data entry. The candidate should have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, social justice and training, and fostering a collaborative multicultural environment. This candidate also must be able to work weekends, evenings, and University holidays with occasional overtime as needed. Valid driver’s license or ability to obtain and driver’s check is required, and French language skills are desirable.*

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Are you searching for a caregiving position that brings joy and fulfillment personally and professionally? The Seven Days Converse Home is a small Assisted Living Community Issue: located 3/20 in downtown Burlington and we may be the place you have Due: 3/18 bybeen noonlooking for. If you are a caring individual looking Size: 3.83 x 5.25for a positive change, please apply. WE ARE$476.85 NOW HIRING: Cost: (with 1 week online)

• Full Time Night LNA or caregiver to work 40 hours per week including every other weekend. $2.50 per hour extra for night differential and a benefits package which includes medical, dental, retirement and accrued vacation time.

*Job posting contains further position and minimum qualification details.

• Part Time Evening LNA or caregiver to work 22 hours per week including every other weekend on our Memory Care Community. $1.00 per hour extra for evening differential.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

• Part Time Day LNA or caregiver to work 18 hours per week Monday, Wednesday and every other weekend. $1.00 per hour extra for weekend differential.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category legally protected by federal or state law. The University encourages applications from all individuals who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution.

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CONVERSE HOME FULL TIME NURSE

SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH, 10 AM - 2 PM AT THE WELCOME CENTER

Are you a nurse in search of a position that brings joy and fulfillment personally and professionally? The Converse Home is a small Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington and we may be the place you have been looking for.

Shelburne Farms is a non-profit educational organization with multiple enterprises across its beautiful 1,400 acre historic campus.

We are now hiring a Full-Time Day Nurse to lead our Memory Care Team of awesome caregivers from 6:30am-3:00pm, 40 hours per week including every other weekend.

Seasonal positions are available from May to October in Buildings & Grounds, Tractor Driving, Inn & Guest Services, Kitchen/Dining Room, Market Garden, Restaurant, Special Events, and Welcome Center & Farm Store. One of Vermont Department of Labor’s newest 3/12/19 non-traditional apprenticeship programs!

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The right person for this job will: • Bring their own positivity to a strong team, • Be very organized and excel in time management, • Provide excellent care to our residents, and • Hold an active State of Vermont Nursing License The Converse Home offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, retirement, and vacation time.

Family support organization seeks professional in Chittenden County to assist in the development and coordination of early intervention service plans, conduct home visits, and communicate with multiple agencies and school districts. Must have experience parenting a child with special needs, knowledge of family-centered care, and strong communication skills. Cover letter and resume to HR, Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park Rd., Suite 240, Williston, VT 05495, or email HR@vtfn.org. EOE.

Visit conversehome.com to fill out an application and learn more about our community! Please send your resume to kellie@conversehome.com.

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We are seeking an energetic, action-oriented leader with excellent communication and people skills to lead the day to day operations of our Williamstown program. This person will lead a staff of forty in creating a culture that is caring, hopeful, supportive of clinical excellence, and fun. S/he will have oversight of facility and administrative services Qualifications: Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s Degree preferred) in Psychology or other relevant Human Service field, with minimum of seven years of success in the field. This position offers a competitive wage, eligibility for our medical, dental and vision benefits, a generous time off policy, and also including a retirement contribution match along with other company paid benefits.

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The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, political affiliation or belief.

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Second Spring (Collaborative Solutions Corporation) programs offer exceptionally high quality, evidence-based clinical care to adults with psychiatric illnesses. Our team includes psychiatrists, nurses, therapists and case managers, as well as vocational, recovery and peer specialists. As an alternative to hospitalization, we provide a place for patients to heal and grow in a beautiful Vermont county inn setting.

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Front Desk Office Manager Integrated family practice in Colchester seeks an experienced receptionist/ manager. We specialize in nutritional and wellness medicine.

We are seeking: • Front desk experience • Friendly, but professional • Team player • Excellent communication skills • Experience with insurance • 4 days a week (Monday to Thursday) Please e-mail a cover letter, resume and 3 professional references to:

PreventiveMedicineVT@ gmail.com. PreventiveMedicineVT.com

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LNA Training Program Offered Session starts on April 23, 2019.

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Wake Robin, in partnership with Vermont MedEd, is happy to announce our LNA training program. Wake Robin is Vermont’s premier retirement community and ranks among the top 100 nursing homes in the country, an award due in large part to our excellent staff and facility. Our goal is to provide training and employment opportunities consistent with Wake Robin’s unique brand of resident-centered care. If you have at least 2 years experience in caregiving, wish to grow your skills among the best and begin your career as an LNA, contact us. Interested candidates, please send resume and cover letter via email to hr@wakerobin.com. For additional information see our Employment page at www.wakerobin.com or like “Wake Robin Works” on Facebook. Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 5h-WakeRobinLNAtraining032019.indd 1

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MUNICIPAL HIGHWAY PLOW TRUCK AND EQUIPMENT OPERATOR The Town of Essex Public Works Department is receiving applications for full time employment as a Highway Level III Heavy duty truck driver/equipment operator. Applicants are encouraged to apply who have a minimum of five years’ overall experience, a CDL, and at least one year’s winter plowing experience. The salary will be set within the existing job classification system depending on experience and qualification. The Town will consider applicants who are not fully qualified if a fully qualified applicant is not selected. This is a full-time position with benefits. Information on the position and application requirements can be obtained from:

Travis Sabataso at the Town of Essex Municipal offices, 81 Main St., Essex Junction, VT, 05452, by email at tsabataso@essex.org or by calling 1-802-878-1341. The position is open until filled. EOE.

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Executive Director Pillsbury Senior Communities is looking for a Full Time Executive Director to join our outstanding team. Are you a highly motivated, organized and detail-oriented individual? We are seeking a dynamic leader, one who is dedicated to our aging population. Our mission is to make a difference in changing the lives of our residents by providing a safe, homelike community with a compassionate and caring staff. This position, oversees the entire operations of a community of three buildings, Harborview, Allenwood and Pillsbury Manor South. As the Executive Director of the community, the core of this role will be building relationships with staff, residents, families, and service providers to meet the needs of our residents.

We are seeking Information Technology Services staff in a variety of positions. Candidates must be customer service oriented, possess strong technical and analytical skills, and be attentive to detail. In addition, must be able to work well both independently and within teams. Assignments will vary from remediation of existing software to new software development on projects.

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST Design software to run within a multitask batch job scheduling environment software and run via Banner job submission; utilize and enhance existing software cooperatively with team members; analyze data and software errors that cause job failures; follow change control processes and adhere to internal quality control standards; and manage customer service and expectations through excellent communication.

REPORT DEVELOPER/ANALYST

This individual must meet the following qualifications: bachelor’s degree or higher, hands on leadership style, the ability and willingness to fill in wherever needed and lead by example. The ED will have strong problem-solving skills and the capacity to plan and prioritize in a complex environment. The ideal candidate will have five plus years’ experience managing a large property and staff.

Create datablocks, reports, and schedules using Evisions Argos reporting tool; troubleshoot and maintain existing reports; analyze data issues within the realm of reporting; follow change control processes and adhere to internal quality control standards.

Pillsbury offers competitive pay, benefits and a positive working environment.

Norwich has 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.

Please apply with a cover letter and resume to jobs@cathedralsquare.org by March 29, 2019. EOE.

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UNIQUE ROOMMATE COMMUNITY MODEL IT SYS TEMS DEVELOPER I/II – WATERBURY

Do you want to be part of a team? Have you been looking for a job that really allows you to make a difference in others’ lives? If you are compassionate, patient and caring, we are looking for you! You would be providing daily support and companionship from 6pm – 6am to 2 independent women in a 3-bedroom apartment. Some of the daily living skills you will mentor are health, socialization and meal planning. The individuals struggle with emotional regulation and dealing with loneliness. You could make the difference in their ability to maintain a stable living environment. Successful candidate will receive every other weekend off throughout the year as well as a very generous stipend.

The Agency of Digital Services - AHS IT Team is seeking a Systems Developer to become an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Specialist serving the Agency of Human Services. You will analyze requirements for ECM using the currently available tools: Microsoft SharePoint and Hyland OnBase and implement the appropriate solution. This is a great opportunity to build your career in the IT field and support an agency that strives to improve the health and well-being of Vermonters. This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition. For more information, contact Nouha Mehio at Nouha.Mehio@vermont.gov or 802-503-7978. Department: Agency of Digital Services. Reference Job ID #

Please send inquiries and letters of interest to careers@ncssinc.org or complete an application at www.ncssinc.org/careers.

1143 or # 1162. Status: Full Time – Limited. Application Deadline: March 27, 2019.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

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SIGN-ON BONUS - $1,000 PRODUCTION MACHINE OPERATOR Williston, VT & Essex, VT The Production Technician is responsible for monitoring Keurig Dr Pepper’s production processes; including operating manufacturing equipment and maintaining compliance with Keurig Dr Pepper’s high standards for safety and quality. This role will be engaged and understand initiatives to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost and culture.

Shift and Schedule: This position will work on the N2 Shift from 6:00pm6:15am Friday to Sunday with alternating Thursdays.

What you will do: SAFETY • Comply with all safety policies and procedures and demonstrate safe behaviors at all times. • Participate in discussions and take action on feedback provided through our Safety Observation and Peer-to-Peer safety programs. • Maintain a healthful and safe environment and report any safety incidents and/or injuries to appropriate personnel. • Comply with all safety training initiatives. For full job description and to apply, go to:

https://uscareers-keurigdrpepper.icims.com/ Job ID: 2019-6408 - Williston, VT, 2019-6930 - Essex, VT

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OFFICE POSITION Hall Communications, Inc., dba WKOL/WOKO/WJOY, has a full-time opening for a Traffic/Data Entry/ Administrative Assistant. Office experience desired. Send resume and three references to General Manager, Dan Dubonnet at ddubonnet@hallradio.net. No telephone calls will be accepted.

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MARKETING COORDINATOR E4H is looking for an experienced, energetic Marketing Coordinator with 1-2 years of InDesign skills to help implement the firm’s marketing/business development efforts including proposals, marketing materials and communications strategy. We’re looking for someone with a keen eye, killer writing skills, love for research, and willingness to do what it takes to highlight our architecture services to clients. This is a hands on role including administrative and production work for marketing initiatives. Experience working with remote teams is a plus. Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or relevant field or comparable experience in the AEC field. Full job description may be found on our website at:

OFFICE BASED CLINICIAN Looking for an opportunity in community mental health? Join our dynamic team of clinicians and work in our Middlebury office with children, adolescents, and families with emotional and behavioral challenges and developmental disorders. We believe in a team of supportive colleagues and the importance of regular, high-quality supervision. CSAC is known for our innovative approaches and our success with collaborative, inter-agency efforts.

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Requirements: Master’s degree in a human services field, plus 2-4 years of relevant counseling experience. Work close to home.

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Customer Service Representative We’re all about mission at Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC). Help us fulfill our mission of providing all Vermont students with information and financial resources to reach their educational goals. You’ll work in a relaxed yet challenging environment. We offer many topnotch benefits, plus a fabulous on-site fitness room & café.

Network Support Specialist Co-op is seeking an individual with strong customer service skills and an aptitude for technology to join our network team in an entry-level help desk position. In this role you will have front-line responsibility for triage, resolution, and any necessary escalation of remote and on-site employee technical issues. You’ll manage ticket creation and life cycle in accordance with agreedupon SLAs; work with other IS staff to continually learn the technologies that we support and assist in identifying opportunities for process improvements; modifying settings in the ticketing system to achieve the same. You will clearly communicate technical solutions in a userfriendly, professional manner, providing one-on-one enduser training as needed. You will participate in projects and initiatives and execute project tasks, activities, and status reporting in a timely manner. You will also maintain hardware and software inventories. Preferred candidates will have an Associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent work experience. To see full job descriptions for each position or read more from recent hires, visit our website at: www.co-opinsurance.com/u/jobs.html. You can also find us on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/coopinsco. Ready to apply? Send your resume to jobs@ciui.net.

VSAC is seeking a dynamic individual who likes to assist customers over the telephone and in person with questions related to their education loan, grant, and general financial aid. You will be a part of our team in FAST (Financial Aid Services Team). The ideal candidate will possess demonstrated & strong customer service experience, ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, excellent communication skills, strong faculty for detail, basic financial calculations, and excellent organizational skills. This is an entry-level position with room for growth! Our team helps people be successful by counseling on debt management and repayment plans. Responsibilities include analyzing loan accounts, assessing customer situations, and exercising professional judgment to determine appropriate repayment options. Must have proficient keyboarding skills and aptitude with numbers.

VSAC offers a dynamic, professional and supportive work environment with competitive compensation and a generous benefits package. Apply ONLY online at www.vsac.org. VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION PO Box 2000, Winooski, VT 05404 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled www.VSAC.org 9t-VSAC032019.indd 1

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BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONIST Confident, motivated individual needed to work with teenage girls who have emotional and behavioral challenges. Must be 21 years old, have a clean driving record, and pass a background check. Experience and degree preferred but will train the right person. Health and Dental provided at no cost to employee. $15.00 an hour. Come help us make a difference in a young person’s life.

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CASE MANAGER (40 HOURS PER WEEK)

SUMMER CHEF WANTED

Based in our Barre Office, the Case Manager will work with older persons to remain in their homes through creative connections with state and community resources. The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience, social service and/or non-profit experience with vulnerable populations, ability to work independently and as part of a team, reliable transportation, experience with data entry and a working knowledge of MS Office, Excel, Word and Outlook. Experience with senior populations and public benefits programs is preferred.

Consider joining our incredible team of camping professionals at Camp Kiniya in Colchester, VT! We are currently seeking a dynamic, creative, and fun-loving chef to help execute a top-notch food service program for our community of 250 people. Flexible schedule with very competitive pay starting at $20/hr. We offer an excellent work environment in a state-of-the-art kitchen, built in 2017, with spectacular views of Lake Champlain. If interested, please send resume with cover letter by email to the Food Service Director, Gail Coleman, at: Gail@campdudley.org.

RECEPTIONIST (40 HOURS PER WEEK)

Based in our Barre Office, the Receptionist will work as part of our administrative team as well as welcoming clients, answering phone calls and data entry. The successful applicant will have a high school diploma or higher education, excellent customer service and communication skills, reliable and punctual, detail-oriented, well organized, experience with data entry and a working knowledge of MS Office, Excel, Word and Outlook. Previous work experience as a receptionist, office clerk or bookkeeper is preferred. Central Vermont Council on Aging is an innovative agency dedicated to quality services for older persons living in Central Vermont. We provide a generous benefits package. Salary is based on experience. Central Vermont Council on Aging is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from veterans, mature workers, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged. For more information about these positions, visit our website at www.cvcoa.org. To apply, please send resume and cover letter to jobs@cvcoa.org by March 27. 9t-CVCOA031319.indd 1

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HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST

ADMINISTR ATIVE ASSISTANT/PROJECT COORDINATOR

Statewide Programs Coordinator!

Aurora North Software, Inc. is a Burlington, VT based software company developing customized legal software and providing related consulting services. We develop and implement core systems at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms.

Provide outreach, resources, and social support to sustain and grow Outright Vermont’s youth and family programming. This position manages all aspects of our programmatic volunteer coordination, and is responsible for amplifying youth voice both organizationally and with key community partners.

Aurora North has an immediate opening for a F/T Human Resources Specialist with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in human resources and 3+ years of related experience with compliance, benefits administration, record keeping and HR software. Specialist works on HR initiatives and reports to the Chief Human Resources Officer. The HRS facilitates efficiency and organization of internal HR processes and assists in engagement and development of all employees. The HRS will continue selfeducation to ensure success and growth within this position.

Aurora North has an immediate opening for a F/T Administrative Assistant/Project Coordinator with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 3+ years of related experience with significant responsibilities related to organization and documentation. Assistant will devote their time to assisting the Implementation Division, reporting directly to the assigned Implementation Manager. The role is designed to facilitate efficiency and organization of internal processes as related to implementation projects; and to assist with resources and project scheduling. The Assistant will continue self-education to ensure success and growth within this position.

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SECURITY OFFICER • Jericho/Williston/ Vergennes • Full time position available

Candidates’ skills should include a positive approach to problem solving and a high competency with the Microsoft Office Suite. Very strong organizational skills and attention to detail are required, plus a high level of reliability, follow-through, discretion and integrity. The ability to successfully interact and collaborate with co-workers is essential. The HRS will work as a member of the Administrative Team on special projects and company operations, 1:45 PM as needed. Our employees describe the work environment as fairly intense, fast-paced, tightly run, and fun. Aurora offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. If you have a passion for perpetual improvement, enjoy a diversity of projects, relish autonomy, and play well with others, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume and cover letter to:

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Candidates’ skills should include a positive approach to problem solving and advanced level competency with the Microsoft Office Suite. Very strong organizational skills and attention to detail are required, plus a high level of reliability, follow-through, discretion and integrity. The ability to successfully interact and collaborate with coworkers is essential. Project management experience is a plus. Our employees describe the work environment as fairly intense, fast-paced, tightly run, and fun. Aurora offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. If you have a passion for perpetual improvement, enjoy a diversity of projects, relish autonomy, and play well with others, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your resume and cover letter to:

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Sterling College Working Hands.Working Minds.

PCC, a privately held Winooski-based healthcare IT Benefit Corporation seeks a developer to join our growing Software Development Team in the role of Data Conversion Specialist. This position works closely with the New Client Implementation Team and is responsible for ensuring that financial and clinical data is converted accurately and cleanly.

Joinhigher a dedicated group of colleagues working hard to provide an Sterling College, the leading voice in education for environmental stewardship, enriching campus experience to aspiring environmental stewards at a small liberal arts college in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Sterling College in Craftsbury Common is looking for talented professionals to ﬁll these open positions.

Marketing Coordinat

This position requires initiative, creativity, the ability to work well with others, and a high level of productivity. Our work culture is casual and our employees are clever and dedicated. We strive for client satisfaction and our customer reviews are among the very best in our industry.

Director of Finance and Operations: Reports to the

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for direct oversight of the major operational areas of the College. Direct reporting lines include finance and budgeting, technology, institutional research, buildings & grounds, campus sustainability, auxiliary services, human resources, and legal relations. As a very small institution, the Director of Finance and Operations must be able to move seamlessly between management and hands-on engagement in the work of the College. Competitive candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or equivalent and five or more years of related work experience.

Sterling College, a college of environmental stewardship in Our ideal candidate has demonstrable proficiency with one or more high-level mon, Vermont invites applications for the position of a Mar programing languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, or PHP. Working knowledge of SQL, familiarity with Linux or another Unix based environment are also preferred. tor. The Marketing Coordinator supports Sterling’s recrui WEB DEVELOPER the Office of Admission to reach its enrollment goals of bo PCC seeks entry-level web developers to join ourtificate growing Web Development team. students by driving relevant users to the Sterling web Staff Accountant: Bring your problem-solving skills and creativity to the table building search, paidwebsearch, and social media outlets consistent with applications in an Agile development framework, assisting in extending current products and creating new product lines. ing and mission in order to increase conversions on the coll Our ideal candidate is fast and flexible, great at finding and squashing bugs, Marketing Coordinator reports to the Director of Marketin and ready to work well with team members in a cross-functional development Reports to the Controller and is part of a three-person team responsible for the ﬁnance and accounting activities of the College. Working together with and under the direction of the Controller, the Staff Accountant is responsible for day-to-day accounting activities including student billing, maintaining accounts receivable and accounts payable, posting journal entries, processing payroll, and other responsibilities of the business ofﬁce. Competitive candidates will have an undergraduate degree in accounting or business or comparable work experience, and share a passion for Sterling’s mission of environmental stewardship.

environment. Our work culture is casual and our employees are clever and dedicated. We strive for client satisfaction and our customer reviews are among the very best in our industry.

For a full description of the position, please visit www.sterling For complete position descriptions and application instructions, please visit:

Our preferred candidate has some familiarity with one or more frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and PHP, or other frameworks based on Python or Java.

The College is seeking applicants with a unique eye for pho sterlingcollege.edu/more/ employment Don’t have a lot of framework experience, but would likeknowledge to build a career creating ing of both WordPress and social media, ab responsive front end web-applications using HTML, CSS, and Javascript? We’d also ABOUT STERLING COLLEGE love to hear from you! shoot, edit, and cut short movies in iMovie or Adobe Pre As a Benefit Corporation, we place high value onwritten client, employee and community communication skills. Applications (including a co relationships. Our company offers a friendly, informal, and professional work environment. PCC offers competitive benefits asand well as the some uncommon names perks. and contact information of three references To learn more about PCC, this role and how to apply, please visit our website at e-mail to klavin@sterlingcollege.edu. www.pcc.com/careers. Positions will remain open until filled. Sterling College is the leading voice in higher education for environmental stewardship and rural place-based education. Founded in 1958 in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, the College was among the ﬁrst in the United States to focus on the human relationship in the natural world through majors in Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, and Outdoor Education. Enrolling 125 undergraduate and 200 continuing education students, Sterling is home to the School of the New American Farmstead, the Wendell Berry Farming Program, is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, and is one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges in the nation.

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